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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I get it. I started sculpting a few years ago, and it ticks my art brain box real hard. I have no interest in molding, casting, and commodotizing it, so I just kinda have a bunch of oil based clay sculptures sitting around.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The only Christopher Nolan movie I really dig is Memento. I can appreciate parts of the rest of 'em. But as a whole, I just don't connect.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I think finding community during that time is what made me want to do the same, offline, after.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It would be nice to see you. I'm like a Victorian ghost child that haunts the walls, so meeting here is my only chance.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

That's funny. It has weird reach. We had two different groups in from LA over the last couple of weeks. I would very likely remember your friend.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Someone get me a pillow and a stiff drink. I'm tired. But fulfilled. The place is kinda magical. Also, I am explicitly not linking to it. That's not the point of these posts. It's inherently a local thing. More than anything, I'm just flabbergasted that this weird idea has worked. Thrived, even.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We, in no small part because we're filthy commies, figured out as ethical a way to engage in the capture of dough as we could. We keep the lights on and employ five community members. I haven't taken a penny from the endeavor in three years, and I just want a place like this to exist. And it is.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Designing a space for people to linger in flies counter to capitalist incentives. The need for the number to get irrationally bigger for most businesses begets a desire to turn over tables, maximize profit, and treat incoming guests as temporary.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The gaming offered is a thinly veiled excuse for folks to touch grass and make friends as adults. And it works. Before long, the people who meet playing D&D or singing karaoke are watching each others' kids or going to ren faire together.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

People are starved of genuine interaction. My running joke is that I'm a bartender-dad for all who enter the space, adapting to the needs and capacities of the moment. I'm an extrovert's extrovert, but even my battery for interaction has gone empty at times. There's just so much need.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I've been running a social-club-third-space centered around gaming for going on four years. Whenever I see people post about the sorts of spaces we need, societally, I mentally check all the requisites we hit. It's gone really well, we're not going anywhere. It's tiring work, but rewarding.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I forgot to post this yesterday, but we've got two more of these this year. Thought that counts?

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Levi Combs @planetxgames.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Stefan Poag bringing that old school heat. Man, I just cannot get enough of his stuff. Pure OSR magic.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

My art assets and dystopic, corporate entity branding work, so far, for a Mothership adventure and sourcebook I'm working on.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Thank you! I don't get to make "clean" art often, so it's fun to noodle in this style.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

A little puddle jumper, exterior and interior. I'm displaying the maps on a 27" CRT that I intend to flush mount to the bottom of a 50", round table.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I took a lot of the art drawn from my two-level Cottage (organic research vessel) and standardized it, added some detail to it, and pieced it out. Here's one level from that map and another new, dystopic corporate entity logo. I'm leaning into the '70s origin of Alien for all the corpo aesthetics.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I made an Affinity asset library for all the bits and bobs I'm adding to sci-fi maps for my Mothership sourcebook. It makes piecing together complex scenes (like this Ace Judicial corporate mediation chamber) buildable, fast.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Two more fake, evil corp. for Mothership.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Pfft, of course. If something is being extra tricky, I just adjust my grid or scale the object to have more squares to align with. It's flexible and easy.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

More or less--I just like having a quick way to snap to midpoints and judge my proportionality. Kinda like rule of thirds, but for symmetry and balance!

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

'Couple more fictional corporations for a Mothership sourcebook I'm working on. The list grows, but the corpo stooges and grunts gotta come from somewhere. And the businesses beget all the rest in a setting like this.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Compilation of all my Mothership corpo-distopia logos from yesterday and tonight. Got a lot more to make for my sourcebook. I've freelance illustrated & designed for clients like Nike, Burton, Nickelodeon, MST3K, etc, for 20+ years, so I'm putting on my vector hat for these and having some fun.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I bought an X-Shot nerf-alike on sale that had a Poppy character on it, and it hits like a tank. That's my entire exposure, and it's a stupid toy.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Report back your findings if curiosity takes you.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Some of the logos are one-revision wonders, others (cough, VSC), are a very iterative process.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I'll look for it! My Discord DMs are a dumpster fire because of the social club. On it.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Thanks! Fun to noodle on.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Working on the fictional independent corporate entities for my dystopic Mothership ttrpg sourcebook. It's a great excuse to make some fake logos. Lmao.

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Finished the Flatwoods monster today - artofcoop.threadless.com/designs/flat...

Final color art of the Flatwoods monster

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Finished my two-level corpo-research vessel map for a @mothership.bsky.social one-shot I'm running soon. Drawing all the bits as I went is creating a bit of a vector asset library to more quickly make maps for Mothership in the future which makes me happy.

VTT Map for the ttrpg Mothership module I've written. Level one, crew quarters, medbay, restrooms, mess hall, engineering, storage/refuse, dock, airlock.

VTT Map for the ttrpg Mothership module I've written. Level two, cryo sleep, bridge, research lap, corpo-stooge living area.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Had a blast drawing the tiny bits on this @mothership.bsky.social adventure map. Now I just need to finish two other levels.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Cottage is my in-fiction Weyland-Yutani analog, so it felt right to pun.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I'm drawing the first level map of a @mothership.bsky.social one-shot I'm writing. I just need to finish the armory and the armory security scanner room. Close.