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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Boof played 3's retranslation and liked it a lot, her fave is probably 0 though. Larry "Solo Wing" "Pixy" Faulke forever in our hearts, what have borders ever given us

BSky post "Borders is a conspiracy by big nation to sell more imperialism" followed by a reply with a screencap of Ace Combat 0's live-action faux-documentary cutscene featuring Solo Wing Pixy, a scruffy but amiable-looking short-haired white guy in tattered khaki partisan uniform holding a rifle.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Picked up Kaiju No. 8 since it's getting an official release over here, and Surely nobody would want to tap this. Nobody. None at all. Kafka has all the reasons to despair about being completely undesirable-- *god*, I can't, shut up and stop being such a cishet vanilla shonen meathead, mate 🙄

Small gag panel of Kaiju's protagonist, Kafka in his newly acquired Hunky Muscle-and-Bones Monster form going "ojejku" ("golly gee!")

Page spread from Kaiju No. 8 - Kafka rises from a hospital bed as he and his new friend one bed over realize he's just turned into a hunky monster.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My hair colors are OK, just a little brighter within tolerance, but holy fuck, who put a floodlight in front of the Transference chair 😭

Screenshot of my Warframe operator, a pale blonde feminine-looking person with dark blue face markings dressed in white-and-cobalt blue sci-fi getup. Their skin tone is already very light, but the in-game brightness/exposure is badly blown out and makes the character look like they're sitting in front of an industrial-grade floodlight.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cornering my mutual to scream about a writing conundrum for approximately 5 hours (with breaks for work) only to remember they'd already given me an answer before

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"how's the writing process going" I described the general vibe of how I (clumsily and hackishly) describe a character in the draft and got two skull reacts in a row, is that good

Absolutely massive badonkahonks and biceps stapled to what's technically a reanimated corpse of a drowning victim, 4786 dead, 67894 wounded
I think I busted out comparisons to billowing sails and rigged masts, it's so bad

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I do kinda suck at video games and I did manage to beat the game after a few tries but boy, did it feel like they'd expected me to have more than 125 HP, base energy pool and 3 stamina bars. Well jokes on you, Stories, I stumbled my way into the true ending path in just 5 runs.

Stories: The Paths of Destinies "story" board. It's a wide orange board with all possible endings attainable by the player marked with small illustrated cards - I've unlocked 5 before going for the "true ending" (represented by a figurine of an anthropomorphic fox pirate).

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

[WiP] Not in the mood to do regular drawings yet, but-- Decided to take a stab at pixel art again in case I ever start streaming regularly.

Clip Studio Paint window showing a pixel-art stream layout heavily inspired by the UI work from Heroes of Might & Magic 2 - partially completed sections styled to look like white marble, thin golden trim and shiny colorful gemstones paired with sketched-in floral baroque motifs.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Oh right, I don't think I've posted this European bison at Warsaw Zoo c:

Photo of a male European bison forraging on grass in his enclosure at Warsaw Zoo.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Some of the MMO-to-normal game changes are documented on the game's fan-wiki but TCRF has the edge of being a comprehensive resource for all cut stuff and not just a broad overview of deprecated MMO mechanics jostling for space with actually implemented drop-tables. tcrf.net/Wayfinder

Spreadsheet titled "Wayfinder Echoes datamining" with multiple unused video files already verified and documented.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Shout outs to this little guy. (I am not looking forward to testing all the videos the game uses for menu backgrounds depending on where you last stood before quitting the game 🫠)

Bright pink flat color image with purple Comic Sans text: "I am a test frame! If you see me, the spliced file *is* used in-game!"

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not writing, not drawing, not even really playing video games, but doing a secret 4th thing (trawling through Wayfinder's files and manually editing the raw MP4 cutscenes to see if they're used/unused)

Cropped screenshot of a spreadsheet documenting a handful of unused files from Wayfinder that I could readily access w/o busting out UE4 modding/SDK tools.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Here's your irregularly scheduled dose of Frey doing a Frey.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I've shown this to several people already and the average response is

Same image as the first post, except almost all the text is blacked out, leaving only the word "would" in second to last line.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Paging all the 40K gay sex freaks (affectionate), peep this line from "Dark Apostle".

Photo of an e-book reader's screen with an excerpt from Anthony Reynolds' Black Library novel "Dark Apostle":
"Thin, spider-like limbs extended from the pulpit towards his exposed face. Fine, bladed hooks at their tips emerged and pushed into his flesh, latching beneath the skin. He closed his eyes. A large proboscis uncurled, and he opened his mouth to accept it. It entered his throat and small barbed clamps latched onto his larynx. The proboscis expanded to fill his throat. His voice, enhanced by the aparatus, would not only carry through the vast expanse of the cavaedium, but(...)".

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Tried to workshop a "<blank> are asleep" joke but came up empty-handed, so for no real reason (other than unyielding brainworms and an unfinished playthrough of Ruined King), I am once again posting Yasuo Naturals.

Edit of a still from Ruined King: A League of Legends Story CG announcement trailer cropped to focus on Yasuo, a slim but decently muscular Asian man with long black swept-back hair tied into a messy ponytail, thick eyeliner and a "resting bitch" expression. He's wearing blue-and-silver vambraces, a tiny shoulder guard piece, baggy pants, thick rope-belt, a skimpy leather harness and a blue asymmetric cowlneck-thing (the game very charitably calls it a "tunic") over his otherwise mostly-bare torso. He's glaring to the side while slowly walking through a cyan-and-orange tinted shanty-town and holding one hand on the sword at his hip.

The "edit" part refers to the fact that I've hand-painted a pair of breasts in a skimpy blue tubetop/strapless bra onto the character upon realizing (s)he's two years on estrogen and one good shave away from being a smash hit with the lesbians. Alas, Riot would never.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

*laughs in HoMM5 banning Deleb in tournament play because her Fireball Ballista passive combined with her class having high base Attack/Spellpower stat + good stat growth curve and Triple-shot Ballista skill being a thing made her broken AF*

Watercolor 3/4 angle portrait of Deleb, a playable hero from Heroes of Might & Magic 5 painted by French fantasy artist Olivier Ledroit. She's a red-skinned femme-presenting demon wearing a red turtleneck and a light brown fur-trimmed collar, with several golden hoop piercings and a large rectangular earring on her (visible) pointy ear and a leather-and-gold necklace around her neck. If you look closely, her face appears to have been flayed from an elegant-looking fair-skinned woman and carefully fitted to her own visage, the skin's edges are pinned and stretched on a bunch of tiny spikes and growths covering her head. She also has a pair of ragged backwards-curving horns and glowing pale-yellow eyes.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Also it's how cats are all beauty, grace and apex predators of their weight class until they get stuck on a relatively small tree and you have to grab a ladder and pull a loudly screaming confused furball off a branch. Pic totally unrelated.

Silver tabby housecat (whom I had to rescue from relatively short pear/appletrees in our orchard at least twice before he got too fat and lazy to climb them) dramatically lounging on a gray-and-beige carpet.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Oh yeah, mentioned Wayfinder Maxed out levels on three characters, slowly collecting new loot, and *man*, Senja is both fun to play and has some banger fashion options.

Wayfinder's character customization window for Senja, a tall muscular blonde woman armed with a giant sword. She's dressed in a scant top, asymmetrical blue-and-white layered shorts/skirt combo and knee-high fur-lined boots. Her left arm is wrapped in an elaborate spiky glove with a sabertooth's head as a pauldron. She wears a hefty golden diadem with a large rhomboid gemstone holding up her slicked-back spiky hair.

Same as before but with a slightly different top (it now has a bunch of golden danglies at its bottom trim and some fur lining over the shoulders) and the skirt swapped out for fur pelt hip wraps with a long dangling tail and trophy fangs.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Other highlights includes the mutual having a laugh at why the fic might be angling for over 100k words and me explaining the logistics of "being close enough to a guy to smell his crotch through his pants (40+ cm height difference) then utterly fumbling this clear setup for oral sex" (not shown)

"Ah yes"
"The load bearing lesbian age difference CNC gun kink bdsm role-play"
<wheezing cry-laugh emoji GIF>
Me: "it's not exactly load-bearing but--"
"look"

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Out of context fanfic discussion screencaps that'll probably get a ton of usage from my moots

Discord messages
Original message: "He's not a lesbian"
My response (with strikethrough formatting as if to imply mumbling out a comment to the side): "I mean, with enough estrogen and the right headcanons"

