AHHHHHHH I LOVE HER SO MUCH 😍😍😍🩵🩵🩵 Commissioned a lovely Blue Mage from @sephiramy.bsky.social, and I'm so in love with how she turned out! 🩵

That awkward moment where you find the back of your mac mini covered in soot because it’s been cooking stray cat hair for a few months 😬 (The M4 Mini runs hot when you’re driving 2 4K HRR HDR monitors, and my cat sheds so much fur year-round)

pssst, hey, you looking for some art? good news, ✨🎉 commissions now OPEN for February!! 🎉✨ shoot me an email at [email protected] along with the type of commission you're interested in and a brief overview (2-3 sentences max) of the subject and I'll get back to you with info on the next steps!

If I had to pick one Final Fantasy IX screenshot to summarize my feelings on the game 18 hours in, it’s this. >.>

it's time for the IT'S MY BIRTHDAY post!! my name is Amy, I'm starting a webcomic next year about goblins & babes taking down rich scumbags, and I'd just really love for more people to see my art if you have a repost to spare, happy early new year and thanks! ✌️💜🖤 #art #artsky #digitalart

Current order of preference based on the four games I've played so far, with top being my favorite: Final Fantasy 3 Final Fantasy 2 Final Fantasy 4 Final Fantasy None of the games are remotely bad and I've enjoyed playing them all, but FF4 falls short on its final dungeon and the Zeromus fight.

“Mina, how’s playing through Final Fantasy IV going?”

So how about this naming scheme for my Onion Knights?

Final Fantasy 2 complete! Loved the skill system, though it made gauging whether I was ready to greatest Pandaemonium much more challenging (to say nothing of grinding, since I needed to grind multiple skills individually. Did not love the 4th party slot always being temporary & lagging behind.

1) How dare you not tell me that FF2 starts out sad 2) I’m really enjoying this skill system so far. I’m still pretty early game, but I like it!

One down, fifteen (well, fourteen if you don’t count XIV, which I’ve already completed since I’m a savage raider) main-series games and nine side games to go!

Final Fantasy 1 Progress: Liches get stitches, Earth Crystal complete. :D It’s really nice to be playing games from the couch again. Here’s hoping that translates to more time enjoying games and less time feeling like there’s something more productive I could be doing sat at my desk.

So, other than FF14, I’m pretty sure I’ve never actually finished a Final Fantasy game before. No idea how far I’ll get, but I’m now slowly starting to work through all of them, starting with FF1 (against my friends’ advice, but YOLO).

Some gorgon throwbacks. #art

Some of them are softcover POD from DriveThruRPG (because I care more about having books to play with than collectors' value), but my D&D 4E collection is now complete!

I think I’m going to be exploring some major changes in my life. At the top of my list is.. I think I’m just kind of done with video games for a while? Apart from my Final Fantasy raid group (which is on hiatus), I haven’t really had fun playing anything consistently.

BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct. Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Unfortunately I suspect as union activity gains momentum and popular support in this broken industry we will continue to see studios ramp up their union busting efforts. Be smart: practice good infosec, read up on typical union-busting tactics, and most importantly: don’t let them scare you.

My recommendation for VtM: Bloodlines 2 is to just wait. Eventually if it’s on sale for $10-15, then maybe consider it. Where it is right now is just not worth it. I’m getting pretty close to the end and the gameplay & fight design just keep getting more depressingly bad as the game goes on.

I really, really missed painting. I'm a bit over eight years out of practice at this point (stopped not long before my move to Washington, and didn't keep up the hobby after moving), and I had forgotten how much I can relax when I just put on a podcast and paint for a few hours.

#BloodOnTheClocktower games on YouTube are such a fascinating thing, because I can tell ahead of time how likely I am to enjoy watching a game of it by peeking ahead at the ending and knowing if Evil wins. Evil wins in the game are, in my experience, much more likely to be interesting to the end.

Owlcat Games unveils free educational resource hub for game industry professionals

I’m convinced the main reason Miyazaki films have a reputation for being “cozy” in the West is because he actually writes and animates long moments of quiet into his stories, whereas Western animated films are usually a nonstop parade of loud music, sounds, noises and neon colors.

