In honor of the news that @slimyswampghost.bsky.social's creation Sirenhead is getting a movie (crucially, with him involved!) here's a great interview we did a while back about the character, his work, and how the internet often tries to wrench creations away from their creators.

My friends are all very talented and hard working. I often look at them in amazement. I hope that I can get back to feeling that with myself. This stretch of time has gone on far too long and I don't want to be like this 🫠

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HAPPY FRIDAY TO EVERYONE WHO HATES SLOP

please DO NOT EVER EVER EVER listen to those "how to make an OC that people will like" or "fixing someone's art" avoid them like the plague, be yourself and have fun there will always be an audience for your character even if it's really small (but is yours and you do whatever you want)

If you can't celebrate anyone else's achievements and treat everyone as your competition, don't be surprised if no one will stick their neck out for you and all you have left are enemies.

Godot: - is free & yours to modify - isn’t run by shareholders with a different agenda - doesn’t support genAI - is easy to transition to - is very capable - has its own quirks - exports to desktop & mobile, and to console through 3rd party services (for now) lmk if you need help transition to it

I tell people at cons that to stick with drawing or any kind of art, you need two things: 1) have so much fun you can’t stop 2) train yourself to have a high frustration tolerance If you have 1 and not 2, you won’t improve. If you have 2 and not 1, it’s a miserable chore. Then I show them this:

wip and sketch grave posting because I do draw my ideas sometimes #daneart

someone on tumblr said it better than i could

Gonna put this simply: My day is better because yall create. Either as illustrators, writers, coders, musicians, voice actors, performers etc. Whether you have a large multimedia project or just a little lore for your OCs you keep for yourself. The world is better because you create. <3

Reasons Bluesky is now Tumblr: Up to 10 photos per post Posting here will not make you famous Mods hate the users Photos with labels are flagged anyway Everyone is a little annoying

You are free

hey man we used AI in the production process of this game but don't worry none of it made it in the game, it was a huge waste of time and money, and we could've just looked at stock photos at the end of the day. You have to accept the future.

Words to live by

we're in the final stretches! 10 days left and $950 more to raise!! i know it can be done 🤝

To lure you all into reading my serialized horror-fantasy adventure novel, I am going to do a rundown of the story just far. New chapters drop every week or so, so let's get into it. And remember, you can start reading "Fang & Bone" anytime from the website triseria.com. #amWriting #werewolf

Next Saturday 🌲 something is coming your way and updating weekly!! @cirrostatus.bsky.social

I come by my mediocrity honestly

Seconding this, and adding that if you go "boring" over any game that you personally don't like, that's fine! But maybe don't bum people out that ARE excited for it.

sweet dreams by the sea

If you wanna know what I've been previewing, I've been building my own lens distortion compositng effects stack to get that physical + digital imperfection you tend to see in old camcorders. (I love poolrooms, liminal spaces and analog/found-footage horror. I don't share that fact often enough.)

I'm in the Backrooms I'm in the Pizza Hut I'm in the combination Backrooms and Pizza Hut

I do really want to see The Backrooms. I only got around to watching the YouTube series like a week ago lmao I like to "fashionably" late, even to my own special interests

It's so ridiculous seeing study drawings of people in their underwear in perfectly innocent situations getting flagged. Like, real people in their underwear get shown on TV constantly and no one is like "now that's hot" because those people are not doing anything sexual in the slightest.

I really REALLY hate the auto detect for sexual images on here. I REEEALLLY don't like it

it’s pride month… let em hang brother #CastleWithNoWalls #OC

When you're like "Man, it's hot in here..." and then realize that you've had a Blender Cycles preview open in the background for who knows how long. Toasty.

also little 3d sketch explorations of liminal spaces

Since Backrooms is a big thing now, look at my old liminal space art

I still have my icon from last year. I guess I'd better make a louder one lmao

your prideful reminder i have a tip-jar ko-fi.com/frogletcomics

I'll never use AI because I actually enjoy the pains of the work sometimes its frustrating, there are days where I just don't really get it right but when I do? that feels like magic. that feels like "damn, I can do that??" and I can be proud of where I go from there

I don't recommend getting cptsd and developmental trauma in case anyone was curious about it

if it isn't clear, I'm with the 18+ artists. don't think because the majority of my art is market friendly that it means I am. fuck censorship, fuck fascism, fuck puritanism. people should have the choice to decide what they want to see, not have the choice made for them.

I saw a guy doing moral outrage that women sometimes read smutty romance in public It's letters. It's 26 letters arranged on a screen that makes your imagination think of things. When people act like it's indecent I'm always like "oh no the witch letters have formed the horny configuration!"

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

Working on a lowpoly platformer about an alien girl that wants to make it as a singer, and has a big moveset, 90s anime vibes and songs with vocals! Just in case you didn’t know 💙

kinda love the idea of not abandoning tech entirely but merely de-evolving it back to when it did only what it was originally supposed to do and didn't steal your data

If you have nsfw set to "hide" I implore you to set it to "warn". You still won't see anything except for a blurred post Otherwise once they roll out account-wide adult content labeling a whole lot of people including me are going to disappear from your timelines, even our sfw text posts

This is not to sound like I'm not clearing things with the team, but generally I get too in-my-own-head about over-sharing and was insinuating that they would probably say it's fine.

im very bad at promotional posting but... it will be done tomorrow :]

Anyway. Hello, I'm not dead yet, just half-way there. I'm very tired. Comix Cleric is so close to ready, we're just getting the last couple of things setup for the Beta. I don't know how Panel Party will feel about me just sharing this stuff, but I'm not sure it matters anyway.

Fang and Bone return on Sunday. Now is a great time to catch up with the story about the werewolf, barber surgeon, and peasant girl. It is a free-to-read dark fantasy serialized novel, ongoing: hpkomics.com/fang-of-tris... #writing #amWriting #horror #fantasy #adventure #werwolf