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⭐Comic Colorist/Flatter⭐ ⭐Nefarious, Earth Protection Force, IDW Sonic, MLP, DC (Various), Archie, Critical Role⭐QA in videogames for 15 years. ⭐Black Lives Matter ⭐ Trans Rights Are Human Rights⭐
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Something I wrote early in the year that never quite manifested. Not quite as polished as it could be. A friend and I were considering doing something with Mickey Mouse/Steamboat Willie since that became public domain and I had some interest in toying around. A small start I had fun with.

Taking a hiatus break to tell everyone to please be careful today. Went to the farmers market at the park to walk Willow as I do every Saturday and found myself in the middle of a protest, just as a cavalcade of cop cars quite literally DROVE INTO THE PARK to intimidate an otherwise peaceful scene.

I've worked on DC, Boom, IDW, Archie comics as a flatter, and indie titles as a colorist. Curious if I'll get a chance to work on a Marvel title some day. Maybe! I think all my DC stuff has come through Matt Herms, who does incredible work. Kinda wild that I've flatted Superman and Batman.

Any NiGHTS artists out there with some sick line art I can color?

More music to flat to.

Tonight's flatting music. T. J. Davis really is the best.

There are times I want to toss this thing into the fires of Mordor. Functionally, I really like the TabMate, but I've never had a device just refuse to stay connected or go absolutely shitfaced at a given moment as this fucking thing.

I love Marvel Rivals but good lord is its marketing the worst. The fact that it's marketed like a mobile app is probably why it flew under my radar for so long. "It's Jeff! In my belly!" "Amazing me!" It's like a 4 year old discovering its sentience on TikTok.

I've got a lot of flatting work ahead of me. Give me your favorite Sega Dreamcast and Sega Saturn documentaries/lore videos/etc.

Time for me to return to Sonic flatting. I have been summoned.

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Haven't done any flatting in a few months and then suddenly I get a lot of it at once. Time to shake off the rust.

AI-generating images of dinosaurs and selling them should get you a stern talking to by a paleontologist. And then at least 150 years in jail. No visitors.

I am so sick of large content creators hand waving away concerns for AI use in their merch as "mob mentality looking to cancel content creators". No, we just know better. Fuck you, and fuck you're shitty AI merch.

Nothing like watching a relatively large YT channel you like and then they start hawking their hideous AI-generated t-shirts.

Elnina is my favorite Deltarune character for reasons I will not discuss.

My brothers and I playing a brand new Sonic & Knuckles on our Sega Mega Drive back in 1994. I'm on the right, sporting some cozy PJs. This was probably Christmas, I forget. We often put the Sega on the box to keep it off the carpet. Helped when the cables got loose.

DeltaRune Chapter 3 is a hoot. I've just started Chapter 4 and it's shaping up to be amazing. I already want to do fan art from it, especially of my beloved weather cloud. Might also seek out some line art people have done for coloring. 👀

Co-opting MAGA slogans to sell your game is, at face value, exactly what it reads on the tin. You can't hand wave away a problematic choice by saying it's just word play when the words you are intentionally using are themselves problematic.

"I grew up playing Halo." Yeah so did many of the devs who worked on the FPS games you seem to dislike. In fact, I can guarantee you some of them even worked on Halo.

I never enjoy these game event streams. Why do I subject myself to them every year.

Walking on stage with a "Make FPS Great Again" hat was a choice you made. Immediately not interested in your game.

Resident Evil Requiem has my attention.

How long before Geoff Keighley starts hawking AI slop on this stage.

This where Sega announces the Sega Dreamcast 2 right? Right?

News like this warms my heart. truthout.org/articles/yur...

ASDFASDF 😭😭😭😭💖 One of my favorite fanarts of them is in! THANK YOU YWY

Today has been wild.

This looks sick.

I hope you're doing OK today,

You can't throw a rock now without it hitting AI slop in the thumbnails. On the plus side, it's making me not look up MCU rumors because that's probably the worst offender for them, so no chance of being spoiled. Use of AI tells me you have nothing of value to say.

Had a couple of x-rays yesterday, confirmed I do not have boneitis. I've had some pain in my left leg lately, wanted to make sure it wasn't related to some pre-existing issues I have with my right leg. Thankfully, the tests came back clear.

Womp.

On Sunday, my friend, Jonathan Joss was murdered and it took me a minute to find the words... Like so many of our lives, Jonathan's existed at the powerful intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, visibility, and vulnerability. He was fierce, funny, flawed, and real in every way that mattered.