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Lost Dragon
@lostdragon.bsky.social
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My art: #lostart_8xup

Wife: @yigatrash.bsky.social

I'm Lost Dragon. I live in a Dragon Burrow

I draw, write, & make dragon stuff & sometimes fan art

I follow other dragon artists & I repost their dragons too (a lot)

He/Him

https://www.lostdragon.com/
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If you’ve never seen an HD without its cover here ya go.

I’ll fill it up with bit grease to increase platter RPM - then let the cache drain.

This is “pros only” but if you wanna try, once you rotate the SATA cables, head to Geek Squad & tell ‘em you need “data lube”.

Let us know how it goes.
I made all that up but if you ended up at Geek Squad asking for “date lube” let me know in the comments. Actually, don’t. What you see here is a spinning hard drive. The arm moves up and down to read the data on the spinning disks. Usually these things have more than one platter. You can still get these but SSD and NVME are far better. Where spinners excel is being cheap and big. Someday they’ll probably just disappear. Why would you really take apart an old drive? That ruins it right? Yeah pretty much. You take them apart for the powerful magnets - that’s why. Here is another shot - just at an angle.
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I saw this thing on Amazon and now you have to.
It's some kind of "red light mask" that is supposed to reduce wrinkles or something - I dunno - it popped up on my "OMG ON SALE NOW HOLY SHIT" list and I'm sitting here like.. Yeah.. Yeah it's for when you wanna reduce wrinkles and then hit Camp Crystal Lake for some cardio.
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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My raven action shot for today.

I took this photo and roughly cropped it to remove bystanders. It is for public domain. Use for any purpose no credit required.
A raven flies away from the view, feathers fanned out in a pleasing way.
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I’m only somewhat too.

Err somewhat strongly. 🤣
A test for introversion. I’m at 21/100 and the categories I show are 0-18 - Strongly introverted 19-36 - Somewhat introverted So I’m like squeaking 3 points into “somewhat introverted” instead of “strongly introverted”.
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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It was just on the edge of being too cold so perhaps I’ll try a little matte varnish and then paint over that if the primer is weird.

At least some things were done, hmm?

Progress.

These are all from an old Reaper Bones KS ages ago. Fun to paint as there are a lot so IDC about mistakes much.
You see a bunch of minis stuck to some foam core strips via blutack, a sort of gummy adhesive that’ll come off later.
November 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Hmmmm.
Dragons milk stout. So.. Dragons are sentient so we’re just gonna pretend it’s a plant. The dragon plant. Yeah.
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Squishable Baphomet wasn’t in my “List of things I’ll probably see today”
You see a large-ish squishable baphomet. It’s got sort of a goat face with a star and horns.
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Phoebe and her Unicorn (and Unico).

Yes I’m at the bookstore.

OMG there is so much WOF my ADHD tail will never finish.
You see 11+ Wings of Fire books and there are more on the other side. Wow. Phoebe and Her Unicorn. Hey she’s on my Bsky! What a fun looking book. You see a little kid atop a unicorn and there’s l a pink forest l background.
November 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Oh nice someone made a daily planner for me.
It’s a daily planner with some gold foil decorations (some hands, some plants) and the title is “Things I’ll cancel later”
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Happy Halloween.

I'm gonna party like it's 2003.
October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers.

(I'm gonna cheat).
Why did I choose the name "Futuristic Idea Studios"... You see the title screen for DBQuest, a game I made and distributed on BBSs approximately one million years ago. To play you will need two rocks and some string, but if you don't have string technology yet you can also just hold the rocks together very tightly. Since this is the title screen we have DbQuest across the top with a beautiful 16 color gray gradient, and then below are some gorgeously rendered 16 color green dot tiles that represent grass along with some magnificent mountain tiles delicately shaded. It's practically chiaroscuro. For some of the NPCs it took me 3 hours to do the shading on the upper lip. I lied, they don't have portraits at all - I just wanted to quote Napoleon Dynamite. Uh, what else, oh yes there's some blue with wiggly lines atop that represents a river. I couldn't animate any of the tiles so the most you'll get here is seeing the player token jump from one square to the next.
October 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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I did finally get Wine installed.

Then I installed Heroic Games Launcher, which lets me log into GOG..

So now I'm running Ultima 5, which I think means I'm running DosBOX with WINE under KDE..

And it works - with sound. That's impressive.

Some smart folks did lotsa coding to make all that work.
You see DOSBOX in a tiny window running Ultima 5. I can make it full-screen and it looks just like it did 30+ years ago but I made it small to show that I'm running KDE and Heroic Games Launcher.
October 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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I was on that dragon themed tarot deck I kept posting about - Umbral Wings.

