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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 30/09/2026

Clem and Zhia'a stickers for GATEway FATE~

A drawing in a bold-lined, simplified style of a Viera and a Miqo'te from Final Fantasy 14, doing cool battle poses appropriate to a white mage and dancer respectively.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 23/09/2026

My keyboard has been Replaced.

Photo of my desk from above. A white and brown tabby cat is contentedly lying on my desk with her head on my arm and her feet stretching out in front of her. I visibly can no longer reach my keyboard.

Point of view shot of my desk. The entire lower half of the photo is occupied by a white and brown tabby cat, whose little foot is resting in my left hand, which itself is barely visible beyond the cat. She appears to be trying to press the space bar of the keyboard with her other foot. The keyboard has been evacuated for its own safety.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 17/09/2026

Tests because I was bored waiting for my boss to get me the credentials I need to do an assignment. The Dell scored well given how clunky it feels with Windows 11. I didn't realize the Linuxbook's specs were better than the tinylaptop's. Maybe I can get more adventurous with what I try to run on it.

Table comparing CPU, GPU, and RAM benchmark results for the super-expensive Dell laptop I was assigned for work, my refurbished hacked Chromebook with linux on it, and my tiny GPD Pocket 3 microlaptop.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 08/09/2026

Thrilled to inform you that this is my 666th post on this instance.

Public domain watercolor painting of "Old Nick, The Devil" from the Index of American Design, circa 1937

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 04/09/2026

@catwif3.bsky.social anything in specific you usually struggle with about them? The general idea, which you've probably heard, is to get your composition down before starting the real effortful thing, and take the opportunity to see how different […] [Original post on feed.bonyfish.net]

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 27/07/2026

See also: this meme I made for @catwif3.bsky.social when we picked her up on our shoulders and ran unsynched through the Crystal Tower raids with 6 or 7 people.

A screenshot from Malcolm in the Middle, featuring Bryan Cranston's character walking confidently at the head of a pack of enormous muscle men in speedos. Bryan Cranston's face has been crudely covered up with that of a Final Fantasy 14 catgirl.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 16/07/2026

I swear I'll stop posting screenshots of "Doctor Worm" genius annotations momentarily but this one is too good.

Screenshot of a Genius Lyrics annotation, reading: "when he is not playing the drum, dr worm is aerating the soil and participating in the decomposing stage of the energy cycle". For some reason, the annotation is unreviewed.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 16/07/2026

Important scholarship occurring on the Genius Lyrics page for Doctor Worm.

Screenshot of an annotation from Genius Lyrics, reading: "Right off the bat, Dr. Worm leads with his ethos. Before introducing himself formally, Dr. Worm wants us to know that he is called Dr. Worm by others, that he’s credible, an established member of at least some social circles in which he is known primarily as 'Doctor Worm.'

Of course, this is later complicated by the lyric immediately after the guitar solo: 'Someday, somebody else besides me / Will call me by my stage name,' suggesting rather tragically that not even his friend Rabbi Vole refers to him by his stage name."

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 01/07/2026

I forgot to update y'all on this but here's the clearest photo from that experiment, which was over-exposed by 5 or 6 stops.

A dark and moody black-and-white photograph of a mushroom with a wide, flat cap that looms a bit like a pancake. The depth of field is very narrow and the image has an almost foggy appearance. Looks a bit like something recovered from a shipwreck.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 17/06/2026

Everybody loves my new D&D character Slims, who is normal.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 14/06/2026

Behold: a demonstration of my Big Stupid Lens (feat. Radish)! It's a superzoom; the first image was taken at its widest focal length and the second at its closest. I was standing in the same spot for both photos, seconds apart.

Photo of a white and black cat laying on his side on the corner of a rug and looking towards the viewer. The whole cat is in-frame, with a fair amount of space around him in all directions.

A close-up photo of the same white and black cat, looking at the viewer. His head takes up most of the frame, and the rug behind him is out of focus.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 29/04/2026

You can draw whatever you want. And no one can stop you. That's the beauty of art. The beauty of the sea, however, is her:

A digital painting of a reverse mermaid (fish upper half with human legs) sitting on a rocky shoreline with one leg dangling into the water. The sky behind is turbulent. A vivid red banner wraps around the mermaids hips and blows in the wind, mirroring the rocks.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 15/04/2026

Scabiosa - Unfortunate Love White Catchfly - Betrayed, I Fall Into the Trap Laid for Me Black Poplar - Courage Finally painted to companion piece to my other revisited flower portrait! Rynne, the boy who can't die. I'm really pleased with this one! Done in Rebelle 5.

