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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 6h

And the way that the colours blend on those wings is so pretty! ^_^ And overall, a lovely composition, in pose, in the flower her seat, in use of colour, and even in the choice of her jewellery (which looks pretty on her), I feel! ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 6h

Ooh! I don't know Winx (I mean, I know >of< it), but I do like this! ^_^ I really like that there's a sort of Ying-Yang motif to her wings: a blue sun against the warm yellow of her left wing, and a yellow moon against the cool blue of her right! (cont.)

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At least as far as your art expresses, your weird self is pretty cool, I feel. ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

*joking mode* Don't tell me you're giving Ultima 7 functional, potentially even >fun< combat?! Would that even still be Ultima?!?! ;P More seriously, this looks like a really good addition to the game! Nicely done! ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

From some brainstorming that I'm doing for "Moons in Crystal": "wildlife gains aura?" (It doesn't mean what you think. :P)

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

That does sound... comfy, I do think. I have always liked Autumn. ^_^ (Well, maybe except for the coffee, for me. :P But I'll take a hot chocolate in its stead. ^_^) Meanwhile, I'm enjoying the first warmth of the year, when I can finally switch to shorts--but before the days get terribly hot. ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm glad I got it right! ^_^ It looks pretty, as your work ever does! ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ah, that sounds like a lovely way to be inspired! ^_^ If I may guess, is yours the one at the top-right, with the boy and the girl sitting on a branch? That one looks like your style! ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Aaaah! It is becoming clearer! A remake of Gabriel Knight 3! ^_^ :P

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It was a super-quick drawing--but the hanging and quartering were protracted. ;P

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I really like your painting corner there! Is all of the artwork on the walls yours, or is some of it inspiration from others? ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This particular patch >does< look particularly soft and touchable! ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One that I'm still fond of: During one of the major battles (I want to say Helm's Deep), they used CG Orcs to fill in the ranks These were animated to charge in with the extras, and charge in they did! ...All save for a few that unexpectedly ended up running the wrong way--fleeing the battle! XD;

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In space, all windows are skylights. :P (Well, unless you're really in deep space, in which case all windows are skydarks. :P)

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I've heard that, unlike the shareware model of Doom 2, Wood 2 was released in... Early Axe-ess. :P

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ah, an adaptation of "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad", I see! :P

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And the little props in the final picture looks like they'd make great stickers (or sprites) for building up a Faerie scene! ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think that your art is already pretty magical! ^_^ (... And magically pretty? :P) That green Fae girl in the second picture in particular (to my eye) is really nicely done, and has a sense of whimsy about her; she looks like she's contemplating what mischief to get up to! ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That's the hidden column in which she stores which of us voted for each entry, in case she wants to terrorise us one day... ;P

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good luck for your remaining pitches! I hope that you get some acceptances soon! ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*Ms. Spawn enters frame, riding a little tricycle* Do YOu waNT to PLay a gaME...? -Because I have recommendations! :D ;P

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Aaaah, I love the Haunted Cathedral! :D <3 One of my favourite levels in Thief--and I really like a lot of the levels in Thief! ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I thought about Thief 3--but disqualified it >because< it was just one level that was scary.

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Úna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

WARNING: As an author, I am receiving A LOT of scam messages from folks pretending to be literary agents, from publishing houses, etc. I'm exasperated by this scam; it's hard enough making any living as an author, but to be teased by such opportunities is nasty. writerbeware.blog/2026/03/27/w...

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Watch Out For This Scam Impersonating Editors at Major Publishing Houses - Writer Beware

I’ve recently gotten a slew of reports of emails purporting to be from editors at Big 5 and other large publishers, in which the supposed editor expresses interest in the writer’s work and asks whethe...

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hmm... That's tricky! As best I recall, "Dark Fall" and its sequel managed to get to me; and "FEAR" had some distinctly scary moments! As to polls... the lack may be a blessing in disguise! This way may highlight the variety of games that scared, which a poll would likely be too limited to do! ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Although I think that they might get a little stale in transit... ;P (But if not, I would be happy to! ^_^)

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh no! That sounds both painful and a thorough nuisance! (And not just for game-dev, I imagine!) :( Well, I hope that your finger heals swiftly! (But I'm glad to read that you're close to finishing that first chapter! ^_^)

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On a similar note, I made a sort of banana-pear-and-honey cake-thing over the weekend. ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Aha! Back on Vivaldi! :D All thanks to the power of "Not-Using-Snap-Installation"! :D

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A question (sort of two) for the artists in my follows! Are any of you planning a 2027 art calendar? Or know of another artist planning one? (I'm starting to think about what calendar I want!) PS: One that I already know about is @maxinevee.bsky.social's! Seriously, go check that one out! ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ah, there you are! ^_^ (I thought that it might have been Netscape, but wasn't sure.)

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Maxine Vee @maxinevee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2027 Calendar pre-orders are live! 🎉🗓️ maxinevee.com

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LindenShieldARTs (she/they) @lindenshieldarts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Violet Woods", gouache & coloured pencil 💜 Prints and stickers available: lindenshieldarts.com #TraditionalArt

A photo of a painting on purple paper, placed on a wooden desk and surrounded by paint tubs, paint brushes, coloured pencils, crystals, and leaves. The painting features a forest bathed in soft yellow light, carpets of purple flowers covering the ground. In the foreground, long-stemmed yellow flowers resembling buttercups grow out of the clusters of purple ones. The foreground is popping out of the frame on the paper.

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ooh, I love the way that the flowers and grasses spill out of the frame! It makes the image feel almost like the content of the image is spilling into the real world! ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well, looks like I'm accessing the internet through Firefox again for a bit. :/ (Some sort of bug--currently thought to be a bug in Ubuntu--is causing Chromium-based browsers on my system to consistently fail to load pages. My main browers, Vivaldi, is Chromium-based. Firefox is, I gather, not.)

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For me, I think that I prefer the left-hand crescent--the green one. I daresay that this is in part because it shows a bit more variation in colour, and because the other crescent looks a little... protuberant to me... ^^;

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Amusingly, that's not a bad description of some work that I've been doing of late, too! I am curious to see what it is that you're hinting at, I will say! ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The main difference between your method and mine is that your layers aren't all named "mew". :P

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm not a big one for roguelikes, I'm afraid, otherwise I'd be tempted! (Well, presuming that you had a version of the demo off of Steam, I'll admit.)

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