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

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.

It doesn't seem like there should be/could be a restaurant here, I'm worried if I walk in it's going to be some kind of pizza office.

But if it is food and I don't order anything that is also awkward.

Early to my appointment so I'm just wandering around the complex and there's just other medical offices and tucked away in the back there's

a pizza place. No real signage, hass the same nondescript exterior as the adjacent dentist or family practice but it's just... pizza.

Just realized all the times I've shown up in the background of a TV show were pre-transition and got a little bummed out

Why am I even running Argus weeklies on my main anymore

Oh yeah because I'm desperate for random gear drops to get my iLvl up two points. :x

That said, wig still cute

I need to actually do something with it, but finally getting to the point where I'm happier working with my own hair than a wig.

I guess people in high school right now would be post-post-Millennials but I don't know what to call those.

Millennials are killing the blaming-millennials industry

Already laying out my all-cheap-velour lounging outfit for post-errand lazing.