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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · Jan 26

ELENORA for the #YearoftheSnake!
It's gonna be her year all year, baby!
[ #oc #mythoverse ]

A cartoony, digital art drawing of a green-scaled snake woman with a very long neck and three eyes. She has short purple hair and is wearing a gray, baggy sweatshirt with the letters "MR" in red on the chest. Her arms are up, and her hands are making two victory/peace signs on either side of her face. Her lower-left eye is closed and her tongue zig-zags out of her straight-lipped mouth. Her serpentine neck curls in a vague "S" pattern between her head and shoulders. Behind her, the words "YEAR OF THE SNAKE" appear in bold, blocky, red font, and the text is heavily obscured by her. It is signed "@SHIELDMAN" at the bottom.

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 1d

i genuinely cannot imagine a single feature i want on a dishwasher that requires anything beyond the appliance itself. there should be a natural law that if an appliance ever has the specs to run DOOM it immediately implodes like a black hole

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ATG/でがらし @tg-marlo.bsky.social · 3d

エグゼ2クリア記念rkgk

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 1d

hardpoint equipment that gives 120 fps (fashion per second)

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · Jul 12

im of the very strong opinion that everyone, at some point in their lives, should make at least one stupid, unpolished game to play with their friends

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · Jul 7

What’s a number (or set of numbers) in your field or hobby that might seem unrelated but anyone else in that group would recognise in an instant?

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · Jul 6

Some more of my OCs! A group of sillies that are best friends despite their differences. From left to right:
Miki, a chef and the heart of the group
Hayley, the American exchange student
Pirona, a quiet and shy clown girl
Meiru, a sci-fi loving cosplay dweeb

A lineup of four character designs. First is Miki, a short girl wearing a chef's jacket and a blue beret with short brown hair. Second is Hayley, a taller cowgirl wearing a stetson hat, red bandana around her neck, and traditional cowboy garb. Next is Pirona, a tiny girl with bright pink curly hair and red/blue heterochromia, wearing a colorful spotted clown outfit. Last is Meiru, a towering tall girl who is poorly cosplaying a robot.

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · Jul 5

This is the Gordian knot solution to the dril candle budget

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · Jul 1

you're right. we should all contact our senators. maybe even send them an email about it

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · Jun 29

Robot bartender named Cask Manager

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · Jun 10

Elenora comic! I've always loved comics, so I want to get back into drawing them. This is a quick one-page test for a sort of warm-up while I tinker with something long-form. Meet Elenora's friends: Hattie the flatwoods monster, Cameron the bat boy, and Kelly the (???)!

[ #oc #mythoverse ]

A digitally drawn comic. Hoo boy, transcribing a comic. Here we go:
Panel 1: A short, antlike character wearing a green and yellow striped shirt (Hattie) is yelling "ELENORA!" which is colored alternating green and purple.
Panel 2: A tall panel that shows Elenora laying on a couch in the distance. She is saying "what." in a much smaller speech bubble.
Panel 3: Hattie is standing still, her hand retracted, saying "...".
Panel 4: Hattie is squished down with a sarcastic expression, saying "Sword-man takes no skill."
Panel 5: Elenora extends her snake-neck rapidly (with a "ZIIIIIP!" onomatopoeia) and gets in Hattie's face. Hattie looks very shocked. Elenora says "The fuck you say?"
Panel 6: Hattie gets back in Elenora's face, squishing Elenora's neck back like an accordion. Hattie says "I said, is wake-up into unblockable super too hard for you?"
Panel 7: The two get into a shouting match with each other. Elenora yells "WHAT-- You can do that, like, once a match! It's better than B-reversing Heavy Spin until the heat death of the universe!" to which Hattie replies, "Oh, you leave Kensu OUT of this."
Panel 8: A wide-angle shot from another part of the room. On the left is a continuation of the shouting match: "I'll fucking kill you!" "Do it, COWARD!" "I ain't scared of going back to JAIL!" "At least stay there this time!" "Goddamn ant!" "Stupid snake!" On the right, Cameron (a guy with tan skin, silver/red hair, and bat ears) sips from a mug as he talks to Kelly (a human with long blonde hair and a purple sweater). Kelly says "Goodness gracious. How do you deal with them going at it like this all the time?" to which Cameron responds, "You kidding? I don't even need Netflix."

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · Jun 7

IT'S STILL #YEAROFTHESNAKE, BABY!
Elenora is a fusion of three gorgon sisters, and splits up under stress: El, oldest and most level-headed (also a huge bookworm and nerd); Nora, a meathead jock with a short temper; and Lea, the youngest, silliest, and most social of the three.