It’s so coooool.

The edges of the cards are shiny iridescent silver & the illustrations on the cards are all dragons.

You can only post 4 pics here so I tried to capture the bulk of it without giving all the art away.
You see the edges of a Tarot card deck. They’re silver with an iridescent quality that looks really cool in the light. I could just sit here and look at the card edges for a while. In the mid 1400s you could play a game with these. By the 1700s French occultists were using them instead to divine fortunes. I guess the actual card game got played out over 300 years. The deck came with a book that I’ve Joe d go a gorgeous white dragon with gold horns. His front hand-paws are crossed and looking at the picture again there are some extra arms coming from below him. Wait - is he sitting on someone? I’ll have to look again. I’m intrigued. Anyway all the deck is dragons - everything dragons. This is the hierophant card and then there’s a lot of text explaining what it means. Here’s the nest box the cards go in. If magnets closed and has more of that silver iridescent foil on it. And lastly hers a bag for the cards, a metal yes/no coin with a cool design on it, and some playful stickers. This is one do the cooler kickstarters I’ve been on. They even managed to navigate the horrible overseas shipping issue midstream. A little persistence goes a long way I guess. Big congrats to them for getting all this out.
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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So yeah I took some Das Stone and played with it over the weekend. It’s an air dry clay.

I’ve never used an armature and I didn’t do it correctly but as it started to droop and fall over I learned a lot - lol.

I bought some armature wire for next time. I got more aluminum foil too. It’s fun.
You see a lump of clay that’s vaguely dragon shaped. I was trying out a bunch of different stuff with no goal other than “how does this work anyhow”. This air dry clay (das stone brand) so you just leave it out & it does its thing. You can still see what it looks like wet at the bottom
October 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Aww. I love those guys. We have those all over town right now. Nobody bothers them so they end up everywhere.

These two were on a HS practice field while a game was going lol.
Two mule deer bros quietly munching grass next to a concrete slab that is used as a start for the shot-put
October 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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I fiddled with Ubuntu long enough to realize I was just recreating KDE so I switched to Kubuntu.

Yeah ok, that’s a lot tech blargle.

Kubuntu is an Ubuntu variant that uses KDE, a UI for Linux distros that looks like Windows 10.

Ubuntu looks Mac-ish. It uses Gnome which can be hard to customize.
This is a screen shot off the Kubuntu site. It’s showing version 25. I use the older but still extremely similar LTS version for stability and long term support. On a Linux distro the “lts” version is what you want when you don’t want to fool around with the OS all the time. What you’re seeing here is an interface that looks a lot like Windows 10. There are variations in icons and such but the layout, start menu, etc. is about the same. Aside from the UI it’s still Ubuntu, which means it’s also Debian - the distro Ubuntu is built on. Ubuntu just adds nice extras. The problem Linux has for mass adoption is that there’s a flavor (distro) for everything and everyone so it’s easy to fall into “distro hopping” which is what I’ve done yet again. To my credit I kept it all within Ubuntu or Redhat this time and I’m already done so… Yes ADHD meds & coaching do work. lol.
October 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I guess if you order straight from Lego they send out a paper catalog.

Well they won’t get me haha ooooh dragon.
A giant (hollow) Lego brick Christmas tree lurks in the background waiting to fall over and break into a million pieces, causing you to yelp in pain as you walk on them. You fall over - then its young devour the remains. That’s how Lego feeds. (Don’t send me a Christmas catalog before Halloween). At the bottom there’s a neat looking Lego purple dragon. Do I have room for this in my apt is the question. It’s but even big I’m just running out of space lol.
October 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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After fiddling through several browsers I finally landed on Vivaldi for Ubuntu. It's based on Chromium.

I like the speed dial - it's a home screen you can setup yourself with your own favorite links and then it lets you customize those links with art. The art can get way bigger than I show below.
So here's just a small snip of my speed dial. I went vertical here but I've got 3 rows of 8 icons each, all of them this large. On my first row I made the link to Bsky have a Loona graphic (she's looking at her phone). Then down below that I have a link to Hobbylink Japan (with an Oguri Cap icon - she's eating donuts). This is the "small" size icon, believe it or not. It goes up to medium, large, and huge(!) Small was big enough for me. Sometimes I put my own art in some of these too - it's fun. Since I use the same sites over and over having a speed dial like this keeps me from wandering off in the web. Once I've checked my speed dial, I'm done.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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I bought this on sale 2 years ago and we've used it pretty much every day since.

I like it.

Why did I buy it..

ADHD had a moment & I saw it was on sale for $300.

For that reason I can't say "This is the best one." but it's been fine for us & the water is tasty.

www.amazon.com/dp/B09KRDK67...
You see a Bluevua brand reverse osmosis water filter. It has several filters in the side you can kind of see through a window. This goes on sale regularly for $300 according to camelcamelcamel.com This takes in chlorinated city water and spits good tasting water, removing whatever impurities remain after the city's done with it. Now, in most places tap-water in the US should be perfectly consumable. My ADHD just woke up one day and was like "Yeah, you're going to buy this" but - I don't regret it. I drink way, way more water now than I used to. It's actually almost all I drink anymore. Because this was a spontaneous buy I can't even tell you that it's the best one. It may be the worst one, but it's been working fine for me for a couple years now. Are filters pricey? About $90-$100 a year for me. That'll vary depending on what's in your water. If this thing breaks would I get another one? Yes. Is this device apartment compatible? Definitely. It's self contained you don't hook it up to anything except a standard wall outlet. You fill the water container, run the filter, dump out the now impure water, fill it again, repeat.
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Ahh right, if you want Ubuntu to have a menu button and tray like Windows just go to extension manager, browse, and find "dash to panel".

It'll get rid of the top bar and, well, it just looks more or less like Windows except the program menu takes up the entire screen like a Mac (but I like that).
You see a crawn with some animal on it - I don't know it's the mascot of this version of Ubuntu and that's the default wallpaper. The bit to look at it as the bottom, that's what Dash to Panel does. The button with all the dots on it is equivalent to the Windows button more or less. I feel like I could daily drive this but there's always something and I haven't installed Clip Studio yet (sigh, I fear it may not work well).
October 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

I like these two. Millie's homespun goodness with a side order of caring (and assassin). Loona's an adorkable character wearing a mask to try and get left alone (it doesn't work).
The dumbass twins, Millie and Loona about to do something stupid. Millie's on the ground kind of losing it and Loona's reacting to her yelling with a "whoah, whoah, hey fine, okay, don't kill me" kinda reaction. I mean, it works out for them eventually.
October 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Symboli Rudolf from Uma Musume says “It’s hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally”.
October 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Oh, oh I love this thing.
You see a lot of car hood and then my Hella Boss sun shade which features Loona on the phone probably enjoying the ride and not wanting to admit it, Blitzo enjoying driving a lil too much and then the wonder-twins (not brother and sister) Moxxie and Millie. Moxxie is trying not to die. Millie is eager to add to her head count.
October 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Ok I got this on sale and it was totally worth it.

He’s huge. 😂😂😂
You see the fourth Dr. - played by Tom Baker. It’s an Englishman in a ridiculously long scarf and he has curly hair. I own the scarf too but mine isn’t that long because well, I want to be able to walk. lol. I have nostalgia for this version of Dr Who because that’s what played in rerun when I was a kid. Yeah, it was the days before streaming when you had to watch what was on or nothing. Right. You know, I just assume I get unlimited regenerations so what is age really?
October 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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My 20-something fast food claim to fame was eating a Big Montana in one sitting.

I got a Helluva Boss sun shade. My car is as jank as Blitzo’s van so it fits the vibe.

The Millie keychain I’m going to use as a Christmas ornament.

Everyone knows to remove the film from acrylic standees right?
The aforementioned car sun shade, folded out. There’s a lot of red. From left to right you have Loona & Blitzo (the o is silent) and then in the back you have Moxxie and Millie. Blitzo looks like he’s about to purposefully run into someone. Loona is on the phone. The chaos goober, Millie, is enjoying it while Moxxie looks terrified. I will be the only person in town with this. Having ADHD is like inoculation against second-hand embarrassment. I’ve walked into poles, wet cement, and almost ran into a blind person a couple months ago. I can’t be bothered to regulate my taste in cartoons. It’s one thing to many. I mean, just one thing is too many. A sketchbook with a stylized Loona face on the front. It was on close-out sale. They missed an opportunity to call it a claws-out sale. This is a hat pin of Loona with booze wearing a terrible Christmas sweater with a heart shaped hole over the chest. It’s from the Sinsmas episode I’ve not watched yet but I thought th sweater was funny. Ah here Moxxie and Millie play fight. Millie will always have the upper hand. When they stop play fighting it starts getting more serious and by serious I mean there’s a lot of sex in this show. Well, off camera. They can only get away with so much right.
October 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM