When I finish up what I'm currently working on I might attempt this silly idea for a shirt I now want to have. Basically Tormented Trobbio doing one of his dramatic poses with just his name spelled out in heavy metal album cover font.

My surgery date has officially been set in November. Got a few things I need to prepare for it as it's a 6 week recovery period and I'm going to be absolutely fucked up on pain meds for the first week. With luck I'll bounce back pretty fast though and get a bunch of art done.

The eternal struggle of not wanting to make any more fan characters but your brain coming up with a really cool idea for one anyway. Help.

Trying to complete the hunter's journal in my quest to get all of the achievements and that hidden area above the cradle is going to make me CHEW THROUGH MY CONTROLLER.

I think my favourite of all the silly little details in Silksong are the wild grunting noises Widow makes during her boss fight. Idk why but they delighted me so much. I just love feral women I guess.

Apparently it was supposed to be the rapture again today? Christian Americans are so weird man, they want the world to end so bad just so they don't have to take any responsibility for the bullshit they've caused, lmao.

I do have a couple criticisms and ramblings for Silksong and none of them have anything to do with the difficulty, lol. Spoilers imminent in thread below.

I keep getting my ass obliterated by Lace 3.0. I can do her first two phases just fine but phase 3 is such sensory overload for me that I am STRUGGLING.

The Trobbio reprise is a much appreciated bit of silliness among all this absolute depression. Most of these boss fights in act 3 feel so bad to win man.

WHAT HOW AM I STILL ALIVE???

Taking a break from Silksong to draw Peal in a Hollow Knight -ish style. Kind of funny because Peal started out as just the name I gave the pre-infection Traitor Lord. I turned him into an OC because I didn't want to lose that part of Nugget's backstory, and now he's my main boy oops.

I'm in act 3 now and EVERYTHING HURTS SO MUCH but I've beaten one of the bosses and have become witness to the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life.

Fuck Bilewater man. I avoided having to do it for as long as possible and now I actually need to kill that boss and I hate it so much. That walk back is brutal, lmao.

Is my birthday tomorrow and what a difference this month has been compared to the absolute dogshit that was last year. Silksong is out, I won $150 at work and I'm even getting birthday gifts this year instead of being completely forgotten by everyone. I hope that's a sign my life is on the upswing.

Currently stuck on Lace 2.0 and not even mad about it because she's fun to trade blows with and the stage is pretty. Her anime villainess laugh stole my heart back in act 1, lol. It is also very funny seeing how much people are crying about the difficulty in act 1. You do know it gets harder yes?

NOOOO GREEN PRINCE THAT'S SO SAD

To whichever psychopath it was on Team Cherry that came up with that one arena in the high walls area: I just want to talk.

I will avoid posting any kind of spoilers but I just needed to say that Trobbio is an absolute delight, lmao.

I came across this really cute interaction you can do with the Bell Beast in Silksong so I had to record it, lol.

When I finish this drawing I'm never attempting to draw blinds ever again oh my GOD.

I've let her loose now because she was starting to roam, but she is indeed a female cicada. Quite a rare find because they don't "sing" and only make occasional little clicks. So they're much harder to track down than their very loud male counterparts.

I have been blessed by the bug gods! Found this screaming potato nymph on my evening walk and by the time I brought it inside it saw fit to start emerging. It's an annual cicada, common here but rarely seen. I'll be letting it loose when it's ready to fly.

WIP time! I'm not great with drawing indoor scenes but I wanted to draw this particular memory to work through some complicated feelings I have about it. I'll explain more when I've finished, but this experience stands out because a friend witnessed it. I just never told her it wasn't a dream.

Well I can say the ufo/alien community is still the clown show I remember it to be. "CHECK OUT THIS SHOCKING AMAZING VIDEO OF THE CLEAREST UAP EVER CAUGHT ON FILM" and it's the shittiest video you've ever seen of a street lamp. There is all the AI slop and AI induced psychosis though. That's new.

Oh yeah, this is the actual rosary I'm holding in that second drawing I posted. I won't get into the significance of it in that context but I've had this since I was 4 years old. I used to include it in my art a lot as a symbol of carrying the weight of one's past in the present.

I've been... hesitant to talk about this. But I can't seem to stop thinking about it all of a sudden, after over a decade of basically willing myself to forget. A decade of nothing happening; not even dreams. You see I'm an experiencer, or what people rather mockingly call an alien abductee. 1/9

Got lots of progress done today. I'll be trying to get at least the clean sketches done tomorrow.

