#i should hopefully have art and more photos soon

[laur-rants]

Hello Tumblr, I have an important life update for you all

We did it. Finally, after 5-7 years of research and waiting and planning...

We have a third snoot. The Borzoi has finally arrived

Her name is Echo and she's still a puppy. We got her in July at 8 months old, and she's now almost 11 months old.

The two others are doing just fine and are happy and healthy as well, and adjusting to life with a big giant baby being around.

Zill loves her. Strudel is still coming around. Don't worry though;

He's still the king of everything.

[imthegayone]

Lovely Tattoos (Drabble)

Pairing: Tara Carpenter x Tattooed!Reader (GN)

Summary: Tara loves your tattoos and all that comes with them.

Warrnings: None i think

Author's Note: Damn it feels like a lifetime since I've posted a fic, but heres a little drabble if you can even call it that. I promise I'm writing so hopefully you'll see some longer fics coming soon. October just kicked my ass (none of you told me turning 21 was gonna hit me so hard) and I'm just now finishing my recovery (with a big fuck you to my sciatic nerve and broken foot 🖕). There is a specific tattoo mentioned, just let me have a litte self indulgence k? 🩵

Word Count: 316 (she's tiny)

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Tara loves your tattoos, from the bigger ones on your back to the many patchwork tattoos across your arms and thighs. She loves them, they’re a part of you, and it’s you that she loves the most. 

She loves the way you’ll stay in bed a few hours longer if she traces the ones on your back. She loves that you both calm down when she traces the Miles Morales spider on your inner wrist. 

She loves that you’ve been packing markers in your bag for her and Mindy to color them in during any classes that didn’t solely focus on film making. She loves how excited you get when you see a child is interested in some of the more colorful ones. Always willing to take the time to let them inspect the vibrant art. 

She loves, though this one she’s a little more hesitant to admit, but she loves the matching tattoo you have with Chad. She rolls her eyes but she loves when the pair of you make it your mission to get the tattoos in every photo you take together.

She loves the many tattoos that didn’t have any meaning to them until you had the experience of getting them. Remembering the time you drunkenly let Anika tattoo a doodle of Tara’s on the side of your rib. She loved when Sam got her first tattoo, you not only packed a bag for her during the tattoo with snacks but you also made a little care package for after. 

She loves that when she got her own tattoo on her wrist, you held her other hand throughout the process. She loves that you’ve started a new routine of rubbing sunscreen on her wrist to protect it. She loves how excited you get when she says you should get a matching tattoo with her. 

She loves you, your tattoos and everything that entails.

[ender--slime]

random little merch update i guess:

merch items will never take Creative Priority over my silly projects like cookiefish or the analog horror or video essays or Out of Game/Save Game or one off things like the puppet show. or even just Generally Drawing and Animating. but it is my job!! so it takes some form of priority! but that doesn’t mean i can’t have fun with it!

in terms of small merch items, i’m currently working on migrating all of my stuff from etsy to the same BigCartel that the captcha bags are currently on. this involves taking nicer photos of everything and bumping the prices down since etsy just straight up steals the money of sellers and i won’t have to worry about that anymore on bigcartel!

new stuff is also on the way! i have some Genesis Frog quicksand shaker charms being made, some Mettaton CD charms, and i’ll probably make some charms of my Mayor sticker because there needs to be more Mayor merch in the world. once the dave polaroid drawings are all done i’m gonna print those and have those as a fun polaroid set, like the ones on the omori merch site! ive got a general mettaton drop planned as well, including the CD charms but also some normal acrylic charms, some poster prints, and some other stuff! i’ve also got some handmade stuff in the works, small homestuck trinkets for display (that i think are quite funny) and cute little hand sewn dice bags themed after characters and HS aspects!

in terms of Big Merch. of course the pink and purple bags are still being made!! just waiting on those, but they should be all done soon and then i get 500 bags in my house to ship out one by one :p EEK

i have the blue and yellow samples now, and those come right after i’ve shipped out every pink and purple one!

i also have the consort pastel sweater and the horrorterror black sweater! i have the consort one already, and i’m currently getting a sample made for the horrorterror one. i honestly have no clue whennnn i will be able to open preorders for those because i’ll have to slot them in between bag drops (blue and yellow and then. black and red or whatever other mystery color i choose for that one. and then pink and purple again)… but i’ll figure that out!

and then after those. hoo boy. i have another piece of apparel in the works… non homestuck this time!! it’s an undertale thing that ISNT mettaton! i can do other things!! see!! it’ll be both a button up short sleeved shirt and a nice pullover sweater. but i have a bad bad habit of taking on tooooo many projects at once (i am the most stressed and depressed guy of all time right now) so that one comes LATER. Later. we will get to it when we get to it!! after all these other thangs

so ya!! projects on projects on projects cuz i gotta pay bills but if i become a “content creator” i’ll [REDACTED] so!! i’m excited about all of these! these will all be fun even tho they are stressful :)

and ofc my other non merch projects. my normal art stuff. will continue forever and ever !!!!

i don’t really have a good pinned post describing who i am and what i do, or even a decent website (i have a carrd i guess) that puts all of my projects in one place. so i’m currently working on a funky website as well! so hopefully soon all of the stuff i make will be in one spot for ease of uh. looking at them HEHEHE

[the-cosmic-blogger]

I didn't think I'd finish the third story's first chapter so soon after posting that it wasn't finished, but here it is :D

Decided to make it a short story instead of just a oneshot.

I hope you enjoy the first chapter of the third story of The Shape Eater Factor! next chapter should come.. uhhhh, idk. Hopefully soon. But I'm working on it!

All I need now is the last art for him and I can finally post the masterpost :D ((I have nine photos in it already and can put just one more image, hence "last". But it won't be the last art I make or get of him!!))

So yeah, really looking forward to that. :3

[centrally-unplanned]

To recount a twitter story, Kenny Lauderdale posted this very normcore review of the English release of Gainax VN Princess Maker 2 from the May 1996 edition of the (Michigan) Times Herald:

It includes some great quotes, like Japanese professor Etsuko Yamashita believing its existence is a step back for feminism - very amusing given how gender-equal the player base for these games is today! Time marches past us all. Sometimes for the better - it cost $140 in Japan on release!?

But what I found interesting was the art featured - because that isn't Princess Maker 2?

This is PM2, that girl above is not our player-named protagonist.

Turns out that is art is from Princess Maker 3:

You can see specific scenes like the beach as well, in case you had any doubt. This is weird though because, well, Princess Maker 3 came out in January of 1997? More than half a year after this article was published! Which means they somehow had access to promotional material for Princess Maker 3? Which to be clear absolutely did exist at the time - in fact, Princess Maker 3 was bought up by Sony as a limited release for their brand-new console the Playstation. PM3 was actually featured on the cover of the first ever volume of the Dengeki Playstation magazine, released in January of 1995 (the PS1 coming out in December 1994):

Alas I haven't found a copy of this scanned online, so I can't say what it contained. This being two years before the game's release does honestly point to some development hell drama, the timeline for a game back then should not be that lengthy. Man, wonder what was happening at Gainax in 1995 that might have been a distraction...

Still, we have a question of how this American newspaper article got their hands on them. It also seems worthwhile to note that this article is syndicated - it was published in a dozen newspapers across the country around this time, but with different titles and photos to fit each paper's needs. And other papers do have correct Princess Maker 2 screenshots on them!

I have no grand answer here or anything, sorry guys, but I think we can infer it. The article itself actually mentions that a "third one" is now in the works, which is something they would have learned from the publisher of the English version, IntraCorp (they weren't reading Japanese press magazines in 1996!). IntraCorp likely wanted them to mention it because they themselves were going to hopefully license it, assuming the first (well, second) one was successful - this was their first foray into this specific licensing niche, previously making action games like Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance. In early 1996 they sent out copies & press kits to reviewers, and I am guessing that copy almost certainly included - perhaps poorly labeled - promotional material for Princess Maker 3 as well that Gainax had provided them, so they would mention it in the article and seed hype. The harried layout editor at The Times Herald opened the wrong folder and threw them on the page by mistake - after all the author didn't work for him, he worked for the Associated Press. He had no experience with the game to know his error.

We will never know because this is a niche curiosity from almost 30 years ago, sure, but we will also never know because the game being reviewed above...was never released! IntraCorp declared bankruptcy soon after the publication of this article. They were not the localizers themselves - a team of 4 people called SoftEgg were - but their contract with them was binding enough that it left the virtually-finished translated copy in perpetual legal limbo. Eventually it was leaked onto the internet as a form of abandonware a few years later. The hard-working men of America never got to be "Sim Dad" in 1996 unless they were intrepid enough to be UseNet Forum users hunting down and running Japanese-language romhacks.

Which is not a hypothetical, that was occurring. I will leave you all with the opening quote from the rec.arts.anime group's User Manual for navigating your Nihongo copy of Princess Maker 2, preserved still in the roms you can download today:

We all know of Gainax as being the wonderful company that brought us Wings of Honneamise, Otaku no Video as well as multitudes of garage kits and other paraphenelia. However with the release of Princess Maker 2, one might think that their true calling is in computer software! This band of self described otakus which managed to lose almost all their profits in the anime business have come back by releasing several computer games (some of which were on display at Anime Con).

...written, of course, in 1994 :)

[ask-the-becile-boys]

HAPPY 11th ANNIVERSARY TO THE BECILE BOTS!!

To celebrate, I've made free, downloadable stickers!

This folder contains Transparent PNGs of all the individual stickers and the sheet sans the cut lines as well as their PSD files with the cut lines and bleed allowance in place. The PNGs were all saved with CYMK color palettes so those previews are more likely to reflect what the printed copies will look like.

They should be ready to print as-is! If you put one of these somewhere, I would love to see photos!

-

This is the part where I get really sappy, but I'll try to keep it short. I, Muse, wasn't an active participant in the SPG fandom until the Becile Bots came into play. The excitement that sprung up around this little subfandom was infectious, and I made my main tumblr blog for the express purpose of joining in. Soon I was writing (angsty) fanfiction and getting more familiar with digital art. SPG and the fandom here on Tumblr changed the course of my life, and I may never have made the plunge if not for these ne'er-do-wells.

I'd like to thank Surge, the original creator of the AU. Wherever you are, I hope you are well. And I'd like to thank Riley, the previous caretaker of the AU who passed it generously onto me back in 2019. Getting to revive this askblog, fill it out and polish it up, and as we head into the final acts, hopefully send the Becile Bots off in style and in love-- it is a gift I will always treasure.

And I'd like to thank you and all our followers, past and present. I look forward to each and every one of your likes and reblog tags, all of the fan work you share, and the asks that brighten my day and keep me energized to keep pushing forward.

Let's celebrate! 🎉

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

the fact that gojo genuinely wanted to teach him about love…… that he wanted to reach out to him and save him from his isolation.

YES!! the whole "i will remember you.." HAS ME FUCKED UP like. there's a few ways it could be interpreted but it gives me the same feeling as when you 'love' someone so much, you honour or cherish the memory of them forever.. AHHHHHH I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

thank you ari for the link <33 when i read the chapter I will be back to let you know my thoughts and feelings :3 I have so many photos in my camera roll of just me sobbing after jjk so :3 definitely scared :3 With 252.. you're very right it's really sad that it's actually quite far from how detailed Gege likes his fights to be. Art style and breaks are on two different spectrums. Complaining about him taking breaks is the biggest NO from me. like PLEASE let Gege release a chapter a month. Every single week is WAY too much for a mangaka - there's only so much a person can do within 6 days :// From a pure quality and marketing standpoint it'll allow him to : process his OWN thoughts, more detailed drawings and (longer) chapters, perhaps even formulate a proper plan for the manga, and the hype will be bigger as well. Especially right now where it is getting criticism and being called repetitive - there is less hype because everyone knows they'll get answers in the next week. But most importantly REST. he is not a machine and you are very right about that!!

something to look forward to :3 (tbf i was especially into it bc i love takaba and kenny lmao but i still think you’ll find it fun!! you can tell akutami was having a blast)

also!! i just thought I'd let you know.. i never really got kenny (kenny is so messed up and i dislike(d) them) but you're the blog that made me understand the lore!! and I even started reading some kenny fics.. Anyways, i think that's enough for today and I'll shut up now haha!! <33

OHHHHH ANON WE’RE HOLDING HANDS OUR BRAINS ARE SMOOCHING

i agree completely 🫂 when i saw that line i kept thinking of sukuna like. centuries into the future…. in a completely different world ….. STILL remembering gojo and no one else. it’s such a wonderful fucking line not only because sukuna looks so sincerely pleased saying it but because it’s proof that gojo DID reach him!!!! gojo wanted to prevent sukuna from feeling alone and he succeeded because sukuna will never truly be alone as long as he’s carrying gojo’s memory with him. they make me insane

PLS DO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE CHAPTER ONCE YOU READ IT …. i’d love love love to hear!!!! :3 take your time though… get your tissues ready……. aaa and !!! 100% agree on the monthly chapters. that should just be a standard atp but sadly it isn’t…. :ccc i rlly do think gege deserves one long longgggg break to rest up properly.

also!! i just thought I'd let you know.. i never really got kenny (kenny is so messed up and i dislike(d) them) but you're the blog that made me understand the lore!! and I even started reading some kenny fics..

ALSO THIS !!!!!!!! ANON…….. T_T this made me so happy you have NO idea. i’m so glad i could turn you around on him!!! he’s such a silly, interesting, fun little guy :’3 (very fucked up too but that’s just another charm point imo) and aaa the kenny fics !! the world needs sm more of those … i’m working on a no curses au fic for him but i have no idea when it’s getting out …… </3 hopefully soon!!!! anyway pdhdjdj i’m just so happy that you’re a kenny enjoyer now!! welcome to the cult club !!!! 🫂🫂

[starconductor]

so small life update:

I'm taking meds that's good for 3 months for my liver disease !! I think I'm doing semi well and otw to recovery, I get some occasional low grade fevers but I get back up a bit more easily. I'm being very careful with strain on my body ( this photo is just taken tonight, I have to be a bit more careful with how I manage my stress and anxiety :[ )

Hopefully I'd be able to do more art and fully colored pieces and not just lazy doodles soon, it sucks having to be so conservative because of my frail state. I'll push through ^ _ ^

In the meantime, I'm debating whether I should post some of the small art and doodles I've made of ocs....

[prindearie]

smol #chrolloprince for you all because i very much miss my husband <3

They first meet when they’re children!!

“What are you doing here in Meteor City?”

“I am here to help try and make you and the other citizens feel safe by taking the initiative to change the minds of the government!”

Chrollo, at first, thinks Prinzeya is silly for having such a dream, but soon realizes she’s serious and then comes to the conclusion that she is actually amazing

Prinzeya finds Chrollo adorable and begins to hang out with him whenever she’s able to visit the city (She’s from a royal family so it’s not surprising to him she dresses so properly and looks more clean)

They grow closer as time goes on and she’s soon introduced to the other troupe members

“She’s just your little girlfriend isn’t she?”

“G-Girlfriend? No way! We’re just friends!”

Prinzeya finds his embarrassment amusing and funny

I should reaaallly post my google doc on Prinzeya so you all can to get to know her better, but she’s my insert OC since I am too embarrassed to actually write abt myself + use my own irl photos to get art done of me and him :D hopefully this isn’t weird chat 😭…

[excellentfishtacos]

introducing the Deaton family!! thru their family photos + a pic of the baby bc i can't take any on the tripod LMFAOOOO. also Ricky II's portrait is outdated but fuck it

sims will be introduced from left to right. all their relationships are in relation to the head of the household!

Ricky Deaton II, Husband (Gen 6): The son of Ricky Jr. and Elizabeth Braun, he is related to one of the oldest lineages in my save. His mother encouraged hard work and taking risks, giving Ricky the strength and perseverance he needed to master piano and violin. Ricky II became a renowned musician and jazz pianist, known for hits such as "Aili's Song" and "Let's Get Squinky." Now retired, he prefers to spend his time with his family and raise them into musical prodigies.

Aili Deaton, Head of Household (Gen 8): Aili is the daughter of Daria and Wendy Szimmer. She was raised by artists and started painting as soon as her little hands could hold a brush. Her parents had humble jobs and the family seemed to be flying forward-- until her mother Daria died in a freak weather machine accident when she was just a Teen. She hit a rebellious streak after that, and started taking underground work doing forgeries and frauds for art heists. She is a master in her field and is currently teaching her daughter Messina the way of the brush.

Ricky Deaton III, Son (Gen 9): Ricky III could never decide what he wanted to do in his life. Should he follow his father's footsteps? Should he learn to paint and join the family business? Maybe he should do neither, and try to be an actor in Hollywood! It's going slow, but surely he will grow to be as famous as his great-great-great-grandmother. Maybe. Hopefully? While he tries to figure that out, he spends most of his time banging multiple women in town and accidentally having children with them because I forgot to turn that off in Neighborhood Stories.

Eliza Deaton, Heiress (Gen 9): Eliza is the very definition of a Daddy's Girl. She spent her whole life next to him on the piano bench, learning how to Jazz the Place Up and Concerto. Unknown to her family, however, she had a hidden hobby: DJ-ing! She would stay up in all hours of the night mixing songs on her DJ station. Eventually, she started sneaking out and DJ-ing at the Blue Velvet Nightclub. Nowadays, she works overtime as an onstage musician, a talented pianist dancing in the footsteps of her father. On her nights off, she still hits the stage as DJ Cool Cat, but all the work is taking her away from her duty as the heir. She needs to figure out what she's more passionate about before the household is solely in her hands.

Messina Deaton, Daughter (Gen 9): Messina Deaton is a lil miss smarty pants who graduated early and has recently been taken under her mother's wing as a fraudulent painter. However, she wants to be just a normal painter. Fraudulent painter is your dream, mom!

Wendy Deaton, Daughter (Gen 9): Wendy is a karaoke pop star and Jokester. She is destined for a life in Business so I can get the career achievement.

Maddison Deaton, Granddaughter & Next-in-Line (Gen 10): Maddison is Ricky III's daughter, her mother is the supermodel Brandy Saunders. However, Brandy's death made her incapable of being a mother, so Maddison came to stay with her father's family. The oldest of Gen 10, she is expected to take over and continue the household when she gets older.

Taylor Guo, Grandson (Gen 10): Taylor Guo is Ricky III's son and lives with his mother's family. He spends the week at the Deatons occasionally.

Ricky Deaton IV, Grandson (Gen 10): The son of Eliza Deaton! Who knows what the world has in store for him.

[mmriesoftvat]

Kirara came through Mondstadt with a special parcel for Albedo. It appears to be a casket of tomes, however upon opening it isn't TCG cards that sit inside. Atop a stack of translucid paper sits a letter addressed to him.

[Hello Albedo, I hope my letter finds you well.

I've recently learned about the winter tradition from your region, and right away I thought of you then. If there is anyone I would wish to present with a gift...

... that person would be you. I broke the sentence so you can see what I did there. I hope you like it.

I am eternally grateful for the custom card back you have created for me. It fills me with pride every time my opponents ask me about it. Would that I was as gifted in the arts as you are, I would return the favor more confidently.

The next best thing I could do was to take my Kamera and travel across Sumeru to capture some of my favorite views. You will find them under this letter in the Casket. You can hold onto that as well if you don't have one yet, by the way.

I hope among the pictures you will find something inspiring. And if you ever wish to see these places in person, please come to find me. It would be an honor to escort you personally.

I wish you happy holidays and a good end of the year. As a final note, I want to leave you with a funny line I came up with.

Beryllium, gold, and titanium. When I look at you, I think you're full of it.

Cyno]

Albedo hasn't expected anything from anyone outside of Mondstadt. Most people would've buried their heads and focused on their own circle of friends. On his head, he'd have expected a gift from Sucrose, before making his way to his lab in Dragonspine where he'd spend the next few weeks enjoying the cold and quiet.

He's rather confused when he sees Kirara arrive in Mondstadt. Not just for any random visit, but evidently coming specifically for him. The confusion is evident on his face as he takes the parcel from her, offering up a quick thanks before turning around to open it. He can hear her footsteps retreating with a mumbled you're welcome. He'll apologize later for his rudeness, but right now Albedo's curiosity is going to exceed social norms.

In the small package, Albedo finds several pictures to sift through. There are lots that are already giving him inspiration and muse, along with a desire to travel to Sumeru and explore the landscape. Albedo had been meaning to go there for some time anyway, this would be the perfect chance to go.

Carefully setting the photos aside, he picks up the letter to read it. The confusion melts, replaced with a fondness that he rarely feels. Cyno...

Cyno had certainly been an interesting friend to make, but his humor and care for others had intrigued Albedo. He often finds himself longing for Cyno's company, particularly in moments when the cold makes him remember things he doesn't want to remember.

Once finished reading, Albedo hurries through the streets and back to his small home within the city. He can scribble out a return letter and hopefully catch Kirara before she leaves Mondstadt again.

Cyno. Thank you for your parcel. I hadn't expected a generous gift from you, but I am delighted to recieve one nonetheless. I should make plans to visit you in Sumeru soon. I would love to explore the nation with you and Tighnari, as well as Collei. I'll bring Sucrose with me as well, she's been missing her friend. This letter is short, and I apologize, I am pressed for time. But do expect me within the next few weeks. I will try to get at least a month off so I may come and do research there. I look forward to you showing me around. All my best, Albedo.

Reading it over, Albedo smiles to himself before putting it carefully in an envelope. He doesn't have any gifts to send back, unless Cyno would like some Mondstadt treats? Though...Albedo doesn't have any of those on hand, either. The letter alone will have to do for now. All that's left now is to track down Kirara or someone else to deliver this to Cyno as soon as possible.

[taraljc]

I am deeply frustrated because my computer is being tetchy. what I want to do is grab my laptop and write in bed. But whenever I unplug it from the docking station, it's really hard to actually get it to wake up from hibernation mode, and half the time I have to reboot it. and I don't have a separate power cord next to my bed, and I need to get another one because the other loose power cord is in the living room and I don't want to steal it from there. and I have to wait until Wednesday to see if a thing happens, and if it does then either I throw half the story out or I add another 4,000 words. But there's no way to know.

Also illustrator keeps crashing but that's almost certainly because my hard drive was too full. what's more annoying is my 4K monitor constantly going black every few seconds and I know it's a known issue and I know it's probably just needs a new power cord but it makes every little change take twice as long and I'm just tired.

that said, I had art go off to a client to look at today and or yesterday I guess I should say. because it's one in the morning right now. and hopefully they will approve it and I will get paid and I will be able to pay my mortgage and it will all be very exciting.

in other news, I never did get that root canal and so I am using orajel and ibuprofen, but all of the pain is actually giving me a tension headache on top of everything else.

Also, my beloved cat whom I love more than anything this world, has been peeing on my bedroom carpet again and I can't figure out where and my whole room smells like cat pee. here's an adorable photo of her reaching out to touch my arm to get my attention.

as soon as I have the money I am going to take her back to the vet. based on the initial visit, we think it's behavioural rather than her actually physically being in pain. we've taken her off fish completely and have water bowls all over the house. But she also has been having territorial issues where Cassie will claim part of the bed and the bed has historically been Shadow's and so there are a lot of small skirmishes.

If you would like to help out with expenses, I would not say no as the GoFundMe is still up and running until both or either of us gets a full-time gag again.

[princeoleandyr]

Greetings to All My Fellow Queer Goblins Who Inhabit Tumblr

Hello Tumblr! 😁 My name is Oleandyr, or just Olly for short. I am pansexual, gender-fluid, and use They/Them pronouns. I am also a practicing Neo-Pagan and very interested in the occult/magick. (I'm also neurodivergent should it ever come up.) Basically I'm pretty much cut out for Tumblr, but for whatever reason, I didn't join the platform until a couple of days ago. Haha. I watch a lot of Strange Aeons on YouTube, so I know a lot about Tumblr's history and the most classic in-jokes and running gags. Anyway, I just want to take this opportunity to announce my presence to the Hell Site but more importantly I also want to announce that I'm an artist with open commissions, and I'm very eager to start selling my art! I specialize in character design, especially D&D characters and the like, but I'll also do fursonas and such. I can also make semi-photo-realistic portraits of people's faces, but that will require having a picture of the person to use as a reference. I only do traditional art on physical paper right now, but I hope to get into digital art eventually. I will soon start posting some of my best previous artwork in order to show off my skills and hopefully get people's interest/attention. Please help me survive capitalism! 🥺 You can private message me here or on Discord at InfiniteWorldsInsideMyMind#4518 or on Instagram at prince_oleandyr. Best wishes to all of you, - Olly And remember, I like your shoelaces. 😏

[inaliakitsune]

~2025 New Year Update!~

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Starting off this new year with a somewhat big update! Unfortunately, not all of it is good news....

Commissions Open for TFCon LA '25 

10 slots open

If you're interested in a commission for convention pick up, then please head over to the commissions page to snag your slot!~

These will only be open before the con. No at con commissions will be taken this year outside of digital commissions.

Store Status

Due to the issue with my artwork (its still being worked on, please continue reading the next section for more.) things are slow. The Etsy shop is open but the Ko-Fi shop will remain closed until after TFCon LA '25 as of now. If that changes then I will let you all know!

If you'd like to pick up your Etsy order at TFCon LA '25 then be sure to enter the following coupon code at checkout: TFCONLA25

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheKitsunesKafe

Art Update

Due to unfortunate circumstances, I have been set back a ton. Something happened on 1/1/25 that caused my external hard drive to do a reformat, causing all of the files to be deleted. I did not catch it in time and everything was wiped. Both of the places where backup files should have been were empty and I'm not sure why. I spent all of the 1st and all of the 2nd trying to recover anything that I could. Its been a long process and everything is currently still gone outside of a few random files here and there.

I have lost personal artwork (literally everything back to 2019), commissions and gifts from people that I'm not sure I have saved anywhere else, zines i purchased, personal photos and so much more. I am going to try to use a program to recover as many files as possible over the next little while but its slow and not guaranteed. 

What does that mean from here on out? I have to remake everything merch wise. Anything previously ordered through my manus is safe and I can still order it from them while I work on recovering/redoing everything. I will have to go through and find/save all of my full pieces and just be content that I have them and not the editable files. I also have to search for everything else I had saved as commissions/gifts, zines, fanfics on A03 (if their creators didn't delete the fics) and more....

With TFCon La '25 coming up, I'm currently prioritizing getting new merch made for that. I will be working as quickly as I can to redo the Terran Peekers so I can hopefully get those out to you all rather soon whether as pre-orders or at the convention and in the shop immediately afterwards. I have a large line of merch I'm making for the con. I also have to restart on all of my advertisement graphics for the convention which is going to be rather time consuming. I will be trying to work on owed art in between and will be reaching out to people who have commissioned me that I havent finished things for but anything I started on is gone, I have to completely restart if I didnt finish and get the final pieces to you already...Again, all of this is going to be extremely time consuming.....

The merch club is changing. I was playing with this idea anyways but in order to now correct things after the external drive wipe, I have to. There will be a post here, on Ko‑fi and on the same that correspond with the merch club when I have something written up and ready to go. Rewards for members here/on the main Ko‑fi page might also be changing but I want to see what all I can get figured out elsewhere before I resort to messing with that. 

Rewards are in the works for the Kickstarter! I'm waiting for the prototypes to be colored and will be posting an update on the Kickstarter page here soon hopefully. 

I might be quiet most days between my current depression over everything in regards to this and still not having my job fixed but I will be around. If you need me please send me a DM or an email at inaliasart@gmail.com

Thank you all for your continued support! It truly means the world to me that you've stuck around this long!~ <3

[starsbegantofall]

craft room update under the cut!

I've been struggling with keeping my craft room/wfh office clean for years ever since i moved into my house. Not only am I messy, a given for a free spirit like myself, but I'm also working on multiple projects at a time that cannot be put away or else they will be forgotten, also typical of free spirits. I also dislike commitment such as putting giant nail or screw holes in the walls for shelving and storage, which would have helped with keeping things organized or at least off the floor so I can vacuum up all the threads and dust.

A short while ago I moved the futon sofa bed out to my bedroom (not that it really fit there either) because the futon looked ugly and was gathering messes and dust and I never used it for its purpose. The futon now is a gathering place for pillows and plushies but sometimes I do sit on it to work on my journal or read a bit. So that's a slight improvement than no use at all. And I put a sheet over it so it's cute now.

With the biggest space-waster out of the way, I moved furniture around to make the best use of light from the window and recently purchased a cheap plastic Ikea shelf to hold lightweight bins and such. The aesthetics and feng shui are not perfect, but with determination, I was able to rehome almost all of my art supplies and boxes of projects off the floor where they had been preventing me from vacuuming and reaching the closet door. There are still a couple of trays of miscellaneous junk to sort through and I would like a better place for my recently obtained embroidery supply baskets, but that should be easy to resolve tomorrow. It better be.

The next biggest change was taking all of my booth/table stuff from a giant tupperware and consolidating the merch and signage on a small shelf since I doubt I will sell at a market or artist alley anytime soon. (Maybe at my retirement, but I don't think society will exist in 20 years, or not a society that will be buying my art anyway.) That freed up a lot of floor space as well. The other giant tupperware holds my wigs and I don't have a place for it in the stuffed cosplay closet, so it will just be hanging out in the center of the room as a mini table surface as usual. I also moved my photos and letters to my bedroom closet as they are not technically office or art supplies.

I pulled out some artsy or fashion postcards and stickers to decorate, labeled a few drawers, and placed vases of fake flowers around to help it look prettier as well instead of just utilitarian. Actually the flowers were from my previous PC desk setups, I never even put them away, lol.

The last few things on my list - add a cute curtain, find a home for the last few baskets I already mentioned and add more artwork to the wall as inspirations. And maybe hang up one small decorative shelf... if I can make that commitment lol. Anyway, I'm really happy that I finally pulled through and finished tidying up, you know, after years of being stressed out by my mess and unable to find anything and buying multiples I didn't need lmao. Now I'm excited to finish my sewing projects and work on new stuff, and I smile when I look at the semi-organized bins and rainbow colors of fabrics and flowers. Gotta celebrate the small wins in this evil and miserable world!

I will post photos on my blog hopefully soon!

[quob-the-creature]

Part 1 of Many. I'm sharing all of the art I've hardly shown to anyone all these years... Because people kept telling me to and I realized they're right.

This is some of the earliest art I've done on my iPad, all from June 2017... This is the hardest stuff for me to look at lmao 😭 Wide Cy is cursed... I have no idea what happened to Moko's hair... And please never bring up mid-life crisis Altair ever again. I'm being vulnerable right now 1st pic: I think the first thing I did when I got this iPad was start doodling people from Pinterest photos. I remember I was just trying to test the pen pressure and feel of everything. These sketches still hold up - I've always liked the blue lady especially.

2nd pic: I wasted no time getting into THR stuff. I don't know why exactly, but I always like to draw my characters in a sort of... clinical way? Like I'm an alien studying them and I've got them standing vacantly on a turntable, writing a profile about all their basic info. I guess we all kind of do that with fictional characters. It must have something to do with all those fan wikis I scoured as a kid... "Name, Age, Height, Weight, Gender, Aliases, Status, etc..." It's kinda creepy. Anyway, you'll see in the next pic that I start doing the height lineup thing.

3rd pic: Yeah... Cy is buff. That was just a thing back then. I was still adapting to digital color, and I think I was just having fun drawing directly on a screen for the first time.

4th pic: I had such an interest in glam-rock hair at the time, but I didn't really give them glam-rock clothing? All my characters look like their hair got eaten by a vacuum cleaner and released. Oh, Altair... if modern Altair could see this Altair... he would snatch the photo like "We do not speak of this."

5th pic: This is a character concept I did for a friend to help her visualize one of her characters, Adisa, who - if I remember correctly - worked in a graveyard and helped revived souls transition from death to a life of undeath. That was always a cool idea to me.

6th pic: Mokos. My bisexual is showing. She a cutie thoooo~~

7th pic: My husband said this one looks super kinky... lmao. Yeah... I was obsessed with burlesque at the time. When you grow up in a small midwestern town and your femininity is repressed, apparently you cope by imagining yourself as a yassified plague doctor.

8th pic: Heheheheh... If you know the Veluts - the alien species I designed that drive a good portion of my story's plot - you'll probably look at these noseless baboon people and not make the connection. Well, for me in 2017, this was a major advancement from the earliest version of the Veluts, who were then called the Sasahi, and were literally just Large Humans with elf ears and an addiction to body modifications. I realized at this point that they should be more distinct from humans, so the first baby step for me was giving them a slightly different evolutionary history.

I know this was all kind of self-deprecating, but I've been avoiding sharing my stuff for years because I am simply... shy. I have never been confident sharing my art, ever, in my life. I'm taking the leap, and hopefully as I keep doing this, I will become a little more confident. :) Follow me for more batches of old art coming soon, and watch the progression of my characters, stories, skills, and honestly, my personal life too. Feel free to ask me anything!