near the end of 2025 i paid $75 for a 1TB NVMe SSD & now the same one's $356. my assumption is this is because the memory manufacturers are colluding to fix prices based on their "handshake deals" with altman et al. supposedly monopolizing a year-plus of production (which is transparently bullshit)

Them Lee brothers are good ol' boys and they stand up too battle oppression of any type. They will put their big ol' frames in the breach and dare you to move 'em. Mathew and Mark were raised properly.

check out my Fucking Bunny Legs yeahhh (been picking at this in between other things for weeks)

headache from the bowels of hell. why

check out my Fucking Bunny Legs yeahhh (been picking at this in between other things for weeks)

heyyy so im kinda super extremely in a hole right now but i dont want to bump my kofi again but uhhh if you want to check out my patreon or substar maybee www.patreon.com/nextel subscribestar.adult/nextel

close to finished with some work but had to stop to draw korki (it's been a few days since i think), because i felt like if i didn't i'd explode somehow?? (i put more of his mid-00s look back into him with some new things too (like actually letting him have most of his hair in its natural color))

i,m gonna step on u with my bunny'd paows (cooldown from last night, made partly to see if i can still consistently do "neat" lines + solid flats without getting annoyed by it because it'll be important soon)

one more rust remover: blew up a tiny warmup doodle i did of eve A While Ago to test a couple new brushes out (and get my head around some of the unconventional layer-blending modes in krita) feeling like i can actually get *work* done now which is. something i haven't felt properly in a while 🫠

i think i've got the rust more or less obliterated after getting stuck in literally-cannot-draw land for days yeahhh (have a rose drawing!)

ok back to painting individual leaves and doing texture work only i'll ever notice that will disappear at reasonable resolutions because i have lost my mind yay!!

close to finished with some work but had to stop to draw korki (it's been a few days since i think), because i felt like if i didn't i'd explode somehow?? (i put more of his mid-00s look back into him with some new things too (like actually letting him have most of his hair in its natural color))

gone from penciling individual leaves to painting individual leaves. i could have done this much smarter and faster and i know it. why did i do this to me. hey past me come here i just want to talk

made a small change to the domain i'm using for my @ because i'm retooling the other one (or in other words: this is still me)

whole string of thunderstorm bullshit rolling through and all i want to do is finish some work and doodle some Skounk Ass

i miss being able to knock out like 1-2 complex finished works a day instead of picking at things a tiny bit at a time most days with weird bursts of being able to do simpler finished work when the pain's low enough i can ignore it through virtue of flow-state. i'd give my empire of dirt for no pain

i,m gonna step on u with my bunny'd paows (cooldown from last night, made partly to see if i can still consistently do "neat" lines + solid flats without getting annoyed by it because it'll be important soon)

i have spent an unknown amount of time drawing individual leaves in the background of the comm i'm working on and it's at that point where i'm not even confident it's gonna look right, but i'm pretty sure that's the I've Been Working On This Forever talking and it'll be fine actually

fucken licks u (now on with getting actual work done today or i swear i'll fucking explode into poop and glitter. but mostly poop, probably)

probably already mentioned it but as soon as i get some of my queue out of the way i'm going to do a complete overhaul of my commission offerings because i want to move away from fixed styles and more toward pure process stuff where it's just "work done to specific levels of finish" instead

one more rust remover: blew up a tiny warmup doodle i did of eve A While Ago to test a couple new brushes out (and get my head around some of the unconventional layer-blending modes in krita) feeling like i can actually get *work* done now which is. something i haven't felt properly in a while 🫠

i think i've got the rust more or less obliterated after getting stuck in literally-cannot-draw land for days yeahhh (have a rose drawing!)

wheeeew someone broke the shit out of libexiv2 today huh

theeeee most annoying thing in the world is getting a ton of inspiration and energy and ideas while having nearly a week where you *can't* work on art and then when you finally get to do it again all that shit evaporates like a raindrop on hot asphalt. my brain's a fucking traitor and i'm suing it

computer's plugged in, everything's fine, now i just have to scrape off the shitload of rust i accumulated over almost a week >:|

i will hopefully be back to work today pHEW i haaate doing nothing and i hate being *forced* to do nothing even more

(barely retaining grip on reality voice) maybe today will be the day i can work again

70 yesterday, snowing today. come the fuck onnnn

can't wait to be able to plug everything back in again, i am so fucking *bored* with not working

definitely not getting any work done until the power company replaces the damaged pole and gets the giant fucking tree removed from the middle of the road and off the lines whoops

spending a few hours troubleshooting/disassembling/repairing the bathroom fan (because maintenance requests seem to get round-filed) wasn't how i wanted to start my day, but here we are (spoiler: it works again, slightly better than it did. nice) (now if the power would stay on i could do real work)

woke up wrong and now i resent having been born in the first place

ko-fi.com/s/8530c57b29 i put vivi lives back up, proceeds are going to help my friends out.

synthi warmup (feels like i'm triangulating upon a process of working rather than Forcing A Style Into Existence for once & it's rapidly beating the hell out of my burnout!! i felt like i had to do "style presets" of sorts to Monetize My Skills Or Whatever but it ended up hurting more than helping)

i went botmode again! whoops (does this count as a cooldown if i decided to keep working on the Actual Work after i did it. idk)

morning warmup; rose on some squishy bready thing next to a shiny red thing

cooldown doodle from last night. hi rose what are u doing up there............

today's warmup, featuring synthi. ooh big stretch (*this* is getting much closer to what i've been attempting to do for a new thing soon and i'm very happy with it considering it's just an exercise)

warmup-and-cooldown / technique experimentation / hybridizing current-korki with circa-2003-korki for fun

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Hey, alongside contacting your representatives, this seems like another thing worth putting a bit of your time into and sharing around. If we could get "reputational risk" taken off the table, even in this current climate, that could create a chilling effect on these kinds of policies

This is important if you don't want visa or MasterCard to tell you how to spend your money.

even one day where i could do something as simple as stand up or walk around or even just lie down without *something* hurting to the point of either heavy distraction (and lack of sleep) or utter defeat and tears would be nice. like just several hours. shit, *one* hour would be nice idk

A reminder to call your reps today! KOSA has been sandwiched into the KIDS Act and is still a huge censorship threat. You can use this tool- it takes just a few minutes: www.badinternetbills.com

I know calling reps is very nerve racking. You're not sure what's the right thing to say, and tbh having a script thrown at me makes things just as nerve racking. I called today, and I figured I'd write up a transcript of how my call went down. Hopefully it helps demystify the process

let's see: - march 7th, as in a week out of february - 78°F - tornado watch - in pittsburgh

The angry part of Bluesky remembered KOSA (now under the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, or H.R. 7757) exists but rather yell at you I'll say: If you have REALLY bad anxiety (like me!), you can call your reps after hours! Voicemail counts! The site 5Calls give you a script to read off of:

another "everything hurts too much to sleep" night yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh