we're a handful or episodes into the original Macross, and Hikaru is the most impressively useless main character I've come across in a *while*. the only thing the guy's got going for him is that he's sorta good at flying, and that is IT

my work week so far has consisted of me doing a watercolour painting of a baby, and spending an hour sculpting toes on a rabbit never let it be said that my work is not diverse in subject

update from the trenches of the war for the local library: - the new location will have no internal walls enclosing the library (for?? reasons??) - the blueprint for the new location got re-drawn a few weeks ago - our municipal chief got interviewed on the national news and looked like a buffoon

Y'know it's nice to log onto the godforsaken internet and find a crop of good news for once keep it up, please

New month! New plans! #Patreon plans, even! Getting by as an artist is only getting harder by the day in this era of generated garbage and global economic wobbling. Adopt an artist today and do your part for the cultural eco system. #art #comics www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...

there's a "most artists are working poor" post floating around and I would like to say that yes, yes we are I don't open my annual retiremend fund update letter any more because I know doing so would make me scream into my own hands endlessly please consider feeding me so I can continue making art

New month! New plans! #Patreon plans, even! Getting by as an artist is only getting harder by the day in this era of generated garbage and global economic wobbling. Adopt an artist today and do your part for the cultural eco system. #art #comics www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...

Secondly - a new #TTRPG devlog on my Weird West PbtA game! In which we discuss the first playtest session, and genre-emulation and prescriptive mechanics. www.patreon.com/posts/142416...

Speaking of #Patreon posts - I've got several of them today, as I catch up on stuff I promised to post this month. First up - new #sculpture project! it's another fantastical creature, but more complicated this time. www.patreon.com/posts/new-sc... #art

New #FeedingOfMonsters episode! A wild Raith appears - and my personal potato agenda strikes again (I love potatoes: they're the best staple food). You can read the archive on #Patreon: www.patreon.com/collection/6... #art #comics

and now I'm going to go take a nap, because it turns out it takes several days to fix a 36-hour dent in your sleep schedule

Speaking of #Patreon posts - I've got several of them today, as I catch up on stuff I promised to post this month. First up - new #sculpture project! it's another fantastical creature, but more complicated this time. www.patreon.com/posts/new-sc... #art

New #FeedingOfMonsters episode! A wild Raith appears - and my personal potato agenda strikes again (I love potatoes: they're the best staple food). You can read the archive on #Patreon: www.patreon.com/collection/6... #art #comics

I don't know jack about baseball, but I think if they make it to 20 innings, they should start playing by Calvinball rules.

the downside of having a night of lost sleep is that it keeps fucking you up for days afterwards. especially when you combine it with DST changes and having to get up at 6am for early morning appointments.

the more i hear about ai the more I wanna go out pick up a rock grind up pigments and draw little horses on the walls of a cavern

New #Patreon post! A bunch of costume design stuff and rambling about inspirations - and traditional Swedish bridal crowns - for one of my graphic novel projects! #art www.patreon.com/posts/prince...

Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass. It NEEDS mass pushback.

due to cat problems (solved now), my brain went full No Sleep Only Stress mode, meaning I've slept approximately 3 hours since yesterday morning. I wish my brain wouldn't do that. on the bright side, reading to distract myself means I've gotten through three webnovels in two days.

New #Patreon post! A bunch of costume design stuff and rambling about inspirations - and traditional Swedish bridal crowns - for one of my graphic novel projects! #art www.patreon.com/posts/prince...

one thing I dearly love about the long-form informative podcast format is the way it allows people who are deeply passionate about their chosen subject to get as deep into the nittiest of grits as they damned well please. To leave no stone unturned that might have something interesting underneath.

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LET ME DRAW COOL COVERS FOR YOUR PROJECT sonybaloneyart.com

Support the artists you like now because tomorrow you might not be able to find them.

I hate that we all live in a timeline where I have to block official government accounts both because of what they represent politically, and also because they're posting like edgy tweens whose idea of rebellion is saying "fuck" within earshot of their mom.

In an attempt to fill in the blanks in our Significant Anime History education, the Anime Friday gang is currently delving into the original Macross and like, the 80s sexism of it all sure is A Thing, but honestly. More anime should have theme songs where they just sing the series title out loud.

1. this is true 2. Itchio reviews are, unfortunately, only for the creator's eyes. if you want to write something kind for other potential player's to see, please make it a comment on the game-page instead. no I don't know why it's set up this way but it is.

You know that kind review you left for an indie game on itch? The creator read it and it meant the world to them. And they will go on to make more cool stuff because you took the time to say something positive. Being nice is cool. Keep it up.

I have seen the ridiculous tech-bro-ified $100 notecards and wooden box you can subscribe to like it's an enshittified app, and all it's done is fill me with a deep urge to buy a stack of $3 notebooks and restock on post-its.

New #Patreon post! About the newest draft of Stave & Octant, my little worldbuilding game that's grown into a monster-sized baby. #ttrpg #gamedesign www.patreon.com/posts/ttrpg-...

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the fantasy puzzle mystery-solving story of a terrible genius and long-suffering ex street-rat smell like salt, hawthorn and dead leaves ... they'll be delivered sealed in plastic, for everyone's comfort the fantasy-gothic pseudo-romance set in the aftermath of war smells like citrus and cinnamon

New #Patreon post! About the newest draft of Stave & Octant, my little worldbuilding game that's grown into a monster-sized baby. #ttrpg #gamedesign www.patreon.com/posts/ttrpg-...

"I'll make a nice little worldbuilding game," I said. "A short, straightforward game with some illustrations," I said. friends I just did the roughest of layout plans, and this little monster is going to be 63 pages if I let the Hubris Gremlin in my brain have as many illustrations as it wants

Anyway I keep forgetting to yell about this book when it is 🍂seasonal 🍂 but THE APPLE-TREE THRONE (a little vanity project I self-pubbed in 2018) is also available on Kobo and in audio! A young soldier returned from war is haunted by the ghost of his commanding officer (a posh git)

See I know "knocker-up" means your job was to wake people up in the morning before alarm clocks were a thing, but there are so many mysteries what is a sand view and why do you need to make one. is "cow-banger" a joke answer or long-lost slang for something innocent. why do turnips need *shepherds*

yes I am posting a lot to procrastinate finishing the second draft of my game which I'm focused on to anxiously avoid something else it's all squirrels upstairs today

Look. I know this doesn't relate *directly* to my thread on the fracturing of institutional memory in pop culture but ALSO we should all build multi-generational nests to pass on our most precious things (bearded vultures are my favourite bird)

I could not, in fact, stop thinking about this - but I managed to wrangle my brain into *not* caring about what Some Guy at WSJ thinks of Cash, and distracted it into thinking more about the way the institutional memory in pop culture feels so fractured these days.

okay, not only is the version on the left the artistic equivalent of pasting googly eyes on something and calling it high art but also this culture war is just an endless loop of overgrown manchildren insisting that the only reason to engage with anything is if it's got huge boobs in it.

Happy birthday to truly one of the best to ever do it 💜🎉

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again. Literally the least you can do!!

52 card prompts done! 💪✨ ... only another 52 to go, then.

I will *not* waste my time on the stupid WSJ culture article on how Johnny Cash "can seem deeply uncool", I will *not* waste my time on the most wrong-headed take I've seen all week, I will *not* I will go listen to Live At Folsom Prison and write a game instead

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

also, the triumphant "oh, you are against it NOW but would totally use it if you were in a pinch" tone of the post being dunked on is just no? I have principles that I stick to even when it's hard and causes trouble for me??

"You'd use AI if you had to finish your homework the day it was due" I did my assignment three weeks ahead of time, thanks, and if I WAS ambushed by a deadline, I'm capable of writing 13,000+ words in a single sitting with nothing but my uncaffeinated brain and a keyboard Try harder.

Continuing my work on the second draft, squinting at paragraphs and wondering in how many places I need to repeat a mechanic for people to remember to do it. I don't want to nag, but also one of my playtest survey responses for draft 1 amounted to "I didn't follow the rules and had a bad time", so

Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.

if you're wondering why it takes me so long to finish a new TTRPG these days; I sat down to work on the second draft of my worldbuilding game, and was *instantly* hit by a wave of sleepiness Clearly, the universe is against me. I'm arming myself with a cup of tea the size of my own head to resist.