The Wedgeford books are some of my favorite historical romances ever. Just need to say that.

Wizardry

stayed up way too late last night finishing this but I like how it turned out. ✌🏻

My painting of Tim Curry as Dr Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show

Happy Birthday Mr Curry thank you for awakening my interest in beautiful evil men

Three orange cats sitting on a couch, two on the back and one on the cushion.

They bring such joy to my life.

photo of a hand holding a small sticker sheet that is all black except for cat shapes with eyes

void sticker sheet

get it here: mcapriglione.art

Me eyeballing both of my parents for similar reasons...

a sisterhood of trannies and perverts 😌

Which is to say, probably I need this mug.

This was how I felt back in grad school when you followed me on Twitter (presumably due to a tweet about my sentient computer paranoia being your fault) and I'd mostly forget that you did, except every once in a while you'd like something I posted and I'd have exactly this reaction.

I took a class on Commedia dell’Arte in undergrad, so in theory I have an actual opinion here, and that opinion is that the Zanni mask was the most fun to play around and create variations on the obsequious and ridiculous servant with but I don’t have an affinity for any particular archetype of him.

If they yell at you, that says a lot more about them than about you.

(But also. I opened the app to my first ever notification overflow because of my response to that post. And then looked at your post and vocally went “oh no.” So. I understand the impulse.)

I would have a literal army of orange cats (and hire someone else to take care of all Cat Maintenance).

Like, I cannot overstate enough how much having three orange cats who occasionally thunder around the house in a little herd has done for my mental health. I want more.

I live in the Pioneer Valley, but my job is remote and isn’t college-related, so it’s extra weird to me that this has a high chance of affecting my job in the next couple of years.

Poster-style illustration showing eight different alien species against a white background. The title of the game and the name of each one can also be seen.

Poster style color illustration of An Antidote for Strychnine, a song by The Mountain Goats. It's composed of several panels displaying different images based on the song: lab rats, chemicals, fish bones... Green and blue tones predominate, but the band's name and the song title are written in yellow.

Illustration representing Summer Eternal's structure with the visual metaphor of a factory, accompanied by texts explaining it.

Comic page, showing some sort of control room inside a dome.

Hi! I'm Lur Noise; illustrator, concept/2D artist and comic creator.

I like drawing machines, architecture and critters, and have worked for people such as Deconstructeam, The Mountain Goats and Summer Eternal ~*

#PortfolioDay

Color sketches of Ryland Grace and Rocky from the film Protect Hail Mary. They go through various dance moves, including the moonwalk and a famous pose by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone from La La Land.

Dance party with Grace and Rocky! #ProjectHailMary

Last year, I introduced an internet friend to Farscape, and they went feral over it for about four months. (I was introduced to it in 2007 by someone in my study abroad program who thought I'd like it.) (I did.)

Matthew is one of the realest, most committed advocates I’ve ever met: saving lives, reducing harm, educating folks, and moving policy. If you can support, please do.

Cameron: suddenly harder than he’s ever been in his life.

Look, my husband considers himself culturally Jewish because his dad was, but his mom was a midwestern Lutheran so he's got a mix of holidays and does not keep kosher, I think if he considers himself Jewish you DEFINITELY count.

He’s like. Schrödinger’s sexy. Every time I see him do something where it’s like “oh, kind of sexy,” he reminds me he’s also Seth MacFarlane in the next five minutes and it goes away.

Spent another few hours and finished it today. The story takes place across three different time periods, which I plan to differentiate with different drawing and coloring styles

An orange cat who looks kind of like a ham, sleeping on the back of the couch.

An orange and white cat asleep on the back of the couch, all curled up with his nose tucked under his front paw and his tail dangling.

An orange and white cat asleep on a couch cushion, mostly curled up in a ball but with one front paw stuck out REAL far.

Here are marginally more aesthetic photos. (Alas, Zathras mostly looks like either a ham or an 18th century cattle portrait these days.)

The lumpenly bodies of three sleeping orange cats, seen mostly from behind, one on the couch cushion and two on the back of the couch.

It's not the most AESTHETIC photo, but please enjoy just how much orange cat is in my field of vision at the moment when I glance to the right.

Me on today's discourse:

I have a half-formed thought in my head about the increased access to creators and actors and the parasociality of it all, but it's not coalescing.

And I do think there's an increased trend in fandoms for properties that leave a lot of unanswered questions of fans getting ANGRY when they put in the time to come up with answers for these questions... and then the canon isn't interested in answering them, or answers them differently than fandom.

This did get me to go look at the total volume of fanfic on AO3; it currently has 19k works, which is a really big fandom! Not quite in the top 200 on the site, but close. That's a lot of people really passionate about exploring these characters and their relationships.

When the discussion is all taking place in the same open space and a sufficiently large fandom having a sufficiently heated discussion about something can put that discussion in trending topics for EVERYONE, wires can get crossed that maybe shouldn't.

I am not familiar enough with Scandal to be familiar with that collective conversation, but it does seem in line with the dissolution of fan communities I've been seeing from the fannish side of things; live-blogging has existed for as long as blogs do, but social media discovery pages are new.