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Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

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Time waster, gamer; destroyer, creator. Cringe is dead and I am free. My friends will keep me honest.
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Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

It's the Hokuto specific funny number, gamers.

September 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

Screenshot of a Tumblr post written by user 1800areyousnackin:

me: *has a puny human emotion*

blue whale: you are like a little baby. feel this

blue whale: *telepathically shares it's (sic) emotions with me and I fucking explode*

September 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

Low effort sketch of the artist's versions of Splatoon Agents 3 and 8. 8 (purple), wide-eyed, is biting hard on 3 (green)'s arm. Blood spurts from the wound. 3 gives an apathetic thumbs up. In imitation of the original drawing, they have "8/3/25" scribbled in different colored colored pencil onto their shirt.

August 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

Got my 100 #artfight2025 Attacks in!

Aster (beast) and Aster (neon girl) posing like a Lucky Star screenshot. Both are smiling for the hypothetical camera, one finger in the air.

Sir Woodruff Snarling (wolf bodyguard) holds up Princen Silver Lunaria (arctic fox mage).

Loch Ghoulette, sleeping like a cat on a brick wall.

Mo (sentient apple tree). A swing hangs from his leftmost branch, a flower crown adorns his right, and a skull rests in his boughs.

July 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

#artfight2025

Dew Riptide (Octoling) and Kochunyi Ka (Caves of Qud OC) in the Nimbasa City Ferris wheel, what will they do?

Burn (bobcat dragon musician) and Val (hyena with nice jacket and nice guitar) striking the DJ Yellow and Right Rocker poses from Rhythm Heaven DS.

Katz (red cat) stepping on a soccer ball and flexing one arm.

Juno (underground robot) in a bathtub surrounded by rose petals.

July 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

#makeaterriblecomicday2025

"The Deli Guy, After Hours" | For Terrible Comic Day 2025 | 24 Jun 2025
PANEL 1: Gloved hands weigh cheese for premade slider sandwiches.
PANEL 2: Soba Sable, a reflection of the artist, lays a handful of spring mix on a sourdough sandwich.
PANEL 3: A gloved hand cuts strawberries into presentable pieces for yogurt cups. The wasted tops wilt in the food prep sink.
PANEL 4: Soba nudges strawberry pieces on yogurt into place with a spoon.
PANEL 5: POV: you are pushing a rack full of product towards the sale shelves.
PANEL 6: Soba's shared lunch in the home refrigerator.
Below the panels, the artist's note: "This comic isn't finished. Technically, I can never finish this comic. Sure, I'm going to share my lunch when I go to work, but that's tomorrow. I'll never know who buys the overpriced Ready Meals I put on the Sisyphean sandwich shelf day after day. All I can hope is that they enjoy the fruits of my labor. It is, quite literally, the least I can do."
The comic is signed "Made with love, [real name redacted]/Soba Sable".

June 25, 2025 at 6:54 AM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

Stolen from my friend Clover. Since I also do not expect 40 likes, I will randomize the order I answer questions in.

June 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

I hate it here.

Draw the Squad meme with OP's OCs. Stone (blue) scowls and hangs a hand over the edge. Jetta (orange) glares at the viewer, finger on the trigger of a handgun. An iteration of Skipper (green) grips the same edge as Stone.

Draw the Squad meme with OP's OCs. Eight (purple) holds a nonplussed Skipper (green) and attempts to kiss them. Bricks (turquoise) takes a picture. Nalu (pink) clutches Bricks's arm, tears cascading down his face.

May 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

We're bringing Draw the Squad back.

Draw the Squad meme with OP's OCs. Carson (yellow) bridal carries Lupe (orange) through the door, interrupting Jessica's (blue) reading.

Draw the Squad meme with OP's OCs. Meki (light green) raises suggestive eyebrows at an uninterested Nolan (rust). Behind them, Osborne (blue) gestures at Morgan's (orange) burning plate. Fernandez (green) watches in horror.

Draw the Squad meme with OP's OCs. Whale (blue) makes a smug gesture, prompting Candy (pink) to raise a baseball bat against him. Devil (yellow) begs Candy to stop, while Chlorophyll (green) cheers him on.

May 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

I don't care, I want more joke art. ALSO! I want it on the record, I'm the world's first known fan artist of obscure indie game Moonlight!

Redraw of the "WHEEZE" meme. Bloons TD6 Benjamin laughing and pounding the table.

I'm so sorry, screen reader users, I don't even know where to start with this one.

Cursed emoji of that one monster guy from Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

Kinubo, a monkey-like creature, bounces from bubble to bubble. The moon illuminates the night sky behind him.

May 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

ACTUALLY. DO WE WANT MORE JOKE ART

Reference sheet for "Farid the Brown Blotched Bengal Tree Frog" in the style of teens making Sonic the Hedgehog OCs in MS Paint. Farid wears a spiked leather vest, fingerless gloves, and what looks like Doc Marten boots. Text on right reads: "THIS IS FARID THE BENGAL BROWN BLOTCHED TREE FROG HE IS 15 years OLD AND STILL A FROGLET. WHEN HE IS AN ADULT HIS TAIL WILL ABSORB BACK INTO HIS BODY AND THEN HE WILL BE A FROG. HIS POWER IS THAT HE CAN PLAY THE CLASH, RAMONES, BAD BRAINS, VELVET UNDERGROUND, SEX PISTOLS ON HIS ELECTRIC GUITAR. HIS PUNK GIUTAR (sic) PLAYING MAKES HIS ALLIES ANGRY AND THEY FIGHT FOR JUSTICE BETTER. FARID IS A YEAR 20 AT MYSTIC RUINS ACADEMY WHEN HE IS NOT FIGHTING VILLAINS."
Below that wall of text, a crude drawing of Farid's signature Toxtricity Amped guitar. "FARID OC BELONGS TO STUNSHOCK115 DO NOT STEAL!!!"

Magnapinna squid (horrible creepy animal) with blush stickers and hearts floating around it (funny).

Incomplete "Spaceball" Rhythm Heaven sprite edits featuring Blaseball legend Parker MacMillan.

Text on top reads "You are about to with the Nonary Game, how are you sitting in the Ceremony Room waiting for your final clues?" The joke sets up Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors characters sitting incorrectly on an armchair.
1. Ace sits legs tucked close together, frowning.
2. Snake sits with one leg over the other, one hand in his lap, other hand holding his smug face up.
3. Santa sits on the armrest of the chair, feet dangling off the side, arm resting where your back is supposed to go.
4. Clover sits scrunched up, opposite arm from her brother Snake propping up her face.
5. Junpei Zero Escape sits criss-cross with his hands between his knees, smiling.
6. June Zero Escape hangs her legs over one armrest and lays her head on the other.
7. I don't remember the intended pose. Seven was too tall and heavy to pull it off. The chair topples over.
8. Lotus slouches in her chair, arms spread wide, one knee in the air.
9. Ninth Man sits with his back on the seat and his legs against the backrest, staring upside down with his arms crossed.

May 14, 2025 at 7:35 AM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

If not dragon joke art for 2025, y'all would have seen my side of an art trade or one of the two reference sheets I managed to finish before my tablet pen bit the dust. The recipient of this piece has not responded. It's been, like, a month and I need to be told that I am as funny as I think I am.

Deliberately poorly drawn dragons made to resemble the cover art of Pixel Terror's "Medusa."

May 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

My most ambitious art piece yet comes from ArtFight 2024. I'm looking at this and I can see the flaws, but the overwhelmingly positive response I got from everyone involved made this 9000% worth it. (Sorry, I only had Sploons on my 'puter from 2024.)

A picnic scene featuring 15 different people's Agents 3. Some are eating, some are lounging, some are attempting to play an indeterminate card game.

May 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

I don't think Bluesky image compression could handle the power of "The Corona Phoenix on the Sea of Time!!" Instead, "Birdplay," the comic from a not comic class I took in 2023. (I don't think I've shared this online in its entirety before.)

Myna bird Lena and wedge-tailed shearwater Keanu sit at a classroom table. Lena gestures with her wings as Keanu reads the weekly ads in the newspaper.
LENA: Good morning, Keanu!
KEANU: I'm still mourning all da sleep I lost...
LENA: Let's start the day with some music! (Lena lifts a speaker onto the table.) Am I allowed to play it aloud?
KEANU: Not at dis time of day!
LENA: Fine... Any good deals in the Midweek?
KEANU: Canned tuna at longs, Chinese parsley at Times, and pears at Foodland.
LENA: Pairs of what?
(FWAP! Keanu smacks Lena with his newspaper.)
KEANU: Pears like da fruit! Priced by da poun'!
LENA: Well, I still don't have the drive to drive across town for two fruits.
KEANU: ...You lōlō or what? (Keanu facepalms.)
LENA: ...Hey, how come you speak Pigeon English if you're a shearwater?
(With a gleam in his eyes, Keanu's expression turns serious.)
KEANU: 'Cause da pigeons never brought 'um here.

(Switch from digital drawing to ink on paper.)
First panel: bird laborers working on a sugar plantation.
KEANU, off panel: Hawaiian Pidgin—P I D G I N—English was born in da sugar plantations because da exploited immigrant laborers spoke different languages.
Second panel: Sugarcane rustles in the breeze as a lone egret laborer walks past a building flying an American flag.
KEANU: At firs', dey used Hawaiian grammatical structures wit' loanwords from dea maddah tongues to reach mutual understanding.
Third panel: A sparrow man bathes with his sparrow child in a washbasin.
KEANU: But when ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi became illegal, dey had to switch to English. Every subsequent generation learned to speak dat way.

(Comic returns to digital drawings in classroom.)
Panel: Keanu, deep in explanation on the left. Imaginary camera pans to Noe the Hawaiian gallinule with her smartphone camera out.
KEANU: Dis mean Hawaiian "Pidgin English" is technically a creole language—
NOE: Cut! We supposed to be acting out one comedy skit, not one history lesson!
Next panel zooms out to Lena with her speaker on the floor, Keanu with his wings in his pockets, and the top of Noe's head.
LENA: So is the bird also spelled P I D G—
KEANU: She's dis lōlō in real life too?!
NOE: Shut up, Anu! Lena is my best friend.
Next panel: close-up of Lena.
LENA: By the way, did anyone hear from Reyn today?
Next panel: Noe eyes the classroom door from behind.
NOE: The day Reyn shows up on time is the day I die.
(KNOCK KNOCK)
Final panel: Reyn, a Pacific golden plover, busts through the door, hard plastic cooler in hand.
REYN: My uncle made marlin dip!
EVERYONE ELSE: Where were you 20 minutes ago?!

May 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

This one (2022) never got past the sketch phase.

Doodles of my Pokémon Shining Pearl OC Izuki and her championship team: Infernape, Staraptor, Roserade, Manaphy, Froslass, Garchomp. The top third is empty to leave space for Trainer Info I never got around to adding.

May 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

I was considering putting something serious in for 2021, but I couldn't not do Blaseball.

Beloved Blaseball character NaN wearing clothing and accessories from every team that hosted NaN. Mocking SpongeBob pose, the one usually accompanied by alternating capital and lowercase captions. The caption of the image is also written that way: "NaN."

May 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

If the previous piece was 2019, here's 2020.

Abstract painting: gray streaks across clashing walls of orange and blue. Pale swirls of paint gather in the top third.

May 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

(digs through the archives) Ask and you shall receive.

Dimitri von Fire Emblem: Three Houses (I forget his last name), post-timeskip, drawn in fineliner pen. Fur cloak, eyepatch, legendary weapon, the whole nine yards. Captioned: "Kill every last one of them!"

May 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM

Hokuto

@gloomdweller.bsky.social

An artist I follow posted the image below. I was going to ask the same thing before realizing I don't put art on Bluesky, meaning that anyone giving me a serious answer could just say "art." Why don't I put art on Bluesky?