Traci Shepard @tashepard@witches.town

Hello Mastodon. I'm an illustrator with a focus on animals and monsters from folklore, and I just restarted my art blog on that same subject. Today was the first post in over a year but if you're new there's over 400 entries in the archive to check out.
https://arcanebeastsandcritters.tumblr.com/
My day job is killing me and living and transition expenses are piling up so I'm going to try and have a go at making a living off this art stuff, so have the standard Patreon link
https://www.patreon.com/tashepard and a Twitch stream for drawing (and some WoW) https://www.twitch.tv/tashepard/dashboard
#Mastoart #art #monsters

Have a window with like 40 tabs open researching for the new CC entries and forgot how much I love falling down these holes. It's one thing when I've already picked a monster and I'm specifically researching that to draw it, but this, when I'm trying to find new things and every little discovery I hit just branches off into five more directions to check out, is the best part.

The joke is perfect so long as the riddle was unsolvable, "solving" it only takes away from the impact as a character moment for the Hatter.

I hate that people have retroactively come up with functional punchlines to "why is a raven like a writing desk," because "Why is a raven like a writing desk? It isn't." is still the most beautiful example of non-humor I've ever heard.

I am satisfied with the flavor of these herbed-up sweet potato fries but the air fryer is producing less the promised "crispy" results and more "somehow both soggy and burnt at the same time."

"That's his Enrage mode, when he does that, don't."
"... 'Don't'?!"

They Might Be Giants is one of my bigger gaps in cultural knowledge yet today I've still managed to wake up with Meet James Ensor, a song I haven't heard in minimum five years, stuck in my head.

I was excited because on my Alli alts I always accidentally fly through the Horde enclave in Dalaran on my way to the flight pad and it kept booting me out but now that I'm here as Horde I keep going to the Alliance side out of habit and getting booted there.

Erchitu's in the Broken Isles, baby, and she's got a new transmog for it, awooo (spectral wolf-howl)

What the hell is going on tonight

What the chic :O 🐥

Unrelatedly, I am intrigued but skeptical about these magnetic false eyelashes I just found, anyone know if they're a waste of money?

Alright, I have a podcast co-host, now I just need... a podcast.

Mostly I just need to learn to edit, if anyone has any recs or baby-steps tutorials.

I hope y'all check it out when I start streaming art again because 🎶I really need to quit this shitty fucking jobbb🎶

Hell, I don't think I even need you to watch it, just mute it and switch tabs, unless it can track that sort of thing

(Although eyes are more C'thun's thing)

I think it works better kept as a mystery, but surprised by the relative dearth of canon lore around the Darkmoon Faire. Hope that doesn't change but given the eye motif been wondering if they're somehow related to the Old Gods and're going to play some part when the Void comes calling.

Maybe Silas has been N'zoth this whole time, hiding in plain sight.

Just sent an email to a potential podcast collaborator so get to be a nervous wreck til I hear back about that, now

Developed a breakfast ritual of a small bowl of yogurt with some variety of granola, a banana and half an avocado and today in a moment of... whatever the opposite of lucidity is I just threw the avocado into the yogurt and it wasn't unpleasant but it still feels wrong somehow.
Like fruit in yogurt has always been A Thing, but I texture- and taste-wise I never think of avocados as fruits, they're just these weird little green alien butter-pods.

Tardigrades are known as "water bears" because bears are water-soluble and that's all that's left of them if they stay in the water for too long.