The Weary Death / Tired, Pavel Karlovich Wenig, 1915 #TheVictorianBookoftheDead #AlfredHitchcockDay

I am on the cusp of deleting both Facebook and Twitter. Facebook is mostly ads and AI. Twitter is ragebait and vagueposts. I don't care if I need to rebuild a platform. A growing part of me wants no platform at all except that I need to appeal to freelance clients.

Researching what led up to the Iran conflict and the further I deep dive the worse it gets. We absolutely did not want or need to bomb Iran. Fuck Israel.

Drawing comics takes too long but it is satisfying to be back into doodlin.

Long live 2D animation (& practical effects).

Finally home listening to The Mountain. God I love Gorillaz. I recall exactly when the Humanz reveal dropped because I had started my new job in my lonely office listening to a ton of Spotify and thinking about how mucb I missed their music. And after Humanz they never stopped 😌 Feast after feast.

As I wind down for the night, huge shouts to the Pokemon and Gorillaz fans. This Friday is gonna be nuts.

I think all dogs deserve jewels!

Why are AI people so aggressive towards artists? It's like planting a tree and being pissed off at the dirt.

Two things I've been realizing lately: - Most people don't care about the quality of art/visuals. They just want content. Flaws are easily overlooked by most people. - A lot, and I mean a LOT of people hate or are ignorant to the concept of community and selflessness if it requires self-sacrifice.

The problem with comics is that eventually you have to draw environments. I hate drawing backgrounds.

Happy 40th old friend.

"I love your facial expressions" YES. That is the feedback I crave. I love drawing. I wish I were quicker at it but it is what it is. I love hands too and things feeling deliberately tactile. I love drawing, Charlie!

I think my Twitter is shadow banned. I don't care to check. I may wipe here of my shitposts and repost and commit instead to growing on Bluesky. I am tired of social medias whose algorithms just want arguments for engagement. It's exhausting. Twitter will be for tentpole updates if I decide on this.

Felt like drawing this weekend and didn't know what to draw so I returned to my 500 Hades fanart WIPs and my goodness Zag really went from iconic character design to wearing a shower curtain set. Easier to draw but looks so frumpy.

Make Art (3/4)

Might do mini ko-fi comms to try to fund a new ipad. My 2018 ipad has so many light distortions and is struggling to even charge the pen.

I love drawing. It's hard and it's time-consuming but I get to make fun thing and now the movie in my head is a comic and I don't have to fucking think of it anymore.

Man why did I ever stop drawing NSFW. Drawing NSFW is the hack to speed run learning how to draw because you have to know how the human body looks when it interacts with another human body. I could draw good looking hands lickity split. Should I draw consenting adult humans borking again...

I'm grumpy today. I feel like I try hard at things just to be extremely mid at them at the end of the day. It's so hard to feel like I'm succeeding at anything right now. I feel very failure. :)

Thinking about that time a Discord mod muted me for an hour because I critiqued my own art/drawings, and they admitted that their reasoning was that "If your work is bad then mine is horrible." That feels worse than simply being bad/good at something. What a completely horrible thing to do.

Played one singular game post soop bowl and cleaned up as easily as the Seahawks did. Also why tf did hitting Rainmaker barrier three times give aura lol.

go off jack white

Daddy Netflix called.

Adobe gotta be full of booger eaters because giving professionals a one month notice to move their entire production pipeline - during a time wherein they definitely have agreed-upon fixed deadlines - to a different software that they potentially cannot train on or budget is simply cruel.

I think it's funny that Donald Trump just shits himself around others like a toddler. Like if he's willing to poop on camera in a room full of people, imagine how many other places he drops dookie. He must consistently smell either of way too much cologne or of actual shit and decay. Gross.

Boosting this!!

Sometimes it IS your teammates. We won this somehow.

Only 20% of people know how to write stories? You have got to be shitting me.

The clip I wanted to upload earlier. Aura makes such a funny noise. Had to get an Aura farm clip as soon as I could the first night it was released.

Aura is so fun. Comms last night were hilarious and I can't wait for the TO commentaries on this feature, as well as the very serious "I have aura" call outs. Too bad Bluesky won't let me upload a clip.

Tomodachi Life stream going great so far

Four designs from a recently aired episode of Primal. Many more drawings from this episode are going up now on my Patreon page (StephenDeStefano911) for subscribers only.

mama luigi 💚 #thesupermariogalaxymovie #supermario #smbfanart

First time this car got towed. Brakes went out yaay.

Splooosh believers never punished. Endurance is eventually rewarded.

The problem is guns.

This recent ICE murder hits close to home because, as someone who works with veterans, I can assure you that we generally care about the wellbeing of our soldiers. We pick up the slack that the government doesn't provide. We know these people need support systems and try to provide it.

I cannot stress this enough. This. Is. On. Purpose. I've read books. They will keep pushing and pushing until they can slaughter whoever they want. Remember the ridiculousness of "Pizzagate?" That, but they shoot up a building and claim it was "A violent protestor staging ground." This sucks.

I was thinking at work how this country just feels so on edge and hateful and high tension. And then I saw (the aftermath of) some guy get shot outside my workplace. Yeah. Yeah... We are very angry and upset all the time and we are given firearms.

kelty comic this week about to make the onion store a zillion dollars

"InDesign is unable to save the file. We tried, but it appears to be damaged." This is an actual error message in modern software. It doesn't tell you what happened, and it refers to itself with a pronoun. What. Who is "we?"

Can the upcoming patch just let me keep it

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living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Totodile from Kalos be like:

If one can believe in the passage of time, it's been 13 years since my brave little pooch did nothing in the face of chaos. Thank u for allowing him to burn. 🙆 🙇

My follower count on Twitter goes down every day and I treat Bluesky like a side account. I may have to clean things up here because Twitter truly is a dumpster. I only keep it because of all the Japanese fanartists, but I imagine they may leave too because of the unregulated AI stuff.