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Hello! I'm opening up commissions. My specialties are stylish characters and mechs. Please reach out if you're interested! Pricing varies based on the complexity of the request but would start around 100 CAD

idk but i know a guy whose landlord tried to blame him for the pipes freezing and bursting after he wouldn't fix the heat, so keep a record of your communications

it means a lot! thanks!

A digital version of my space fashion zine is now available at
ssunstrum.itch.io/haute-couture

the shoulders are maneuvering thrusters (and there's a larger engine on the back). as for the torso, it's wide to fit equipment and fuel besides the pilot. haven't figured out the details but it should open like a clamshell and those elements would be exposed

a "low-cost" mecha for an enemy

antagonist mech design

i figure it's a device used by ground crews to adjust weight balance/ center of gravity

thank you! i think it evokes the 90s design sensibility i've been pursuing

as seen in some of these
bsky.app/profile/ssun...

mech design for a protagonist

sketchbook drawings for a narrative mech game idea

fragile being

yeah, agreed. the dispossessed certainly isn't airtight in its political-economic logic but it certainly goes above and beyond in depicting "people formed by their particular surroundings and institutions" and i think it's that kind of realism that's needed

gotta retire the "punk" nomenclature since everything after cyberpunk dispensed with the punks entirely. but yeah, for an ostensibly leftist (visual) genre solarpunk seems full of unexamined silicon valley/ right-wing imagery. could call it architectural rendering/consultant-punk

maybe a bit uncharitable, but by its own premise i find "solarpunk" stuff tends to highlight artists' lack of awareness. something more removed from the current world's specific issues, or so immersed in them that one isn't pressured to give exact causes and solutions, is easier to handle

YouTube video by Fabio Baccaglioni Znamya 2 - Знамя-2

youtu.be/-8lN5iaXmhA relatedly, the footage from when the soviets tried this is kind of mesmerizing

hard to see how this could be lucrative, even with the article being so uncritical of the company's own statements, so i imagine this'll end up the same way as a lot of other "futuristic" space tech start-ups and just vanish

Something about this guy tells me he has my best interests at heart

i would like to ride on the big funicular

i find it enjoyable as a SF reader to be a little bewildered, but it's harder to find as i get older/more knowledgeable, so i find books like wolfe's really refreshing

that's probably a good way to put it. it's recognizably genre fiction but very different from the usual register of recent genre fiction

I'd love to play 4A with modern-era multiplayer system too

Could you imagine if they did a 4/4A re-release? Feels unlikely, but if they did that for armored core mobile...

Rumors? Rumors?

"Bone folder? Oh no, quite the opposite..."

TCAF is today! I'll be at table 018B in the basketball court, with zines, comics and prints

This weekend! Table 018B in the basketball court

yeah, so much for doing something different. it's weird too in how *what* they did with the plot (breaking away from the side 6 frame of the intro) was correct, but the execution completely missed the point and feels more like a typical latter-day gundam