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she/they | 27 | queer gothic scholar | game designer
👩🏻‍🏫 game design lecturer @ UCSC
🎓 BA Art & Design: Games & Playable Media @ UCSC
🎓 MFA Digital Art & New Media: Experimental Play @ UCSC
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visdev 2 part 2/2
taking these building blocks, i started iterating on a bunch of designs (my original goal was 100 logos but i ended up with 67). then i asked for feedback and critique on subsets of the logos in order to narrow down my design to two options. finally, i started playing with color
Logo Design Iteration (1). a bunch of shapes that are being merged and divided to create 67 black and white logos Logo Design Iteration (2). 67 black and white logos with two options marked with a highlight box Logo Design Iteration (3). turning two iterations of the logos into banners, flags, and standards. option one is a sort of eye-like shape. option two is a figure eight with bullet shapes as the negative space of the eight. colors are black, white, and blue Logo Design Iteration (4). turning two iterations of the logos into banners, flags, and standards. option one is a sort of eye-like shape. option two is a figure eight with bullet shapes as the negative space of the eight. colors are black, white, and red
August 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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visdev 2 part 1/2
i wanted to focus on simple geometric designs that were inspired by the both Bauhaus design and the fascist Italian Futurist movement's ideals of speed, machinery, violence, youth, and industry. i needed to create simple building blocks that felt more fluid and dynamic than squares
Logo Design Iterations. Design Methodology (1). a single square with an arrow pointing from it to a 3x3 grid of squares Design Methodology (2). the nine squares of the 3x3 grid have been spaced out and a tenth square has been added underneath them an arrow points from this formation to a modified version of these squares where any corners on the outside are rounded. Design Methodology (3). individual rounded square pieces from the previous slide are now being merged and/or divided to create second- and third-order composite shapes that are still relatively simple
August 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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thinking about the right to revolt and what happens when the State refuses to protect the rights of the People and instead prioritizes the wishes of Oligarchs and Tyrants.
death first to fascists and dictators. '...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their ***duty***, to throw off such Government." it is out ~~right~~ duty to revolt.
August 12, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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taking some options and turning them into the flags of the fictional corporate/fascist military government
turning two iterations of the logos into banners, flags, and standards. option one is a sort of eye-like shape. option two is a figure eight with bullet shapes as the negative space of the eight. colors are black, white, and blue turning two iterations of the logos into banners, flags, and standards. option one is a sort of eye-like shape. option two is a figure eight with bullet shapes as the negative space of the eight. colors are black, white, and red
August 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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round three
twenty four more minimalist black and white logos. a fair amount have an eagle-inspired design in reference to roman/european/orthodox/byzantine/fascist iconography
August 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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the design on the bottom left is inspired in part by the Sun Microsystems logo from the 1990s (pictured here) and in part by online neo-nazi hate symbols referencing nazi war flags (not pictured here)

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Sun Microsystems logo from the 1990s
August 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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round two

