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saltydracon.bsky.social
put your teeth to the grindstone
@saltydracon.bsky.social
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PJ | 26 | aroace, south asian american | artist, writer, gamer, and guy with a job | i enjoy watching fictional characters beat the shit out of each other
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I sewed this thing.

Ordered a precut leather kit from Pop Sewing and sewed it together over the course of 7 hours. Kinda amazing how good it looks lol
A small satchel hanging from a doorknob by its crossbody strap. The satchel is dark brown while its front pocket and buckles are lighter brown. The stitches are white. Same satchel as in the previous image, but zoomed in a bit on the purse section.
October 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Shuten Order is incredible. Rei Shimobe is such a fun protagonist (God's favorite little stress ball) and I'm blown away by the character writing in the Science and Health routes. Fun character designs as well, amazing music and backgrounds- it was an absolute treat to play!
Image of the Library banner for Shuten Order in Steam. The Last Played date is the date of posting, the play time reads 75.2 Hours, and all achievements have been completed.
October 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Saw this guy in a caffeine-induced nightmare and he gaslit me over his ceiling collapsing on top of me. Also the art direction in the nightmare was awesome (lots of beautiful, colorful cubes), so I had to draw it.

The cube in the background was done using CSS.
A mixed digital-traditional piece by SaltyDracon. It depictes a boy with curly blonde hair and green eyes wearing round golden glasses, a light green vest and tie, and a white collared shirt. In the background there is a cube with green, white, and black gradient sides- that cube was made using CSS.
September 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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my new fixation on handbags might kill me. financially.
Screenshot of the Coach luxury good brands website. Two doctor-style bags are displayed: a large one with short handles is $750, and a longer, thinner bag with larger shoulder handles is $495.
August 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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tw self harm, suicide, eyestrain

This isn't even vent art. I've just been hooked on really crazy music that reminded me of this OC. Who's an artist. Whose entire body of work is just vent art.

#saltieart
A mixed traditional/digital piece by SaltyDracon. A girl wearing Indian Jhumka-style earrings holds one hand in front of her face and another against her cheek. She has self harm scars on her wrists and neck. She is bleeding the background's texture, which reads "KILL THE SELF KILL YOURSELF" in bright yellow on bright pink.
August 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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I don't have the budget for bags that look this sick but fucking hell the shoulder bag and tote bag are just my vibe. would match everything i wear, would be a perfect match of edgy and alternative.
A screenshot of the Coach website showing off four bags from the alter/ego collection. Three of the bags are totally black and sport a pattern derived by sewing squares of leather into whole textiles. The fourth bag uses the same technique, but it's more of a white and black checkerboard pattern. They're all somewhat expensive, between $100 and $400.
August 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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please stop hitting on the engineering professor/my weird uncle. he murdered my classmate in the summer of '08

dark academia au oliver perch/angel #saltieart #ocsky
A mixed digital/traditional piece by SaltyDracon. It depicts a man with brown hair and red eyes wearing a red collared shirt, red vest, black tie, black pants, and black trench coat. The background is a painterly grey with some red around where he's standing. He looks towards the camera with a solemn expression.
July 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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This one image of Takumi has become an important part of my HTML and CSS debugging process and I'm not kidding #hundred_line
An image of a computer keyboard recreated with HTML. The keys all have the same picture of Takumi Sumino, staring with a surprised expression with an explosion in the background on them.
July 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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a busy workday keeps The Horrors at bay

#saltieart
A black and white sketch of a girl wearing a collared shirt, denim jacket, knee-length skirt, leggings, and leather boots. The same sketch as before, but now colored. The girl's hair is green, her jacket is green, her collared shirt is white, her purse is pink, her skirt is two tones of black, her boots are black, and her leggings are black with pink stripes.
June 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Supposedly, this is the best yogurt that someone on Tumblr has ever had. I'm going to try it today.
Op's hand holding a container of LA Fremiere yogurt, orange blossom honey flavor according to the paper label. It comes in a small blue clay pot.
June 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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#hndr_fa #saltieart #aitsf the idea of a daruko psyncer au wouldn’t leave my head
Fanart for The Hundred Line done with pencil on paper, photoshopped to be a little more clear. Hiruko says "I had my left eye surgically removed in order to accomodate Darumi as an AI-Ball." Darumi says, "NO BOYS ALLOWED IN THE YURI ZONE!" from her left eye socket. In the background, Tsubasa has a confused look on her face and says "Hiruko's eye socket is the yuri zone?"
June 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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the goddess of nothing

#saltieart
Mixed digital/traditional art by SaltyDracon. In bright, eye-searing colors, it depicts a woman wearing an Indian sari. The woman has no arms or shoulders and only has a scar where the shoulders should be, but she has two disembodied, skinny but monstrous arms floating around her body. Mixed digital/traditional art by SaltyDracon. With a bright, eye-searing background but much darker colors for the subject, it depicts a woman wearing an Indian sari. The woman has no arms or shoulders and only has a scar where the shoulders should be, but she has two disembodied, skinny but monstrous arms floating around her body.
June 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Amazing.
Screenshot of the Steam Achievement text for The Hundred Line. Achievement name is "Extreme and Despair", description is "Unlock all achievements".
June 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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BTW you guys have got to see my reaction to the fabled hundred line cake CG.

Yeah, the game definitely deserved its M rating. This route was so fucked up.
A series of Discord messages from a user nicknamed 'saltyyapping | 48/100'. They read the following: WAIT OH NO OH NO NO NO NO NO IS THIS THE CAKE CG OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL?! I WAS WONDERING WHAT "EATING A CAKE OFF SOMEONE'S BODY" MEANT BUT I WASN'T EXPECTING THISSS i'm stunlocked i'm freaking stunlocked i'm the most boring person ever so i just do not get the appeal of eating food off someone's body actually, funny story about this. my parents roped me into watching a reality tv show called "married at first sight" with them. it was freaking awful. anyway, at one point a sex therapist shows up to help a couple cook together, and says "think about your food fantasies" and i was like "celery fried in olive oil with garlic and onions with salt and italian seasoning" and it only hit me like 10 minutes later what that meant. i was just really craving some fried celery
May 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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btw the hundred line discord liveblog is going hilariously

(Hopefully these screenshots are spoiler free.)
Screenshot of The Hundred Line. It features Takumi saying "I was sure I'd made the right decision" with an excited expression. The image is captioned "bro did NOT make the right decision". A screenshot of The Hundred Line. It shows a group of fairly large enemies surrounding the character Nigou, who is tiny in comparison. The captions read "Look at how fucking tiny he is. Little gummy bear ass robot. Put him in my mouth." A screenshot of The Hundred Line, featuring Yugamu and Darumi standing together and laughing. This image is captioned "the blue things are up to no good". Screenshot from The Hundred Line. It features a sprite of Gaku chewing on his handkerchief and saying "I want to say something so bad". It is captioned "you are an endless font of reaction images bro".
May 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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At 44 endings in The Hundred Line. At this rate I'll probably end up sinking 200 hours into the whole thing...

This is how it feels to play Takumi sometimes.
Edit of a meme reading "YOU TALKIN MAD SHIT FOR SOMEONE IN THAGOMIZER RANGE" featuring a deep-fried image of a stegosaurus. (Note: Thagomizer refers to the spiky tail of a stegosaurus and was named as such after a humorous comic.) The word "Thagomizer" has been replaced with "Air Blade", a very long-range attack that Takumi from The Hundred Line can use.
May 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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If you see this, post a smiling OC

See that happy smile? That's the euphoria hitting after he makes peace with himself from an alternate past! He's also falling from like 15000 feet in the air. (It's complicated.)

