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there’s a goat! why is there a goat!? oh my god! there’s a fucking lama!

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Happy birthday Connor!

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Best boys. And Connor’s laces are untied a lot post-game bc he's not used to having them lol

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To people with glasses, are your glasses a color other than black?

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Just finished this piece!

I intended to have this done and posted yesterday, being November 5th and all, but that was way too ambitious for me to manage (especially considering I was finishing the Rupert post at the same time).

Either way, this was a lot of work but I had so much fun doing it!

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Tasting Static

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Post-game Connor with longer hair ✨

Slowly improving my art style ~✨

Edit: thank you all for being so kind :)

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the auction: part 1

i got sick of sitting on these pages so i thought maybe posting them would motivate me to continue 💀 the main issue i was facing was thinking up the logistics of the auction itself, as well as the reasoning behind another thing that i can't say without spoiling it (but maybe you will be able to guess it if you know which specific post of mine kicked this whole thing off LMAO). Anyways. i sure hope part 2 comes soon!

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Just lost a few braincells reading an nyt article about gen z "treat culture" and I can't even fathom that this is a thing. We're living in a dystopian hellscape where someone spending $5 a week on a cookie is considered a wasteful brat because they should have just gone for a nice free walk instead and saved the $250 a year that roughly equals four days' rent. That's why these ungrateful kids can't buy a house, naturally.

I am ALL for free treats, like hiking or reading in the park. But at some point you can't budget your way out of poverty, and you will literally go mad if you deny yourself basic pleasures that are literally all around you. They even lamented that little treats could snowball into doing something absolutely unforgivable like learning how to play the guitar or buying concert tickets.

At what point do we just start saying out loud that living an enjoyable and fulfilling life is now only acceptable at a 100k+ salary, and if you're one of the millions of people unlucky enough not to be in that category you should just eat dirt and be grateful?

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Nothing in the world feels as unjust as the fate of the Disco Elysium developers.

Imagine you build this in-depth fictional setting over the course of decades with your friends, and then decide to turn it into a game for fun. You end up creating one of the most celebrated and well-written RPGs of all time and become celebrated for reviving a dying genre.

A few months later, you're fired from the company you founded for criticizing the new direction its taking. The company has the copyright not only to the game you made, but literally everything in the world of the game, which spans decades of lore you built for no profit with your group of friends.

Like, this is a nightmare that I didn't even know existed before I ran into it. To have, what is essentially a passion project that branched off from a TTRPG campaign, be pulled from your hands by a corporate entity that only yearns to abuse your creation for maximum profit. I couldn't imagine myself going on creating anything after that.

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a regular monday for hank anderson

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do not 'oh it's just mascara' me i mean ANYTHING if you would hesitate to leave the house for a certain occasion without applying a certain thing to your face then you wear makeup for that occasion

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at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

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Chocolate guy... What the fuck!?