Hi everyone, just letting you know I have a gamedev-centric alt on @lampfairy <3 Hoping to use that environment to help me focus on development stuff, so I'll post my progress and boost useful development insight there. Give me a follow if you're interested! <3
My streamer friend Jojo made a chibi of me! It came out really cute c:
If you wanna see them draw or game, they're on https://twitch.tv/jojo123die
Hey everyone, want to borrow ebooks from archive.org on YOUR terms?
Here's a method I came up with using Calibre, on all platforms where it's supported.
1. Install the DeACSM and DeDRM plugins into Calibre
2. In the plugin preferences, configure DeACSM and set up anonymous authorization, then export the encryption key and import it into DeDRM's ADE keys
3. Restart Calibre! This is important!
4. On archive.org, find the book you want to borrow and loan it out
5a. If you can borrow it for two weeks, do that and download it in the format you prefer
5b. If you can only borrow it for an hour or it doesn't give you a download, borrow it anyway, then copy the identifier in the metadata, add it to the following URL: https://archive.org/services/loans/loan/?action=media_url&identifier=<IDENTIFIER GOES HERE>&format=pdf&redirect=1 and download that (you can also change the format to epub or similar but it may not always be available)
6. Add the ACSM file to Calibre and it'll download it and then decrypt it for you
7. Be sure to return the book so other people can use it right away!
Happy reading!
this sketch (right image) was originally made for KDE VDG issue # 46 (Fedora KDE welcome screen) in april of last year, however, because I was too nervous to present it to the developers and communicate with them, eventually someone else created a graphic and the issue was closed before I could say anything.
recently, I decided to finish it anyway, so it isn't left to collect dust in my hard drive
#MastoArt #DigitalArt #krita #konqi #kde #anthro #arctaxia #fediart #artwithopensource #dragon #dragons #mascot #sfwfurry #artwork #foss
Keep your broke friends in mind at least once a month.
It's very hard to keep up, interact with, or even spend time with friends when you're broke, and it can really add to poverty induced depression when one's friends are constantly enjoying new things/games etc and you are left out because you can't afford them.
It's even more depressing when you're left out for months.
It's often why poor folks don't make friends outside their income bracket. We can't afford y'all's friendship.
URGENT MUTUAL AID for my friend, help
my close friend @yarlovv is in dire straits. he is a transmasc student abroad in Prague and he is struggling with money to pay for his college dorm room. his family hit a bad time with finances so he asked me to make a post for him.
he needs that money *BEFORE JUNE 9*, otherwise he'll become homeless, and in a foreign country at that.
he needs ~750 USD.
https://ko-fi.com/ratsapologists
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/yarlovv
537/750
pls help
My "Wizard and Dark Academia" reference pack is available at https://www.djamilaknopf.com/store. It includes 100 carefully selected, high-resolution photos of books, unique trinkets, dark hallways, crooked cottages, Gothic architecture, and more.
"At last!" He held up a simple gold ring. "I have searched for this for years!"
"What is it?"
"A shapeshifting ring. I'll put it on... Imagine myself as... Ah! Wonderful!"
"I see no difference?"
"I have no joint pain!"
"Wow! Can it do other changes?"
"Anything you can imagine. Want to try?"
Prompt: "You were the sidekick to a super hero. You worked hard, doing all the labor while he got the credit but it's fine. Anyways, while saving people in a fire, you get trapped. You scream out for help, but all he does is stare at you. "Sorry, kid." He shrugs and leaves you there to die." (From Writing-Prompt-S on Tumblr)
My Response:
I was 14.
In hindsight, I shouldn't have been out there in the first place. I was too young for this, but when I was adopted by the world's richest man and told I could have anything I ever wanted including vengeance on the man who killed my parents, all I had to do was agree to wear a brightly colored costume, be subjected to experiments that would give me powers, and become world-famous as the sidekick to the masked avenger, Foxglove - I mean what child wouldn't have taken the option?
I was 14 fucking years old.
My response to compound zed was good: super strength, super speed, and limited control over my own shadow that I could use to form tentacles and manipulate objects and fight at a distance. It got to the point where I actually had a nemesis of my own – Radiance, the sidekick of The Grim, Foxglove's most hated rival. There were talks about being in magazines, maybe doing some interviews of my own once I finished a media training course.
Then that goddamn fire happened.
Foxglove doesn't have powers of his own. It only occurred to me later that that's because he was worried about what compound zed would do to him. It's not reliable, you see. For every sidekick you see patrolling the streets with him one day, there's four or five bodies that no one ever finds. So he lets his sidekicks do the dangerous stuff, and eventually it gets too dangerous.
"Sorry, Kid."
That was the last thing he ever said to me. The building was on fire, but I thought I could handle it. Shadow control gets unreliable, however, when the light is flickering. I couldn't get a good grasp on it, and the building started to collapse. I begged for help. I screamed for him to save me. He had a fireproof suit on. He had a gas mask. He could have done it, but instead I got a "Sorry, Kid," and he left me behind.
And then The Grim showed up.
Turns out The Grim was the first. Yeah. That was him, back in the day. Foxglove spreads all those rumors about him and frames him for crimes so that no one takes him seriously. Radiance? A project Foxglove thought had died on the testing table. Turns out her power only manifested after her heart stopped. There's two others, Cleaver and Whipvine. Yeah, they're both one of Foxglove's abandoned sidekicks. And of course, me. I don't use the name he gave me anymore – that was a whole lifetime ago. It's Umbra now.
That's why I was there when he left you behind.
It gets better. We don't let you fight until you're 18, if you still want to. Radiance and I are the same age, but The Grim just couldn't stop her from fighting. We're dating now. Enemies to lovers, yeah. But I didn't fight until I was 18, and with all four of us, we will sit on you if you try to go out there before you're old enough. Still, we'll take care of you until then. If you want to fight once you're an adult? We'll support you. If you don't? We'll still support you. And if you want to leave now – we'll make sure you get a good home, loving family. Long as you don't suit up before you're 18, we'll leave you alone. You get choices. Things he never gave you.
Unlike him, we know what family means.
You interested, Kid Wonder #5?
That's what I thought.
Welcome to the Rejects.
...fox girls are getting me out of art block
my mental health had been in a terrible place the past 6 months, for reasons both personal and existential. which also resulted in me losing interest in my hobbies. It's been hard to even pick up a tablet, to draw a single line.
But hey, it always gets better, and it has been for me. Hope sprouts through after every worst day.
Soo here're some wips I did recently! I'll try to finish them very soon
I'm Elfi! I'm a fair folk, magical moth, greyace girl, greenhorn gamedev, in my thirties and , and ADHD+ASD+EDS. Disclosure: white
💕 Aine @SophicLeech
💕 Agi @AgiDine
💕 Jenny @Esme
💕 Cherry @deejvalen
Icon by @Zwiebelprinz, header from Liar Princess and the Blind Prince by NIS