#saltieart
A mixed media piece by SaltyDracon. It depicts a boy with tan skin, long dark brown hair, an orange tank top that is loose enough to reveal top surgery scars, and Indian style earrings falling headfirst through the blue sky towards a sandy earth below him. He is smiling.
April 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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god's least favorite angel has a new hyperfixation

#saltieart
A piece of artwork by SaltyDracon. It depicts a pencil drawing of an child angel with pale skin, blonde hair, purple eyes, white robes, and two sets of white wings behind its back and head. In front of his face, he holds up a large book depicting an anatomical drawing of a human and some drawings of humans doing different things.
April 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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this game is eating my brain
A screenshot of a Discord profile. The profile picture is of Yugamu Omokage from The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy - specifically his Special Attack card. The status reads "eito aotsuki murder arc truther", referencing another character from the same game.
April 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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My Gnosia OC! People began drawing their OCs after the anime trailer came out.

I decided I would roleplay as a moray eelgirl during all of Gnosia, and I got really into roleplaying, it was so much fun.

Major spoilers in the image.

#saltieart #gnosia
A piece of artwork by SaltyDracon. It depicts a dark-skinned woman with curly green hair, two white claw clips, blue eyes, face makeup that looks like falling tears, a white bomber jacket, a graphic crop top with a space design, black flare jeans, and black boots. There is a lot of extraneous information on the sides that amount to her being a 28 year old woman who has a muscular disorder due to being modified with moray eel DNA as an embryo, and thus having trouble moving sometimes. It also mentions she has a very strong bite, and she likes swimming and fish tanks. She is also mentioned to be a programmer living on an urban city planet. There are additional graphics showing her eye colors if she were Gnosia, and what her Steam achievement image would look like,which is her disgruntled face from the front.
March 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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HUNDRED LINE DEMO SPOILERS

"profound sorrow"? what even happened to this sad little guy????

#saltieart #hundred_line
Mixed traditional-digital art by SaltyDracon. It depicts the so-called "apparition" or "ghost boy" from the first days of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. He is a boy with blonde, semi-wavy hair burning in purple flames. He is wearing a black school uniform or something resembling it. He has a sad look on his face and appears to be crying. Text on top of him says "The thing seemed to hear me okay, but my question seemed to upset it. A look of profound sorrow passed over its fiery features."
March 9, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Second half of the "Time Knife" meme, reading "YEAH YEAH, THE CG THAT WAS ON THE WALL OF THE EXHIBIT FOR THE HUNDRED LINE AT TOKYO GAME SHOW FEATURING TAKUMI AND EITO HAVING GAY SEX, WE'VE ALL SEEN IT"
March 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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people who've been following the marketing for #hundred_line since january 2025:
The second half of the "Time Knife" meme. It says, "YEAH YEAH, THAT ONE CG, WE'VE ALL SEEN IT"
March 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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My last batch of Hundred Line anthros. Very proud of Llama-maru and Kawana especially.

I'm so excited for this game, I hope these high schoolers get along well with each other!

#saltieart #hundred_line
Mixed-media anthro "redesigns" of characters from The Hundred Line, Last Defense Academy. The designs are: Ima and Kako Tsukumo as a masked and silver ferret, Shouma Ginzaki as a Brown Bear, Tsubasa Kawana as a Cocker Spaniel, Takemaru Yakushiji as a brown llama, Gaku Maruko as a Chihuahua with spots, and Kurara Oosuzuki in her tomato-shaped mask, who has a small number of features that suggests that she might be a Corgi. All of these characters are minors, by the way- I hope no one who reposts this is weird about it!
February 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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i draw anthropomorphic animals sometimes. i'm very proud of karua and darumi specifically!

#hundred_line #saltie_art
Mixed-media anthro "redesigns" of characters from The Hundred Line, Last Defense Academy. Hiruko Shizuhara as a black horse, Yugamu Omokage as a brown bat, the currently unnamed Muscle Girl as a lion, Kyoshika Magadori as a white fox, Karua Kashiwamiya as a white goat, and Eito Aotsuki as a blonde cat. Mixed-media art of Darumi Amemiya from The Hundred Line as an anthropomorphic parrot. Mixed-media artwork of Takumi Sumino from The Hundred Line as a anthropomorphic black and white border collie.
February 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM