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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 1h

I follow quite a lot of people with incredible art, but the only people I find myself engaging with are those whose personalities have me keeping them in mind. Even people who make breathtaking stuff I find it difficult to engage with simply because I struggle to meaningfully talk to them.

Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 1h

It's rough out here. There's so much incredible art floating around offered as fleeting experiences (which feels cheapened as a result) and vid/music checkpoints, as opposed to someone's words which you naturally pause to experience. And only words that resonate really keep you coming back for more.

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 12h

Today was going to be a drawing day for me, but it ended up being a troubleshooting day. And even when I finally sat down to draw near the end, I had to troubleshoot the art program, too. 😅

Thankfully got all the problems out of the way for now. Tomorrow should be smoother sailing.

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 6d

Bout time I gave you all a sneaky peaky at what I've been up to over the past few months...

Dropping you all in the middle of the action here. Gonna try and start posting stuff once I finish writing out the whole arc!

#Mirrories #CToN

CHARACTER PROFILES:
Honey: A bright-eyed, naïve catfolk nobleman following his youthful dreams of adventure.

Jeff: A strange yet friendly black-cloaked masked hunter who's always eager to make new friends. Accompanied by Velma (his shadow spider familiar) and a few too many bugs.

Tim: A gleeful gnomish scholar with a chip on his shoulder and a hint of madness.

??? (the knight): A large rusted hollow suit of armor with glowering embers for eyes and a voice heard only in the mind. A stalwart dread-knight of few words, claiming to follow a mission of great importance. Currently holding a pixie captive within the hollows of its armor, unbeknownst to the others.

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EXCERPT:
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It was a quick walk to the estate warehouse's loading zone where Jeff claimed the "dungeon full of monsters" was hidden. Several guards patrolled amidst empty crates and wagons, providing the group with their first real obstacle towards making their way inside.

"So, see that grate over there?" began Jeff as he pointed near the warehouse gate. "That's how Velma made her way inside."

"Okay," Honey answered in acknowledgement. "So we just need to make our way to that gate."

"Grate!"

"…Yes… Great. …So… how are we getting in?"

Before anyone could answer that question, the knight broke formation and began to walk straight towards the warehouse without any attempt to sneak. Or they would have, had Tim not sheepishly blocked their path.

"Stand aside," the knight declared. "Enough time has been wasted already."

"Uhm… F-far be it from me to get in your way, ser knight, but… is this really the best way to do this? Do you really want to get in a fight?"

"These pests aren't a threat to me. Any who stand in the way of my mission will fall by my blade."

"Is that… really…?"

"Oh, that's an idea!" Jeff declared as he pulled out his bow. "I can shoot them down from here while you cut them down up front—!"

"What— would you listen to yourselves!?" Honey chastised, stepping in between the three. "Enough people have died already! We are not killing them."

"Well," Tim piped up, "is it really killing them if they run into your sword…?"

"We do not even know what they are doing here! They could be protecting this city, for all we know!" Switching to a lecturing tone, Honey stated, "A real adventurer would sneak in and investigate before fighting the bad guys."

"…'Bad guys'?"

Jeff cocked his head as he reached for an arrow. "Well, if they're the bad guys, we should just shoot them, right?"

"We don't know if they're the—"

"It matters not. The fate of the world is at stake; there is no time to wait!"

"What are you even—!?"

Amidst the party's arguments, Honey's words were cut short by a whispered sigh of frustration catching his ears, along with a flash of light in his peripherals from within the hollows of the knight's armor. Whipping through the air, a wave of distortion flew free from a cavity in their joints, letting loose illusory sounds of a scuffle amidst the wagons near the guards… which drew their attention away from the warehouse.

Unable to look away, Honey's fur bristled as his instincts kicked in, eyes widening as they followed a trace of movement that danced within the knight's hollows with an entrancing blue glow… until Jeff snapped him out of it, grabbing his arm and yanking him towards the gate. "C'mon, Honey! You wanted to sneak in; now's our chance!"

"Uh… …right!"

Light on their feet, Honey and Jeff quickly made their way ahead of the pack towards the warehouse gate. Though instead of approaching the gate, Jeff instead veered off to the side towards a tiny drain tunnel obscured in the shadows.

"What are you doing?" asked Honey, as he searched for a way to open the gate.

"Here's the grate," answered Jeff.

Honey paused, turning to face Jeff and the grate. "…The 'grate'??"

"Yeah, the grate!"

"…You said the 'gate'!"

"No, I corrected you!"

"You corrected me!?"

"Yeah!"

"But you sai— …you just— …I thought you were saying 'great'!!"

"Yeah! I did say 'grate'!"

"What do you—!?" Honey cut himself off, taking a sharp breath before continuing. "Okay. 'Grate'. How exactly did you expect us to sneak in through that tiny little GRATE!?"

"What do you mean? Just get smaller!"

"'GET SMALLER'!?"

"Yeah!"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'GET SMALL—'!?"

"Hey, what's taking so lo—?" Tim crashed into a bucket as he approached, which clattered loudly as it slammed into the gate.

In the deafening silence that followed, all of the guards both within and outside the warehouse turned to see the party standing at the gate looking like a crowd of cats caught eating a pet canary… as the knight slowly sauntered in from out of frame towards the thin gate without an ounce of subtlety and hacked it down with a single empowered slash of their metal paddle that resounded like a clap of thunder.

"…Whuh…?" "H-HEY!" "GET 'EM!"

"Gods… damn it…!"

