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 I'd boost the old one but it's a little out of date.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 think I am being stalked by seraphim. “A Wind In The Door” showed up three times today in wholly unrelated contexts.

I keep waiting to turn around and see an excess of wings and eyes just on the edge of my vision.

Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s “Illuminatus!” trilogy has many flaws, first and foremost being that it handles women with all the subtlety and sensitivity that you would expect from two dudes who worked for Playboy in the sixties, but I am thankful to it for two things:

1. The seeds its appendices planted in me that lead me down strange paths the aggressively rationalist young adult who first picked it up never would have expected.

2. Its vicious parodies of Ayn Rand’s paeans to the joys of getting fucked in every conceivable way by Commanding Masters Of Capitalism for whom Profit is the One God inoculated me against libertarianism, and having seen what that shit does to people who swallow it, I am eternally thankful to the Twinned Bobs.

Last night I woke up around 4AM with a screaming headache of the kind that I have learnt means "I am fucking starving".

Except somehow I instantly knew it was not *my* headache but actually the cats that live under the house silently wailing for food, as we had forgotten to put anything out for them last night.

I put some food out the back door and the feeling went away pretty soon.

This isn't the first time I've gotten this sort of thing, there were a couple incidents during the whole saga of taking Shadow in to the vet for her cheek would and keeping her in a cone for a while as well.

So apparently I can pick up cat emotions, that's enough to get me into the X-Men, right?

Never in my life did I think I would have cause to say thank you, Cox Cable. Damn. Thanks, Cox Cable!

Tonight I spent about an hour working on Parallax and about an hour coloring a really weird horny drawing and that is pretty good for my current focus levels, really.

Every time I look at this Endymion cup I get a little angry. You can barely see it in this photo but in real life it is very easy to see that despite seeming to be printed in four spot colors plus K (purple, green, yellow, and pale peach), every single color is horribly dithered. So all these little white dudes have green spots all over their flesh. And the parts of their clothes that are not green. The green parts have obvious purple spots, of course.

Their banner used to have the name of the parade but I edited it to show its new use. Perhaps it will remind me to think before I act should I end up doing any hand separations in the future.

*wipes away a tear*

(cancelled - and refunded - due to C19, but I was really looking forwards to that! Maybe I'll just put their stuff on REAL LOUD this Monday.)

I just spent a half an hour fucking around with this sound effect until I pared it down to this jauntily-arranged font and this very simple treatment.

And now this page is that much closer to done so I am happy. Will I do more? Maybe! But lately it feels like even a half an hour of work is cause for celebration. It sure would be nice to go to bed with that big empty area at the top of this panel full of an ancient alien mecha beating the snot out of a creepy alien biomech though.

Ohhhh *that’s* why I can’t access the AssCreed Odyssey DLC, I have to go *download* it from the PS4 store. I thought it would all get automatically downloaded when I got the cheap copy of the We’re Done With This Game, Have It All Bundle edition.

(Strange Cargo 1: 1987, 2: 1990, 3:1993, Hinterlands: 1995; Spyro 1: 1998. It’s eminently possible for Insomniac to have been chilling out to these laid-back electronic tracks full of bells and fizzy guitars.)

I am listening to one of William Orbit’s “Strange Cargo” albums and, as I often do, I am wondering if the initial meeting between Insomniac Games and Stuart Copeland about the music for Spyro saw Stuart going home with a CD of the Strange Cargo selections they’d been using as placeholder music while developing the game.

How do I even do colored pencils. I should be doing these over watercolor or very wet gouache and I have neither of those handy. Just some acrylics. I used some white here and there but am not patient enough to let it dry and work over it when I am drunk. Or possibly ever. Illustrator has spoilt me.

Bismarck’s cutie mark is an oozing cream-filled donut for obvious reasons.

Damnit I was planning on going out and doing some drawing but then I drank this and got distracted and it snuck up on me and now I am Very Tipsy and just wanna curl up and draw some porn.

UNFINISHED ART DEATHMATCH!

I want to reuse one of these pieces of board but I don’t know which one. Help me decide!

Pick one piece to be painted over with something new, and one piece to be finished if I feel like breaking out my acrylics.

Oh hey. Comedic SF/F fiction recommendations? I need something to make me laugh.

I have already read and enjoyed H2G2, Discworld, Myth Adventures, Ebeneezum, and Space Opera. So those are out. :)

Hey so tonight at 8pm CST some crazy friends of mine are gonna be doing their insane game-show take on "small streamed concerts". With many twists.

(Guess who drew the logo.)
http://www.consortiumofgenius.com/EscapeFromTheSecretLab/

Is there a band who you avoided for ages solely because their name sounded so stupid who turned out to be pretty good? Who are they?

You ever wake up from a dream feeling like you need to wash your hands based on something you touched in the dream?

Sitting in the park. I hear a weird grunt and look up to see a woman fall to the ground and start twitching.

Other people closer to her call 911. Looked like some kind of fit? She seems to be okay now. She had enough warning of it to stop her bike and get off instead of falling, too. No ambulance ever showed up, she was maybe even together enough to bike off.

All these little medical things are gonna be a lot riskier with all the resources tied up in the epidemic. Good luck, everyone.