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Hanmonster @hanmonster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another double time portrait complete!! This one of some hot lady muscles for the lovely @almonihah.bsky.social of his buff kitsune Gikata. 6h or so from start to finish— I’m super happy with How the textures on this one came out especially. Procreate is good shit.

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Game Wolf Advance (2001) @ator.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I LOVE YOU SENSHI. YOU JUST GET IT

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Dana Terrace @danaterrace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I could've never imagined working with such a spectacular & skilled crew, making something so gruesome & beautiful, which is what I love from the horror genre. So proud of our team & cast. And to those waiting, hope you enjoy, or at the very least, hope it makes you flinch. #knightsofguinevere

A black and white shaded digital drawing of Andi and Frankie holding Gwen as her hand reaches out to a sleeping Olivia. Knights of Guinevere. Text says: Episode 2, October 9.

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Hanmonster @hanmonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another ipad portrait done!! This one about 5h for @palehorntea.bsky.social of an absolutely gorgeous hummingbird fox— which of course meant I had to go a little apeshit on shine lol

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Actually vibrating with excitement. Oh, and it looks like they're taking this the exact direction I was hoping. It's going to be grim and I'm here for it.

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Hanmonster @hanmonster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another more-than-double timed iPad piece for @peregrinefeathers.bsky.social this time, of his adorable peregrine fellow holding his real life sun conure in a fond moment. Super duper fun, I went absolutely overboard timewise but extremely happy with the turnout.

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Hanmonster @hanmonster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Were you afraid when your ship rattled and burned? Are you resting up there now in the stars where I can find you?” A surprise personal piece I had to expunge the brainrot for after getting hooked on Casualties:Unknown. A little scarred expie I’ve drummed up called Laika.

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Some days of work leave me mentally taxed and exhausted. However, this remains true: In the ten years I've been out of retail, the most stressful day of work I've had was only as bad as the average day in retail. Be kind to folks out there.

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formerly @cryptidw00rm 🦀🌈🐳🐚 @aquariiy00m.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

playing dnd for the first time :D my silly wild magic sorcerer kitty 🤹‍♂️🎉

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Hanmonster @hanmonster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another iPad piece done! This portrait was for Macavity of their lovely ibex fellow— 3h as a regular portrait, super fun one!!

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Hanmonster @hanmonster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Another iPad piece done (which I somehow forgot to post upon finishing the other night)— a… triple? Time? Portrait for the absolutely wonderful @blackerst.bsky.social of a drop dead gorgeous owl man in an ornamental decorative falconry hood! Saying I had fun was an understatement lol

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Some great points from the view of the industry as a whole. I'm excited to play this game and beat it (for the first time). Now, I'm also interested to watch where this release leads.

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Fable Siegel, Lackadaisy Showrunner @fablepaint.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You arent alone. You were never alone. And what happened does matter. Maybe not to them, but to me at least. And I don't want you to lose the joy of creation.

a concerned looking raven with intense glowing red eyes looks down from a branch. A setting sun bathes the scene in blues, pinks and yellows reflected in the bird's feathers. the illustration is rendered in ambiguous digital pastels.

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Between TADC collector box sets, Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, and several other things happening this year, I'm going to be a very happy Preocts. Even if I'll be just a little lighter in the pockets. oof!

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Daniel Deng @ddengart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ocarina of Time Link and Saria

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yeah, that was an easy purchase. This show.... what even is happening to my brain?

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Hanmonster @hanmonster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today is my amazing Forever Person Wyrd’s birthday, and I finally dropped this on her as a present so I’ll post it here officially. I wanted to do a portrait of her gorgeous (but sweetly dumb) terv son, Zaku, with his favorite thing in the world: ball. She was giddy and now my heart is full.

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So, there's this music video for TADC that's doing pretty well. If you're a fan, you should watch it. Just, sit down someplace comfy first. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BveH... This will be a long thread... I have thoughts. ((also, if dwinni has an active bsky, please tell me))

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wait by the river (the amazing digital circus fan animation)

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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AndiArtzUw0 🔻 @2547waa.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

i told you told you to not get that one #Funnybunny #JaxxPomni

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

On 2026/06/27 I started writing some ideas down for a TADC fanfic called Darker Waters. Tonight, I've crossed the 100k words written in draft for the story. Final draft will be north of 65k words. Chapters 1 and 2 are on final edits. Ao3 posts are drafted. This is actually happening?!

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Obligatory funny number post. The writing habit building continues.

Current streak is: 69

Longest streak is: 69

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I meant to mention that I've crossed the largest challenge of the first draft. I didn't like the peak of the story I originally wrote. I pulled an entire chapter and watched the story collapse without it. After much effort, I think it's not only standing but is now stronger than ever.

