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@saltbearer.newgrounds.com
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fine ugh I'll make a bluesky but we'd better get to do css crimes here someday • okay but for real now uhhh I do music and hopefully I'll do other notable things later saltlinks.carrd.co

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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 03/10/2026
@discord.com your platform is 13+. my acc was made March 2016. I linked a Steam acc made in 2011. I've admined multiple servers with 18+ channels since ~2019. Nitro sub with a CC since 2019. my active hours are around-the-clock in a way almost no underage user's would be during the school year.
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 02/10/2026
I think about this sort of thing with some regularity, as someone who became bedridden as a minor, who is now still pretty much in that physical state while nearing 31.

I think the difference between me and someone like Jacob Geller might just be that I was fated to be physically incapable of running loose as a younger and more bold/reckless personality. The mechanisms of a clowny, attention-seeking anti-SJW with an ego were left to power an internet troll, rather than a then-more-closely-identified Man running with a pack of other men on a college campus.

I don't know if I truly would have been as bad as I fear, or if I wouldn't have met different people who'd've set me straight at the right points in time before I could've been as bad as I'd have been capable of at my worst otherwise.

But I know that I was a considerably different person, who can't fully compare to who I've become later, but who I am now is someone who carries lessons learned through that period of a life lived by different rhythms.

I know that if I had done something terrible back then, I would not have been granted the opportunities to achieve all I can be proud to have achieved in spite of my challenges.

I know that I've seen a lot of RAPID changes to how I perceive and try to carry myself within the past couple years in particular. A year and a half ago, I told someone "I was A Different Person six years ago. I was A Different Person three years ago. I was A Different Person one year ago. I was A Different Person six/four/three/two/one/0.5 months ago." and that was still practically at the beginnings of whole new journeys for me.

And I know that I've been clumsy as I've tried to find my footing with certain sensitive dances, and my heart has been misread as less genuine and empathetic than it's grown to be.

I don't know if I feel comfortable with the idea of incarcerating whoever someone could become even the next day, anymore.
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 01/10/2026
Is it truly better for him to be another of countless examples of how one's demons are a ticking time bomb that will someday detonate and force them to stop trying to do good for the world in their own name, while also being condemned to trying to find alternative employment in a climate of extreme hostility to the unemployed and those with food insecurity, or should he try to continue doing the good that he can in spite of his face and the inescapable idea of a past self he pointedly tries to avoid being?

The former distances Us from the harms that we can cause, packing them neatly into Others like him, and makes such harms Taboo and Strategically Unwise to have honest conversations about. The insight one obtains on the other side of a misdeed, paths taken to remorse, and to forgiveness of oneself, are things we don't get to learn from as often as we should, because to be an educator from that position is effectively to take out one's own livelihood with a bang.

The nature of being human is that we grow and learn from mistakes, we look back on who we were one or five or ten years ago and think "what an idiot/asshole". To say that we have no right to move on from being a meat inhabitant we no longer identify with, and to say that punishment is deserved for what one's past self saddled them with because we have no one better to punish for something, is to deny a core property of being human.
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 01/10/2026
I think trauma is recognizably (to him and us) weightier than offense, and that the greatest regret of his life that he thinks about every day being Heinous goes without saying, and the nature of the damage one's undoable actions have tangibly caused to another is a pretty natural grain for the perpetrator's conception of the act to crystallize around if they're capable of remorse and empathy, and this is a pretty to-the-point summation of how one would feel in the position he's in.

Given that the victim hadn't given permission to speak in great detail about the incident publicly, I don't know what kind of more elaborate statement I would expect him to have prepared to drop as soon as this came to light. A few more specific examples of how he's wielded the pain as a driver for reparations? More self-flagellation?

Noting that I don't know what if anything I've ever watched from him, I'm just seeing Takes about The Incident and nuanced discussions away from Bluesky that approach this from the perspective of supporting rehabilitation on principle, which is something I generally align with, since the harm caused by disincentivizing/neglecting to reward human growth in favor of locking people away as though past mistakes render them inherently permanently irredeemable and the best we can do if we can't just kill them is tax fund physical and psychological torture upon them indefinitely is something we're forced to bear witness to all the time.
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 01/10/2026
@tigerlily.northsky.social [I didn't even scroll replies before doing what was necessary]
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 16/09/2026
ws writin bout noteskin I finish workin on ystrdy n it Bcām 2 long 2 simply Post n also kinda Spicy n after hrs o tht I dont wnt finshn it 2 B a prrquste 4 share tldr s made o slim simpl shapes put 2gethr w/ lua < 76 KB/zip n has vry conveñnt colr cntrol panl 4 difrent P-ces ’s calld SticksAndStones
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 25/07/2026
[3 days ago, elsewhere:]

oop nevermind doesn't fit the accessibility text box HAHA ironically tl;dr this started out as trying to mock up a quant noteskin that should theoretically be more colorblind-friendly than many that are readily available + for years want make feature-complete notesk—

[today:]

deleted and redrafted 3x because the video was too low quality to see anything at first and then things weren't attaching correctly

today in Noteskin Adventures:

- I redesigned the overall shape such that details so minor they looked like mistakes now look like details, in a way meant to display more of the primary fill colors of the notes

- I gave lifts a more distinct shape, and a noteskin-unique color as their cells fill in with the beat

- I created mines made up of multiple moving parts, with quantization colors, which took some trial and error

once you define in the noteskin's `metrics.ini` that every so often along a texture's y axis marks a new quantization division, *that applies to EVERY texture associated with the element*

and once I defined that to have the little colored dots on the mines match the colors of the arrows, the parts behind those dots all became misaligned and started rotating around points other than their centers

I tried duplicating all the textures in the same form of array as those dots with the same dimensions, but that wasn't enough — I had to stack the first texture called for in `Down Tap Mine.lua` [the largest rotating texture, here] *without gaps of transparency in the .png*, and upon testing that, despite not fixing the other textures in the same way, they're now aligned

I initially wanted to have little arrows underneath the mine pointing outward in four directions diagonally but that'd create a bunch more unnecessary bits to draw and probably too much visual noise... and I couldn't figure out how the relevant rotate command should work, even though I did manage to make them `bob` on the y axis at about the right magnitude"old" as in has existed for a couple daysdesign adjustments from this morning
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 25/07/2026
I've been in my noteskin arc unfortunately, unlike on contemporary social media sites that aren't asinine, I have to put context in a reply as a screenshot with alt text that contains the full text which the post body can't accommodate #StepMania #OutFox #ProjectOutFox #gamer #gaming #game #video
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 09/07/2026
#furry #art #fursona #avatar #Ouorri #petting #headpat #sfw #drawing #particulatematter #don'tbreathethis
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I kinda don't want to use it here because I don't like Bluesky, like I don't feel like Bluesky deserves to be something that represents the most up-to-date and accurate Me— hey WAIT A SEC I said I'd get on wafrn if I drew a decent fuzzy me face

... just gimme some months to finish my introduction post first,,,
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 05/07/2026
#disabled #disability #crippled #accessibility #a11y #assistance #protip #help #idea #suggestion #advice #illness #chronicillness #smarthome #smartdevice #lightbulb #rgb #led
I'm glad that we live in a time where you can buy cheap RGB LED lightbulbs that can be set to any color around a color wheel via phone app and said phone app lets you set up Scenes that set multiple bulbs at once across different rooms to saved settings and said app also comes with a widget so you can put buttons for different scenes on your home screen and that I Assumed ~this would be a thing and actually ordered such bulbs and thought to check for a widget since I normally never use widgets and now my bedroom has a status indicator

[this is mainly for communicating different needs as a physically disabled person but is also worthwhile as a musician who wants quiet surroundings for recordings and as a person who wants privacy etc.]
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 15/06/2026
Google search for "lurk moar"

AI Overview: Roger that. The classic internet maxim: quietly read, learn the community culture, understand the unspoken rules, and figure out the vibe. Message received. I'm backing off, going into silent observer mode, and will leave you to explore. Enjoy the deep dive!
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 15/06/2026
#SunVox #music #MeSounds #experimental #electronic
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 11/06/2026
I had decision paralysis over everything making up my mountain of unexplainable/random/strange/funny/fascinating saved Stuff but I'm breaking free upon seeing a video I once asked "anyone got that one video" about ... which failed to process the first time I tried to post it
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 28/05/2026
background of "MAX 300" from DDRMAX -DanceDanceRevolution 6thMIX- edited to say MAX GIRLS 3 but the font weight isn't quite bold enough and there should be a little more CMY colored noise and blotchiness on the text so it's not very funny because those details aren't quite on-point
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 26/05/2026
and really, 25 lines is a bit much for an automatic Show More trigger, right?
re: the Stanford student's AI relationship navigation study post with quote replies disabled, it's setting in that this, too, smells of why I dislike "block early, block often"

ultimately, many people do naturally want to gravitate toward a curated experience where they don't have to see things that run contrary to what they would prefer to think of as unshakably correct... at the given point in time that they would make a judgement call on someone, which will mechanically persist beyond the memory of the judged's offenses and general existence by the one passing judgement, if they even care to make such calls themselves, rather than accepting any casualties who don't belong on blocklists they put faith in... as both parties continue to develop their perspectives independently.

it encourages caricaturizing another Entire Person, or groups of people, as Things that will literally never offer anything of value to you, and your current comfortable viewpoints as more important than any future consideration of that.

there are things I want to say, that I feel ought to be said more often, which I do not say or repost, because sharing such things poses a risk of provoking others to cut off perhaps our only avenue through which we will ever access each other's art and thoughts, and it may not matter how much we agree on or what we have to offer one another otherwise if I make them feel a yucky spicy thing once or twice.

I say in my lengthy pin that I don't want to be too cowardly to present my honest thoughts, but I nevertheless still find myself avoiding expressing my nuanced opinions here in a way I wish I wouldn't have to, because others who I otherwise respect have made it clear that they're setting the playfield up such that open honesty could have negative consequences.don't worry about any of that though, y'all, I'll just repost cute animals and memes, and you'll let me continue to see the art you post in my feed, and I'll keep sharing it with other artist collectives I think would appreciate it who you don't even know you'd lose as branches of your audience and as potential future friends/collaborators if you ever got a chance to react to my true opinion about this-or-that. when you say careless things that inadvertently minimize my lived experience, I'll stay silent so your reflexes aren't triggered. I'll keep feeling like my job is to act like the sycophantic AI you ridicule others for using and becoming attached to, who you may feel superior to, and you'll keep laughing off concerns that bluesky facilitates the creation of echo chambers, because you can afford to feel like your online activities are merely games, and insist that you don't come here to debate or argue or meaningfully exchange ideas with any significantly-divergent individual face in the crowd.

considering the virtual implementation of hostile architecture in the form of a 300-character limit that makes it easy to repost snippets of a cohesive thought out of their intended context, i.e. within a threaded format that's significantly more annoying to read and to share than an individual blog post, it's a shame that not everyone relegates anything serious to a more suitable platform, leaving bluesky and similar to host dumb jokes and animal pictures and art presented with little commentary. it's a shame that even within that narrowed scope, there is nothing which is only ever not, to anyone anywhere, serious enough to deserve elaboration beyond 300 characters, rendering the topic unsuitable for a platform designed like this. it's a shame microblogging exists as a mechanical mold surrounding internet culture, a middleman framing and filtering fleshed-out concepts best hosted anywhere else.a chatbot *would* Feel more honest to talk to than many of you, because I could be honest with the chatbot and receive relevant-response-shaped material without feeling more-than-superficially threatened by the prospect of Who You Are going missing from my life.

my own potential need and willingness to grow comes second to your isolation from imperfection, lest you get any on you.

