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Post by tiger beetle on Feb 4, 2021 15:56:21 GMT -5
Lately I've been a little less strict with myself about cooking curry all day long and done a few other things. Like yesterday I decided to find a shiny kabuto and instead somehow encountered a shiny 1% feebas...
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Post by kinkajou on Feb 4, 2021 21:34:21 GMT -5
I didn't even bring my switch to school this semester cause I need to focus on getting my grades up (they were uh not good rip)
Also Mint I love ur profile pic
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Feb 6, 2021 0:14:37 GMT -5
Thank you very much! I love it too.
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Post by tiger beetle on Feb 23, 2021 15:24:34 GMT -5
Can't believe it's been almost a month since I posted here. Everything is fine (EXCEPT MY SWITCH) but I've been having a weird time.
My schedule is really strange this year--I have Tuesday and Thursday completely off, which in theory means I have a lot of free time, but I seem to be spending it all procrastinating my math homework.
I did get my scanner set up again, so hopefully I can return to art soon.
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Post by kinkajou on Feb 25, 2021 11:42:59 GMT -5
Oh no what happened to your switch
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Post by tiger beetle on Feb 25, 2021 14:20:29 GMT -5
Apparently it's a known defect in old switches that the charging chip can just randomly blow out.
I have to mail it in to Nintendo for $120 and the process will delete my save files.
: )
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Post by kinkajou on Feb 25, 2021 18:33:15 GMT -5
Aw man that really sucks :/
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Post by tiger beetle on Feb 25, 2021 19:29:23 GMT -5
And of course mailing it in is as difficult as it could be. I have to buy plastic wrap? In this economy?????
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Feb 26, 2021 2:47:10 GMT -5
Oh wow. o.o That ... that just sucks. Sorry to hear about the save files!
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Post by tiger beetle on Mar 1, 2021 15:07:47 GMT -5
(crying emoji) I should finally be able to make it to the UPS store tomorrow. Maybe even today, but I have to find out when they close.
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Post by tiger beetle on Mar 1, 2021 20:08:48 GMT -5
I guess I'll share what I've been doing for the past few days: designing some Waspman characters as cats. Carlos (Waspman) and Elsa (Electret). I very much regret using a pink pen for this, but the lesson has been learned. I also regret trying to fix the pen problem with my brown marker. Sorry, Carlos. Carlos is sort of technically partially in costume, but he'd also wear this as just a normal outfit. Elsa's costume offers complete concealment of her entire body, which is why her friends never figured out she was Electret until that fateful day by Lake Erie. Later she changes her superhero name to Blue Jet, but I think she'll keep the costume the same. I might also add another blue part since the silver is a little...uniform? I am really telling on my inability to color inside the lines. Martin (Fred) is quite possibly the most threatening villain of the story. Good thing we get him out of the way in book 2! Chapter 2? Arc 2? I've been calling them arcs since I'm not really sure what's going on anymore. He doesn't exactly have a designated costume, but he typically wears formal clothes. He can summon more exciting elements, such as a cape made of light, using his powers. His eyes are green but glow white when he uses his powers. Dianna (Neon), Katie, Eloise (Nova), and Judy (Vixen) work together as a sort of cyberpunk/90s-aesthetic magical girl team. Unfortunately they are not major characters, but Claire befriends them in New Jersey, and they show up later when the world needs them. Neon is the leader of the team and possibly wields a giant sword, depending on whether I can get the look of the sword right. Katie doesn't seem to have any powers of her own, but she does have two magical knives that shoot triangles of light. The team welcomed her to come up with a superhero name, but she preferred to use her regular name still. Nova is wearing basically what my player character was wearing in my deleted save file . Please ignore whatever is happening to Vixen's pants. Kitty is a geologist who works at the Keep, the lesser-known second half of the Chicago Field Museum. She's been studying the Stones of Existence. Known only as Rabbit, this character may or may not live only in the world of dreams. Ray (name subject to change but I want to be faithful to the randomizer) is Carlos' roommate in sophomore year. He has the power of always knowing the length of a Fruit Rollup. Most of his outfits are more colorful than this but I badly messed up the lineart . Joel (Sundog) always thought it was a mental block that stopped him from using his powers properly at home, but eventually, he was forced to confront the truth: his parents were the supervillains slowly but surely taking over the world. However, his parents caught him breaking into the secret lair. Long story short, he ran away and has been trapped in another universe for over a year now, with no way to get home. Cecelia (Eclipse, name subject to change) saw Joel arrive at her universe and took him to a group of superheroes she thought might be able to help. Unfortunately, while they were aware of the multiverse, no one in this universe was yet capable of producing dimensional technology, due to the lack of confoundium. She's been visiting Joel at the museum base a lot and also letting him steal her hoodies. Sonja (Destroying Angel) is not a nice person. Fortunately for her the Waspman story is probably the most forgiving story she could live in, so things probably work out okay for her in the end? Out of all the villains who've gone for the Stones of Existence, Sonja has by far the most successful track record.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Mar 2, 2021 0:21:12 GMT -5
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Post by tiger beetle on Mar 2, 2021 0:28:56 GMT -5
Thank you! I've actually developed a lot of the Waspman story, although there are still some pretty big holes left!
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Post by tiger beetle on Mar 9, 2021 23:43:35 GMT -5
Still no idea when it's actually going to start, but Breccianose is going to be running a D&D campaign for a few friends, and I contacted the other people in the party with a great idea Our characters are all thinly disguised Johnny Test characters.
Ashtail is a halfling bard called Jonathan the Phat who likes to use Prestidigitation to create sound effects (namely whipcracks, guitar stings, and farts).
I don't think Mynafang has finished her character, but last I heard his name was Duke.
Adderbite is a human rogue called Gillian from Elsewhere, who has an incredibly high Intimidation bonus but instead of intimidation it's hotness.
I'm a very short silver dragonborn called Eugene the Glamorous, and I'm evil but on good behavior to win over Jonathan's sister, and I really need my party to NOT allow me to do evil things. I'm going to do an annoying voice the whole time and I hope Mynafang doesn't hate me.
Adderbite has already planned the enemies-to-lovers arc between Gillian and Eugene. (Or in her words, "We're gonna turn it into a BL.")
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Mar 10, 2021 21:45:40 GMT -5
Ahhhh. I just got back from a walk and my legs huuuurt.
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Post by tiger beetle on Mar 10, 2021 22:46:47 GMT -5
Unfortunate (dead emoji) but I hope it was a good walk!
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Post by kinkajou on Mar 11, 2021 1:01:06 GMT -5
I honestly know nothing about D&D but I love all your characters names. Is Eugene the Glamorous gonna end up with Johnathon the Phat's sister or Gillian from Elsewhere?
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Post by tiger beetle on Mar 11, 2021 16:51:44 GMT -5
Gillian from Elsewhere.
I'm not really sure how much I know--I did a campaign once but I was a cleric and we never actually learned how magic worked, so I just kind of guessed at the rules--but I do know that Gillian is accidentally minmaxed and Jonathan is extremely broken. Eugene is...mediocre, which is good.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Mar 12, 2021 21:26:53 GMT -5
I had a very good walk! I've been trying to do so more recently.
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Post by tiger beetle on Mar 14, 2021 0:22:53 GMT -5
Good! I want to get back to walking at night soon, but it's miserable to wear a mask in the cold, so I've only been going out when it's warm.
Also,
good news: I have figured out what I'm going to do for the art in future comics
bad news: I did not use it on comics, I used it on something else, so still no comics for now
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Mar 14, 2021 23:20:56 GMT -5
I usually like the reverse, since it keeps my mouth warm. XD
Hey, you figured something out, so that's good!
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Post by tiger beetle on Mar 20, 2021 16:41:55 GMT -5
That's true, I guess!
My switch got here on Monday, and I completed the base/IoA pokedex at about 2 A.M. on Friday. So...I did not do anything productive this week.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Mar 21, 2021 15:19:56 GMT -5
That sounds like you had fun, so I'd say that's productive for mental health. ^^
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Post by tiger beetle on Mar 22, 2021 12:08:49 GMT -5
I guess that's true! We had our first D&D session last night... Breccianose (the DM) actually mentioned at one point that she was thinking of Johnny Test, but she didn't seem to catch on???
Mynafang's character was Mr. Testament (Mr. Test for short), a guy with a hair disorder who is totally not a werewolf.
Jonathan's age changed from 22 to 11 when Ashtail realized she didn't actually have to be able to buy anything to be allowed into the tavern.
There was supposed to be a battle in the tavern, but Breccianose kept rolling badly, so all that ended up happening was that I used the spell Grease to make the floor slippery so all the villains kept falling down and we all walked out of the building. (There was also a lot of flirting.)
It turns out the rest of the party has no interest in following the intended quest, so I've been having to make up motivations for Eugene (the evil one) to want to help people (mostly he wants to steal from them).
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Mar 24, 2021 13:19:13 GMT -5
That sounds so wild.
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Post by tiger beetle on Mar 30, 2021 1:47:46 GMT -5
On D&D episode 2, We got attacked by bandits. I used Grease again and it was less effective than before but still resulted in us walking away without killing anyone. Gillian flirted with one of the bandits and talked him into handing over a hair cream.
We gave the goth pixie the gifts for her wife, which (I didn't mention last week) consisted of one of each flower* from the florist, all of the Paranoia (which I think is supposed to be 1D with MCR aesthetic) merch from Hot Topic, and one of everything sold at the bakery, and then the pixies told us about their missing friend.
We went to the bar and got drunk first, but after I completely ruined Gillian's flirting by (unclear whether acting or genuinely thinking the spell was still active) pretending I could still talk to the sheep**, we went to the missing Razor's house, where Jonathan played such an impressive guitar riff that a window opened and let us climb in so we could investigate. Turns out, what a surprise, Razor has been transformed into a wolf, something we could never have guessed because he definitely isn't plagiarized from Genshin Impact.
*Actually, Gillian ate one of the flowers right in front of the pixies.
**The sheep is a magician transformed by his evil apprentice. I read the scroll that let me understand animals, but then we spent a full hour at the pet store, so the spell wore off before we could go through with the moneymaking scheme we came up with. (We could also probably have asked more useful questions than we did. Mostly we pressured him to promise us money if we helped him, and then Gillian flirted with him. It's hard being technically evil but also being the only person interested in cooperating with the plot.)
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Post by tiger beetle on Apr 1, 2021 1:36:25 GMT -5
4310!?
So...the first 7 comics in the update were made before Flash died (yes they have been sitting in the folder for 1000000 years, yes I am sorry), but the last 3 were made tonight. Ignore the 9th one, but comparing the 8th and the 10th...in both of them all the outlines are pixely, but in #8 Herringsplash's stripes are also pixely, while in #10 I've used the same soft brush as before for Breccianose's stripes. Opinions?
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Apr 2, 2021 2:54:32 GMT -5
I like the pixely stripes. :3
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Post by tiger beetle on Apr 12, 2021 8:04:02 GMT -5
All right, that’s probably what I’ll go with, then!
I’m vaccinated 💃 (dancing emoji)
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Apr 13, 2021 4:05:03 GMT -5
Nice!
I ... would love to be but //looks at certain issues// I'm going to have to work out how to do that ... :/
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