Thinking of how everyone back then settled on KC's 'CV shipgirls are archers' design paradigm only for KC to do a rug pull afterwards by debuting the first USN CV in the game, USS Saratoga, with a Thompson SMG flightdeck. Subsequent USN CV would all be armed with guns.

Eterna moved up to a front-row seat.

Apache pistol in da house.

Reinstalled HBS BT after 4+yrs, now w/BTA mod Art productivity: "I'm still drawing--just in my head." Currently airing shows: "I'll just binge it later." The addiction of sandblasting someone's torso away with the BHA-2S' magshots that I somehow snagged early in the campaign. #Battletech

Trying out a less conventional humanoid torso by playing around with simple shapes.

Didn't realize there was a Goblin week, how timely. Anyways, an Ostrovian Goblin Boltist, a versatile infantry type whose short stature offers certain advantages & disadvantages. See alt-text for the technical blablah.

Surprise cowgirl Iowa for KC's setsubun update.

There's a highly visible trend over the past decade in how dungeons are treated more & more often in JP pop media as exploitable resources/business opportunities, probably due mainly to videogame grinding for mats & drops. Influences go both ways.

I get the impression that, after the latest blatant ICEtrocity, a number of 2A-adjacent people on the other site want to speak out against it but can only give the vaguest milquetoast fence-sitting responses in order not to offend & lose a significant chunk of their followers. Musk-trapped.

Resetting my mental state after hyperfocusing on something for the past month. Older-style asgear sized for dwarves. The proportions are a bit misleading due to the helm's bulk & the oversized pauldrons protecting the shoulder mechanisms.

Happy 2026, everybody! Keep that hope alive, yeah? Also, my New Year's resolution will be to finally get around to figuring out Blender.

Thai shipgirl with a passing resemblance to Lalah Sune obtained.

"Just pick up a pencil & paper" "STOP WITH THE CONDESCENSION, INSULTS AND DEATH THREAAAAATS REEEEEEE"

Perhaps Nolan should've made a live-action version of Ulysses 31 instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndi4...

Oh man, it's been like what, 5 years? since the last time someone said this. Time sure flew by while in sealed-room simulator Namek. (NO, TIME DID NOT FLY BY)

Elf in hybrid armor powered by 3 different methods--external frame + servos, muscle cables & direct magical enhancement of the wearer's limbs. Elven mental architecture offers an advantage in controlling the sub-arm.

"'Tis just a flesh wound." JFC, Alicia.

Some doodles inspired by a Hadrosaur mecha convo in toughsf discord from a while back.

Here I thought this year's US Gymnastics National Championships was held last month.

I have never liked Woody Allen, and now there's one more reason I never will.

Turkey!'s shaping up quite well, with the latest episode dealing with the girls' 21st century morality running head-first into the Sengoku era. As usual, Mai with her terminal case of foot in mouth disease leading the charge upon hearing of Sumomo's arranged marriage. 1/x

Watching the latest episode of Clevatess, and I like how the wizards aren't skimping out on the armor. Should be noted that 'magic' in this setting is a relatively new & novel thing.

Older-style AsGear, uses external frame + servos instead of muscle cables. Simpler & cheaper to build, with well-understood operating principles. However is bulkier, less efficient & redundant, more vulnerable to damage. Should be easy to guess who she's based on.

"Shoot that guy." Experimental AsGear in the form of a bodysuit with muscle cables integrated into the weave. Requires extensive custom-fitting as, unlike armor, the wearer's own body has to function as rigid support & anchor points for the musculature.

Just read the latest chapter of Tower Dungeon which concerns Aridellia's circumstances, and it has this fairy-tale quality to it leaning towards the darker Northern European sort. The paneling also has a very storybook feeling, which adds to the tone.

Couple of designs for fantasy 'AsGear' powered armor utilizing advanced, 'ribbon-type' muscle cable with a much flatter profile. Left is a fully-integrated harness, right is a composite harness assembled (scavenged) from various sources by the local raubritter from podunksville.

BEYOND THE TIIIIIIIME

Just finished reading Benford's Galactic Center series and, from Great Sky River onwards, it can't be overstated how foundational it was to Nihei's Blame!

Holy crap, Gquuuuuux finally giving us paired O'Neill colonies

As a Roman Catholic, I was hoping for Cardinal Tagle to become the new pope, but this is quite the ringing endorsement for Cardinal Prevost. God bless the newly-elected Pope Leo XIV. May he continue to bring, like his predecessor, new life & positive relevance to Mother Church.

Well, this is quite the escalation.

Archeological dig through my bookshelves...

R.I.P. Pope Francis As a Roman Catholic, I didn't quite agree with some of what he said of late but he was, nonetheless, a deft hand & positive influence in guiding Mother Church forward into the future. More importantly, to him, the poor & defenseless actually mattered.

R.I.P. Val Kilmer From Top Secret! to Top Gun 2, he always gave it his all.

Last ep. of Ubel Blatt. It was a faithful, almost 1:1 adaptation of the manga (minus the saucier parts) such that viewers were left confused at scenes which only made sense with the prologue--the lengthy prologue that was reduced into a series of montages in the OP. S2 with bigger budget when.

My friend, finally with a clean bill of health after a month of treatment. Also in need of a bath.

After 1 1/2 months, the current US administration is an astounding SSSS-tier. -Short-sighted -Self-centered -Spiteful -and just plain Stupid Quite glad that Ukraine has trustworthy friends & allies that continue to step up, like France.

Powered armor + Potato digger

Rest in peace, Gene Hackman. As a kid, the role I first knew him for was, of course, Superman's nemesis Lex Luthor. And a charmingly funny, con-man of a Luthor at that.

Sketch of Dwarven mecha from my fantasy setting. Due to the method of operation involved, the mecha (vessal) & the pilot (vesser) must have similar bodily proportions to function effectively.

AC6 RPG out yesterday. AIUI the game uses range bands which iirc was also the approach used for the JP 'Souls rpgs? I'd like to point out how there's a distinction in that the T in 'TRPG' often stands for 'table talk' instead of the western 'table top', much like in many other RPGs from Japan.

Elves & Boeotian helmets seem like a good match.

A re-imagining of the Cobra S.N.A.K.E. Battle Armor. The original toy was just a plastic potato with 4 points of articulation that you stuffed a G.I. Joe action figure in, but I wanted to retain a lot of its jankiness. Wasn't planning on putting in this amount of effort, but here we are.

WIP of the Not!Dom

Look! The East is Burning Red! I'm sure there's a gazillion other accounts posting this very same scene in the past few hours.

WIP of a power-assisted hardsuit. I originally intended this to be for military use, but on further thought it seems more appropriate as a civilian mining suit for use in hostile environments. The left hand is an unpowered glove to preserve manual dexterity & some tactile feedback.

Both quite pleased & pleasantly surprised at the positive reception that the Sentai Red Isekai show has been garnering. There's a bunch of live-action tokusatsu veterans in the staff, too.

Internet went down for 2 1/2 days, and now a bunch of stuff's out of whack.

Was reading the latest chapter of Tower Dungeon, and this is as succinct an observation of Churafi's character as it can get.

Merry Christmas to all! It's been a tough year for many; may today be calm seas and a safe harbour in these troubled times... Hang in there.