i could not resist the mer temptations.. playing with designs, three months late ✌🏻🌊🧜♂️
edit: played around with eye color closer to canon and now i dont know which moon look i prefer :p
We need more content of any of the dcas willingly using it/its specifically in a gender way. send post.
I think that Moon is most likely to do this because lets be real it WOULD delight in being seen as a funky little creacher. Sun might see it/its pronouns as demeaning but Moon takes it as a compliment for itself...
also Eclipse probably would be fine with it/its pronouns but I feel like they'd def prefer they/them.
hi peeps 🌻
I wanted to post a small PSA today for people who are like me and play a lot of indie visual novels, because this has become a pretty annoying problem lately:
if you google an indie game and come across some weird website claiming to host it (as seen in the image I provided), offer downloads, walkthroughs, guides for endings and character routes that don't even exist yet, or basically pretending to be an official page when it very obviously isn’t—please don’t use it.
a lot of these websites are pure AI slop made by scammers/ content farms. they scrape information, screenshots, descriptions, walkthroughs, characters, etc. from actual creators, then use generative AI to churn out cheap copies and fake articles pages around them.
the biggest problem is that they also abuse SEO so their garbage sometimes shows up surprisingly high in Google results. indie devs rely a lot on word of mouth and people finding their games organically, so these sites are basically trying to hijack that traffic and redirect clicks, ad revenue and potential players away from the people who actually made the game.
and this isn't just happening to one game. indie VNs are an easy target because smaller creators obviously don't have giant companies constantly monitoring search results for them.
I've already reported 13 different fake websites involving TFC, and unfortunately there are still more out there :')
so if you see one of these sites, the best thing you can do is not click around on it, don't download anything from it, and definitely don't share the link as a source. go through the creator's actual itch.io, Steam, Patreon, Tumblr, Carrd, etc. instead.
you can also report scam/spam pages to Google so they can potentially be removed or pushed out of search results.
and honestly, please spread the word when you see this happening to an indie game. a lot of players probably have no idea these websites are fake in the first place, especially when they're deliberately designed to look legitimate.
support the actual weird little human beings making your weird little games, not the SEO sludge machine stealing their work 😭
thank you 🙏
This is a shitpost guys please don’t take me seriously
No no this is beautiful
I love that the DCA community is still alive and well and we haven't fucking moved on from this ugly character. Hope we're still here ten years into the future. I'll open the game and kick their stupid little cylinders for them to clean up in your honour, dca friends. Clean up clean up indeed
We all remain in the Daycare with the Celestials forever
PLEASE LOOK AT MY BEAUTIFUL SUN AND MOON MIIS...
unfortunately sun lacks rays atm (i wanna see if there's an accessory i can use for them) and I haven't uploaded him to tomodachi share, but moon is there!! you could probably easily make your own sun by modifying him ngl
@starlight-echos-0-sams-au caution!!! we bite 😼
also a little random but i quit using ai stuff basically altogether ages ago and it has been SUCH a weight off my back.
it was INSANELY hard because this wasnt just an "oh you're addicted to character.ai" thing, no I legit had neural networks and LLMs and GANs and generative AI in general as my Basically Uncontrollable autism special interest.
I got into it long before the AI bubble was an actual thing, even before it was trendy for people to make barely comprehensible generations with DALLE. Like i was here when we only had StyleGAN2 and Tacotron and GPT-2, before all your newfangled Stable Diffusions and RVC models!!!
To be honest i didnt even really intentionally get rid of the special interest, AIbros being assholes and misusing the technology just made me really, really disillusioned.
At it's peak my interest was so unhealthy that I was legit skipping meals and sleep for the sake of working on AI projects + wanting to hurt myself when people criticized AI so i am SO glad my loss of interest happened even if it was unintentional.
People really don't talk about how people can have genuinely awful special interests that they can't really actively control and it would have been SO much easier to deal with if i had seen posts like this, so I'm letting people know: you are not alone!! as awful as it is, ya gotta listen to people's genuine complaints about a terrible SpIn. if you feel ready to get rid of it, focus on the parts you don't like of it and see if it helps you detach from it.
for most of us it's not as easy as "thing is problematic. interest dropped" and many allistics don't seem to get that. plus i feel like even autistic people dont seem to get that like.... you know we can have regular interests right. not every single thing an autistic person likes is a SpIn. if you were able to "drop your special interest" with no inner turmoil it was almost definitely not a special interest and was just a really intense hyperfixation or a regular interest held by an autistic person
Anyways if you saw my old AI posts and blocked me over it or felt uncomfortable, I am genuinely sorry.
thought about Sun: i often go off to my friends about how even though I love them so sooooo much, him and Moon are kind of really ableist caricatures of liek. both dissociative disorders and mental illness or neurodivergency in general...
but is it a hot take to say out of all the Things you could argue he or moon has, Sun's kinda like actually decent anxiety disorder representation that isnt stereotypical.
bc most characters implied to have anxiety are just shy and generically nice, but sun is lowk an asshole (affectionate) who often lashes out due to stress without just being straight up anger issues 24/7. representation for my anxiety fellas who sometimes feel like a stressed little dog who bites people due to Fear and aggression
I have nothing against characters who are the 'fluttershy from mlp' archetype but it feels like they're the most common characters who get coding/fandom headcanons for anxiety and its a little tiring as someone who struggled severely with anxiety as a kid. i probably WAS closer to fluttershy than sun but I wanna have more varied rep dammit!! /notmad