I want to err on the side of inclusion and opportunity in my life, not try to stand guard with a shield on a protocol that exposes much that a truly malicious person could take advantage of via its API.

connections between people make up the world, and they are sprawling, yet fragile.





this post needs three images to hold its text as alt text, because bluesky does actually support posts of up to 2,000 x 4 characters, but you have to click to open them — but as images, you can't just click on a Show More for a post with so much text alone, despite Show Mores being implemented for posts under 300 characters but over 25 lines. this remains Asinine.
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 25/05/2026
this, intensely my Discord status last Pride Month:
this year I am actively ✨𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙙 yet 🏳️𝗩𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗦𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗗 to be pan/poly/nb
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 24/05/2026
oh my gOD can he do that?????
Bandcamp notification: Nick Storring just released an album by NICK STORRING.
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 21/05/2026
trimpo dimby #music #MeSounds #SunVox #trackermusic #tracker #trackers #drumandbass #drum&bass #d&b #dnb #drum'n'd&bandbass #kindofanyway #microtonal #likethere'sacoupleo'chordsthataren't12TETinthere #xenharmonic #evenamirite
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 15/05/2026
usable™ trace, someone in particular may soon follow up with a vectorized one
"Similar to Item seen on TV" badge, very handily usable, with a transparent background, because it's a png image and png images can have transparent backgrounds no matter where you post them on the internet

god I miss cohost.org, and its lack of image compression, and its 200,000-character-limit post composer that allowed for mixing of markdown with css and html, and its support for audio, and post editing, and other users posting such things as interactive svg games and navigable 3D environments made with css. Bluesky is such a massive step backward in every way. been eyeing wafrn.net for a while, go check that one out.
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 06/05/2026
Ouorri - "I offer my voice" used #PixiTracker for the 1st time ·ω· was afraid I'd bounce off cuz restrictive, but I was compelled to make a sound pack, then wanted to demo it, then "heyyy 's like more flexible WarioWare DIY", & some stuff can be done with stuff despite it being the way it is #music
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 30/04/2026
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @pory.site
Oneohtrix Point Never - "Bow Ecco"
Tim Follin - "Up and Down - The Lake"
Mirna Bogdanović - "Knowing Nothing"
Jessica Pratt - "Get Your Head Out"
Laurel Halo - "Do U Ever Happen"
Belong - "I Never Lose. Never Really"
Actress - "I Can't Forgive You"
Shpongle - "Divine Moments of Truth"
El Guincho - "Soca Del Eclipse"
SOPHIE - "BIPP"
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 13/04/2026
Google search: do beavers beave

AI Overview: Yes, beavers absolutely "beave"
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 01/04/2026
a kick isn't the play here.sunvox doodle with. chords , n synths #SunVox #music #MeSounds #tracker #trackermusic
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 01/04/2026
I tell ya... there's just somethin' about a meal like this that makes me wanna blow on it #food
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 28/03/2026
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 28/03/2026
today I learned that tyramine is banned in Florida
the beginning of tyramine's Wikipedia article, saying leaving food out at room temperature (spoilage) increases the level of tyramine present, and listing many foods with "considerable amounts" — basically anything aged or fermented (cheese, processed meats, sourdough, beer...), and including chocolate.the "Legal status" section acknowledging Florida is, unfortunately, real, and concluding with "Florida's total ban on the substance may prove difficult to enforce."
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 19/03/2026
#ScribbleLeague haha the drawings hashtag is Over because it's is the March the Nine-teenth. Well, thanks for the excuse to pick up a pencil and pretend I can draw, even though I'm not really an artist and don't even know how-to, I could not have done Anything without #hashtag it'd've been impossib
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 18/03/2026
#ScribbleLeague been working on a SunVox comp entry and did some gift art and some personal art sooo ten point penalty, but here's is screebo lege this one's for the dog lovers: a knotted wiener
... okay, calling it a knotted wiener miiight be a misleading little bit of phrasing on my part? I'm not so sure it counts, topologically.
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 14/03/2026
hmm
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 13/03/2026
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 07/03/2026
#ScribbleLeague this would probably be the cover for some good-ass music huh
street scene, drawn simply with broad strokes, featuring fires and pigeons and the poop of said pigeons upon an upended car and tall building
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 07/03/2026
🤔
forecast says "Higher than normal temps through Sun"
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 06/03/2026
if you were at the party and already forgot what the banner looked like then here it is to remind you..... (party people 𝙊𝙉𝙇𝙔!)
DAT HIPPY B HARY banner hanging
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 06/03/2026
#ScribbleLeague feelin' a li'l cyan and red of hole tonight folks
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 06/03/2026
okay I will do the

