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

The first trailer for A Quiet Place was really effective at not showing too much and getting me intrigued, but there was a new one before Annihilation that was just so generic and boring that it completely turned me off from wanting to see it.

Relaunching Critter Compendium on Monday and I've done about all I can do right now to get ready for it so I get to just deal with nerves waiting to pull the trigger on everything until then.

I find it unsettling that this doesn't actually use the word "chocolate" anywhere on the packaging, including the ingredients.

Reboot Wishbone, we need more shows that combine encouraging literacy and dressing dogs in humans clothes

https://witches.town/media/AW2iCb8w0hUk1qMvJ8c

Drawing that terrible idea I had this morning twitch.tv/tashepard/

Getting real tired of the news cycle pinning so much on the Mueller investigation. I hope something it actually leads to something actionable but no amount of Russian meddling can account for the public support thrown behind Trump's openly hateful, bigoted campaign and administration by lawmakers and citizens alike. Our problems aren't going to go away if we take down one man.

So sweet, so crisp, so bitter, so many #HowGreatTheOnions

It's crazy to think how all the videogames live in these wire colonies

Chrono Trigger and Cross best video game soundtracks, fight me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=923fVDDwaHo

Actually, what I need to do, she said as she plugged in her PS2, is play me some Chrono Cross.

Is tempting but if I'm going to spend money on Chrono Trigger in 2018 really I should just rebuy it for the DS. I have my original SNES cart still but I liked having that game on the go and I always regret trading in my copy.

... what was that about Chrono Trigger today, the headline came through while I was in the theater

Been watching some of the old Hearthstone promos and the One Night In Karazhan trailer has a Draenei with an afro and I'm going to need that option added into WoW proper, stat.

Moving my desk necessitated moving the TV so taking the opportunity to detangle and rearrange the Museum of Obsolete Game Consoles and Media Players and I have ended up with all cords accounted for all devices, but perplexingly an extra set of AV cables that were attached to my switcher and I just realized as I'm typing this they're FOR the switcher and I'm just leaving this whole toot as public record of my incompetence.

In terms of things that influenced me as a kid, I'm always surprised by how big a slice of the pie chart No Doubt's New video takes up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjZX4lLvopg

On the heels of Black Panther, it was also very refreshing to see an all-female team of professionals with varying skills and backgrounds, especially since it didn't call attention to it except for the one line that *explicitly* called attention to it for no reason and that felt super unnatural and really stuck out.

I also think this might be the first American movie I've seen in a while (if not ever) where I don't think any white dude had a single line of dialogue? Possibly the ambulance driver near the beginning, I can't recall him exactly.

Slow-burn philosophical horror uncomfortably wearing a thriller suit with an indie flick's score. At its best when you have no idea what's going on. Ending meandered a bit too much and might've tried too hard to answer things it could've just left unsaid.

Annihilation 👏 was 👏 very 👏 much 👏 my 👏 shit 👏