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 I'd boost the old one but it's a little out of date.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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*wakes up from a dream*

*feels too lazy to write it down*

An alarm starts going off at the bakery next door. I’m sure not gonna get back to sleep with that. Guess I’ll write down that dream about my aunt getting semi-consensually beaten by her husband Raymond while I’m clutching some Raymond Smullyan books.

*alarm stops the instant I finish the last paragraph of dream description*

There is a thing writers sometimes do where they essentially start writing the script for a stage/film/etc production instead of prose. It can be fun when it works, annoying when it doesn't.

I suddenly wonder: Is there an equivalent for comics? What would it look like?

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/20/2022-macbook-air-notch-magsafe-mini-led-m2-chip/

Which sure will be fun given that my menu bar's widgets routinely stretch to the center of the screen even WITH Bartender hiding the less-used ones, never mind what happens if I make them all visible. Really I'll be covering that area with my homemade sun shield anyway a lot of the time when I'm out.

(key to the image: black = hidden by Bartender a lot of the time, especially when I'm not using the big desktop monitor; orange = I could probably delete this one, blue = always visible.)

Magsafe returning is a big meh from me, I've switched to one cable to dock my Mac at the desk and really like it; if it's magsafe + two USB4 ports then I really will give zero shits and keep carrying a USBC+3xUSB2 power brick in my bag, especially if it has the all-day-and-then-some battery life I generally expect from an Air.

I am still excited about having an Air again, with the huge performance gain of the Apple silicon, and glad "multiple colors" is still a solid rumor, but, ugh, notch, I don't even ever use the stupid webcam and would happily get a custom config without webcam OR notch.

So @zebratron2084 mentioned "lizard combo", and apparently I must now explain this game mechanic that is unlocked by having me in your party.

When we are out walking through the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans, is is pretty common to startle the tiny lizards that like to bask on the sidewalk. They almost all inevitably run across your path, instead of away from you, so it is important to keep an eye out for them if you don't want to step on them.

So if we are walking together and notice a lizard running across the sidewalk or up the side of a house, we will usually point at it and say "Lizard!" in a mildly delighted voice, because there is just something I find essentially delightful about small lizards.

When one of us does this, then Lizard Combos are possible. If we see another one in the next few seconds, then the Lizard Combo meter is active. As usual with combo meters, there's a timer; it's reset with every lizard seen, and if it runs out, the combo's lost.

I think the highest we have ever gotten is about eleven. At ten it starts pulsing rainbow colors.

We have not figured out what special moves having an active Lizard Combo enables. This is real life, there's so little damn documentation of that kind of stuff.

$boooooooooooooooobs.00

Back in 1982, one of Atari's programmers was working on a VCS game based on the Residents album "Mark Of The Mole". It was never finished, and only two prototypes appear to exist - an early one that was given to the band, and a later one that has been lost.

AAAH LOOK AT THOSE SPRITES IT'S DEFINITELY THAT GRUMPY CUBIST ASSHOLE FROM THE COVER OF THE ALBUM

http://www.digitpress.com/archives/cc_markofthemole.htm

https://voxodyssey.com/atari-2600-mark-of-the-mole

How would you like to be trapped in an elevator full of ginormous boobs? Bid on this YCH and you can enjoy this cushy, confined, and possibly-very-wet scenario!

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/44238689/

This book cover commission is going to a fascinatingly different place than usual.

ART TIP: When working on book/album covers, or anything else that will spend a lot of its life as a tiny icon, do window>new window and create a second, tiny view so you can keep a constant eye on how it works at that scale.

Move, every Zig. Move.

You know what you doing.

Move.

I wonder if the stupid notch Apple added to the new Mac Pros will be showing up in next year's Airs as well.

I wonder how badly Adobe Illustrator will deal with having one.

If there was a custom option for "no webcam and thus no notch" I'd go for it, I can count on one hand the times I've needed a webcam, ever.

digging into getting some stuff my grandmother left me that ended up in the world of Unclaimed Property and oh god I need to get something called a "judgement of possession" which probably involves $$$lawyers$$$

how the fuck do I find a lawyer, how do I not spend thousands of dollars for a single hour talking to them, aaaagh

I am doing some stuff that requires me to dig through the various documents related to my mother's death and holy shit it still hurts even though it's been like six years. Wheee.

Tired/grumpy/horny

Spiderade: It fills you with happy spiders™

going down to the french quarter on a weekend and quietly enjoying all the tourist titties on display

doodling goofy people and making myself laugh

Sometimes I wish there was a "search" function for Illustrator's toolbar. Which stack is this particular tool I rarely use and don't have a hotkey for hiding in?

(This would be in addition to OSX's "search" function for the menus. Which I use occasionally.)

I really gotta get my commissions queue cleared out. It's been so damn slow.

Played more Outer Wilds DLC tonight. Got to a new area after seeing a filmstrip that said "don't do this" and immediately going to do just that.

It really feels like that should have given me a huge boost towards the endgame and yet I still really don't have the faintest idea of what I am ultimately supposed to be doing.