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beastly reminder

Almost. Years ago my computer suddenly stopped working and lost everything on it. Fortunately a relatively recent backup still existed bc of my family, a recent parts switch, and dumb luck. But last year a friend of mine got hacked and lost close to everything he had done creatively in the last 17-ish years. Art. Novels in progress. Entire conlangs. DnD character Sheets. Music he had made. All gone. He never backed any of it up. Few months later I started this habit (or ritual, almost) of drawing a reminder beast any time I would make a full complete backup. In hopes that seeing these things might remind others and myself. (Another factor here is that I am an animator and some of the stuff on my computer took literal years to make. And the film university I go to urges us to take this stuff seriously, too.)

ndcirque

There’s an old saying in the computer world.

There are two kinds of people

Those who have lost everything because of a drive failure

And those that are GOING TO lose everything because of a drive failure

That is why you back up your stuff. It isn’t if, it’s when. If it isn’t drive failure, it’s going to be malware, or ransomeware, or a battery that fails and destroys your laptop, or a lightning strike that destroys your system, or a house fire/flood/earthquake, or simple theft of your device, the list is as long as your arm. Someday you WILL have a problem that eats all of your data. Then the only thing that will save your a** will be backups. Personally I have three levels; TimeMachine, back up to the cloud, and a drive that I back everything up to once a month and keep in the fireproof safe.

Back up your stuff.

(That includes your phone and tablet too)

starlingpawceo

leafpaw at the Moonpool

toonful

Fire alone??? Nah I’m with my homies

ycantibemarco

Various warrior cat designs at different stages. I probably wasn't going to design every single cat but I got really into designing warriors before I got hit with the trolls hyperfixation lol I figured I should post some of them instead of letting them rot away in my files. One day I hope to finish more of them

argentavis-designs

Can i request Foxheart?

#69 FoxHeart

this would be like having the name B*tch, why'd CedarStar do that

themutemusicbox

Finally finished it! Just a short little animation of Rusty(Firepaw) when he first explores the forest. Trying to work my way up to doing longer, more complex animations, and warrior cats is fun to practice with.

ghostwaffleheimer

Reworked an old Jayfeather design slightly, simplifying some details and reducing the number of colors without actually changing them.

I had this whole thing typed up about how I have a bad habit of limiting my own creativity by being literal with the descriptions of cats and trying to stick to realism when it doesn't benefit me, to going on about how I find it kind of annoying when people draw Jayfeather with no pupils, yet also how trying to make every cat genetically accurate is sometimes not worth it, but...

fuck it, I'm going back to my roots and giving Jayfeather emo hair and an addiction to java monster.