Aphna

3D render of the Crow Prince, a young white man with floppy black hair, dark brown eyes, and a glossy black crow's wing for a left arm. He wears a billowing red sash covering his chest and hips and has a cracked, glowing halo over his head. He is smiling at the camera and makes a little heart gesture with his right hand.

I only meant to go for a little sulk. 😂 Then I realised that since my day job is 80% social media, I was happier not doomscrolling. Then I just forgot to come back. 😅

I'll probably dip in and out, but I don't think I'll be busy here any more.

Have a render of Crow I meant to post, uh, last month.

Ahah, it's fun being so shit I can't even give books away. 🤦

#SFFChat Q4. After leaving the Netherrealm, Ashrah starts studying concepts so far unknown to her.

(Yes, she calls him "Master Kurtis Stryker" every single time 🤷🏽‍♀️)

#ChroniclesOfTheRealms #SayaAshrah #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

a box featuring a toy bear on the cover with the name PICNIC BEAR versus the same box opened and the picnic bear looks like a hollowed-eye withered version of a bear who was witnessed THE HORRORS and nothing in this life can spare him from the memory of it

oh look they made a toy about writers’ social media versus writers’ work

Trans kids are dying, will die (these are proven facts) for no purpose other than the distaste of powerful people who have zero experience or apparently empathy.

Wow, bsky really took a look at a 17MB file and went "you know, I can compress that EVEN HARDER."

Well this was fun! 💀

I think it's working now... This is the first finished video I've successfully made in DaVinci Resolve, and it took *forever.*

If you want to make me feel a bit better, you can read my short and gay Valentine's story. 😉

itch.io/s/151940/val...

In the end I deleted it and started again and that time it worked. It was weird though. No reason it shouldn't have, the nodes were fine. I even compared them to a tutorial and they matched.

It was just having a mood, I guess.

Anyway, if you follow me on UpScrolled, it uploaded just fine there. I am so surprised. (I am so not.)

Bsky won't let me upload a video. Keeps running into a processing error.

So I upload it to YouTube (bleh) and link to it instead.

Won't post. Server error.

What even is the point of this fucking website?

I've managed to do quite a bit in DaVinci Resolve, but the thing that's absolutely thwarting me right now?

White text on a black background. 🤦 Cannot get it to play nice at all.

What makes me laugh (not really) about Itch is that you can customise the product page all you like... but you're SOL with the sale page. What do you mean you want a nice link image like the one you put all the effort into for the product page? Whyever would you want your sale to look attractive? 🤦

3D render of Alex, a black-haired white human man, and Milos, a blond dark elf man. Both wear black suits, white shirts, and black ties, and stand side by side in a busy restaurant. Alex holds out his ID and looks angry, while Milos stands with his hands clasped and just looks awkward. Radial: Valentine's Day Alex has a problem: he's been ignored all Valentine's Day. But he also has a plan: one perfect night with his lover. Because when Alex has a plan, nothing will stand in his way. Not even a farshee threatening to kill a whole restaurant of Valentiners...

Alex only wants one thing: a nice, peaceful Valentine's Day where he takes Milos home, feeds him excellent home cooking, and then spends a fun night in bed.

Shame someone's planning on killing a bunch of oblivious Valentiners instead.

Free until the 15th!

itch.io/s/151940/val...

Radial: Valentine's Day | Valentine's Freebie! by Pax Asteriae A sale by Pax Asteriae, 100% off Radial: Valentine's Day

Somehow I did not know Itch appears incapable of listing a sale on the product page. 🤦

"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?"

Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...

Radial: Valentine's Day by Pax Asteriae Alex has Valentine's plans... but a farshee might just scream them all away.

While I flail around in DaVinci Resolve trying to create a very short video (what do you mean I should've started earlier? 😐), I'll just point out here that both Radial: Valentine's Day stories are on sale on Itch from today.

The first one is free!

[“Take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be human and isn’t yet, or used to be human once and isn’t now, or ought to be human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.” — Mr Beaver, The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe]

C. S. Lewis tried to warn us about AI

Also it's directed by the same PD as Business Proposal, so if you enjoyed that...

And also Kim Won-hae again, but he's in it a fair bit as Hong Geum-bo's kind but exasperated boss keeping an eye out for her while she's undercover. He's only been a bit-part in his recent roles, so this is great!

It's not just Second Lead Syndrome in Undercover Miss Hong: both the younger guys in Risk Management are falling for her. 😂

Honestly, I love dramas about scarily competent people, so this is fantastic. She's a 30-something career woman pretending to be a naïve 20-year-old and she keeps failing. 😂

No Tail To Tell is cute but meandering and doesn't seem to quite have a handle of its own plot.

Undercover Miss Hong is very funny so far, but then, Park Shin-hye is a badass so I expected nothing less.

Saying Sorry (Part 3/4) Characters August - Alligator - A soft spoken single father who works in IT. Fergus - Alligator - A grandpa who has been chewed up by the world but is doing his best. August's father. Transcript Panel 1 August's dad, Fergus, has stopped by to drop off a gift and apologize for something that happened in August's childhood. Fergus is not the best as expressing his feelings so he's doing his best to speak carefully and honestly. August has made some coffee. He hands a mug to his dad that says "MUG" while August holds one for himself that says "SON of MUG". August is secretly delighted at the opportunity to use these mugs. Fergus: I didn't mean to get emotional. I'm sorry. Panel 2 Fergus just flat out says what he came to say. Fergus: I remembered that time I burned your toys. You didn't deserve that. Panel 3 Fergus looks away for a moment. He wants to make sure he apologizes without making excuses for himself like his own father used to. Fergus: I should have been a better dad to you and your sisters. I'm sorry that I was so hurtful and angry. Panel 4 Fergus: Being someone's parent is hard. Being someone's kid shouldn't be.

Saying Sorry (Part 3/4)

To be honest, there was so much weird about it that it's almost haunting. She was facing the wall of the window, not the view outside. Her drinks were behind her where she couldn't reach. It was ridiculously, embarrassingly bad.

And someone went "this is clearly a great ad for our pub!"

Today's weird franchisee slop machine extrusion: a woman who is also a windowsill.

Not kidding. Her torso rises up from the middle of an old chateau-style window, and her dress hangs over the side.

Again, I can't work out why anyone would look at this shit and go, "oh yes, that's exactly right!"

Milos would be thrilled to be in Animal Crossing. Nice, low-stakes, peaceful.

Alex would be plotting how to kill the other villagers within a week.

#WIPSnips 11. "Vibe"

Kitana is getting some strange vibes from the stuffed ghoul head...

#ChroniclesOfTheRealms #KitanaSuêòng #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

‘I can’t live without AI!’

Were you born three years ago? Is this your first time experiencing the wonder of human thought and free will?

‘Can’t live without AI’

How embarrassing.