Soe

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yeah, drawing's cool

People who are annoyed with indie animation dialogue/writing don't understand that "indie animations" are just internet cartoons with a fancier label. We don't view 2000s/Newgrounds and storytime animations with this level of scrutiny, so we shouldn't apply for works that are green to story-writing.

I've been meaning to go on a spiel here about the "indie animation writing" discourse, but there was a post on Twitter's for you page and decided to just say what i have in mind. i'm just gonna dump what i wrote there and apply it here.

With the recent pushback Lesbian Space Princess is getting, a openly cheesy but otherwise innocuous movie about a lesbian of color, I couldn't be more vindicated. "Don't harass Gooseworx! Let's harass these queer artists instead, they're not popular so it's okay." The Indie Animation Community.

Soe@soerikoe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

People then drew fanart for his characters (""redesigns"",) and toonhive advertised his toon multiple times where they gained positive over negative attention. The internet has been affected by irony poisoning, that you're more inclined to gain publicity by ragebaiting as oppose to being genuine.

Chimptopia reached it's kickstarter goal of 10k. While I think the initial animation was juat an irreverent joke about another indie toon and nothing more, I do think the ironic fans gained from the backlash really affirms this: There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Speaks volumes that as soon as Caine comes back, they were having fun, banging each other and forgot about Jax. Absolutely nothing of value was lost.

Happy pride month, yall. Hopefully we'll reach the day where we can be ourselves without any hatred whatsoever. If I can't see that in this lifetime than I hope everyone can thereafter.

The last thing I want to say about the hellaverse community, and by extension Vivziepop: If you react to minorities facing a racism problem in your community with vitriol and scapegoatting, then your community has a racism problem. People giving criticism and having empathy =/= being performative.

I wanna take this moment to say i'm glad that this post resonates with people. I was hesitant at first posting this, but it feels like a breath of fresh air talking about a controversy that's actively shut down primarily by a demographic that this does not effect. Thank you, all.

Soe@soerikoe.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Bluesky users are so non-confrontational, they're willing to defend/downplay blackface because they dont want the people they like to face criticism for what they did. What Brandon Rogers did was indefensible, but fans are more concerned he'll get "cancelled" over the black people he hurt.

Bluesky users are so non-confrontational, they're willing to defend/downplay blackface because they dont want the people they like to face criticism for what they did. What Brandon Rogers did was indefensible, but fans are more concerned he'll get "cancelled" over the black people he hurt.

Do I think Michael and Ashley are racist? No. I believe their apology is genuine and it was a case of unfunny edgy jokes told at the worst time and place. Am I gonna hold it against other black people who are upset by what they said? No. Their hurt by the things the people those said. Let them talk

Instead of letting the people who caused the pain to apologize for their actions, you choose to disregard their apology and disrespect the people they're apologizing to. No one asked you, you were never the target of the jokes. If you want black voices in the indie scene, then let them speak.

M3BIUS//F0X (Commissions Open)@m3biusf0x.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Terminally online dipshit: Did you know Michael Kovach said a slur years ago? Normal person: Did you see the new Mario Galaxy Movie? It's so awesome i wanna play Star Fox 64 now!