My annual performance reviews consistently praise my communication skill but it’s hard to be happy about that when the reality is I just over-explain as an anxiety defense mechanism

it's 👻 trick or treat month 🎃 and that means fresh spots on my Patreon are available for reward tiers! what's the trick? it's that spots are LIMITED so if you want slick monthly reward art, you gotta get it fast! www.patreon.com/sephiramy (there are coloring pages, concept art, and gamedev too!)

join me for a super chill art jam this month with 🎃🎃🎃 #artjamolantern ! 🎃🎃🎃 all you gotta do is draw a character (preferably original, but fan art is cool too!) carving a pumpkin or showing off the final gourd! post & tag accordingly and I'll repost all I can. you can share, too! happy carving! 💀🔪

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

A friend recommended This Princess Kills Monsters, and while I was prepared for a comedy I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR WHAT THIS BOOK HAS THROWN AT ME SO FAR. 😂

look, I know we are all very anxious about the ongoing deluge of news, but in the age of misinformation it is also imperative you learn to do your research and verify what is an attention-grabbing headline based only on conjecture intended to scare you, and what is an actual event worth your energy

Both times I've run a campaign of Star Wars: Force and Destiny have accompanied drastic shifts in my approach to GMing and campaign/arc/session prep..

Yes, em dashes do appear to frequently be used in AI-plagiarized content. But that does NOT mean that their presence is a definitive sign that a work is AI-plagiarized. Believe it or not it's actually super easy to enter em dashes, and lots of us do it. I use them in CASUAL discussions all the time

That's both Well of Ascension and Hero of Ages done, I've finally got around to finishing the original Mistborn trilogy. ...And I kind of wish I'd just kept it at having read the first book. I was not a fan. (Although I enjoyed Vin's parts throughout, mostly). P.S. Fuck Elend Venture.

at urging of friends, I'm making a difficult statement: I'm currently living under abuse, and it's deeply impacting my ability to function I'm working on an exit strategy, and while it's hard for me to put this out there, you're welcome to donate via my kofi to help with my move ko-fi.com/sephiramy

Finally, slowly managing to convince myself that it's acceptable for me to use my time off for... just relaxing, enjoying myself, and reading. I don't have to be pursuing some sort of project. I'm allowed to just be in the moment, without feeling like I have to be working on something.

New centerpiece in my library!

Rumble has been turned off because battery is low.

I hate that the em dash has become so associated with AI output. I’ve used it for years (it’s trivially easy to do on a Mac), and someone assuming something I said was AI slop because of it is extremely frustrating & disheartening 😭

It’s about time their IP hammer swung in a good direction, even if the good it may do isn’t their actual motivation.

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

TLDR of the WWDC keynote for those who missed it: "Look at all the ways we're integrating plagiarism tools into our ecosystem!"

I'm so sick of AI being stuffed into everything. I'd give -anything- to see this bubble pop already.

On one hand, I'm glad they just come right out and say "we want to sell your personal data". On the other hand, how about you go fuck yourselves, Plex?

ISPs in the United States should be forbidden from saying "thank you for choosing us" anywhere in their communications with customers. We didn't -choose- you, you were the -only option-.

Got my copy of Daggerheart. Wish people would stop leaning into this "the GM doesn't need to roll dice!" design trend. Rolling dice is fun. Let me roll dice. GIVE ME DICE TO ROLL. I LIKE MY CLACKY MATH ROCKS.

I heard it's Golden Week ✨😌✨

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prompt: draw the hottest lesbians you can imagine straight guy: *draws a naked woman with huge tits slobbering all over another naked womans feet* lesbians: *draws a girl in a mechanic jumpsuit with her hair tied back and grease smears on her face diligently tuning a blushing girls cybernetics*

Even if it wasn’t utterly soulless and without value Even if it didn’t have massive energy and resource costs Even if it wasn’t built on an incredible amount of stolen data, and pushed with lies and exaggerations about its capabilities …

I don't remember who introduced me to PureRef, but I hope they have the best life ever.