Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

Going through my photos and

Gosh I haven't thought about my RPG combat system in a while

That was/is rad

The sunset yesterday was pretty spectacular

welp

PSA

I have achieved better wristbraces!

Cuz there ought to be more options than "black, medical blue or beige", especially if you're like me and have to wear them a *lot*.

Going to improve on some stuff in later designs (stronger interfacing, lengthen the top strap, widen the main body beneath the thumb opening), but these work and I'm happy with how they turned out!

#mastoart #disability

Never have I identified with a videogame character as much as the tiny manic cosplay goblin from Dicey Dungeons

Played WarCry with an acquaintance today. It was fun!

Both sides got into a massive scrap in the centre board, a lotta peeps got eaten by a snow lion, demons gribbled at each other appropriately

All good stuff

Suddenly: teeny tiny plastic bugs

(Emerald Lifeswarm from Age of Sigmar)

Hi #mastomonday !

I do various creative stuff, usually drawing, sewing stuff or painting miniatures.

On a streak getting back into doing the latter lately, so I'll post some of my minis here!

"The Purple Sun of Shyish", aka "The Grimdark Teletubby Reboot", is a very Warhammer Mood mini

Big fluffy snowflakes drifting down today..

Minis I've painted lately.

This time: Endless Spells

A mechanic in AoS I was on the fence about at first, but it turns out it's a lot of fun and has some cool as heck miniatures

Tonight's Headline Event:

Angry Seahorse Lady VS Angry Beehive Lady

(image CW: Trypophobia)

I played my first game of Age of Sigmar today! It was a learning game against another newbie I'd never met before, and we both had a good time.

I zapped some evil mounted knights in the butt with my electric eels, my Swole Elves failed to defend a pile of treasure from their footslogging mates. My wizard rolled abysmally and ended up just harmlessly sprinkling water at people, and then the enemy boss charged in on a dinosaur and killed prettymuch everybody by himself.

This pleased his gods, so much so they kept trying to mutate him into random things. By the time his dino-pal finally gobbled up my cowardly wizard, he'd been turned into a demon and had all his meat replaced with metal. What a champ.

I lost in a fun way? Which sums up all the best wargaming experiences imo.

100% same energy

I think overcoming "my creativity must be productive, it must help others somehow" has been good for me

Like, I learn plenty about art from mini painting as much as I do from drawing/etc, and it's cross-applicable, but I still have an internal "it's not really valid tho" brainweasel.

It's also what my brain can focus on happily as well, and doesn't do in my wrists like drawing for the same amount of time can. Like, focus stuff is really annoying (doing more music! I'd like that not to be hugely effortful to get my brain to focus on. but it is :| ), but having something that isn't "ugh this is so much effort why" for my brain at all is something I'm grateful for.

Kinda wary of if I burn out on it, but I know myself well enough by now to know that won't be permanent.

If that happens, doubtless I'll bounce over to sewing or drawing or gamedev or something again for a bit, then bounce back to it in a year or two. 🤷 In the meantime, enjoy it.

In light of that, I should be less self-conscious about posting stuff here. So here's some playing with paints n skin tones on the Peak Conan Aesthetic gang from WarCry.

I did good paints today. I've put a lot of hours into this lot overall, so it's a good feeling that they're almost finished now.

Biiiiiiiiiiig yawn