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JANUARY WORK SEASON IS OVERRRRRRR very excited for the latest piece to get published, it's gonna be my biggest illustration yet (apart from the videos, those are in their own league of behemoths)

I think it'll get published in February? I'm very excited to post close-ups from it, I really went to town on the rendering! I'm going away for the week on little winter holidays and then right after I get back I'm finally moving! I'm very excited, I'll finally be able to save time on public transport and draw more...! (TCM!!! TCM!!!!!! IM COMING!!!!!!!!! ONLY JUST A BIT MORE AND ILL GET TO DRAW IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!) the toughie of a year that was 2024 is at last coming to its belated conclusion <3

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Yesterday I saw my doc for the interpretation of the results of the couple heart exams I had (because I accidentally discovered last year that my heart beats unusually slowly) and the results say while it does beat slowly im not in any danger and everything else is bees knees!

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Recently in order to detox after work I've been playing yakuza like a dragon and woooooo its such a step up from yk1,yk2 and y0 the biggest shock for me is how much im enjoying the side missions? previously they felt really flat and goofy but now they are still able to retain that trademark yakuza weirdness but they have a lot of heart too. And idk if im misremembering or if i never paid attention to that but people from the side missions now.... introduce themselves? was that a thing previously? regardless of if it was, now i notice it and it furthers the sense of connection and intimacy in the side missions, like im really helping a "person" and not just "man with glasses" or what have you im also really loving the cinema minigame and the enterprise running minigame, sometimes i dont push the main story for sessions on end because im running a cookie shop......... but its soooo fun! though i will forever miss the dance minigame from y0....... i know i know people hated it! but I LOVED IT!! I love rhythm games and that one was so weird and quirky i havent seen anything like it before. And the songs from y0 were bangers. I used to have y0 on my laptop just so i could pop it open occasionally JUST to play the music game. It was that good for me......... THE KARAOKE IS SHIT! I have no idea why they do nothing to improve the interface (though i gotta admit this one is the best one yet) and it doesnt feel or sound satisfying at all......... also 3 songs at best. And they made the MVs so serious.... i mean its fine ig....... the characters are having an introspective moment........lowkey bakamitai..... but you gotta give me some Judgement swag. Some 24-h Cinderella! Come onnnnnn!! Speaking of things that dont impress me... the game is soooo lowkey sexist it's so eyeroll inducing. Like you KNOwwwWW there were no women in that writers room. There are only two female characters with only real plot importance and when they meet each other they start insulting each other in such a. oh such a specific way that tells you all you need to know "shut you you uggo" "ha ha, don't frown like that or you're gonna get wrinkles!" "you're not pretty when you grimace like that" "you're so old it's surprising you look this good" "watch out or youll get wrinkles and no man will want you!" like. like. head in hands. head in the fucking hands. then again yakuza was never known for its uh "normal" portrayal of women so it's not like i had huge expectations. the funniest part tho was when (spoilers!!) nanba comes back to the team during that one fight and I was thinking "aw! they're a team! they're nakama! hell yeah! the four of them against the world!" AND INSTEAD OF REPLACING HAN JOONGI (antagonist that got added to your team 5 mins ago) SO THAT YOU CAN DEFEAT THE BAD GUY WITH YOUR 4 MAIN GUYS THEY REPLACE SAEKO (the only woman on the roster). I was pissing myself laughing! That's cartoonish!!

the core fighting mechanic is also pretty whatever i'd say. It feels hilarious to me that sometimes I put the game on auto mode so i can scroll my phone or go make tea? a good shouldn't make me want to do that ig. but im thankful they have the auto mode nonetheless

despite the unimpressive aspects the game is just swimming in sauce. It's goofy, it's got heart, there's some fun minigames, the ingame music is made out of some stellar bangers, it all somehow keeps me coming back for more. I want to see how the big intrigue folds out too! the mystery got me good! Also do not. get me started on Zhao. I- listen. LISTEN. He was made for me in a lab ok he is like the perfect. man shaped thing I wanna dip him in milk and throw him against a wall. He would make a beautiful splat sound. Nepo baby discount dollarstore majima bedazzled shoes wearing teenager looking ass!! ARGH!!! ZHAOOOOOO

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I just wanted to thank you for doing these amazing bs illustrations! Your art inspires me!

Oh thank you so much! It means a lot to me to hear you liked them ❤

There are new ones already slowly cooking, I hope you enjoy them when they get published! ❤❤

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what do you do for work? im assuming something art related? (about ur post of meeting a big artist in the work chat, i keep imagining the spiderman meme pointing at each other LOL)

Hi hi, I'm a freelance illustrator :) I tend to work remotely with my clients hence the heavy use of workchat!

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Can't wait for February, i will finally be able to rest, i will disappear in the woods

I have this tcm image that's been cooking since December and i just can't find the time to work on it argH

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logged into workchat today and a big artist i follow on twitter was there. felt a bit like walking into an office meeting and seeing beyonce

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doing my men at arms walk rn

CARROT?? ANGUAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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ANGUA NO

CARROT?? ANGUAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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CARROT?? ANGUAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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oh boy i did not start this year on a good note, 4 days in and im a ghost on my dead tired legs begging for rest

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marcia reading men at arms liveblog update: 1. Vimes........... Wettest, most pathetic man this side of the disc. Oh my god. "im suspending you" "okay whatever lol" "and im taking the badge" "wh. n-no"

2. I can't believe Vetinari has a pet freak in his basement that he goes to for free therapy sessions hello? AND he sees vimes as a little. a little clockwork chick that just bobs about if you wind it up? Vetinari I love you so much but your toy chicken is killing himself as we speak

5. Sybil totally the kind of a person to show you photos of her new boyfriend and it's the fugliest little rag of a man you've ever seen. the type of a photo that tells you he tinkles on the toilet seat and doesnt wipe afterwards. every morning she wakes up and says i can fix him Queen I don't think he even wanna be married it would seem he's not even TORN kjsdfkJHFKSDJH "i wanna stay a watchman i wanna be in the watch" whining wet Khaki shorts wearing badge obsessed throwing up alcoholic loser ass if Sybil was like "hey I think we need a break" this dude would release a sigh of relief. Their wedding cake is gonna be decorated with the "game over" decals

6. Carrot, Angua, Colon and Nobby in the Watchhouse standing above the soon to be corpse of their supervisor deciding how to stop the rigor mortis from kicking in

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I’m having to block and report a ton of spam blogs again too, the reporting with the block does seem to slow it down 🤞

I tried that and sadly it doesn't seem to work for me...... another day another 1k bot follows, it's sisyphean work i'm 'fraid ; A ;

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every other week i go to this one sushi place near my house to enjoy the same single salmon roll over a good book and today the lady at the bar asked "hello ma'am, the usual for you?" and i bashfully beamed at her skdjfhskjhaaAAAA

i have officially become a. regular?? somehow that is so funny to me, she sees hundreds of customers a day but then twice a month I waddle in and she's like oho here she is here comes the salmon girl for her 6pcs no drink extravaganza

artist's rendition

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scrapbooking

bsky / twt / ig

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In some weird way Tumblr must *know* they're bots or something because it excludes those accs from my activity page? even in the activity summary the number of new follows is normal and low and not in the thousands

My follower counter however is experiencing hyperinflation, and the follower tab displays the gibberish accounts in all their empty titleless glory

Over Christmas (and this is not a funny exaggeration) about 4500 bot accounts followed me..... and now I get about 150 bot follows a day

Wh. Whaddahell.... Staff please this is just sad.....

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Over Christmas (and this is not a funny exaggeration) about 4500 bot accounts followed me..... and now I get about 150 bot follows a day

Wh. Whaddahell.... Staff please this is just sad.....