wretched little beast off in the distance

SHEPARD | 28 | HE/THEY -- genderqueer, bisexual, cat monster thing, bird nerd [ icon by ccasino ]

[shepfax]

hey hello hi here is a pinned post

(art by me)

I'm Shepard--three-eyed cat monster, birdwatcher, and aspiring wizard

28

bisexual

genderqueer FtM

he, they, or no pronouns

married 💕

T: 2016 Top surgery: 2024

white USAmerican

animist polytheist therian (spiritual blog at @yngwaz )

geography major

hobby artist (art blog at @shepfax-art ) (inactive)

below the cut is some extra stuff about my blog and some cool art of my Sona

last edit 01 December 2025

things to know:

Feel free to spam like/reblog, it doesn't bother me :) have fun while you're here.

I'm always available to answer questions, discuss stuff, etc. just send me an ask (you can also ask for my discord to reach me faster). The chat function on Tumblr is generally not the best way to reach me, it bugs out a lot lmao

Minors, please stay safe. I'd generally prefer not having minors follow me here because I reblog adult humor and mature content regularly. That said I'm always open to answer educational questions and stuff from people of all ages. I've been out as trans since 2012 and I've acted as a mentor to younger people exploring gender identity before, and I want to empower young community members.

If I reblog from someone shitty please let me know. I'm not active enough in Tumblr spaces to know all the tea, sorry

Above all else, this blog is just for me to post about whatever I'm passionate about. It's all over the place thematically, I've been on Tumblr for 14 fucking years and it's still not curated at all lmao

As for a "DNI" (list of people you don't want interacting with your blog) I think they're essentially pointless since people love to just ignore them. But if you're a zionist, a terf, a febfem, a radical inclusionist/radqueer, pro-para, transabled or whatever trans-x shit then you need to stay the fuck away from me

and now you can check out some pics :)

This is Mira, my beloved fursona. He’s a cat + monster + demon + reptile thing. Below are some awesome pics of him courtesy of my friends!

(art by furbyfries)

(art by sturner)

(art by crunkerton)

(art by ccasino)

p.s.

(art by missrockyqo)

and here’s more of him :3

[rickybabyboy]

ive been honing my ability by the way

[rickybabyboy]

its this

ID: Blurry picture of an orange and white tabby reaching his paw out

[pixelatedcrown]

It's been just over a year since Deltarune chapters 3 & 4 released! I did the 3D work, which mostly means Tenna 📺 I figured it's been long enough to share some "behind the scenes" stuff, starting with a look at the Maya file for his static poses...

I'd individually render the poses to get that early 3D shine ✨ Here's some of them at their original resolutions! I would work from text descriptions from Toby, and sometimes there'd be a Paint sketch to help out. Gigi drew the concept that I modeled from and some poses too!

I had a lot of fun pushing myself to match the dynamic poses Toby had in mind for Tenna - making him so crazy and expressive was something I couldn't have done without his prompts. He'd draw the faces on afterward too, which really brought Tenna to life!

(lots more after the Read More cut...!)

Here are some of the Paint sketches Toby drew to help me with specific Tenna poses! I love seeing his drawings LOL, genuinely really good and evocative 👍

There was a time when I was struggling to capture what he wanted for these specific Tenna poses… Until Toby acted them out himself, and I thought, "Ah, it's like that. I understand." and then I was able to make them just how he pictured them.

When looking through the renders and choosing what to share, I laughed at these two… Remember when Tenna had a gun? Remember when he bent over in a very specific way that might remind you of another, different image? No? Maybe you don't…? Well. Don't worry about it.

These ones are cute… Tenna is pretty cute sometimes! Has anyone ever thought this? Actually, before people knew he was going to be a strange 3D sprite the Whole Time, I was worried people wouldn't like the style and it'd sour people's views on him. I'm glad that didn't happen.

Toby thought it would be funny to have Tenna do some really smooth, mocapped animations sometimes - specifically free to use ones that often pop up in other things. An extra funny part to me is how many frames these take up in the game, and how his tails are stuck to his legs…

Speaking of mocap, Toby wanted Tenna to use custom mocap animations as far back as 2016 - Ten(na) years ago! I got an Xbox Kinect at the time and learnt how to set this up, but then never used it. Here's a look at messing with mocaped stuff again in 2022. So Normal.

Don't bother trying to help him here, he's just being dramatic 🙄

I particularly like these poses - I think I improvised most of these just based off the context they get used in… I always liked posing his tie and coat tails as if they were also parts of his body he could move. Which I guess they are?

After I rendered out the individual poses in high quality, I'd force the color palette to be limited to just a few shades and then I'd shrink the result down to pixel sized sprites. Like these! I'd tidy them up a little, but they'd really get improved on at the pixel scale by Clairvoire.

As well as Tenna's sprites, I also worked on his intro "movie"…! Seeing people be completely overloaded by this on first playthroughs would always make me laugh. In game, there's a ton of extra editing done by Everdraed, but my unedited cut looks like this ⬇️

This was the entire storyboard I had to work from, and I'm realizing now that there's the note "put him in car etc" that I never did and actually don't know what it would mean exactly. Working on this had me listen to the accompanying audio many times, but it's good so it's okay.

Here are a bunch of random clips of the Maya project for Tenna's intro movie. This is how movies get made, I think!! Yeah… Just like this.

Say it with him, folks!!

For the 3D Ralsei clip from the intro, Toby really wanted it to look a certain way, and drew more sketches for guiding me with this part than any other. They genuinely helped.

Remember how Toby's original storyboard has the note "covered in slime and shrinks"? That meant I had to learn how to make 3D slime. You can see my tech advancing here.

I'm really happy with how the final Tenna animation at the end of the intro movie turned out! It wouldn't look as good if it wasn't for some 2D animation to reference from SmallBuStudio, so thank you to them for the help! Tenna is cute… Huh, I already said that…?

Phew!! That's a lot of Tenna. I hope it was fun to look through my posts! Oh, one more thing - the Fangamer Mr. Tenna Figurine just straight up uses the 3D model I made, which I think is really funny and cool and nice. Check it out if you want! Thanks for reading!

[thecollectibles]

Layered cliffs under clear sky by qing ying

[tenephre]

[brarchives]

makeup by jess linhares on gabz

[flamingopudd]

Don't forget to take care of your sinful employees

[innerchildabortionclinic]

if you're running out of ideas for your blog, eat a postberry

[thekidsfromyestergay]

This was on a post about how it's ignorant and privileged to wear headphones in public and I fear its already become a part of my vocabulary. Must everything harbor a moral failure.

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[phillip-bankss]

grug dont have to change!

[theropoda]

rediscovering ray troll's art in my fish era is such a delight. that guy makes art that sounds like his name. he was so right about fish worship

[theropoda]

[mark-gently]

NDA stands for Non't Dalk Aboutit

[paintinginlife]

Hello! I made a dress from scratch for the Renaissance Faire. It took me six months to make the chemise, hoop skirt, under skirt, over skirts, French knot embroidered bodice, crown and jewelry. I am very excited to wear it this year despite how serious I look in the photos!

[the-uss-premise]

Console buttons from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69)

[biracy]

Basically I think a lot of White ppl think the antithesis to racism is "Black people are inherently Cool, White people are inherently Lame" and it's just very hard to convince them that this is also extremely racist lmfao

[biracy]

It's the combination of "seeing a racialized group as Fundamentally Inherently Good is still dehumanizing and you aren't seeing them as people" and "your self-flagellating White guilt is extremely annoying for the people of color around you to deal with"

[durigakkin]

The Peer Pressure Worked, I'm a Furry Now...