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June Progress-Pride Month: Writing my Queer Characters
June Bugs Goodbye, favorite month. Hello, Summer. I tried to crack my knuckles but the noise wasn't very satisfying. So, I decided I couldn't write.
Last month, I got a lot of people excited about my harem opinions. I'm probably not going to find a topic that will attract the same attention.
Progress Animation I tried a few more animations. For some reason I thought I had zero and then I had a chapter five folder full of uncompiled frames. I think I haven't been happy with them so they got memory holed. As a reminder, if the animation isn't lewd, I don't count it on the tracker.
Writing I keep saying, "I think I can finish this by x". Weekends, spare time, being left alone in coffee shops. I'm glad I don't make those promises publicly.
Skin color I played around with a certain body part's skin color selector. It's a setting that is like a riddle. Three color values. Subtle changes to each don't seem to show on the model. Yet, any one of them can take on a value the ruins the whole thing. It's a butthole problem.
Pride It's pride month! I should talk about my LGBTQIA character. Beatrice was actually the first character I wrote. Similar to Candied Oblivion, Baskin All-In start as a short story conversation. Specifically the roof conversation from the end of chapter two. I was on break from the second chapter of CO and I had four scripts for story ideas of my next game. All the characters had some evolving to do. There were elements that I liked in one model that felt conflicted to me but I liked. So, I made that model the base of both Bryerly and Beatrice.
There is a render that I made for a contest with Bea, in a thong and looking suture. This was made before I had fully fleshed out her character.
It wasn't until I started fleshing out chapter one, after the demo, that I thought about how each of the girls would approach sexuality and the MC. Beatrice is smart, emotionally intelligent, observant, and insecure in several ways similar to a person I know and that person is Asexual.
Part of my background is in community volunteer work and participation. I moved to this part of Iowa for the nearby writer's program in Iowa City. There are local groups of writers and resources and I've met a lot of great, interesting, and diverse writers. And I know quite a few asexual people. I've met programmers that are only interested in their work and hobbies and friends, and didn't think there was a part of themselves that they could put into a relationship. I've dated Ace girls while they were discovering what being Ace meant to them.
But less than half a dozen people isn't a great basis for fiction. So, I did some other reading. I read some romance adjacent Aro/Ace fiction. A few biographical accounts. Then media reviews from a podcast called The Ace Couple and they had several episodes analyzing Ace representation in specific media.
I feel really good about where Beatrice is in the story and where, if you choose her as a romance option, you can go with her.
Of course, she isn't my only queer character. I made the hyper-friendly friend Aro/Ace, cops are attracted to authority, anyway. The demisexual gay, recently cloistered, elderly mentor neighbor. Ashleigh with a more unfortunate past and struggles with her personal life can be befriended by the player.
I have three specifically pan characters in mind and they will reveal themselves as characters mix and find out about each other. It's very common to have shades of pan and bisexual characters in a harem and people are a lot more familiar with them, so I don't get any points for them. :p Lesbian interactions are isolated to intimate scenes and very familiar in media targeting a male audience.
I put a lot of care into Beatrice's coming out. It's her major personal development before committing to a relationship, which I plan to do with most love interests. My goal was to make it informative but light and funny; Most importantly, I wanted it to be personal to Beatrice. She cares immensely for the people in that room. It makes me feel great that so many people, in turn, care for Beatrice. I asked an asexual writer for their thoughts and they were very supportive and liked all the points of view I was able to include.
It's something that means a lot to me and I'm thankful to all the people who shared their experiences in private and in media. I hope for the day when Beatrice's lunch is common knowledge and people can be free to say they like themselves.
That's what pride month means to me. Behind the memes, parades, social media posts, and explainers. It's people just trying to live their lives and be true to themselves.
Rewards I have a pile of extra lewds. I edited the good ones and made some previews. I'll have them posted tonight or tomorrow. Between building the location and having Ophelia in the cultural miasma, I felt like doing a render. Then, Gail gets steamy. I'll upload what I have to Discord right away. I think that's it for the month but I am rather influenceable.
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Progress Requiem, Censorship, and Grace Ashcroft Cosplay
Hey Boo, I don't need help having quiet nights of the soul. I prefer my internal existential acid trips to actionable and proven threats.
Oh, to be a cat and not care where the cuddles come from but enjoy the cuddles all the same.
Usually, I have a nice little lunch day and I write out any thoughts I find interesting or want to share. I have them this week. I just didn't write them out because I've been working so well. I have so many more thoughts. Like why is resident evil so horny and how cool Grace's hair is but those will have to wait.
Progress
1,288 isn't bad but it might be a low for monthly productivity. I don't want to check.
I think I'm done emotionally processing all the changes and bleak near futures. I need to get the game on steam. It's an intellectual exercise now of proving exactly what will get approval. Steam is not backtracking on anything that they previously approved. There is a chapter 3 build on steam and approved. The problem is the next build needs to be approved.
I've seen lots of people rejected from steam but there are other factors with there games that muddle my conclusion.
I need to see a game with incest with a recent update in the last month. It can be a new release or a new chapter. If you've seen one, please let me know.
Grace Ashcroft and Resident Evil Requiem Ever sense the first trailer reveal of the mousey FBI, legacy character, and probable protagonist Grace Ashcroft, I've had one thought. She looks a fuck of a lot like Beatrice!
I didn't want to do a lot of work, because I'm busy, but I'm surprised just how little work I had to do to make Beatrice cosplay as this other character. It still a little gob smacked. With a little more work, I could just have a Grace model. So, this weeks special renders will be Beatrice dressed as special agent Grace Ashcroft. I have more renders in the queue that haven't finished but I'm just so happy.
The hardest part is that magic platinum grey blonde hair that absorbs light and seems to bounce it back. It took some tooling but I am so happy with how it turned out. Now the only thing missing is getting the post possessing to match the selected desaturation and crushed blacks of the Resident Evil lighting system.
The previous remake had a real life model for Ashley. So, I wondered if there is a real life Beatrice running around but not actor or behind the scene information has come out.
YOU CAN HELP ITCH AND BASKIN Free speech is in trouble. It's happening mainly do to small groups pushing their hang-ups on the public at large and Payment Processors just going along with it.
Two ways to help. First wishlist Baskin All-In on steam. Second see about pressuring Credit Cards into leaving Itch, Steam, and art alone.
Here's a link to steam
Here's some basic information and a link to a person with more.
Basically, small group of people dogged Master Card, MC dogged their business partners, then the business partners dogged the games platforms. So, the counter is to dog everyone in this chain, especially now that they are all pointing fingers at each other to dodge blame.
Ana Valens wrote a Vice article after the steam stuff happened and was ready with a counter. She had left Vice Magazine between the itch and Steam take-downs.
I encourage everyone to follow these steps in order to stop internet censorship. There are several campaigns with form letters and guides on what to say. Please, try to find one other campaign to follow before 4chan. What will I do?
Rewards every third Wednesday.
While you can see updates and get your name in the credits, I will not be distributing games from Patreon. Backers still have access to Baskin All-In on discord.
This months rewards have Cindy, who has been on my mind as I finish up her scenes.
And Beatrice as Grace Ashcroft. You better believe I'm going to hit this hard.
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