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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 23/09/2026

I discovered only recently that the only way to improve the French dip at Regular Lunch Joint is to get them to melt Cheddar on it and I am trying to make up for lost time

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 23/09/2026

"I sell Star Wars and Star Wars accessories"

George Lucas speaking in front of a backdrop of various Star Wars universe characters

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 16/09/2026

Somewhere in the Somerville-Medford tri-state area lurks a person with a secret, forbidden vice.

Sticker on road guardrail saying GO BIRDS

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 15/09/2026

Our Hero Enters a Den of Iniquity

A silhouetted figure with a jack-o-lantern head walks down an alley to a arched doorway with two gate doors. The doors are openwork, metal bars, and they are partially open. The light from the doorway is practically the only lighting in the scene, and the bars of the gate doors cast long shadows on the ground. Above the doorway is a neon sign, an almost abstract figure of a nude woman with an arm raised behind her head.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 13/09/2026

Carmilla, with and without the tonemapping/desaturation I'm using in this story (the image on the right is her normal coloring!) The bat dress is a one-shot for this scene (that is NOT its usual fabric) so I wanted to do a quick memorial render. (no alt text, that's literally all there is to know)

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 13/09/2026

I have enjoyed every single render I've done of Carmilla Velazquez so far in this story.

Carmilla talking to Jack earnestly in his office, looking up at him over her shoulder (Jack's more than a foot taller than she is). Spoiler: Carmilla is a vampire. It's not much of a spoiler.

She has bats stitched onto her dress.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 12/09/2026

As a consolation prize for that essay link, here's a story render from a couple of days ago. I'm not all that far behind on renders but omg I am being horrible about writing dialogue. I just haven't had the brain for it at the right times.

Our hero, a private investigator with a jack-o-lantern for a head, walks either pensively or morosely (with him it's hard to tell) down one of the many forlorn alleys of the naked city. The taxi that's brought him there (an old-fashioned Checker) is driving away behind him.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 10/09/2026

I think about this sketch a lot lately

Kate McKinnon as Hilary Clinton holding up a sign saying HE WILL KILL US ALL in that Saturday Night Live sketch that parodies Love, Actually

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 01/09/2026

The rule of the office window this summer has been that on the rare occasions a nice cool breeze has been coming in it, it's also raining and the breeze is bringing water in. The aloe doesn't mind, but the yellow shelf is getting a bit damp.

A large aloe plant looking out the open office window at a stunning view of not much. It is overcast and drizzling outside.

The aloe needs some of its dead leaves (or whatever they're called in a succulent -- bracts or some such) trimmed. I keep forgetting to do that.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 01/09/2026

First render of the Hallowe'en story's in the can and it's pretty damned good. That means it'll only get worse from here. (The composition's off on purpose; that big black area of wall at upper right is going to be needed to hold caption text.)

A private detective sits in his office, leaning back in his chair with his feet on the desk. He has a lit jack-o-lantern for a head.

The majority of the light in the scene is what's managing to seep in through the Venetian blinds. The colors are desaturated and tinted slightly orange-brown.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 30/08/2026

Last character design of the night. This story requires fourteen character designs of significance (that is, requiring more than a minute or two of tinkering), and I THINK this is the last one. I hope.

Polly is what, sadly, is referred to in online-perversion circles as a "goo girl." She is pink and purple and semi-transparent and drippy. She also doesn't look thrilled to be appearing in this image.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 30/08/2026

Ah, Roxie was 8 MB because of her fucking HAIR. I have deleted hair before for that kind of bloat. The thing is, I wasn't happy with it in the first place. I've changed to hair I like better and now her save is 225 KB, which is where it should have been. (Read alt text re her dress)

Roxie is a young woman with long orange-auburn hair, thrown back over her shoulders, and vivid green eyes. She is wearing a black ribbon choker with a mysterious glyph pendant, and a black satin dress with metallic orange trim, which has a V neckline cut so low that (since it is also off both shoulders) it is mathematically impossible for it to stay put in that position. Since Roxie is a witch, we must assume the use of magic, or, failing that, strategic adhesives.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 30/08/2026

This is Buttons, btw. I post a test render of her here just because every so often I am required to give someayall freaky-ass dreams. She is a V4 figure/surface (an antique), but the yarn hair is G8 and the button eyes are G9. It's a wonder she doesn't explode.

