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Sweet Corm
@cormorants0.bsky.social
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Figure I should try to be on here. Might post art, or rave about my ffxiv character. May also weigh in on politics: I am a socialist. Aught else is moral failure. My Game: https://cormorants.itch.io/jockey-real-horsemanship
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Sometimes I make quickish art in response to streams. Such as this thing, which the world clearly needed.
An image of A Chuckster, from Mario, throwing mario. Mario is poorly drawn. The title text "Tom Clancy's Yeet 'N' Chuck Kingdom" adorns the image.
November 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Sent to me by my younger sister on FB
Tumblr post suggesting we need to "meme on" the way charlie kirk's wife censored his death for their kid, namely "Baby, daddy loves you so much. Don't you worry. He's on a work trip with Jesus so he can afford your blueberry budget." Replies add "Well honey, your father is GONE because you eat TOO MANY FUCKING BLUEBERRIES" & "step on the crack -> break your mother's back; eat too many berries -> your dad gets shot in the neck"
September 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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personally I don't see the need for "custom AI" to write draculisms unless the author is fundamentally weak.
September 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Motivation is weird and I would love to have a firmer grip on whatever faucet doles it out but my brain decided it was urgent to create this & thereby educate the public
A picture showing waluigi, standing behind luigi, and wario, standing behind rio from Lifeline/Operator's Side, with the text "think about it"
September 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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@tietuesday.bsky.social Belated mouse with a sword. No lakes boiled by an idiot robot for business clowns in the process.
A mouse clutches a blade. By the handle. He holds a prowling, fencer's pose, coiled and ready to lunge. "My Blade Hath Slain Two Dozen Men; I Desire Cheesed Snack. Do Not Make Me Wait"
July 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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I took on some extra teaching hours at the end of the school term and then got pretty sick once it ended, but making an effort to press on now.
Uhhh sleeve. Beginnings of belts.
July 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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For all Orwell did some asshole things, he was right to say this.
(Picture only tangentially related)
An image of the round ghost which bedevils Mario. Below is the text "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boo[...]" - George Orwell
June 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Quick drawing of an pokēmon to break up all the politics posting & hopefully aid morale?
among several favourites, Sableye might be The favourite - has never really worked for me gameplay wise, but nonetheless, he is my son.
Sableye (a Pokēmon resembling a delightful little goblin man) clutches a necklace in both hands while eating a gem from it.
June 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Today's after-work progress. Not 100% sure about the hand, but if I am drawing hands wrong then I get to be the one stealing jobs from AI.
A Hand! Buttons! The Third, Layered Cravat on this extremely ostentatious shirt!
June 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Such progress as I have made on this today & yesterday. Have reached the point where the logical next step is to draw the back of a hand, sadly, and already intensely regretting giving Guy such a fancy outfit.
Most of a cravat and most of an arm have appeared. >FIGHT >MAGIC >ITEM >FLEE
June 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Trying to push myself a bit harder with art; WIP of my WoL.
An image of an Elezen (Elf) summoner, frowning at the camera. The guy, Guy's hair, collar, cravat and capelet are being blown to the left by wind from some source.
June 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Trying to do more art/writing #Wizards #Forums
I'd ask folk to tag themselves but it seems unkind.
An image supposedly depicting "Thenglewick's Forums", Implicitly a forum for wizards. Under Thenglewick's harmonious Forum [Sor/Wiz 8]> Mysteries> Geometric Mysteries> SHAPES?!?, forum user and archmage of the ninth book Kelubon the Ancient has started a new thread titled "Orbs Vs. Spheres". Per Kelubon "We all know one does not ponder one's sphere, and one seldom contemplates the mysteries of the orbs. Once cannot have an orb of influence (outlawed 1276 under the suggestive ensorcelment act), and while 'Fire Orb' is a perfectly functional name for a spell which fires an orb, 'Fire Sphere' sounds like a clumsy 'Slang' complement the so-called 'youth' might inflict upon an innocent sphere owner. Discuss." Melmor Cubecaller immediately offers that "Noone cares, bro, they're both failed shapes. Get an angle." but is largely ignored. Thielbert Wood-Wise offers that "They're both balls, OP", enraging Kelubon, who counters "I'll show you both balls you rancid little cretin. Read the goddamn thread before you post, Wood-Dunce". Latecomer Feldspar Fireheart, who saw a frog once and is now without eyes, offers a non-universal rule of thumb that spheres are bigger than a person while orbs are smaller before quote-posting Kelubon's "I'll show you both balls" and emoting his alarm. Lastly, Melmak the deciever, a moderator, likewise quotes Kelubon's outburst with a "Please do" added in response.
May 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Lmao.
A mass-deployed form letter from a bank urging people investing through "Kiwisaver" (a govt. scheme funding employer-matched investement of a portion of employee savings into stocks and the like) not to check their balances every day lest they make "rushed decisions" and telling them that when the market dips they haven't lost money unless they cash out (technically true, what they've lost is a non-monetary store of wealth, but splitting hairs for 90% of people)
April 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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A tablet made a huge difference to my ability to produce art quickly, let me more readily draw things that are harder to break into individual lines/curves, and let me react to things with art in something close to real time. But some of my best work has been with a mouse.
Paint.net drawing of a humanoid mech with prominent wings. Parts of the mech look like humanoid musculature under cloth, particularly the machine's oddly prominent thigh muscles, but others are clearly mechanical and still others bonelike. A cockpit resembling a frogmouth helm looks down eyelessly at the viewer. In the mech's right hand (viewer's left) is a gunlike nozzle spraying a silvery gas. A largely decorative basket hilt protects the mech's hand.
April 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Realised I'd not drawn a wizard-ass wizard since getting a tablet. Not my best work, but I'm not going to improve without practice & I feel I've been neglecting to post art here.
A wizard, of the sort who, in the wild, would nest on the sides of panel vans, is walking somewhere. And by "somewhere" I mean "through a blank white void". In his right hand (viewer's left) he holds a sword alight with writhing, unnatural flame, but in his left he holds a full cup of coffee, suggesting this is a domestic scene.
April 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Upstairs is a storage area, featuring spare towels, leftover seasonal promotional materials, flyers, legal documents & fake violins. Downstairs, a combination bedrooom/office comprises the 6 square yalms of apartment the owner actually lives in.
Upstairs view with towels, empty bottles, halloween decorations, a cabinet of fake fondant violins, and a statue of sophia standing in for a depiction of Azeyma as a duskwight. A tiny bedroom and office. A working desk has been crammed in under the elevated bed. Sandwiches sit uneaten next to a half-written ledger. An incensory burns incense, as is their wont.
February 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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A view of the baths themselves, including our patented and controversial "soup bath" technology.
Standing in a corner bath. The "soup bath", containing a constantly cooking barbeque spit, roasting over an underwater flame, is visible to the left. Dinner, a bath, of freedom from false dichotomies through the relentless march of technology? The bathhouse only other employee, seen hiding from customers behind a bath taller than her. If found, she can claim she's just there in case bathers need anything from the snack cabinet beside her. Two normal, one person baths, side by side in easy splashing distance of a bookshelf, and surrounded by alcohol.
February 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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The main entrance, a red carpet bombarded by constantly running showers. A small stand holds a sign-in book and magazines for waiting guests. This is probably a seventh floor apartment. on the right, viewed from the kitchen, a community notice board.
The main entrance. Showers blast unendingly onto red carpet and wooden flooring. It's very Economy 2.0 Community notices posted on a wall near the entryway.
February 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Left of the entryway, a combination kitchen/checkout counter and a waiting area for guests. Gelmorran-style stonework elevates the first of many piles of towels.
A kitchen, with a cabinet selling ready made food, a log rack to feed the ovens, a cash register, plates, some of which will float on water and the first signs of the homeowner's day drinking habit. a waiting area adjacent to the kitchen. A low backed L couch provides seating for guests. What is supposed to be a glass wall, but is actually prison bars, backed with a waterfall partition, affords bathers the meanest semblance of privacy.
February 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Figure I might as well give bluesky the #FFXIV apartment tour. Or rather, bathhouse tour, as this is in part an experiment in determining how far is too far before homeowner's associations in the holy see are allowed to execute you.
A crude rendering of my WoL in the art style of Anthology of the Killer. He is delivering Mappy/Mephistopheles "commencement speech" from that game, edited with screenshots of words and letters from ffxiv to read "Call me Guydelot! You may know me from The Scions of the Seventh Dawn . I retired early and bought a Bath house. But nobody wanted to visit my Wet house or listen to my increasingly Clammy and Succulent political opinions."
February 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Possibly redundant and likely premature to post Realis homebrew, but my first character idea upon reading how Sentences work and grow stronger was to have an ascetic magician who gradually succumbed to more vices as they pushed themselves.
MYSTIC: Ascetic Mystery Seekers. Warriors and Cultists. Oathbound and Ambitious. Mystics do not simply practice magic; they seek to become it, to embody it. For many, this begins with forsaking the trappings of mundanity. To this end, they live as paupers and mendicants, many also giving up ties of family and some the protections of law, for mundanity is defined by the wielders of mundane power. Yet they are neither selfless nor lawless, but rather swear to uphold the teachings of their secret societies in pursuit, sometimes, of some personal enlightenment but always of greater power. They may shun bread and water, but try as they might they cannot escape their appetites. CLASS SENTENCES: - I always see the unseen - I can always go without mundane things - I can always bring immense force to bear - I always seek to grow my power (alternately "I always uphold the ban on [a mundane or mystical activity others in the setting engage in, which my cult has deemed forbidden]") EXAMPLE BONDS: - [Character]'s soul is weighed down by mundane things. I must lighten their burden. - [Character] is a source of power. I must clearly stake my claim. EXAMPLE DREAMS: - All that I have gone without will be mine someday. - I will free mankind from the shackles of mundane vice. - I will become my truest self at any cost.
January 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Excuse you
A picture of Emmanellain and Thing-doer, presumably ready to shoot someone for talking, in the style of the Onion's editorial comix. Emmenellain is helpfully labelled "Today's No-Good Teens"
January 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Since I'm apparently in the mood to reupload my old art tonight, a dracula flowism for your consideration. #Art #Writing #DraculasOrDraculae
'THIS SHIT AIN'T NOTHING TO ME, MAN, I'M ON EXOTIC LIFE FORMS MYCOLOGISTS WON't EVEN LOOK AT. I'M SNORTING WHOLE FREEZE DRIED CUBAN CIGARS, GOT THE CIA TRYING TO BLOCKADE ANTARCTICA. I AM THE SYSIPHUS OF EATING PUSSY & IT DOES NOT TAKE MUCH IMAGINATION TO KEEP ME HAPPY. I AM TAKING CRACK IN A MANNER THAT VIOLATES MY PRESCRIPTION FOR CRACK" - Dracula.
January 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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It's not the best art I've ever done, but this depiction of Guydelot as a kid & his carbuncles still amuses me.
An image with far too much whitespace, really, titled "Childhood with Guydelot Fierlaine & His Magnificent Carb Uncles". Four such child guydelots ("Little guys" if you will [I will not blame you if you will not]) are depicted, each playing with a different carbuncle in a different season. On the far left, Guy is cuddling a standard carby named Guydelittle, presumably in summer. Centre left, he holds an emerald carbuncle named Keto under one arm like a bagpipe and uses its' windy breath as a leafblower in autumn. The resulting pile of leaves reveals my shocking laziness as an illustrator. Centre right, in winter, Guy roasts marshmallows over a sleeping ruby carbuncle labelled Marmaduke. Far right, Guydelot is clinging to the dorsal fin of an orca a la sonic the hedgehog in sonic 06, while a topaz carbuncle called Forthmeal [sic] plays the role of tails - hitting an invisible flight ceiling and plummeting like a rock some distance short of the objective. Presumably this takes place in spring, but it could be sensically switched with the summer drawing.
January 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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While I'm #FFXIV posting have this dumb thing I made last expansion. I hope it makes somebodies day a little lighter.
An image of an old popular mechanics cover depicting a wheelless, flying car. Golbez & Azdaja have been crudely copied and pasted into the car's interior, and the title "Popular Mechanics" has been replaced with the recurring quote "I shall free our people from the wheel".
January 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM