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I finally made a Ko-fi! I'm not especially familiar with the site or how it works, but if you want to give me a tip, request, or have any burning questions, I'll do my best to respond.

#don't think i make enough content for patreon but this seems much lower pressure #ko-fi

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graphic design is absolutely not my passion not even a little

#how do you fucking. arrange the bullshit to look less bullshit #misc

It distinctly improves once The Alien shows up up but I'm feeling very cold on PHM so far. It reads like a marvel screenplay where people ALSO work out math problems sometimes

#my favorite character is the Beatles guy who shows up for one scene #I really really really do not like the sense of humor #i do not enjoy Weir's singular protagonist at all. its not AS egregious as atremis but this bitch is gonna look up off the page at me and #say well THAT just happened and im so extremely not here for it #misc #bookstuff #rocky is cute but he's kind of blandly cute if that makes sense #like its cool hes a rock spider but he's very like #idk innoffensively charming aliem buddy #i'd say its fine but i do find the prose and dialog kind of excutiating occasionally

boobs are just fun to draw you know

#misc

I need to read Fire Upon the Deep im in such a multibody character mood rn and that that one seems fun + is a classic

#i need to finish PHM for book club but tbh i hate how weir writes quite a bit so its been slow going....#misc

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Some thoughts on Nadder, bc i've been thinking about him today...

Quite old, over 1000 years

Was possibly once one of the greatest empresses whatever horrible continent this is has ever seen. It would make sense to me that the double body (two brains!) situation lent a certain potency to her psychic powers, perhaps in her youth she controlled one of the largest territories ever held by a single Lamia, a very formidable person

Non-Lamia people don't understand her situation and think of him as an odd.. uh strangely... touchy-feely.. brother-sister pair. Due to the gender dynamics with Lamia, "Asp" is often completely ignored, and Adder is seen as the main body, the true ruler, who people actually address or defer too.

Other Lamia can see how she thinks, and would understand that he's a single person, but are still confused and intrigued by him, mostly in the area of gender. The female component overrides the male, usually, in terms of how people conceptualize her. Is he half male-half female? or a female who was fused with her brother. Regardless, he's almost exclusively gendered female by the people who interact with him.

Her own feelings on this aren't very clear cut.

Her empire was toppled when Asp was kidnapped in a siege, something that functionally ripped his mind in half for as long as the two bodies were separated. Asp was eventually recovered, but the damage was pretty well done, and she's never really been the same.

Currently lives in a very old castle by the sea, and doesn't control any area greater than the surrounding village. His presence is mostly a historical curiosity, since his period of peak relevancy was at this point over 700 years ago, though I think his village is fond of him in the sort of oblique way you get with most haunted castles. They bring him food and gifts and like, and are quietly appreciated for it. Not particularly interested in drawing attention to herself.

His hair has always been white/silver, it isn't gone gray. These things age like dragons, which is to say unevenly. I do simply like the idea of her looking a little aged tho, it feels right. kind of worn

Nadder is an entirely nondiagetic nickname. Lamia communicate telepathically and don't use names for eachother at all, and non-Lamias just refer to him separately as Asp and Adder. The Nadder/"And Adder" pun would also be kind of dicey and flippant to say to her face lol

#I like the idea of this sketch but I didn't like how it was turning out the more i worked on it.......#was kind of tripping over the colors tbh #I dont wanna give up on it i like this pose..#i am SO bad at backgrounds i can't even bullshit perspective #but i had something in mind..#im also just kind of tired of drawing but wanna talk so. you get this!!!#i think the lines look nice and don't like how theyre hidden so u get those too but bepinked #this setting isn't fully mine im just having fun and playing toys you know #my friend pointed out his situation is very Gothic Novel....... i like it... its true..#i haven't actually read many of those outside of the gormenghast series tho tbh #and like wuthering heights i guess... and frankenstein..#lamia stuff

About those characters of yours (Asp, Adder, and Opaleye):

1: what are they

2: why do they look so huggable

3: why do I kind of want to be one

They're a species a friend made that have sort of become a collaborative thing through my excessive enthusiasm. We've been calling them Lamias

fat and with many arms

See my gut reaction is "me too man" but maybe not actually all things considered. Maybe for like a week.

