wavewright62

You fear tomorrow, and you've made your fear your god.

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I'm still Big Mad from the animation industry AI news, and I had some thoughts I needed to get out. There are lots of more important reasons why artists shouldn't use AI, but here is my philosophical take on it.

RIP Dame Jools Topp

Tolkientober Day 14: Color

DISCO SARUMAN (aka “Saruman of many colors”)

TRSB26 Art Gallery is Live

Prospective authors, come browse this year’s art gallery, fall in love with something beautiful, devastating, or devastatingly beautiful and start plotting your claims strategies for next Saturday.

Huge thanks to all of our artists for such a gorgeous gallery this year. Claims are going to be brutal in the best possible way.

Being with Gil was the happiest part of his childhood, by a long margin.

Hell I say it was the only childhood Tarvek got.

Being looked after and cared for by Von Pin. The closest thing both Gil and Tarvek had to a mum.

But Von Pin/Otilia has already moved house, and body lol.

So it's important that Mamma Gkika is welcoming all 3 of them home, at the point when Castle Wulfenbach is going down.

This is one of the scariest things I’ve ever done! Putting myself out there and asking for things is HARD, and I genuinely don’t know if there’s enough interest in this for it to be viable.

BUT shy bairns get nowt and all that, and if there is enough support and this does work out, then it’s a chance to do something really exciting. Very few people have had a properly fitted suit of historical plate to test with, and even fewer of them have an audience of this size to share their findings with. And while I may not be the best person for the job, I’m the only person that I am.

SO, if you want to see how far I can push movement in plate armour, or how many fantasy tropes I can recreate; if you want to see the process of making and fitting a full suit, and learn more about historical craftsmanship; OR if you want to watch a goofy goober pole dancing and attempting gymnastics in a clanky tin suit, with lots of failure along the way, please support this project.

There’s no way I can do it on my own, but if enough people chip in, there’s a chance!

Happy 100th birthday David Attenborough, you absolute bloody legend 💖💖💖💖💖

If you ever wondered why they call tattoos and piercings "unprofessional" and "unsophisticated"

Velvet ant (Dasymutilla vestita)

Hemilepistus (crenulatus, aphganicus, reaumurii)

Coral Pink Sand Dunes Tiger Beetle (Cicindela albissima)

I think the velvet ant is my favorite, and the only one painted from life. Maybe I should've driven up to utah for the tiger beetles, next time!

Gondor Week day 7: Fourth Age

Just a final scribble of our friends enjoying each others' company.