Aicaya ⚧ @Aicaya@octodon.social

Internet's cut 'cause I'm too broke to pay for it, so I'm just gonna upload some sketches via mobile and possibly turn data off afterwards. Maybe someday I'll live somewhere that doesn't charge $100 a month for a decent connection.

Anyway, it's a study from photo followed by style imitation/referencing. Marked sensitive for nudity, as usual.

@Featherwatt Not yet, sorry—right now I only have rates set for individual pieces, not comic pages.

That said, commissions won't open until I've finished getting certain parts of my life in order (which will take many months), so I'm keeping mum about rates for now.

@Featherwatt Thank you! I should have a proper site made for them sometime in the next century or so.

And yeah, I was merely venting a tad, don't worry about it.

...I signed up to Mastodon for many reasons, but one of 'em was the chillness. So seeing the main dev get mobbed on account of a feature they're working on is making me uncomfortable.

Just make an issue on Github and discuss the pros and cons there. That's where code discussion typically goes, anyway. And go grab a glass of water and some fresh air. This ain't Twitter—mobs aren't even close to necessary regardless of what you try to justify them with.

You ever see an art tip that you immediately try out and go "Holy hell, why didn't I learn this a million years sooner"? 'Cause I just did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSXZHDzkytc

Suddenly I have a use for the lead holder and the gaggle of HB leads it came with (no sandpaper to sharpen them, though). This is the first time in a while where I sketched without being too rough on the paper, which is gonna make inking a lot more convenient and less reliant on a light table.

Inking practice since it had been almost two months since I touched the crow quill (I blame the lack of self-control caused by being mostly-offline and in the dark for over half a year).

Not really meant to look good, tbh—main purpose was just to practice line control and zone out while doing so (hatching like this is sorta meditative for me).

(cw: nudity, as usual)

Shoved a lot of stuff to the side, moved the monitor to the absolute edge of the desk and plopped the portable drafting table on top. Feeling significantly-less stressed now (so much easier to draw on an inclined surface).

Having one of those "nothing I draw is coming out right and I am growing increasingly-frustrated at this" days. Not helped by the fact that this is my last day before the internet is cut because I'm $110 short due to late fees from before the hurricane, so taking a break is the last thing I should do.

This is not a good day for me.

@adept7777 Yeah, that's also a common reason. It's a rare occasion when a company screws the pooch so hard that people *and* their socials both move somewhere else and successfully stay there.

I think the last time I saw it happen was when a lot of Skype users ditched it for Discord, and even then people still use Skype a lot. :V

I sincerely hope this new batch of artists actually stays. I keep getting hopeful whenever some of my favorite artists join only to notice months later that they went back to birdsite.

I think the reason this place works for me is because I came here to start over, not to continue. Everyone else feels the pressure of their fanbase pulling them back to the places they tried to leave, especially when they rely on commissions for a living. Looming rent payments make for quite the anchor.

There we go, updated the profile a tad. Maybe someday I'll also have a gallery link to add, but this works for now.

Had to cancel plan to completely wean myself from coffee due to unexpected bills and stuff. Gonna need another $150 to remain online next month, so staying awake's a bigger priority.

On the plus side, I ended up developing a healthy exercise routine from my efforts at trying to remain awake without my daily four mugs, plus I'm still good with just one small cup a day. So it's still a healthy improvement overall.

Internet went out yesterday and it still hasn't been fixed. So far in the offline realm:

* stopped drinking coffee entirely
* witnessed blackface in local television (because Puerto Rico)
* brother crashed grandma's car by being an idiot, will probably be dealing with medical debts for a long while

Good lord.

Disregard that last toot: Apparently GIMP 2.10 has an option to export EXIF metadata onto .png images. Will test later.

Apparently .png images don't support EXIF metadata. Was hoping to use that to embed a CC-BY-SA on future pics, but in order to add it I'd have to post them as .jpg (which I won't).

Digging the options on the new Masto update. Kinda wish there was an option for changing the width of columns or having it adjust automatically depending on the browser width, though (only the witches_town theme allows that, but I like the contrast of the default theme better).

I think just to be on the safe side, I'll turn on the setting for auto-marking media as sensitive and just turn it off on a per-post basis. Too scatterbrained to trust myself in this caffeine-deprived state.

...I just realized I forgot to mark the last sketch from a few days ago as sensitive due to nudity. Suddenly glad the post was unlisted 'cause that would've been awkward if it had been public. :V

Okay, so far I've:

* changed the theme for Neovim and urxvt
* made the .Xresources file readable
* configured tmux to display italic fonts

Now to remember how to actually *use* both Neovim and tmux because I haven't actually used them properly since 2016. All I remember at this point is regular Vim's navigation keys.

It's officially been over a week since I reduced the amount of coffee I drink per day to just one small cup. Still feeling weird, but hopefully that'll change in a couple weeks...?