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LTB / Vati
@vati.bsky.social
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Artist/Writer/Gamedev. Eye of D'akess is out on steam and Itch! Art stream: http://twitch.tv/vatinyan - Other things: https://linktr.ee/vatina_ltb
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · Oct 17
Hello all! ✨

I do art, I do games, I do game art, and also a few ttrpg products! Comics! And then gush over my characters.

Basically I do too many different things! But hopefully you can still find something worth sticking around for.

Give my stuff a look if it seems interesting:
whitecat.itch.io
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · 12h
a boy with a green cape and a white shirt salutes
Alt: a boy with a green cape and a white shirt salutes
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · 12h
Not getting much inktober done this week, as I'm prepping for a retro game fest that I'll be attending the next three days!
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RSpanner @rspanner.bsky.social · 2d
A flattened working file.

We misread the brief.

File cannot be located.
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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Frasier D&D @frasierdnd.bsky.social · 2d
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN: “Oh! I’m in a Dungeons & Dragons group, too. But we’re doing an official, prewritten adventure.”

[FRASIER SCOFFS]

FRASIER: “Prewritten! The storyteller’s crutch.”

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN: “I’m the storyteller.”

FRASIER: “… And what is a crutch if not a timeless and wonderful invention?”
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · 3d
Didn't expect to go watch One Battle After Another, but I did, and it was awesome.
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Kobold Press @koboldpress.com · 3d
The next Kobold Press Kickstarter has been revealed: Night Hunters, coming January 2026!

Gothic heroes. Cursed power. Moonlit hunts. Monstrous foes.
Mark your calendars—the hunt begins soon. 🦇⚔️
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · 4d
Thank you!
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · 4d
I've made a game, in a retro jrpg style! And planning more, but guess that doesn't quite count yet.
store.steampowered.com/app/2220040/...

As for art, I'm practising a more old-school black and white style for fantasy illustrations. Though the question is how well it hits the mark, heh.
Black and white ink art of a wolf, prowling a dark forest. Black and white ink art of a minotaur appearing from the mist. Black and white ink art of a girl with a torch, surrounded by darkness. Black and white ink art of a skull, pierced by a knife.
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · 5d
From earlier today, "Skull". Already feel like I should do more with the shading on this one, but oh well.

#art #inktober #shadowdark #drawtober2025
A black and white ink drawing with a skull, pierced by a knife.
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · 5d
More poster sketching! It's friday art stream time:

www.twitch.tv/vatinyan
Sketches of various chibi-fied characters for the next dkgame poster.
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · 6d
"Sleep".

Technically the prompt for yesterday, but I decided to go with it today...

#art #Inktober #shadowdark #drawtober2025 #eyeofdakess
Black and white ink drawing of Ricki sleeping in a dark cave, with a campfire that has gone out. Glowing eyes watch from the darkness surrounding her.
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 7d
Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.
A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · 8d
Thank you!!
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · 8d
Am I a day behind and signed this drawing with the wrong date? Yep. Yep, I did. Woops.
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · 8d
(Btw want more Ricki adventures? There's a comic now too.... just saying....) :

ko-fi.com/s/c6a7280ea7
The Eye Over Aftbren - Comic Zine - LTB's Ko-fi Shop
A comic about Ricki's distant past... The Eye Over Aftbren is a window into the childhood of the character Ricki, whose past in a vicious cult is tol...
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · 8d
Aaaand day 6 of the #shadowdark #Inktober - "Ooze!"

Something very big and nasty dropped from the ceiling to interrupt Ricki's dungeon delving adventures.

#art #drawtober2025 #eyeofdakess
Black and white ink drawing of a dark tunnel, where a girl turns around to see a large clump of slime crawling towards her.
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · 8d
I managed to do #Inktober yesterday, but didn't have the energy to properly scan it to get the colours right haha.

But here it is! "Rune" - done with liners and markers:

#art #shadowdark #drawtober2025 #eyeofdakess
Ink image of mostly black and white, showing a rune on a wall in the shape of an eye. A hand moves over it, activating it with purple magic.
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 8d
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9d
199 years after the last one, way to string along your fanbase, Ms. Shelley
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Becky @beckygracelea.bsky.social · 10d
She hath risen.
“Mary Shelley has released a new title!”
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 9d
Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)
Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · 10d
It's been a while, time to play some FF8 again!

www.twitch.tv/vatinyan
A picture of cartoon-me, playing Final Fantasy 8.
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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 13d
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?
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LTB / Vati @vati.bsky.social · 12d
As the comic releases, Damien (the writer) wrote a guest-post on the blog about his approach to it all:
www.the-white-cat.com/the-writing-...
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Sep 24
The year is 2042. The only song Horror movie trailers have left to make a slowed down cover of is the theme from Animaniacs. Thousands die in the war for rights to the song.
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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 12d
here is my addition to the tradition I made last year (I’m sure it’s been done before me last year)
Poll pi and Jason from good place dabbing each other up, Jason has text that says “mean girls fans” while pillboi has “fma fans” over their handshake is “Oct 3rd”
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