man. people are funny. did a quick PvP game in ffxiv and after 20 mins of our team doing a lot of overextending and picking losing fights, we lose and someone on our team goes "*** game"... i have the profanity filter off so they really typed out those asterisks :')

I made a slight mistake, this #ttrpg talk is actually tonight at 8 PM ET!

art, at its core, is about a dialogue between the artist, their subject, and the audience. the choices an artist makes in their piece are a fundamental part of that conversation; to use AI removes the act of choice and renders the artist silent. there is nothing of interest to me in a silent artist.

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

I've spent a lot of time at the world's leading institutes in my field & while they haven't all been particularly supportive of diversity as a social good, at none of them could you go to the institute coffee break and find more than a small handful of researchers sharing a common country of origin.

Every video game is a puzzle game if you’re bad at it.

As a guy who makes promo graphics for the #FanGeo releases, you'd think I’d be 1st to get things up, but honestly I'm hurrying so everyone else can get things up ASAP. Then I need rest, & I share once I get time in the next days. ANYWAY the Steeped In Style Legendary Pack is here! buff.ly/FJZ7f2Y

honestly one of the main reasons i dont consider myself a character artist is that i dont enjoy drawing human features... i always feel like im bad at it, expecially faces. i should probably just practice more, theres a lot i enjoy about character design...

idk how this plays into lettering but it's also I think I'm always begging new comicers. plan out the direction people will read the page otherwise FUCK

And my medieval hood is done! All hand embroidered by yours truly and attached a linen lining by hand because i think that's fun 😌💚

More concept art for premade player characters for my TTRPG project BlackBox! (working title) drone pilots are inherently altered by their exposure to their own black box which works in mysterious ways. #TTRPG

It's finally here! Just in time for #mermay Our new Classic Mermaid set with the fabulous @intersectionscch.blacksky.app 🧜‍♀️🤍 TrueRef: Just the reference you were looking for

this week's meal prep shaping up well - the first is herbed salmon on rice, with a side of steamed broccoli and peanuts tossed in peanut sauce (literally buy 3 things and combine - fast and tasty). the other is a ground beef stir fry with peanuts, onion, green and red pepper, and hoisin sauce.

my nerdy writer pet peeve: these are not rapiers, they are smallswords/court swords. They're dueling weapons from the Enlightenment – rapiers are more strongly associated with the Renaissance, and were often used in war. A rapier is much larger and heavier than this.

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another thing i like about this text is that it's structured to avoid the cardinal sin of reteaching information. instead of 1 chapter on acids so that it can then have 1 chapter on naming and then later another chapter on acids... it gives quick defs, how to name, and the chapter it'll be taught in

studying ahead of time for my next chem class with a book i got last fall (yay half price books for cheap textbooks) and this author is soooo much better at presenting information. reserving some judgement for the ionic vs covalent chapters, but they kick off with a better initial definition

I had a great conversation with Mitch Resnick on the Lifelong Kindergarten Podcast about the role that schools play in civic education and fostering the habits of democracy, which I explore in my book, "Why Fascists Fear Teachers." Listen here ⬇️ mitchresnick.substack.com/p/randi-wein...

you know, when my cat sent half my tech flying last winter, i thought that would be what did my tablet in - not sequoia breaking my drivers

Hey, it's Global Accessibility Awareness Day ( #GAAD ) so I'm going to do something different: #TTRPG accessibility. First is the follow list. Each person/org does something different: @dotsrpg.org @chrishopper.bsky.social @dreamwisp.bsky.social @hatchlingdm.itch.io @wyrmworksdale.bsky.social

i think. i have part of the trajectory of my WoL figured out. he's losing an eye at the Uldah Banquet, and i wanted him to get a dragon eye so i think he just sockets the one you get to deal with nidhogg's shade. call it a thorough apology from hraesvelgr.

seizing my brain with both hands and shaking it. what do you mean you refuse to work both if you don't know how long a task is AND if that task takes a known amount of time longer than fifteen minutes. how am i supposed to get anything longer than an hour done.

there's always something comical about a magical fantasy manga very seriously talking about physics equations or genetics. how are you guys all still using swords if you know about antimatter and have enough technology to study DNA composition, lol

Reposting for the evening crowd. Thank you to everyone who's donated. Now at 44% of the goal. Here is another photo of Remi, this time relaxed but still on-duty for alerts, in the library under the desk I'm sitting at.