#lamia stuff

tragically i kind of lost interest in art fight like a week before art fight

#I'm too fickle for this #i wanna draw my own guys

Asp and Adder (aka Nadder). Still working on his character + design, but she’s a single person who’s situation arose from a pair of stolen eggs (and the resulting hatchlings) being kept together for far too long, resulting in their minds fusing inseparably. Kind of a weird shut-in.

#it’s kind of a very strange disability #his mind isn’t distributed evenly #the bodies behing seperated or one being asleep means the other body loses access to a half of its faculties #the lizards are psychic btw lol #lamia stuff

Opaleye. He’s cute

#he’s so cuties #Opaleye #lamia stuff #these things would wear clothes i just kind of hate designing and drawing clothing lol

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dateamonster

tbh im not entirely immune to a villain with a tragic backstory but i do think villain origins are a lot more interesting when the focus is less "here is the original sin, the first big bad thing that happened to them that made them who they are" and more "here is the first time a person who maybe otherwise felt powerless in their life realized that they could hurt someone and get away with it"

dateamonster

you can get a lot more mileage out of analyzing a truly abhorrent character through the lens of like. what sort of conditions would allow or even incentivize this kind of cruelty? what kind of person benefits from those conditions and how? over the more typical who hurt them type analysis. imo.

#reblogging #yes exactly

did normalnudes always suck this bad or did does my memory deceive me that it used to be useful for its intended purpose

#the photos of men are pretty average but still with a bias towards certain body types #and they all mostly have less than 10 upvot3s #and the scattered photos of women are ALL fairly slender white women with nice tits and 100s to thousands of upvotes #like its pretty obvious whats going on here and it fucking sucks #the comments are pretty terrible too #i think ultimately you're not going to be able to have a project that seeks to document bodies like this #in a successfully neutral manner on a site where the visible content is ranked by user opinion #like yeah no shit the “uglies” get filtered. this is a failed project by design #i found a nice database of people sorted by height/weight/etc and something like that but with nudity would be exactly what im looking for #maybe something like that exists but idk what it is #misc

recently I’ve been kind of obsessed with making ocs out of / turning ocs into a friend’s species

#idk if these will go on artfight but probably not I feel a little bad

spookygibberish

One of my most inane reoccuring notions i entertain is the idea of constructing a spec bio dichotymous key for some stupid little made up worm. Like imagine a tiny game where you're collecting these organisms but instead of just telling you what they are, you need to consult Literature about it. you need to squint at its little body count its little hairs and ridges and still probably get it wrong anyways. It wouldn't tell you if you're right or wrong. You just make your judgements and live with them.

spookygibberish

the real question is if the game would involve casually killing the adorable and hilarious little worms I would concoct for it

spookygibberish

more thoughts:

the art should be simple and cute, like a '90s/'00s edutainment game you'd get for pc

the worms themselves are also cute and relatively simple, but with a good number of characters to distinguish them

the worms are mostly but not entirely brightly colored, which is you'd think would make things easy but the coloration is the result of aposematism, and there are one or more overlapping mullerian mimicry rings to deal with

significant sexual dimoprhism or sexual phase changes making some species that given to easily being classified as one (or more) species

your key having errors in general

ldistinctiveness ranging from completely unmistakable to "you made it all the way to this couplet and im telling you theres like 13 things at least that look exactly like this"/cryptic species in general

non-morphological factors like time of year/day, weather, microbabitat, host plant or animal associations, etc...

spookygibberish

Random stuff - divided between two segments, a point and click exploring segment where you look through a set of screens and collect the worms you find there, and the key section where you identify what you collected. The little overworld sprites for the worms would not always key out to the same things, so you wouldn’t be able to identify a lot of stuff without actually keying it.

Also ideas for worms + and some characters that may or may not be useful.

alchemistdoctor

This is iNaturalist the videogame. If you enjoy doing this stuff, may I suggest helping people identify things on iNaturalist?

spookygibberish

I use inat! What this is a videogame version of is just a real method of organism identitification, based on stuff I was doing for school + like to do for fun

#on inat a lot of photos of insects are too poor quality for diagnosis + my actual pool of knowledge is pretty small #i have the scoliid wasps in a particular area memorizes but im not helping anyone with a blurry picture of a carabid beetle #also maybe unstated but you don't need to interact with inat to do this at all. like you can identify plants or insects or whatever #with a dichotomous key just like on your own #just like stuff you can find outdoors you know

spookygibberish

One of my most inane reoccuring notions i entertain is the idea of constructing a spec bio dichotymous key for some stupid little made up worm. Like imagine a tiny game where you're collecting these organisms but instead of just telling you what they are, you need to consult Literature about it. you need to squint at its little body count its little hairs and ridges and still probably get it wrong anyways. It wouldn't tell you if you're right or wrong. You just make your judgements and live with them.

spookygibberish

the real question is if the game would involve casually killing the adorable and hilarious little worms I would concoct for it

spookygibberish

more thoughts:

the art should be simple and cute, like a '90s/'00s edutainment game you'd get for pc

the worms themselves are also cute and relatively simple, but with a good number of characters to distinguish them

the worms are mostly but not entirely brightly colored, which is you'd think would make things easy but the coloration is the result of aposematism, and there are one or more overlapping mullerian mimicry rings to deal with

significant sexual dimoprhism or sexual phase changes making some species that given to easily being classified as one (or more) species

your key having errors in general

ldistinctiveness ranging from completely unmistakable to "you made it all the way to this couplet and im telling you theres like 13 things at least that look exactly like this"/cryptic species in general

non-morphological factors like time of year/day, weather, microbabitat, host plant or animal associations, etc...

spookygibberish

Random stuff - divided between two segments, a point and click exploring segment where you look through a set of screens and collect the worms you find there, and the key section where you identify what you collected. The little overworld sprites for the worms would not always key out to the same things, so you wouldn’t be able to identify a lot of stuff without actually keying it.

Also ideas for worms + and some characters that may or may not be useful.

#misc #@ the person who said this reminded them of bloodborne. in what way

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spookygibberish

One of my most inane reoccuring notions i entertain is the idea of constructing a spec bio dichotymous key for some stupid little made up worm. Like imagine a tiny game where you're collecting these organisms but instead of just telling you what they are, you need to consult Literature about it. you need to squint at its little body count its little hairs and ridges and still probably get it wrong anyways. It wouldn't tell you if you're right or wrong. You just make your judgements and live with them.

spookygibberish

the real question is if the game would involve casually killing the adorable and hilarious little worms I would concoct for it

spookygibberish

more thoughts:

the art should be simple and cute, like a '90s/'00s edutainment game you'd get for pc

the worms themselves are also cute and relatively simple, but with a good number of characters to distinguish them

the worms are mostly but not entirely brightly colored, which is you'd think would make things easy but the coloration is the result of aposematism, and there are one or more overlapping mullerian mimicry rings to deal with

significant sexual dimoprhism or sexual phase changes making some species that given to easily being classified as one (or more) species

your key having errors in general

ldistinctiveness ranging from completely unmistakable to "you made it all the way to this couplet and im telling you theres like 13 things at least that look exactly like this"/cryptic species in general

non-morphological factors like time of year/day, weather, microbabitat, host plant or animal associations, etc...

#misc

spookygibberish

One of my most inane reoccuring notions i entertain is the idea of constructing a spec bio dichotymous key for some stupid little made up worm. Like imagine a tiny game where you're collecting these organisms but instead of just telling you what they are, you need to consult Literature about it. you need to squint at its little body count its little hairs and ridges and still probably get it wrong anyways. It wouldn't tell you if you're right or wrong. You just make your judgements and live with them.

spookygibberish

the real question is if the game would involve casually killing the adorable and hilarious little worms I would concoct for it

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