GET MORE WEIRD

Increasingly, my only mindset has been 'the only way out is through.' Get more weird. Become more niche. Cultivate less broadly marketable stuff. If people come out of this being feral little trash goblins, it will be a response to outside stimulus and nothing else. That's totally on them.

Stopped for a break on a road trip

I finished my FFXIV house, yay Visit the Jadite Cottage on Crystal/Mateus, Lavender Beds 27th Ward, Plot 44

A good IRL timeline cleanse is to take a moment several times a day to imagine your OTP kissing. This is backed by hard science. The hard science is this fic I wrote

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Did some necessary psyche maintenance in the form of reality disconnection for a couple of hours and finished decorating my FFXIV house. Pics tomorrow hopefully

Essential (1/3)

I spent too much of my childhood, in which Nazis were the penultimate de facto no argument bad guys, to put up with any hand wringing bullshit now.

I stayed up way too late but my FFXIV house finally looks like someone lives there. (At least the main floor does. The basement looks like a poor college student sleeps there)

I headcanon that due to her unusually high aetheric density from absorbing an extra shard, my WoL is already staring down immortality. And she will absolutely hate it. So no, she would not take it on offer. She'd probably punch whoever was offering.

Did y'all think the dreadful dystopian future would be this dumb because I sure didn't

Bought a big sparkly rock today

So I guess adults who happen to be baby-faced and look like teenagers at 30 are just fucked? Nothing good will come of this.

it makes me sad to see young folk wanting to leave spotify but feeling as though they can't find new music to listen to without being fed it by a corporate algorithm. You don't need that shit, kid! So here's a thread of tips on finding the good stuff the old fashioned way:

The other day, my dad said, "The problem with using tools like AI is that what you get out of it depends entirely on how good your prompts are. And the kind of people who can make workable prompts are good enough to do the work without AI in the first place. So a lot of it ends up being crap."

I'm trying to create more. Make more art instead of just consuming it. It's so hard, but it's what I need.

A storm rolled in over the salt marshes. 2 hours in CSP, refed from a photo I took at a stoplight one day

it always feels like we're being forced to throw a dinner party for the worst people on earth, and we have to shut up and smile and be gracious, no complaints, while the worst people on earth are our honored guests and we best not embarrass ourselves in front of them no matter what they do to us

Had to rip this off from Retrontario's Facebook for reasons, not the least of which is the footage of that '80s streetcar rolling by. What a handsome lad.

If you're looking for a "nice healer" look elsewhere (I missed drawing my girl)

"Bluesky is boring." Social media *should* be boring. Being algorithm and dopamine poisoned is bad, actually. When your feed dries up for the day, that's your cue to go do something else until new stuff shows up later.

- Monolithic - Untouched - Worshipped - Earthly equivalent devalued, abused, institutionalized as sinful Seems accurate to me, abstract or realistic.

Tell me you're leveling a starter job in FFXIV without telling me you're leveling a starter job in FFXIV.

I started Arcanist in FFXIV and had an amusing thought about starting new jobs post EW. How must the guilds in starter cities feel when the Warrior of Light, the Eikon Slayer, the literal SAVIOR OF THE PLANET walks in and is like "ey can I get a level 1 weapon and fumble through learning your shit"

Amazing

AETHER TORRENT, my anti-capitalist LGBT-protags YA fantasy adventure novel, is now out in eBook and paperback! At any moment of your choosing you can buy it from any of several vendors and then read it! Including right now! Exclamation point! 💙📚 #booksky #aethertorrent books2read.com/aethertorrent

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Hey remember when I posted this 6 months ago

I've been deep in the Despair lately as a lot of us are but last night I saw a KISS cover band at a local bar and as soon as they opened up with Creatures of the Night I felt 10,000 spoons restored to my soul and remembered that life is incredible actually.

I hope I learn it's happened from the Destiel meme

You know you live in the deep south when an 80°F day in August has you reaching for a cardigan.

Anyway if you want to see your WoL's bare ass without mods my offered solution is as always that there are plenty of artists who will be happy to draw them for a nominal fee.

First rule of Fight Club, y'all.

I know we're all Struggling in one way or another right now but please reconsider the urge to trauma dump on the employees of a shop or restaurant. They aren't your counselors. Don't just treat them as a captive audience for your deepest pains. They are, by and large, not paid enough for it.

I got a new tattoo on my drawing arm and it's officially in the Itchy phase of healing and I am being Tested

Feels good to be drawing again.

I'm at the Replaying FFXIV: Endwalker I'm at the Gross Sobbing I'm at the combination Replaying FFXIV: Endwalker and Gross Sobbing

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Fucking gross. From a guy who created one of my biggest artistic influences. Barf.

Anyhow fun fact you can get an artist to draw your FFXIV OC whenever for few money. I finished this drawing for Yams a few days ago. #FFXIVArt #ArtCommissions

Hey new art PC, can you not freak me out by not properly booting up on the first try when I'm in the middle of my first commission in two years, thanks

I just had the thought of "what if I uploaded old art for fun" but it's all on my old PC that finally bought the farm. The storage drive is probably still good but I haven't retrieved it yet. I should. Do that. It's just not as crucial now that I don't do art as my primary source of income anymore.

Anyway I love my catgirl (She would never be caught dead in a bikini tho)

Ah heck. I caught the cold going around town. Boooo

Got a new tattoo today! I love my worker bee!!

LRP I was really really bad at drawing for a long time! I was so bad! But I kept drawing and trying and drawing more and eventually I got less bad!

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!