Traci Shepard @tashepard@witches.town

Watching people getting into Bayonetta 2 today, I am just being reminded of how I played the first game so hard I friction-burned the skin off my thumbs.

So I really wish I had a Switch, 'swhat I'm saying.

https://youtu.be/jdW21QSUfEw

For some reason earlier I thought the Black Panther talking figure had an American accent, and it doesn't* (I may have been hearing some Killmonger) but in testing it found it includes the phrase "the Dora Milaje are great warriors," which is very nice of a toy to cede to some of its time to the ladies.

Rather a 12-inch talking Okoye, though.

*It has AN accent, I'm not sure it's the right one but I'm not the most educated on the matter to judge.

I can't believe being expected to go into a room and try to appeal to Trump's conscience, expect him to be compelled by morality. The Greek gods assigned less impossible punishments.

The GOP: Don't politicize these shootings
Also the GOP:

This also puts me on a deadline to come up with a new name. If absolutely pushed I'm open to Compendium of Arcane Biology or some other permutation of running that through the thesaurus but I don't love it.
Alternatively, the Arcane Beast Compendium had the nicer acronym but it doesn't flow as well...

Gonna be relaunching my Patreon on the first, CC should be active again sometime the following week then hopefully we'll have banked a few podcast episodes so that will start soon after.
Don't have much of an idea for the Patreon yet but thinking monthly prints and private early streams of the podcast illustrations that I'll put up as time-lapses on Twitch when the corresponding episodes drop. Anyone has any suggestions of what else they'd actually like from a Patreon I'm open to 'em.

"Alien big cats" is always such a less interesting topic than the name implies

Did an afternoon WoW video, mostly picking a mount and kicking around a farm. But I liked talking about the real-world mythology of the different species I encountered so I might lean into that as I get into further areas with more interesting inhabitants. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/231407875

I had to stop listening to Comedy Bang Bang because it had gotten, uhhh, bad, but Are You Talking U2 To Me was just the right amount of Very Dumb humor and earnest appreciation for something and infrequent enough to not outstay its welcome, so I'm glad they're continuing it with REM.

Kinda wanted to jump into another stream right away but I'm also exhausted so maybe in the morning. Maybe I'll alternate days between drawing and games?
Planning on doing nu-CC MWF so draw streams can line up with that once it's launched...

Working on some character design, watch me try and figure out how to put clothes on a spider https://www.twitch.tv/tashepard/

"I tried Arby's for the first time in like eight years and I'm currently going through what doctors might refer to as 'full death'." #AwfulSquad

I want to take Iara through some of the Lunar Festival stuff since that's New To Me, but I feel like I should draw more than I WoW.

Got a couple errands to run then I'll probably keep the stream train running. Haven't decided what to do yet, though.

And I think the thing BP gets that pretty much every other Marvel movie has failed at is it a good villain is one who might actually have a point.

It was a distillation of everything else Marvel has done before it, but it was also all the things they've been missing, and that makes all the difference. It was solidly good, fun, but even something familiar, told by new voices, becomes something fresh and exciting.
It had the same "we can all be better" ethos as the Last Jedi that I loved so much, I think. I'm most surprised how hopeful it left me, both the film itself and the real world implications of how well it's doing

Was wondering if BP'S opening was just getting hyped up but this is a very full theater for a Tuesday morning...

Good news is blood tests came back clean and I'm clear to get on spiro as soon as I get the counselor's letter. Blood pressure still high but downgraded from Alarmingly High to just Worrisome/Fat.

Now I'm gonna walk down to the mall and see Black Panther. Also I met some horses.

It's a pizza office.