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Why only progress is being posted here for now, one voting is done and such the final will be over here too :)

Hey! The designs I've been seeing on here are super cool, but I'm worried they may be disqualified because they've been posted somewhere other than X! I thought it would be a good idea to share this excerpt from the submission rules

Heads up! Important!

Thank you @thewackyzone for sharing this.

Capcom may disqualify any entry if is posted by the Entrant on any website other than Twitter(X).

I don't want any artist to get disqualified for this nonsense, so I will delete any reblog now, when the Contest is over I will start rebloging them.

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Started working on a submission for the weapon contest, it will not be done in 3d (i havent jumped to far in over my head yet) but i needed a quick and dirty reference otherwise i was going to fight the sketch, ideally ill be getting progress pics out for both a full render and flats, but that will be a while.

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i want devices that are functional and hardy and i want them to last and fuck the rest of the shit i dont need. my ds and 3ds can lie in sleep mode for months if not years and i can pop them open and they've still got two or three bars left. my old phones in high school could go days without a charge. if i leave my nintendo switch on the floor for a few days doing absolutely fuck all nothing i will turn it on and it will cry to me mother i am dying. i am dying mother. and i tell him he'll never be half the man his brother was and he can't hear me because he's dead

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Finally got around to posting the files for these things! for a first remixed print they turned out pretty well (we are not going to talk about how long it took me to find the arachne setting in the slicer) the only downside is what this has done to coding- not the easiest to use but they look neat for those who may be curious ive got the thingiverse link here for ya: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7036601

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Calathea Makoyana // Calathea Musaica

Calathea Helen Kennedy // Maranta Lemon Lime

Calathea Beauty Star // Calathea ?

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The reason people don’t want to work is that it’s just normal for them to be in bad work environments.

My issue with working at Walmart wasn’t the work itself I was doing. It was the circumstances around it. The concrete floor, lack of places to sit, having to put up with asshole customers, not getting time off for injuries, and bad pay.

If I had been given shock pads to stand on or a few chairs to rest on sometimes, if they paid me a livable amount of money and I was allowed to yell back at asshole customers, if they had given me any amount of training, I would happily work part time folding clothes all day and telling people where the swimsuit section is.

I’m a creative type. I’m a writer. I’m pretty smart, even. But if I could make a living folding shirts and listening to podcasts in one ear and helping people find the scented candles for 30 hours a week? I would. Leaves some mental space free for me to brainstorm. Lets me catch up on my reading with audiobooks.

But instead I was treated so badly by upper management and customers that I’m like legitimately a little frightened whenever I step into a Walmart now. And I only worked there for three months a few years ago.

I’m a good lower level worker. When I’m treated well. I like finishing tasks. I like being helpful. I like having some time to talk to coworkers and some time alone with my thoughts. I’m a frickin team player. And that’s how I was at my first job. I was treated well by my supervisor. I was trained. They were patient with me. I was so good at being low on the totem pole at that job because I was valued and felt like I was being listened to. I was able to sit still when there was nothing left to do which made it feel less bad when we were on a time crunch. I didn’t mind working hard at that job because it was fun even though I was doing all the low level stuff that the supervisors didn’t want do.

But at Walmart I was like that for all of two days. Then I figured out that nobody appreciated my work and if I worked in my normal people pleasing manner I’d kill myself because their standards were high and the rewards for meeting them were low.

So I slowed down. I started avoiding customers. I started taking a lot longer to get to my breaks and to come back from them. I became worse at my job because no matter how good I was at it there would be no reward, no appreciation, and I’d just be pushed further beyond my limits.

My only level of happiness from that job came from the people who were working with me. The old ladies and my department manager who made sure I wasn’t overextending myself. The one other young man working in the clothing department who always got sent with me to unload the heavy stuff and commiserated with me about the shoulder injuries, the hurting feet we were too young to have.

But none of that was enough to make me stay. We were constantly understaffed. I was constantly abused by customers and not able to do a thing about it. I was not paid much at all. So as soon as I had enough saved up for what I was trying to do and my last semester of college was about to start I handed in my two weeks.

I would have found a way to stay if I liked that job. If I liked that job I would’ve pushed myself to my mental limits to finish college and keep that job at the same time. Heck that job could’ve been a rest from college. A place to get away from it. But I hate that job so I got out as soon as I could.

I want to work. I want enough money to live sort of comfortably. I want to have some tasks to do to give my creativity a rest. I want to be a part of something. But the way that modern corporate run work environments are set up does not give me any of the things I actually want out of a job. And I think that’s the same for millions of people right now. A lot of people would happily spend their lives as a waitress or an Uber driver or a warehouse worker or a farmhand or any other “low skill” job you can possibly think of. But with the way the world works right now those jobs are absolutely miserable. It doesn’t have to be that way. I know because I’ve had a fulfilling part time minimum wage job that I looked forward to going to every week. A job where I was listened to and allowed to sit when I needed to. I miss that job. Especially now since I’ve realized that’s not the standard. It should be. People should look forward to going to work or at the very least not get mild ptsd whenever they set foot into a Walmart.

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hope this isn't an annoying message but I didn't see you post about it - make sure to toggle on to prevent AI scraping in your blog settings and all sub blog settings.. Tumblr just sold all our data to midjourney and I don't want your hard work to get eaten by lazy ass ai "artists"

no anon im so glad u sent this ask because what the fuck???? at this point im honestly not surprised ugh,,, i had to speedrun to all my blogs’ settings.

RELAYING WHAT ANON SAID TO THOSE THAT AREN’T AWARE:

tumblr is now allowing midjourney to be able to train its AI on artwork posted on blogs BY DEFAULT.

so if you DO NOT want your art to be trained on these fuckass machines:

go to your blog settings FOR EVERY BLOG YOU OWN!! (NOT JUST YOUR MAIN BLOG, BUT YOUR SIDE BLOGS TOO)

find the “Prevent third-party sharing” setting and TURN IT ON ASAP

It should look like this (example used from my splatoon side blog):

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Love it when plants just grow like this

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Little jumping spider (i think) that was in a window

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Putting all my Plant Photos here, some critters may make their way in. First batch of photos is some flowers that got planted recently! Feel free to add more info to the alt text, doing my best but not the best with words.