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jaen nighly || welaway
@jnb.art
illustrator of the fantastic & the macabre, metal musician, & old-school skate rat
"professionally tired with decades of experience."
// pronounced like "jane" //
🏳️‍⚧️ she/her
📨 [email protected]
💼 https://jnb.art
on the bright side, the number of gen ai prompts that can't be fulfilled right now is probably saving a fair amount of energy from being burned and water from being wasted. a real "nature is healing" sigh of relief heard near data centers around the world
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"that's ok, i'll just go to this different website for now instead" i say out loud repeatedly as i apply more clown makeup
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
sites being walled off is somehow more frustrating than an aws outage where sites themselves are fully offline — instead the site is there, it's just blocked by an extremely annoying unresolvable error message from cloudflare.

the internet we've built is good and functional 🙃
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Reposted by jaen nighly || welaway
In one sense, when you read or perform these rituals, it's pretty clear that it's very, very easy to mess some of it up, by accident or misread. By using a rose instead of a lily because the passage uses an obscure reference. There's the sense that you're probably getting it a bit Wrong
November 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Reposted by jaen nighly || welaway
I sort of focused on presenting a lot of symbols with ambiguous purpose or meaning, forcing you to make some assumptions or maybe investigate the open question through play. In part this was influence by reading/doing weird Abramelin rituals in the woods and the particular way they worldbuild
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
timelapse of my drawing process on the cover from sketch to final inks in procreate
November 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
me crying as i chamfer the battlement over the barbican from a worms eye view:
“my back and neck are in so much pain; why do i keep doing this to myself?”

me when it’s done:
“fuck yeah, looks great. my aching spine is totally unrelated to the effort it took to do it. no lessons to be learned here!”
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
i simply need to train on king kai's planet to gain that kind of power
November 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
one-punching people through walls who try to enthusiastically show me generative ai images feels like it could really help dampen enthusiasm around a technology devoid and diminishing of humanity 🤔
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Reposted by jaen nighly || welaway
It's about redemption, purgatory, and reconciling the past.

The full release would not be possible without @alamhigo.bsky.social my trusty editor, @jnb.art who did the fantastic cover, @neonrot.bsky.social whose sickass layout redefined this game, and funding from @tabletopartsfund.org!
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM