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Whee, I did art for the first time in, like, a year! Here it is! There's 71 drawings here, but does anyone think I should upload my faves to here?

Spoilers for the game. Lots of talk about racism, systems of oppression on both the oppressed and the oppressors, and the inherent ugly stuff those two things generate. So many ways the game goes right. A couple of ways the game goes wrong. If you're okay with all of that, then continue: --- We're about to finish our second playthrough of Tales of Arise, and this game has captured us in a way that games haven't for a long, long time. After playing Tales of Berseria and Zesteria, we were interested in another Tales game. We were not expecting a game that would have us spend weeks of dinner conversations talking about... well, the stuff I'm going to talk about. Before I start: cards on the table. I try not to talk about it too much but it has bled through on occasion that the two of us are... whatever the correct word for Left is. We've put in a lot of time and effort to unlearn some things, and relearn other things. Our youtube feed has people like F.D Signifier, James Somerton

Once a year we do a "deep clean" of whereever we live. We do one room a weekend to go through and get all the nooks and crannies we don't catch in our weekly cleaning, we think about placement or orientation, if something needs to move or if we need to purge a shelf. Now that we're in a house that's a MUCH bigger project, because there's more than just... like... 5 rooms and 2 bathrooms. But once the two of us looked at our office, which since the move has turned into a catch-all of just S T U F F shoved into shelves and out in the open, we decided to take this room and make it a P R O J E C T. Didn't take a before pic, unfortunately, didn't think to post about this until we started pulling things out. But, indeed, here is all the random stuff in our office that wasn't locked in a closet: Wow that's a lot of stuff! It was a little scary to see it all lined up, but it forced us to make some decisions lest we keep tripping over everything on