🏳️‍⚧️Aayla🐙[COMMS OPEN]🩷🤍🩵

Could also just be taking Twitch forever - as far as I can tell there also seems to be a kind of unspoken thing where if someone's been active streaming on the platform for years their uploads on average get approved way faster than if someone's been streaming for like a year or two

Ohh, you mean like all at once?
No I don't believe so, but I'm sure someone out there would know better than me on that part.

Could just have been flagged for further scrutiny - Twitch has some pretty strict like "what counts as potentially ToS" stipulations for emotes

It's been a hot minute since I streamed...
But I'm pretty sure the limit scales with record sub-count at any given time.

I think like you unlock more after like numerous pre-set concurrent sub counts - I'm pretty sure there's something in the dashboard that mentions it.

I haven't been able to afford our get access to my meds in almost a year now... especially no thanks to all the Medicaid cuts.

Pretty much, yeah

Reminder that if you're trans like me every day you're alive is a protest. If I keep making art that's a protest. My body and heart are broken many times over; I'm not gonna beat myself up about what extra I "could be doing" beyond the help I already give to others. Cis/abled folks can step tf up.

the new job, lol

I finally got a job interview after about 1.5 years of desperately looking for a new job. I'm anxious - I was one of the first few interviews of many they wanted to do, but interviews always stress the living hell out of me. Wish me luck y'all - it'd be for more money than I've ever made at a job 🧡

Reminder for those not paying attention:

Being anti-genAI means EVERY form of genAI media, not just visual media

Pictures, videos, voices, songs, ALL OF IT!!!

Please consume your media critically!!! Look at who is making it before sharing it blindly!!!

Sorry I haven't posted in a bit - way too much shit irl lately

Wish me luck tho cause hopefully tomorrow I get my first ever restraining order against my fucking roomie of all people friggin' hell man, I just wanna get out of here.

Also thanku all for nearly 600 follows wth? Y'all are epic!😘🧡🧡🐙

Unused sticker of a curling Octopus tentacle reading underneath: "IN THE FLOW™️ BOUTIQUE CANNABIS - InTheFlowCo.com -

Been busy with getting packed up and ready to move again, this time potentially even having to figure it out without a car, but y'all lookit! :3

I'm gonna put it on my 'puter, the one with all my silly gay friends inside it 🥰🧡🐙

Hiatus should be over after this move gets all settled

a green and purple cartoon character with the words despite all my rage i am still just a rat Alt: Purple Inkling being pulled around by green Unity physics colliders and ragdolling.

Just wanted to officially announce this #hiatus - I'll still be silently focusing on any active art commissions, while I try really hard not to staple this eviction notice to one of my roomie's forehead after what he pulled.

Luckily my other roomie's workin' on securing our next place right now.

If a disabled person asks for help, don’t tell them to “try harder”.

Asking for help is one of the most difficult things for us, and I assure you we tried absolutely everything before we did it.

Ableism makes you think we can “fix ourselves”. It’s not true. You can’t try harder out of disability

no matter what

If you think an autistic person is "dense" because they asked you clarifying questions, I hate to break it to you, but they needed to ask follow up questions because you didn't explain yourself well enough. Not because they have comprehension issues.

Hope that helps 🙃

Hey, I know that feel too and I made a post about it too a while back 😔
But like, 3D is still really freakin' cool and if anything, it's one of the things that reinvigorated my own passion to create after years of depression and stagnation.

Please keep at it? You make some cool stuff 🐙

I've been posting a fair bit of it on my profile here, and otherwise my Ko-Fi right now has more of what I've done visible - working on getting a VGen page ready to go too, and my work queue link there includes samples of my work more thoroughly.
bsky.app/profile/octo...

Surviving on limited supports and one meal a day and gaslighting myself like "one day it'll all work out and be okay" 🫠

I've just been progressively making more art when I can and trying to cope & sleep when the burnout flares back up like pretty much every single day now

Pencil-shaded male anime figure with his back turned to the viewer, looking over his shoulder at the viewer with his left eye.

Zombified head character drawing inspired by a character in Tom Kinney's BONE visual novel series.

Pencil-shaded & textured bunny art study

Pencil-shaded drawing of Twilight Sparkle standing sideways with her head turned questioningly towards the viewer in front of a backdrop of a small town in Equestria.

As #artists, we know better than anyone that there's a fine nuance between ACTUAL human imperfection/quirks and mechanical imperfection & that will always be a factor at play, fighting the AI slop cultural phenomenon.

AI killed my imposter syndrome - I know I'm better than it in every way😏
#artdump

one way to get over that "blank canvas fear" is as soon as someone gets a new sketchbook, just draw a huge scribble all right on the first page - it helps to "mind over matter" the tendencies for perfectionism 😁 (and if you keep a discipline about it you can turn the scribble into a drawing anyway)

I do 3D character model sculpting and a fair few drawings :3
lately just making more portfolio builders and after focusing on 3D for several years straight now I'm slowly shaking the rust off my 2D skills

I do 3D character models & 2D illustrations 😁🧡
bsky.app/profile/octo...

Literally the only reason I even managed to keep any job for any particularly long period of time was because the one I finally ended up with for 8 years was entirely remote, dealing with data and I didn't need to talk to a soul - in-person jobs and me don't seem to work well at all 🙃

I’ll never forget one of my thesis supervisors going “YOU CANT JUST FOCUS ON IMPROVING FASTER, ITS GONNA TAKE THE TIME IT TAKES”

Been going bonkers about making stuff faster & this man’s words are alone in the noggin’ fighting the demons.

shaded pencil sketch anime head closeup

pencil shaded dragon character

Fluttershy colored pencil illustration shaded lightly with yellow (body) and pink (hair) colored pencil shading + heart-shaped eye highlights.

floating guardian mech inspired from the design of the Halo 4 watcher

I know I haven't posted in a minute - I'm taking the rest of this week off streaming to get some further stuff setup on VGen still, opening up emergency comms, so for now I'mma pin my #Ko-Fi #commissions page (thank you all for your support)
Also how about an art dump? 🐙🧡
ko-fi.com/aaylatheocto...

Still under further construction - I will notify of when everything's ready soon enough - lately life and the entire situation around America and the RFK Jr. things has me more burnt out than I already have been for years now.

Level 28 of life is just mega burnout & back pain

It was like hours after J.D. Vance visited him - I'm headcannoning that J.D. either killed him, or after Francis' engagement with him he just straight up lost faith & confidence in humanity 😔🤔

The reward of content creation, streaming, making art is never money. That keeps you alive.

It’s having real flesh and blood humans thank you for your work

It makes like worth living, it gives the world colour when you feel like you can add some yourself and have people see it

Original post by HeatherLhaney: "Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism?" Response by David Dennis Jr.: "Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented."

Someone please print this out as like a Post-It note and stick it on RFK Jr.'s face 😔

2D Illustration for my best friend Mitzi <3

2D Illustration for my bestie Nano <3

Fully custom Ariral model inspired from Voices of the Void I made in 3D from scratch

Fully custom model for @Vex_Rawr I made in 3D from scratch and livestreamed the process of making on #Twitch

My #VGen page is all setup!

I'm ready to take #commissions for 2D & 3D work #VGenComm and I'll stream my work on #Twitch

Check out my page here vgen.co/aayla and feel free to give feedback ;w; commissions always stressed me out in the past, but I really think I'm ready 🧡🏳️‍⚧️

I'd certainly be interested 😁🐙🏳️‍⚧️🧡