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Retro Heart
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Your friendly California Bay Area artist and VTuber coming at you from the sleek, ultramodern future of 19XX.
Biracial. Est’d 1985. He/Him.
Pleasing taste, some monsterism. Spread love, punch fascists.
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I make #DigitalArt and #Comics inspired by 80s/90s anime with cute, colorful characters, livestream, and get experimental with #OBSCrimes.
Gallery:
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Support/Rewards/Bonuses:
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yo check it out I made a version that just embeds how cool is that?
February 13, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Probably gonna be a while before I've got anything truly interesting to show, but here's a handful of sketches and other pieces I've been scratching at lately. Most of 'em are Zero XP Hero related
#Art #DigitalArt #WIP #RetroHeartArt
February 12, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I meant to sit down and do some thought processing via writing as I tend to do while Going Through It(tm), but I made a hard turn into topics that I think need to be more of an ongoing thing.

blog.retroheart.net/2026/02/12/p...
Mechanical Heart
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February 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM
It's probably because of one of the many elements I blocked and Bluesky being a div soup, but it won't lightbox images anymore and instead makes the page completely uninteractable when I click on one

This makes me want to use Bluesky less, which I think is a net win for me
February 11, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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Sketchin on the sofa.
February 8, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Anyways, enjoy your Owl viewing. Or don't, I'm not your dad
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW4J...
Bad British NFL Commentary
YouTube video by TheExplodingHeads
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:14 PM
And like.
Social media and the concept of an audience are not inherently bad things, it's all about how we engage with 'em. And art should be appreciated! It's great to share and have more eyes on!

Got complex feelings about it as always. Gonna keep at it and keep doing my best.
February 8, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I've never been about making things for social media or an audience. I make things I enjoy and hope people will follow (in the classic sense). Art is my center of joy, it's helped me find my people. Especially ones I want to protect
Long as I can help it I'm going down swinging with a pen in my hand
February 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
I don't have a silver lining or moral or whatever to this, I just do my best to keep moving forward and not fall into total despair
February 8, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Now that I'm not spiraling so hard:
I mentioned the other day that I'm having a hard time with drawing lately.

That doesn't mean I've stopped, I've got sketches and ideas and character doodles and things I've been sharing in private, just a lack of big, finished pieces that social media likes.
February 8, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I've had such a bad time drawing for months and even just creating things in general lately so I will take even the tiniest victory
February 7, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Splitting headache in progress but I also hacked together a solution via Godot signals to get Twitcher alerts working, so it's a race to clean things up and document this for my future self before sitting upright is no longer a viable option
February 7, 2026 at 12:41 AM
I'll happily take my lumps for my own mistakes. Just really want to know what's going wrong in this process so I can get it fixed and move on
February 6, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Of course if I do that I also need to be in the right mindset and come with receipts about what the errors are, what I've tried so far, and what the documentation does (or doesn't) say

And while I've got the receipts, I am not in the right mindset
February 6, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Waffling on a very chill art stream on what I'm now calling the Recovery Mode layout or just calling it now because my head is pounding and my afternoon is already locked up

I really want to get the Twitcher add-on working but I guess at this point I have to Join the Discordβ„’ for help with EventSub
February 6, 2026 at 4:10 PM
February 6, 2026 at 1:21 AM
- and Vacation starts with the sound of a play button being pressed. It's a subtle touch that tells you how these two sides are connected. Ephemeral dreams and the hazy recollection of endless days of youth.
Summer Vacation remains one of my favorites of all time. Buy both albums. Give 'em a listen.
February 5, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Not just in sound, with Vacation directly evolving the chiptunes and instrumentals of Dream with vocal tracks and a clear narrative running through the album alongside familiar motifs, but also very literally. Dream ends with a cassette tape being ejected, flipped, and re-inserted -
February 5, 2026 at 5:57 PM
You know what, fuck it, willing some good vibes.

I mentioned Summer Vacation by Plasma Cutter the other day. It functions as both a perfect nostalgic stand-alone album as well as a direct follow-up to Genesis Dream.
plasmacutter.bandcamp.com/album/genesi...
tnywvs.bandcamp.com/album/summer...
Genesis Dream, by Plasma Cutter
13 track album
plasmacutter.bandcamp.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Got the follow-up, everything is about as good as it can be (not great)
As for Godot the Twitcher add-on seems to error out when I set up the EventSub dictionary exactly as instructed, so I need to bootleg it with individual listener nodes for now
Not gonna liveskeet every step from here, just. Man.
February 5, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Anyways new Paranormasight announced for two weeks from now, please don't cost an arm and a leg I want to play it
February 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Not that I have a cat, I am alone on this barren earth (and it would hike my rent if I did)
February 5, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Was considering streaming working through getting the Twitcher addon working for Godot, but got a personal call late last night that I may need to follow up on this morning

Plus, working theough Twitcher errors has been like trying to figure out why your cat keeps meowing all morning (frustrating)
February 5, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Gettin' there, lots of folks want to hang out and help me understand things while I bash my head against learning programming, which is nice!

If I was doing this in a vacuum I'd probably bounce off of it pretty hard. Not super confident yet, but I'm building up my skills and comprehension
February 4, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Burned out in general while teaching myself Godot a couple weeks back.
Let's give it another shot and pick up about where we left off. Gonna be another chill morning stream with the backup overlay, starting in a few:
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Art and entertainment hosted by The Monitor and Bun-E03, broadcast live from 19XX! When you think
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February 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM