Commissions Open!

hi Im finally doing another ad for my commissions lol

Our financial state has gotten marginally better since the last ad, but we're still not making enough to do more than just kind of... coast... and bills are always looming. So, along with full commissions, my ko-fi requests are still open! They're pay-what-you-will, and the more you pay, the more effort I'll put into your request. Since ko-fi requests don't function the same as normal commissions, we won't have a consultation, so do make sure to include a description of your request along with the payment! (Also: Please avoid requesting human faces. If you do it's likely to be fairly abstract cause they just aren't my forte)

For further information, see my carrd (https://regulardog.carrd.co/)

Slots open: 2 for larger pieces; smaller pieces I can likely finish in 1-3 days or so, and will be more widely available. Reservations for future slots are also available, if all current slots are full.

NOTE: I'm not planning on taking on any pieces with large/complex backgrounds right now, unless you're willing to wait a long time (potentially months) for the finished product. They take a lot more out of me than character/creature drawings, so they take longer.

edit: woops i forgot that one image has a formatting error in it and i was supposed to fix it before hitting post. it’s supposed to just say “interpretation”

Alright, the pride month discount didn't go anywhere and I still have 2 slots open, so I've decided on a new and different discount finally:

All orders during disability month (july! now!) will get extra characters free! Which is to say, no extra £5 charge for a piece with multiple characters. Hourly rate only. Requests on ko-fi are also still open!

what if there were an extra day of the week for lying in bed and being pathetic. they could call it thursday and put it between wednesday and friday

Here's the bit from orpheus in the underworld I think op is referring to since I don't think the title is well known. It me laugh just reflexively now. If the time doesn't get saved in the link it starts around 6:50

Also would like to put shostakovich waltz no. 2 forth as another contender

Exactly!

Mountain king is good for something like "post about tea that starts relatively normal but descends into chaos as ppl admit things like putting the mug of water directly on their stovetop to heat it".

Orpheus is for anything summarizing, say, the likes of the SPN finale and the world news that was happening at the same time, and the various memes developed about it all.

THIS SONG IS CALLED ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD?

very girl slay when an electric pole has a million wires all tangled up around it

#girl

no, they actually do mean kites

as in, a loooooooooong piece of steel cable with the sail at the end of it

of course it's ~basically a sailing ship~ but you can't stick masts on a container ship, that is a disaster waiting to happen for so many reasons

you'd only really get one point to anchor the mast, and that is right where it meets the deck, the containers get it the way of any ropes you might wish to use further up

you'd have to build entirely new container ships or some sort of ... mast container frame to account for the fact that the ships are built to exactly fit the containers, and sticking a mast in the middle of it will mess with that entire system by not being the size of a container

loading and unloading around the masts is going to be hell for the crane drivers and there will be damage to everything given the speed they usually work with, so every harbor will hate you if their cranes even have the height to work around the masts

and if you still decide to stick masts on a container ship, they won't be easily and quickly removeable, so you have to recertify and reclassify the entire ship, and it's going to take ages and ages to do properly, and they'll have to figure out how to do it so it's either expensive as fuck or they may refuse entirely. a steel cable on a winch is by definition removeable (that is, uh, uprollable?) so you don't have to deal with any of this nonsense. hell, if you calculate the pre-determined breaking point properly, it'll even fail safely

this isn't ~ooooooooooh we invented sails! we're the smartest~

this is "hey, we finally figured out how to do this tried and tested thing in a way that works with the circumstances we're working under". it's a good thing, even if it is presented badly

Thank-you for that info ^ because this is very heartening then. Transport really is so awful rn in what it’s doing to our atmosphere. Looked this up and this is actually a really neat prospect for the planet if it gets implemented.

Gray day

this post got me like

tears, darkness, and light

Saving the monster is just as much of a power fantasy as slaying the monster.

Incidentally, so is being the monster.

Incidentally, so is laying the monster

He’s had a rough day

you missed the opportunity to say ‘ruff day’ instead and that is a sin that may never be forgiven

Thinking about this today

Art by Nicolas Weis

imagine being elrond minding ur business in the undying lands finally being able to enjoy some peace and quiet in ur little exclusive elf club (exceptions made for 2 hobbits and 1 wizard) and u see a ship dock and the mirkwood slut’s son gets off with a dwarf. twenty mins later you see another boat pull in and it’s frodo’s boyfriend. like

this is also like, decades later. everyone who is coming to the party has come to the party. so he thinks he’s safe. but he’s wrong

frodo: gimli! SAM!! *stares at legolas for .5 seconds* my dearest companions!!!!

elrond, cautiously looking for two more hobbits: anybody else….?

anyways since this is my hc and I can twist canon to my whim, I also imagine merry and pippin magically materializing and immediately starting a drinking competition like the frat bros they r. elrond eventually joins but only bc he knows the faster the hobbits get wasted the faster they pass out & he’ll have some quiet

gods greatest punishment was putting 1 trillion cool rocks on earth and no one with eyes big enough to see them all

..ive been such a fool

thats okay ^-^ the wise man is blessed with knowledge once but the fool is blessed to learn every day

*gets scared and throws one of my cool rocks at your fourhead*

ow what the hell

Investigating whether I remember how to draw with a brush pen. Signs point to probably. Described in alt text

still got it. don't ask about the image quality it gets the point across. alt text here too

'how fucked up would it be if there was a ghost' how fucked up would it be if there WASN'T a ghost