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Twilight city
(Getting back into photoshop a bit)
I made a few more simple text designs with this font for my fundraising. As usual, ALL PROCEEDS are to help my Palestinian best friend. Here are all the options (they're particularly nice for stickers and simple shirts I think):
Some product examples (I particularly like how the red one shows only the shadow on various black products):
My friend will use the money to help support his girlfriend remaining safely in America until things calm down and to help his other loved ones around the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids in the West Bank (those have hit his extended family quite hard unfortunately) and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. I'm currently very worried about escalation in Lebanon and the impact that could have on the family he has there who have so far been relatively safe. Hoping things stay under control there. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with (he's such a sweet person, he's involved in so much charity work for so many different causes, Palestinian and otherwise). You can find all my designs here. Redbubble will display a random product, click on it to see all product options (shirts, stickers, notebooks, etc).
Here's a small sample of my other stuff, I have 93 designs so far (each available on a wide variety of products) and I'm adding more regularly:
Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far!
Long time no art!
Even corporate paramilitaries need warships in TTT -- this express freighter has been refit with a much more power-dense reactor and AShMs (lasers weren't in the budget) -- it's actually substantially better than the typical patrol craft fielded by first rate naval powers (and that's the point). It's the sort of vessel that is mean enough to ignore anything short of an actual warship without causing undue concern to the people who do have actual warships. It's also vastly superior to most craft fielded by pirates and criminal organizations.
The reactor refit would've been a no expenses spared item bought off a great power's navy with a lot of concessions and begging. Very humiliating for a huge organization but the results are undeniable.
That was ambiguous. Like, they mostly aren't shipping stuff. It's more like a '''fun''' combination of agribusiness and extractive colonial projects. The East India company was bad enough without a nuclear arsenal as large as USA's [on this vessel alone 24x 500 kiloton warheads and 40x 2 kiloton defensive warheads (dialable down to >.1 kiloton but rated to carry as many as 3x that number]
I am still settling on the exact details but the engines are high end PIT or MPD so there's enough thrust for a decent amount of operational maneuverability to set up favorable fights or run down targets with empty tanks. The missiles themselves are fairly impressive post-revolution designs -- bigger than the standard MBE-pattern AShM and capable of doing between 15-17km/s depending on payload and a sensor suite that supports a long chase. The sort of people this ship is meant to fight are mostly not capable of reaching out and touching somebody from that distance and don't have the tools to engage (moderately) sophisticated submunitions from long distance. People who want to do something about a ship like this will either bring a destroyer, suck up to a bigger friend who can bring one, or try to jump it well inside its reach (probably suicidal but undeniably effective). It's not really viable as a mainline warship but conventional patrol craft fielded by actual states are often NTR/NEP hybrids for similar reasons. They are not very capable warships but are designed to cruise efficiently and (like this ship) meet their targets when they have mostly empty tanks. You don't really use ships like that in a peer war but the space traffic environment in TTT is hellishly complicated so you need to be able to efficiently cover a lot of ground to ensure customs, biosecurity, and access to strategic resources.
I like the look of it.
A slightly spookier revision of yesterday's ship in poster form. Bone white, pitted metal, and copper is a better look for a necromantic spacecraft.
I was going to do a setting writeup on Ten Thousand Empty Tombs but instead, I have created implied a Stupid Thing: a strangereal world with murder cone spaceships, 70s retrofuturism, elves, dwarves, and wizards. Horrible stuff.
Tragically, I have to admit that this has forced me to give some thought to Dwarven corporate law in order to name the prime contractors. Please send help.
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As the dust settles on the official release of “It Was Always Gonna Be Like This”, we would like to thank once again everyone involved and those who supported the collection of singles that became this album. We look forward to bringing you along for what’s coming next.
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