#on top of my full time job

[ofcowardiceandkings]

SIGHS

maybe i should revisit some sketches just for the giggles and post them just so i HAVE posted something

[jackitk]

You know. With everything I've invested into Game Design as of late, you'd think I would have at least done a little practice with pixel art by now. But for some reason, I've never got around to it. Despite already doing normal art to some degree.

I always pondered what my niche would be if I were on a game development team. But I don't really feel like I have a particular talent in the field. I feel confident in design concepts/knowing what makes a game good or bad. But also, I think anyone actually in the field would already know that and have even more experience than I do.

All I can think of is reflecting back to college when I was on a team for a senior project and how I was essentially deadweight because despite 5 years of college i had no skills that helped the team. This was after I had already transferred away from Game Design. So, I don't know. I feel like if I'm going to make my own game that I got to be able to do SOMETHING.

And that's a long tangent to say I should really start learning pixel art, even if I don't plan on taking learning Godot seriously until after I finishing my modding projects. I have a little experience already with using Photoshop to edit some sprites for my Paper Mario project. (Don't worry it's a copy so old, it's not tied to Adobe's subscription service, so it's the best of both worlds.) But I'd love to make actual sprite animations, even outside of Game Design if I can find the right software and the time to do some tutorials.

As for actual Game Dev., well I've almost finished up this platforming tutorial I've been working on. I also got tired of the default sprite for the goal, so I made my own. Looks kind of crude in-game because the art the tutorial uses is better. But I'm still happy with it. Maybe I'll try to refine it in the future.

[uncanny-tranny]

The leftism/anticapitalism leaving people's bodies the zeptosecond you imply that disabled people who aren't "productive" still matter in society and need to be treated like intrinsic equals who have a place in this world:

[sathone]

Dearly hoping I haven't bitten off more than I can chew...

[possession1981-moving]

help with rent and bills needed urgently

sorry to have to do a post like this again but i am in a really bad financial situation currently. and i need help to make rent and afford my bills and essentials for the next month. june rent is due may 25th but i am trying to not be doing this at the very last minute, to keep myself (an autistic+adhd multiply disabled nonbinary lesbian) and my best friend (a multiply disabled bisexual woman of colour who is currently largely bedbound) from becoming unhoused.

basically, i am unemployed and have recently started a program by the swedish unemployment agency for disabled people, which is supposed to get me a little bit of money. however, if my application even goes through, this month i will only be receiving about 1200kr (~€100), which is not at all enough to even cover my half of the rent, which is about 4500kr (~€390). i also need to cover my bills so phone, electricity and gas as well as essential, so the goal would be to raise around 6000kr (about €520).

any help would be much appreciated, and sharing this post would be as well but DON'T tag other than for accessibility please.

my p4yp@l (please use SEK if possible) is here. if you are swedish and would like to use swish you could contact me directly and i can share my qr-code.

[lovelooksgudonu]

[p2ep]

i'm well.

[aurosoulart]

"The Invitation" (music credit)

some more art of Star Being, a character my therapist encouraged me to make as an inner guide......... I spent a lot of time here after I finished recording 🌤

[scentofpines]

i got an email today from my uni that was sent to all students from the faculty i'm in and it's a job offer for a project from the uni's school museum where they catalogue and analyze old school note/exercise books from 1820-1950s and...idk i should probably apply right??? They're not even asking for a CV (mine would be empty), how often do you get that lmao. And it's only 6 hours a week, starting this October and the project is supposed to last 3 months and there is a possibilty of the museum hiring you for longer. And i mean, if it sucks i guess i can push through the 3 months? should i do it ahhhh my panic brain is screaming but it's not often that there is a job offer that is that nice

[cosmogyros]

It's fucking weird how rude people are about immigration sometimes. And I don't just mean bigots being biased and stuff. I mean that, on a REGULAR basis, people ask me if I'm thinking about "going back to the US". And I'm just like... no? What do you mean "back to the US"? I live in Germany. I LIVE IN GERMANY.

I literally fucking started learning German and obsessing on German culture in high school, then I went to college in the US and majored in German Studies, including two study-abroad programs in Germany, then I moved to Germany for grad school and lived there for three years and worked in various German-speaking jobs while studying, then I had to temporarily return to the US but found a German-translation-based job at the US branch of a German company, and made a bunch of German or at least German-speaking friends in my new US city, and then a few years later I was able to move back to Germany, where I got a work visa sponsored by my employer and a full-time salaried job, and after a few more years I acquired my permanent residency, and soon I'll be applying for citizenship.

And people still sometimes ask me whether I'm considering "going back to the US". Like... dude? Would you ask a Mexican living in the US about their plans for "going back to Mexico"? That is rude as fuck.

Immigration is fucking hard. Why on earth would I have gone through all this shit just to throw it up in the air like "Oh well, never mind!"

[bees-and-stuff-to-buzz-about]

While I'm in a rental and I know it can't be guaranteed to stay, I'm going to plant Richmond Birdwing Vine (pararistolochia praevenosa), Purple Violet (viola betonicifolia), and Native Violet (viola hederacea).

They're the host plants for the Richmond Birdwing and Australian Fritillary butterflies, and I keep seeing that post about a man in America who helped out significantly I think with the California pipevine swallowtail.

There's so much I can't do to help with the environment, but planting a vine I'll need to trim in my own yard alongside a handful of other native plants and having a bit of a veggie garden helps myself, my family, and some animals in the area.

[way2gosuperrstarr]

later half of the workday today was turning into bird watching simulator oh my god (vigilantly watching the sky so hawks didnt swoop down and grab one of our little dogs in daycare) (i saw like three of them today and one flew RIGHT OVER THE SMALL DOG YARD) (i literally dont know what im supposed to do if a hawk DOES come down. do i try to beat the shit out of it with the crop ???? i was also the only one out there so i was w the big dogs yard so they dont kill each other am i supposed to launch myself over the fence to beat the fuck out of a hawk because how am i going to get there fast enough if i dont jump the fence ??? 😭 i dont think im strong enough for that) (this post wouldve been funnier if i didnt yap so much in the parentheses but. its who i am . a yapper </3)

also saw like two monarch butterflies and four butterflies in general????? quick pic of one of the butterflies under the cut 💥

[24hrsoda]

sorry i need to just scream abt bad things and evil thoughts

[ghostlemon36]

Taking on the haunting task of attempting to watch all of the current Tubbo Qsmp Vods

There’s 149

At 1.5x speed it would take 19 days straight watching

Or, I can watch seven hours a day (still on 1.5x speed) to get up to the current amount in two months.

Though, he will probably start streaming daily again pretty soon so I think it’ll take a total of three months to get caught up

[colemckenzies]

bro i feel like I have applied for Every job and apprenticeship in the country and not even gotten an interview people do not want me!!

[thecedarchronicle]

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