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Lastik's shite taste!
a year ago
Okay, you know you've been slacking in the drawing department when even my boss calls me asking if everything is okay 'cause I haven't drawn in a hot minute. Also he was drunk and spent over an hour being a chatter box, and I'm not being hyperbolic, I checked the call time afterwards.
Honestly just haven't had any drive for it, tho I'm trying to change my routine to get back into the swing of things. I did try my hand at a lewd but I ended up scrapping it, the sketch just felt wrong at all steps at at that point it just felt like I was pursuing a dead end. I'm not the kind to give up easily, but I also like to think I've gained enough wisdom to know when to take what I learned from it and move on.
Been also sketching some SFW stuff trying to get the rhythm going and did come with some concepts that might be worth pursuing. Also fuck you brain, when I want to create something funny and cute you get all creepy ideas and when I'm trying to do something moody and atmospheric you go goofy mode.
Honestly (and the subject of the journal title), my latest guilty pleasure has been Isekais. I know the genre has a bad rep but honestly it's not the fault of the genre per se, but rather that it got oversaturated real hard, real fast. Is it deep or mind blowing? No, but it doesn't have to be. I like it precisely because it's straightforward and simple. Been on a binge of it lately.
My theory on the appeal of the genre is simple. You know how shonen (and not only shonen, stuff like super heroes or any genre that the character is a young person that discover they have special abilities or skills, like Harry Potter) appeals to a younger demographic yeah? You're young, you're defining yourself as a person, you're faced with the daily pressures and boredom and wishing to experience more, then suddenly you get whisked away to a world you only dreamed of and discover you're so much more.
Well my theory is that Isekais are the same, but for an older demographic (tho that doesn't mean it doesn't have appeal to a younger one as well). Simply put, isekai boils down to "what would you do if you could start a new life from the beginning with all the knowledge and experience you have". This is something we all fantasized at one point or another.
And for all the bad rep it has, some have funny twists to it. One is.. The real state developer... or something like that, and it's about a guy that gets sent to your traditional high fantasy medieval world with monsters, knights and magic.. and faces the challenges through urban planning. The whole thing is hilarious!
Gaming wise (which is also another chunk of my time), I'm a long time player of AFK Arena (going on 5 years in fact, I started playing shortly after the release), and recently started playing AFK Journey as well. If you folks don't know (and you should 'cause the ads are bloody everywhere on YT at least, good grief it's annoying), those two games have the Mauler faction which essentially furry ville. Journey introduced several new ones, but Smokey (a meerkat healer and support) and Odie (a very goofy and chilled marksman hyena) have been my mainstay throughout the campaign so far (and it's legit so, I've actually been doing experiments with the daily boss to see what performs best and those two have been giving me the best results). Bonus points because Odie is my mood 110% and Smokey is best dad (he's literally raising an adopted cub that is part of his model and animation). Those two are so wholesome!
Anywho, that's the current status of Lastik so far, y'all stay cheeky now!
Honestly just haven't had any drive for it, tho I'm trying to change my routine to get back into the swing of things. I did try my hand at a lewd but I ended up scrapping it, the sketch just felt wrong at all steps at at that point it just felt like I was pursuing a dead end. I'm not the kind to give up easily, but I also like to think I've gained enough wisdom to know when to take what I learned from it and move on.
Been also sketching some SFW stuff trying to get the rhythm going and did come with some concepts that might be worth pursuing. Also fuck you brain, when I want to create something funny and cute you get all creepy ideas and when I'm trying to do something moody and atmospheric you go goofy mode.
Honestly (and the subject of the journal title), my latest guilty pleasure has been Isekais. I know the genre has a bad rep but honestly it's not the fault of the genre per se, but rather that it got oversaturated real hard, real fast. Is it deep or mind blowing? No, but it doesn't have to be. I like it precisely because it's straightforward and simple. Been on a binge of it lately.
My theory on the appeal of the genre is simple. You know how shonen (and not only shonen, stuff like super heroes or any genre that the character is a young person that discover they have special abilities or skills, like Harry Potter) appeals to a younger demographic yeah? You're young, you're defining yourself as a person, you're faced with the daily pressures and boredom and wishing to experience more, then suddenly you get whisked away to a world you only dreamed of and discover you're so much more.
Well my theory is that Isekais are the same, but for an older demographic (tho that doesn't mean it doesn't have appeal to a younger one as well). Simply put, isekai boils down to "what would you do if you could start a new life from the beginning with all the knowledge and experience you have". This is something we all fantasized at one point or another.
And for all the bad rep it has, some have funny twists to it. One is.. The real state developer... or something like that, and it's about a guy that gets sent to your traditional high fantasy medieval world with monsters, knights and magic.. and faces the challenges through urban planning. The whole thing is hilarious!
Gaming wise (which is also another chunk of my time), I'm a long time player of AFK Arena (going on 5 years in fact, I started playing shortly after the release), and recently started playing AFK Journey as well. If you folks don't know (and you should 'cause the ads are bloody everywhere on YT at least, good grief it's annoying), those two games have the Mauler faction which essentially furry ville. Journey introduced several new ones, but Smokey (a meerkat healer and support) and Odie (a very goofy and chilled marksman hyena) have been my mainstay throughout the campaign so far (and it's legit so, I've actually been doing experiments with the daily boss to see what performs best and those two have been giving me the best results). Bonus points because Odie is my mood 110% and Smokey is best dad (he's literally raising an adopted cub that is part of his model and animation). Those two are so wholesome!
Anywho, that's the current status of Lastik so far, y'all stay cheeky now!
Agree, it has gotten a bad rep because of the over-saturation but that doesn't mean there's no good things in the genre. Imo the same thing happened with things like mech anime back in the day, there was a huge boom for a while and there were a lot of kinda mediocre shows but also good ones.
Isekais are sorta like fast food of comics, they scratch a itch, are a dime a dozen and occasionally you find a pearl amidst the dross! I love them so!