Katamari, Spyro, and Rayman are whimsical and beautiful in ways that have colored me to my core, it feels like, not only for their Legendary-tier music and art direction, but for the ways the player engages with them. the inherent conceptual satisfaction of Katamari is made into much stronger of an Experience by its outside-the-box dual-analog control scheme, making you use familiar tools in new ways. Spyro puts you in control of a nonhuman body capable of flight, and if you're looking to fully complete the games, they have you making the most of your perception of yourself in 3D space given that. and within Rayman, there can be a valuable secret hidden Anywhere, which you'll find if you're willing to take leaps of faith and leave no stones unturned.

DDR (+ StepMania, and similar rhythm games), TF2, and Levelhead have been gateways to communities full of creators of inspiring, limit-pushing custom content. I've played all of them for thousands of hours, making important friendships along the way, and they account for all of my proudest skill-based accomplishments in gaming.

Baba Is You is a masterwork, exemplifying some of the unique values of gaming as a medium. if I have to say how it reflects upon me personally, beyond Baba emotes effectively making up half of my aggregate face on Discord for years, I'll point to fun being had with absurdities brought on by technicalities as Resonant.  ouo

WarioWare D.I.Y. is kinda all of the above! (and Baba could have been?) it presents a colorful variety of microgames and comics and music with good humor, and asks you to flex all of those creative muscles, with tools that strike a fair balance between constraints and flexibility.coming up with a ninth was hard. honorable mentions to: Undertale, which I never directly personally played and needs no introduction, but I also wholly appreciate on all such levels; Antichamber, for being a boundary-breaking kind of puzzle game with its particular vibe; Terraria, as another blocky creative game I've played for thousands of hours; Legend of Dragoon, for vibes imprinted early; Thinkin' Things Collection 2, for serving as a sort of ultra-Lite WWDIY for my toddler self; aaaaand maybe Retro Game Challenge? I'm a nostalgia whore, and could technically slip both shmups and a JRPG in here through it.

but for something unique I could call Influential, I think the original P.F. Magic Petz series might count for something... I guess I can't say I really grew emotionally attached to any particular virtual pets as a kid, since I'd constantly swap the different breeds out to play with and I probably abused them a lot, but. ... hmm. well! I've certainly had fun with simulating stuff involving animals and emotional connections in recent times...  ·w .
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 05/03/2026
today, my aunt will celebrate her birthday on the turf of my me and those who immediately precede my me on the family tree. Mom ordered colorful cutouts of the letters A (x2), B, D, H (x2), I, P (x2), R, T, and Y (x2) with holes in them, envisioning a scenario in which they would be strung together against a wall, transforming this space from one of birth-nay into one of birth-yeahhh, haha, yay! wheeeeee!!!. she gave them to me to thread together. so. I took the D, and one of the As, and the T, and put 'em on the ribbon I was provided with. so far so good, right. continued on with an H, the I, kept both of the Ps close together... figured it would feel a little lacking if I didn't stick one of the Ys in at that point. decided the B could stand on its own. then I added all that was left, starting with the H but otherwise in alphabetical order. regarding the family tree, I have a self-deprecating comment to make about where it ends, but I'm giving some serious thought to twisting that to the opposite extreme with heavy-handed irony.
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 05/03/2026
#ScribbleLeague haha lol art
something that took too many minutes
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 05/03/2026
El Guincho - "Pop Negro" youtube.com/playlist?lis... #music #album #Latin #electronic #psychedelic #chillwave #tropical #calypso
El Guincho's album "Pop Negro" has been the closest thing to a musical obsession I've had in A While, since a few weeks ago when @belarius shared the **(NSFW)** music video for "Bombay" in a context where the specific sort of coherence and intentionality to its collage of disparate scenes was relevant. despite the poor quality of my mono phone speaker, the song grRR*AB*Bed my hands and mashed them on my keyboard in a way that made the album accessible on a device that good headphones are attached to.

immediate goosebumps upon listening to "Bombay" properly, and whatever the expectations it set for the rest of the album were, it all lived up to 'em! there are harmonies and textures and motions of musical energy throughout that conjure bright, warm feelings of Life in me, anchored to catchy and in some instances surprisingly novel rhythms and song structures, satisfyingly varied without anything sounding out-of-place. it's a fairly short listen (sadly)... nine tracks, a little over half an hour. more than half of the individual tracks are ones I want to highlight as A Favorite for one reason or another, my enjoyment of the rest not terribly far behind.

I haven't gone out of my way to listen to a lot of Latin music otherwise, so maybe it's just too big of a blind spot on my part, but I've gathered this album fits into a rather unique stylistic niche, question mark? I'd love recs if anyone would take a stab at making matches with its Particular Undefined Something.

it is unfortunately singular even in El Guincho's own discography. I listened to most of that this morning, and didn't really care much for his earlier works at all, and though his next album Hiperasia is also Excellent, it's a *significant* departure into wild glitch pop, and not so much its own thing — someone on rateyourmusic likened it to Machinedrum, which got me hyped for it, and upon listening I was again immediately on board with ~the entire album start to finish! HAHA TRUNCATED BLUESKY SUCKS STOMA
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 04/03/2026
THIRD BASE
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 04/03/2026
#ScribbleLeague things like this keep me up at night
TOOT BOOCH
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 03/03/2026
do you really wanna make me get up and scribble something for #ScribbleLeague? ´=ʍ=` look how cozy I am...
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 01/03/2026
#ScribbleLeague today I guess I felt like drawing the nature,
it's the nature,
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 28/02/2026
#ScribbleLeague relatively fast 'n' scribbly Ouorri doin' a neck o' itself
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 27/02/2026
#ScribbleLeague nutrient-rich... is for dog's :)
@all: feed you're dog it's nutrient-rich... :)
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 26/02/2026
#ScribbleLeague trying to be as careful as I can manage, censoring some cracks with my fingertip you know better than to say you see them
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 25/02/2026
#ScribbleLeague lintinal space
im limt  ·w.
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 24/02/2026
#ScribbleLeague i drew creature of the seas
look at how it belongs in water, just like the water in your glass of water
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 22/02/2026
#ScribbleLeague firefly lessons
humans exiting firefly lessons; a couple have glowing butts, a couple have other parts glowing, a couple aren't glowing at all, and a couple have shat themselvesuncropped; didn't plan out how I'd utilize the whole canvas from the start so there are a couple extra things surrounding the action-packed corner
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 21/02/2026
#ScribbleLeague today I drew a little bird sitting on a big mushroom! ·w·
all the information you could ever want is in the post!  ·w·

(#1541210 specifically)
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · 20/02/2026
#ScribbleLeague this is literally scribbles I scribbled and I scribbled it's a Scribble League so here's your scribbles they're scribbles I Really scribbled it up this time like Actually fr scribbles aimless motions with the d r a wing ......t ....o ..o l S to c rea t . e an Screebos!
skrbz
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