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Ah yes, "Shadow Man Remastered." I have been wanting to play the game since it was released, but it didn't happen at the time. Then, quite recently, I learned about Nightdive's remaster, and I had it on my list ever since. Over a quarter of the century after its release, I finally get to bit my teeth in it.

#Shadowman

#abendrunde mit dem Napfbefüller
#shadowman on Tour
Habt nen tollen Abend

#django #MastodonDogs #hunderunde #lebenmithund #lovemydog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #Mastodonrudel #hunde #Leonberger #hund #dog #outdoor #freidog #FotoFreitag #olddogs #älterehunde #großehunde #bigdogs

#Truro #Cathedral this morning #Cornwall #Kernow #Bluesky has #ShadowMan vibes about it!

Just caught up with the latest episode of Uncanny, Case 3: Shadow Man. Absolutely spine chilling. At first, I thought, "Classic sleep paralysis demon," but then—oh no, no… it gets much worse. If you missed it, catch up on iPlayer. It was a doozy. #Uncanny #ShadowMan

#DavidBowie #shadowman

https://youtu.be/QBLkiWCTwrw?si=2cC1HYg6LHINKGKp

THE "DARK SOULS" OF OBSCURE N64 HORROR GAMES | Shadowman Remastered | Full Longplay / Ending
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-8IJFmgLpc&ab_channel=KrinxTV
#KrinxTV #ShadowMan #ValiantEntertainment #HorrorGame #HorrorGames #HorrorGaming

Works roundup, 11/26 (Moon Knight/Marvel, Shadow Man, webcomics)

Moon Knight
Moon Scepter (art | Marc | worksafe)
Duat daemons (art | Marc/Steven, daemons | worksafe)

Shadow Man
Offworld Coda (or: the post-canon hookup they deserved) (fic | Tatian/Warreven | T)

General/Miscellaneous
Painted Trans Flag Wallpaper (what it says, worksafe)

This Week in But I’m A Cat Person:

Hammering away at the last few tweaks to the new layout, and sending feature requests to the Toocheke plugin creator! Also, some comics.

This Week in Leif & Thorn:

Afterglow for our lovely couple. (Awkwardness as Magical Thorn tries not to picture it.)

#art #Comics #daemons #Deadpool #fic #Marvel #MoonKnight #ShadowMan #webcomics

#Valiant / Alien Books are doing a full Jim Lee's #XMen #1 homage with 4 connecting variants.

Valiant is also a good example of how a company fails. They might have rivaled Marvel in and after the 90s, if some idiots didn't own the company. I still like the X-O at least. But they are surely in a never ending struggling loop.

#Marvel #Comics #XOManowar #ShadowMan #Bloodshot #Resurgence

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jim-lee-x-men-1-homage-across-valiant-comics-november-2024-solicits/

Spielt diese Gruselspiele mit Nintendo Switch Online + Erweiterungspaket

https://nintendo-connect.de/heimkonsole/nintendo-switch/spielt-diese-gruselspiele-mit-nintendo-switch-online-erweiterungspaket-127621/

The delivery of SPECIAL here is killing me :blobhaj_mlem:

#NintendoSwitch #gaming #shadowman #retrogaming

I've gotten absorbed in playing the remaster of ShadowMan! :ablobcatcoffee:

I booted the N64 original since it got added to Nintendo Switch Online just to see that version again for a little while. Got pretty nostalgic hearing the music and looking at the attract mode.

Decided to pop in the remaster. :blobcatangel:

#gaming #NintendoSwitch #ShadowMan #retrogaming #nightdivestudios

On Geek Grotto today I pay tribute to Greg Hildebrandt, talk Luce & Friends, Shadowman and Turok2 on Switch, upcoming Marvel TV & focus on Slayback in #ObscureCharacterCorner!
2pm Saturdays on SHMUFM: DAB & 99.8FM in Aberdeen or online at shmu.org.uk
#Radio #Scifi #Comics #VideoGames #TV #Marvel #GregHildebrandt #Luce #LuceAndFriends #Shadowman #Turok2 #Slayback #Deadpool

The Leif & Thorn Volume 7 campaign is almost funded! As in “we are literally $20 under the main goal.”

