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It’s been a while, but new year, new motivation to finish this fic before my next birthday.

Basically Hoxton plays pinball with his friends. Also he makes a new friend.

Also this is shameless advertisement for one of the best Wii games ever. Play LKS today!

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"ask people more about themselves" is solid entry level advice you tend to hear about how to make conversation with others (and it is true that people love talking about themselves), but it presumes far too much normalcy in the speaker than what you would expect from someone who looks for advice on maintaining basic human conversation. there's only so many times you can ask someone about X or Y experience in a conversation before it starts getting tedious for them. the secondary purpose of asking people questions is that it gives you a variety of opportunities to interject with opinions, observations, or similar experiences, but if you're someone who has little life experience (or a lot of life experience that just makes for very awkward or depressing conversation), continuing to throw questions out there (with the periodic "neat" or "that's really cool") is your only lifeline. you're relegated to a hanger on in the conversation. you haven't opened yourself up to them at all, and they are starting to feel interrogated and a bit vulnerable as a result. it's awkward and uncomfortable. the gulf between yourself and others is practically tangible.

the Actual advice that nobody ever seems to want to give is how much you can fill the vacancies in your personality with affect. if you aren't sure what to do, you can just start larping as someone else. garnish your personality with sounds and gestures. it's literally fine, and playing pretend in this way is a good method to start feeling more comfortable in your skin. I like to smile and clasp my hands together or lace my fingers between one another when I respond to people, and whatever visual information that conveys to the other person seems to help keep the conversation moving. I've done this for like 10 years. my worksona is a like a stealth yamato nadeshiko anime girl and it has been described as cute and wholesome by people unaware of my evil & villainous nature. what im saying is that kinnies are actually in the middle phase of developing advanced social skills.

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🎨color study note

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how to draw horses(for the discerning horse girl)

i spent two years working in barns to give you this information. use it wisely

view all 16 parts under the cut!

hopefully this guide will inspire you to draw the cowboys you've always dreamed of

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"Not even Jesus Christ was scrutinized this heavily"

-pukicho 14:10

Thanks for crudely plastering me over the man. This is great for my image.

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This is the final final sketch dump, marking the end of Mage & Maestro! Despite the unfortunate circumstances behind the ending, I'd like to thank you all for sticking with me and seeing this comic come to life.

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like what’s up manger

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Okay but you know what else is super funny?

Professor Layton is often described as being attractive and has multiple people crushing on him. If he were in a college anime there’d be a harem club dedicated to him.

But this is the style he’s drawn in.

Meanwhile Phoenix Wright looks like the stereotypical hot anime boy that you’d think would be the object of many a person’s dreams…

But his looks are constantly ridiculed and insulted and half the people he has helped don’t even remember his name. Usually the insults are directed at his hair but like… he doesn’t even have the weirdest hair in the franchise.

Like this is so funny to me?

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, newer farming simulator/ agriculture/ cozy games AREN’T stardew valley knock offs, if anything they’re harvest moon knock offs but atp in the big year of 2025 we should be considering that maybe it’s a genre???

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exploration #?

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You discover that you have control over a certain thing, as determined by spinning this wheel. We're talking full-on magical girl/superhero/supervillain/your label of choice control.

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Black Sesame Milk

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Post-mortem 2: Typefaces

You know I only planned 3 of these blog posts? I think there’ll be way more than that, there’s a lot of stuff that sprang up while I was writing out more detailed outlines for everything.

This is a shorter post about the dialogue - that is, how it’s actually presented in the comic.

There’s a lot of comics that use colours to distinguish their main characters. However, I’m a bit of a typeface lover and feel like it’s greatly underutilised for this kind of purpose. I decided to give every character their own typeface and speech bubble to help distinguish everyone within the limitations of the comic format. To save time and space, I won’t talk about why I picked everything and leave it as an exercise to the reader.

One regret I have is not using text effects more. With the more decorative typefaces, it was just really hard to stay consistent, so I never bothered.

And of course, here’s the official list of the character typefaces/fonts:

Toni: Baskerville (Semibold)

Hans: Pacifico

Raoul (King): IM Fell

Iris: Helvetica Neue (Italic)

Daisy: Nunito

Anna (Hans’s sister): Satisfy

Leopold (Hans’s dad): Lobster Two

Presto: Cookie

Sebastian (Chancellor): Times New Roman (Italic)

Himawari: Raleway

Nun 1: Charter, mistakenly Baskerville in strip 40

Nun 2: Georgia

Willibald: Futura

Florian: Palatino

Princess Maria: Caprasimo

Katrina: Courgette

Paddie: Arial Rounded

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i think this is probably true of every office, but there's a middle aged woman working in business who doesn't hold any particular place in the chain of command but is Sovereign. i was running support and she has access to more secure network drives than i do. im pretty sure she has an admin account. i was having trouble with my parking pass and my boss just said to talk to kristen- one day later i had parking in any garage on campus. she's not even in charge of parking in our building