Buttons is apparently a living patchwork doll. She has yarn hair and black button eyes. She is staring directly at you (the camera) disconcertingly. Actually, she kind of isn't because of the way her eyes are sewn on; they can't quite both look in the same direction at the same time. (Which is even more disconcerting.)

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 28/08/2026

William Lloyd Garrison says “Yeah, yeah, elephants, big deal”

Statue of Garrison and lots of people wandering around the Great Elephant Migration

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 27/08/2026

I still haven't figured out "librariancore" but I DID decide that one of those outfits was perfect for the character I was just then designing, so, INSTANT VALUE

A big woman wearing a long brown skirt with a belt, a white blouse with an old-fashioned-looking collar, and a burnt orange cardigan, buttoned. Her head is a jack-o-lantern with a candle flame visible inside it. Her hand (the only part of her skin visible - she has no neck, and her clothes cover everything else) is decayed-looking, with extremely long thin fingers and long pointed yellowed fingernails.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 10/08/2026

It is an observed peculiarity that, while some folks will go out of their way to try to prevent reflection spots in the corneas, I go out of my way to try to get them. What can I say? I like my people to have a gleam in their eye at all times.

Mid-to-close-range shot of two women lying side-by-side in bed (postcoitally strongly implied) and talking. Actually one of them may be a demon. She has a very reddish skin tint, and horns.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 09/08/2026

Sometimes single-source lighting is your friend. (I can safely post this image without spoilers because the people who read Sleeper Squad will have absolutely no context for who or what this woman is)

A woman looking down at something off-camera with an expression of surprise or concern. The camera angle is looking sharply up at her face from ground level, as is the sole light source. The light is orange and illuminates her against a backdrop of a starry night sky.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 07/08/2026

Good panel. (Will almost surely be cropped on the page, so you may be the only people to see it in original ratio)

Firefly, who wears a moth-like costume, is in midair firing bolts from her hands at some sort of humanoid on the ground, whose shape we can't really make out because they are enclosed in some kind of lightning force field.

Because it is a running thing that heroes and villains in Century get visible title cards (yes, that the other characters in the scene can see and remark upon -- no one's sure how it works), there's text on the wall, superimposed on an existing sign or poster of a cityscape already in the scene: THE FIREFLY SEES ALL

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 01/08/2026

I needed you all to see this ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BEAUTIFUL first panel of the Sleeper Squad I just started work on (especially since this is a 3x1 wide and the ends will get cropped off, diminishing its broad expanse considerably) Click in and turn your phone sideways!

A wide expanse of desert, with mountains visible in the distance. Pale red sand and the twisted wood of dead trees. At left, Chelle is walking towards us, but she's still far away, just a small silhouette. In the foreground, right, two scorpion anthros appear to be confronting a common enemy (or common prey) -- we can't see what they're confronting, though.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 27/07/2026

Cena looks like the "We wuz wit' you at Rigoletto's" guy in this film. "Hey! Jern us!"

Harry Wilson in SOME LIKE IT HOT. (The character doesn't have a name, he's just billed as Spats' Henchman.)

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 25/07/2026

Playing my way through all the DLC for Escape Simulator and I hit the Portal-themed level, which was great ... but I hadn't realized until then just how much Portal taught us a symbolic vernacular. If you played Portal, what you have to do here is easy. If you didn't, it's incomprehensible.

