#Learn how to build and design

[lithariel]

Fucking. Continuing on the tags about the Framework and the display panels and the Fairphone. What the fuck is up with the fact that just because I don't live in the US. I can't get this specific kind of DIY-focused panels? The company gets the panels from Shenzhen China.

Why is DIY electronics so incredibly niche? Having to get spare parts for proprietary laptops, if they even have the display available in the first place. And then most diy displays that do sell enough to have dedicated companies are tiny ass 480p or 360p, for tiny ass diy projects that are gimmicky and mostly pointless in the grand scheme of things beyond "hey look i built something with tiny parts".

I just want to have a device that is repairable, upgradable, and relatively modular yeah?

Framework is cool because I could buy the mainboard, some additional components, and then otherwise just. Build my own chassis, apply my own screen, build a fucking cyberdeck if I wanted to, for the novelty.

And Jesus fuck, the fucking bullshit excuse of "oh it's more eco-friendly, its better for the environment to remove the fucking headphone jack, never mind the disposable wireless earbuds or other wireless technology necessary now. Buy our fucking wireless headphones or an even more unnecessarily wasteful USB-C to 3.5mm jack, if you're so desperate for it. So much better than just building it in"

[oh-dameron]

The more confidently certain Murderbot is that no bots have genders or any interest in sex or romance the less likely it sounds. Really? None of them?

Like how bot pilots can only communicate in images?

Or how a human could never really be friends with a bot?

Or how SecUnits are never friends with each other?

It keeps making these sweeping generalisations about things it doesn't have a lot of data outside of its own lived experience to support, and its experience is not universal.

At this point I would not be surprised if Iris hit MB in the face with the revelation that ART hates Holism because they were involved before Holism fucked around and left it for Sum Total.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

doing chibi is a good design exercise bc it forces u to think on shapes n essential details, essentially thumbnailing ur designs. its also a terrible design exercise bc it ends up looking cute no matter what

[tatck]

STVH Tails' workshop evolution. I'm gonna call this a learning experience 👍

[spinjitsuburst]

by the way i feel like this 80% of the time when i go on longwinded rants about this blue parasite living in my skull

[romanticiseadarkcity]

a lot of the reason I got into urban design is because of two human rights: food and shelter. after my environmental science degree I became hellbent on decolonising our land use, and one of the first things to go was whatever is going on with housing—but also, along with it, bringing back the intrinsic value of natural areas rather than the exponential increase of land value due closer to the cities.

what this has told me is that we as humans love connection. we need land to grow our food (less now with the advent of vertical farming and hydroponics) but we love all coming together in clumps. we also love access to green space, nature, and we want as much of both as possible. for our mental health, it’s ideal we have good amounts of both, the balance will differ from person to person, the need for both will differ from person to person, and quality impacts our mental health and access to necessary services more than quantity. this is something we can work with as urban designers: creating value, forms of capital with the goal to meet humanity’s needs. it’s possible, if we stop thinking of value purely in terms of money.

I’m obsessed with slums: imagine moving to the city and taking the shittiest accommodation possible just to be near the resources and opportunities. after spending my high school and undergrad years lonely on the peri-urban outskirts of a big city, I’ve done the equivalent of it—spending 3/4 of your income on rent isn’t sustainable, especially if you plan on going back to study, but I’ve done it. I’m also obsessed with development and charity and the reason behind it: most property developers are fundamentally selfish and I have longed for half my life now to prove to the world that we can do it another way; sustain ourselves by providing homes with a sense of place to people who need it the most, upgrading living conditions for a community in line with their longings, and be fueled by the social and relational and community capital it produces rather than money. the way my brain works, this has a direct link to my productivity.

the relational positive feedback cycles of my brain aside, the more I’ve studied the more I see the scientific principles behind things like economic formulas that can predict all things supply and demand, which is basically what the housing industry is. stuck in the private sector for too long while the government is slow, I’ve spent my life making structures out of wood with my handy impact driver from trees I grew myself, thinking, if I can make this place out of nothing but photosynthesis and a nickel metal hydride battery just because I had some energy to burn off, surely it’s not that difficult to provide for people just through creating?

still, economics is a mathematical art that we have to learn like professionals in the soul-sucking industry in order to break creatively and artistically in ways that actually work. practically, my first exposure to doing this as an adult beyond the hypotheticals of the classroom was a presentation by max chandler mather, and as he steps down from his position as a member of parliament here in Australia I want all of you to google him and see the policies he has—inspired by Vienna, which I’ve been too broke from paying my rent to go visit yet, and something to do with breaking the cycle of negative gearing in taxes that I still don’t quite understand. but I understand the rest.

i was 21 and this was the first time I realised the environment and human housing don’t have to be conflicting needs. i raised my hand and asked, how do you make it environmentally friendly in line with your party’s policies? isn’t housing development one of the biggest contributors to land clearing? and he said being built according to government plans and regulations actually ensures that the highest environmental standards can be achieved as actual experts will be involved, something developers so rarely do (and every architect you meet will rant about) to cut costs. from there I looked into sarah bekessey’s coined term biodiversity sensitive urban design and the research she’s done into this mid rise paragon of human and environmental health at the royal melbourne institute of technology. I got myself qualified (well mostly) to design this stuff but I think what’s gonna do it for me is working with a group of people who share the same ideals, rather than just because of a job opening. I might reach out to some of these contacts.

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

_____ used Destiny Bond! _____ is hoping to take his attacker down with him!

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(Belatedly) celebrating the one-year anniversary of the 'Destiny Bond' comic with a rare, fully-illustrated piece. A bit of extra context and rambly thoughts under the cut 🫶💖💕

A little over a year ago, I posted the first part of the Destiny Bond comic, originally intended to be a one-off doodle exploring the consequences of Morty's prophetic abilities on his relationship with Eusine.

That sketchy doodle of mine ended up being a whole narrative project spanning across a few months, before I eventually took a pause on it to focus on my mental health (having reached a low earlier in the year).

It was a daring enough project in and of itself, especially with how I had spontaneously taken it on when I was still recovering from a years-long burnout with 2D art. Though (temporarily) stopping sooner than I had hoped, I can confidently say that this little comic project of mine had helped to rekindle my love for drawing as a whole, and had further lead me to meeting some of the most wonderful people and friends in this small corner of the Pokémon fandom (whom also happen to be obsessed with these two silly guys from the GSC/HGSS games). It's a project I hold dearly to my heart, and one that I hope to revisit and continue once I feel ready to do so; as the story has yet to truly kick off (I'm not even joking we're still in the prologue technically I'm yelling /lh).

I hope to be able to share the rest of this story with you all one day, in whatever new form it'll take as. For now, I want to say thank you, from the deepest parts of my heart, for supporting this passion project of mine - and to assure you to tune in for the future of this title. 👀✨

[wannameetmyson]

Also I found really super fun AUs I wanted to make content for!

These are my first attempts at depicting Bonnie or Mirabelle. I did not use a reference because I'm super smart and I was tired.

Bonnie had a... rough 2D head doodle of their canon kid self. This is next to my experimental interpretation of age swap au Adult Bonnie. I don't know how fabric folds work so any feedback would be cool. I also think it would be fun and cool to go a little adventurous with the AU interpretations. Bonnie isn't wearing the same hat they chose to wear daily as a kid. I also ended up giving them a tiny little bun.

I sketched Mirabelle's canon form very loosely. I'm actually very happy with her face in general! I need to work on eye shape/details, and I'm not happy with how I drew her hair. Any advice or thoughts on this are welcome. I tried designing an AU Mirabelle that could look like her but be different, I don't think it was fully successful. I need to work on drawing kids so that baby fat reads better! I also need to have some reflection time on Mira's hair.

I didn't give Bonnie a nose but gave Mirabelle one... non-canon nosed Mira.

These drawings are very loose but I wanted to share them to hear others' thoughts and share the excitement of an age swap au. With the change belief being so prominent in Vaugaurde I don't think that Isa or Bonnie should look exactly the same as their kid self. Even further away, I wonder how much of Isabeau's face they altered and crafted themselves. I wonder if they went by a different name. The name thing is another thought I had for Bonnie but I am not good at thinking up fantasy names so...