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

good advice no matter what type of media you're selling on itch. taylor focuses on artbooks, comics, erotica, and prose, but honestly most advice transfers to any other product you could sell. check this out for advice on itch page layout/color scheme/assets & writing marketing copy.

I appreciate KS surfacing just how much of this friction and censorship is due to payment processors and I wish more companies would put this stake in the ground rather than screwing over artists. If every company did this, payment processors would have to buckle.

Are you ready to get down? 🕺🪩🐸🪩🕺 #ffxiv

Hi, wife and I (and my service dog) have been homeless for over three months after fleeing violence. We finally found a place, but car-living has depleted our savings (can't store food). We can move in as soon as we have the rest of the deposit. Please help us end this nightmare. gofund.me/fbf4e38ca

i try not to be annoyed when people forget downdetector exists & that AWS and gcloud host 99% of the internet, but it's very hard when they seem to be doing some IT version of crowdsourced horoscopes instead.

I think I forgot to post those, so here are some more 👌🏻

My Pirates of the Caribbean daily warmups/studies, but it's FFXIV 7.0 because I am coping and hyperfixating. I called this series "Scions of the New World" 😁 #ffxiv

The next #FanGeo dropped & it’s got DELICIOUS goodies. I’m excited to try out those recipes 🍰 Maybe you could serve the chai cake when you bring your #TTRPG players to the Tea House with my invite prop (wax sealed with my stamp #3Dprint)? Magazine: buff.ly/V0x0Kyj Explorer Pack: buff.ly/NTVvHPQ

Watch our very own Jess Pendley as a member of the cast of TO THE END OF REASON, an Invisible Sun actual play from Dungeon Scrawlers! Catch it Mondays live at 5pm PST/ 8pm EST on www.twitch.tv/dungeo... Or watch the VODs as they drop on their YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@Dun...

there is so much overhead to getting organized in an actually useful way... trying to break down my project backlog list enough to identify When to start What Tasks so i can cobble together some kind of timeline/schedule. it is not easy and i haven't even gotten to making decisions

homophobic that when you start fixing your sleep schedule you continue being tired for like a week. i keep hitting a mental wall at like 1pm

The #FFXIV Free Login Campaign has returned! 💡 sqex.to/ig9gP From today through June 14, eligible players can play for free for a limited time. Use this opportunity to catch up on Patch 7.5 and tackle new challenges! 💪

When I say I got that dog in me.

They should make horse blinders, but for writers who can't concentrate.

Chad Johnson is CEO of 'Grain Weevil'. His son did robotics competitions in high school, which inspired this little fella that breaks up hardened surfaces & levels grain to ensure it behaves like a liquid, avoids clumping. This probably saves 10-30 human lives a year. NO BOOTS IN THE GRAIN.

Would you like your ttrpg PDFs to be more accessible? Join me at Gencon to learn the process, top-to-bottom, and leave with the ability to prep your game files for everyone! www.gencon.com/events/301852

Running a one-shot is perfect when you don't want a long campaign commitment! 🎲 Here's how to write an engaging one-shot adventure that delivers a complete story in one session. #DnD #TTRPG

i just don't think it's too much to ask that a bare minimum of thought and reasonable decisionmaking happens before an entire project is dropped into my lap to fix. combined with continued refusal to promote me despite basically having to run two departments... i'm having a motivation problem yall

man. usually i like my job when i actually start getting things done, but when my job becomes "create an itemized list of bafflingly bad decisions that probably involved zero thought in the first place" i start debating if it really would be that bad if i quit

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i was on track to go to bed on time until i ran into this post... Please check this out, there's 32 pages so far and it's already building some fascinating politics & fantasy worldbuilding, on top of the very cute relationships budding already. you won't regret it!

✨🫰 It's #WebcomicDay 🫰✨ Tigress Queen follows a warlord and a pampered prince trying to get over their cultural differences to end a war that hidden factions seem keen on continuing. www.tigressqueen.com

i have finally gotten the last of the ARR relic materials out of my inventory. one last light step for three more weapons & i will be DONE with ARR relics... and moving on to HW relics...