kids are fucking fragile, ok? when you have no life experience you have nothing to compare your troubles to and many things ARE, in fact, the worst thing to ever happen to you.
i’m 20. and i had a rough week this week. and one of the reasons it wasn’t as rough as it could have been is because i have had worse. i have been in more pain than this before and it was really helpful to be able to say to myself, yes, ok, i’m feeling like a massive pile of shit right now, but i remember how i felt when thing x happened y years ago and that was objectively more horrible and if i got through that then i’m going to survive this.
when i was 16 i couldn’t do that because thing x was in fact the worst thing to ever happen to me. because when you haven’t lived very long some of the things that happen WILL be the worst things to ever happen to you and you’re fucking allowed to be angry and upset and so on. there is no age you have to reach before you’re allowed to feel bad. i can’t believe this discourse tbh.
kids are fragile and they’re dismissed all the time for having feelings because shitty ass adults are so selfish that they can’t wrap their minds around the idea that MAYBE their feelings aren’t more important than a child’s. seriously fuck off maybe if someone had taken me seriously as a kid i’d be a functional adult
So I, like many others I’m sure, was immediately struck by how passionate and humble the game developer behind UNRAVEL (a game about a little red yarn person who travels on a journey through a beautifully rendered world to reconnect the threads that make up human relationships) was when he presented his game to the audience at E3. So, I decided to do some research to see if I could find out more about this fellow and what sort of work he does. I am very glad that I did. If you go on his twitter account (@monkeybeach) or his tumblr (@macopaco) you’ll notice that aside from being SUPER PASSIONATE about game development and game theory, he is also very vocal against police violence and oppressive systems, very anti capitalism in gaming, pro-feminist, and is the creative head of his own small development company called Coldwood Studios, from Sweden.
Basically, follow him on social media, buy Unravel when it comes out, and support him in everything that he does because he is a genuine, good person who really cares about games and also really cares about people.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.