Found this old sketch while rearranging some things. I think it's at least 10 years old but it's kind of funny how the way I drew these guys has bled into how I draw my bug characters. Perhaps I should revisit them after I'm done with the mini comic.

I had a dream so cosmically inspired it completely rewired my brain and purged the despair in my soul. I'm not sure why it had this effect on me but I want to draw it. Even though I feel like my skills will never truly capture the awe and beauty of what I saw I will try. Probably as a mini comic.

This is the last video I got to take of Ishna. She liked to sit directly on my chest in the morning to say hi. She was deaf so nothing ever really bothered her and she made the most dramatic noises possible any time you picked her up. I'll miss the little lady.

Okay, I think I can officially say that I'm cursed. I lost Zero (one of my snakes) last month and now I've just come home to find my eldest cat dead. She was 16 years old so it's not a complete surprise but man, I can't seem to catch a break. I'm so emotionally exhausted I can't even cry about it.

Something small but it is a start. I plan on slowly adding more shit as the season progresses, lol.

I usually don't actually celebrate pride month in any kind of way. No wearing flag colors in public or anything, not even in subtle ways. I've always preferred to play it stealth and am not out to anyone who didn't know me pre-hormones. But after this year. THIS YEAR. /

Having a rough go of it today. I think it being pride month really amplifies the feeling. Feels like I'll never find a partner that actually accepts me as I am and isn't just in love with the idea of me and/or thinking they can mold me into a sex receptacle despite me being asexual.

Coloured sketch of @vivithemoth.bsky.social 's boy Darian!

Some more recent-ish art of Vim/Lady Angelique. I originally drew this for hexennacht this year. The solar eclipse is also plot relevant to the story she comes from.

Older piece of Peal and his doppelganger. Still like this one and might revisit the idea with a better background.

Little orchid mantis painting I did a few months ago. It's acrylic on a 10x10cm canvas panel. Very tiny.

Me: "Huh, I used to really like Within Temptation when I was a teen. I wonder what they're up to now. I'll bet I missed a lot of good songs!" *looks them up and finds that all their music has a bland pop-y vibe now and they did an AI music video last year* Me: "Oh... Oh no."

While I did start working on those sketches I ultimately didn't get very far, which is about what I expected given how long I've been struggling with my health. Going to take a while to rebuild that stamina again but I'll keep trying and get those sketches finished when I can.

I plan on testing my brain's stamina this weekend. So I'm offering to do some warm up sketches of other people's bug characters. No humans with bug features or anything else. Refs should be clear and I will only be choosing a couple characters. I would upload an image but it keeps going black wtf.

If there's one thing I appreciate about the Alex Graham drama is that it's finally some art drama that isn't just "really popular male artist who draws nothing but pretty girls has used AI and everyone is somehow surprised". Fitting that her art is as ugly as her heart though, lol.

It makes me so sad how kids will never know how GOOD Google search used to be. You could research any obscure thing and find hundreds of pages worth of unique websites. Same things with the image search. It could load in so many images your computer would cry. Good luck getting past 10 pages now.

Woke up wheezing for breath so I went to the doctor and apparently I have asthma now. 🙃🎉

I am playing Dwarf Fortress and I am both laughing and crying so hard rn. I tried embarking on a "terrifying" biome and it was so cursed I lost everyone literally the second I unpaused the game because they were all instantly turned into zombies. 💀

I think something that sticks out to me in the whole artists vs techbros thing, is that techbros have shown their entire ass on how utterly empty they are. These people are not jealous of our skills or anything like that. I don't think they would hate us so intensely if it were so.

I feel compelled to play Dwarf Fortress again for some reason. I'm not good at it and have the most cursed luck but I love the emergent storytelling. Maybe I should make a new fortress in an evil biome and record it. See how long it lasts, lol.

Look at this stupid position Count Dracula fell asleep in. I don't think he's quite figured out how this whole cat thing works yet.

Also shout out to the time a blood moon hit and one of my fellow vampires got really excited about being powered up. He immediately headed for the werewolf village to kick their asses. Except he forgot the moon is kind of their whole thing and got instantly obliterated by turbo charged werewolves.

Been recently playing through V Rising again because of the new update. I was waiting for night to fall while following Frostmaw around in wolf form and- Who's the horny mf that made his model like that? He's got not business walking around with that snatched waist and thick thighs, lmao.