{"id":26685,"date":"2015-07-21T14:46:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T14:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/try-gay-orc-dating-with-tusks-the-orc-dating\/"},"modified":"2015-07-21T14:46:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T14:46:36","slug":"try-gay-orc-dating-with-tusks-the-orc-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/try-gay-orc-dating-with-tusks-the-orc-dating\/","title":{"rendered":"Try gay orc dating with Tusks: The Orc Dating Simulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/124662031010\/try-gay-orc-dating-with-tusks-the-orc-dating\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/cae858e51dd1febb465eacece05302f5\/tumblr_inline_nruby2AWqj1rkw4x1_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>If you have ever thought of being a male orc adventuring, traveling<br \/>\nand bonding with all kinds of other male orcs, then Mitch Alexander\u2019s <i>Tusks: The Orc Dating Simulator<\/i> is for you. It\u2019s a really clever and enchanting premise that makes \u201corc society\u201d feel like a real thing. <\/p>\n<p>Alexander (no relation to me) has just released <a href=\"http:\/\/mitzialexander.itch.io\/orc-dating-sim\">a free preview of <i>Tusks<\/i><\/a>,<br \/>\n which lets you experience your first day among the Orcs as you travel<br \/>\nthrough a sort of mythical Scotland, introduces the characters you can<br \/>\nmeet and romance, and even features a <i>randomized Scottish name generator<\/i>.<br \/>\n I thought it was tenderly-conceived as a visual novel, lovingly-written<br \/>\n and I really like the characters so far (there is also a boar and a<br \/>\nselkie). There\u2019s also an \u201cautonomous NPC\u201d feature\u2014the characters can<br \/>\nmake some decisions on their own regardless of your wishes\u2014that I\u2019m<br \/>\nexcited to see implemented.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not a gay man, but my colleague Todd Harper is, and in <a href=\"http:\/\/laevantine.tumblr.com\/post\/124603635467\/comparative-literature\">his response piece<\/a> he found <i>Tusks<\/i><br \/>\n and its diversity of bodies and ideals alleviating and welcoming, in an<br \/>\n aesthetic climate that often prioritizes \u201ca parade of\u2026 \u2018wax<br \/>\ndolphins\u2019\u201d:\n<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/07\/21\/try-gay-orc-dating-with-tusks.html\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mostlysignssomeportents: If you have ever thought of being a male orc adventuring, traveling and bonding with all kinds of other male orcs, then Mitch Alexander\u2019s Tusks: The Orc Dating Simulator is for you. It\u2019s a really clever and enchanting premise that makes \u201corc society\u201d feel like a real thing. Alexander (no relation to me) has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6Wp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}