Gracious Anthracite @anthracite@dragon.style

Today I was out walking
when I had a brief flash
and saw the people I was passing
as collections of cells gathered together into muscles
pulling against the bones that they grew for some cells to live inside
slithering against each other like a bucket of live eels

And it was kind of beautiful.

Is it #introduction time again? Sorta seems to be. I'd boost the old one but it's a little out of date.

Hi, I'm Peggy, and I run dragon.style. If "maintaining a Patreon to pay the hosting, putting off updating it for a year, and occasionally opening the place up for new users" qualifies as "running" it.

I am a trans lady who spends most of her time drawing complicated sci-fi comics and sort of earning a living doing that via Patreon.

Adobe Illustrator has been my main medium since 2000, it's a pretty unusual choice but it works for me.

I used to do burlesque, then pole dance, as a hobby and a way to stay fit. I miss it and should find something similar again.

You may know me from elsewhere as Egypt Urnash.

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I have noticed a Valknut on the rear tail-light of a neighbor's car and I really hope this is because they are an active follower of Odin than because they are a white supremacist.

It begins to look like my new habit is that every hardback I own gets a ribbon glued into its binding when I pick it up. Integrated bookmarks! And markings on the outer edges, and the odd marginal note. Kid me would be aghast.

"I guess I zigged when I should have... ZAGGED." - me, after another run of Hades ended about halfway through Dad's second phase

omfg Supergiant gave Dionysus a comment for "hey you sure do have a lot of ambrosia in your pockets" and it is THE BEST

(i had 7, if you're curious.)

I sure did just stumble across a FA gallery belonging to someone who saw the “Trust In Me” sequence in the Disney “Jungle Book” adaptation at a very special moment in their life. Dang that was a lot of snakes with swirly animated eyes.

rockin' out to the Hades soundtrack while I work on commissions

1h in the park working, I think the oldest piece in my queue is done now. Think it’s time to find somewhere inside, it’s warm enough but windy.

This morning it felt very important for me to spend a half an hour or so supergluing some ribbons into the binding of a few hardback books, so that they have built-in bookmarks.

I am pretty sure someone following me will be excited about a complete collection of TSR's "Dungeon" magazine on archive.org. https://archive.org/details/dungeonmagazine?sort=titleSorter

Hooray for the intense sense of relief felt upon finally seeing one of the cats who hangs out under the house after two days of him not showing up. I did not get a good look at Shemp but he sure was scarfing up the food this morning.

He was a little too busy with that to leap up into a scritching hand with what we call a "whole-body high-five" but he sure did arch up into my petting.

And after an hour working on weird furry porn I spent a little time doing some housekeeping work on the file for the Arch-Dragons Of The Directions. And Maybe Plus Metatron And Sandalphon And A Middle Pillar/Qabalistic Cross, I Dunno We'll See How I Feel After Doing The Part I'm Getting Paid For.

I sure do get a wide range of commissions and I am pretty happy with this.

okay that's an hour drawing some gloriously weird furry porn and impulsively making it a little weirder, I feel accomplished now.

Well. He’s the first president to ever be double-impeached now. With ten votes from his own party, versus the single vote for one of the two articles of his first impeachment, according to my quick skim of the Wikipedia page on the first impeachment.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/house-trump-impeachment-vote-01-13-21/index.html

Has anyone out there ever done a Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram and accidentally turned everything upside down to find a smirking column of black fire hanging out in the middle? Because I’ve done that twice now.

a bunch of commissions

Over the past few months I've been doing a lot of commissions instead of working on Parallax. 2020, you know?

Here's some moderately large images of the clean ones; click for the full-size version.

And here's some thumbnail links to the NSFW ones. Click for full-size.

(The last one there is for me and the SO. I wish I had managed to take a Horny Sex Slav...

Read the whole post: http://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2021/01/13/a-bunch-of-commissions/

I am finally uploading a bunch of commissions from the past couple months to the various galleries. And my own site.

Hey! Would you like to spend about an hour watching me draw, with me talking about how I get Illustrator to work for me?

Sure you would. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfW7vZYtAB0

aaagh it was imovie defaulting to 'crop to fill screen' rather than 'fit to screen' so I get to re-upload the whooole damn thing

ugh why is the top and bottom of the screen CUT OFF thanks a lot imovie or youtube aaargh