My motivation is through the floor, and I'm not sleeping well and I have things that need doing but! Bluh.

Need to draft my essay today before I do anything else but once that's done I'm going to put up a post wrt my intentions with Patreon and the shuffling around I'm doing there, as well as the intent to support more pixel art community stuff. And then I'll finish the art and get on to the next piece.

full @laurenwilford.bsky.social interview with @realgdt.bsky.social, from shortly after trump was first elected

Illustration from Walter Crane's Painting Book, London, 1889. #booksky #artsky

Pixel art starter pack is up! If you're an account under 1000 followers and make pixel art - no matter how small or new - please feel free to drop me a message asking to be put on this list! go.bsky.app/3GWx4kw #pixelart

chrono trigger, screenshot, snes (1995) www.mobygames.com/game/4501/ch...

Garment Plaque in the Shape of a Stag Kazakhstan 6th–5th century BCE (Met Museum)

Tetsuo Hara drew these to commemorate his having filed his tax return using his smartphone. Notice how he drew both of these on the same day despite no longer really being able to see particularly well. Stuff like this makes me even more irate that the upcoming TV series will be in crap looking 3DCG

Good morning. 25%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/637...

'the UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

Beyond the Knife is back for 2026! In a not-so-romantic pre-Valentine’s special, our Human Remains Conservator Cat Irving unpacks the fascinating history of syphilis. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts. shows.acast.com/beyond-the-k...

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There's a joke in I require a tug, somewhere, I can't quite place it.

Whatever happened to YouTube dub shows like "Dragon Ball Z Abridged" and its ilk? www.typebarmagazine.com/anime-abridg...

Polish poster for Federico Fellini's GINGER AND FRED (1986)

Okay, time to sleep. In the morning I am going to draft up my essay and do some extra art, still a little fuzzy from bad Crohns day but I need to push on

New today on the site! "Hong Sang-Soo's films are slower than slow, quieter than quiet, yet completely absorbing once their rhythms take hold, lulling one into a kind of contemplative state increasingly difficult to occupy in a world overcrowded with artificial stimuli." - @rcbedsaul.bsky.social

The Three Graces, 1813-16, by Antonio Canova

So I am updating my Patreon reading list. Any followers with blogs/newsletters/essays/etc who want to be mentioned? I'm trying to build community much more :)

Devlog up! Here I talk a little bit about serendipity, writing, The Process and provide a lil early draft version of a portion of These Corridors Are Endless :). Read it: itch.io/blog/1323929... gothydellamorte.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/d... #Interactivefiction #devlog #developmentlog #indie

Some sketches I'll be working on in coming months :) #WIP

I shouldn't think it needs saying because I try to show my affiliation through action but just in case there's ever been any ambiguity: Black lives matter, ACAB, trans women are women, sex work is real work, fuck Donald Trump, Elon Musk, ICE and all the enabling arseholes supporting them.

Hey artists get louder about your political views right now.

Been a difficult day, but at least Graham is actually alright and hopefully he'll stay that way. The piggies are all very happy and chatty and it has been very soothing to fuss them up. Dandelion gets so irritated if you stop stroking him before he tells you to.

Japanese movie poster for the superlative ANGST (1983 - Dir. Gerald Kargl) featuring Erwin Leder in the lead role.

387 tiny paper buildings, made in the 1950s / 60's by Austrian insurance clerk Peter Fritz. socks-studio.com/2013/12/06/t... They were stored in a plastic bag, before ending up in a junk shop where Oliver Croy found them in the early 2010s.

I can't believe we ever settled for Tomodachi Life without ears.

Last post of this I just liked this close up

Graham is okay! Has, basically, a cat cold but he's got some meds and I'd rather have treated it now before it got worse.

This study/sketch/exploration is also a new print at : www.inprnt.com/gallery/mart...

Here’s a link to the mentioned article- www.eteogames.com/winter-and-d...

recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.

Ended up walking in circles for an hour massaging my abdomen to get rid of cramping and pain and it worked, but, ouch and oh god and ouch again. Pain so bad it was keeping me awake, all because I dared to eat something solid. Back to soup I go. 🥲

WELCOME RENATA MUKHAMETZHANOVA! @remmukh.bsky.social will have new illustrations in this year's issues. Go here to see more cool art, gaze upon mighty crowdfund exclusives, and sign up to be alerted on launch day 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

There's also at least 4 places I want to pitch to, 2 of which would be for long term projects that sound really interesting and doable at my current level of unwell. So, fingers crossed.

I'm Jessi D, pixel-artist and writer talking about literary convention, queerness, disability, horror and all manner of things grotesque and abnormal. You can find me: -> gothydellamorte.carrd.co -> gothydellamorte.wordpress.com -> ko-fi.com/gothydellamo... #pixelart #freelance #pixelartist

My stomach is awful- tried getting back onto solids and it's just not happening. And Graham is unwell- sleeping a lot, barely eating. Fingers crossed we're getting him to the vets tomorrow and he'll be okay, but I'm still anxious. He was a stray in this area, where a lot of strays have FIV.

Crohn's disease has me taking a single 50 minute shit a week and if I have to suffer everyone has to know about it. Because, ouch.

“Are the arts important?” Humanity practiced them long before they had use for science and will practice them long after math is gone. Is the dawn important? Is dusk?

This may look like a step back but I'm trying something wrt: dithering and light, so we shall see how it goes :).

Some sketches I'll be working on in coming months :) #WIP

So I am updating my Patreon reading list. Any followers with blogs/newsletters/essays/etc who want to be mentioned? I'm trying to build community much more :)

Latest wave of additions! As ever, if you wanna be included (no matter how new or active you are, as long as you *do* pixel art in some form or another) I'll pop you in :)

Games have *never* been more hyper-saturated than they are right now, there's no excuse to cross the line. Play something else, fuck, if you need recommendations I have so many.

This short piece is about effort, belief, and what it’s like to live in a culture that insists improvement is always possible…even when your body says otherwise. kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/effort-wit... #Health #Scotland #UK #Writing #WritingCommunity #ChronicIllness #Reading #Books #Women

I feel like I've been too active here recently, mostly because when I'm sleeping badly I end up looking through stuff and getting into a rut. But also, I've been trying to cultivate pixel art feeds and stuff!! Which has actually been enjoyable. But still, I don't want to get back into bad habits.

So, I have just discovered that Shadow the Hedgehog was voiced by Keanu Reeves in the recent Sonic film and that they made his Latina thing canon and I do not know what to do with this information besides share it.

really good piece by @aidanwalker.bsky.social on the "nihilism by default" embodied by influencers like clavicular and nick fuentes and consumed by younger zoomers who've never known anything other than an online, politically fucked world howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/clavicular...