Screenshot of a clipboard with eight diagrams on it. What you have to do is mark whether each of these rooms would be completable in Portal (that is, if you can get to the exit and open it). But to do that, you must know what each of the shorthand symbols in the diagram MEANS in Portal. They are not explained in Escape Simulator.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 22/07/2026

Oregon should adopt the kind of sneaker wave signage they have in Iceland, designed to scare the shit out of you.

A sneaker wave caution sign with three different alert-level warning lights on top, on a black beach in Iceland whose name I know but probably cannot spell

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 20/07/2026

They were things that needed to be fixed, for sure. But with non-work tasks tomorrow and Wednesday, I have only one solid day of work left for this code this week -- and I really NEED to do it this week. So I think on Thursday I'm going to just have to declare a Cone of Silence or something.

The Cone of Silence in use, from "Get Smart"

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 19/07/2026

If it was gradually pulling loose from the slot that'd explain the erratic. SO ... Hack of the day: Artisanal, locally-grown, card support beam. Hasn't done anything foolish in an hour of use since then.

The dangling corner of a video card is supported by a section of square dowel with a plastic cap on its lower end and a rubber washer wedged in at the top end. (The image looks weird because you're seeing our grubby vinyl faux-parquet flooring reflected in the glass front wall/door of the computer case.)

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 12/07/2026

One more thing about this scene: Claire and her backdrop have a pink spotlight, and unusually for Coldpoint, are in full color for two panels. When her pitch fails, we return to normal Coldpoint settings: Half desaturated and tinted slightly blue at all times. This helps convey her reaction.

Claire Parsons watches the two women she was trying to pitch walk away. Her back is to the camera, but even so we can tell she is dejected by her failure.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 12/07/2026

That propaganda art, BTW, was a completely separate composition which took thirty minutes, most of which was spent finding a font which looked sufficiently like it was from the first-menstruation pamphlet they gave all the girls in junior high. I go the distance. This view of it is just for you.

The backdrop art in question has a young man and woman in jumpsuits running hand-in-hand blissfully through a field of flowers, with text that reads "Human Futures"

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 12/07/2026

Sometimes I do get things exactly right. The brief here is "Claire Parsons in makeup meant to make her look both younger and kinder than she is, and fooling no one, standing in front of a very bad piece of fundie-Christian-feeling propaganda art."

Claire Parsons in ... eh, you know, the image is described accurately in the post.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 05/07/2026

Ah, I think with some pipes and other set dressing added this will do nicely

An industrial space of some kind which very clearly has something extremely hot under its metal floor

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 19/06/2026

People here to watch USA-Australia in the fucking food court of the fucking Cambridgeside mall. I respect.

People sitting in front of a large TV screen in a mall food court

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 17/06/2026

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 16/06/2026

Do not ask me to source this. I have tried everything. Reverse-searches, the lot.

A person of inderminate gender dressed in black with white gloves, short straight dark hair in a pageboy cut, and mime/clown face makeup holds up a papier-mache mask to their face, partly obscuring their mouth, while giving side-eye to the camera.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 12/06/2026

“Hello, visitors! You are in NORTH Station. Our train stations don’t connect — it’s like Paris but lazier, so if you’re trying to get to the futbol you are on the wrong side of town.”

Arrow sign on ground saying “South Station” and pointing to Green Line entrance

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 12/06/2026

TARTAN SIGHTED NEAR NORTH STATION

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 12/06/2026

I think about these panels a lot while I'm poking around DeviantArt

Woman who has just been involuntarily transformed by dude in laundromat: "You know, I'm strangely attracted to you. But I'm going to walk out of here right now unless you tell me the truth. I bet you don't want that, do you?"
Dude, referring to the transformation gadget in his hand: "It's ... uh ... it's supposed to turn you into ... my dream woman. I didn't think it would work!
[more quietly] " ... and I didn't know you'd notice ..."
Her, checking her reflection in a dryer door: "So you bumped up my tits and ass, gave me an eyebrow wax and a full face of makeup, and let my hair down.
"Don't know whether to be flattered I was already pretty close, or concerned about your lack of imagination."

