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Hanmonster @hanmonster.bsky.social · 14h

Another double time portrait from the queue all done! This one is for the always wonderful Codyfox of his precious giraffe cherub Ashley, who I’m always tickled to paint more. Super happy with the colors and markmaking, time rated at 6h!

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 16h

I am absolutely clawing with curiosity over this. The duality being painted between the two pairs. This could go so much farther than just trauma flashbacks. Three days... this is going to be good!

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Hanmonster @hanmonster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Got another iPad piece done— this time for @corrinmuir.bsky.social, who graciously allowed me to swap some photoshop hours out for this so I could complete it while I’m not streaming much. Somewhere north of 6h because I very definitely went overboard but had a lot of fun!

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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I started writing (again) about five years ago. The amount of value I find the more I just write my thoughts is hard to even quantify with words.

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nrcgray.bsky.social @nrcgray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I finished the lineart for this picture: Arrow'd 💘

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Max58 @max58.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Twilight Princess inspired art I did recently #LegendofZelda #TwilightPrincess

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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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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Me: *Struggling for months to find a way to enunciate the worry and concern I have for the craft of my career to anyone who will actually listen.* Dungeon Meshi out of right-field: This is how you say 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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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh the colours are wonderful! Absolutely scritchable fox.

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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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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As a Gen X, I don't want to judge because I don't know this person or their situation. This is just wildly out of touch. It reeks of "I own my own home ((because of inheritance from my parents))." Jeeebus.

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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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Preocts @preocts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know this pain. "I'll just edit this down a little" *adds a new chapter* "Okay... well, that was needed. I'll just edit it down a little" *adds a new chapter* And thus the joy and fear of editing is born.

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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

Found this from Skyen's justified lash against those being absurd. I have to agree... hope they get red lights all the way to and from work during their commute. Now to go back and watch this again because you can't just lay down a challenge like that. I missed it the first time!

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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

Jax isn't my favorite character, yet I cry for her. I'm on team "Pomni needs closure." And now, I now have a new song to add into the repeating playlist of my head. Daisy Bell Isn't She Lovely Wait by the River

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

It's a remarkably subtle nod to Jax's situation while keeping the focus on Pomni. Yes, the ending is bittersweet and tragic. I would love to think, in abstraction, they get to hug once more. However, what makes me tear up are those four lines, and what they mean for Jax.

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

These are the many faces of Jax speaking up, in harmony with the core being. It is heartbreaking to me thinking that Jax would find harmony within while still be trapped in abstraction. All of the time in existence to heal, yet it is still too late to come back.

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

Here, Jax is saying: "Here I am, all of me. The good, the bad, and the fucked up. No excuses, just the truth." There's nothing more to hide. Nothing more to find. I am complete. I am me.

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

We see each of the masks and they are speaking to Pomni from their point-of-view. Jax didn't mean Pomni harm, that was just to keep people away. Jax was a goofy fool who never took anything seriously. Jax was a man, and a very poor one at that. Not by choice, but by perceived necessity.

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

While Jax did horrible things, they never once used their past as an excuse. So, why did I feel these were just Jax making excuses here? Simple; My first impression was wrong. These aren't excuses but a new interpretation on the original song using all of the faces of Jax to play it out.

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

However, there's something more to be found in the animation. The artist, dwinni, uses Jax's eyes to proudly display the masks Jax wore to protect herself. Each mask effortlessly slides into frame as the lyrics progress until we return to just Jax.

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

I tried to understand why I didn't like this one verse. The obvious answer was that it reeks of "boys will be boys" excuses for bad behavior. In the context of the original song, I believe that's exactly what it is. "I was just a dumb guy, you know how we are. Just let me back in."

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

Baby, I didn't mean the things I said I don't honestly wish you were dead I'm a fool; I'm just a man If I only could hold you again These lyrics are feel so antithetical to the character of Jax that I have in my head that they stood in dissonance against the rest of the song.

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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 "rupert pumpkin" 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

Ah, I do miss the old names.

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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

If it's not your cup-o-tea, that's perfectly fine. Go find other creative things made by passionate people that speak to you. Consume the whimsy of the world and let it flow back out. Create your own. Here, maybe a random choice will start you somewhere: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5cF...

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THE LEGEND OF PIPI - ANIMATED SHORTFILM

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

If you haven't seen The Amazing Digital Circus, I recommend it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwAP...

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THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS: PILOT

YouTube video by GLITCH

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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

That's fair enough. Too much of what we use is ephemeral.

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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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