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 playing Overwatch a while back because my controller broke and I suck with the keyboard*. By the time I replaced the controller so much has changed I've been intimidated to jump back in.
But Support was always my class so I really want to get in there and learn me some Moira and Brigitte.

*My brain always tries to use Q and E as forward-diagonal movement instead of actions and I never found a comfortable way to remap them

bzzz bzz bzz https://witches.town/media/TPA5YD3P8UXwPI5B8pQ

So I found out Druids have a Mythic transmog set from Draenor that makes you look like a giant bug and I kind of want to put leveling all other characters on hold and just focus on getting that

I looked up the dog who played Wishbone, preparing for the likelihood that he had already passed (he had) but his Wikipedia page had one last gift to impart https://witches.town/media/wQ4Qz8zFNYMUDHdeL3E https://witches.town/media/POkHgI0y531-nLwj59Q

The more I sit with Annihilation the more the ending bugs me. Basically everything after she enters the "nest". Not enough to ruin the rest of the movie but the rest of the movie deserved something better than what it got.
It wasn't even like a gymnast pulled off a really nice routine and then stumbled at the landing, it's like they pulled it off then just stopped, flipped off the judges then walked off the mat.
Curious if the dude just couldn't come up with a way to end it, or if it was studio interference attempting to make it something more traditional and less ambiguous than it could have been.

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.