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I decided to do some more unpacking today and found my old monster Wacom (a 32” cintiq) in the boxes of old stuff. It stopped working a few years ago after being on death’s door all summer. I don’t know why I kept it, but I had a strange feeling that I should, and I guess I brought it with me when I moved. So today I plugged it in to see if it was worth salvaging or if it was better to just chuck it away.

And it worked. I didn’t even have to do anything. It just… worked, straight away.

I should be happy, but I tried for ages to get it working again when it first died. I remember sitting on the floor contemplating my life choices and poor spending habits for the rest of the day after the realisation it wasn’t coming back on. I was so mad over it, I (very briefly) decided I was done with digital art completely and was going back to exclusively traditional. It didn’t last long but still 😂. And now, all these years later, it just… worked…

Well I think it’s working. The pen has disappeared in the process of moving, so I can’t test the pen pressure, but so far touch is working so I’m hopeful. Touch was usually the first to go. But also I don’t really want to give Wacom money to replace it in case I’m wrong (and also in general)

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I didn’t end up having time to do anything fun, but I was successful anyway, thanks in large part to the fact there was a single guy handing out fliers lol. It was a local right wing party, he did approach me, but it was just to warn me the ramp broke (it’s been raining heaps and the wooden planks weren’t in great shape) and there was a second accessible entrance I could use. He didn’t even attempt to offer me a flier though so I still count that as a success lol.

The Australian election is coming up and I need to find a way to look more aggressively leftist in the next week so all the right wing people stay away from me in the lines. Apparently covering my wheelchair in furry/trans/queer stickers and cutting my hair short wasn’t enough last time, and I really don’t want to get stuck talking to One Nation/trumpet of patriots people again 😭

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lets follow canada and keep our conservative party out, go vote this week & on saturday! you CANNOT waste your vote, we don't have first past the post in Australia

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In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.

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So I’m trying to look up anything I can find about my local candidates for this election and discovered my electorate shares the name of a location in Dragon Age (not saying which for privacy reasons). Unfortunately while this was very funny at first, this location just so happens to have a political war-table mission tied to it in inquisition which is making it VERY hard to google anything about politics in my local area.

​I’m fairly certain there are no rebel mages and Templars here…though there are a few old “stick it to the man” style hippies who practice witchcraft and some very intense religious folks that call everything demonic so… maybe I shouldn’t be so confident there 😂

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The Australian election is coming up and I need to find a way to look more aggressively leftist in the next week so all the right wing people stay away from me in the lines. Apparently covering my wheelchair in furry/trans/queer stickers and cutting my hair short wasn’t enough last time, and I really don’t want to get stuck talking to One Nation/trumpet of patriots people again 😭

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my mum’s horse has finally noticed my presence despite the fact I’ve been living right next to his stable for the last week or so 😂. He’s been staring at me for the last half an hour wondering why there is a human so close to him that’s not feeding him 😂. He is also not a fan of my cat (which seems to be mutual lol)

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Poe the Fire Mage

Commission for Mr Poe on Fur affinity! I really had fun with this one! The pose and the fire was a good challenge, and I got the chance to try out some new stuff with the linework on it as well! Thanks again Poe! [ID: A digital, cell-shaded illustration of a grey, anthropomorphic drake wearing red robes and a blue cape. He is shooting a blast of fire from his paws as he jumps back /End ID]

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My mum’s cattle dog is very timid. apparently I deeply traumatised her in November when I went to go feed her, I went down the ramp too fast and my wheelchair made a weird noise and She has not come near me since 😭 the only way I can get her to even look in my direction now is to use the How To Train Your Dragon approach and throw her some of her favourite treats while looking away.

today, she licked my hand before she bolted because I wasn’t expecting that and jumped in surprise, so… Progress?

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I’ve finally moved (and have consistent-ish internet again) and been unpacking for 3 days and I feel like there’s more shit left than when I started.

I threw out so much, where is it all coming from? I feel like there’s a kobold or something summoning more boxes of junk every time I turn around. 😂

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Nintendo releasing a 1st party wheelchair basketball-meets-rocket league game and announcing it in the switch 2 direct was not on my bingo card but I’m hyped for it!

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Trying to organise dates and times for moving stuff between 3 people (me, my partner and my mum) who all have raging time blindness issues, with the help of 2 other time-blind people (my sister and her partner) is a fun experience, 10/10 would recommend /sarcasm

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I finally have a date for when I’m moving!

