The Lumity Kiss, One Year Later

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Saw a few posts marking the one-year anniversary of the kiss between Luz Noceda and Amity Blight (aka “Lumity”) in The Owl House season 2 episode “Clouds on the Horizon”. Quite a cultural moment for animation and LGBT representation in mass media, particularly for the Disney behemoth. They fed the fandom with this one.

This moment, among others, netted The Owl House a 2023 nomination for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids and Family Programming (Animated), even though it went to Netflix’s Dead End: Paranormal Park. I honestly wish that GLAAD Media Awards would allow for a first, second and third place winner for each category, now that they’ve expanded the nominee list for many categories to ten entries.

But still, Dana Terrace can say that she expanded Disney’s boundaries.

Tamberlane | Short Animation

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Been working for the last year Directing/Producing a short animation for the webcomic Tamberlane! Their kickstarter is now live so please go check it out and give some support to this adorable webcomic!
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CREDITS

DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS
Ashley Nichols
Caytlin Vilbrandt

STORYBOARDS
Caytlin Vilbrandt
Ari “Metajoker” Noble
Hunter Braly

ANIMATION
Rainsyru
Star Ren
Marji Bordner
Isabel Pereira
Sam Staehler
Sara Cardona

BACKGROUNDS
“Frog” Chu

CLEANUP
Ashley Nichols
Jacob McCaw
BMBrice
Ana Guerrero

COMPOSITING
Ashley Nichols

MUSIC
Ari “Metajoker” Noble

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Sodomy law repeal update (19 May 2023)

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As of 19 May 2023:

  • Maryland: HB0131, decriminalizing oral sex, will become law without signature on Oct 1 2023.
  • Massachusetts: H1640/S913 no closer to passage for the last five months. They have until November 15.
  • Michigan: two three House bills (HB4431, HB4432, HB4433), all introduced 4/19/23. Twitter user @LGBTmarriage notes that neither bill repeals “the ‘gross indecency’ laws that also ban consensual private gay and straight sex (750.338, 338a and 338b).” Hope to see this fixed. Unlike the other three legislatures, Michigan has all year to get this done.
  • Minnesota: Some of the text of HF91/SF70 folded into HF2890/SF2909, passed and signed into law. Gay sex is now statute-legal in Minnesota, as well as “adultery” and “fornication”; abortion-related language in HF91 still being worked out before the session ends on Monday (May 22). Thanks to Rob Salerno @LGBTMarriage for the news.

ONCE AGAIN, it really shouldn’t be taking this long to remove some archaic swords of Damocles from over the heads of LGBT people in blue trifecta states.

Also, the Texas bill died before getting a vote in the House. Of course.

But anyway, two down, two blue trifectas with anti-gay-sex laws to go. Progress.

Hugo’s Mind Palace (PILOT)

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Hugo’s Mind Palace is the story of three dimension hopping retail workers who explore the infinite multiverse in search of artefacts and technologies that they can bring home to earth and sell for profit.

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CREDITS:

Written, Storyboarded, Edited, Animated & Created by Alistair Boubli

Voice Actors:
Tom Rainn as Hugo – @tom_rainn
Kat Grannis as Sam – @kat.grannis
Reiliyana Kallisti as George – @reikallisti
Fraser Henderson as Daryl & Tim – @fraserhendersonvo
Sopa as Lloyd (void being) – @sopasopa

Additional Voices:
Alistair Boubli – Wizard
Alexander Smith – Wishing Relic
Reiliyana Kallisti Wishing – Relic Demons
Kat Grannis – The Iris Queen

Additional Animators:
Macey J. Smalley – @maceyjsmalley
Cameron Grant (Stop Motion) – @cgrantanimation
Corin Astles (CG) – @corincreations

Background Artists:
Alistair Boubli
Judah Esquivel – @judah20510
Macey J. Smalley
Alexandre Pearcy – @xandrepearcy
Ché Dedames – @chededames
Ava Groves Webster – @peachy.doodle

Music by:
Joseph Fresi – @joefresi
Dylan Wesch – @dylanwesch
Hugo’s Mind Palace main theme composed by Joseph Fresi

Sound by:
Alistair Boubli
Dimensional Zipper sound by Noab

Hugo’s Mind Palace is a fun, exciting, emotional sci-fi story that doesn’t get bogged down with the science part, it’s a story about feelings, thoughts, love and life shown through the lens of the mind bending misadventures of three interdimensional misfits.

Thank you for watching!

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AI Addventures

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All the way back in 2009, under another name, I wrote something about the “addventure“, wondering if we’ll ever get an addventure in webcomic form. I remember being emailed afterward by Allen Firstenberg, who coined the “add-venture” term in 1987-1988 when he created an add-on story for the Nyack High School BBS, which he later ported to the early World Wide Web in 1994. I need to find that email someday. He’s currently a software developer and published writer. Good to see he’s doing ok.

The addventure idea, combining the “round-robin” and “choose-your-own-adventure” narrative ideas, has been used over the decades in both wiki and non-wiki formats.

Today I learned about “Endless VN“, a visual novel, in which all assets of the game are automatically generated from AI prompts while being played, allowing for theoretically-endless gameplay and theoretically-infinite numbers of plot divergences. From what I’m seeing so far, the AI generation is resulting in the typical deformed body parts expected of current AI generated media. But as a proof-of-concept, I can see some of the merit of this idea.

Also want to note this project, Myujen, which is intended to allow for creation of visual novels in VR.

If EndlessVN, Myujen and related platforms can actually realize a never-ending, AI-driven visual novel “addventure”, how much closer will we get to the “metanovels” depicted in Rudy Rucker’s novel Postsingular?

Progress on Blue Trifecta Sodomy Repeal (End of April 2023)

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As of 28 April 2023:

  • Maryland: HB0131, decriminalizing oral sex, is still waiting for governor’s signature
  • Massachusetts: H1640/S913 have been reconciled and are sitting in the Joint Committee on the Judiciary
  • Michigan: two House bills (HB4431 and HB4432), both introduced 4/19/23. Twitter user @LGBTmarriage notes that neither bill repeals “the ‘gross indecency’ laws that also ban consensual private gay and straight sex (750.338, 338a and 338b).” Hope to see this fixed.
  • Minnesota: HF91 making the rounds in committees. Companion SF70 is in second reading.

ONCE AGAIN, it really shouldn’t be taking this long to remove some archaic swords of Damocles from over the heads of LGBT people in blue trifecta states.

Somewhat honorable mention goes to Texas where a bill to repeal the state’s highly-discriminatory ban on gay sex has received majority sponsorship for potential passage. This is somewhat honorable because the bill (drafted by a Democrat) contains a “compromise” proviso preserving existing legislation stating that “homosexuality is not a lifestyle acceptable to the general public” (Christian bullshit as usual).