ok i’m just gonna say this : all you white wlw are always nitpicking black women who come out as bisexual or lesbians, somehow they’re never good enough and they’re never gay enough and they “use” their sexuality as a cash cow (which doesn’t make any sense lmfao).
BUT every time there’s a white woman who never even said she was gay or bi but who “seems gay” to y’all, suddenly she’s a gay icon and everyone should watch her movies/listen to her songs. y’all be out here supporting Keira Knightley and Cate Blanchett because you’re convinced they’re wlw, but you can’t give half of that support to Janelle Monàe because you have a bad feeling about her?? LOL. guess what that bad feeling is? here’s a clue : it’s antiblackness.
oh and let’s not even talk about how Hayley Kiyoko is revered as a goddess on this website because she’s a lesbian singing about loving girls and she’s pursuing girls in her music videos, but when Janelle is singing about her bisexuality and giving us a whole movie about it, suddenly she’s just using her sexuality to gain more fans/viewers…
a long time ago in a land far far away, my dumb ass was a freshman and as a freshman you get last pick on electives. I ended up in this class called app and game development, it was pretty okay but all the projects were just re creating a game that already exists and they were games like pong, no real substance.
the final project for that class was to make your own game (or recreate a retro game we hadn’t already made a knock off of.) , and in coming up for ideas for that and understanding what all I could do, decided it would be a great story telling medium. I came up with a 90s style point and click, that hinged on retrieving the objects needed for a certain puzzle, which were all given Boolean values, the puzzles solved themselves if you had picked up all the items and clicked the right things.
nothing too revolutionary gameplay wise I know but the plot and style of game was (according to my classmates) reminiscent of undertale (a game i know nothing about and have never played). everybody agreed it was the best game produced in the class despite the code being the least complicated code wise. I only ever made the first level, and I forgot to upload the images I had drawn for the game to the drive so it had a bunch of google images,but it met the requirements for the grade and it was the turn in day. Truly I think the game could really be something great and worthwhile.
So now I’m gonna remake it and its gonna be a heck of a lot longer. and its gonna have some nice art.
But wait whats the plot?
well like what I’ve heard about undertale, my game is best walking in blind. So I cant tell you anything about the plot. The game Is called “JANE” and features a colorful cast of characters.
some of my favorite characters from the first level include:
a potted plant
a conversational door
an expecting mother
and you! (sorry this is an old design, doesn’t match up with the cover page)
So why you telling me this? Why not just wait till you finish the game?
You see it simple. I’m an instant gratification monkey, I want some hype and, I need beta testers because the game had issues, and according to my app and game dev class, the puzzles were too hard. I need other people to help me gauge how difficult a puzzle is.
so please submit to my inbox if your interested in beta testing with this information:
name:
age:
gender: (weird requirement I know but its important to know what yall plan on picking once you get the option in game to select a gender.)
experience with point and click adventures (other than hiveswap cause its very easy and not the same kind of abstract bullshit as the ones from the 90s):
Rate yourself on a scale of one to ten how good you are at 90s point and clicks: (ten being the best and one being the worst)
I wont reject anyone based on their answers, I just need to know basic demographics. In fact if you send an app in at all you’ll be a beta tester, and will get a file of the game once I get to the point where beta testing is needed.
what I expect from betas:
faux game review for each major update to the game.
feedback
bug reports
questions
maybe a suggestion
fanart (if you really want to. not a requirement by any means)
so come join me as we travel through the world of JANE
if yalls could help me spread the word by re-blogging that’d be a great help. thank you have a nice day!
Please help raise awareness about a serious illness that hides in plain sight
My name is Ang. If you’ve been following my story then I’m sure you’ve heard about this, but I’ve come down with a chronic illness. I have severe-spectrum MECFS. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, or cruelly called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which downplays how much of a devastating, horribly disabling and terrifying disease this is.
It is an illness that affects millions, leaving a good portion of us housebound or bedbound, some so sick they are paralyzed and need to be tubefed and others die from the illness or complications.