My partner and I were supposed to move into my parent’s farm long term in January, but mum told us at the last minute she still needed to clean out the old furniture she had stored in there and replace the flooring in the little granny flat we were going to stay in. It was supposed to take a week but the builder who was doing the flooring disappeared on her for 8 weeks 🤦 so we’ve just been in this awkward half packed state since last year lol.

It’s finally sorted though and going in this week, so we are officially moving in 2 weeks time!

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I’ve probably said this before, I don’t remember, but I’d be way more likely to put in the effort to use and stick to using my prosthetics if they didn’t have to be so damn boring.

Half my hometown already thinks I’m demonic for being queer, let me have fun with it and give me goat leg prosthetics! Or dragon legs, or legs with those digitigrade stilts built in.

But nooooo, it’s “not safe” and “not good for my spine” so instead I get stuck with legs that look mostly normal and can only wear a narrow range of shoes. Bah! Buzzkills…

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Mirage is the second of the two characters I’m playing in a one-on-one Pathfinder 2e campaign my partner and I were planning. Mirage is a dragon-blooded merfolk ranger, and chitters is their “faithful” mount. Mirage doesn’t really fit the typical ranger archetype, they were a prince (though very far from the throne) cast out over a disagreement with their mother. The Queen disowned them, exiled them from the kingdom and only allowed them to take their mount Chitters before chasing them out of their kingdom. Like many nobility, mirage enjoyed hunting for sport, and was quite good at it, but they quickly learned that the hunting trips they went on, surrounded by royal attendants, are very different from living out in the wilderness and having to hunt enough to feed both you, and a very grumpy wyvern that was not particularly keen to be taken from his life of luxury. [ID: A digital, cell-shaded illustration of two characters. One, named chitters, is a light green-teal wyvern, standing on it’s back legs and using it’s wings as front legs. It’s tail ends in two articulated stingers and on it’s back is a saddle and attached to it’s horns are a pair of reins. Chitters is looking back at it’s rider, Mirage, annoyed. Mirage is a merfolk with the head and claws of a dragon. They have blue, slightly iridescent scales covering most of their body with a yellow underbelly and fins, both at the end of their tail and on either side of their head. they wear simple clothing made out of kelp, adorned with pearls. They are sitting side-saddle on chitters with one hand resting on the front of the saddle and the other holding a very large pearl which they are admiring. /End ID]

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My partner and I have been planning to do a one-on-one pathfinder 2e campaign, partially to test out some new homebrew mechanics he’s been wanting to trial before he uses them with our very chaotic group, but also to help me practice character dialogue that actually sounds different from character to character (which has been a bit of a reoccurring issue I’ve noticed in some of my comic scripts lately 😅). Because of that, I’m going to be playing two characters while he GMs, and this is my first one, Sarneir! They were inspired by Armanite demons in DnD 5e but mechanically, I’m playing them as a Nephilim/Centaur Champion! [ID: A digital, cell-shaded illustration of a demonic centaur-like creature. They have red scales all over their body, four split-toed hooves, a long, devil-like tail ending in a sharp, jaggered blade on their “horse half”, and on their more “human” half, they have two human-like arms with clawed fingers. Their head is long like a horse’s and covered in black spikes and horns, with large, black tusks protruding from their mouth. They are holding a bronze tower shield in one hand, and a kukri in the other. Their armour is a simple bronze breastplate with a red gem at it’s top where the shoulder straps attach, and a leather “skirt” made out of panels that sits right at the joint of their humanoid torso and horse-like body. /End ID]

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Kev

Kev is one of 6 main characters in the wheelchair basketball comic I’m working on. He’s is a retired wheelchair rugby player - hence why his chair looks so different to the other characters I’ve drawn so far - and when his wife (who’s art is coming soon) started a wheelchair basketball team, but was struggling to get the numbers to actually play, he signed up too. Personality wise, Kev is the team’s jokey uncle and is meant to be a direct foil to the more serious characters on the team, like Ruby. He’s already done the whole “serious athlete thing” and while he enjoys the game, at the end of the day, just there to have fun and support his wife, and remind the younger members to not get too wrapped up in it all. He’s a quad amputee (through the palms on his hands, above the knee on his legs) and is missing a good chunk of his tail too, making him a low-pointer on the court. Low point players are those who’s disabilities impact their ability to play more severally, and they usually play in more defensive and supportive rolls than high-point players. [ID: a digital illustration of a grey-ish green anthropomorphic crocodile in a red basketball singlet with the number 14 on it. He is a quad amputee, missing all of his fingers and both legs above the knee, and is sitting in a silver wheelchair rugby chair with red wheels, holding a basketball in his lap. The background is an abstract orange stained-glass pattern. /End ID]