Been feeling rather sick lately

I did, however, manage to do today this edit of my original drawing of Missingno unglitched as a fully Meowth form to comply with the rules of the pokemedia subreddit. His transformation markings resemble scratch scars in this iteration, which makes his backstory a little bit more evident.

I did, however, manage to do today this edit of my original drawing of Missingno unglitched as a fully Meowth form to comply with the rules of the pokemedia subreddit. His transformation markings resemble scratch scars in this iteration, which makes his backstory a little bit more evident.

Made the mistake of trying to include a second person in my little story. Sucked the wind right out of my sails. People Suck.

Today's intrusive thought is that part of the reason DuckTales is so good is that Disney had _just_ made Indiana Jones so they were very much the authority on the "adventure" genre at the time

#dreamdiary An orphanage for children with magic abilities. Sometimes they grow into witches, sometimes they shrink into fairies. There's regular competitions with magical schools and the director has been winning them all for years...except...

Today's intrusive thought is how much attitudes towards hot drinks can vary. E.G.: "Why don't you fill the tea cup with the water? You're not even putting any sugar in it!" "I want to taste the tea" "You want to _taste_ the _tea_? You weird freak!"

Today's intrusive thought is that humanity failed as a species with the whole "let's not eradicate covid, it's vaccines" thing, and can't afford many more failures like that.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116171617825488794 baad news, everyone

In case anyone's wondering, the plan was "let's leave Evan alone with the computer a few days, see what he does" ...Yeah, no, bad idea.

Ended up deciding to make that conversation the next chapter (well, adapted)

"Deciding" to make this canon is having...consequences. "Deciding" in quotes because, with Evan and Rei being alters now, I don't really get that much say in what's canon and what isn't (finding a "practice typing using just the keys in the home row" exercise was surprsingly hard)

Okay, who the heck asked Google for more AI this morning?! I have to use chrome for work reasons and it was taking forever to do anything until I disabled like a dozen new AI thingies!

Today's intrusive thought is that the people who use LLMs to do worse work in a longer time that other people have to deal with the consequences of... need to go through a lot, a lot, of pain.

#higheffortreply https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeMedia/comments/1rb0x8t/comment/o6r0yz0/?context=3

@pokeearthcollab.bsky.social is asking for Pikachus! It looks like I can't draw anything new but I humbly submit an old drawing of each of my pikachus: Rei, Bea (yes, Rei's mother has a name!) and Hearty (Rei's cousuin)

Today's intrusive thought is that all my characters lead double lives because I have always lead a double life (put simply: I count as american until it's no longer convenient for the person i'm talking to). Advantage: All my characters are _complex_! Disadvantage: _All_ my characters are complex!

#dreamdiary (yes, two today, this one is now canon) Susan (my daughter) found a way to activate my curse on command (the one that turns me into a pokémon) claiming I needed to spend more time with them (which, to be fair, isn't wrong). I chose to talk to Evan, and discovered why he's always so quiet

#dreamdiary I was in a rather full subway station waiting to go home. Someone notices an empty train going by in the opposite direction and points out that it's going to switch back and come this way (which is not unusual IRL), but it seems to take too long, so they climb down to the tracks to look

I miss drawing, Tails. I miss it a lot

...Today's intrusive thought is that there was once a time we could all agree people dying is bad...

#higheffortreply I'd forgotten I could post these CW: Generative AI "debate"

The window thermometer is showing 78°F (26°C) and when I stand next to the open window, it feels like the side of my face is burning (yes, in February, yes in the northern hemisphere. WTF). I think I need a new thermometer... a new face... or a new planet

Work's been hell, sorry for the lack of art

I didn't think it was possible to get depressed from people at work trying to be nice, yet here we are

Work's been hell, sorry for the lack of art

Today's intrusive thought is that the story of the 21's century is a series of "this was a solved problem and some asshole fucked it up!"

#dreamdiary / Intrusive thought "Debate?" she asked "Debate?!" "Well," I tried to explain, "it was originally a 'fireside chat' but it quickly devolved every time, so--" "Nobdy knows what a 'debate' is!" "I mean, the students _are_ seniors who--" "You have to make it a full-on trial!" "What?"

#dreamdiary / Intrusive thought "Debate?" she asked "Debate?!" "Well," I tried to explain, "it was originally a 'fireside chat' but it quickly devolved every time, so--" "Nobdy knows what a 'debate' is!" "I mean, the students _are_ seniors who--" "You have to make it a full-on trial!" "What?"

Scene idea for that Mystery Dungeon comic I'll probably never draw. Town Pkmn: so... what buffs does your jacket give you? Me: It's... a jacket? It makes me feel less cold? Town Pkm: No I mean like... Sparkey's bow buffs up her normal-type moves, my gray scarf increases my defense stat...

Teachers will tell you the worst part of the job is grading. I've just found something even worse: having to do something through vibe code. It's been 4 hours for what, if done manually, would've been done in less than 1. Words cannot express how much I hate everything right now.

Rei: *sigh* Of course that's me. Of *course* it is! Sparkey: What… wait, is *that* why we can't go to Kalos?! That's the stupidest– *That's* the reason?! Evan: *blink* Silly: As long as you don't forget to save again, we're good. (pics from the relation diagram since I can't draw new stuff now)

Scene idea for that Mystery Dungeon comic I'll probably never draw. Town Pkmn: so... what buffs does your jacket give you? Me: It's... a jacket? It makes me feel less cold? Town Pkm: No I mean like... Sparkey's bow buffs up her normal-type moves, my gray scarf increases my defense stat...

Today's intrusive thought is that there's two kinds of hornyposts: those that make you go "aww what a cute couple" and those that make you go "wait, should I be encouraging this?"

Oh for the record, the paper was sent back with "read this book" ... the book doesn't talk about the community economy either, only how it benefits the original IP owner.

LRT: The question was: how would your ?OCs react to interating with the game or other media they are from?

LRT: The question was: how would your ?OCs react to interating with the game or other media they are from?

RE: https://socel.net/@admin/115973104450620357 Well dang, now I have _two_ animation projects I want to promote! At the same time!

Today's intrusive thought is when a babyfur asked me "am I a bad son?" (referring to something their IRL parents had said) and I answered "well..."

for the record, drew a bit this morning. The bottom half of one character and the top half of the other. Took me 2 hours to get started. I'm disappointed in myself.

Today's intrusive thought is whether there's some threshold of popularity above which your opinions [for the author's safety, the rest of this post has been redacted]

Today's intrusive thought is how the reason i want to learn japanese is to be able to interact with the awesome japanese artists I keep seeing on social media and how this is apparently not reason enough for any boss I've ever had to give me time off for it

Today's intrusive thought is that the phrase "I will hunt you down like a dog" is a bit of a self-own, because you don't hunt dogs (dogs are the ones that do the hunting) so the speaker is calling himself a bitch.

It completely fixed my mood! bsky.app/profile/fran...

#higheffortreply https://www.reddit.com/r/ENGLISH/comments/1qlteg2/comment/o1qfk3i/

Today's intrusive thought is that I could've had some art ready for today if it wasn't for the stupid AI thing on Friday

Teachers will tell you the worst part of the job is grading. I've just found something even worse: having to do something through vibe code. It's been 4 hours for what, if done manually, would've been done in less than 1. Words cannot express how much I hate everything right now.

Today's intrusive thought is that Jules Verne's "Off on a Comet" is based on the premise of "when things float in water, about half of it sticks out of the water, right? And sometimes bird snatch those floats up, right? Well, balloons float in the atmosphere... half of them must stick out of it!"

#dreamdiary TV had ceased to exist. YouTube was going into lockdown. There was no other way to get any video content on our devices. My sister has the bright idea that _games_ still exist, so if we can find a mobile game for each genre we used to watch on TV, we'll be fine.

Today's intrusive thought is that people who destroy the rule of law-- ha ha just kidding, it's actually how much I miss drawing!