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A fellow who draws stuff, loves stories and wants to make things. I prefer conversations over vanity quips, so naturally I suck at making fancy 'About Me' tag lines and catch phrases.

Malkavian versus Stop Sign.

An epic retelling...

#art #comics #ttrpg #vampire #videogames

Good Day! A fine thing to say when you wanna GoodMorning the world, but it's late in the afternoon when you first post. And what better opportunity than now to post a doodle of what looks to be a Tarnsman.

#art #sketch #gor

A mess of buzzwords. My experience as an occasional tinkerer of code, I'd say LLM driven code can be good, but mostly bad. Good in that I've been able to use it to locate chunks of code I want to adjust. Using an LLM as an entry-door to experiment and learn. It still leaves it to me to actually learn something.

The bad comes when folks rely on it so heavily they neither learn nor understand. Without the proper experience, you won't be able to clean the mess the LLM left behind. If you do get ypur project working, you end up with that mystery box nostr:nprofile1qqsd6ejdteqpvse63ntf7qz6u9yqspp4z7ymt8094urzwm0x2ceaxxgprdmhxue69uhkx6rjd9ehgurfd3kzumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghxcctwvs8hz86j was talking about. Likely also an unoptimised mess.

Any time the question comes up, the answer is hand-drawn. Inhuman AI stuff is called slop for a reason. If you need someone to draw it for you, you can always commission someone. You could ask me, for instance πŸ˜‰

GM, or perhaps afternoon.

#art #artist #fanart #film #80's #sci-fi #plebs

Today I've been catching up on scanning my sketchbooks. This example is a free handed ink and markers sketch. No pencils or rulers whatever applied. Ink and only the ink.

#art #illustration #sketch #ink #traditionalmedia #traditionalart #handdrawn #plebs

GN and thanks for all the fish

#art #plebs #illustration #cartoon

GM and alla dat! Storms in Dallas knocked power out all over the place. Got us stewing in funk since 1am.

#art #plebs #energy

Today is the Feast of Weeks (or Feast of Seven, depending on translation). It's seven sabbaths or 50 days after the day of first fruits. In the greek, it's called Pentecost or fiftieth day. On this day, Mt. Sinai was ablaze when God delivered the 10 commandments. Also on this day, the Apostles were baptised by fire and the Holy Ghost prior to Jesus' ascent. Both events had glory as fire in the thematic imagery. I would imagine there'd be some interesting events of the Restoration tied to this day also, but I'm not sure. Key dates of the Restoration seem to be tied to dates related to Passover.

Anyway, this is a day you eat a whole bunch and have a good day!

#plebs #religion #bible #faith

GN

#art #ink #gaming

Yes. Unfortunately

Let me see here...

When I first looked at this, I was thinking 2nd floor apartment view. But I was wrong. Looks like a view from a lightrail car or something similar. It's elevated and I see the support under the rails. Trees whipping by.

for whatever random reasons, i have been reading #enoch again

i think i have now read through the ethiopian orthodox version, and have got part way through what reads like the jewish version

or maybe the first version is the eastern orthodox, and the second is the jewish, because to be honest i don't recall reading any of the text before and i read through an entire version about 18 months ago and there was some key sections that were missing.

it seems very obvious to me that there was a vastly larger volume of text tied to these versions, and all of them are either tiny segments or highly mangled tiny segments of the original text.

if you are christian, you would believe that Enoch was a real man and he did in fact write a giant tome that he passed on to his son Methuselah, famous for being the longest lived person in the entire text of the (catholic compiled) bible.

the first version i read was reasonably easy to follow, and even included a really nice summary of the calendar, and conflicts with the genesis assertion of a 360 day year, by saying that it was not 90 days per season but 91 (which is 13*7 btw).

this second version i'm reading seems highly condensed. i am going to have to scan the preface and contents and index to figure out what i'm actually looking at because the second text that i seem to be reading now seems highly disembodied and specious, although it clearly states that angels can mate with humans, almost everything else is incredibly fantastical, where the previous text seemed almost plausible.

the way the second part of this text describes God (who i interpret to mean the highest archangel, who presumably is Jesus) in ways that make him seem like a fantastical being and it repeatedly talks about creatures with hundreds of eyes and half a dozen wings and greatly inflates the likely facts of the angels being pale skinned to sound like they were glowing like their flesh was luminous.

it's quite instructive to see how inflated things can get as fanatics translate original texts and then add their "touch" to it.

like how tyrants rewrite the history books.

same vibes.

I've been reading the Ethiopian Enoch off and on for a while now. There's some really gnarly stuff in there that amounts to academic suicide for acclaimed scholars to take seriously (more's the pity for them), but seriously thought provoking if you're willing to take it at face value.

For example:

1 Enoch 33-36 or 37 has all these descriptions of portals connecting to stars. It's described as a glorious device that channels energy for good, but occasionally turbulent energies run through.

So apart from this sounding like an ancient prophet's description of the magnetosphere, there's suggestion of energies like solar winds that can pass through. That sounds a lot like the discoveries described in this article here: https://www.space.com/6051-strange-portal-connects-earth-sun.html

Rather wild stuff if willing to step away from some of the consensus opinions of theologians and scholars.

I'm new here myself. Haven't got my own feed in proper order and all that newbie jazz.

What would you be wanting to see more of, David? For myself, I'm not all that interested in the normal X/Twitter churn. It's kinda boring, though memes can be fun. I'm much more interested in sharing art stuff that I do here and there and maybe talk about something that feels meaningful.