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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️

@coherentvoid.bsky.social
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Artist, scientist, wanderer. Grasping at dreams I refuse to abandon. Blindly pursuing classical animation without much in the way of rigid instruction or guidance. Sooner or later, it's all going to work out.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 47m
This is just cool. These are photgraphs of vibrational modes set up in a classical guitar soundboard captured via holographic techniques. If you play acoustic guitar, this is what you feel under your hands as you play. Arcane knowledge. Oooh.
Image of a textbook page with holographically generated images of an acoustic guitar soundboard vibrating. The image shows how the different frequencies resonate on the guitar body.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 1h
"Super intelligence" is a desperate and erratic move. In Go, you don't play erratic moves if you're winning. They've lost sente.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 1h
Ugh. So first its super intelligence. Now its "no really ai music is cool like vinyl you're missing out." Begun, the great ai rebrand wars have.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 2h
New day. New chance to change my trajectory. Gotta have tangible pre production progress today. I can't get to my desk because I have synthesizers, radar, holograms, and art supplies stratified as if a geologic record of my mindscape.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 15h
The whole AI boom thing is just a bigger version of shit coin or private equity scam. Buy something with debt, hype it up, bail and leave somebody else holding the bag. Having tied themselves to a dementia patient with AI psychosis, the equity holders are running out of places to ditch the bag now.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 16h
When I predicted that they would attempt to rebrand AI just before the bubble pops, I expected a competent rebrand. I think trump just shat all over one of the techbros closing moves. They won't be able to play that card anymore... and i feel they're at risk of holding their own losses now.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 19h
I'm going to start referring to animation styles like kung fu styles. Rubber hose style Lion style Looney style Phantom style Mecha style Forbidden style (y'all can figure that one out) And so on.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm going to try to start doing this at least once a week. Celebrating myself: - I love that I'm really good at learning difficult new things and combining them. - I have pretty hair. You can celebrate yourself too.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My cartoon is inspired by that old Space Patrol radio show from the 1950s. I loved how asinine the science was. But now I can't just be silly with it. I'm over here trying to create a scientifically plausible boat race on Jupiter. (In Jupiter? How do we talk about her) I'm too smart.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Something is in the air. Everyone is short tempered and fatigued. Or I have some more pronounced monthly mood cycle and it hits around the full moon. I'm going to be nice to myself today and try to get some foley effects and sound design done.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Okay today kinda sucked. But tomorrow I am definitely going to get to work dragging this cartoon together. I think that I'll use watercolor backgrounds for the victorian era, then some kind of practical effects for the 1960s. And macro zoom and holograms for space-future.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wonder why utility belts never caught on. You'd think everyone would be wearing them nowadays.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pretty soon my creative parlor is going to be filled with blinking lights, analog electronics. cables, cords, and circuits. Lasers and holograms. Schematics and piles of old physics books. It'll be such a sexy studio.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Abother day of digging through ancient tomes to recover arcane knowledge of the lost arts. Gotta see if these holography photo plates are still good. And see if I can rig up a way to create a hologram that shows a planet rotating as you move around it.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Finally got a portable CD to get at my 100+ cd collection. And yeah I know I can listen on my computer but ... i don't need a computer. At all. Between this and my vinyl collection I feel so un-matrixed. It's relaxing.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I need to find a way to post cogent update vids on my experiments here. I don't really wanna waste time on youtube. God forbid insta.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jeez. I did so much explosive creativity this morning that I fell asleep mid afternoon. Feels like I did a workout.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thanks everybody who humored me this weekend. I appreciate it. Interesting wonder week. I am really excited about this mixed media analog cartoon I am going to work on for the season. I guess I just needed to get out from under my own inertia.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh neat. Holographic film plates are no longer manufactured in most places. So i have a limited number of tiny plates to use for learning and creating the cartoon shots. Then I need to invent a new process. I guess I have to get good fast.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I can't shake the feeling that posting that silly pic of me unclogged part of my psyche and opened up this flow of brilliant and amazing creative ideas I am having this morning. Oh and, in time, I am def going to need help making this series of short toons.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I knew I rescued these books from the Alamogordo thrift store for a reason. Time for some light reading.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lol. In an age of slop I'm trying to make physical cartoons in the most awkward, esoteric medium I can find. I feel like a pioneer. Or a weird npc in a jrpg.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh weird. I'm so excited about my project that some of y'all posts are giving me deja vu. Today may be some kind of nexus point.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Omg omg omg. You guys... if I am animating over physical models and macro zoom landscapes ... Then I can composite the ship over footage of a laser-illuminated physical hologram! The space scenes can be freakin' holograms! eeeeeeee! Nobody space 3D like mine.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm sooooooo excited about this silly space cartoon project today!!!¡!!!!¡ 🚀🐾🐈‍⬛️ I wanna make the cats land on a dwarf planet where the background is macro zoom footage of cat litter dunes. And I want the theme to be that we can build the future we deserve.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Got a lotta ideas to try for the toon show: Use macro zoom footage for alien landscapes Fleischer style physical backgrounds Practical effects for spacecraft with hand animation over top Experimental soundscapes Cats traveling through time Think anybody will want to watch the shorts?