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 11/06/2026

Since we apparently don't have Fay Hu here in the real world, I guess we'll need to destroy these people through the legal system somehow.

Panel from "Sweet Eliza," found wherever my fine comics are found. Fay Hu has been asked whether she had to go into hiding because of Spence Tervid's retribution for her leaking details which destroyed his company Teragon.

Fay explains: "Tervid couldn't find retribution with a telescope. And he sure as hell couldn't find me. He's probably sitting in a flop somewhere spending the last of his cash on ketamine. No, the problem was Danna Amadie."
Veronica, off-camera: "Oh, the Entropic thing. I should have guessed."
Fay: "I didn't want to let Lilliam keep going after that, or Clyde or any of their other little monsters. You know Clyde's actually what brought down Teragon. They were using Clyde to write half their code.
"But Amadie's not clueless like Tervid. She's clever and mean, and I should have taken her more seriously from the start. She never came close to actually getting me, but I did have to cut systems and remove traces. I erased myself. Then I spent four months rebuilding from scratch."

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 09/06/2026

No, no, not internet trolls. TROLLS.

An attack force of trolls -- quite a lot of them -- approaches the camera.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 30/05/2026

Today's story renders begin with a layout problem. These three images aren't allowed to take up more than one page row ... which is normally either two squares side by side, OR three 1/3 width rectangles side by side, OR a square and two 1/4 width rects. None of those options really works here.

Devil woman crossing a grassy field to get to a large stone-walled well or pool

Devil woman leaping into the well, which we can now see at an angle that reveals it is quite deep

View up from the "bottom" of the well revealing that it actually opens into a large underground room, which the woman is seen falling into.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 15/05/2026

Now, see, THAT might make it interesting

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 12/05/2026

"Col, it's a space opera, why don't you do more scenes in space?" 1) Space is nearly impossible to light well. 2) When you do get it right, and you spend ages setting up a scene, AND THEN HAVE TO REDO IT TWICE BECAUSE THE RENDERER HATES YOU, it STILL comes out looking like this B-movie bullshit.

Several small fighter ships are dogfighting while one of them strafes the bridge tower of the light carrier, leaving blue explosions where their shots are hitting. It all looks cheap as fuck.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 11/05/2026

If you would like to see what a panel that had to be completely redone because the renderer went into viewport thrash for forty minutes and eventually got forcibly halted looks like, here it is (actually the positioning of the launching ships looks better on my second try, so I guess I can't gripe)

This is a scene in space. There's like stars and shit. A small carrier has just jettisoned an explosive canopy, revealing a flight deck from which five small fighter ships are in the process of launching from, ranging from the one which is fully away on the right to the one furthest to the left, which hasn't even begun to lift yet.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 04/05/2026

Character design: The nicest, most polite Russian mobster who will absolutely space you if you cross him you ever met (OK there are no Russians per se anymore in the Quitclaim universe but Cherniy Medved is definitely composed of people who were Russian many generations ago)

A nice, polite Russian mobster, standing in a space station hangar, extending a welcoming hand to the viewer. His hair is combed back into a messy high crest and he is wearing a gray turtleneck sweater.

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 01/05/2026

Anyway, speaking of Old Boston, it’s that time again:

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Aquilegia Hybrida @eccentricflower.com · 25/04/2026

This is The Room. It has four mirrored walls. It makes the renderer absolutely lose its gotdam mind. The rule is I cut off the render when the CPU temp hits 80C b/c that's a fairly clear sign that nothing new is happening and the renderer is in "farting around" mode. Not with The Room though.

A young man is sitting dejectedly on the floor of The Room, which has four mirrored walls and no apparent exits. Leyna is approaching him from the left side.

The render is not as finished-looking as it would usually be because The Room makes the renderer hit my enforced CPU temp limit very, very quickly -- long before the render would hit one of its other stop conditions.

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