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 I'd boost the old one but it's a little out of date.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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Okay I had no energy for the YCH today but I just spent 2.5h roughing out a quick animatic that explains the rules of Dr. Pinkerton's evil music show and that's pretty good for the day.

Today I was reminded of the chaos magic servitor Fotamecus. He is a sledgehammer smashing a clock, watch, or other symbol of our bondage to the tyranny of finely-measured time. He is a hoarder of unnoticed moments, a trader of time, and is known to be willing to share his time-hoard with you, as well.

He was created in the nineties by some slacker chaos magicians, and he has been kicking around the corners of the world gaining fame ever since, growing his store of seconds into an eternity that he can use against the counters of beans and the schedulers of days.

http://vimeo.com/70727808 - a short film of a working to attract Fotamecus' attention

http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/texts/fotamec1.html - origin story and basic user's manual

a story in three images

A thought kicking around my head lately:

Internet search (Google and its competitors) should be a publicly-funded service. Kinda like libraries are now. Run by the government. Free access to information for all, without the constant pressure to Make A Profit on the people building the search engine.

Perhaps social media should also be a publicly-funded good. I think we need some laws about interoperability, at the very least.

Perceived action point cost of sorting laundry so I can take it to the laundromat soon: about 6,000

Actual AP cost once I said "fuck it I'm gonna do it": maybe about 1?

fuck brains

LIFE PRO TIP: If you set Facebook's language to "Pirate", two things happen.

1. Facebook becomes generally harder to use.

2. Whenever Facebook manages to sneak its tendrils onto the rest of the web, you will notice.

Here is a nice copy of the Fleischer Studio's "Popeye The Sailor Vs Sinbad The Sailor" featurette.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rzbnt

It contains several examples of one of their craziest processes: miniature sets built on a turntable, with a frame to hold cels between foreground and background elements, which let them do camera movements with a subtle dimensionality unmatched by any fully-2D process.

I seem to have my list of Twitter follows back and I am honestly not sure how I feel about that.

standardization was nice until it interfered with profits

Twitter decided a ton of people were bots today, including me. Turns out that when Twitter decides you're a bot, it completely flushes your following list. I'm now following absolutely nobody. There's still people following me and they seem to be seeing my tweets, so I guess that is vaguely good.

And I g...

Read the whole post: http://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2020/09/23/standardization-was-nice-until-it-interfered-with-profits/

Awrite I have been sitting in this cafe for three hours and only one of those hours was spent drawing. It is time to Get Up And Go Somewhere Else.

I Am Not Milton Glaser

But I think if I wanted to, I could ape this definitively-seventies style of his pretty well; this is about twenty minutes of idle doodling and playing with Live Paint. It's a very different workflow from my normal one....

Read the whole post: http://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2020/09/23/i-am-not-milton-glaser/

At long last I am at the point where I can start fooling with some slight recompositions and general lighting/contrast stuff. This one stayed in a weird place where it kinda looked like a giant mess for a long time, I need to think about how to avoid that state if I do more of these sorts of things.

Or maybe I will just end up lengthening my expectations for how long a piece can spend in that state. Dunno. We'll see how I feel when this is done. Which is probably gonna be pretty soon if I can deal with these battery troubles.

also, ugh

once upon a time python was a cute little language that was fun to write because it basically looked exactly like the pseudocode you'd noodle out in a comment before turning it into an Actual Language

but ugh, now every time I try to deal with something involving Python it's a giant mess of updating and fiddling with ways to have sixty different fucking versions of the language residing on my machine at once

and honestly at this point I think if I was gonna hack together some little script and my first thought was "This is exactly the domain of Python", I would probably go spend some time figuring out what newer language has the general virtues of Python without all the "you need to keep forty versions around because we keep making legacy-breaking changes to the language".

Last morning i dreamt that the final episode of the 80s Jetsons was titled "Fix The Telemax", which was a literal command to H-B regarding a useful previewing tool that had been broken for half the season. This was a bridge-burning John K stunt at the end of production.

I had to check when I got up. This was not a real story, but it sure was plausible.

Ooh baby let’s make that tail bell jingle.

There are so many enemies in Persona 5 who are unexpectedly horny. Look at this pretty bird. I just wanna take him out on a date.

it did at least perform a proper emergency hibernation though, so there's that. I'm still really annoyed that this is the SECOND time this thing's battery has gone to shit.

Ugh my Mac’s battery life is down to like a half an hour sitting around the cafe.