Djinn tells the story of a young woman looking into her long lost grandmother’s past as a concubine in a harem in the 19th century. The series is beautifully illustrated by Ana Miralles and written by Jean Defaux. This video shows her working her magic, creating the beautiful watercolor art for the comic in her studio. Enjoy ;)

  • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeMEnglish
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    10 days ago

    For sure. I’d argue what makes it even more brutal is the friendly, artificial face it puts on the system. You can especially see it on commercials and mainstream tv. It makes it even more repulsive when the conditions of capitalism are given some utopia, Fisher Price look.

    Yeah, exactly. Well said.

    The only kind of means I can countenance when it comes to such media, games, etc are those in which the art of the medium heavily mocks all that nonsense and false-cheeriness about modern capitalism.

    Kinda inconvenient sometimes, in that I love phone and webgames for when I’m stuck in bed; unfortunately a lot of them totally buy in to the ‘capitalism = happiness’ model, rendering otherwise good games pretty much… “shite” in my book, lol. :/

    • wolfinthewoods@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Absolutely.

      I try to avoid commercial games, or at least big studio produced ones, as much as I can. I play mostly indie games from itch.io or from GOG (not a fan of the Steam monopoly). I also play (via roms through emulators) a lot of retro games from the late 80s/early 90s. I find that older games eschew the more predatory and exploitive practices that many modern games use (microtransactions, DLC, loot-boxes, always online etc). Basically I try to stay as anti-capitalist as I can in my choice of games. And if that means I miss out on some games, so be it, there is always something to play. Hell, there’s more good games out there that I could play in several lifetimes, no point in supporting the games that feed the capitalistic beast.

      • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeMEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        Sorry, Wolfie, for this absurdly-late reply. The last few weeks for me have been… hooh boy.

        I try to avoid commercial games, or at least big studio produced ones, as much as I can. I play mostly indie games from itch.io or from GOG (not a fan of the Steam monopoly).

        Haha, I love those sites, along with the fun little projects at Lexaloffle’s Pico08 project, which deliberately imposes a bunch of restrictions on modern carts in order to get with the spirit of early 8-bit consoles. Such a glorious project IMO:

        https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?cat=7&carts_tab=1#sub=2&mode=carts&orderby=featured

        Anyways, I agree with pretty-much all you just said in that last reply. And I like these discussions (and not just because you and I seemingly happen to agree 'pon a range of stuff), but I think it’s nice to branch out a bit in talk & interests from simply ‘BD.’ For example, maybe a lounge-area, and even a list of fun webgames is also on my radar O’Reilly.