"I've heard that a dragon can always find a princess."

"We can always find," said the dragon, "what we hoard."

"You have been known to gather princesses. You'd know."

"Yes, but..." The dragon hesitated. "If she doesn't know, it's not my place to tell."

"Oh," said the prince. "What if they ask?"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Snuggly animals! 🤗💜 With Incog and Antero

#FursuitFriday

When it comes to volunteering, I often tell people, "when the fun stops, stop."

I suppose this is a note to say that I do eat my own dogfood sometimes.

Us. 💛💙

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🌍 Confuzzled 2026
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Growing up is accepting the world is changing slowly around you, while realizing you are changing with it too.

Each panel shows a different stage of youth through different moments of the day. There are little details connecting all three scenes. I don’t want to explain every meaning directly, because part of this piece is about finding your own memories inside of it.

A gift for my cousin, for her daughter's room.
Digital. Procreate

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Content warning: thoughts on nlp, ai, llms Reveal/hide

I’m a tad concerned that people are conflating “new large data centres”, “data centres”, and “AI”.

Yes, large scale “AI” needs new large datacentres and I fully understand the backlash.

But data centres are also needed for banking, and email, and web sites, and never used to be a problem.

So I hope any action against AI is more targeted and not just “close” or “tax until they close” all data centres.

#AI

I had a blast at Galactic Camp, the furry convention on an actual aircraft carrier: USS Hornet in Alameda, California!

Met some wonderful new people; sat in the cockpit of an F-8 Crusader; rocked my @garudaworkshop helmet; hung out with @kyellgold and did a couple of #FurryWriting panels. I even sold a book or two!

RE: https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/116689582725913494

Ping @MulticlassGeek and @inkblitz

Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀

2026-06-04 02:55:28

Feeling quite cranky today

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why is it always "grow your business"?

why can't it just be "find a nice comfortable equilibrium for your business"?

Not every arrow is meant to strike a target, you release it into the sky guided only by hope, trusting there is still a reason to keep aiming forward.

Traditional piece made with color markers (Ohuhu) for Archer.
Made during FWA's Artists Alley

It's happening!

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By the way, I know a lot of folks struggle with mental heatlh in various ways, so:

Know that the fact that people interact with you at all, and are part of your life even in very loose ways, means your presence matters and you're irreplaceable.

It won't always feel like it, but people do appreciate you. Most just don't know how to express it very well, and no one really does a good job of teaching that. I'm no better than anyone on this point.

But really, whatever community you have is irrefutable evidence that you're not alone. They're the ones that will appreciate you.

There's no incentive structure to Fedi. Nobody follows you just to increase some metric or trick you into following back to win some game tied to capitalism here. They follow you because you're interesting or cool. Or both.

This probably doesn't help with the myriad other, more material causes for your suffering. Money be damned.

But you'll never be alone if you don't want to be. And it can get better.

every time I need to "take time from work" I get so annoyed at this system

it's so dumb and annoying and stressful that you have this one aspect of your life that demands your entire day for most of the week, and every other thing (be it actual important stuff you have to do as well) has to be either squeezed around it or as a concession
which is especially dumb considering that supposedly every place has the same operating hours, so for example for you to go to a bank you must take time from work as by the time you're free (night, weekend) oops bank closed as well

for fuck sake I hate capitalism

supposedly all of this efficiency gain and whatever but never for tha sake of making people's lives actually better

I'm always stunned by now fast time seems to fly anymore for me. It's June, we're 6 months into 2026, and that's blowing my mind right now. It feels like time is always going so fast and I have so many things I want to do, but so little time to do any of them.

That's really the thing with fear of death for me, I've lived with the knowledge I could just die at any time my entire life. It's not that I fear dying, it's that I fear dying without doing the things I want to do or living the life I want to live.

Characters like Sparky don’t even need to say anything. They already know they look cool.

Sketch for Star Sparky, done during FWA's Artists Alley

Are you looking to hire an experienced embedded software engineer?

- 15 years experience (industrial and consumer electronics)
- Embedded security - 15mo for work, plus *years* as a hobby
- C, C++, Python and currently learning Rust
- ARM, MIPS, PIC, AVR experience plus x86
- Looking for UK remote or hybrid, or within commuting distance of Leeds via bike or public transport.

Boosts appreciated, CV available on request.

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Walking through a convention with the people you care about, hearing the noise around you, spotting familiar faces in the crowd, and suddenly realizing: “Yup… this is exactly where I want to be!” One of those moments that might seem small from the outside, but years later become the memories you miss the most.

Traditional drawing featuring Sakai and Tybaric. Also thanks to Braxy to help them get the slot.
Color markers and pencils.

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