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Thankfully there are a lot of options for storefronts these days, but unfortunately one has to research those options thoroughly. Hope you find your perfect fit, though! 💛

It's pretty funny because sex (and gender) diversity was the *reason* for me building a constructed world of my own, and I think your latter reference might've inspired me to make five (technically seven) sex terms, using plant analogy for names! I'm always on the hunt for ancient intersex accounts.

I wonder if this is the reason why there is a legitimate debate over whether honey is "vegan" or not. 🤔

(I hate Etsy though, they're garbage in so many ways but they also make it easy to have a shop. Far too many drawbacks that come with its conveniences, tbf.)
Maybe FourthWall's also an option for a "make on demand" storefront? I know a few merch artists who use them.

If you wanna put in the work (shipping and all that mess), then there's also Etsy + finding a local print shop. (I learned that Kinko's is still a thing, but it's part of FedEx post offices now and they're expensive as *fuck*.) Probably the most profitable compared to RedBubble and Inprnt.

Inprnt is the fancy one where you need an invite or application (can't remember which) in order to have a creator's account. I'd watch out about RedBubble because its easy mode of entry means that people are selling other people's works as prints there (and I also dunno their stance on AI).

Color theory is grand, 😅. When I read about that I definitely went "woah", as color-matching isn't possible for many folks [industry-level "nude"-colored garment variety is often biased towards lighter skin tones]. Going with a monochrome gradient over individual colors is a win in accessibility!

I just finished reading a century-old book on the indigenous dress of Luzon natives; keep bouncing back and forth between an audiobook about the government corruption of modern Pilipinas; studying the culture with the language and updating my con-world docs as I learn. It's both fun and eye-opening!

I ended up manufacturing my own third-gender term for my conworld because I wanted to decouple gender from sex (both baklâ and binilaki are a pormanteau of "man" and "woman", with no "intersex" term). Finding information on transmasculine (or even intersex!) people in traditional culture is hard!

Physical prowess over mental prowess, the push and pull of brains and brawn, strategy and strength, is so good. My vagued-about pairing literally went from friends to enemies over a power imbalance (socio-economical, actually), but this imbalance turns around sometime after their eventual reunion.

I'd love to yap about these kinds of character dynamics but I'd need to either a. find someone who reads my stuff to yap about it with or b. find someone unhinged enough to absorb it all, not caring if it's spoilers or not. (It could even be mutual, too, though I mostly hate spoilers, haha.)

I read from a binder-making company that the color isn't as important as the shade (their binders are all shades of grey with this in mind), so if you choose a color in the same value as your skin tone it should be "invisible" under your over-garments (unsure about semi-transparent garments though).

"All of the above" functions nicely-- means there isn't a power imbalance at play, 😉.
I'm also in the camp of "I can't answer this prompt explicitly, as it would spoil two or three of my stories", hahaha. (Two of the characters are a "friends to enemies to lovers" match-up, even, which is fun.)

"Enemies to lovers" is very good, yes-yes. [Nodding sagely.]
I love how the prompt can apply at either end, too, 😈. Even if the "source" changes, lol.

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The biggest drawback is just how much colonialism has impacted cultures, erasing the subtlest cues, the "why"s behind things. Certain terms also feel weird to use (like okama/onabe in Japanese, bakla in Tagalog, hijra in Hindi) because their meanings are broadly defined outside of their communities.

It's near-identical to that, the main difference is the subtle details that might lead to culture shock. I've looked up a lot of things, from the finer details (such as disease and family planning) to broader ones, like global inequity. It's more fun when my OCs experience culture shock as a result!

With a name like "Remember Me" you'd *think* that people would remember it. I'm sure Capcom doesn't even remember it and they *published* the game.
(I think I considered buying the soundtrack because it was where my irrevocable love for the theremin stemmed from, lol. 40-something minutes of mmm...)

Nine games that have impacted me as a creative.
All of these games did something unique enough that I keep thinking back to them. Music, art, humor, critical thinking, choices, creative system usage (lol).
(P.S. Don't buy Disco Elysium new: if you know, you know.)
Website: my9games.com (in Japanese)

That's the brilliance with making your own world: you get to put whatever you want in it (which is also its disadvantage, as you have to either research what you want to put in it, or risk misinterpreting it entirely).
There are still "prisons" within the corrupt civilizations in my world, though.

Note: the first two don't use their story covers because one of the two doesn't feature any of the characters, lmao. (That, and I really do still love that drawing of Sin and Alfonz; wish I had more art of Tatsu and Tanaka and co, but they're not on the docket.)
Totally forgot the #art tag, oops.

Describe your plot in five words or less.
(How about four stories, two of them being sequels?)
Sin Nombri: matriarchy equals trans-masc suffering;
Year's Beginning: 'Sin Nombri', the weddings episode;
Lavender Associates: two gays, two lavender marriages;
Loose Ends: "Who am I, really?" -- Narrator

Automated accounts like that are so annoying, holy fuck... like I get the sentiment, but... [Taps the "block" button on its ass.] Some people are too online, it seems.
(I wonder if it does the same to Archive (dot) org links-- I bookmarked a few tuts that were posted from there long ago, lol.)

I figured it out: you have to open your Account settings on a regular-degular browser and turn "content filter" off (it's between your birthday and your newsletter sub status). Not an option on the launcher browser, but I see it now. Thanks for the additional link though-- might help others out, 💛.

Looks like I can finally retire the wonky-as-hell model I made for a trans-"masc" character with booba: thank you for passing on the good word.
(It looks like the launcher browser doesn't wanna show it so I'm gonna have to fight it over this.)

Yeah, I've heard from people with corn allergies that corn is sometimes used in biodegradable "plastics" (not made from petroleum) and some packaging materials as well. (I think some powders also use it, but my memory is a bit foggy on that.) Imagine your food being "safe", but not its packaging!

My sister's dog can't eat food with chicken as an ingredient because guess what they feed the chickens slaughtered for dog food? You guessed it: corn! (The vet told her this, lol.)
Corn is such a cash crop in the US, and it's probably the worst thing imaginable to live here with a corn allergy.

When I see visual art that has a hinted-at story behind it, I really want to shake the artist by the shoulders and ask me where I can read more. (I won't do this because anxiety.) Unfortunately, not a lot of artists have made art that speaks to me on that level, but I've a whole Internet to explore!

People really do underestimate writing as a medium: visual art is nice and all that, but it's usually frozen in frame. It's why I love it when people write story-based alt text for their art: a picture's worth a thousand words, which is far more than the 2k characters we're given for alt text, haha.

The latter person didn't know that they were trespassing [private beach], and were trying to process the grief associated with learning about a parent's terminal illness (and their other parent died suddenly that same year). The "arrest" was a 3 day observation for mental health reasons, no record.