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Darker Waters, a The Amazing Digital Circus fanfic I'm writing, is now at 17 chapters and 61k words. 1 chapter is ready for posting. I'm putting a lot of effort into this. The story means something to me. It's bittersweet as was the finale of the show. Go create things. You have wonderful ideas.

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Well, August is done and I don't know where it went. However, I did manage to continue to build my writing habit up. At least 600 words a day for 31 days. Quick plug to TrackBear as well. Fantastic free app. trackbear.app/@preocts

An image of a activity board. Notably, it shows a 600 words a day goal for August 2026. 31 days completed at 100%. A total of 66 days for a writing streak.

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Bronze-Gear @bronze-gear.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

First attempt at rounding a spine #bookbinding

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GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 28/08/2026

Wow what a good day WOW! ☀️

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Okay life. You know what? I'm just going to be kinder and weirder going forward.

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caprikuhl.bsky.social @caprikuhl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This world map took FOREVER. Was really fun though. It was weird because the Kingdoms are vertical, unlike a traditional top down map. One of the Kingdoms is a road network... how to show that, when it's located in all Kingdoms? Was... complicated X_X #ttrpg #rpg #osr #fantasymap #worldbuilding

A tapestry woven with a map of the Golden Forest, a doomed forest realm, sliding into the clutches of the Nameless Dread.

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hey. Take care of yourself. You're worth it. What? I know. I know. I get that. Doesn't change my request. Go have some water. Stretch. Breath. Just take five minutes. Treat yourself a little. You deserve it.

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What can one fan for your work actually say to this? Your feelings are valid, even if I think you were brilliant. I cannot begin to imagine the stress, pressure, and internal criticism the popularity has caused all of you. Maybe just this: "You need to look out for yourself in all this too."

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I am two months into still being on a book hangover (story hangover?) from The Amazing Digital Circus. It just hit all the right cords for me and several I didn't even know I needed struck. Introspection. Existential questioning. Empathy. Friendship. Loss. Trauma. Love.

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I have far more fun doing things that I don't think I'm good at than I have when doing things that I'm actually good at. It might have taken me a few decades to understand this.

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It was at that point, they knew the story had to be told. Draft name: Zero

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Two days ago: I'll do some free-form writing just to while I'm so stressed from work Yesterday: What am I actually going to write about? Today: Wow, okay. So this is a story about a single sole on a space craft and what she discovers about herself. (several chapters outlined already)

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Put the effort into your passions on the days that feel super easy. That way, on the hard days, you'll know what to do even when you don't feel like it. Passion is a flame, it needs to be tended or it will need to be rekindled.

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Spent the entire day at work dealing with issues that I don't understand. Spent several hours after work dealing with writing when I didn't know what to write. Laying down for bed thinking: Damn, I really didn't know anything today. At least I got it all done though. Celebrate the wins.

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Set a specific time that you are going to write. If your work schedule is floating all over the place, set two specific times that fit the shifts. Mine (this month): I will write a minimum of 600 words, daily. My start time is 60 minutes after work ends (I rarely know when my shift ends)

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Does anyone else read other fics, see a choice or plot that you have also written about and just breath a giant sigh of relief? "Oh thank goodness, I'm not the only one that saw it. Someone else shares my whimsy." - me ((this has happened no few than six times in the last two weeks to me))

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I am happy to report that it feels like I've spent more time out of work thinking about my hobbies this week than I spent thinking about work. I've let work define who I am for a long, long time. I'd like to start defining myself by all the other things I do instead.

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Posting something to Ao3 for the world to randomly read: no problem at all. Giving something to someone for an editing read: terror, panic, and anxiety. ... Why? Why is the brain like this?

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Hanmonster @hanmonster.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'm still open and looking for lots of work hours by the way! Hoping to get 20-30 in total for this month so I can pay for upcoming rent, don't hesitate to give me a holler if you have art ideas you'd like me to take a whack at! And thank you again for sharing and boosting!

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So this was much of my spare time this July. 52k words toward a fanfic exploring my very complicated feelings of The Amazing Digital Circus and its finale. Sometimes a piece of art comes along at just the right moment and hits in just a way to cause a cascade of emotions. Darn impressive.

600 words a day - July 26

A goal tracker showing 100% completed, 31 of 31 days.

Total words for Dark waters: 52,165

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Small steps every day. You can do it.

A writing streak tracker is pictured. Currently showing a streak of 34 days with a 600 words a day writing goal at 30/30 days.

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's so easy to become discouraged. Feeling the passion you have for an interest just fade into a muddied dull mess. Take a break. It won't make things better, but it will help you shake the mud off your feelings.

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Dark Waters is sitting at 44k words and has, so far, been solely responsible for blasting my writing habit goal out of the water this month (pun intended) TADC has rattled a few things loose in my head. This story has been painful to write in a good way. Fine your passion. Let it burn brightly.

A score board for "600 words a day - July 2026". Currently 26 of 26 days completed at 100%

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