The Coolest Lizard in the Land

One request per person per open post / day this is open, and one cat per request. It is absolutely okay to put in a request for every single day that this is open.

Non-cat animals are acceptable so long as you provide reasons why the critter in question is actually totally a cat.

I do not know ahead of time on which days requests will be open, nor how often it will happen. If you're only on here irregularly, and you have a cat you want draconified but you might not be here when requests are open, send me a message and we can work something out.

If it is no longer the date listed at the top, then you can't make a request on this post. Check my blog to see if there's a current post, or send me a message.

So long as I'm capable of drawing and posting things to tumblr, I will draw all valid requests I receive, in the order I receive them. If you think I've skipped over your request, contact me; it's happened before that there's been a problem, where someone's reblog simply doesn't show up, or where I made a mistake on my end.

I need reference photos to be of decent-enough quality to work from. If I can't clearly see the cat, I can't properly draw it. Thus, any photos of black cats should either be in sufficient lighting, or have a distinct silhouette.

They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.

Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.

You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.

This article specifically notes:

For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.

Other important quotes:

What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.

Two things back that up:

There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.

Then there’s activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.

Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.

I also made a PDF version!!

For comprehensive deets, tomshardware explains

One request per person per open post / day this is open, and one cat per request. It is absolutely okay to put in a request for every single day that this is open.

Non-cat animals are acceptable so long as you provide reasons why the critter in question is actually totally a cat.

I do not know ahead of time on which days requests will be open, nor how often it will happen. If you're only on here irregularly, and you have a cat you want draconified but you might not be here when requests are open, send me a message and we can work something out.

If it is no longer the date listed at the top, then you can't make a request on this post. Check my blog to see if there's a current post, or send me a message.

So long as I'm capable of drawing and posting things to tumblr, I will draw all valid requests I receive, in the order I receive them. If you think I've skipped over your request, contact me; it's happened before that there's been a problem, where someone's reblog simply doesn't show up, or where I made a mistake on my end.

I need reference photos to be of decent-enough quality to work from. If I can't clearly see the cat, I can't properly draw it. Thus, any photos of black cats should either be in sufficient lighting, or have a distinct silhouette.

So now that volume 1 is done, I can work on a few video ideas I've had :3 !! I forgot how much I enjoy video editing lol.

Since we still don't know if the writers of MAWS will get to finish their story I was thinking maybe we could as a fandom write letters to James Gunn to tell him how much the show means to us all and ask him not to cancel. (nicely, this is a 'honey catches more flies than vinegar" situation. I'm frustrated too, but being mean about it has never helped this sort of thing)

Like yes it is old fashioned, but it feels a lot better than just doing nothing and being heartbroken. And it might work.

I mean if someone got a whole bunch of letters in this day and age it might get them to pay attention.

Plus! Firefly was cancelled and it's getting an animated series after 24 years. So it's possible.

it’s been going SO GOOD wahhhh. We’re about 2 weeks from session 6 and things are starting to develop quite nicely, I would say. Some ideas and themes are starting to sift out of the sandbox I’ve made up, and my players are soooo much fun to play with. God I’m so lucky to have them.

One of the biggest conflicts that has started emerging is the serious need for blood by the South Central Barony. The barony is lead by Jenna Cross the thin-blood, and people from all over the country are flocking to her banner and the promise of safety it provides. Unfortunately they control the smallest amount of territory, and what they do have is a lot of suburbs, which is not prime hunting territory. This problem is exacerbated by:

The Sabbat *not* killing their victims (huge restraint on their part, I know) and instead leaving them with major blood loss and injuries on the street. They’re then taken to the hospital and given blood transfusions, limiting the amount of bagged blood Dr. Eerie (the barony’s Reeve, a surgeon at the hospital) can smuggle out to his barony. He can only get away with taking the expired churn, both because morals and logistics, but also the hospital is in a different barony and there’s a risk he would get his ass beat by a random coterie from Downtown if they thought he was “overstepping”

Regular style human gangs have been putting a lot of pressure on the local homeless encampments, taking “taxes” from their panhandling and whatnot, forcing them to dissipate. This easier access resource is incredibly important for the Thin-Bloods in the barony because of their ostracism from other spaces, kindred and not. It’s a common problem among the anarchs that they don’t tend to have as much access to the same hunting grounds as Camarilla vampires, just like. Demographically. So if those herds leave everyone’s feeling the pain a lot harder.

There are gonna be more mouths to feed coming in soon, some Thin-Blood refugees, coming in from Boston escaping Quinton King. Of course they’re welcome, but secretly their arrival creates more worry: now there are mouths to feed, and the problem compounds.

The. Barony has a herd using the top level of their base as regular sportsbar, and the patrons are fed from, but that’s rationed very strictly. Only one point of blood per person at a time. These are either regular people but also regular blood dolls, and if people start dying the patrons won’t visit anymore. It’s enough for most of them to get by without needing to hunt if they do nothing but wake up at night, but it’s not nearly enough to replenish the blood pool.

And unfortunately, everyone’s starting to use a lot more blood because of the Sabbat moving in. Luckily Dr. Eerie can help mitigate by being a healbot (he is making veryyyy heavy use of the Vital Fluids combo discipline) but like. Still. It’s a precious resource but they need to use it to defend themselves.

Because ok we have two different Sabbat packs in the city rn:

the SirePack (actual name: The Quickshadows) who are actually a little bit lotta bit of a scooby doo ass pack of one semi-respectable black hand member and the antitibu he found in the trash. The rest of the original pack were black hand Banu Haqim that left in the clan schism for Ur-Shulgi. I actually love them a lot. Their most recent hijinks is crashing a truck into a McDonald’s and brutally slaughtering everyone inside <3. Because of their low numbers they tend to favor shovelhead chaos in the front and assassination in the back.

But then we have a more typical Sabbat Pack because I want to give my players a better taste of what the Sabbat clans look like. There are Lasombra and Tzimisce and City Gangrel and I’ve recently decided a Salubri Antitribu solely because it would be really funny to introduce the clan as one of dangerous warriors to be feared while Dr. Eerie the 8 humanity secret healer Salubri is sweating in the background. It would be really really funny. I <3 to bully my OCs. Anyway these are the Sabbat who are starving out the hospital and doing things like that.

He’s so pathetic that he’s the butt of the joke for the entire player coterie and managed to actively piss off half of them.

Joanna his coworker is annoyed at him for A) hiding the fact that he’s been a vampire this entire time. And B) coming across as condescending in his efforts to make sure she adjusts to unlife without frenzying on anyone and being overly protective of her while in the Elder Tremere’s Haven.

Rowen is pissed at him because he was an asshole to her brother in law, who happens to be the aforementioned elder Tremere. Like he screwed up that social interaction so bad Rowan’s player put them down as an Autarkis (faction neutral) instead of Anarch like the other players.

Because to the players, Dr. Eerie is just a clanless Caitiff who’s bigoted to the Tremere. Unfortunately, my guy is hiding a major piece of context. Which is the fact that Dr. Eerie is not in fact Caitiff, but is a member of the very rare clan Salubri. A clan that is so rare because clan Tremere Wiped Them Out So They Could Become Vampres Instead.

He’s an asshole to the elder Tremere brother in law because he is masking a major PTSD reaction. Because he’s essentially locked in a room with AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN THE GENOCIDE HE SURVIVED. A person who if he found out what Dr. Eerie really was? Would destroy him immediately. AND NO ONE KNOWS. THEY THINK HE’S JUST BEING AN ASSHOLE.

Like if it were just the Tremere player who was just embraced a few days ago, he’d be wary (PTSD moment) but get over himself. But no!! There’s a 400 year old elder Right Fucking There! An active major threat to him!! He’s being very reasonable in this situation tbh.