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Usagi was a brilliant musician and composer who tragically passed away in 2018. She was early in her transition at the time of her passing, and I was unable to find any confirmation of the name she preferred. I will be referring to her using her online moniker “Usagi” since we don’t know how she felt about the name she was given at birth, or if she wanted to change it.

She wrote many of the most beloved songs for Homestuck, as well as the soundtrack for the game Spelunkey.

Usagi was a part of the LGBTQ community, and talked about her experiences regarding her trans and ace identities openly and with joy.

Her Bandcamp and last album, Qualia, can be found here

Usagi’s music deeply impacted many people. Homestuck as a whole would not be the same without the iconic songs that she wrote for it. Her music influenced Toby Fox, who remixed Buzinkai’s song “Doctor” and sites the song as a major turning point in his growth as a musician.

I didn’t even know that she was the composer or that she had passed until a few years ago.

I was really upset to learn that someone who contributed so much to something I loved had passed and, in my opinion, never really received the wide-spread recognition she deserved for her art. My goal in making this post is to try and educate people who were unaware of her artistic contributions to Homestuck. I hope to honor her memory, as well as the beauty and music she brought to the world.

I’ll leave you with a really lovely quote from her regarding accepting and discovering one’s identity:

“…There's nothing like that first time stepping out as yourself, talking about who you are meant to be without fear. The world might come knocking, but when it does, knock back louder and say it loudly and proudly;

animated the "It's okay not to smile" scene from chapter 4

"The problem with trying to be historically accurate, is that history doesn't care"

Not my usual style I post here, but I hope you guys might dig this

From 2021-late 2022, during the height of the N/F/T craze, I embarked on an incredibly useless quest to hand paint a series of pieces mocking and parodying N/F/T’s— over 100 miniature 4x4 inch canvases featuring near-identical skull line art, with as much variation in the backgrounds and palettes as I could manage to think of.

The different design traits and background types were meant to evoke the mix-and-match nature of N/F/T’s, except instead of paying for useless intangible digital bullshit you actually got to own the physical thing, each one numbered with its place in the series. It was kind of supposed to be a performance art piece too, turning myself into basically a human factory cranking these things out.

- These were all done with Posca paint markers alone, no traditional acrylics or paint brushes were used here— which probably made these take way longer than they needed to. Any gradients/blending achieved here were done with a lot of layers and patience, or wetting areas of the canvas with a bit of water with a Pentel Aquash pen

Did Tumblr know magic: the Gathering has a buff ogre woman who does time magic through brute force? And has some of the most unique effects in the game? I feel like that's something Tumblr would appreciate.

step numbre 1: go to settings and scroll down

step numbre 2: you will click on one of your blogs

step numbre 3: scroll down until you see visibility and check "prevent third party sharing for [blog name]"

step numbre 4: repeat this for all of your blogs individually step numbre 5: shake fist disapprovingly at tumblr ceo

AND YOURE DONE!

【★ RELEASE】 OUT NOW: Maladaptive Strategies Vol. 2

Very happy to announce that I've just released Vol. 2 of the Maladapative Strategies release series, a series which seeks to round up all of the Bit Shifter project's old non-album tracks that have accumulated over the years.

This volume focuses specifically on tracks made with the nanoloop Game Boy musicmaking software, and it's genuinely some of my favorite material out of everything I've ever done. Mutant techno for your abstract dancefloor, plus two pop covers 'cause I have no self control in that department.

Engineer extraordinaire Trey Frye mixed four songs and mastered the whole thing; the peerless Andi Soto provided the gorgeous release artwork, continuing the theme started in Vol. 1.

Bandcamp edition includes bonus tracks, video collaborations with noteNdo and flight404 / Robert Hodgin, and a fancy 16-page liner notes .pdf booklet.

Have a listen, spread the word, and please enjoy.

THE ORIGIN OF THIS IMAGE:

So in my etsy I sell a pin of some isopods having at a bag of doritos based on this photo. Today I was contacted by the person who took it.

I asked to share this info and he gave permission!