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I guess I'm slightly teasing the idea of releasing some day, especially since I have lots of fun little ideas for it, but for now, I'm gonna play around with it for a while. In the mean time, I call it "headbreak" which is a name I came up with on the spot when I had to name the project files haha

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Even though it's pretty basic, I'm still pretty happy with how it turned out! Here are some bullet points: - It's completely offline, local and AI-free - Custom columns and tags - You can set up recurring tasks to automove from one column to another after a set period

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Seeing as there are already like a million different kanban apps, I don't really have any plans to release this, but I figured I would make a post about it in case anyone explicitly wants to try this one! More so, this post is to explain why I've completely disappeared over the past month lol

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 21/09/2026

I've been making a big push to be more productive lately, so I've been looking up kanban apps. In the current era though, I'm getting really tired of cloud services and subscriptions, and a lot of the offline kanban apps didn't do what I want. ...so I just made my own from scratch!

A kanban task board showing a variety of tasks with custom columns and tags

The settings for the kanban, showing the ability to create/edit/remove columns and tags

The task details, showing a title, description, tags and a little caption that shows that the task is recurring in certain circumstances. The task also shows a brief history along with attached notes

The task editor, featuring editors for title & description, tags and the recurring task management system

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Rav, drawn with mouse in paint while at work, 2026

An extremely minimalist, slightly squiggly doodle of Rav; literally just a pair of eyes, big ears, fluffy cheeks and shoulders

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 13/09/2026

that's +14 max health right there

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Reposted by Arastryx

sci @scidsgn.art · 18/08/2026

Astral Resonance

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 12/07/2026

Aaaah, this is so delightful!! To be honest, I really have no sense of how many people are using this thing besides myself, so seeing other people actually get some use out of it is really cool, thank you!

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 10/07/2026

On that note, I feel like I've been pretty lax with archiving fanart that I've gotten over the years, so when I have some free time, I'm gonna make an effort to go through DMs, convos, etc and actually save everything. In the mean time, thank you to everyone who's ever drawn anything for me!!!

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 10/07/2026

To elaborate on the "Default Excluded Tags" thing, I implemented it because, while I primarily use impart to organize my own art, I at least wanted to have the option to organize comms, trades and fanart I've gotten as well, so now I can see all that art side by side with my own if I feel like it :)

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 10/07/2026

Just released an update for Impart! Mostly small QOL stuff, but it feels good to get back into the swing of things :)

Default Excluded Tags:

You can now flag tags as "Excluded by Default". Tags that are excluded by default are automatically excluded when launching the app and when clearing the tag selection. Useful if you have files which you'd like to track in Impart that you don't necessarily want to browse every time you open the app!

Other Stuff:

When editing the tags on a file, tags are now ordered by their order in the side bar (instead of whatever order they were originally assigned in)
Alternatively, the tags may be ordered alphabetically, configurable via the new "Tagging" options screen
Added a new "Displayed Files" filter in the search bar filters which lets you choose which type of files to display (image files only, non-image files only, etc)
Accidentally added the wrong directory to Impart? You can now halt file indexing via the little drop down menu on the indexing panel!
You can now detach a source file from an image file (from the right click menu on the image)
When a non-image file with tags gets associated with an image file, that image file now inherits those tags (can be disabled in the Tagging options)
You can now disable showing the patch notes on update
You can now also view the patch notes manually from the "Updates" options screen
Finally fixed a bug where tag selection would be ignored while the app was starting up
The app now has logs! They can be found at [USER]/AppData/Roaming/impart/logs/main.log on Windows and [USER]/.config/impart/logs/main.log on Linux
Added some additional empty results images!
Fixed an error being thrown when trying to delete a tag category that contains tags that are attached to files
Fixed an edge case where dragging a tag while bulk tagging files would break the whole interface
Uninstalling Impart now also properly clears out the app data on Windows
Updated electron, typescript and a few other small packages

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oh yeah I guess I should be a nice person and actually link it lol artfight.net/~Arastryx

artfight.net

Art Fight

An art gifting game

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Admittedly, I kind of will this into existence by picking subjects who lend themselves well to this texture. This style is so therapeutic for me, I could happily draw everything this way were it not unsuitable for certain designs. Also, "Ironed Smoke" is a lovely term, thank you!

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Last year, as soon as the event started, I lost all motivation to draw. I was worried that was going to happen again, but now the exact opposite has happened; these past few months, I've barely drawn anything and then suddenly, the moment the event starts, I feel like drawing again

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 30/06/2026

I guess this is a good time to say that I have indeed joined art fight this year. I originally considered skipping it, but figured "ah what the hell" and joined anyway. Was thinking if I don't end up drawing anything, I can just join spec later on, but lo and behold, I've already made an attack haha

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Agh, I know exactly how you feel! I originally wanted my personal site to be a full blown blog and gallery, but even as someone who works in webdev, I feel like I'm in over my head. Seems like every service either costs money or has no billing limit. It's a tough world for small scale solo projects!

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 03/06/2026

One idea I had was that maybe this'd be a good opportunity to come up with like a "mascot" character for each species so that people have something specific to draw if they prefer that, but still leave it open for people to create their own interpretations if they're comfortable

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 03/06/2026

For context, outside of my characters, every time I draw one of my random species, I don't have a specific character in mind, I'm usually just drawing like A Valek or A Dravoga or whatever. I like having the freedom to just draw whatever, but I worry that might be a bit too vague for Art Fight

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 03/06/2026

What's the general consensus on species-as-characters for Art Fight? I'm starting to run out of meaningful characters to make pages for, but I do have lots of open species that I'm really passionate about but for which no specific character exists

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 28/05/2026

Oh hey, you ended up doing one of these too, isn't this fun!! I haven't even seen some of these designs before, it's neat to have a little repository of your creations like this. Out of curiosity, did you find a specific combination of character & species that grew on you after you drew this?

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 16/05/2026

Thank you! Truthfully, all that determines that is whether I feel like drawing in Procreate (as I did for this) or SAI (which I use for all my smooth art lol)

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 15/05/2026

Was just exploring around on google street view, and I just happened to stumble upon Michel Bassompierre's "Fragile Giants" in NY and now I'm completely obsessed en.bassompierre.fr/newyork

en.bassompierre.fr

"Fragile Giants" in New York | Bassompierre

Exhibition of the animal sculptor Michel BASSOMPIERRE in New York.

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 12/05/2026

I just never really got in the habit! I've had a few ideas for signature designs but I just never got around to actually adding them in. I should probably get to that at some point!

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I think eventually I'd like to release the parallax components as an npm package since I feel like in the right hands, someone could probably do something really cool with this, but I think I'll just let that simmer for a while!

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I do have lots of ideas for improvements though! At some point I want to try slicing the maw into individual segments so that it gives the illusion of peering around the head. I could also be way more thorough with shading the butterflies but both of these are too high effort for me right now lol

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I was planning on putting a bunch more work into this, but admittedly I'm not entirely thrilled with the result so far. While I think it's kind of neat, I feel like the fact that each slice is very visibly 2D kind of cheapens the effect a little bit.

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