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I'm going to dig out my hacked police radar and sample some audio from it. It rigged it to output the doppler shifted return to a sound card ADC, but that menas I can make music with it. Ultimate analog, in that physical shape and motion is translated to sound.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So I'm starting to explore style and proportion for my space cartoon. Pulled out an old fashion drawing book from the 1960s. What I'm thinking is that I'll try to go for a retro inspired cold war look. Ugh. Really weak in drawing people. But I'll get there (no ref used here).
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Okay palate cleanse for caturday. Enough of me. Here's Cloud.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Okay that wasn't bad. Really scary to post a pic, but after my week I needed to regain some sense of agency and power. I'm not even racing to delete it.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A surprisingly large number of my core personality traits were actually just dysphoria. People need to quit picking on trans youth.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel so weak right now that I'm tempted to post a faceless selfie just to assert my existence. I'm more than a cartoon cat. Please tell me not to. I don't even have one in a decent outfit.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Doing better this morning. I can't keep trying to balance this tightrope walk between genders. I'm so happy to have emotions. And I even like having all of them at once sometimes. But I'm too hot for this crap. The hotness needs to be on the outside for once.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Going to bed. I'm filled with dread and an odd sense of foreboding. Just a tired brain I hope. But the night thoughts are too much this evening.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Okay so I fell asleep. I was going to animate a whole pencil test. But I did start sketching and will continue through the evening. I AM going to make this a cartoon. Honest.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was the first lil sketch I made of the cats-in-space toon back in 2022. Digging out all my old lil drawings and piecing it into some kinda hanna-barbera thing.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm tellin ya, nvidia doesn't think AI is going to make math obsolete. They just want the country's education budget going to them. They're going to rug pull the whole economy like a shit coin and hide overseas.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I just had the dream where I haven't been to class all semester and the finals are next week, but I haven't done any of the coursework so I'm probably failing the class. But this time the class was trans girl class and not physics. I don't know what that's all about.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Having a hard time capturing how beautiful the garnets are, but my birthday present new ring came today!
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don't know if its the autumn air or the vibe online today, but I had to dig this out. From inktober years ago, I started developing this whole cats-in-space retro sci fi adventure. I feel like I need to animate it now. (As in immediately). Whaddya think? Should I?
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So the thing is, all of us solitary artists would be awesome on a team together. This is why they don't want us all in the same place.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The great thing about making a HallowEaster animation is that I inevitably procrastinated on finishing it since Easter, but we are coming into Halloween. So it works. I'ma try to get it finished and posted next week. Keep an eye out because I think it's coming out good.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm sick this week, but the symptoms are presenting the way they did when I was 20. HRT has changed my immune response so it feels like a day off school. Much less severity and the rest does more for recovery. I'd bet it alters fitness recovery too. Anecdotal, but hormones are strange things.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good lord I'm insufferable. I have got to get back to art and science instead of being this soup of gender euphoria. Now that it's cooling off my garage is nearly termperate enough to solder up my muon detector boards. I promise I really can make stuff.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I had a dream in 2018 where I had to polish and repair this stone slab to a mirror finish. It was very hard work. When I was done, it revealed a woman in the light of the refelction. Again and again I asked, "Who does that woman represent?"
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey. I just wanted to thank all my mutuals and bsky friends who interact with me. I post a lot of random noise, but when you like or comment, I see you and I really appreciate it. You all know who you are. ❤️
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Obligated to post on this. Eggs from HEB, apparently a lot of people finding mold and other issues of late. Today, my egg had a bloody white. Like chicken blood. Possible bacterial contanation. DO NOT EAT if you find. Purchased in North Austin.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Me: The universe isn't trying to tell me something. This is just my anxious brain recognizing patterns. *cracks egg, blood comes pouring out* Me: Today is a day for watching cartoons under a blanket.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I just need attention today. I wanna talk about all the wonderful things I'm experiencing but I feel tacky doing it. There's nobody here to speak to in person.
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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I can probably solve all of the worlds technical problems if I wasn't isolated under a pile of ads and consumerist trash. If you're reading this, you probably can too. You should be pissed about this. You deserve better than this kind of shabby treatment.
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