some design notes to follow
tweet more black and white minimalist logos.
August 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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logo/icon explorations
19 logo/icon iterations in black and white. simple and semi-complex shapes made out of minimalist building blocks. some are abstract shapes. some look like flowers. some look like eyes. some look like eagle/double eagle standards.
August 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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visdev part 5/5
[a diagram with two labeled shapes. each label says "[Description of diagram component]"] Figure 1. Proper labeling of diagram components Style Guide (5). Print & Web Documents. Print documents should be formatted for standard US Letter paper (8.5 x 11”) with margins of 1” all around. Web versions of print documents should be formatted as pageless documents (one scrolling page). Hyperlinks are strongly encouraged. All hyperlinks should be bolded and colored as Internal Links & References. Hyperlinks should never be underlined. All print documents should fit into one of two categories: Memos and Manuals. Memos are any documents delivered via the Bureau Mail Service and should be single-page or numbered single-sided pages. Manuals will be bound in a Standard Bureau-Issue Binder (Three Ring) with buff, tabbed, manila divider pages if there are sections. Every print document should have the Bureau Letterhead or Bureau Logo visible on each page.
August 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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visdev part 4/5
Style Guide (1). Headings End With Periods. Body text is written in complete sentences with Referenced Sections bolded and colored in dark blue (#1155cc). The body text is always justified. Any technical instructions that are rendered inline are set in the monospace typeface and are highlighted with light blue like so. Any technical instructions in fenced code block (the markdown syntax is to be enclosed in lines with three backticks) will be printed as blocks of text: This set of instructions will have a 0.4-inch hanging indent and does not need any highlight. It will be rendered in the monospace typeface. This text will not be justified. Style Guide (2). Avoid widows and orphans. That is, keep paragraphs together in the same page and column. Only split a paragraph if it has four or more lines on each separated section. [sidebar Sidebar Styles. If there is sidebar text, ensure that it is bounded in a box with a background slightly darker than the page. The sidebar should be about ½ the size of the column it is attached to. The sidebar text should be smaller than the body text of the page. ] If a page contains less than a full column of text but is the final page in a section, it is okay to split the column into its constituent paragraphs. Try to keep the text in the left column longer than that in the right. [sidebar Sidebar Location. Sidebars should be on the outside of a page. ] Style Guide (3). Internal Links & References. #1155cc Document Backgrounds—Default. #fafaff Document Backgrounds—Alternate. #efefef Document Backgrounds—Sidebars. #cfe2f3 Document Text. #121517 Formatting. Text inside non-sidebar boxes will be padded 0.2 inches on all sides. Text inside sidebar boxes will be padded 0.1 inches on all sides. Any redacted text will have each redacted character replaced with an underscore in the monospace typeface, before the whole redacted text is highlighted in the Document Text color. Here is an example of _____________. All non-monospace text will be justified with 1.15 spacing and will have a space added after the end of each paragraph. All monospace text blocks will have a 0.4-inch hanging indent and will not be justified. Additionally, all monospace text blocks will not have a space added after the end of a paragraph. Style Guide (4). Labels & Diagrams. Labels will have rounded corners and should appear to be capsule-shaped. If labels are attached to portions of an image or diagram, they should have a connecting line that is dashed (—·—) and has a filled in circle connector at the relevant portion of the image or diagram (see Figure 1). Captions will have no left padding. Their text will be italicized and will not have a period. [a diagram with two labeled shapes. each label says "[Description of diagram component]"] Figure 1. Proper labeling of diagram components
August 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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visdev part 3/5
Style Guide—Typography (1). Option A. This option uses the IBM Plex Sans font family with technical instructions in the IBM Plex Mono typeface with a light blue highlight. Heading [IBM Plex Sans Bold] Body text will look like this [IBM Plex Sans Normal]. Any code segments [IBM Plex Mono Normal] will look like this[1] _____ [1] Any footnotes will look like this. [IBM Plex Sans Condensed Normal] Option B. This option uses the Noto Sans font family with technical instructions in the Noto Sans Mono typeface with a light blue highlight. Heading [Noto Sans Black] Body text will look like this [Noto Sans Normal]. Any code segments [Noto Sans Mono Normal] will look like this[1] _____ [1] Any footnotes will look like this. [Noto Sans Light] Style Guide—Typography (3). Icon Weight & Stroke. Per the Material Design Icon Style Guide: The recommended stroke weight for icons is 2dp or the regular weight (400), which includes curves, angles, and both interior and exterior strokes. Material Symbols can provide a range of weights between thin (100) and bold (700). Complex Icons. Per the Material Design Icon Style Guide: If an icon requires complex details, subtle adjustments can be made to improve its legibility. These adjustments are referred to as optical corrections. Any optical correction should use the geometric forms on which all other icons are based, without skewing or distorting those shapes. Style Guide—Typography (2). Icons. All icons will either be (a) sourced from the Google Font Material Symbols[1] or (b) designed as an extension of this set of symbols. In order to match the style guide of the Google Font Material Symbols, please refer to the Icon Style Guide or the official Material Design Icon Style Guide[2]. Icon Corners. Per the Material Design Icon Style Guide: Corner radii are 2dp by default. For the outlined style symbols, interior corners are square, not rounded. For shapes 2dp wide or less, stroke corners shouldn’t be rounded. For the rounded style symbols, both exterior and interior corner radii are rounded and for the sharp style symbols, both exterior and interior corners radii reduce from 2dp to 0dp. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ [1] Available at: https://fonts.google.com/icons. [2] Available at: https://m3.material.io/styles/icons/designing-icons. Style Guide—Typography (3). Icon Weight & Stroke. Per the Material Design Icon Style Guide: The recommended stroke weight for icons is 2dp or the regular weight (400), which includes curves, angles, and both interior and exterior strokes. Material Symbols can provide a range of weights between thin (100) and bold (700). Complex Icons. Per the Material Design Icon Style Guide: If an icon requires complex details, subtle adjustments can be made to improve its legibility. These adjustments are referred to as optical corrections. Any optical correction should use the geometric forms on which all other icons are based, without skewing or distorting those shapes.
August 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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visdev part 2/5

