White Trash Werewolf

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

Gargoyle character studies I had on my Patreon for a while now, featuring Brooklyn, Broadway, Lexington, and Angela! :)

These were largely a bid in trying to capture the likeness of the characters while translating them into my style. As seen with Angela's sheet: what I did was take the official character model sheet and trace it to get a feel of their base character shapes, then did a second pass over the trace to add the features I wanted to incorporate into my headcanon design.

The final iteration (the big colored ones) is entirely freehanded and drawn using my passes as reference. I like how they all came out! :>

I'll eventually do the same with other characters (Elisa, Demona, Goliath, and Hudson are next on my list), then do fullbody redesigns to act as refs for any future drawings and headcanons I make for Gargoyles.

5 simple exercises to awaken dormant muscles

Then my right ankle looked blank so I did a knitting ghost.

After a few summer weddings, a couple of minor moves, a number of gear issues, and a ton of work-related obstacles, I’m happy to announce that the team is back to work!

Over the past 2 months we’ve been setting up biweekly think tank sessions on how to make Season 2 of Lost & Rewound even better for you. One of these adjustments will be general website maintenance on the cosmetic tip. Another adjustment will be more content on a weekly basis. To round all this off, our social media presence will naturally improve so you’ll be seeing a more involved team here at L&R.

It is my birthday tomorrow, and I’d be remiss to not take this opportunity to share at least something through this particular medium. The above photo was actually taken NOT on my birthday but rather my sister’s 7th birthday party at Dinosaur Dave’s in Kingston, NY. Envision if you will an even more ghetto Chuck E Cheese’s and put it down the road from an adult bookstore. Voilà: a very short lived institution.

My 12th birthday would actually end up going down later that year in December at the trendy Wood N’ Wheels roller rink in Port Ewen, NY. Now although I do not have the immediate access to upload photos from that day, I have decided I would instead go the more typical route. Here is what I hope will be the first of many “extras” from The Danziger Zone tapes over on our Soundcloud page.

Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/lostandrewound/john-schauls-prophecy

I was too busy skating/dancing in between playing the X-Men arcade game and trying my hand at skee ball to really record that much. I enlisted my now estranged “Godfather” John to keep guard, and hence the prophecy was sealed for years to come. No castrations to date yet though (that I know of).

Keep it here for more updates! Happy holidays.

'goon' -linguistic drift gave her a new meaning. i hope her new life is good for her. i miss her.

'henchman' -too gendered. can be shortened to 'hench' in a pinch, but lacks punch.

'servant' -too domestic to apply to all those who serve evil.

'underling, subordinate' -this one only works if they get off on being beneath you and/or you don't properly pay your workers.

'associate' -this one's good for grizzled mercenaries or lone agents but doesn't work good for broad swathes of an organization.

'slave' -same as underling but more intense. really fun for some of the group. unsavory for others in a way that limits the scope of the thing.

'thrall' -only really applies if you're brainwashing them and that's not something i've learned how to do en masse yet

'flunky, toady, stooge, lackey' -these are just insulting, and that isn't conducive to a healthy work environment. imagine going to work and your job title is 'stooge'.

'acolyte' -works for those that worship you, but again. lacks the scope.

'supporter, follower' -unspecific and vague

'assistant, helper, aide' -not sinister at all. just means you're doing things for me. swagless in this manner. could be good if used to describe someone who's so clearly more that as a way to emphasize their obedience via understatement, but that's only useful for a few members of the organization. and even then, 'associate' works better.