If the day ever comes where I completely nuke my online presence out of orbit, I’m going to save a bunch of links & tags so I can still find people in the event I ever come back. I keep getting caught in these looping cycles over and over, and it’s been making me think more & more about some stuff.

Taking the Paper out of all your friends

Been a bit out of the loop for the last week or so. Was physically ill while training at a new job, lost a lot of sleep from nightmares. I am doing much better now, aside from allergies kicking my ass. I’ve also replayed and completed ORAS again, so that was nice. Hope you guys are fairing better.

Hey! (Sonic) Demo is now available. Enjoy! (drive.google.com/file/d/15gpN...)

Wario & Waluigi meet Mecha Sonic. (Really wish I was better at drawing hands.)

I wasn’t expecting this dopey quick sketch of Toad to get 20 likes. lol I haven’t drawn in a while, but I’d be happy to post some doodles again whenever (as long as the quality isn’t super crappy).

Not the most ‘original’ idea, but I thought of a cool gimmick for a custom Mario object. Thoughts?

Don’t know if I posted this from months ago. When I finish the player sprites, I want to work on a few pixel illustrations for title screen stuff.

More of Bowser Jr.'s strange creations (boss edition)

Man, that was great. Once I finish the standard items & blocks, I could finally try to finish the grassland tiles.

Messed around with a few more things after posting this. I’m actually having a good time for the first time in months.

Messing around with blocks. I think this is another good starting point? I’m still trying to find a good color for the falling platforms.

Been in a Pokemon mood the last few days, and I’ve been wondering, how is it that the games haven’t utilized the concept of Pokemon hunters yet? The gen 4 anime did such a great job portraying them as more hateable than even the main antags, it would feel great to kick their asses ourselves ingame.

Also, just a question for my Aseprite using mutuals, how exactly do you guys tweak the pallet to work for sunset and night variations of a daytime stage?

Sorry for resharing those posts again. Just felt like reminiscing. Funny enough, I ended up kinda scrapping the 2.5D grass tiles since I was having a lot of trouble with making the slopes. I went back to the original 2D plain, and added more details to the ground.

Well, my Mario sprite project is officially continued. Here’s some progress on the Mushroon Kingdom tileset, Peach’s MKW Touring outfit, and a retouched jump animation for my Mario. All still a WiP.

Some of Bowser Jr.'s strange creations

For additional context; I was just cycling through some old stuff, reformatting things, doing some small edits so I know what to continue from in the future. I’d really like to get some stuff done whenever.

“Don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m sure as hell trying!” Best way I can describe my process tonight.

I wasn’t the least bit pissed off when typing this, just straight faced and tired. It’s all “turn your phone off lawl” until you get fucking doxxed for breathing wrong, and now your actual life is in danger. I can’t help but ask, when do we stop accepting excuses for this behavior?

There are days where I miss being active online like I used to, then of course as soon as I log back on, I hear about the most insane BS imaginable because weirdos have nothing any better to do but to seek out and feed on negativity, and I just log back off. Honestly.

Rest in Peace, Jazz.

Went through a very terrifying experience tonight, all over a harmless misunderstanding. I swear, people could be so vile. Thankfully, I am safe, just shaken up. The worse part is that it feels like the whole situation could’ve been avoided. I can’t handle these types of issues like I used to.

Too much to type, but I wanted to post another update on full. I added alt text to the second image to sum stuff up as best as possible. I still have some ways to go before I can really come back.

Finally got my laptop set up again. Now it’s a matter of where to direct my progress.

Been thinking about this again.

I built a mall around the fountain, then added a cherry blossom path behind said mall. Also wanted to post one of my favorite Mii’s, and my wackass-looking Yoshi. I still haven’t reached 35 residents (cursed indecisiveness).

I really oughta post a follow up. I made a huge overhaul to my island yesterday.

Happy to see a lot of people like this! My family and I have been busy with moving preparations, so things have been rough (especially with me, having to juggle work on top of all of that). I’m hoping to push through and regain that momentum once things calm down. I’m positive it’ll all get better.

It took me over 4 hours to make this. Worth it.

Quick shoutout to @kirbcrew.bsky.social for the amazing job on this SMBZ remake animation, along with this BADASS shot of Mario & Sonic using my old Mario portrait sprites! Had the biggest smile on my face at work when I got to this part. You can watch the video here: youtu.be/WwobNw9u9KE?...

I’ve been looking into tinkering with gen 5 sprites again. More notably, the overworlds. I started off with an edit of Blue’s PWT sprites, giving him additional walk animations. I got my start at spriting with Pokemon stuff, so maybe fully revisiting it oughta help me find my spark again.

Too much to type, but I wanted to post another update on full. I added alt text to the second image to sum stuff up as best as possible. I still have some ways to go before I can really come back.

Hey guys, just wanted the Bsky part know my situation, but I've been kicked by my mom and obviously I need to find a job to help pay bills if you can even just sharing around would help me a lot, you can even commission me too! ko-fi.com/localblackki...

Checking back in to confirm that I’m fine. Kinda been falling back on negative thoughts, as much as I wish I wouldn’t. It’s just so much baggage. I removed my pfp for personal reasons (nothing alarming nor anything done for “concern farming” BS).

I’m going to be limiting my online appearance for a while. I’ve been slowing down recently, and pushing myself to do anything has only made things worse. I’m hoping a break, and some time to think for myself will help me find my sense of direction again.

This unsurprisingly aged well, and this will always continue to age well! New stuff ever since: Metroid by @irregularsaturn.bsky.social Fire Emblem by @scarletsunarts.bsky.social #nintendo #pixelart #wart #supermariobros #supermariogalaxymovie #zelda #kirby #kidicarus #metroid #fireemblem

Mario Galaxy Movie Poster - Sprite Edition! 🍄 Had this idea literally before Mario Day, and it took almost a week lol. It was 100% worth it!

Day 43: Penguin Suit #TetraMarioPowerUps #SuperMario

Here's some additional repixelled sprites from DKL2. The goodies, the biggest baddie, and animal friends! #pixelart #gameboy

I managed to finish reformatting the sheet, along with updating every frame with the current hat/mustache some time back. I originally wanted to pack *A LOT* into this sheet, but given years of drawbacks and overthinking stuff, I’m just going to focus on basic utilities from the base games.

Mock-up Title Screen for a potential Rom Hack (if anyone has experience with SMW hacking hmu)

We're gonna need more pasta! Pasta La Vista Super Mario Bros. full release is out now! Get it below.

Soft resetting for a shiny starter on Fire Red has been so agonizing, man.

super paper mario world

I really wish Nintendo would experiment with giving Wario his own RPG. Something like Wario World, with a mix of M&L.