Lina's posts

@FUZZY: The self publishing on amazon is kinda expensive. It starts at like $5 a book, because they print and build it when someone orders it. It's more expensive than mass producing the book. So I figured it needed to be a fairly large coloring book for people to think it was worth the cost. There's so many cheap coloring books now, especially with the ai generated ones all over.
This is mine if you're curious: https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Floral-Mandalas-Adult-Coloring/dp/1071268740

I've been watching DrGluon stream Stardew, and he's hilarious. It's really making me want to play too. XD

I'll make a public exchange thread for people who want to trade items.

@FUZZY: Tool shading is basically when you use any tool/brush that isn't the pixel pen.
I don't know if that's still the phrase they use now, but when I did pixels, the pixel forums referred to people who individually clicked each pixel for shading as pixel shaders, and people who used painbrushes, spraypaint, blur tool, etc were doing "tool shading". The pixel art forums were kinda elitist and looked at tool shading like cheating. Maybe it's gotten better and all shading is just shading.

@FUZZY: I think if I got back into pixel art I would probably do tool shading instead of pixel shading.
I was never very good at it to begin with, so I think transitioning to digital drawing was probably for the best. XD

@FUZZY: Mostly I stream the Sims and Stardew Valley. I did Sun Haven for a while, but it's a little too similar to Stardew I think, so I'm taking a break while I focus on Stardew because it had a big update. I've done Dreamlight Valley and Animal Crossing, but I kind of fizzled out on those and lost interest. >.<
Mostly I play 'cozy' games, but I do want to get Skyrim maybe. I loved playing Morrowind with my sister. Although I tend towards cozy, I have an insatiable hunger for violence. >:D

I love coloring! I have a million coloring books. Also, I made my own and sell it on Amazon because they have the self publishing, print to order thing. It's mandalas, and I'm pretty proud of myself for actually completing a project. I have another one but I'm stuck like 1/4 of the way through because I wanted it to be 50 pages.

I have items I want to trade! Maybe I should make a list and we can try to get a thread going and see if anyone else is interested. I don't have anything from like the last 2 years though, because that was my hiatus. >.<

Amazing art as always!

@Qiqi Agatha: I went to gaia just to see if any of my old friends were there. Then I started posting.
I'm posting a lot now, I really miss being on ana active forum, I just didn't realize it.
I'm also drawing again, which I didn't do for like a year or 2.

One of my favorite things it the monthly and orb items are already colored, and you have to be creative to mix and match items. And use commons. Syndrone had a dyeing system that allowed you to change any item's colors instantly; but I felt so much less creative then.

@FUZZY: When I was younger I was so into pixeling. I did pixel art for years and years, transitioning to other digital art was so weird. And now I haven't done pixel shading in so long I don't think I even remember how. XD

@Qiqi Agatha: I didn't get along with my dad growing up, but some years after moving out I started visiting for lunch every Friday and he was a lonely retired man who really loved having someone to talk to every week. So I pretty much won best child after that. Also I don't disagree with him when he says something political, I just nod along and ignore it.

Thank you! I started an art shop on Gaia. I've been hanging there hoping to run into old friends. None yet though.

@Qiqi Agatha: So glad she's doing a little better!
I'm moving back in with my parents actually. My mom is only like 65, but my dad is nearing 80 and has some trouble around the house. SO when I said I wanted to move back, they invited me to join them. I'll be back in my old bedroom, but we've become friends over the years so I'm actually pretty excited.

I would love to see another shade of gray.

However, I'm not sure how doable adding a new color at this point is. They're have to recolor every common that's in every shop, which is a lot of items at this point.

And every monthly item and orb item that's been released over the years will be kinda obviously missing that color. Like, they could add the color to the common shops, but hundreds of the limited items will be missing that color forever and it might be weird. If only they'd added it in the first year or so... maybe if there's a resurgence on the site and they can hire an extra artist to do all the work..

I believe Caedon has been closed for a while now...
CV01 made a post fairly recently and we were discussing which sites are closed and open still.
Voltra has slowed down, but is still open. I think the newer one that's mostly pets is still going.. dapervolk? something like that... Looks like Windlyn Online is open but slow. I think that's it

@Dubstep: It's been a bit dead around here lately. If you go to the forum main page you can see "Active Topics" and I definitely recommend just jumping into anything that's had a post in like the last week and trying to get a conversation started. Sometimes it just takes 2 or 3 people to get it started and then suddenly it's 20.

I used to want to make my own site too! But I can't do coding or art really, so I'm not sure what I would even offer, lol. I think it would be fun to design though! I loved the early Voltra days brainstorming lore and stuff!

I'm constantly sad that so many of them have closed.

When Kasheena (Caedon original owner) left and was going to start a new website, I remember being so excited because it was going to be like dark Wonderland themed and I was hopeful it would be like Syn, But that was like 10 years ago... so I feel like it's not happening... lol