misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

I design a lot of stuff that doesn't get posted. Much of it is document layout, most of which is artistic but not especially interesting to look at. Here are some samples of my more visually interesting stuff from the last year, arranged in the #artvsartist format for #artvsartist2022 :

• TL: "Fire", an abstract meditation on... fire. I did this for the temple I'm with, the Fellowship of the Phoenix.
• TC: The "Markerstone Soup", a partially "translated" view of a somewhat fae newspaper from Destiny's Calling, a tabletop RPG I'm in.
• TR: The "Rekkenmark Crimson", another fictional newspaper from DC. (The sample text is in fact nonsense.)
• ML: A printable recipe format I've been developing that converts simple Markdown into simple HTML and bizarre CSS.
• MC: It's me!
• MR: Also a "Markerstone Soup" sample, this shows off more of the conlang fonts I developed for it. This is how it's meant to "read" – top-to-bottom, right-to-left.
• BL: "Call it Cogstown", a piece for the cover of the "Shaarat Inquisitive" newspaper also from DC.
• BC: An evolution chart for weapons found in the PS2 game Dark Cloud 2. I might finish it off and post it to a FAQ site... somewhere? Where's good these days?
• BR: The Fellowship's logo (not my work) surrounded by heptagrams arranged in Pride flag colors (my work).

So apparently hashtags don't work in a CW... which is the place I would most expect to see them. Good to know.

Okay, I gotta know who in my ALttPR poll voted "every day" because that's been me lately. I set up a run that's kinda guaranteed to be between one and two hours, and that's been my early exercise to get my brain moving.

Also, @orrery and I have been playing occasional multiworld games. Good times!

@danacorn Is this format really as simple as it looks? Portrait of self in center, eight varied clips of one's own work surrounding? Anxiety-me is afraid to join in without knowing for sure.

@danacorn Or worse, it'll be a bit too easy to sleep. That's the depression stemming from the existential dread.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past... randomized?

Legit question: Is there a word for the phenomenon of missing an obvious detail through a project's development only to notice at the latest, most inconvenient moment for the folks working on the project?

I've done this to other folks a couple times lately and I wanna have a word to apologize for and beat myself over the head with (though not in that order).

@Owlor Not unlike how a horde of ninja can be fought off by one or two folks, but a single ninja can potentially drop a decent-sized group.

@Owlor Heh, a bit like that, yeah!

@Leucrotta Since you mention it, have I shared with you the stunning NES cover of the entire album Dark Side of the Moon by @rainwarrior yet?

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5DE9FB666BE9CEED

If one spends more than an hour in my presence (in person, video call, whatever), one is likely to witness the following ritual:

• Five minutes before each hour, Plumbago (my smartphone) chimes distinctively.
• I put down whatever I'm holding in my right hand and make a motion like particles drifting in air.
• I say out loud (though sometimes quietly under my breath) the word, "Sparkles!"
• I then reach for whatever beverage I have nearby, usually water.

This started as a reminder to self that I am, in fact, a unicorn... and that carries with it at least some amount of grace, dignity, and poise. Picking up a new habit was a big challenge in the past, yet this took root within a couple days – almost certainly because I had an audio prompt, both verbal and somatic responses, and the help of family joining in here and there because it's just so gosh-darn cute.

It was only a couple months after establishing this that I got the idea to attach a much-needed positive habit to it, thus tacking on the "grab a drink" part because hydration is important. It took almost instantly because of one sentence I internally connected it with: "Sparkling is thirsty work."

I overcame immense internal resistance to good habits and trained myself in a set of positive behaviors by hacking them into an hourly magic spell.

Because unicorn! ✨ 🦄 ✨