i have added Bauhaus and International Style as referenced design/architecture styles
Mood Board—Visual Direction (3). Control Henry Dreyfuss Marcello Nizzoli Olivetti Ettore Sottsass Filippo Tommaso Marinetti SCP Foundation Brutalism Functionalism Streamline Moderne Art Deco Futurist & Futurism Bauhaus International Style Style Guides.
August 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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visdev part 1/5
Visual Direction. Corporate Horror Game. Mood Boards. Mood Board--Visual Direction (1). [image of a folder from the Federal Bureau of Control from the 2019 video game Control] [promotional art for the 2019 video game Control featuring the title of the game and the main character] [image of the Oldest House from the 2019 video game Control] [Divisumma 14 Printing Calculator designed by Marcello Nizzoli] [Divisumma 24 Printing Calculator designed by Marcello Nizzoli] [Rotary Telephone (model 302) designed by Henry Dreyfuss] [the SCP Foundation logo] Mood Board--Visual DIrection (2). [Enorme Telephone designed by Ettore Sottsass] [Preliminary Project for Microenvironment, Element for Landscape Home designed by Ettore Sottsass] [Preliminary Project for Microenvironment designed by Ettore Sottsass] [The Mercury train designed by Henry Dreyfuss] [Summa 19 Calculator designed by Ettore Sottsass] [unidentified train in the Streamline Moderne style] [the Chrysler Building] [rendering of the interior of a coach car on the Mercury train designed by Henry Dreyfuss] [unidentified Greyhound station in the Streamline Moderne architectural style]
August 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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good night, sweet prince
thank you (“fur” is struck through) for your years of service [a black and white photo of max looking regal (and also looking for a pastry)] max wtwta cat c. 2013-2025 recycle bookstore campbell owner, pastry lover, curmudgeon extraordinaire, a good cat max passed away peacefully on 28 march 2025.
April 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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cw: animal death

my bookstore coworker/boss, max the cat, passed away last week and i am devastated
max the cat looking for pastries max the cat staring straight into your soul max the cat looking for pastries (but this time he’s on the ground) max the cat hiding in a nook under a counter and sleeping on an employee’s jacket
April 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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happy doppeldäy to the doppelgäng!!
meet the artist scareoset dani ~ she/they ~ twenty-seven queer gothic scholar lesbian vampire expert game designer & educator aries / cancer / taurus cringe online and in person! likes - reading - games - vampires - cats - community - pizza dislikes - h*rses - chicken - the Church - crowds - nazis - capitalism
April 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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testing a new scareoset logo
a pink s made out of a hexagon against a black background, all colored in halftone dots
February 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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i wanna read these texts together!

“You have a choice between saving one life and an entire world, every world.” -Spider-Man 2099

“The ultimate expression of sovereignty largely resides in the power and capacity to dictate who is able to live and who must die.” - Achille Mbembe
Spider-Man 2099 (Miguel O’Hara) from Across the Spider-Verse Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe
February 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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brainstorming spider-sona logos
a bunch of spider-man alternate logos
February 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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january 2025 reading wrap up!
scareoset's January 2025 Reads The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson Mouth: Stories by Puloma Ghosh The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson scareoset's January 2025 Wrap-Up 7 books | 2,861 pages | 4.57 average rating Highest Rated Reads: Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire (5.0) The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (5.0) The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (5.0) Average book length: 394 pages Average tie to finish: 4 days Compared to December 2024: books -53% pages -60%
February 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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radical gender ideology
shadow the hedgehog holding a trans pride flag in front of a flaming circle. text reads “radical gender ideology? hell yeah, it’s rad as fuck!”
January 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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computer, enhance
a map of the fictional County of Farrock which is the northwestern most of the Duchy of Farrock’s five counties. roads, towns, rivers, mountains, woods, and regions have been labeled
January 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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i love making silly little maps of my dnd setting
a map of the fictional Duchy of Farrock, the custom setting for my dnd games. kinda looks like a google maps style view with rivers, forests, settlements, lakes, and major trade roads. a map of the major roads in Farrock City, the capital of the Duchy of Farrock, from my custom dnd setting. this map is done in the style of massimo vignelli’s new york mta subway maps.
January 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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2024 reading recap
@scareoset’s The StoryGraph 2024 wrap-up 154 books | 61,859 pages
January 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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december 2024 reading wrap up!!
@scareoset’s december 2024 wrap-up 15 books | 7,195 pages | 4.53 average rating average book length: 490 pages | average time to finish: 15 days @scareoset’s december 2024 wrap-up The Poppy War by R F Kuang The Dragon Republic by R F Kuang House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski The Burning God by R F Kuang A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon Young Avengers (Ultimate Collection) hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon hawkeye: Little Hits hawkeye: LA Woman hawkeye: Rio Bravo Inkheart by Cornelia Funke The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman Uzumaki by Junji Ito Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
January 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM