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Itzu the Tak

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CLAP AND CHEER, SMILE AND SCREAM! She/They 🏳️‍⚧️ 33 Former QA and mech E, current creature, indie solo gamedev & creator of first-person puzzle-shooter Escape Velocity. Wishlist it on steam!

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Itzu the Tak @itzu.bsky.social · Feb 8

Hi! I'm Itzu!

I'm an indie game developer and former mechanical engineer. I also sometimes write stories!

I have three characters but the main one is Itzu. Attached is his ref sheet (My other characters are Sura the secretary-bird-taur and Warranty Void the undead protogen)

A reference sheet for the Tak (scaly alien) Flint "Itzu" the Tak.
He looks like a bipedal dragon-pangolin, with large bronze scales on his back and softer tan scales underneath. his eyes are green with slightly reddish sclera. He has two horns that point backwards from his head like the two prongs on a hammer.

Below the ref is some information on the character:
HEIGHT: 7'4" (2.27m)
SPECIES: TAK
AGE: unknown, around 25-35
OCCUPATION: Belligerent Vagrant
Gender: X

There is also a paragraph of text alongside:
"Itzu is an oddity, even among his fellow Tak. He is paranoid and delusional, destructive and impulsive. He distrusts society as a rule, and believes any form of control, from policing to language, to be the greatest sin. He lives on the streets of the first Tak empire, Ortemat, where he harasses passersby he judges to be deserving of his attention-- generally merchants, oligarchs, priests, or guards. His arguments are firey, passionate, but oftentimes irrational and difficult to follow. Despite appearance and behavior, Itzu is tragically intelligent, but broken by a traumatic past and his undiagnosed severe mental illness. He's also not bad with a spear and quick to escape trouble."

The second picture is an expression sheet for Itzu. Expressions include happy, suspicious, angry, smug, and hungry (where he's eating a burger)

There are two paragraphs of text. The first one is as follows:
"Due to contrivance, Itzu ends up in a wide variety of settings and realities. His incredibly reactive personality means that his behavior changes drastically based on where in the universe he is. In a D&D campaign, for example, he might be an antihero attempting to play both sides in order to slay the god he ostensibly worships. In a capitalist space setting, he might be a space pirate and terrorist. What Itzu desires above all else is control over his own life.

The second paragraph is as follows:
"Diet: Itzu is on a personal mission to taste everything at least once. Not just food. With his metal beak and impossibly robust stomach he's gone through an alarming amount of his list, including many things most species consider toxic or impractical. He enjoys exotic tastes and seeks out new experiences where he can. His favorites, however, tend to return to the basics: Fat, greasy foods or raw meat, although he also enjoys soft metals and earthy, peaty flavors."

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Itzu the Tak @itzu.bsky.social · 9h

This looks absolutely incredible! what's it made of?

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Itzu the Tak @itzu.bsky.social · 11h

I'm caught by how he looks like he's trying his best to wave back at everyone individually despite the physical impossibility of doing so

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 19h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Itzu the Tak @itzu.bsky.social · 14h

Itzu: hey I wanna make my Warranty model vr-friendly
Brain: no
Brain: how about video games
Itzu: aw but I--
Brain: fuck you. Bored with games now. Go swing an axe

Itzu the Tak @itzu.bsky.social · 14h

no adhd meds day uhhhh I forgot

third??

it's going okay. no more withdrawl at least. Now it's just annoying that my mind slips off tasks like two like-poled magnets

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Grant White @grantwhite.bsky.social · 18h

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · Dec 31

EVANGELION FISHING LURE. EVANGELION FISHING LURE. EVANGELION FISHING LURE. EVANGELION FISHING LURE. EVANGELION FISHING LURE. EVANGELION FISHING LURE. EVANGELION FISHING LURE. EVANGELION FISHING LURE. EVANGELION FISHING LURE.

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driftingsea RL200 @driftingsea.bsky.social · 3d

some lil guys

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 18h

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · May 8

Following current 5-year trendlines, Furry Weekend Atlanta will be attended by everyone in the US by 2055, all living humans (UN median projection 2024) by 2065, and shortly after that, all humans who have ever lived in 2072.

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🦎 frilled lizard metareptile @chemtrailhaze.bsky.social · 16h

are you a NITW existentialist or a disco elysium existentialist

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SCARY rat show @hi-im-vy.bsky.social · 17h

raturday

by @catboots.co.uk <3

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Gumby Screens @gumbyscreens.bsky.social · 23h

Itzu the Tak @itzu.bsky.social · 1d

I'm in an intense debate with my husband rat about this and he's fucking losing hard

Itzu the Tak @itzu.bsky.social · 1d

look at this list of pies and tell me to my fucking face you prefer cake

if you say "cheesecake", that's a pie.

🎀 Pimpcess Spooky 🎀 @mick-ee.bsky.social · 1d

Since it’s pie season!

How many pies on the list have you tried?
What pie is the Thanksgiving Pie?
What pie is the Christmas Pie?
Whats your favorite pie?

A list of 25 pies with the caption “Pic 3 Pies”

Listed:
A- Apple
B- Key lime
C- Cherry
D- Lemon Meringue
E- Pumpkin
F- Pecan
G- French Silk
H- Custard
I- Peanut butter cup
J- Peach
K- Cookie Dough
L- Blueberry
M- Bavarian
N- Sweet Potato
O- Coconut Cream
P- Strawberry Cream
Q- Snickers
R- Rhubarb
S- S’mores
T- Dutch Apple
U- German Chocolate
V- Buttermilk
W- Pecan Fudge
X- Banana Cream
Y- Strawberry

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Dia ➡️ NFC @diazrar.bsky.social · 1d

just another one of those memories that haunts me daily

[ #art / #sillyhours ]

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ratboy dipshit @thesewer.live · 1d

thought these car keys had a rat button for a sec

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 1d

so, uh, I guess the studio responded to this by replacing their website art!

(not gonna lie, I'm torn between "lol, lmao" and "hm, that's a bit of an immature response from a professional game studio")

A screenshot of the Sackbird website that shows their social media icons replaced with intentionally bad MS Paint-style art

A screenshot of the Sackbird website which used to have an AI-generated skyline of Baltimore, and now has an intentionally shitty bunch of brown boxes labelled as "Fort McHenry" and "Sackbird Studios" in Comic Sans. It has clearly been drawn in MS Paint in about 5 minutes

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 1d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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vreahli @vreahli.bsky.social · 1d

I just realized I rebranded this

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TY-PESH @ty-pesh.bsky.social · 1d

HGTV (himbo garden television)

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 1d

there's a political cartoon directed at Oliver Cromwell in the chalk downs of england which people spent centuries thinking of as neolithic because the guy who had it cut in the first place didn't write down why he did it and word didn't spread far

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 1d

nearly everything we know about the bronze age & earlier is from modern archaeology. anything older than 500 years that isn't locally famous for some specific reason tends to be eroded at the edges by social entropy: builders, purpose, gods, cultures

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 1d

Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum is the earliest known public museum.[1] It dates to circa 530 BCE.[2][3][4][5] The curator was Ennigaldi, the daughter of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.[6] It was in the state of Ur, in the modern-day Dhi Qar Governorate of Iraq, roughly 150 metres (490 ft) southeast of the famous Ziggurat of Ur.[7]

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