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@saltydracon.bsky.social

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PJ | 26 | aroace, south asian american | artist, writer, gamer, and guy with a job | i enjoy watching fictional characters beat the shit out of each other

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put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hi, I'm PJ. I mostly shitpost but I also talk about art, writing, video games, and statistics. I love shonen anime, psychological horror, and collecting artwork.

Art by SaltyDracon. The style is a digital color under a paper sketch. In the foreground, a young-looking man with slightly tanned skin wearing a simple white robe with long orange hair talks on a cell phone and smiling, with a comic-style cutout revealing he's talking to a fat Mexican woman wearing a blue and white dress. She has brown hair in a braid, a pink bow in her hair, and an angry expression. In the background of the scene with the man. there is a brown boy wearing a blue tank top and khaki shorts. He is making the Family Guy Death Pose, lying on his side with both of his arms behind his back and one of his legs bent.

A mixed media piece by SaltyDracon. It depicts a boy with tan skin, long dark brown hair, an orange tank top that is loose enough to reveal top surgery scars, and Indian style earrings falling headfirst through the blue sky towards a sandy earth below him. He is smiling.

An experimental mixed-media piece. The background is entirely black, with a sketch in front colored in pink and orange. The sketch seemingly depicts a girl wearing robes, with a ponytail and messed up hair. She is wearing Indian style Jhumka earrings and has a despondent look on her face.

A mixed media piece by SaltyDracon. In the foreground, a boy wearing a white kimono with long golden hair sits at the top of a bell tower, with the bell hanging above him and a clock below him, looking over the city below. Behind him are many buildings. The sky is dark, indicating it is night.

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 2d

I sewed this thing.

Ordered a precut leather kit from Pop Sewing and sewed it together over the course of 7 hours. Kinda amazing how good it looks lol

A small satchel hanging from a doorknob by its crossbody strap. The satchel is dark brown while its front pocket and buckles are lighter brown. The stitches are white.

Same satchel as in the previous image, but zoomed in a bit on the purse section.

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 2d

It's insane that practically overnight, because of iOS liquid glass, Frutiger Aero became the design philosophy again. Acrylic design didn't even have one year. Damn

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 3d

DONUTS ACQUIRED AAAAAAA

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 3d

deleted that last tweet because i forgot that most people following me don't know i write some incredibly fucked-up science fiction, this one specifically including commentary on culture wars

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 4d

I may have discovered the location of the fabled Late October Apple Cider Donut and I'm heading there Sunday

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put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 5d

The subtext about Fei being a big lesbian(?) also slid past me the first time lol

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 5d

Imagine being suicidal for the better part of your life and then when you believe you died you're legitimately upset and in tears about it. That's what happened to me last night.

What the hell, brain? Leave that "working out my suicidal feelings" shit to my original stories!

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 5d

Dude why did I have a dream last night where I died. Literally died. And I was like, a ghost. What the fuck. I actually believed it

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 6d

There's literally a quest where he tricks the protagonist into going on dates with him and they pretend they're riding a ferris wheel together and he almost kisses the protagonist (real) and then some NPC shows up and tells them to stop making him feel bad for being single.

Like, holy shit.

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 6d

How did I miss all this subtext the first time he's literally down horrendous hfjdkdjdfhfjdkkd

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 6d

Hacker-centric otome and horror romance visual novels are fun, but adding that to the premise of DS:CS-HM is peak. I kind of want to write a VN with a similar premise now.

Once again, that whole subplot is so funny when you know.

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 7d

The protagonist gets involved in all of this because of toxic yaoi and its SO funny when you know

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 7d

I . forgot hacker's memory (good game) has that level of toxic yaoi subplot

and the protagonist, despite being a nobody, has swag

and the premise was that fire

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 8d

definitely not like, pitting those two franchises against each other, but pokemon adults are an offshoot of nintendo adults, which are like disney adults to me

as in they cannot take an ounce of criticism against their favorite media (and also pretend to be WholesomeTM when they're huge bullies)

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 8d

me: adding time stranger to the list of digimon games i really enjoyed alongside cyber sleuth, hacker's memory, and survive

also me: everything i know about pokemon i've learned against my will

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 9d

Gnosia anime is really good so far. My biggest worry after seeing the intro sequence was that they would literally just give everyone red eyes for the Gnosia forms instead of giving them the unique forms they had in the game, but Episode 2 proved I was wrong. GOD DAMN that went hard.

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put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 17d

Home.

Finally home.

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 17d

And I missed my fucking train. Great.

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 18d

Literally who the fuck authorized this. Literally not moving from my fucking apartment for the next month. I liked the hotel here but I didn't have any fun at all otherwise. Mandatory dinners my ass. Fuck everything. Literally going to waste $400 on Grubhub the moment I get back. Fucking hell

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 18d

Dude. I've been on drugs (and the drug is too much caffeine) for like 5 days trying to put up with this entire week. I haven't slept well in a month. My body is holding itself together with craft glue and my mind is jelly. If my parents ask me to visit for Thanksgiving I might shoot my tongue out.

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 19d

Oh Yeah And What If You Fell Sick From LITERALLY EVERYTHING YOU ATE. But Socializing Is Important So You'll Have To Do It Anyway

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 19d

"hey what if your Ultra Uber Important Week-Long Work Offsite Is Right After A Big Important Wedding, Is Right After Two Weeks Of Being At Home Which You Don't Like In Preparation For Said Big Important Wedding" said Literal Satan

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 19d

I've been having an honest to god godawful time for this entire month and I don't know how much more I can take. Oh my god I'm about to hit everyone with a shovel, I'm so done with everyone and everything.

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 22d

Me: This is my toxic yaoi fic.
Toxic yaoi fic: Every toxic moment is wrapped in ungodly amounts of slapstick and there's at least two toxic yuri couples

put your teeth to the grindstone @saltydracon.bsky.social · 26d

Shuten Order is incredible. Rei Shimobe is such a fun protagonist (God's favorite little stress ball) and I'm blown away by the character writing in the Science and Health routes. Fun character designs as well, amazing music and backgrounds- it was an absolute treat to play!