OutOfCharacters

@outofcharacters.bsky.social

yugioh video essayist | essay library cabal member | married to @dullakhannah.bsky.socialโ€ฌ ๐Ÿ’• | he/him socials: https://linktr.ee/outofcharacters the essay library: theessaylibrary.com/

When an artist who inspires you turns out to be a rapist, your response cannot be to stop making art. Reject them, their work, the parts of them you once emulated, but donโ€™t stop. It wasnโ€™t their crime that inspired you. Make the things they made you want to make. Fuck them; keep the inspiration.

I was relatively happy with most of how this video turned out, but every couple days I get comments from yugi boomers. I get that one of the main criticisms of yugioh is its complexity (and I address that), but I wish I could have more heavily emphasized that it's something I think is mostly good.

A screenshot of the thumbnail of the video "yugioh is unwatchable" by outofcharacters

finally cracking house of leaves because it's the video essayist meme or whatever. It's super creepy and uses medium in many very interesting ways, but the fucked up part is that it somehow hits the same part of my brain that homestuck felt to read