Just finished Klara and the Sun and I am LOSING it. I want to write a 5 page english essay 😭😭😭😭😭📝📝

Trying to sculpt a bunch of horses this year! This one is my 4th one.

You've seen "Holy shit! Two cakes!" so now take this energy with you into the new year and be whatever you wanna do #art

2025 recap!!!! :D :D This was one hell of a year LMAO (and I shall not get Into It but just know it was a LOT. ) I feel like often we find ourselves stuck in a pattern and then *BAM* everything explodes and we have to find new systems to do things.

In happier news I have been sculpting some new Creatures :3c

*be on YouTube and have a vid recommended to me about an obscure Dreamcast game* *Oh cool. Let me learn about this! * * First five minutes: this game was made by an all woman dev team so that means it sucks! Because all games made by women are just shovelware.* *Clicks the back button.*

Started watching "What did you eat yesterday?" and literally crying. Fumi Yoshinaga how does she do it. Literally the GOAT.

Some new pottery pieces :)

Thinking about Jane's The Vegetarian today and how if you have been placed as an Atlas in a social structure, you asking for one minor change can have reverberating destructive effects further up the structure.

currently the mood rn

Just realized that I'm probably going to be at least a middle schooler proficiency in Japanese before I finish a farm sim ahahaha

Ohhhh I wanna make games ....... I love making games.....

lets go ghouls

I play a new farm sim and I just turn into-- (playing new story of seasons)

I love how the two exits to your farm forces you to choose what you are going to do today. Will you go into town? Or will you go to the mountains? There's not enough time for both. 👏👏👏

Bro I love how the set design in HM BTN forces you into contact with the TV so you're more likely to use it in the morning but allows you easy access to your bed at night. I'm normal. I'm normal I think about maps a normal amount.

Bro I am so normal about farm sims.

4️⃣2️⃣ You have 42 hours left to buy Queer Games Bundle 2025. Get over 600 radical, heartfelt games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game. This morning, we've passed $80,000 for queer artists. itch.io/b/3062

Used a pressure washer for the first time yesterday and yo suddenly I understand how there's a pressure washer fandom this is amazing. It just cleans????? Looking brand new ????

ask and ye shall receive. here's a how-to for a halloween washi tape brush I made today 🧵

New idea: I will only talk to you about Indie Games if you can be Normal(tm) about it.

Damn trying not to Anxiety Post but I just CANNOT read posts about Indie Game Dev Twitter without taking psychic damage.

Building things 🏘️

Someone left a nice tag on one of my art pieces and I got a little emotional. I'm really not used to people being nice 🥺.

Losing my shit over another Bujold book this woman has my number and is merciless ✨✨✨✨✨✨

Some destress doodles ✨👏

Not only did I discover yesterday that CLAMP had drawn a ton of fanart for an old series I love but they ALSO had my same ships ?????? Time travel same hat???????

😳😳😳😳 waking up to an itch.io shout-out???? 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

Once again falling in love with a Lois McMaster Bujold book!!!!!! This is just 1000000% my shtick!!!! *Chef's kiss*

Calling this my Roald Amundsen shelf.

Boro came home and he's the perfect boyfriend size :)))

Just finished Killers of the Flower Moon and once again I am sat for a David Grann book 🙏🙏🙏🙏(can't believe we are doomed to remember AND repeat the past)

Unironically I want my games to look like this.

Pick up that pencil/paintbrush/pen!!!

I saved a spider from imminent death this morning and I just know it's gonna reward me by inviting me to it's spider kingdom and crowning me it's new spider monarch and definetly NOT by making a shit ton of webs in my house.

Just know that the next time you go into a store and see a little 👻ghostie👻, that was specifically made to target me. I fear it's been a critical hit. 😔

"Heiden are you even still working on your game?" Yes I am.... I've been thinking a lot about how to gameify my own process to make it way more fun. I drew SO MUCH last month because there were fictional points tied into output (not quality! Just output!!!! ) and that delighted my little brain sm.

In other news here is a gremlin veyle I drew I like her a lot and I think she should be allowed to hit the other kids on the playground with a stick

Lrt: I am finally making weird ass art that is making my heart sing and I'm getting weird side eyes but look I'd do it all over again, the joy from making dumb shit is overcoming the fear of never overcoming the weirdo allegations.

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

🙋‍♂️ right here

I know "you should diversify your reading material" is a losing battle but I will say that there is a reason that dominant cultures attempt to snuff out anything they 'subjugate'. For your own sanity, purposefully seek out shit being made by PEOPLE LIKE YOU.

FE Scuffle is now over and adding up my own stats, looks like I drew over 100 pictures this past month, of which 76 were for a comic. Here are some of my personal favorites. :)

Hug Embassy is in this year's Queer Games Bundle! If you're looking for indie games (VG, TTRPPs, zines, the whole gamut) made by queer individuals then this is a great resource!

YEEESS!!!!! Let's go!!!!!!! 🌈🌈🌈🌈✨✨✨✨

I will say I got lucky with the timing of this once in a lifetime hyperfixation event, I know that there's stuff going on with itch but luckily I've missed most of it. I'm sure y'all's dashes are pretty horrific but just wanted to say everything is all good over here in Heiden world!

I've been trying to figure out how to draw more fanart for years and the answer ended up being "trigger a category 5 hyperfixation"

Sorry for the complete silence on my end. I managed to catch a case of Blorbo hyper fixation and have drawn over 50 pages of a very cringy comic since FRIDAY.

The mugs survived 😊

Here's hoping the glaze behaves on this mug 😤