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

Raandyy, no, what have those maniacs done to you https://witches.town/media/yT9KrxBwtIlFLJA6I7Y

I usually call it my favorite podcast, but I haven't listened to Short Cuts in about a year because I just kept putting it off for a better time to listen and the episodes just kept building up and now I'm pulling the trigger on a backlog of 25 episodes to catch up on.

(Which, realistically, is only gonna take me a couple days to burn through.)

An ongoing issue: when I'm behind on an illustration, I will overcompensate for the lateness by trying to make it a more detailed drawing, and the extra details only lead to it taking more time to finish.

B-b-b-bennu and Wadjet

And confirmed, I can get the Nightborne and Highmountain races with the progress I've already done, I don't have to grind their reps again on this character.

Erchitu got the last exp to ding 110 by giving Baine Bloodhoof a friendship bracelet.
Felt the need to record the quest turn-in on OBS for some reason, so now I have that memory forever.

Just saw the video of the Boston Dynamics robot politely holding the door for its friend and, like, I don't have a single coworker that would do that, I say bring on the courteous robot overlords.

Any jacket or hoodie I grab out of my closet is going to have a pair of child-sized Halloween-themed gloves I forgot to take out of the pockets, that's the Traci Guarantee™.

This isn't the plan right now but just idly looking at the prices people sell WoW character/accounts for and in an emergency I could probably live for a few months off what I could probably make with mine.

Shitty sushi for lunch still better than not having sushi at all

There are people here who get excited when it rains, and I've never gotten to that point, but coming from the Northeast I still appreciate being in a place where overcast days are the outlier rather than the norm.

I feel like I should learn to tank and heal at some point. Playing solo with Beast Mastery kind of has me running all three slots at once, but really I've only ever done damage. The other two just seem way more stressful and I just don't want to deal with strangers yelling at me as I invariably get things wrong as I try to learn how to do them.

Going through the past expansions as Horde, noticed the differences between factions are well-balanced but largely superficial (altho, very important lorewise to see the same events from two different sides). Legion, OTOH, diverges substantially by making the faction quests 99% identical, but w/ a massive variation in playthrough depending on your character's class (and profession) instead. Combined with less of a focus on introducing new things in favor of bringing back all the elements and characters they've established over the last several decades into one giant climax to Sargeras' arc, but you're only seeing like one-twelfth of it at a time.

Mists of Pandaria may have gone a little overboard on the gag references sometimes.

But they did stick a Last Dragon character in there so they get a pass. http://www.wowhead.com/npc=64757/shonuf

More like Lich Won't-Stop-Talk-King :v

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'?!"