I’ve been bedbound almost 3 months now since my illness has been progressing (which is nothing compared to how quickly it can become years), so sick some days I cant lift a spoon to feed myself, talk, or tolerate light and sound. I can’t draw anymore which was my passion in life as an artist, let alone take care of myself. I can’t even tolerate watching TV or play games most days to distract myself from the trauma caused by being confined to a bed in this sort of agony.
I got ill like this after getting the flu in January, and it’s been downhill from there as I started having bizarre neurological symptoms and collapsing episodes where I was unable to move, the energy draining from my body as the days went on until I needed a cane to walk, then a walker, then I was housebound with a wheelchair, and now I am bedbound and the severity steadily worsens with no let up so far despite doing everything I can to stop or slow the progression.
It is a level of sickness that is overwhelming me and my life is uncertain, but it’s looking grim from this point. I’m in severe pain constantly, on top of having horrible dysfunction in every other part of my body. I’ve only been steadily declining.
I lost my entire life right as it felt like it was starting. I was an artist working my dream job at Cartoon Network, and now I may never be able to return to the animation industry or live out my dreams of telling the stories I wanted.
The worst part is this illness could have been treatable by now! But it’s not, due to a deliberate choice of abuse and neglect by medical institutions. Most doctors aren’t trained to treat or diagnose M.E. and it gets practically no funding. Most sufferers are told it’s all in our heads (wrongfully diagnosed with conversion disorder or functional neurological disorder) even with evidence coming out that it’s a physical neurological disease and the only treatment we are given is get told to take anti-depressants, see a therapist, and exercise (despite exertion intolerance being the hallmark symptom and dangerous).
So the only way people like me have any hope of getting better is if we get a surge in awareness and understanding, and hope it leads to more funding and research. With decades of neglect and lives lost, this can’t go on.
At first I asked for donations when I was trying to figure out what was happening to my body as I threw money at doctors appointments begging for help only to get turned away and given no help, dwindling away my savings from when I used to work. And while donations were loved and helped significantly in my financial situation, it will not give me access to effective treatments if they don’t exist.
That is why I am asking you to help spread awareness. Please educate yourselves and donate if you can to organizations that research M.E.
People like me are suffering with a monster illness as debilitating as late-stage AIDS or cancer, hopelessly sick and dying with little help and living in severe medical neglect. I can’t even get a caregiver which I need now because my family can’t care for me longterm, all because my illness isn’t taken seriously by health insurance companies!
We need help. People with M.E. need help so bad because a lot of us are even too sick to advocate for ourselves.
If you want to know more there’s a wonderful documentary on Netflix made by M.E. sufferer, Jennifer Brea called Unrest (2017). Please give it a watch.
Please share this. I am one of the #millionsmissing and while I have not been suffering with M.E. for very long compared to others, the trauma and destruction this illness brings is great and no one should have to go through this. I would not wish this suffering upon even my enemies.
We need awareness. We need advocacy. We need understanding. We need funding. We need diagnostic markers. We need research. We need effective treatments and hopefully one day a cure.
I may never have my old life back, and I don’t want anyone else to keep suffering the way I have since I’ve gotten sick. The pain is indescribable. I want one day for someone to get sick like I and others have, only to learn they can be diagnosed and effectively treated or cured.
Please help bring our stories to light. Please help save our lives.
Except no that’s not what happened, that’s not why he sued, he sued because when he went to ask for more napkins, the staff started racially harassing him, all over fucking napkins. As for the amount, ut was probably exaggerated by the lawyer so when the court shrinks it, McDonalds would still have to pay at least something.
There are no such things as frivolous lawsuits made by individual people.
McDonald’s (and most businesses) have insanely good pr departments. The woman who sued McDonald’s for being burned by their coffee was turned into the face of “people will sue over anything” because suing over coffee being hot sounds ridiculous, right? Except for she was literally burned to the bone. The pictures are nauseating. What she went through was horrifying.
If you ever find yourself ridiculing an individual on a company’s behalf you’re probably just repeating pr propaganda
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