@god just fucking de-organ me you wimp

I started coloring in the first pigeons for my Fancy Pigeon mood theme last night, and decided to take screencaps of the process as I went! I figured that it might help demystify the process for anyone who might want to get started, or who's just interested in how I do things.

I've decided to call this style my "painted" style, as opposed to my "pixel" style, which, in contrast, is almost entirely pixel art with a lot of very minor changes.

( Cut for example images and a description of my process )

I hope that was entertaining and/or enlightening for you! I don't anticipate doing this for every mood (especially since I already finished Okay without saving any mid-process examples 😂), but I think it was fun to do at least once 👍

Posting these here for Reasons...

( See the sketches for the first eighteen moods! )

In a similar vein to "Does the Dog Die?", I want a physical calibration check website. Like, at minimum, a list of foods and whether they're supposed to taste spicy or not would be great. An "Are Bananas Supposed to be Spicy?" type of web site, that expands to answer questions like, "How long should I be able to stand or walk before it starts to hurt?" or "Is stepping down stairs supposed to hurt?" and stuff like that. Including possible explanations for why you might hurt when doing things is probably a bad idea for legal reasons at the very least, but like. If there's somewhere it's possible to check, "Hey, is it normal to only be able to fully breathe through one nostril at a time?" then it's a lot easier to know that it's not normal and possibly bring it up with a doctor.

IDK, there's probably a lot of reasons it's impractical, but that's what makes it a pipe dream.

So after reading this article about the (lack of) brown recluse spiders in California, it occurred to me that I didn't actually know what brown recluse spiders look like! The article linked doesn't have any pictures itself, so I decided to Duck Around for some and learn me a little more, given that I apparently live in brown recluse range.

I stopped briefly at Wikipedia to get the basics, then went directly to images, whereupon I found an image that looked, in fact, very little like brown recluses had been described in Wikipedia, or the image I'd found there. Out of horrified curiosity, I clicked through to the page the image was found on, and was greeted with a veritable treasure trove of very obviously Gen AI spider pics. One of the spiders had eleven legs!

Anyway, don't trust the website Spiderzoon for anything, I guess, because if those are the photos that the article writers are claiming to have taken themselves, well. The reality they're photographing doesn't line up with this one, so the information likely isn't viable in this universe, either.

Another surprise podfic, this time of After a Fashion (trainer gets Darkrai a pair of Black Glasses), has lead to me to signing up with peasina for this year's pod_together! I've got another fic idea inspired by their same "one-eyed 'mon plus glasses" prompt, and combined a bit with an anecdote from when my brother was in high school and collecting miscellaneous metal objects for a while. I think it has promise!

It should also be short enough that I can fit it in and manage a fic or two for Sot69, my main schedule conflict 😂 Fingers crossed!