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Apparently this year's April Fools prank is that all my cool, hot friends are going to message me and be cool and hot about it. Good joke, excellent bit. @ ///@ 💨💞

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"Wait, am I in danger?? Particularly sexy, sexy danger???"

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Being part of the vore community is real funny - sometimes someone pays you a totally innocent complement on a totally innocent drawing,

and then you remember their specific preferences for vore and just go:

👀💦

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Tbh, sometimes I really miss taking comms

But a lot of that feeling was folks being eager and excited to work with me about drawing their character (and also me having the time and motivation to make sure it happened, haha!)

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"But it's jank too, tho!"

Okay, that one's fair, and I honestly cannot disagree - have a nice day.

I acknowledge that I have a much higher jank tolerance than most people, so it simply does not bother me, haha!

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How can you look at stuff like the extremely weird use of "rude (default hidden)" applied only personally, furries getting banned from their own DMs for no reason, or entire accounts hidden from all view by mods here and think Masto instances are worse? Be serious.

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Listen,
I've accepted that Mastodon is never gonna be as popular as Bsky

But I find it so funny that folks will say they'll never use Masto because "instance mods are too powerful and could be petty"

When the mods on the major socials are more powerful & more petty on the reg.

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Yesterday: "well, pre-breakfast was harrowing, breakfast was scuffed, and the rest of the day was devoted to important but not-fun things... but *tomorrow* we get art done for sure!"

Today: [wakes up sick] oh, come on...!! 😫

Marker drawing of a Mole - this one is mostly greyscale, with a soft yellow light element

A greyscale marker mole drawing with a pink nose

A marker mole drawing colored and shared entirely in yr23 yellow ochre

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Meanwhile, back on marker paper, trying to home in on exactly how I'd wanna use these markers
(After figuring out how to avoid terrible ink bleeds, haha!)

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Which is to say like
I, personally, am not experiencing body dysphoria and feeling a flash of gender euphoria when this happens.

It's more like just
Looking through a window at an alternate reality and saying "hell yeah, I could rock that, if I did. Go me 😎"

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Some days I look in the mirror with, and my hair is just right, and my facial features line up right, and I just think
"damn, man - I could be a pretty girl if I wanted to be!"

But in like
A comfortable with my current gender sort of way, ahah!

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O, how I miss those balmy 20°F days from so long ago 😔

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Nothing like a couple weeks in sub-zero temperatures to make the mid 20s feel like just-long-sleeve-shirt weather, haha!

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In my experience with them at various job, most mechanics especially HATE two things:

1. Not being told what is wrong with the vehicle
2. Being told what is wrong with the vehicle.

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Last year was super weird for me creatively.

I actually drew *a lot*, saw a little improvement, started some design work for major projects down the line...

But it's all prep and sketches and WIPs - I got basically nothing *done* all year, haha

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Me last weekend: hey, while I'm posting new finished art anyway, I should try to get my other socials all caught up!

Me after posting just the art from that weekend to those socials: oh... i guess... that's it actually. 💦

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While I'm on about employment anyway,
tbh, I think the most life satisfaction I've felt at work was grinding as a full-time artist while between jobs

I didn't reach a point where I was cash positive with it, tho.
If I could without hemorrhaging money, I'd do that again in a heartbeat.

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I still super appreciate everyone who supported me and my art during that wayward little time in my life and made it a super positive experience.
Y'all are treasures. 💖

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Tbh, I'm ready to leave this job anyway - but my biggest fear is always that a shitty workplace will badmouth me to a better place I'm a prospect for. Like, just out of spite.

And usually it's kind of unfounded... *It feels like a super well-founded fear at this hellhole*, haha!

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Right-wingers always do this thing when you hit a nerve about *just how fascist* this admin is and they have no legit rebuke, where they furrow their brow and half-pleadingly throw their head back and say "noooOO!" like a child who just got told they can't get a happy meal.

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Right-wing old woman at work today asked if we'd seen "police of that one country attacking and killing protesters" and I really, genuinely struggled to figure out that she meant Iran, not the US.

So, anyway, I made a quip about glass houses, and now my job's probably in peril, lmao

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My phone has decided that Angry is a proper noun and keeps auto-correcting in a capital letter.

Either Inside Out had a bigger impact than I thought, or Snow White is about to get it's live action remake

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The other fun thing about it is that the system simply *cannot* export data anymore

I assume it tries to use dependencies that just haven't been part of Windows for years, so it crashes every time, haha!

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One of the fun things about work using a pre-y2k piece of software still is that every new year the system seems to say "202X?? That can't be right!" And refuses to apply entries to the correct date until you *demand* that it is, in fact, that year.

Then it just shrugs & works right 🤷‍♂️

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But what I'm *really* excited about is that I drew some more vore upto lineart to test those markers when they come in and I was *cookin'*, jazzed to get to share those with y'all. ✨

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I found a set for a much more relatively reasonable $1.15/each, so that's exciting.

Also finally decided get myself a lamp, so I can finally draw & photo physical works at my desk & even after sundown, haha!

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What do you *meeean* Tombow water-based markers are like $3.50/ea in a set???

Bro, since when are water-based markers charging Copic prices? 💀

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I should get some decent water markers - I wonder if I'd vibe with those better than my alcohol markers...

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I'm sorry, but *we* are not the weirdos here - it is *so fucking weird* to be mad about a mod this mild 🤣