MAWS 🏴‍☠️🦈🪸 !!comms open!!

🌊🏝⚓️ maws | 24 | they/them lesbian | 🎨 furry + multifandom artist🐋 | marine bio enjoyer🪸🐟 | 🦀aspiring conservationist🦜🦦| fursuit: @lemonbrat 🏴‍☠️🐚🌊

[MAWS 🏴‍☠️🦈🪸 !!comms open!! @captainmaws]

[ #furryfandom #furry #commissionsopen ]

hey, my commissions are open! i don't have a reliable source of income atm because the job market is literal hell! RTs appreciated!!! 🩵 (prices + examples below) 🧵

[くろねこ @krnk_mhxx]

これが僕なりの"愛"なんよ

[Oceaniz @Oceaniz96]

here at monster hunter wiki dot org we like to PEEL monsters

[Neromiku @Neromiku_]

Yes, Monster Fantasy DOES steal stuff

[Canta Per Me @MH_Canta]

Lao-Shan Lung gameplay in 2027 gonna hit like crack

[Goss Harag Enjoyer @Ethan626794543]

Oh my god

[Ipaidforthat | BLM @Ipaidforthat1]

no the fuck we don't

[SirJessums @SirJessums]

DUDE WTF I THOUGHT WE WERE CHILL 😭

[MAWS 🏴‍☠️🦈🪸 !!comms open!! @captainmaws]

[ #monsterhunter ]

happy pride month <3

[MAWS 🏴‍☠️🦈🪸 !!comms open!! @captainmaws]

[ #monsterhunter ]

happy pride month <3

[Tsuki 🫧 @MidnightBoshi]

I got bored so I added Monster Hunter sounds to Random images on my phone

[丁不歪 @DingBuwai]

白熾龍 Finish！
#WF2026W #WF2026冬 #MonsterHunterWilds

[MAWS 🏴‍☠️🦈🪸 !!comms open!! @captainmaws]

@AnthroAesthetic @RODEOWOLVES what a sweet little void!! biscuits is adorable

[CSAURAGEUL @csaurageul]

Video games will never be taken seriously as an art form because neither the industry nor the audience treats them as art, and the audience is the larger part of the problem. Games are treated as products to be made fast, sold loud, consumed, discarded, and replaced. That is why Call of Duty and FIFA sell in the billions, not because they endure, but because they are disposable and familiar.

This has nothing to do with graphical fidelity, art style, music, voice acting, or budget, even though players insist otherwise. For most people, “artistic merit” means how flashy, pretty, and expensive a game looks. Spectacle is mistaken for depth, and production value is confused with meaning.

Games are not built to be evergreen because the audience does not want evergreen. The people who revisit old titles, engage deeply with systems, or approach games patiently are a minority. Most want the new release, the hype cycle, and the spectacle, then move on as soon as something shinier appears. This is the same reason Avatar makes a billion dollars per film yet leaves almost no cultural footprint. Audiences want stimulation for a few hours, then the exit.

Art requires patience and trust, and games demand both. They ask players to learn systems, accept friction, and think. The audience rejects this. Anything slow, strange, or uncomfortable is dismissed as boring or pretentious, so risk is punished not just by publishers, but by players themselves.

Because of this, metrics replace meaning. Engagement time, retention, and monetisation become the measure of success, because that is what the audience rewards. Art asks what something is saying. Products ask how long you stayed logged in. Games suffer most here because their greatest strength, player agency, is treated as an inconvenience rather than an opportunity.

Legacy is impossible without permission to fail, and the audience does not allow failure. A bad novel does not kill literature. A bad film does not kill cinema. A bad game can kill a studio, because players demand perfection, constant novelty, and infinite support while rejecting experimentation.

So the ceiling stays low by choice. Not because games cannot be art, but because an audience trained on disposability, spectacle, and instant gratification will not tolerate sincerity, patience, or risk. What survives is not what lasts, but what sells loudly and disappears quietly.

[Oceaniz @Oceaniz96]

nah man im crashing out how tf am i supposed to wait until march for stories 3

[Curlz 🥀 @CurlzOfTheYear]

I would really appreciate it if everyone stopped their public outcry trying to say this is bad. As a person with a color vision deficiency, these additions are not only welcomed, but they are very much appreciated! This finally makes ne want to join the hobby of Shuny hunting.

[MAWS 🏴‍☠️🦈🪸 !!comms open!! @captainmaws]

@HEAVYNCHI @RODEOWOLVES my sibling has an ED, and it's affected the whole family. seeing other people's recovery gives me hope; thank you for sharing 🩵 it takes real strength to pull through something like this

[Alex (COMMISSIONS CLOSED) @ezerart_]

Some #MonsterHunter icon sprites I made a while ago.

#pixelart

[🍉sabela! @sabelaberry]

my wife is busy with commissions so i took on the burden of making this. driving in mumkhar #xenobladechronicles