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

... Huh.

I'm not against it, inherently, I have a fidget cube. It's just... weird.

Just saw two kids in full parka get-ups and, like, yeah, it's cold out today but we're still in Arizona. :/

Think it's an important side-note that the BBC covered the boycotts here but I haven't seen a single American-run outlet come through my feed mentioning it. Good to remember, they're businesses too.

Florida shooting: NRA-linked firms hit by consumer boycott

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43173753

Talky Tawny's a tank now. Tanky Tawny.

"The story was supposed to be that of a child who, after a tantrum, is punished in his room and decides to escape to the place that gives the book its title, the "land of wild horses". Shortly before starting the illustrations, Sendak realized he did not know how to draw horses and, at the suggestion of his editor, changed the wild horses to the more ambiguous 'Wild Things'..."

I love that illustrators not wanting to draw horses is such an ubiquitous thing it led to the creation of a classic children's book.

quote via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Wild_Things_Are

Semi-regular imploration to do something better with your life than hate-watching things.

I try to know as little about a movie as I can but I've heard enough about Annihilation now that I need to check that out

If anyone's nostalgic for the old days of Twitter, I just found out Tumblr tags have a 140 character limit

My brain likes to hit me with random highly specific sense memories when I'm tired, and I just got a full blast of Chuck E Cheese shitty circa-1994 garlic bread

Mycanthropy https://www.twitch.tv/videos/231850828

Art stream is live. Mushroom monster and then maybe something else depending on run time https://www.twitch.tv/tashepard

Gonna do an art stream in about ~30. I think I want to draw a mushroom-man.

Not Toad.

I'm always more than willing to decry Wheel of Fortune as Dumb And Bad but I do have to thank it for providing this classic moment of televised history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLdZ9AhPCEQ

Okay, so I think I've locked in on the ABC acronym, but haven't fully narrowed it down a meaning yet. Right now I'm at

-Arcane Biology Compendium
-Arcane Biology and Civilizations
-Arcane Beasts and Critters (or Creatures)

or some permutation between those. Or the Arcane Beast and Creatures Field Guide or something like that. At least I feel like I have something slightly settled to work off of now instead of the nebulous pile of synonyms I've been mired in for weeks.

I tried looking up synonyms of "race" for something and dang if the thesaurus didn't have some thoughts on the matter

Everything is literally about money to them, it's the only filter they can view the world through. You can't appeal to their morality, you can only threaten their income. https://witches.town/media/So1J6ctAO0GaS-OSskQ

People know Twitter is rancid but they keep on using it. They're upset by whatever DC or Marvel did that week but next Wednesday they still go in and pick up their pull-list. People say they want change but no one is willing to be inconvenienced to achieve it.