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

so-called free thinkers when the man has when the man h when man hhhhhhhhhhhh (someone at Airship understood the assignment and passed their own brainrot onto me, and I am deeply thankful for it)

Cropped screenshot of a comic book/cartoon-styled 3D model of an Afro-Caribbean man focusing on his torso - the polygon count is on the lower end by modern big-budget video game standards and lighting is a little murky but you can make out a large pectoral with a textured nipple (that would be hidden for 99% of the gameplay and took some fannagling with an in-game model viewer's limited camera to spot BTW), a side-view of well-sculpted abs and a hint of painstakingly rendered serratus anterior muscle

same model seen from a better-lit side, giving a much better view of how the hand-painted textures convey the character's exceptionally well-developed serratus anterior and latissimus dorsi muscles.

Front-view screenshot crop. The pectorals are mostly obscured by the character's eccentric clothing (a torn-up frontless coat, two giant animal jaw bones, two metal pins of sorts and bits of rope holding it all together) but you can see just enough of the outline of the base and collarbones to imply that they are, again, quite large.

The dark skin tone is also more visibly discolored and gray/purple-tinted here. This is on purpose, the character is notably undead.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I've explained a (constantly expanding, oh god, send help) flashback scene about two men being dicks to each other (one of them disproportionately more so than the other) to a mutual

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Worst part is, that's legit a part of the story I came up with in order to make three men get laid (the third one is perfectly chill and an emotional load-bearing pillar of the whole situationship, the other two are psychological trashfires trying to get their life out of the gutter). Send help.

I sat down to play a funny turn-based cRPG made by Airship Syndicate despite its "League of Legends story tie-in" branding giving me the ick, walked away dead-set on making three fictional men fuck nasty, and my penchant for overthinking things made it escalate into *this* because they put a stupidly hot rugged sailor who came back from the dead as a sea-themed serial killer Spawn expy and a stupidly hot washed-up ronin-esque figure obsessively seeking redemption for kinda-accidental-it's-complicated fratricide into one RPG party and by gods, if the story will be forced by budget/time constraints to skim over their dynamics in favor of focusing on their individual relationships with a kitsune failgirl (who is admittedly pretty cool and should be rehomed with a gang of feral transbians immediately), I will fill that gap myself with an "already at 40k words and not even halfway there" fanfiction

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I'm gonna be so pissed if I have to cut this because the contrast between Pyke doing a broody 90s anti-hero monologue about how "the sea brought [him] back to do the dirty butcher's work" and the bouncer looking at him like "you sure love to brag for a man who got nothing done" is just 🤌

[out-of-context fragment of a draft - an exchange where a wildly unimpressed middle-aged woman working as a bouncer at a fancy public bath house taunts a local undead cryptid and self-proclaimed "avenger" to go out and kill a prominent political figure who arguably did a better job at "delivering justice to oppressors" by eliminating a few of her opponents; he excuses himself with "increased security" and "having a night off" to avoid admitting he's actually begrudgingly working with the would-be target to take down a mutual enemy]

She scoffed. "Slacker."
"Nag."
"Limp-dick."
"Wench."
"At least people want me around, cadaver."
"Imagine needing someone else's approval."
"Yeah, imagine *that*."

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Like I'm so sorry, mate, but my taste in fictional men is demonstrably trash and I've drawn this art variant for a reason. Get pounced on. Or take the hush lizard on your doorstep-- I mean money. Whichever side he happens to be on.

Edit of my Pyke bust portrait swapping the usual shark teeth print on his red bandana/face mask to a cutesy mischievous smiling kitty face print with whiskers and tiny fangs poking out. Combined with his frowny expression, facial scars, deep wrinkles and spooky glowing eyes, the effect is distinctly comedic.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My mutual now lets me know whenever they run into the stinky wet Spawn expy in a match (they end up getting pissed off by allied and enemy Pyke players alike b/c of his low HP target preference/kill-steal tactics vs. them playing damage-dealers/ally support) and meanwhile I'm like

IDK what can I tell you, he's like a cat
Violent, nihilistic and fucked up, but a cat
A baby
I just wanna pet him even if he'll chew my hand off

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Bored at work and posting thru it~ I was chasing the dragon of my own (digital) artwork, except working with traditional gives you less room for error and makes experimentation harder - so I did some quick tests in the sketchbook (and also drew a cursed edit of Normal Eyes Pyke for some reason).

Sketchbook page with four sets of roughly painted and inked takes on "darkened sclera, brightly glowing irises" effect (inked iris outline, bright ring iris outline, "detailed" outline + specked-in glowing inner ring, flat bright color iris w/o outlines) alongside some handwritten notes. Mostly cuss-words and complaints about colors being hard to match when you have to manually mix a (replicable) batch of paint each time.

Digital bust portrait of OP's favourite masked bald undead asshole with the usual neon-bright glowing eye effect swapped for more normal-looking blue irises. Between the discolored bloodshot scleras and the purplish-gray skin tone staying in (instead of getting repainted to more healthy, "living" colors), it's honestly kind of unsettling to look at.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The expression is a bit too soft IMO (I wanted to land a balance between the classic resting MURDER DEATH KILL face and a more pensive/inquisitive look) but still more fierce than take 1. I somehow de-accentuated the frown from the sketch while painting/lining so much, it straight up came out as 🥺

Photo of an original hand-painted piece (1st, discarded take on the portrait I've added to the project today) - the warm-tinted lightbulb and phone camera distort the colors, but it's a deep cyan A4 paper sheet with an en-face portrait of a bald dark-skinned man with eerie glowing eyes and distinct scars marking his forehead and brow, wearing a patterned bandana over his face. It's painted in a cel-shaded style (flat, sharply delineated and un-blended areas of color and shadow, similar to a popular style of 2D animation) with grayish/cobalt blue/pale blue acrylics and ink pen linework.

The photo is captioned with a line of text reading "yeah no reworking this ._.".

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

[WiP con't] second piece done with some retouches in post I wish my Microns a very "stop smearing, why aren't you drying, what the fuck", the glow effect on the eyes and the eyes themselves were a major pain in the ass, I am taking a shower and going to bed before I eat my tablet, goodnight

Updated view of the project file. There is now a second portrait (en-face horizontally offset view of a masked, bald, dark-skinned and scarred individual with eerie glowing eyes) slotted into the frame cutout at the bottom.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Oh, the frame is a physical piece BTW, hand-measured and cut, then slightly touched up in digital. I like the real paper texture feel and compositing it all in CSP gives me more room for error with less material wasted.

A4 sheet of denser black paper with three trapezoid cutouts overlaid on regular white printer paper.

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

[WiP] crawled out of an art slump and finished something in traditional (acrylics + ink pens on paper) two more pieces to go (frame edited in digitally from a scan as to not damage the OG pieces)

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"Writing isn't about blindly chasing The Lines™ and Memorable Sparkling Zingers, most of the conventional process is about the slow, painstaking problem-solving and planning things out", I say five minutes before posting the newest zinger from a barely touched-up draft that I find kinda funny.

[Two staff members of a public bath house frequently doubling as a place for more... private meetings discuss how to cover up a glaring service mistake (accidentally serving one of two foreign guests alcohol when a wealthy influential woman bankrolling their stay explicitly prohibited it) by faking records and writing the costs off as a different service.]
"But we've already written down 'no crew' as a special request--"
"Well they tried to get it on and done, then changed their mind", she scoffed. "A masseur an' a barber was a must after all. What's the boss-man gonna do, ask the foreign guests if the shag really was too stiff or hairy?"

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Realizing I technically wrote a mini-loop of "The Undertaker ambushing AJ Styles meme" moments

Wrestling scene: The Undertaker emerging from hazy, dramatically uplit background to startle triumphant-looking AJ Styles

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just a string of these 👇 moments (That or fist-fighting your own conflicted, deeply unwell psyche and bitching about your "living" memories and urges randomly surfacing and making you do shit like "talk to people" and "act somewhat nicely")

Famous meme tweet from 2019 by The Golden Sir (@screaminbutcalm):
"Me sowing: haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me reaping: well this fucking sucks. What the fuck."

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Whining Ylthin (Back On My Bullshit™) 🏳️‍🌈 @ylthin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Writing status: slacking off on starting a new scene by bouncing back to the beginning of the draft and tweaking the opening ones (in a more meaningful way than "swap a few words around") in an endless cycle of

Two anime stills of a mech pilot smugly proclaiming "I am a genius!" followed by a panicked "Oh no!"

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