Gracious Anthracite @anthracite@dragon.style

I am pretty sure I have finished a picture I have been working on for the past few days and I should take the 10-20 minutes it will take to get it uploaded in various places (Redbubble, Patreon, my site, and everywhere Postybirb talks to) but I think first I need to take a break and maybe have a walk, get some lunch. At the very least I need a big drink of water.

Taking Artie to the vet sure did take all today’s energy. She has had a deworming shot and some basic vaccinations and seems to have largely forgiven us for the trip to the Weird Place in the Weird Moving Box; as I was leaving home for dinner, she came up and mewed for some scritches.

and also modeled to look like digitigrade pawbs

vibram fivefingers except they're high heels

Horizon Forbidden West sure did have an ending that set up things for another sequel. I got to kill a lot of billionaires in the final mission, though, so that's good. And the baddie introduced for another sequel is the result of trying to upload a bunch of billionaires. They may have been suffering in endless virtual agony for a thousand years. So that's good too.

man I really gotta dig up my business cards/fliers/etc and shove some in my bag

thinking about an open-world video game that straight up acknowledges that the best parts of these games are often the side quests, and just completely dispenses with any pretense of an overall world-spanning story with a beginning, middle, and end - here's the central hub with the combat tutorials, pick a direction, enjoy the scenery, see who you meet and what their problems are, and if their stories seem interesting to follow through.

kind of... a short-story collection of a game, rather than an epic trilogy with assorted side diversions.

sage wisdom from the world's richest incel https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632574090216103937

@jonas
hey, this piece of yours from 2021 came up in the endless rotation of my FA faves ono my desktop, and I just wanted to say that it's fucking lovely and super sweet. <3

I can't find it in either of your FA galleries so you get a comment here instead.

artie is snūz

I am trying a new arrangement for tucking my bits and damn it is working so well it’s altering my gait. Gonna see how it fares after a day out on the bike.

Sitting for another hour was also REALLY NICE.

I really gotta start meditating regularly again. I sat for a half hour this morning and it was REALLY NICE.

Kinda tempted to just sit for another hour. It's Saturday, I don't have any plans.

I just got stoned and drew Caitlyn the Rubber Witch here and cannot decide what to do with her.

Caitlin the Rubber Witch (see reply for image) is

If getting back on the pole has reset my body’s internal idea of how old it is that’s pretty good though.

I must be getting old. I just caught my mouth trying to lie about my age when checking in for my doctor’s appointment. A year four years younger just tumbled out like it was what I said every time someone asked me what year I was born for the past *mumble* years.

When you spend a week alone in the house doing guided meditations, sometimes weird shit like this happens.

cw: naked dragon tittles

Lots more detail about this, narratively and technically, is on my blog:
http://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2023/02/28/unexpectedly-effective/

Prints/shirts/etc:
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/141074135?ref=studio-promote

High-res and AI source:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/79368279?pr=true

hey @llamasoft_ox is "dynamic colour effects: INTENSE" a thing I can unlock in Akka Arrh or is it a thing I will be able to pay like five bucks for as DLC in the future

because, like, I have been to Basingstoke via Polybius, I would happily pay five bucks for a remix that turns the visual massage up a few notches

holy crap ten minutes adding a tint layer to the bg, some shadows from the characters, and a little lighting overlaid on the characters made this SO MUCH CLEARER