Ugh. I really, REALLY hate December.

Agh. December. I just wish I could skip this entire fucking month.

Ever since I was little I've heard the Beatles song "Hey Jude" as "Hey dude." I know it's not right, and I know it was originally meant to be "Hey Jules" and Paul McCartney wrote it to comfort Julian Lennon about his parents' divorce... ...but I still keep wanting him to sing "hey dude."

Important info!

Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices. If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.

Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM. DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this. Stay safe!

...I CAN'T be the only one who's sick to my teeth of all the "I'M OLD, I'M OLD!" jokes/freakouts whenever someone references a show or game or whatever that came out ten years ago or whatever? Guys. Time passes. It's okay. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't like the alternative.

Happy Hypnoween! I made another comic, which can be read here: artofdinam.com/chibi-dinas-...

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” This Sherlock Holmes quote is famous, but I say it's useless. Why? Because even when you have eliminated the impossible, there'll still be at least a DOZEN solutions that AREN'T impossible!

Paypal is now playing harder ball on artists, going after anyone even mentioning commissions. Artists, send invoices. That way, no one has to say what the money is for on Paypal's paper trail. Customers, SAY NOTHING about commissions. Just say "thanks" on donos. Everyone: INCREASE THE CALLS.

I did not know this. ...happy Lesbian Day, girls!

Gail Simone: Comics is about collaboration so as a writer I try to write to the artist's strengths. Shawn James: This is why comics suck nowadays -- artists demanding to draw only what they like to draw! In the REAL WORLD artists draw what I tell them and shut the hell up! ...okay, Shawn.

Know how they say you can't read in dreams? Well, I can. I just dreamt I was reading through my finished first draft of the next Project Eryss story, "Holly Blackthorne and the Silent Choir", and was astonished it was 50 pages in Google Docs. "Now it definitely counts as a novella," I thought.

Yay Supes!

FINALLY. After almost a month and several delays, my laptop is finally repaired! I've been using my Chromebook to keep up with online stuff, but it's just not as good.

Huh. I'm sweating under my right boob, but not under my left boob.

I can think of funnier things, but...

Kind of odd, but I'd forgotten the taste of melon. I mean... I remembered I don't LIKE melon, but I'd forgotten the exact taste. So I got this half-price bag of assorted sour gummi candy, and this one flavour stood out. I knew I didn't like it, but couldn't identify it.

Second season of Netflix's Sandman is up! Yeah... I know, all that stuff with Gaiman means I'm kind of less enthusiastic about the second season than I was about the first... but, well, I still want to watch the second season. I want to see how they adapt the comic.

Commission for @marleonka.bsky.social!

Happy Real Pride month, everyone! Hope y'all enjoyed the dress rehearsal Pride last month!

I finally sent my laptop off for repairs, so I'm without my main computer for a couple of weeks... depending on how long the repairs take. However, I still have my smartphone, my Chromebook, my tablet and my MobileStudio Pro, so, you know... I'm still as online as ever.

I think people in general are too quick to dismiss other people as "creepy" and "gross".

Oslo Pride Parade! Third year in a row I've walked in the parade! My feet hurt a little but it was so worth it!

I posted this last year... and I'm definitely planning on being in Oslo Pride Parade this year too. Unless it's raining. LGBTQ pride!! (I just don't want to catch a cold.)

And... just as promised... the new Project Eryss section (my anthology of superheroine-themed erotic mind control stories) of my website is up! We got character profiles, setting info, a glossary, and the first story in the series, "Welcome to Paragon Bay!" artofdinam.com/project-eryss/

Well, I'll do my part...

I have a terrible confession to make. I....don't hate the new version of "Heigh-Ho" from the 2025 Snow White movie. I mean the dwarfs LOOK like something out of CGI Hell, but the song... doesn't suck. I like the new lyrics, they add this "bickering family" dynamic to the seven dudes that I like.

Sometimes I remember misogynistic, homophobic or transphobic jokes from shows like The Big Bang Theory and get irrationally angry. Like I don't think I'm a violent person, but I'll suddenly remember something vile those bastards said and get filled with a desire to punch their fucking faces in.

It's Pride Month!

Oh yeah... happy Pride month! As usual, for the entirety of June I offer a $10 discount on all LBGT-themed commissions!

I feel so bad for these kids. They're going to get SO much hatred, and I suspect Arabella Stanton will get it the worst. I have long since given up on HP. JKR is an evil bigot, the HBO series is a pathetic cash grab, and WB are creatively bankrupt, but none of that is these kids' fault.

Happy Norway's Constitution day!

Still working on the site update, by the way. Got tons of stuff done this weekend, and I'm aiming for the official release of the brand new "Project Eryss" subsection this month. If you remember, Project Eryss is my long-in-process writing project, a series of erotic superhero themed stories.

The new Nevermoor book, Silverborn, has been out for days already! My Audible pre-order has come in! 18 hours of Morrigan Crow and friends await! For those of you not in the know: Nevermoor is a YA fantasy book series by Australian author Jessica Townsend, and it deserves all the attention.

Fuck. I've refused to watch the Ted movies because it's Seth McFarlane and the trailers were just so cringe, but then I chanced to see the a couple of eps of the prequel TV series and... ...it's actually kind of good. How the hell did that happen?

Asterix and the Big Fight miniseries is on Netflix! I've been looking forward to this. I've been a big fan of Asterix since I was a wee slip of a girl and read my dad's Asterix albums. I even drew Asterix myself a while back.

Site's back up! Hopefully there'll be a pretty substantial update before too long...

....ooooh. Hostinger's having server problems. That's actually a relief. I was working on my website, and suddenly it wouldn't respond, I got a 504 message and wp-admin was inaccessible. I was afraid I'd done something wrong. But it's all on the hosting. Annoying, but at least it wasn't my fault.

...speechless. This was SO well put.

Easter is coming up soon…

Commission work!

New blog post up. I need to get better at announcing them. But yes, I write about my writing, Project Eryss, and get into a sweary rant about the Story Grid YouTube videos. artofdinam.com/index.php/20...

It just seems so random what I get invested in when watching (or half-watching while drawing) TV shows. The characters can make complete asses of themselves and ruin their lives completely, or get into bad relationship drama, and I'm just "meh"... or skip sections if it gets too cringe....

Sharing OC boundaries! Is fan art OK? Absolutely! Is shipping OK? I'm not a shipper myself, but if you want to then go ahead. Is fanfic/writing OK? Sure! I'll even help with the characterizations if you like. Can others draw their OC with yours? Yes! Is NSFW OK? More than OK.

My old debit card's expiring, so my bank sent me a new one. It's good too... The old one was flaking and peeling, and the chip was unreliable. So it's not that I'm dissatisfied... just... the new card seems a little... flimsy? At first I wondered if it was made out of cardboard.

Hey, I got a tax refund. ...I can afford chocolate for Easter!

So... it's probably just my aromantic ass, but... watching West Side Story, either of the movies OR stage play... the only part I'm not interested in is the romance between Tony and Maria. Like, ANY scene that focuses on those two, my attention just drifts. I just don't care.

My part of the art trade with @supertechno324.bsky.social; he asked for a fembot Yuna who flirted with him, and I did my best to deliver!