So, hey, tell your friends. Got a stretch goal to shoot for, and a week left to go.

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As part of the “30 Days of Leif & Thorn” project, I started making semi-regular posts on Instagram for the first time since the end of 2021…and just got a “We suspect automatic activity on your account” warning.I quit posting there in the first place because the site felt actively hostile to small-audience artists! They sure are making an effort not to win me back, huh?

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Just finished Shadow Man (Goodreads link, though their summary is very weird), the 1995 novel by Melissa Scott.

I have no idea how or when this got on my reading list? But I’m glad it did!

It’s about a spacefaring future where the unobtanium that lets humans survive FTL travel also racheted up the amount of intersex births, to the point where there are now 5 roughly-equally-distributed sexes. Most populations have adjusted, the main interplanetary language has five sets of pronouns (no overlap with the neopronouns that are popular IRL these days), but weird backwater planet Hara is trying to stick to “there are only two genders, dammit, mems are just men, fems are just women, and herms can pick either side, but they’ve gotta pick one.”

We flip between the POVs of two protagonists: Warreven, a local Hara lawyer who specializes in representing the queer + intersex community, and Tatian, an offworlder who works for a pharmaceutical company. (Their main motivation to work with the weird backwater planet is, it’s where The Good Drugs grow.)

Warreven’s a herm, legally identifies as a man, has some ambivalence about it but is very sure about not being a woman. Tatian is a cis man, has always considered himself exclusively into women + fems, and spends a good chunk of the book low-key realizing “help, ze’s hot.”

The negative GoodReads reviews keep saying things like “nothing happened in this book,” and…that’s kinda fair? A lot of it is just…meandering around with these two characters, getting immersed in the world. You know the genre of Youtuber who lives in a weird place or has an exotic job, and vlogs about their day-to-day life? Long stretches of this book are just the sci-fi version of that.

And then the political unrest heats up, there are increasingly-violent protests in the streets, Warreven is briefly put in the hospital, and we get some quality hurt-comfort with Tatian. Sadly, they don’t kiss (they really should’ve kissed), but we get scenes like “Warreven is too injured to have a full range of motion, so Tatian helps them bathe and tenderly washes their hair.” The good stuff.

The gender worldbuilding is fascinating, for its weird gaps as much as its progressive ideals. Intersex Harans are fighting for their rights in a strikingly modern way — Warreven has a fellow herm co-worker who insists on being recognized and addressed with the matching pronouns, Tatian pulls strings to get them treated in an offworld-run hospital out of fear the local doctors will try to “fix” them. But even offworld, gender stereotypes are still a thing! Three new mainstream sexes just means interplanetary society came up with three new sets of stereotypes!

And even though Harans have ways to indicate their legal gender (conventions of clothing, jewelry, etc), Tatian keeps trying to clock everyone’s biological sex. Okay, so he’s not wrong to think “it’s oppressive and wrong that all Harans are pressured to present as male or female, whether they identify that way or not.” But also — dude, don’t you have trans people in the interplanetary space future? If someone is presenting as male, maybe it’s not cool to over-analyze their breast size?

Sigh. We can maybe cut him a little slack, because he does it most noticeably with Warreven, and he’s having a mild sexuality crisis over being hot for Warreven.

It’s a shame there’s no sequel. (There’s also no fic — there’s an AO3 tag for it, I’m guessing the book got nominated for Yuletide at some point, but it hasn’t been canonized because nobody wrote any fills.) A lot of points got set up during the “meandering around daily life” chapters that were never followed through on, and I’d like to see where they went. Wouldn’t mind spending more time with these characters in general.

And, you know, it’s never a bad time for more tender hair-washing.

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/11/02/three-things-make-a-post-backerkit-instagram-shadow-man/

#crowdfunding #instagram #recs #ShadowMan