Elyxandra
@elyxandra.bsky.social
Graphic designer and creative being in Ontario 🇨🇦 Book hoarder, cat cuddler, and animation/indie game admirer. Currently loving: Yakuza 0, Dungeon Crawler Carl, Crescent City, Girls (2012) Recently loved: For All Mankind
Great time to grab Venba for only a few dollars! Support people creating beautiful games that tell personal stories
Visai Games | Venba is Available now!!@visaigames.bsky.social · 5d agoToday is Venba's three year anniversary!!! 🍰🍰🍰 To celebrate, we're on our biggest sale yet and you'll notice we're also on the front page of Steam!!!? 3.75 USD to get emotional gut punched! If you're looking to jump in or gift it to a friend, this is the best time!
Starring to watch Girls for the first time in my 40s so I can understand what my fellow 40-something women are referencing, now that I have access to it.
I was scrolling through the #LetterboxdFriday last 4 watched post for the week and wondered why everyone seemed to be re-watching Black Beauty (1994).
I'm sitting on the patio at a neighborhood bar, and I can see the TVs through the window. Baseball is on one (expected), Mr. Bean specials have been playing on the other (a delightful surprise!)
Just watched a 15 minute compilation of vines and started sobbing with laughter near the end. Unsure if I'm just overwhelmed with the silliness and joy, or if I'm grieving what the internet once was.
Channeling the worst traits of my highschool self and staying up until 2am reading a book. I have one day left on this library hold, and 20% of it still to go (about 140 pages).
It's a rare and wonderful feeling when a client and their stakeholders actually choose the option you hope they'll choose! They didn't even ask to Frankenstein it this time!
Sam Neill has always held a special place in my heart, and I'm saddened by the news of his passing. Jurassic Park came out when I was 8. I begged my dad to let me see it but he was worried I would be scared. He saw it first and I made him tell me everything that happened in it.
FANGORIA@fangoria.bsky.social · 3w agoFarewell to singular cinema legend Sam Neill. The dynamic, soft-spoken intensity of his work remains unmatched over a five-decade career. His vast contributions to horror and science fiction will live forever, as will his memory in our hearts. Fango sends our condolences to his loved ones and fans.
QTP with 10 anime to get to know you! 🌸 Sailor Moon 🌸 Neon Genesis Evangelion 🌸 Princess Mononoke 🌸 My Neighbour Totoro 🌸 Fushing Yugi 🌸 Tenchi Muyo 🌸 Dragon Half 🌸 Delicious in Dungeon 🌸 Spy x Family 🌸 Demon Slayer
Brink (is in his anime villain era 😈)@brinkofgaming.bsky.social · 4w agoQTP with 10 anime to get to know you! ✨YuYu Hakusho ✨Naruto ✨Dandadan ✨Dragon Ball Z ✨Sailor Moon ✨Delicious in Dungeon ✨Demon Slayer ✨Pokémon ✨Rurouni Kenshin ✨Mob Psycho 100
I haven't thought about Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water in decades, and this week I've seen it pop in 3 separate places. I never watched it, but the previews were always on the Neon Genesis Evangelion videos that I would rent from my comic shop.
Catsuka@catsuka.bsky.social · 4w agoThe upcoming French 4K-UHD box set of Nadia will include a replica of Gargoyle's mask 😱 Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...
Sometimes a book feels personal, and sometimes it feels like a mirror showing you a scene from your past. Like Ash and Sloane, I was an animation obsessed kid who wanted so badly to work for one of the prestigious studios. I even attended an animation for teens summer program at Sheridan College!
This morning I packed up all of the product and shipping supplies from the Etsy shop I closed last year. Shortly after I realized the heavy feeling in my chest was a bit of grief.
Some much needed perspective in an era of instant gratification.
Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep@innkeep.bsky.social · 4w agoLe Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
Time for a profile refresh! If you've only seen my illustrated face, here's the real me! Shout out to the talented @kanoki.net for welding his editing magic and making this silly selfie shine (you should hit him up too!)
Link's little flippers are giving me major cuteness aggression. Link's Awakening is a joy!
Holy heck, I loved Horns! (Only been waiting a decade to finally watch it). It's up there with other quirky Radcliffe films I've enjoyed including Guns Akimbo and Swiss Army Man.
This game proves the depth of my awkwardness. I can't even flirt properly with inanimate objects.
My morning suddenly opened up so I visited a cafe in a nearby town and sketched on the patio. If the chairs had been more comfortable I would have stayed longer.
Tuning into Figma Config this afternoon. Vicki Tan's talk about developing her book is really charming and feels so human amongst all of the talk of agents and generative design.
So many album releases snuck up on me in the past few months. I am way behind but looking forward to getting lots of new tunes stuck in my head.
I've been noticing eye floaties a bit more often lately. A rather dark one crossed my field of vision while reading this afternoon. I was mildly concerned about its size until I realized it was actually a clover mite crawling on my glasses.
In memory of Marjane Satrapi, we're inviting TCAF attendees to create a page on what resistance means to you. Pages will be collected into a community zine in her honour. www.torontocomics.com/post/honouri... Can't make it to TCAF? Submit to mj@torontocomics.com with subject "Graphic Resistance."
A true loss. I struggle to find the right words to communicate the importance of Persepolis and her other works in sharing the human experience of Iranian people, especially women, and introducing the graphic novel as a rich form of literature to many for their first time.
Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 2mo agoMarjane Satrapi, whose acclaimed graphic novel and animated adaptation 'Persepolis' brought the realities of revolution, exile, and identity to audiences around the world, has died at 56. www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/marjane-satrapi-persepolis-creator-co-director-dies-at-56-262120.html
Folks in and near #HamOnt, there is a proposed AI data centre to be built along the harbourfront. Sign the petition below to demand that the city engage in public consultation and do an environmental assessment on the project! ✍🏼 you.leadnow.ca/petitions/pr...
Protect Hamilton: No Steelport AI Data Centre Without Public Consultation
As the frenzy to build AI data centers sweeps Canada, Hamilton is next on the list. Right now, Slate Asset Management and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (DRAC) are trying to build an AI-dat...
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Urban Sketching in Scotland: Glasgow Necropolis. I loved this beautiful Victorian cemetery. It was full of fascinating monuments, and boasted a fantastic view of the city, and the Glasgow Cathedral.
I've been home from my trip for about a month now, so it's about time I add some colour washes to my travel sketches. The downside of a travel sketchbook is having to wait for one spread to dry before painting the next.