[notonewouldmind]

I Need someone more knowledgeable than me to do an architectural analysis of witch hat atelier…. please please please I am begging you

[clonememesfrikyeah]

You know what would be the worst? If at the end of the war when all is said and done, after the clones lost every little thing they had, after Vaders rise and the Jedi’s fall, after all that death and hardship and misery? It would be terrible to be a clone and wake up like suddenly coming out of a coma, in a stasis chamber that they grew up in and rarely left, there was the craziest dream just before and there’s the lingering feeling something important just happened, this is Kamino 35bby, all the information they were just fed is already neatly stored in their perfect flash-memory brain. No ones died yet, all of that was a simulation based on a calculation of events to instal orders and hone the discipline of troops. It’s dark, there’s no way of telling if anyone or anything exists beyond the boundary’s of the inside. There’s a designated call sign and designation along with vitals displayed in the line of vision, it’s also counting down the seconds to when a new simulation is set to begin.

[phoenixcatch7]

You know when I'm doing the maths that I'm having fun

[broodygaming]

Made a spooky game!

Bout a little kiddo who wakes up in a storm and her moms are missing! Goes on a creepy adventure to rescue them! Throw in some cool family drama and a little bit of a heartwarming message and boom! A game.

This was my first time drawing everything for one of my projects! Very nerve wracking. Tilesets are hard lol.

[waywardsalt]

giving minecraft a shot again, this time working on a creative mode thing, so heres a small library i put together

+ a last-minute addition

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

Does this look like the face of someone who betrayed their best friend and enslaved a planet for a few millennia?

No? Good, then I'm doing his character redesign correctly.

I'm working on redesigning the main villain of The SOS Chronicles, Algol, based on the lyrics of the Petra song "Angel of Light".

"Angel of Light, I see you glow in the night, But you only bring darkness to my soul. Angel of Light You're telling me wrong is right But I won't let your evil take control."

Instead of leaning into demonic elements like I was before, I'm now trying to make him look alluring, like someone you assume is a good guy because how could he not be??? just look at him! It makes more sense then that the characters didn't realize right away that he was the big bad, especially since he's also using Almitak's power to mind control (almost) the entire populace of the planet (Aguitha) he lives on. But Almitak's power weakens over time, so as the mind control loosens, Algol falls back on using his beauty, along with lies and trickery, to keep people trusting him. Much like a skilled politician, he makes the ordinary people think he cares about them by knowing just what to say every time. His military following is completely loyal and trusting of him because of the web of lies he's trapped them in, and it takes a long time for Oliver and co. to unravel those lies and find the truth of who Algol is and what he's doing.

(no, but seriously, on a scale of 1-10, how trustworthy do you think he looks? This is just a concept-art esque sketch, I am open to changing his design at this point, feedback is appreciated)

[two-bit-socrates]

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

I made some notes in a post earlier about how I thought Mankar Cameron deliberately let him and his kids be killed for the hero of kvatch to take the amulet. Now I'm very sure of it but also not because that would imply Bethesda were intentionally telling a thoroughly plotted out saga. Still, if The Elder Scrolls were a thoroughly plotted out saga it would make sense on a grandeur scale of things that Mankar deliberately set himself up to be caught and the amulet reclaimed if the plan wasn't actually for Dagon to take over Tamriel.

I just installed Skyrim on my Steam Deck and I installed Morrowind on my laptop and I have 500 other things I should and rather be doing but they're not happening rn.

EDIT: I keep coming back to the story telling and environmental design and social interactions of Oblivion and how it's not a well thought out and researched story but it's an odd way of interacting with a world that is a bare bones fantasy reflection of the u.s. in 2006 from the perspectives of people who didn't seem like they interacted with people that much. I just started up Skyrim again a few hours ago and it feels the same way but later as these same people get more exposed to life being chronically online.

I'm aware this doesn't sound like cohesive thoughts but my brain is fatigued but won't stop rotating oblivion inside it so I'm writing it down for now.

[neverendingford]

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