It’s quite the busy holiday season for our Token American this weekend, so we will see y’all in December!
~Ozzie and Icy
It’s quite the busy holiday season for our Token American this weekend, so we will see y’all in December!
~Ozzie and Icy
Things keep coming up… Hopefully they’ll calm down soon. ?
~Ozzie and Icy
But the good news is that we’ll be back at our usual not-between-timezones time next week! (Also hopefully with fixed livestream numbers…..)
~Ozzie and Icy
We’ll be back in November! ???
~Ozzie and Icy
Well, we were ready to stream and all, but apparently that conflicted with some viruses’ schedules. We’ll be taking the weekend off, and will hopefully be streaming next week.
Thanks for your patience!
~Ozzie and Icy
Here’s a reminder that skimpy bikini armor is not the be all end all of sexism and double standards in character and costume design. Unchallenged uniform conformation to gender norms is a problem in of itself.
If each and every single female character in a franchise has to have at least one overt conventionally feminine feature, while male ones have a whole range of appearances, then yes, it’s still deserves to be criticized for double standards.
Also, please consult this point in our FAQ if you question why we’re not critical only of the most egregious female character costume designs.
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Guess what milestone we passed las week?
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~Ozzie, – wincenworks & -Icy
Due to scheduling conflicts, we will be taking this week off from streaming. See y’all in October!
~Ozzie and Icy
Time to wrap up all stuff, mostly what’s stuffing our inbox.
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If you’ve ever been told by an Internet Ranty Man that curves on breastplate don’t matter because hardened steel is just great – there’s recently been an awesome video created by experts talking about arrows vs armor that talks about the importance of the curve and the subtleties in design.
It turns out that armor was in a constant stage of development through all of history because it’s complex and every little bit helps when the stakes are literally life and death.
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Please, instead of sending us asks saying “Do you want me to submit XYZ?”, send the submission, even if it’s a short one.
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In the same vein, “Have you bingo’d/talked about XYZ?” or “Please talk about/bingo XYZ!” messages rarely get our attention, unless we were already planning to talk about their subject.
We’re way more likely to make a requested post if sent pictures and/or commentary.
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If we already talked about something on our blog, it is likely available via search option or an appropriate tag. Please consider checking for obvious variations before messaging us.
(tip: PC browser version of Tumblr is more reliable for searching/looking through tags)
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~Ozzie, – wincenworks & -Icy
Due to work and vacation plans, August will be a hiatus month for our redesign Twitch streaming.
We’ll keep posting our older redesign pieces in the appropriate tags on Wednesdays, alongside some other fan design fixes we like, but no live streaming at least till September. We’ll keep you posted on when the plans change!
– Icy and ~Ozzie
Icy messed her back up again, so we won’t be streaming this week. We should be back next week!
~Ozzie and Icy