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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 18h

Ravioli is fighting her demons, and the demon is a table leg.

The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 20h

Doodles from our last 2 Curse of Strahd sessions. My tiny cleric keeps ending up covered in slime and trapped in a large creatures mouth -- this time it was our mind controlled dragon companion.

Also our bard got turned into a frog and its the most at-peace and centered he's ever been. #art #DnD

Pen and ink sketches depicting a small child size doll being trapped in a frog mouth, dropped on the floor, covered in slime, And held up and aimed because she's blinded. The drawings are surrounded by sloppy session notes.

More pen and inkDoodles of the same child's size character being covered in slimed and held in a dragon's mouse, while saying" this keeps happening to me." And a vampire fanged frog surrounded by the text.It says finally at peace head most empty.

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 21h

She's terribly needle phobic and would skip doses, so to encourage/threaten her, I said every time she skipped, I would go lick a shrimp. I have a shellfish allergy. So to check in on her I started asking, "Do I gotta lick the shrimp?" Then she started texting "no shrimp tonight" and now it's just 🦐

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 21h

Due to a now years-long game of telephone, me and Sara refer to estrogen doses as "shrimp" and will just say "shrimp" at each other or send a single shrimp emoji to communicate about it.

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 21h

"SCHLATT MILK?!?!?!"

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 21h

"Look, I'm down to drink the anime-titty-girl energy drink dust."

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 22h

My friend's got a NEW BOOK:

🐣 Migi ➡️ SKIAMAKHIA drops 10/31! @tdcloud.bsky.social · 1d

SKIAMAKHIA: a 90s corporate vamp thriller🩸

Kolton Moreau, a dotcom-forged CEO, draws eyes of all persuasions. Cutthroat takes on a new meaning as he navigates the attention of the elusive Elijah Eder, juggles his brother's growing instability, and learns just what lies in wait beyond the firelight.

A red, white, and black graphic with NEW RELEASE: release 10/31/25 and pre-order now. The book cover in the center is split between black and red with two hands shaking at the center, their touching palms dropping blood. The cover title is SKIAMAKHIA by T.D. Cloud.

A trope map with the SKIA cover in the center. Some tropes include 90s Detroit setting, NBC hannibal style dialogue, vampire corproate thriller, transmasc ceo protagonist, 500 year old CEO vampire love interest, arranged marraige/marriage of convenience vibes, pent-up, bombastic spice scenes, and custom vampire lore + bloodlines.

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 1d

oh no is it a reference??

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 1d

Sara keeps repeatedly and accidentally calling my misophonia "mesothelioma" and it makes me witch-cackle every single time.

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 2d

Like, I can't begin to tell you how much I like my dayjob. I love the dorks I work with and I love the work as a game master AND repair person. Being on-call was the one thing making me look elsewhere, but I don't gotta now.

Aaaaaaaaaaaa. I feel like I'm gonna be a new person next week.

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 2d

I'm so relieved. I've been so scatterbrained and tired. This is gonna be so good for my brain.

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 2d

... some weeks I'd have no games and stress out, other weeks ALL of the shifts would get booked up and I'd have no freetime at all. And concentrating on art jobs was so hard when I was watching the clock the whole time so I didn't miss being called in with enough notice for my 50 min train ride

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 2d

I really like my dayjob and I didn't wanna have to start hunting for a new one, but being on-call and only getting paid when games get booked was a major source of anxiety. I only need so many hours a week, but its no guarantee, so I would pick up 2-3 times as many shifts to hedge my bets...

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 2d

I'm looking forward to the stability and more money for less shifts. It's gonna be so good for my brain and home life and productivity.

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 2d

Sorry i haven't been sharing much. Been a busy time getting ready for the changes at dayjob. Had to get trained-up and do a lot of maintenance/repairs. But hey, last night was my last shift on call -- we're getting fully paid-by-the-hour shifts now.

It's gonna be a huge weight off my shoulders.

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 2d

I had a friend in middle school who drew a ton of Sonic fan comics but he drew the characters crazy buff, like they were Dragon Ball Z characters. He always had a new issue to share on the bus.

I hope you're doing well, Clarence. I hope you haven't forgotten your Bodybuilder Sonic Doujinshi Roots.

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 3d

The tones always seem balanced, there's never blown-out whites or poor focus, the frame rate will be unusually high and smooth for having such poor lighting, the video never seems digitally compressed which is kinda necessary for storing them on devices and memory cards, especially wireless, etc etc

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 3d

A hint for spotting AI videos: think about what is supposedly recording the vid.

AI seems to be trained on photos from DSLR/mirrorless cameras & smartphones with post-processing. So when they try to reproduce smaller crappier cameras (webcam, trail cam, doorbell, etc), the image is just too good.

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 3d

Also that is just way too quality of footage to have come from a door camera, security camera, trail camera or even most webcams at night, presumedly only lit by porch light. It's just too crisp and the tones are too balanced.

AI is really bad at reproducing that stuff cuz of what it's trained on.

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 3d

another thing is that there's a trend of AI videos that are based on night vision camera footage of animals, and in some of these fake color "candid" footage AI videos, they still treat shadows like its night vision, cuz it doesn't know not to.

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 3d

Because of Who I Am, I'm being sent that video of the possum being started by the Halloween decoration A LOT, and I am become buzzkill because I regret to inform you it's AI

Time stamp makes no sense, shadows are wrong, too many toes, possums can't jump like that, table changes dimensions and warps

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 4d

While making dinner earlier today, I accidentally dropped a piece of chicken onto the top of my foot, and Ravioli hauled ass to eat it right off my foot before I could catch her

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 4d

me and my girlfriend grew up on different sides of the Internet railroad tracks and she just looked at me amused but very confused when I said "Cement, das conk creet baby!"

Oh y'all are lesbians? Which one makes movie/TV references, and which one sounds like a triggered sleeper agent tweaking out?

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 7d

"why is nobody talking abou--" EVERYONE is talkin about it BRO. You just never stick around to listen to ANYONE ELSE, you're just here to TALK

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 7d

Things are changing at my dayjob schedule and it seems like it's gonna be good for my wallet and my comic-making. But it does mean I am less likely to pick up live streaming again, which is a bummer.

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