Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

@bx oh, huge agree!

if you're interested, maybe we can play some time too!
(pronounced: if you're interested, maybe you can repeatedly beat me some time too!)

oh! this is an adorable sound theme to have as an option

lishogi actually has a pretty rad tutorial too!

(and piece sets that don't require you to know kanji--even though i'm definitely going to lean into that personally)

i am Pretty Bad at shogi, but i've always found it much more interesting than chess because of how you can place pieces you capture from your opponent back on the board~

it'll be nice to have something that looks and feels nice to play on to learn with!

huge fan of the ability to set your board background from a url~

(i guess i probably shouldn't be surprised because of its popularity compared to lichess and the fact that it's pretty new)

ooh! i managed to swipe @Arch on lishogi~

@SirTapTap *sees someone on fire, running around screaming*

(smugly) orange oxidization hot

@codl aww, thank you..!

@codl probably! actually, nearly all of my recently non-oshawott drawings i consider to be tdm sketches~

even though i don't ever really draw anything explicit, i did tag them with abdl, just in case, since they technically are that

buuut if that doesn't bug you (but marked sensitive in case it does!) here's a couple examples i'm pretty happy with so you don't need to trawl through my media if you were curious about what i mean

but basically, bnuy cute imho

@codl it's kind of a bad name, but TDM stands for a "teitoushin deformed mascot", where "teitoushin" (低等身) refers to the impossibly low head to body proportions in some mascot designs, and all the things that usually get combined with that stylistically

tamagotchi, the japanese olympic mascots, or other things like that are examples you might have seen~

i personally think they are adorable and wanted to learn to draw them

@codl oh! it's not super well known, but a lot of japanese character designs have some similarities~ (there's even other pokemon! like the lake trio!)

here's another example of the style https://nitter.se/Buke1128/status/1386376331378581505

aside from the head being as large as it is, the body shape is usually a short but round and tapered form that squishes into itself instead of bending
https://nitter.se/Vitamin____T/status/1331194233227657216

also, triangles aren't really always needed
https://nitter.se/Buke1128/status/1445019075067854851

oh! ibispaint also has a time lapse thingy!

buuuut it ended up being kinda not very useful because i was talking while drawing, so the lines pretty much appear instantly between the gaps, oops

@codl there were worried they were going to look like my previous attempts to draw jirachi

i'm a lot better at drawing them now that i've played around with TDM proportions

(TDM being the japanese mascot style with characters having heads larger than their body, which are often triangular and with no legs)

quick jirachi!

(it let me delete A Lot of xml, so it was justified)