Patchouli Woods the Bard

AKA PatchouliBard | game developer | musician | vtuber | he/him | autism creature | | banner by @fuzzytrashbird | icon by @sleppu.art on bsky | Ask box is open! You can ask me questions, submit a bug report for my website or games, or contact me about my archive or other such things. Just please keep it safe for work! ♡ fuck nazis, free palestine

[patchoulibard]

Website Launch! First few pages of my comic The Forest Deep are live :)!!

My main nekoweb site is currently up and running! This includes The Forest Deep's site as well!

The comic is available on my personal site or on Tapas!

https://tapas.io/series/The-Forest-Deep/info

https://theforestdeep.nekoweb.org/

Some of you may recognize The Forest Deep as the first visual novel I made - but this is a rewrite that will tell more of the story in a more cohesive way. Now it'll be my first comic too! lol

Right now, The Forest Deep only has a few pages live, but I plan to update regularly and cross-post to Tapas once I finish the prologue! I hoped to have it done by now but emergency repairs on my house meant I had to go on a bit of a hiatus for a week or so.

The house is still getting fixed up, but it's to the point where I can at least be there for the majority of the day (when I'm not a work). It is what it is, but I'm still working! The entire comic script is written out, the prologue is entirely story-boarded, and I'm already working on refining the storyboard for the rest of it! It's just a matter of having enough time at my tablet during the day, hah!

As for my main site, it's currently a work in progress, so not everything is up yet - but the site itself works and is accessible via https://patchoulibard.nekoweb.org

Right now, only the Home and About sections of the main site are fully operational, but I plan to have a lot more than that. Currently my focus is on a video/music archive section, which will be updated with new videos from my channel when they come out. My only concern for that is storage, since I plan to have this site host a lot of things - but if it comes out to be too much, I'll figure out an alternative for the archive.

[koko2unite]

I'm on bara living room if u need me

[contemptible-scoundrel]

ADVENTURE IS CALLING...

DO YOU PICK UP THA PHONE

[black-quadrant]

sometimes all you need is one passionate person who goes berserk for your work to keep you creating

[herssian]

you're allowed to draw. draw badly even. draw and then delete it. draw and rework it and then delete it anyway. draw only half of it and the other half three years later. in one style or another. in different styles in the same week. traditional or digital. you're literally allowed to draw however you want

[cat-the-comet]

devastating: artist who has not practiced fundamentals enough to execute high concept idea eats shit

[draculagerard]

Gen AI is nothing special I can also draw / write badly, help you with math inconsistently, answer you dubiously, and consume amounts of water you would think are physically impossible

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[shutyourmoustache]

When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*

[party-gilmore]

HAPPY LOS JIBBITIES EVERYBODY!!!

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

The time for Los Jibbities has arrived!

[patchoulibard]

seems like every pride month for the past few years ive been at a different state of discovery for my gender and sexuality and as frustrating as it can be i also think it's awesome. we're allowed to explore and change and laugh it off looking back at when we were so confidently super off-base.

like my past self really thought i was a lesbian. lol. lmao. laughs in gay transmasc

my exact sexuality is still a big ?¿ but one thing's for sure; my ass is not straight in any universe and i'll figure out the specifics of that At Some Point.

happy pride y'all don't forget to commit genderfuckery

[patchoulibard]

no.. you wouldnt dare.......

[mushroominawaterbottle]

there is the line between bisexual and aroace and i am using it as a jump rope

[lesbianmarrow]

it’s so funny when someone goes from being a lesbian to being a bisexual trans guy bc it’s like ok so the attraction to men was there but you had to make your way through the labyrinth and solve the riddles three before it could be unlocked

[justgot1]

Protect him

[alexaloraetheris]

HE PUT IT INTO WORDS💞💞💞💞💞

[i-am-a-lazy-mess]

hate when I type :) and this 🙂 fucker appears. Go away you evil soul

[mawofthemagnetar]

What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?

When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.

[writingdose]

things I won’t let ai take away from human writers

em dash

“not x, not y, but z”

short sentence stacking as a stylistic choice

none of these belong to ai. these are all what human writers have been writing since day one, way before ai was invented. ai was trained to mimic how human writers write — so em dash, not x not y but z and short sentence stacking would never have been used by ai at all if ai hadn’t learned and mimicked them from human writers.

no, you are not “fighting against ai” by accusing every work that has em dash, not x not y but z or short sentence stacking in it as ai-generated, you are helping ai harm the writing community by engaging in witch hunt and scaring human writers away from creating/sharing their works for fear of being wrongly accused of using ai.

speculations, accusations and ai witch hunt harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more.