Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

Anyone have leads on work in #Toronto? A dear friend of mine is looking. He's a trained #animator and also has experience working in #tech and in the postal service.

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Daily Sketch 09-18-2025

Samus was able to teach the Baby Metroid how to do a kick flip.

#sketch #metroid #nintendo #art

Oof. So, I finally found the VISA bill from getting through latest fekkin crisis and I'm $1,400 in the hole.
There's lots to sort yet, but I am at least spiralling up rather than down finally.
I know everybody's struggling, it's hard to ask, but if you can spare some coin it's deeply appreciated to help me stabilize.
And as always, boosts appreciated, that's help too. 💞

https://ko-fi.com/valerie7173
Or DM me for etrans.
#mutualAid

The family has a go fund me setup to enable them to home school their son now that he has been expelled.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-sakir-everett-a-brave-student

This is wild, this kid is a hero!

An 11yo boy noticed a classmate brought a gun to school. So the boy disarmed the other student. Once he had control of the gun he unloaded the bullets, disassembled the gun and hid the parts so the kid who brought it would not find it.

He threw away the bullets, separating them from the gun.

All without any adults ever noticing.

At the end of the day teachers found the gun parts and the kid was expelled for not reporting it.

https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/09/23/nbas-tyrese-haliburton-sends-3000-donation-to-michigan-boy/

Attention Canadians, the claims process for the bread price fixing class action lawsuit is open. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bread-fixing-website-1.7631445

I felt sorry for a friend who was frustrated with the I/O portion of writing a Rogue/Dwarf Fortress-like game this morning. Text mode is surprisingly painful in 2025 compared to 1985, when you could just grab a pointer to the text framebuffer and poke bytes.

So, I made a little open source library that presents a proper, modern graphics API for text mode games!

textgame runs directly in the terminal on macOS, Linux, Windows 11. 32-bit unicode, 24-bit color, double-buffered, keyboard input, blitter with transparency and clipping regions, and string printing with word wrap and numeric formatting.

https://github.com/factory797/textgame

Also, a version with a more detailed background that I maybe got too carried away with hehe

This is a commission for Sean Chiplock, the actual voice actor for Bubsy in Bubsy 4D. Yeag

#art #furry #furryart

PLP253: Multiple Target Tracking #art #MastoArt #DigitalArt #DigitalPainting #Photoshop #Sketch #SpeedPaint #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Vehicle #Spaceship #Missiles #AsteroidField #Shiptember #Spaceshiptember2025 #SST25

It happened again, I shared some links from around the web of interesting things I found or remembered I'd previously bookmarked this week: https://britthub.co.uk/interesting-things-this-week/

Themes this week are affordable software, finding and making images without the use of AI, drawing animals and maths.

today's software preservation task

one of the great crimes of the 21st century was that Mark Jones' (Core Design) Darkmere - an isometric adventure-RPG for the amiga - was poorly visually documented by the usual places like lemonamiga/mobygames/etc.

perhaps for that reason alone, few remember just how incredible mark's pixel work is. using a tightly compressed palette of 16 colours for title screens and 32 colours in-game, he produces some of the best-lit scenes i have ever seen. all hand-dithered, no less.

it's one thing to paint beautiful pixel art stills for circulating on social media; it's entirely another to build them as modular assets to be used in a game. mark's ability to tackle both jobs is a masterwork.

thankfully, mark is his own best archivist, and kept a treasure trove of screenshots from the project. he provides an extensive commentary on the creation of each sprite/tile and the overall style of the game, as well as his memories of designing and building it.

(daggerfall fanatics may recognize some of the assets - trees and mushrooms - re-used in that game!)

read his entire writeup on Darkmere here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171104143619fw_/http://www.mjonesgraphics.com/darkmere.html

#amiga #pixelArt #retroGaming

6 DAYS LEFT to pre-order my "Cats in Weird Places" calendar. These are the pages for September-December. https://www.djamilaknopf.com/store #Illustration #Animals #CatArt #SliceOfLife

☝️Alright spread the word ppl! We have circa 400 lonely hearts combatting an isolating world to round back up.
...and hopefully more to find.

The #lonelinessCorps is for anyone wanting to connect more, online or in meatspace. With fun and silliness or heartfelt earnest chats about deep stuff here on fedi, finding connections for other platforms n groups, sharing ideas for finding your people locally.

Let's shake up some silos! Follow and use the handle:
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@LonelinessCorps