Mando

for your reference, i tracked down one of my original posts; which had a notes section that looked like this:

and here is what it looks like now:

holy shit. by my math, that is not even two percent of the amount of aggregate notes my writing actually has. i am not able to see any of the literal hundreds of replies, comments, or tags.

maybe this is a bit presumptuous but i consider myself to be fairly popular on this site. i still remember the first time a large blog "picked up" my work - how quickly all of a sudden i was getting seen. notes on my poetry jumped from like 10 to 300 to 3k. overnight. that was the magic of tumblr, and the incredible writing community i found here.

but now if i answer any of my fellow writers, if i say please go check this out or even if i add additional context to my own work - the artist is removed completely from their own content.

do you want to reply to an "ask game"? do you want to reply to a story prompt? do you want to just make a funny joke with your friends? well, that sucks - you might be depriving them of literally 98% of their notes.

it isn't about clout chasing. it is about giving creators control over their own materials. even a silly post deserves to be connected directly with the person that thought it up.

Conway Update 22 is now available!

And Conway Update #22 is out in the wild for everyone :) You can grab it over here: https://nomaxart.itch.io/conway Or of course your itch client will auto update it.

if you'd like to see the changelog for this update you can find it here: https://nomaxart.itch.io/conway/devlog/1340898/conway-update-22-is-now-available And hey, if you'd like to support our efforts in making this, you can do so here:

https://www.patreon.com/cw/Nomax/join

Swen from Larian: "We use AI for an early concept art and reference googling and other made up use cases and conveniences".

meanwhile...

Pablo Alonso, lead designer of Warframe:

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Mikael Kasurinen, game director of Control: Resonant

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Josef Fares, CEO and game director at Hazelight:

To which I will add my newest favorite thing ever, the sketch Dan O’Bannon used to explain face huggers to Giger:

(because it's the only job i can get anymore lol. lmao)

lagomorphosis.org/rates.html <- go here to Get An Art!

other stuff that isn't art, in case you don't need art but still want to help me Stay In An Apartment and also Afford Food Sometimes:

bandcamp pages (for now, until they fuck up payments because i'm not using stripe for anything ever):

lagomorphosis * ROXORFOXOR * bassarisky * canaille * sneakerfox

-> tip jar (kofi) is "bunnyshaped" (no quotes)

i also post art at:

-> mastodon.art -> bsky (lol) -> FA (lmao) -> weasyl ("but nobody's on weasyl" there is a solution to this you know)

And Every. Single. Poster was vandalised, it literally looks like some of the most beautiful art you have ever seen

A thorn in your spine 🌿

look, i HAVE to sell y'all on Saturnalia because for once something coming from my country isn’t just not shit but legitimately impressively great

okay here’s the pitch.

four characters find themselves in the mining town of Gravoi, Sardinia, for mysterious apparently unrelated reasons. it’s the night of the festival, but you’re not sure what kind of festival that is - you know that everyone’s holed up in the church, for some reason. it  all seems very catholic, except that a lot of animal masks are involved, and blindfolds, and mysterious graffiti all over the town that people seem extremely tense about.