Pride Season Looms

[olivermoss]

So, I was a bit wrong in my last Pride post. I will do things besides Wonderwood Springs. Most of the queer craft pop ups will be at events I don't plan to go to, but I will find some side events. I will have a budget, or rather a spending goal, of money to spend on queer artists during Pride season. I have a suspicion that will happen mostly to artists at Books with Pictures con. I will also keep an eye out for events in case there is anything else I might want to do.

Also, and I don't know how I forgot about this last post, but my project in GW2 for the past few months has been making an Aurene Legendary Longbow for the virtual Pride events in Guild Wars 2. I finished it last night and sent it to Lelling for the give-away pool this morning. Aurene leggies are basically 6 leggie skins in one because you can change what dragon they are aspected to, so you can customize the weapon to your characters' looks. In GW2 leggies are account-wide unlocks so each build on each character gets basically a duplicate of the weapon, so fashion-wise it's a pile of leggie skins. They are particularly expensive and time consuming. I meant to also make an Aurene Greatsword for the event, but I just didn't have enough free time to do 2 Aurene leggies, but I can do a vanilla leggy to add to the pool. Vanilla leggies are a lot less work and cost.

That was my attempt to explain 4 months of work on a shiny for the virtual Pride events in the video game I play and why it was like particularly cool without a full explanation that would take several long paragraphs. MMOs are weird and complicated. Lelling is working right now to plan this year's routes for the 4 marches, good endpoints and how to get to good vantage points for screenshots and clips to show the parades. It's a lot of planning.

Comments

[walgesang]

That's cool they have an in-game Pride. I'm taking a break from WoW and playing a little FFXIV because my kid is playing, but I never got out of the starting zone in GW2 and I'm wondering about maybe giving that a go for fun sometime.

[olivermoss]

The game's population is even stronger than it was years ago. The different racial starting zones are pretty different and you can hop between then as you start with all the starting WPs unlocked. If you give it another try, I hope you have fun. One of the game's top content creators is trans and our pride events are fundraisers for Rainbow Railroad.

[mistressofmuses]

MMOs ARE weird, so I think you did an admirable job of condensing that explanation down!

[olivermoss]

Thanks! The weapon was a big project. Hopefully Tyria Pride raises a lot for Rainbow Railroad this year.