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What do you value more, the act of creating or the final result? Every week I practise and record my process. I share it on Patreon along with my brushset, files, and insights—so others can see how I work. Over time, I’ve seen many patrons improve. I’d like to think the content helps, but maybe what really matters is something simpler: the fact that I keep showing up. Maybe it’s not the brushes, the tips, or even the art that inspires most—maybe it’s just the act of making. Come and join us.

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Witness 🌙

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putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin dogs gay

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zenos card in the chiikawa sleeve looked like he had a big ribbon…

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the muppet joker has been defeated

The Duel (Dashcon 2, 2025)

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Hutts always have Gamorrean guards because the Unincorporated Security Union is the most powerful union in Hutt space and nobody wants to run afoul of it. Attempts to integrate the Union with other species have been met with bureaucratic blockage and, at times, violence.

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A central element of the myth of [Eleanor of Aquitaine] is that of her exceptionalism. Historians and Eleanor biographers have tended to take literally Richard of Devizes’s conventional panegyric of her as ‘an incomparable woman’. She is assumed to be a woman out of her time. […] Amazement at Eleanor’s power and independence is born from a presentism that assumes generally that the Middle Ages were a backward age, and specifically that medieval women were all downtrodden and marginalized. Eleanor’s career can, from such a perspective, only be explained by assuming that she was an exception who rose by sheer force of personality above the restrictions placed upon twelfth-century women.

— Michael R. Evans, Inventing Eleanor: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Image of Eleanor of Aquitaine

The idea of Eleanor’s exceptionalism rests on an assumption that women of her age were powerless. On the contrary, in Western Europe before the twelfth century there were ‘no really effective barriers to the capacity of women to exercise power; they appear as military leaders, judges, castellans, controllers of property’. […] In an important article published in 1992, Jane Martindale sought to locate Eleanor in context, stripping away much of the conjecture that had grown up around her, and returning to primary sources, including her charters. Martindale also demonstrated how Eleanor was not out of the ordinary for a twelfth-century queen either in the extent of her power or in the criticisms levelled against her.

If we look at Eleanor’s predecessors as Anglo-Norman queens of England, we find many examples of women wielding political power. Matilda of Flanders (wife of William the Conqueror) acted as regent in Normandy during his frequent absences in England following the Conquest, and [the first wife of Henry I, Matilda of Scotland, played some role in governing England during her husband's absences], while during the civil war of Stephen’s reign Matilda of Boulogne led the fight for a time on behalf of her royal husband, who had been captured by the forces of the empress. And if we wish to seek a rebel woman, we need look no further than Juliana, illegitimate daughter of Henry I, who attempted to assassinate him with a crossbow, or Adèle of Champagne, the third wife of Louis VII, who ‘[a]t the moment when Henry II held Eleanor of Aquitaine in jail for her revolt … led a revolt with her brothers against her son, Philip II'.

Eleanor is, therefore, less the exception than the rule – albeit an extreme example of that rule. This can be illustrated by comparing her with a twelfth century woman who has attracted less literary and historical attention. Adela of Blois died in 1137, the year of Eleanor’s marriage to Louis VII. […] The chronicle and charter evidence reveals Adela to have ‘legitimately exercised the powers of comital lordship’ in the domains of Blois-Champagne, both in consort with her husband and alone during his absence on crusade and after his death. […] There was, however, nothing atypical about the nature of Adela’s power. In the words of her biographer Kimberley LoPrete, ‘while the extent of Adela’s powers and the political impact of her actions were exceptional for a woman of her day (and indeed for most men), the sources of her powers and the activities she engaged in were not fundamentally different from those of other women of lordly rank’. These words could equally apply to Eleanor; the extent of her power, as heiress to the richest lordship in France, wife of two kings and mother of two or three more, was remarkable, but the nature of her power was not exceptional. Other noble or royal women governed, arranged marriages and alliances, and were patrons of the church. Eleanor represents one end of a continuum, not an isolated outlier.

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baking cookies, and a useful minifan

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Been watching a lot of tall-eyed 90s anime lately

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Two Gay Animals Have a Baby

(+6 extra pages of Bit's adventure will be exclusive to the printed book as thanks to supporters of the book :D)

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took 2s inbetween pulls (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

How to Disable and Remove All AI Features in Mozilla Firefox

*deep, calming breath* On the plus side, the steps at that link were very clear and easy to follow.

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iOS didn't take away your ability to read words on your screen

you did that

it’s wild how tech literacy lasted like one generation barely before it fell off

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Cawdor gangers watching the final moments of a young lost Escher ganger to pick apart her corpse.

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Is there a better place to display a model of your flagship?

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I am sofucking scared right noow the doll is chasin g me and it keeps yelling YOURE A PREP YOURE A PREP and sticking its middle fingner up at me . i hate the emo commumpity fucking leave me along

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you punch nazis!

(requested by anonymous)