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When this all started, my first though was, "What did Dark Horse Comics do this time?"

See, this is the Portland I remember :)

The flowers on Mugi's dress need to be bigger.

It sucks to have to use crutches, but drawing someone using them sucks too. Damnit, Mugi.

Ok, its a bit late, but after some setup changes, lets see how a more regular MT comic drawing streaming session goes. Tonight, Megatokyo Comic [1619]: Layout and Development - twitch.tv/fredrin #comicdevelopment

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Visiting colleges for Jack for next year is just kind ofa depressing activity right now because the feeling that higher education in the US is going to be so marginalized and damaged for this generation...

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Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today. h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Oh, in my grumbly post last night i forgot to mention that next week I have not taken any overtime (just some on Monday) because I wanna draw, dammit. :) So look for some streaming this weekend and next week.

If you all have been wondering why ive been so AFK the last month or so, especially after putting so much work into updating my streaming setup and finally getting things really up to snuff... well, the reason is, i've been working 3 to 5 hrs of overtime every weekday to try to pay for some of it :)

I have no idea why i ended up drawing the 'dog girl who pretends to be a catgirl' from TTDP that the TPCD wants Chokky to talk to. My mind wandered into drawing a girl who would hang out with @hitsujigoods.bsky.social's Mitsu and be besties with VHS. >_< (she's kinda tall and gangly too)

Some late night warmup drawing. A full session planned for tomorrow morning of comic work so yay. Just wanna chill and draw and mood out a little so thats what im doing right now. twitch.tv/fredrin

I want an oscilloscope. Not really sure why.

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I wanted you to know I watched the rest because I'm a sucker like that. While I can't really say it got worse, it didn't really get better either, and while it did incorporate bowling into the story, I still wouldn't call it a sports anime.

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I try to avoid asking humans if there’s anything wrong with them. (Mostly because I don’t care.)

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Chapter 12 is *wild*, but glorious. I can see how, well, everything, would have been like a bulldozer plowing through a lot of preconceptions. But riots? I think it moved things forward so quickly that the readership would have been stunned into silence.

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Im sorry, i should have included some screenshots of some things with that discussion, but my disdain for the people who want to oppress even milktoast people like ME is so great, maybe i'll leave my drawings out of it.

Around the time that Yuki was revealed as being a magical girl, I got an ABSOLUTELY panic-filled email from someone who was devastated that i had introduced *MAGIC* into Megatokyo. They were upset because they had introduced MT to a lot of people and now felt responsible for exposing people to it.

I always felt bad about that and I still do, but i didn't do it on purpose. People often took the topical reserved nature of my work as a kind of championing of conservative repression. The reality is it's a reflection of my own growth from a severely repressed teenager to... whatever i am now. :)

One other thing i know as well... I had a LOT of conservative fans over the years. Megatokyo was visually reserved compared to excessive panty shots and other sexual overtness in a lot of manga. I also know that over the years more than a few of my conservative fans eventually felt betrayed by MT.

Megatokyo is very mild, cautious and reserved compared to a lot of manga. Partly because of my own suppressed background but i like to be subtle about things - makes the bold things stand out more. I contend that if Chapter 12 came out when the comic was really popular, there would have been RIOTS.

I mean, the one nice thing about Michigan is that we have more of a balance of different powers here that keep the batshit crazy things like this from happening - but in the climate that is brewing in this country, it's really a shame we have to worry about it.

Oh, man, here we go. Time for the Morality Police. I know they have always dreamed of this kinda thing, but we're much closer to this kinda thing actually happening. Note descriptions include 'manga': MT has enough gender and sexuality related content to be banned. www.404media.co/michigan-por...

In the '80s and '90s, CJ Cherryh questioned and critiqued our assumptions about how gender is expressed and understood, creating science fiction narratives that reflect trans identity and experience. It's time for a retrospective. reactormag.com/exploring-ge...

Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it. It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.

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There is a story of long, quiet suffering, then pain, agony, and finally, victory here:

Yes, this is story dev. This isn't mugi. Don't judge me.

Ok, i think i solved the overheating problem on the camera, and i have things up and looking pretty good so far. Going to do some developing drawing work for a while on (gasp) the next Megatokyo comic. twitch.tv/fredrin

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Had some overheating problems with the camera (stupid ZV-E10 does this from what i understand) so i gotta have a better look at my settings and see what i did that is causing the overheating. Other than that, i think it looked pretty decent (full size screencap of a 1280p view from OBS:

Doing another test live draw session (haibane Komugiko?) to test things after i tweaked a lot of exposure and color settings (and turned off autofocus) - hopefully this is looking better... oh, i also had to remove the cat: twitch.tv/fredrin

Imagine being such a piece of shit that more people are mourning a Japanese race horse that lost every single race over you.

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