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Retro Heart
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Your friendly California Bay Area artist and VTuber coming at you from the sleek, ultramodern future of 19XX.
Biracial. Est’d 1985. He/Him.
Pleasing taste, some monsterism. Spread love, punch fascists.
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Retro Heart @retroheart.net · Oct 17
Super #Introduction II Turbo!
I make #DigitalArt and #Comics inspired by 80s/90s anime with cute, colorful characters, livestream, and get experimental with #OBSCrimes.
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The Monitor, a robot with a CRT monitor for a head and dressed in a jean jacket and red scarf, being tackle-hugged by Bun-E03, an android woman with mechanical rabbit ears and tail with a bunny suit to match. Bun-E03 is looking at the viewer with a wink and smile, her free hand making a peace sign / rabbit ears behind The Monitor. Pamela "Pam" DeMonium, a demon woman with bright red skin and cream-colored horns poking out from her white hair, leaning forward and saying "You got this." Her eyes lack pupils, being yellow the whole way through, and she leans forward with a very unbuttoned top. A small bee approaching a woman with bee-like antenna that may or may not be attached to her headband. Her hair looks messy and she has an exhausted, burned-out look to her, a cigarette dangling from her lips and little on her upper body besides a sports top that's been smoothly cut across the center and a half-off jacket. She's looking over at the bee saying "Queen? Heh. Nobody's called me that in a long time..." The added title text says "Royal Reject?! / Queen Bea / Chapter 1: Oh, Honey". Nova, a woman with dog-like ears and tail, jumping and pumping one fist into the air with a triumphant pose as her long white hair flows behind her, tied in a ponytail. She's dressed in a cropped raglan t-shirt with a red star in the center, cut-off jean shorts, long striped blue and white socks, and red canvas sneakers.
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Yesterday was a damn good day.
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Bun-E03 Halloween costumes, just in time for Halloween 2. Not to be confused with Halloween 3: Season of the Witch.
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Bun-E03 striking her iconic idol pose with a big smile. Bun-E03 dressed as a Witch. Bun-E03 dressed as Morrigan from Darkstalkers with her own spin on the design.
November 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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drdubz.bsky.social
www.twitch.tv/dr_dubz CROWD CONTROLLED SELACO - Use the power of currency or patience to kill my ass in a variety of fun ways while I play Selaco, like, one of my fave games in recent years. Basically my own celebration for placing in an Art competition run by the devs, so yeah, come kill me.
Twitch
Twitch is the world
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November 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Ween
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#Art #DigitalArt #RetroHeartArt
Bun-E03 dressed up as Morrigan from Darkstalkers, NEK-01 as Lilith, and CAT-SS as Felicia. Bun-E03 is bringing in a surprised and blushing NEK-01 with her arm, while CAT-SS looks over her shoulder in the background.
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Ween
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#Art #DigitalArt #RetroHeartArt
Bun-E03 dressed up as Morrigan from Darkstalkers, NEK-01 as Lilith, and CAT-SS as Felicia. Bun-E03 is bringing in a surprised and blushing NEK-01 with her arm, while CAT-SS looks over her shoulder in the background.
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Once again returning to my art hole
Do not perceive me until further notice
October 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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I was gonna leave this as just a blog that was sent out via RSS but the front page of Retro Achievements put up a Retro Roulette this morning, which gives me the impression that they're just going to move right along like nothing happened, so
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Retro Debacle | Mechanical Heart
Pleasing taste, some monsterism.
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October 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Back to my hiatus hideout where I'll continue to recover my artistic powers until further notice
October 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Here's the Retro Awardments for Blue Stinger I was working on.

I can't support them platforming hate and trying to non-committal "both sides" backstep.

My Retro Achievements claim was dropped despite being told it wouldn't do that in review so I'm done with 'em.
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RETRO AWARDMENTS: Blue Stinger | Mechanical Heart
Pleasing taste, some monsterism.
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October 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Inspired by @thekindestweapon.bsky.social, I'm gonna grab all the Retro Achievements I was working on and put them on my blog Soon™

You don't need the staff of a bigoted tracking website to give you points a pat on the back
You can make your own rules
Have your own sense of accomplishment
October 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Reminder that you can find all my stuff at my website:
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Or links page:
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Or blog (RSS supported):
blog.retroheart.net
For as long as I can keep the lights on.
No ads, no tracking, no catering to fascists.
October 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The final scene of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with Will Smith looking over an empty room. Eggbug is also there. I'll always miss you, Cohost. Thanks for everything.
October 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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System reboot in progress.
Please wait. . .
September 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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I'm going on hiatus for a little while.
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Summer Vacation | Mechanical Heart
Pleasing taste, some monsterism.
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September 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I'm going on hiatus for a little while.
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Summer Vacation | Mechanical Heart
Pleasing taste, some monsterism.
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September 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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A day late, a buck short
Doodles, Drawin', and Jawin'
(plus a modified audio setup)
Starting soon:
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SuperRetroHeart - Twitch
Art // Doodles, Drawin', and Jawin' (and testing new audio)
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September 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Combining a morning walk and grocery run, then will see if I can get a stream going this morning

Gonna be another hot day so I might have to cut it short if it really heats up, will have to see, but trying to make things happen where I can
September 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Anyways, hard right turn today because I found a job listing that is perfectly aligned with my skill set and the work I would like to do (and previously did), and it's the kind of place that I want to work at as opposed to being A Job

So that's priority 1 today
September 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Streaming PC broke its own ethernet drivers, and possibly other drivers, so I might have to postpone the stream I was planning this morning and reinstall

I love pressing the power button on a computer where literally nothing changed from the day before and having it self-destruct
September 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Okay, closing out this flurry of posts with some cleanup on something that never got done previously

Won't be able to get it done today but I think it could make a good "end of Summer" piece
#Art #DigitalArt #WIP #RetroHeartArt
Mostly done lineart (with some glowing bits) of Bun-E03 holding a pair of themed popsicles and winking at the viewer, dressed in a tied t-shirt and bikini bottoms. The happy-looking rabbit-themed one in her right hand has a chunk bitten out of it, while the sour-looking cat-themed one is being held out towards the viewer.
August 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Today is the only day you can listen to the simple plan EP
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the simple plan EP, by August is Falling
5 track album
augustisfalling.bandcamp.com
August 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Threw myself into a mental loop about Phantasy Star IV, how it was meant to be the definitive end of the franchise, and how it just kept going after that

Not as an indictment of Online, it just got me thinking about how many franchises were *intended to end* but were revived by corporate mandate
August 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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One minor regret about my art setup is that it revolves around a small office setup that I swear is 10 degrees warmer than any other part of my apartment when it's hot out due to the monitors and PC

I already kind of shut down on hot days so digital art is pretty much a non-starter
August 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Call me a Burning Ranger because it's about to be 92 Freedom Degrees outside today
August 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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The last big thing for me right now is trying to get OBS to output my capture card audio to a custom device, and it just does not work, full stop

It outputs to desktop or OBS itself just fine, but not to another device, and of course searching for it brings up a bunch of generic OBS audio tutorials
August 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM