#time for a break

[wyverncult]

guys i miss him

[zeroannat]

Happy Star Days!

The lineart is available for free on my Ko-fi - this is a new thing I'm trying, please let me know how you like it! Details below:

(copied from my Bluesky post)

had an idea back in January which I'm thinking about again

I kinda want to put my Warframe lineart pngs on Ko-fi (for free/pay-what-you-want)

reason being, I got into digital art ages ago thanks to manga colouring, and I know how difficult it is to make art from scratch

having anything pre-made on the canvas makes it 100x less intimidating, and you can go wild trying all the different tools, blend modes, colour combinations etc.

and maybe there's a WF fan out there who wants to make art, but finds a completely blank canvas overwhelming, or there's an experienced artist who wants to practice their colouring skills/try a new colouring style without spending the time preparing their own lines

finding and working on a clean lineart which don't break any copyright rules can be difficult too – so in this case you wouldn't need any permission from me to colour to your heart's content

now I know that my lineart isn't exactly peak quality, but that's another reason for me to get better at it, if others are to use it

it would be lines of stuff I already posted/finished, and standard art etiquette rules would apply (crediting, no claiming as your own, no profiting etc.)

anyway, if this idea doesn't leave me, and I do decide to do this, I really need to continue with the Hex, so there's a nice Protoframe set for y'all

[cinamun]

used the wrong drinkable beer for the prop and the jeans turned his nails black... this entire scene has been a headache but jadakiss said we gon' make it so I guess its cool

[x3nshit]

i love giving myself breaks. oh, it’s raining? time for a break. my friend texted me? time for a break. i’m reminded of my favourite snack? time for a break. my hair is in my face? time for a break. my foot itches? time for a break! i love breaks. i wish my whole life was a break

[several-ravens]

turns out the scariest part of tma is not the horrors or the existentialism but it's jonathan screaming and taking out his frustration on someone who did nothing to deserve it

[paradise-in-k4]

AYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA

[konfuse-scribbles]

Almost done!

Merry Christmas 2024!

[praise-joko]

The rhythmic clacking of my keyboard as I mindlessly run Winter Wonderland provides a nice ambient background noise to the group call, according to my friends who don't play GW2 but know exactly what I'm doing just by the sound.

[sammysammer]

announcement?

I'm going to be on hiatus! school is coming up and I want to focus on my studies so I wont be posting😞also because of art block (I've been staring at a blank canvas for about half an hour lol)

BUT, my commissions are still open! only 5 slots are available :)

[superkickme]

made myself cry hard trying to write this breakup and now my brain is too dehydrated to keep writing smh

[kleefkruid]

I wrote an entire updated CV and I should also write the cover letter so I can apply to this job but I have truly ran out positive and productive nouns for the day. I'll probably overshoot sounding enthousiastic and go into 'manic and slightly terrified' again.

[mxanigel]

Sunday productivity

✅ grocery shopping ✅ dishes ✅ deep cleaned kitchen counters ✅ cut spouse's hair ✅ swept the floors ✅ updated computer operating system (Linux) ✅ showered

this is now me:

[mrpicasso-face]

Last one,

Then we're done here.

I don't want to leave,

But time isn't stopping.

I'll make you a deal,

We'll share one last cigarette.

But then you have to kiss me goodbye,

I'm already quite late.

[vamprisms]

im that mood where i hate everything i draw

[redrook]

I spent a lot of time handcuffed and in a cage in high school, for a charity bit the grocery store I worked at would do

the bit was that I was "put in jail for having too big a heart" and customers could donate to my bail to get me out (and the money would go to a children's hospital or something)

now. I was very clearly a teenaged employee handcuffed inside a large cage. and I would honestly tell people that I had been in there for hours. and people would say, that's terrible! that's awful! and I would show them my wrists red from the tight handcuffs, and say but I'm sooooooo close to making bail.

and then they would dump some cash in the basket, I'd thank them, and they'd walk away.

and every so often, one of the managers would come by and collect some of the cash, so I could keep being soooooo close to making bail.

I was very good with this bit. Parents with small kids would pay $5-10 if I told their children I had been placed in jail for not cleaning my room/doing my homework, etc. For people in their 20s, I'd threaten that I was very bad at playing the harmonica, but I WOULD play it and we'd all suffer unless they paid me. and for the most amount of money, older men in suits would almost always pay $20s if I avoided eye contact and stammered a lot.

eventually, the managers started to feel bad because I was in the cage so fucking long and often, that I'd need someone to brace me when I got out because I'd have no feeling in my legs. wobbling like a newborn giraffe.

but I would also rake in at LEAST $100 an hour in charity.

so they were like, hey champ. can we, uh, give you a pillow to sit on. in the cage. would you like a pillow so you're not just sitting on a cold metal slab. can we give you a pillow.

and I had to explain to them that if they gave me a pillow, people would think I was more comfortable, so they wouldn't feel as bad, so I'd bring in less money.

the compromise was that they'd bring me a nice coffee every couple hours, which I would have to try to block with my body from the customers.

all this money went to charity. that's what the money was for. it's what was on the sign. but how much they were willing to pay was very contingent on how comfortable I looked, never mind the fact that I was still a teenaged employee handcuffed inside a cage.

and out of the dozens of shifts I did this on, not ONCE did ANYONE say, hey kid I'm going to go talk to your manager because what the fuck is going on here. they would just drop money in the basket, and I'd thank them and sip from my secret drink.

I actually had people get MAD at me that I told them I was far away from bail, they donated like $15, and then 20 minutes I got let out because my shift ended.

again. the money was for charity. it was on the sign that was very clearly placed on the upper half of my cage.

so yeah. even when people think they mean well. people can be really, really fucking stupid.