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@psychicmeow.bsky.social

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infrequent artist & transsexual of little renown 34 | she/her | northeast US | 18+ please 💕

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kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · Apr 2

hi i'm kezia!! i'm a 33 y/o trans painter and illustrator living in the northeastern us. mostly here to keep up w/ art friends and talk about video games but i might post some work here and there too -- here's a couple recent pieces i like :)

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Defiled angel (viviem) @viviem.fun · 2d

www.tumblr.com/skittybot/79...

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もふまあ＠紅楼夢G-14ab @mofumaa2.bsky.social · 1d

#Touhou #東方Project
#博麗霊夢

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melos han-tani @hantani.bsky.social · 2d

Finished this great cave story review / historical context of it amongst shareware, doujin, and modern indie: syslbnth.neocities.org/htxt/cave-st...

Which led to a 2013 post by @ellaguro.bsky.social on the game corrypt & the discourse around its "bad" graphics
ellaguro.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-...

From the corrypt post, quote:

It's hard not to see the magic in the game as some sort of allegory on human beings' never-ending thirst for more resources, and the irreparable damage it enacts on the environment. It suggests, especially taken with his other works like Vesper.5, that environments are delicate spaces that need to be accepted on their own terms in order to really be understood at a deeper level.

These greater themes seem to be absent in the little critical writing that does exist about his games they're not mentioned anywhere in the Wired article, nor in this detailed critical reading, which focuses solely on the mechanical aspects of his games. The strangeness and beauty of the environments become a marginalized backdrop to a game seen as only remarkable from a design perspective-something the game even seems to mock with its flat looking aesthetics and its big, square block pushing and its few mock-JRPG miniquests in the beginning.

From the cave story post, quote:

"What's more, as indie games improved dramatically in quality over the course of the ensuing decade, the technical skill floor lowered by the first wave of hits would get raised back up in the end. You could get away with pixel art and chiptune now, but it had to be the pixel art and chiptune of a professional. Tools would be released to help control the ballooning scope of new indie games-Unity, Unreal, GameMaker Studio, and the, like. [15] But somehow this would just move the goalposts further. When these were released, we didn't make Iji faster and more comfortably-we made Hollow Knight."

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 2d

sold a bunch of art, got to show work all over the country and met a bunch of awesome people including some of my closest friends. was gonna be cynical but honestly i've had some really special experiences thanks to these dumbass apps

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

No other possible end state in an economic system that has always encouraged business models that relied on underpaying for labor. Paying at all is now a sucker's game.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 2d

thank you!! i really like this one 💕

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mara @nekopath.fun · 3d

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 3d

omg this is so cute!! the little foldout booklets for each title are such a good idea

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 3d

sometimes a girl just needs to overshare on the computer

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 3d

anyhow sorry for the depressing lore drop haha enjoy the painting it’s a cute one!!

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 3d

anyhow it was a really weird fucked up time in my life that im honestly still dealing with the aftermath of but it’s also when i actually started getting serious as an artist and realized i was trans so it wasn’t all bad. very glad to be on the other side of it all tho

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 3d

was deep in a new age drug cult at the time where the central form of spiritual practice was creating + contemplating art representing the psychedelic experience.. would be in the middle of a manic episode staying up until 6 am ripping dmt and trying my hardest to draw what i saw lmao. so fucked

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 3d

don’t think i ever posted this one here.. 2019ish or so?? had only been painting for like 6 months at this point so it’s pretty messy technically but i like the design ^^

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 3d

a friend once told me in regards to art productivity that there's a time for reaping and a time for sowing and that rly stuck with me, time spent living life and engaging with other art and the world around you is a meaningful part of a creative practice ^^

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 3d

no need to apologize -- you're an artist not a content machine, it'll be ready when it's ready and it'll be worth the wait when it is 💕 sometimes u just gotta take your time with it

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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 4d

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 4d

win10 is eol next week isn’t it.. guess this is gonna finally be the year of the home linux desktop

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 4d

easy way to make things seem healthier/nutrionally complete while still effectively being candy

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 4d

damn.. and here i was thinking a $300 single day event with 3 overlapping stages thrown at an equestrian center was a guaranteed slam dunk

Nine Inch Nails’ Future Ruins Festival Canceled

Composers including John Carpenter and Questlove had been due to play Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ film-music festival in Los Angeles next month

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M-1R @hovermyr.bsky.social · 6d

the problem with mechsploitation is that if you turn a girl into a dog that's also an ace pilot you've just succeeded in creating Snoopy

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☁️ hourly yume nikki fangames @ynfgbot.bsky.social · 6d

hope (2018)
doodle bedroom

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NARFNra @narfnra.bsky.social · 6d

every time i see the rgb boss from exterlien i start losing my shit i wish i had an idea as insane as it

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 7d

trump dead confirmed

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 7d

hell yeah

kezia @psychicmeow.bsky.social · 7d

support role chip