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@minka like theres been different thought processes going on when giving types and designs, im not saying yours suck or something, but for example:

- mastodon being water/electric stems from 2 ideas: its the software most people start with, its supposed to be a starter mon in a way (see misskey being grass and pleroma being fire), electric type stemming from nothing but just being software after all which influenced its lowpoly-ish design

- akkoma being a pre-evo of pleroma makes no sense given akkoma is the fork of the latter, not the other way around

- generally i wouldnt want to make forks of software evolutions of each other because it'd be kinda ass to work with (though misskey being sort of like eeveelutions makes sense because these forks barely have any differences)

- i dont want to ever make designs for software ive never used (friendica, bookwyrm, peertube)
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@minka and while i dont mind ideas, telling me how they should be executed is where the line is crossed

sorry for wall of text i guess we are now even lol
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@mondori_art @minka should akkoma incorporate blue, white, and pink in its design? i feel its notable for having a very trans userbase
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@shroomie @minka id rather stick to drawing colors off logos/ui palettes/mascots rather than "significant userbases", which would probably mean akko would don more purples than oranges and a witchy/magical theme

else i would have to make pleroma fox red, white, black and donning a swastika or other fascist symbol (and even then, the black-ish parts especially the eye marks resembling a thief/criminal eyebandana to play off the thing of pleroma historically having a dogshit userbase)
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@shroomie @minka if anything id think sharkey is more likely to don the trans flag colors because theyre actively incorporated in their mascot
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@mondori_art @minka nice one making misskey a tree btw, what with all the branching forks
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@shroomie @minka the eternal forking of misskey wasnt in my thoughtprocess

again: misskey, pleroma and mastodon were intended as starter trio, mk being the grass one due to its use of green in the logo. the body is more of a mix between a bronze key and a plant (not necessarily a tree)
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