BatElite, pun gremlin. @BatElite@chitter.xyz

last week I started Project Jortage, a collaboratively paid for S3-compatible media storage solution for fediverse instances

instances can join the pool for free, optionally donating to our OpenCollective. Jortage primarily offers cross-instance media deduplication which is a huge gain for Mastodon instances that indiscriminately copy all media

current members include sleeping.town, glaceon.social, toot.cat, donphan.social, cryptid.industries, and a smattering of personal instances

learn more: https://jortage.com
join by emailing hello@jortage.com or DMing me; I'll walk you through migrating from your current media storage

I finished drawing noivern friend finally!!!

Hey @behold3r I drew a mouse like you suggested people should. :3

Maghaelea is actually an OC I've had for a while, though this is the first time she has hair. I've not done much with her in a while though.

(Also I'm getting a little better at dresses maybe yay?)

"When she has no other duties around the castle, Cynder spends time studying the stars. She knows who they are, what they should do, and observes that they act accordingly. The stars never deviate, whether of their own volition or for fear of the Queen's wrath. She's never intervened, but few doubt that if anyone could, it'd be her."

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I had an idea a while back of making a series of drawings of frens' characters/representations (A bunch of whom are on sleeping.town, which the name is based on) as gothic horror bosses in some monster-infested town. A town that is devoid of regular living humans except for the brave (and rude) adventurers who mostly meet an unpleasant end. A bit like Dark Souls except the monsters also cuddle each other a lot.

Although that would usually mean a level of changing\"corrupting" the source character, because creepy is neat (and me nor my frens are naturally violent towards strangers), I ironically didn't change much about Cynder for the first entry. But, I imagine fighting her as is would end up as gothic themed horror for you anyway. Quite fond of the star map wings. :D

(Don't worry if you don't want to I'll ask first.)

I drew the lineart for this a little before June, but uni happened so I didn't ink/colour it until a few days ago. I didn't have a description ready, so I just now tried to write one. Also this should be something of a learning experience? Really hoping I can get some deeper/darker colours into later entries (and with more patience).

:3

(cc @Cynder look I'm proud of this one

(And before you ask about the intro, I count fencare towards "other duties."))

i guess part of my difficulty is that i want to take it seriously. the aesthetic appeals to me, but i don't want to get into this stuff so i can have a witch staff and some pretty crystals to show off on social media. i think learning and adhering to a practice like this will help my discipline and focus and maybe help me meet people, and i want it to come from a place of earnest belief, from my principles and my own personal core of spirituality.

with that in mind, how do i begin?

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