Shawnism #3: I like to use "like", like one of those prissy white girls, in chat because it makes the chat look more casual and disarming. Like, it just seems more casual when read.

Shawnism #2: Em dashes that look like this— because I know it doesn't have that many rules in handwriting and I like to mess with print conventions— simulating those Wattpad cut-off speech scenes.

Shawnism #1: The use of "frenetic", often because "frantic" has connotation of negative feelings (anxiety, fear) and I just want to avoid the term "buzzing".

"Capitalist realism permeates thinking and imagination and turns it stale. I'm tired of the argument that leftist ideals are regarded as "unrealistic" when we live in unrealistic times, like searching for infinite escalation of profit. Econonics has hardly been about "realistic".

"Somebody told me that there's a tendency to lean towards social realism and *grounded* media in the Phililpines because the average viewer probably doesn't have a wide backdrop of media to pull from to interpret more creative/veiled stuff."

"What's up Bluesky, I don't know what to do with you."

"I always say that the internet is a treasure trove of information and that it is extremely helpful to amateur academics like me. But I always forget to add that anything beyond amateur... You'll need something more robust."

"I get stressed once, and I forget this exists."

"Perhaps I am capable of many things—of great things—but instead I elect to be a weirdo novelty."

"Jason, with his natural hair colour. I realised that the colour of green I used for Dick was too dark. So I switched it up for Jason."

"I should have probably changed the pallet, but I wasn't feeling like it yet. Anyway, Dick Grayson."

"I stuck with a limited pallete, but this is Shawn in a combat stance. He uses a spiked shield to ram into enemies."

"Yeah, I study languages and their histories. No, I can't speak those languages fluently or on command. Doesn't change how much I love the field, though."

"Shawn Sombre sprite, a demigod OC. Modified from the Megaman NES sprite."

"Picking up pixel art. I tried a long time ago, but I think going over it from the beginning id healthy."

"... Time to starting modifying the Megaman sprite again."

"I've pondered about whether or not I should maintain quote marks here, but it wouldn't be me otherwise, yeah?"