guess who's back :) developing some concepts for future #StarsLightOurPath work
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ghostcatte
@ghostcatte@mastodon.art
mastodon 4.7.3formerly @catdad@mastodon.art, a bunch more art is over there still
digital artist. always learning new stuff! i dabble in music and gamedev occasionally too
into fantasy, robots, spookiness, and futures where we don't work for basic survival (and we live in dope solar-powered communities)
sometimes posting 
lewd / "NSFW" art (always CW'ed)
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Joined November 06, 2024
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little sketchy-dumping from recent days
artfight friendly fire revenge on @molentum@mastoart.social's Ivu
#artfight #artfight2026 #teammystery
"oh cool a big bethesda sale on steam!"
"...wait a minute... didn't a BUNCH of bethesda workers, some of them extremely long-time contributors, get laid off like a month ago, despite making some incredibly successful and widely beloved games?...."
oh cool...
didn't get the job i was feeling really optimistic about,
found out they had >1000 applicants for their tiny little company's job listing, and while i made it to the final round with only a few other applicants... over... a thousand... for a small company who pretty much put a job listing on linkedin and that's it. they needed no advertising or name recognition to get a thousand applicants
this fills me with dread when i think of doing more applications...
anyone have a starter linocut tools kit (& paint) they recommend? thinking of trying some small scale stuff for fun :)
Anxiety! At the Job Interview
last minute (literally yesterday), I decided I'm gonna try out #artfight for my first time! just now put together my ID card whewwwww
https://artfight.net/~ghostcatte/
i will *try my best* to hit people back that attack me <3
i swear i have a target on me that tells people to single me *specifically* out as "the problem" like 90% of the time, even when I'm *very certain that it's not me*. A guy literally threw a game we were about to win because he decided *I* wasn't healing him enough. ME SPECIFICALLY. when I was the only one who even *attempted* to help him out and he was trying to be up in the enemy spawn. like what the hell? doesn't matter what role I'm playing, how well i'm doing
first artfight attack (ever!) is for my pal rnbwtrout.bsky.social
feels not as good as i wanted it to be but i'm clawing my way out of art block/burnout hell so i'll take what i can get
#artfight #artfight2026 #teammystery
for star wars day, some Andor studies I did back in 2022
repost from my old account. I keep meaning to touch this up and make a sticker of it
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How to Emancipate Your Skeleton in 5 Easy Steps
artfight attack number twooo is for my pal ocicat-art.bsky.social
what if Ceadwy was in Project Hail Mary, seeing the Petrova particles lit up over Adrian?
i've got my artbot 'sona but wound up making a little IRL self-representation today
seeeee here's how my brain talks myself out of doing things:
me: wow i did my first artfight attack! not as good as i wanted, but i've been in a rut lately and it's chill, for a friend. nice!
brain: hmm i think we can do a little better
me: wow i did my second attack! it turned out great! i like it! they love it!
brain: yes. acceptable. now do *better*
me: wh... what
lesson for competitive gamers (... aside from a bunch of the obvious lessons like it "being just a game" and "the need to chill out")
you can't play for the team/composition you *wish* you had, you gotta play for the one you got. "If only somebody else did X..." NOPE gonna stop ya there. the only variable you control is *you* and learning to play in sub-optimal situations is literally how you get good (and winning a lot but only in optimal situations isn't "being good" it's "being lucky")
new #StarsLightOurPath today! why are we even here?
raa my tiny photo/sticker printer is hereeeee it's so cool
i don't have a good pic yet but I did some stickers for my work ID badge and they came out *so incredibly good*
oh hey i haven't posted anywhere yet because i keep forgetting to finish my ID card but uhhhhh i set things up for #artfighthttps://artfight.net/~ghostcatte
it's my first time? idk what i'm doing :)
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classic, i forgot to turn back on my noise/texture overlays haha
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first ghostcatte comic in print hehe. had to try it out on the Hi-Print. it's so tiny
don't worry people, the blood money is going to general core development, not anything specifically related to the blood money generating machine, so this is chill and good actually /s
some recent #StarsLightOurPath panels that I liked (sans dialogue) and a little bonus silly sketch that ended up being the basis for the second panel
#StarsLightOurPath update: some art block happened, some vacation times happened. this week I'm working on some planning and arting and wanna get a couple pages lined up to get us back on track :D
RE: @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz
i think this points many folks to the conclusion that "mastodon has a discovery problem" if you have to work to find people... but that's kind of simplistic. whenever discovery features are added, a lot of people here don't want to participate in them! because they're good at finding their own people and want to not be easily indexed/scraped/"found" by all sorts of automated means.
there's a different mindset at work here and that's not a bad thing. some folks won't ever gel with that though
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any excitement or appeal a potential job has just gets squashed down by my knowledge that i am utterly expendable to the company (and the entire industry) and that it's almost guaranteed that even if i navigate the labyrinthine requirements to get hired, within 6 months the company will have totally disappointed me with its shortsighted "immediate gain above all else" contortions
google: how to not overthink stuff and just draw a thing
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like... recently contemplating pursuing a job that would have me working with an old coworker, would (for now) be a bit more insulated from AI, and give me more interesting problems solve...
but it would require a massive move across the country and i... don't know if i can bring myself to uproot my life for this career. even if the idea of moving is intriguing to me, idk if going *for this work* will feel worth it, because i'm already anticipating dissapointment
okayyyy my LAST revenge, with only a couple hours left on the clock. revenge on ~SpiderPig's Luna
#artfight #artfight2026 #teammystery
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i know this temptation intimately, though! I spent a lot of money a few years back on music production stuff. "just one more VST, just one more"
it was all just to try and hide (from myself) the fact that i wanted something that i didn't feel capable of, and struggled a lot with. I eventually wrote some music, didn't use 90% of the stuff I spent money on, and then decided it's probably not for me because I didn't enjoy the process that much
point is that having the gear didn't make it work.
continually feeling like the decision to (finally, FINALLY) upgrade from 8gb of ram was a really good one. I feel like I can actually do two things on my computer at once now
some clips of someone finishing outer wilds popped up this morning, haha i'm fine no it's normal to have a little morning sob about a video game, dw about it
:honk: gonna do a brief bit of self-boosting real quick, sorryyyy :blobcat_googly_blushy:
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@ashenwave@mastodon.art kinda similar boat for me!. I like some aspects of bsky... I think there's a lot of artists to find, and little pockets of community, and it *feels* like discovery is easier but i dunno if it actually is. I tend to get way more interaction over here... bsky is usually pretty quiet when i post any art or anything 🤷
sigh
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@kimhu@mastodon.social always nice to see the illustrious Kim Hu back on mastodon. one of your previous times of activity here is how I found you in the first place, and made you one of the first people I followed when I did finally give bsky a try 😅
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@doombloomart yea for sure. i probably sound kinda "old man yells at cloud" but i do think that the content-ification of everything is behind a lot of the struggle here. folks feel like they have to "get it right immediately" because the point of making a thing, to many of them just getting started, is to put it on the internet, so it better not be bad or cringe
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@CheetahFluff@nyan.network yea. it just goes that way. I usually find I have to get back to *very basics* for awhile, do some very literal reference copying for a bit so I take some load off my imagination and just have fun with the act of making lines and shapes
it'll pass eventually 
don't worry! they're forklift certified
artfight revengggeeee of
pazliacci.bsky.social's Ronja
#artfight #artfight2026 #teammystery
well? 🤔
edit: image credit https://bsky.app/profile/jaws-stone.bsky.social
a little artfight revenge on
mossknight47.bsky.social's Deoiridh
#artfight #artfight2026 #teammystery