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Tried out linocut printing! My partner got me a set for christmas two years ago, and it took me a while to work myself over the mental hurdle of "oh no just one lino plate gotta make it count" and just go for it.

I love all the different prints, each one's unique and it's fun to work with a new material and tools. Will do this again, tho I think I wanna get a roller for getting a more even print first.

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Did what I’ve wanted to do for a while now, and made myself a side blog for reblogging neat stuff. Recently, I’ve seen some thinkpieces about how art gets shared less, and whether or not that’s true I think I’ve reached the point where I want to be one of the sharers as well. People share my stuff, so it’s only fair I pay it forward.

So, if interested, here you go.

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Doodleposting (and reposting after I accidentally deleted the previous one oops.)

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It’s apparently baby squirrel season and while I was out with a friend, we happened to witness one running around confused on a sidewalk, and then straight into ongoing traffic. It was a very busy road and the poor baby got well and truly stuck amongst the cars and a tram stop platform. Before me and my friend could hatch a plan to save the tiny fella, it circled back only to run directly under a bus leaving from a stop. Luckily the wheels missed it by sheer luck, at which point we could circle behind it on the less busy part of the road and herd the extremely scared and confused little baby back to the sidewalk, and all the way to the nearby park.

I’m glad I was able to help the little guy, but if I never have to see or do it again, that would be lovely.

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Köh

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Another dnd thing, a sassy tabaxi npc.

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My rp campaign things. Evil cultists beheaded a blessed elk prince of the forest, and the players went on a quest to retrieve a new head for him so that he could cross over to the fae realm as a spirit.

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I've seen an oc dialogue meme template floating around and I kinda want to fill it, because I have extensive thoughts about the way my characters speak, but there's an ever-present bilingual problem. I'm not fluent enough in English to do personalized ways of talking, like incorporate accents and slang, but filling the template in Finnish makes it for a niche audience and I'm also way more easily embarrassed out of my skin when writing my characters in Finnish in public.

Oh the woes.

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Honk honk.

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Like, those twelve years have included running a webcomic, printing and selling the first book of said webcomic, but then ghosting it because of reasons. There’s a shift from practically-straight into oh-shit-I’m-gay-actually. A couple of extremely productive years with such a big variety of works it’s insane in retrospect considering I was in a pretty bad place mentally the entire time. Then what by comparison is a drought period after it all just caught up with me and I had to re-invent my relationship with drawing.

And so, so many characters just coming and going. So many attempts at making comics. Wild.

It just hit me I’ve been posting my drawings on tumblr for 12 years.

I feel like that’s almost too much of my personal art history documented right there haha.

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It just hit me I’ve been posting my drawings on tumblr for 12 years.

I feel like that’s almost too much of my personal art history documented right there haha.

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Some recent sketchbook doodles that I like. Been putting her in scenarios.

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Pepe (and adventures with) big naturals.

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I hear it's some asexuality pride day, and I'm sick and bored so a brief ace story time.

Something like 10 years ago, when I was fresh in my early 20s, high on living independent and individual life, I wanted to experiment with being visibly queer and bought myself an ace ring.

I don't know if those are still a thing, but back then it was a black ring worn on some specific finger and it was meant to be this kinda secret signal of being asexual. So, I searched high and low for an adult-size black ring and finally found one in a gem shop, made from some sort of mineral and very affordable.

Put it on with pride every morning, fully ready and prepared to explain to anyone asking that why yes it's an asexual pride ring are you familiar with our lord and savior Ace of Sexuality if not I can explaaaaaiinn. Like a goddamn brand ambassador of my own life, I was so ready.

Less than a week in, I slapped my hand against a table a bit harded than usual and the cheap bastard ring broke into a thousand pieces.

Threw it away like the traitor it was, didn't buy a new one and slid back into my comfy life of obscurity. No-one had paid any attention to the ring anyway.

And that's the first and last time I tried being out all loud and proud.

Anyway, have a good one acey lads.

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Posted out-of-context bits of this earlier because it felt just wrong to post the full thing, but I read it again and I don't think it's bad taste, just plain stupid and you know what I'm in the mood of ruining whatever reputation I might have as a respectable creator.

Crude and stupid dialogue ahead, approach at own risk.

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Thoughts and shape studies of robotic masks for the hitmen in the Thugs and Birds setting. Not sure if I like where I landed with these but it’s at least more developed now.

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Oh no, I might’ve been perceived.