Meanwhile On The Needlejuice Sever

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Headcanon Iterator designs cus why not

I generally don't comment on Fandom Drama™ but I feel like it needs to be said in this case--

Starset using AI in the music video for Degenerate is the whole point

it’s been confirmed by the band that a team of artists were paid to create art to feed AI to create the visualizer

and maybe I'm putting too much faith in them-- but for the messaging of their music, it really blew my mind that people had to ask for confirmation that the use of AI was intentional/ironic

like, there was a two-album story arc about the dangers of unchecked technology in the hands of people who are willing to exploit others

hell, the lyrics of Degenerate itself are commenting on it--

[Verse 2] Artificial sickness Artificial pain Manufactured victims Of manufactured gains (It's all the same)

of course, I don't know the whole story, so take my commentary with a grain of salt, but I think it's really alarming to see the knee-jerk reactions many people have been posting all over social media

I am not the first person who has said this, but it is indeed surprising that Cassette Beasts does not have a big fandom on Tumblr, given that it has just about everything average Tumblr users want:

A wide variety of creatures whose forms you can collect, so you can transform into them in battle

Multiverse setting, which provides unlimited fanfiction potential

Character creator with pronouns options, including they/them

LGBTQ+ representation, including all the human party members who are bi and can be romanced regardless of the player's gender, a pair of NPCs are an actual canon old married lesbian couple, and an NPC who is canonically non-binary and uses they/them pronouns

Romanceable party members also mean you can form a battle couple with your favourite party member

Racially diverse cast of human characters: There are visibly Black and brown characters in both the main and supporting cast, including the party members

A playable dog character

Anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist messages

You can literally beat up estate agents and their boss

Higher friendship with your companion allows you to fuse your monster forms and makes you stronger in battle

etc. etc.

The only reason I can think of is the fact that Cassette Beasts is an indie game, but Tumblr has a fair amount of indie video game darlings, such as Stardew Valley, Disco Elysium, Undertale, Night in the Woods, etc.

Another reason is that many Pokémon fans are frustratingly reluctant to try or dismissive of monster collecting games that are not Pokémon, even if they complain about the latest Pokémon titles.

So here is your reminder to go play Cassette Beasts if you have not already.

96 or however old she was is still pretty high.

True

Connor in unwind had exactly one brain cell

First post ig

Working on some fanart for Tokyo Machine & his label Chompo.

I just joined, I have no idea what I'm doing but hello anyway!

cursed spearmaster pinchpot animal I made in clay class

Drew the lad