A digital painting of a sweet-faced young man with auburn hair, looking wistful and troubled. He's surrounded by giant-sized white catchfly and scabiosa flowers. Above and behind him are black poplar flowers, with petals blowing off in the wind.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 25/02/2026

The new No Man's Sky update is basically Offroad Garbage Truck Simulator in Space, and I am having a blast (not just because I drove my truck full of potentially explosive hazardous waste into a chasm)

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 16/02/2026

Greetings from the hole in this tree.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 08/02/2026

Not pictured: Nik and I vying for control of the iron and sewing scissors. #hourlycomics #hourlycomicsday

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 08/02/2026

I'm back home where my computer (with drawing tablet) is so the quality of these has risen precipitously. #hourlycomics #hourlycomicsday

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 09/12/2025

Y'all wanna see the incredibly wide catboy desktop background that is giving me strength today? (I squashed all of my monitors into one big monitor in my graphics driver to take several of these the other day.)

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 20/11/2025

I've been playing Final Fantasy XVI and really enjoying it. Especially loved getting the tar beat outta me by a gigantic hot bird lady.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 14/11/2025

It also helps that the desktop backgrounds on 2 of my 3 monitors are. catboys.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 11/11/2025

One of my favorite things about "The Highwayman" is the lushness of the descriptions. Alfred Noyes spent a whole stanza describing the titular highwayman's outfit, AND HE WAS RIGHT TO DO SO!!

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 06/10/2025

We got back from our trip to Italy and I plumb slept until 3pm. Here's a picture Holly took of me at a ruined castle!

Photo of me, a dark-haired guy with stubble and tattoos, grinning and standing in front of a dip in an old stone wall, resting my arm on one side. I'm wearing a shirt with fish on it (a souvenir!) and have a film camera hanging from a strap over my shoulder. Behind me is a distant view of a mountain and clouds, and a bit of the city of Salerno from above.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 23/09/2025

[spider] What marvelous creatures we share this world with!

A macro photo of a spider spinning a web. The spider is a buff brown color with a big, round abdomen. The inner segments of her legs are red and seem almost to be glowing in the light. She looks fuzzy.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 21/09/2025

Commission for dear pal @thestarfishface.bsky.social !! A companion to the art trade piece of her character Lapis from a bit ago. This one is Laz, Lapis' mysterious counterpart/foil/???, with Adonis annua, which has a variety of common names including, pertinently, "blooddrops".

Drawing of a slim, pale person with chin-length red hair partly pulled back in a ponytail. Their clothing is black and gray, and they look wistfully and sullenly off to the right. Their left hand is clutching a dagger. They are depicted surrounded by eight-petaled red-orange Adonis annua flowers, which have leaves that look like grasping branches. One flower petal is falling from below them like a drop of blood.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 18/09/2025

Okay here's the film photo, I know you were on the edge of your seat!

A film photo of a dirt pathway flanked by tall bushes with many-petaled yellow flowers. Little dapples of orange morning sunlight are visible beyond them.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 17/09/2025

The exact picture I was trying to frame is on film and will need to be developed before I can share it, but here are a couple photos I took of the same flowers on my phone!

A dirt pathway through the woods, flanked by tall bushes with many-petaled yellow flowers.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 17/09/2025

Nearly fell into Lake Griffy trying to frame up a nice shot of some flowers, whereupon I checked my phone to find this urgent missive from my beau.

Discord screenshot showing a message containing a link to the Wikipedia "List of porridges" with the caption, "People just aren’t talking about this"

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 13/09/2025

That *also* said, I am a little afraid to post the actual link to the article this thread is about, because all my friends *are* on Bluesky and the URL contains the terms people are being suspended about. So all things considered, I'm not really that free.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 01/09/2025

Did you know? It might take a while, but you can drive all the way to the ocean.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 16/08/2025

Of course it did take me a bit of effort to dial in my setup. Here is a diagram of my first attempts to digitize half-frame negatives with my digital camera and the resultant scan of that same negative.

Slightly scribbly, meticulously labeled diagram of my absolutely barbarian initial camera scanning setup. A digital camera is mounted on a tripod, pointing down. Attached to the camera is a stack consisting of a K-to-E-mount adapter, a vintage macro converter, and a nice vintage Pentax lens. This apparatus is pointed at a Pixel 6 phone, on which sit 2 spools of sewing thread, on which are balanced a strip of film, which is flattened by sandwiching each end between two taped-together popsicle sticks. The phone is open to whitescreen.online at maximum brightness.

Close-up of some sort of rusted wheel. The colors are very bright, but the edges of objects are sort of fuzzy and crunchy.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 16/08/2025

Anyway: negative from my half-frame Olympus Pen F digitized using my flatbed Epson film scanner vs. my Sony alpha a5000 mirrorless camera with a modern macro lens. (100% crop)

Close-up of some sort of rusted wheel. The edges are a little fuzzy and there is a general lack of detail.

Close-up of some sort of rusted wheel. The image is so sharp that the film grain is discernible.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 04/08/2025

I'm participating in this research study where I have to answer surveys about my mood 5 or 6 times a day, which leads to these strange and poetic moments of dissonance where I'm sitting in the one shady patch in a half-abandoned parking lot, waiting in vain […] [Original post on feed.bonyfish.net]

A 6-panel autobio comic featuring myself, a kind of scruffy tattooed guy in a black tank top and shorts. We begin in a black car in the shade of a single tree. Close-up of a phone open to a gig delivery app showing no orders. (This one-horse town is deserted.) Our hero (me) leans back in the driver's seat, exhausted, hands over face. Suddenly: a notification! Our hero examines the phone, only to find that it is not a new order. Instead, the whole screen of the phone is lit up with the words, "DO YOU WANT TO LIVE?"

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 03/08/2025

Today in Pathfinder, Zhia'a had to be on his best behavior at a fancy party and mostly did a great job! (He did on one occasion fail to perform a backflip for a merchant he was trying to impress.)

Thick-lined ink drawing of a silver tabby catfolk looking stiff and nervous in Indian-style formal dress. He's holding a mug of chai in his right hand and has an ornamental dagger on his belt and a bow slung across his back.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 28/07/2025

A couple of recent favorites! 💕 Fuji slide film that expired in 2005; cut down to size, shot on my mini Yashica TLR, and cross-processed in my ad hoc basement darkroom.

Photograph of some plants inside a greenhouse. The window panes are fogged over and the plants are close and dense towards the bottom of the frame, with tapered heart-shaped leaves. The colors are muted and the contrast is high.

Photograph from inside a greenhouse, angled up towards the curved edge of the roof. The glass panes are fogged over, and the light from above is very bright. Despite this, the plants to either side of the frame appear shadowed. The colors are muted and the contrast is high.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 24/07/2025

I JUST MARKED YOU AS SPAM!!! GO AWAY!!!

Welcome to EliteSingles, Egan — Let’s find someone on your level

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 22/07/2025

Oleander - Beware! Rhododendron - Beware, I Am Dangerous Black Mulberry - I Will Not Survive You A revisiting of a character portrait from a number of years ago. Toby, from my perpetually-unfinished urban fantasy novel, Toothy. He's the ex-boyfriend of the […] [Original post on feed.bonyfish.net]

A digital painting of a gaunt-but-handsome blond man surrounded by oleanders, rhododendrons, and mulberry branches. He has very blue eyes and is looking at the viewer with an intent and unsettling gaze. There is a little spatter of dark mulberry juice on his cheek from the branches above. Behind him is a turbulent sky, shading from light to dark blue.

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 07/07/2025

We also went to The Container Store and I got these nifty little bins to organize my film fridge (specifically the expired film shelf because the canisters have trouble stating upright on the grating, and also because it is substantially more populated than the fresh film zone)

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your pal livali @livali.bonyfish.net · 07/07/2025

Woke up very early today to drive Holly to a dentist appointment in the city but we stopped at Roberts Camera on the way back and I got 3 rolls of barely-expired Portra 400 for $5 each 😎

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