Ynx Does Not Exist

(Tag mark for posts mentioning my art: #PaskudaDoes) A slightly weird slavic person trying to conquer a foreign internet platform without actual enthusiasm on the said topic. Mostly I am just looking for a place to post specific thoughts and creations without my irl circles intervening. I do arts and crafts. Also biology. Diapsids are magestic... Ah, wait, that's not right. Majestic, sorry.

[mac-draws]

I have been trying to imagine the torus from Platform Decay and the dead planet it orbits. The scale is unimaginable to me, but I think I’ve finally gotten a drawing of it I’m satisfied with

[paskuda-lynx]

So I'm doing a big, pretty complicated for my skill level piece of fanart since the start of March. And recently I started getting very close to finishing it (by which moment the total editing time reached up to ~13 hours), which made me simultaniously excited about completing it and anxious about losing the file somehow, so I decided to update my backup file of the drawing after making some decent progress. ...yeah, this did not end well. Now I have my old backup, and only my old backup, with the total editing time of 10:56 hours, and since I don't have any specialised file restoration software I can do nothing but power through all of it again. On the bright side - overwriting a drawing with its own backup and losing only 2-3 hours on a largely finished work is not the worst outcome! Imagine the heartbreak that I would experience if I had somehow replaced the file with, say, a png of a banana instead. Yeesh.

[paskuda-lynx]

An addendum: it's incredible just how much esoteric shit you can find in your computer if you poke nose only a little bit deeper...

Apparently I do have a program called Snapper pre-installed, which tries to do filesystem snapshots authomatically by itself. This sort of backup is a very useful feature if you fuck around your OS a lot, so no wonder my Linux distribution had it. It tried to work for Literal Years, too. Nuance: it tried to. That never went anywhere. It keeps. Trying. The thing is, my computer currently uses a different storage format than this program is created to work with, so I guess Every Time it just tries to do a snap as it would do for a btrfs filesystem (while my everything is ext4), and Every Time achieves Nothing... AND STILL, IT IS HERE TO TRY, IN CASE ONE DAY SOMETHING CHANGES.

holy shit. i was made emotional by a little program i saw in my damned system logs - ones that i'm barely even able to comprehend and opened just for shits and giggles, to check if they recorded me fucking up earlier.

Maybe it's kind of ironic, considering the lore of the fanart I'm still intending to finish

[paskuda-lynx]

apparently the alt description feature had broken?.. Seems like the issue is the same for all posts and it shows up both on my computer and the browser version running on my other gadget. Very weird, I wonder what's up with that Upd: nevermind it's fine again! Nice

[paskuda-lynx]

So I'm doing a big, pretty complicated for my skill level piece of fanart since the start of March. And recently I started getting very close to finishing it (by which moment the total editing time reached up to ~13 hours), which made me simultaniously excited about completing it and anxious about losing the file somehow, so I decided to update my backup file of the drawing after making some decent progress. ...yeah, this did not end well. Now I have my old backup, and only my old backup, with the total editing time of 10:56 hours, and since I don't have any specialised file restoration software I can do nothing but power through all of it again. On the bright side - overwriting a drawing with its own backup and losing only 2-3 hours on a largely finished work is not the worst outcome! Imagine the heartbreak that I would experience if I had somehow replaced the file with, say, a png of a banana instead. Yeesh.

[emziess]

Rocky + Movement Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[butch-witches-deactivated202412]

what doesnt kill you is still valuable data points for a graph im working on titled "how to kill you"

[rosie-dear-rosie]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[ohabeeeeeee]

(threatening)(to what im trying to draw) i will figure out your shapes

[goldensonata]

two secunits

[389]

[todaysbird]

im. im sorry. the Who

[gr3y-heron]

oh hey I wonder why they're called demon ducks maybe I'll just look them up and-

ah right okay

[hylianengineer]

This is... a peer reviewed publication. From the University of Copenhagen.

Professionals are calling these things the Demons Ducks of Doom, which is fair because the other options are "Bullockornis" or "bull bird." What terribly boring words for such an interesting creature.

[kedreeva]

Bug and her EV chick

[ieafy]

I can’t stop drawing mantises I fear

[paskuda-lynx]

somehow i very often want my drawings to look like snapshots from cartoons. i lvoe cartoo ns

[alibrariangoestoikea]

I was working with an item today that just utterly flabbergasted a part of me (the other was deeply frustrated with the catalogue record AS SOMEONE APPARENTLY THOUGHT IT WAS PRINTED ON SILK, coming back to that in a minute) … but ANYWAYS … said item is a replica of a medieval manuscript prayer book THAT IS ENTIRELY WOVEN out of grey and black silk … WOVEN … text, images, intricate grey scale, WOVEN … NOT PRINTED …

And it’s flabbergasting because it’s from 1888, Jacquard machine, IT USED PUNCH CARDS to weave these intricate pages … something like 400 weft per near square inch … IT looks like a page of textured paper, but it’s not, it’s entirely SILK … F*CK …

Anyways …

[alibrariangoestoikea]

OKS I’ve since calmed down and found out that the reason they used “printed” is because it is essentially printed by a computer … in a weird way; when I import the record, I’m just gonna take that note out …

BUT this is the item btw

WOVEN! WOVEN ON A LOOM using f*ckin’ punch cards!

[vinceaddams]

This portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard was also woven with punch cards in 1839!

[stephaniematurin]

NOW GUESS WHY EARLY COMPUTERS WERE PROGRAMMED

WITH

PUNCH CARDS

yes you’re right, they used jacquard-loom techniques

[alibrariangoestoikea]

Jacquard Loom: Early Computer Programing    

I just wanted to add a video discussing how a jacquard-loom worked, cuz this is nuts

A Jacquard loom in action    

[paskuda-lynx]

Urrrghh these kinds of posts always painfully remind me that I desperately want to add some references to fiber crafts being the ancestor of programming in my TMBD fanart, when I draw feed depictions…

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[alibrariangoestoikea]

I was working with an item today that just utterly flabbergasted a part of me (the other was deeply frustrated with the catalogue record AS SOMEONE APPARENTLY THOUGHT IT WAS PRINTED ON SILK, coming back to that in a minute) … but ANYWAYS … said item is a replica of a medieval manuscript prayer book THAT IS ENTIRELY WOVEN out of grey and black silk … WOVEN … text, images, intricate grey scale, WOVEN … NOT PRINTED …

And it’s flabbergasting because it’s from 1888, Jacquard machine, IT USED PUNCH CARDS to weave these intricate pages … something like 400 weft per near square inch … IT looks like a page of textured paper, but it’s not, it’s entirely SILK … F*CK …

Anyways …

[alibrariangoestoikea]

OKS I’ve since calmed down and found out that the reason they used “printed” is because it is essentially printed by a computer … in a weird way; when I import the record, I’m just gonna take that note out …

BUT this is the item btw

WOVEN! WOVEN ON A LOOM using f*ckin’ punch cards!

[vinceaddams]

This portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard was also woven with punch cards in 1839!

[stephaniematurin]

NOW GUESS WHY EARLY COMPUTERS WERE PROGRAMMED

WITH

PUNCH CARDS

yes you’re right, they used jacquard-loom techniques

[alibrariangoestoikea]

Jacquard Loom: Early Computer Programing    

I just wanted to add a video discussing how a jacquard-loom worked, cuz this is nuts

A Jacquard loom in action    

[paskuda-lynx]

Urrrghh these kinds of posts always painfully remind me that I desperately want to add some references to fiber crafts being the ancestor of programming in my TMBD fanart, when I draw feed depictions...

The problem is, depicting the feed shenanigans in fanart comprehencibly is already a pretty messy task for me with how geometrical it tends to get in my imagination х( Adding visual hints that "geometrical" can be related to "geometrical pattern on a fabric", AND also forcing myself to draw not just bot feed presences holding vaguely depicted ""data strings"" and doing ""something"" with them, but, instead, clearly weaving, or doing some other kind of fibercrafts? It's a nightmarish amount of details that I can imagine and had seen other people creating, but not sure if I can manage by myself without conquering, like, vector graphics or something first, and I'm so friggin sad about that!

Eh, maybe I'll get to it some day... For now I might just as well upload on my blog an example with some of my unfinished sketches and concepts for ART and Murderbot feed presences

[moriishaii]

baby bison!