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Hey I actually did enough this year that I could fill one of these out for once. Some months were busier than others, some I had to use things that are still WIPs, but hey, its something!

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working on this thing's shape more

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playing with colors

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Home.

last bit of doodles

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I spent much of Midwest Furfest alone sitting in a hole. Im really introverted in person and I didn’t really know anyone there, except for the person I went there with and they ran off with some other people. *shrug* it is what it is, and I’m glad I’m almost home.

the intense feelings I felt and the stuff I came to understand about myself probably is a net positive impact on my life. Still gonna try and go again next year

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me for the next 30 hours as I make my way home from MFF.

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Torri is an AI that was build during the HiMACS program (High Mobility Autonomous Combat System). It took 90 years but they were finally able to develop a bipedal platform small enough to interface with the humans and their world at their scale, while not being bound to tracks, treads, or lumbering 4 meter tall machines (though he did use flying drones quite often).

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Some stuff for the sci-fi universe I’m working on. …the jacket started as a joke but it has become canon.

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Some Eliksni doodles, since its been so long and Im so rusty at them. Welcome back House of Mist. (I dont know if I'll ever properly switch to drawing their more insectoid D2 versions... I probably should just get with the times)

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Just a quick one i did on thanksgiving. We made an apple pie from scratch and it was by far the best Ive ever had.

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Originally posted on Halloween lol

The Dunklen are supernatural beings from old Ascarian folklore; creatures that stalk the night and feast on the blood of lost travelers and other unfortunate souls. They possess the ability to seamlessly camouflage with the general population, only showing their true appearance to their victims in their final moments. Dunklen are very similar in their methods to Vampires from Human myth, the story of vampirism appears constant not just in human culture but in aliens culture across the galaxy. 

Though just as with Human Vampires, Dunklen are regarded as mythological creatures. However, supposed encounters and sightings only increased as Ascarian society modernized and eventually spread across the stars. A Galaxy is an awfully big place, and a few missing citizens here and there would hardly be noticed. 

Officially Dunklen do not exist, but fringe scientists believe they're out there… somewhere. Like aliens. 

Fun project done with Hansthaman77 from the last couple months

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Originally made this before Halloween. Fall, bring me rain and fog… spiced cider and warm coats.

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Spaceshiptember 2024 Day 22: Starliner

This one was the last one I was able to get done after work and getting sick got in the way. It was modeled originally for the Winged prompt, but I felt it fit Starliner better. Fun fact, this is set just a few hundred meters away from 2022s Freighters prompt.

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Spaceshiptember 2024 Day 17: Blue An Ascarian Dackon-class Frigate in its wartime livery from the early days of the Human-Ascarian War.

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Spaceshiptember 2024 Day 16: One Big Engine

An old Daphur vessel dating from before their war with the Ascarians was discovered floating in the outer reaches of our solar system. It unlocked the secrets of FTL, but at the time no one knew where it had come from and its existence was classified until after the Human-Ascarian war.

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Spaceshiptember 2024 Day 14: Faster Than Light Film travel, the strange reality bending method of traveling the universe at ridiculous speed. This vessel is in the process of surfacing into the film, it is only part way through the process More info below the cut. Forgot to upload the rest of these :C Oops

Film Travel, also called Diving, is the only known form of Faster-Than-Light travel in the universe. It involves a vessel breaking out of known reality and cruising at speed along the outside of existence until they approach their destination, where they will breach back into the universe. Some more radical scientists liken the Film to a reservoir of literal magic, but that is not acknowledged by the wider scientific community despite the Film violating several laws of the universe.

The realm outside the universe is separated into two sections. There is the Film, and the Ether, or Void as some call it. The Film is an astronomically thin layer on the outside of the universe, which has been measured to vary between 42 to 80 AU thick. While the Ether's depth is unknown and presumed to be near infinite. Some observations can occasionally detect distant stars through the clouds of the Ether, but it is not known whether it is a reflection of our universe or another.

Inside the Film, there is a gravitational pull towards the Ether, placing it 'down' in retrospect. Its pull extends 15 AU into the Film, although it never exceeds more than 1g of force. The Film-Ether boundary is a shimmering one-way barrier, anything that passes fully into the Ether is unable to return, unless a tether or appendage is extended through the barrier to retrieve it.

There is also a ceiling appearing as a matte two-dimensional view of the milky way galaxy as seen from what would be presumed to be intergalactic space. It also has a gravitational pull but it only extends 15 meters from the surface, reaching a maximum strength of only .12g. The Ceiling is also a hard barrier, nothing is able to pass through or break through its surface unless using a Film Drive. Explosions of sufficient size will briefly warp and reverberate through the surface but will have no discernible lasting effect.

The speed of travel is dependent on the size and type of Drive used, with the smallest ship using the most up-to-date drive achieving speeds of .5 lightyears per hour of distance in real space.

Hazards:

OSHA mandates that direct exposure to drive energies be limited to 1 hour intervals, with no more than 10 cumulative hours per Dive to mitigate effects.

Drive technicians who spend extended periods of time within the containment space during drive operation are known to experience changes to their physiology, with the amount proportional to their exposure. Most minor changes vanish when transitioning back to normal space, however more extensive transformations are known to persist. Initial warning signs of over-exposure are known to be splotches of unusual skin texture, hair growth/loss, or other bodily proportion shifts. The latter are common in technicians who may be experiencing some form of body dysphoria or who are otherwise predisposed to modifications. If allowed to persist, full body changes can occur, which include but are not limited to gender inversion or anthropomorphic hybridization of species both known and unknown.

The side effects of Film exposure stated above are extremely uncommon outside of Drive containment areas, but not unheard of. Vessels are recommended to avoid the visible clouds of energy whenever passing through the Film in order to mitigate the possibility of a non-containment failure incident.

Studies have shown that lasting psychological changes have yet to be recorded as a direct effect of the energy exposure.

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i’m so glad earth only has one moon, if there were more i’d have to pick a favorite and that sounds too emotionally taxing to even fathom

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Spaceshiptember 2024 Day 12: Realistic

During the first attacks by the Ascarian empire, anything and everything was brought to bear in the defense of Earth, including these mothballed 80 year old relics. Not many survived the first months of the war.