Pixel tokens of the warehouse-raiding party from this excerpt. From left to right: Jeff, the knight, Honey, and Tim

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KJETLL // dtiys pinned! @kjetll.bsky.social · 1d

AAAAAAAAAAAA IT'S #PORTFOLIODAY ARTSHARE!!

DROP YOUR BEAUTIFUL PORTFOLIOS RIGHT NOW, ARTISTS!!! 🔥🔥🔥

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 16h

Finally got to make one of these 😭 Technical difficulties had me fighting for my life all day while trying to make it, but I did that shiiii

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Reposting the links here for easier access:
🌐About
🖼️Portfolio
🦋Bsky Feed

Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 17h

I'm Orlando! #PortfolioDay

I do a little of a lot of things (music/art/writing/dev), and am passionate about bringing heart-felt personal projects to life!

I'm currently making a multimedia fantasy series based on TTRPG campaigns with friends. Hope to share more soon!

🌐About
🖼️Portfolio
🦋Bsky Feed

A collage of drawing requests I have drawn over the years, surrounding a comically cheerful photo of me.

Top row from left to right:
- A deer in headlights in the style of The Scream by Edvard Munch.
- Macho Pichu doodle.
- A girl dressed in a Banjo & Kazooie costume.

Bottom row from left to right:
- A Plusle and Geodude posing while wearing Trendy Specs from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon DX.
- A dabbing blue Kirby with shades, riding a dabbing blue Robobot with shades.
- An Eevee suplexing a Jigglypuff.
- Shulk from Xenoblade cheerfully cradling the Monado.
- The Yosh (a muscular "Yarn Yoshi" Mii Brawler from Smash Ultimate) is a'come

POV illustration of finding my OC Clarke (a red-haired pixie with glowing green eyes) hiding within a red winter stocking. A mouse toy peeks from the corner, obscured by a dreamlike haze.

Meme redraw of the Potato Chip scene from Death Note, featuring Ignis from Trinity Saga: Unchained by Thatchner and melonparfait.

Venayane Doe (pacchibi's blonde-haired female deer anthro villager girl) stands cheerily in front of a pleasant village scene... but something is amiss. There are sparks of flame in her eyes, and the village behind her is somewhat enshrouded and depicted in crayon like a child's drawing, while the visage of an angry moose and a silhouette of a tall, thin spire are barely visible in the background sky.

Faintly stacked and repeated across the background sky is written: "May You Find Solace In This Life You Have Chosen"

Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 17h

I'm Orlando! #PortfolioDay

I do a little of a lot of things (music/art/writing/dev), and am passionate about bringing heart-felt personal projects to life!

I'm currently making a multimedia fantasy series based on TTRPG campaigns with friends. Hope to share more soon!

🌐About
🖼️Portfolio
🦋Bsky Feed

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 17h

Okay we're in business again

Thank you for joining me on this rollercoaster

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 17h

AND ONE LAST TEST WITH DECK BLUE before I waste all that time making my portfolio day post again

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 17h

a cartoon explosion with the words i liiiiiiiveeeee !!!

Alt: I LIIIIIIIIIVEEEEE!!!

media.tenor.com

Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 17h

Restarted my computer and Firefox, and Firefox even updated! Turning it off and on again ALWAYS works, right?

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 17h

The line of mystery ate my alt text somehow

It shouldn't even be possible to post something without alt text with my current settings

... Wait are the settings for that saved client-side? Not account-side??

Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 17h

This is pain

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 17h

why does that one have a white line at the top????

I am so confused but that looks like progress????

How about this one?

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 17h

And one last try after clearing Firefox's cache...

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 18h

Well, okay, damn. Firefox is bugging out for me.

One last try with absolutely no extensions enabled...

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 18h

MICROSOFT EDGE INSTEAD OF FIREFOX

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 18h

Malwarebytes browser guard off...

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 18h

...Okay so the screenshot from my phone worked. Seems it's a computer issue?

Let me try disabling extensions. uBlock Origin off, here we go.

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 18h

Am I not allowed to post images anymore? What is going on?

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 18h

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 18h

Gonna do some image upload tests cause my portfolio day posts have been goofing up for some reason.

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Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 22h

Huh. Can't say I'm an expert, but I remember seeing articles and videos about it, like this one here. Your mileage may vary, I suppose.

Idle Windows XP and 2000 machines get infected with viruses within minutes of being exposed online — legacy OSes compromised by just connecting to the Internet

Hackers are always on the lookout for legacy operating systems.

www.tomshardware.com

Tremendo Dude @tremendodude.neocities.org · 1d

The mini Ignis 😭 This might be the first time I've ever seen him panicking 😆

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Dani 🎨 TRINITY SAGA (Webcomic Artist) @melonparfait.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, #Portfolioday! I‘m an Austrian artist working on a fun sci-fi / drama webcomic called Trinity Saga 👁️‍🗨️ trinitysaga.carrd.co

I love OC’s and putting them in silly situations! Art is my biggest passion that I‘m happy to share and hope to improve every day.

[ #art #comics #ocsky #webcomic #oc ]

Cover Art for Trinity Saga Unchained showing Lucy and Ignis. Ignis is annoyed and Lucy is playful.

An illustration made for the one year anniversary of the comic showing Lucy holding a small yellow cake with a candle in a fancy golden dress while Ignis is seen in the back looking over his shoulder.

A small illustration showing Ignis holding Lucy who is sporting fake angel wings and a crooked halo as well as sporting a black revealing outfit. Her hand is wandering and underneath some of his suit. She grins and he looks at her with a neutral expression.

An illustration showing Lucy holding a small mini Ignis who is visible distressed.

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