[ #oc #mythoverse ]

A cartoonish drawing of a three-headed snake woman. Each head has one large golden eye and purple hair. The left head is snickering and has an amused expression. The middle head has an annoyed expression. The right head is shouting angrily at the other two. Their body has a baggy gray sweatshirt with the letters "MR" in red on it. The background is a blurred green and blue landscape.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · Jun 6

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · Jun 6

hex grid for wargamers who aren't cowards

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · May 30

this is probably my favorite out of all the memes i drew for nonog. Twoj is the Stillborn God among its other titles, and I've just always wanted to do a loss edit

[ #nonog #worldbuilding ]

A totally redrawn edit of the "loss.jpg" comic. In the first panel, Ononbit, a blue metallic creature, bursts into a mud hut. In the second panel, it receives directions from a slime creature. In the third panel, it confers with a lumpy green creature. In the fourth panel, instead of the laying-down miscarriage pose from the original, Ononbit finds Twoj, a viny and withered plant husk reclining casually with a speech bubble saying "Hey, how's it going?"

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · May 28

moooooore memes :3 I always feel like death is such a complex topic that there should be more than just one "dEaTh gOd" doing it all. Ghatura can see the spirits of the dead, but it's not a psychopomp or anything.

[ #nonog #worldbuilding ]

A redrawn version of the Bonzi Buddy email meme comic. Panel 1: A small black cat-gremlin like creature lays on a couch next to an armoire, which has a mirror displaying a giant eye. The gremlin says "Oh Ghatura TM, I'm just feeling real low." Panel 2: A closeup of the eye in the mirror. The eye says "I CAN SEE THE SOUL OF YOUR DEAD WIFE". Panel 3: A middle distance shot of the gremlin. He lays in silent contemplation for a beat. Panel 4: The gremlin sits up, and we can now see a spirit version of the same creature he is. Both he and the spirit gremlin say "Oh shit, for real?"

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · May 28

Interdisciplinary applications strike again! It wouldn't surprise me if there was a lot of things physics could use from the industry that literally makes it its business to try and simulate, uh, physics.

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · May 27

It's my banner but I never actually posted it here! One of the wild encounters in the Shaped Lands is a samorah, a local morphovore. They tend to ignore little creatures like chimeras, as long as they don't look too... shapey.

[ #nonog #fantasyart ]

A landscape illustration of a plains scene. The subject is a "samorah", a large orange creature shaped vaguely like a slide, with an eye at the top of its raised tail and another eye at the front of its two-tined "mouth". In front of it, a small orange and brown creature stares back at it. They are surrounded by sparse black and red trees. In the distance, purple mountains sit lazily on the horizon, with the sun hovering above them. The sun has two lenses floating around it, one black and one red.

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · May 26

despite being considered a god of healing, buvpitap is simply the god of growth, and its ultimate plan is just to consume the entire world. the worldflesh is a remnant of its first attempt to do so

[ #nonog #worldbuilding ]

A redrawn meme of the "Is this a pigeon?" format. The corpulent green god Buvpitap beholds a small muddy orb labeled "literally the entire planet". The meme is captioned "Is this food?"

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · May 25

more god memes. Buvpitap, the god of growth, constantly antagonizes Arkumain, the god of the hunt, lording it over them that no matter how much they hunt, life still wins.

A redrawn meme in the style of the meme where a boy is honking a trumpet at a girl covering her ears. On the left is Arkumain, a being made of sharp bone-white fragments, covering the spots where its ears would be. On the right is Buvpitap, a corpulent off-green creature with many lumpy heads, each of which is blowing a trumpet.

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · May 23

man you can just post anything you want, huh? here's ononbit and chupilain, the craft-god siblings

Ononbit holds a leash that's around the shoulders of Chupilain. Ononbit is a tall, blue, filigreed robot entity, and Chupilain is a shorter green entity with a heavy, flat metal slab for a lower body.

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · May 22

Might as well post more critters from my #Nonog #ttrpg project. Here are some Iridini, mountain-born tanks made from crystal and stone. They can breathe beams of pure light like a dragon and have magnetized brains!

A lineart sketch of two angular, draconic creatures with diamond-shaped heads. The left one has broad shoulders with spines, sharp fingers, a dragon's tail and hooves. The right one is the same, but wearing a leather craftsman's apron and giant monocular goggle over its single diamond eye. It holds a strange tool.

ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · May 10

a lil gremlin from a project i'm workin' on

A black-and-white lineart sketch. A short-statured creature clad in bulky, top-heavy armor charges towards the viewer. It has horns, or possibly cat ears, simple features and pointed feet. It wields a sword that's longer than it is tall, and it seems to be screaming a battle cry.

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · Apr 9

Hopi Kachina figures are so beautiful...

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · Apr 22

this goes so hard!!!

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · Apr 21

Sparan arrives at the town-grave of Twoj, the Stillborn God. After a long and grueling journey through the Undying Steppe, it's little comfort to see the Divine Corpse, but hopefully she can still get a hot meal and a proper bed in this morbid place.

[ #oc #nonog ]

A massive, wrinkled plant looms over a misty town. In the foreground, a small, orange, four-armed figure wearing red clothes looks up at the plant in the distance. The top of the plant is a withered seed pod that glows green from within and is surrounded by a glowing gold halo. It has long thorny vines that snake all around the town. Black ichor bleeds out of the seed pod and from other cuts along its stalk. In the streets, purple-clad figures mill about.