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 I'd boost the old one but it's a little out of date.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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New page of Parallax over on Patreon!

In which Olivia encounters a Goddess, and I make your eyes Bleed.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/vx10-15a-final-54492660

Goddamnit Evernote. You spent the last couple years fucking up your apps by rebuilding them in fucking Electron and adding a bunch of bullshit that looks pretty but gets in the way of actually using them for their core uses. And you STILL have absolutely no facilities for dealing with sync conflicts beyond “now you have two copies of this note, have fun figuring out what changed!”.

Just when did I become someone who thinks "a serious, solemn history of an offshoot of the Temple of Satan" is "casual reading on my day off" anyway

I spent today taking a sad kitty with a bumpy nose to the vet. Now I am rewarding myself for successfully not absorbing her immense stress and fear during this by having cake and a cookie.

I think this may be the most gracious “It’s not FOR you” passage I have ever encountered.

(Michael Aquino, “The Temple Of Set”.)

In the VERY unlikely event of me ever becoming a real estate developer, I want to name a suburb’s streets after Cats.

No. Not breeds of cats. CATS. “I live on the corner of Rumpleteazer and Jennyanydots” cats.

If there is a railway nearby I think it is imperative that it NOT intersect or run along Skimbleshanks, just to annoy anyone who takes the trouble to chase down the reference.

holy crap Wacom support is actually asking for the applescript that stopped working, I guess they actually *do* want to continue supporting that interface? That's a nice surprise.

Rando on Discord: are you good at illustrator

Me: It's been my main medium for 20+ years. Probably.

Me: If you're about to ask me to do your homework, you're in luck - I'm currently having a 90% off sale on my normal rate of $10k/h.

(because it almost always IS "please do my homework" in my experience)

Someday I am going to end up in an interesting conversation with someone who notices that I always sign for credit/debit stuff with a sigil invoking Mercury.

So @zebratron2084 and I just flirted via the exchange of some Sifl and Olly references and I have never felt more of a member of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Generation than i do at this moment.

Ninety bucks for a set of all four of my Arch-Angel Dragonsonas as scarves. https://www.redbubble.com/people/egypturnash/shop?artistUserName=egypturnash&asc=u&collections=2405635&iaCode=w-scarf Yeah, not too bad, I'm going for it - prints would be more intensely colorful, but these are a lot easier to casually hang up when I want to enhance the Magicalness of my space, plus they will also work real well as clothing accents.

“Fresh Hell” would be a great name for a record label. Perhaps it already is, I didn’t check.

I have poked my nose into "Number Of The Beast" again and despite me thinking it was done being a book about four people arguing about who was In Command Of This Space Car, here's a vague threat to that chain of command followed by a complete flip-out over it. Why are these four civilians so hot for this chain of command shit anyway? Is this a fetish or something?

And speaking of fetishes here comes two incestuous twin girls talking about how they like to time their rejuvenations so that they "never have to stop making babies". Lots of talking about the transcendent joys of making babies in this book but absolutely no discussion of actually raising them. Which honestly lines up with the way being hot for impregnation is handled in the furry scene - it's all "Oh yeah breed me!" with cutins of eggs getting mobbed by sperm, and very little changing of diapers.

I guess I am expected to be as happy to see Lazarus Long again as Heinlein is, but really this is just another tedious episode of Four Characters In Search Of A Plot, which I am really just reading out of sympathy with nine-year-old me who I am pretty DID read the whole thing when he took it off the "new arrivals" shelf at the local library.

It WAS nice to have a trans character show up briefly and have everyone be completely down with their transition, even if the mode of transition was "tweaking the hormones of a clone grown from a frozen corpse that happened to have XXY chromosomes, and installing a memory dump scraped out of the corpse". Bloodclot Heinlein gets a few points for being generally down with the transes between this throwaway bit and "Fear No Evil", even as he loses zillions for every woman in his books being hot for impregnation.

No energy today.

Damn, the sketch layers in these old Absinthe files are set up so awkwardly. I don't miss my old "sketch on paper, finish in Illustrator" process at ALL.

today's unexpected email interaction: educating technical support at Wacom upon the difference between "an API that lets you send NSEvents to the driver" and "AppleScript"

*sigh*