#non-mlp

[dawns-laboratory]

Finished commission done for @doeblossom !

[draw-n-vent-with-imani]

Characters for a comic I really want to start! The working title for it is “Elemental S.O.L” and I’m aiming to get the first chapter out before I move to college this summer.

Left to right: Kyra, Verna, Niobe, & Shale

[dawns-laboratory]

I don't know how much I've mentioned it, but I've really been wanting to get into animation. Thanks to being able to upgrade my Clip Studio Paint to the EX version I can now animate freely. This is one of my very first more proper animations I'd say. And even then I've only done-... Two in the past that I recall.

Note: CSP have a Pro version and an EX version. In terms of animation the difference is that Pro has a limit of 24 frames, meanwhile EX is unlimited. So to properly be able to kick my ass into making animations, I upgraded my license to the EX version.

This is a little animation for a friend of mine, still in the works! Inspired by the animations Neytirix (An artist on DeviantART and YouTube) has made of pidgeons, specifically from their video "Phoenix". As a warning though but her art does get rather graphic in terms of gore and dark themes. It is gorgeous though, and while there's many artists out there who I look up to, she's at the top. I absolutely adore her content and her art.

[dawns-laboratory]

Surprise doodles of some characters that aren't ponies! Shocker, though I should doodle them more. Maybe I will, maybe I won't-

A friend messaged me today and showed me a doodle of their character Quin! This really got me nostalgic about a project called Sodaverse, and I just had to doodle Quinn together with my character Kichiro because we had some story between them.

Quinn is the one to the left and belongs to Ink! ( Their Instagram )

Kichiro is the one to the right and belongs to me!

I really have to doodle more mushy cutsey stuff with characters, this was way too much fun to doodle- But who to doodle. hMMM.

[taverncatrecords]

Forgot to post this on here last night, so enjoy!!

IT’S OCTOBER/ HALLOWEEN TIME!!!

[aerowright]

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Digging out one of my first raw recordings because I haven't done anything here for a while and also because my last major boost in followers (+2 is legit major) was after I got a signal boost from my pal at ask-skippythemoonrock so clearly I'm better at doing voice stuff than I am at being an MLP OC whatsit and also this is a long sentence that you probably didn't bother to read so have a potato.

Technical stuff! •Recorded on a Rock Band USB microphone. Edited in Audacity. •Final commercial became this. •Major swear words are censored due to the atmosphere of the site upon which this cast is based.

[aerowright]

[Rant] So She Put In her Two Weeks' Notice...

Over at my job, I'm the co-lead for a very small but very demanding department in a marketplace store. Alongside two others, it's been my responsibility to verify prices, keep accurate signs, and replace price tags on about forty-two-thousand items day by day. And in case you missed that, I did say two others. Meaning that there have been only three of us for a long time, handling a store's prices, while the size of the store would normally necessitate twice that manpower.

We're miraclemakers. Each week, we need to report on our weekly scan totals, of which our goal is ten-thousand. We split the workload up into manageable sections, but often, we go into Fridays with less than half of what we need. However, one thing never fails - we crack down when we need to, put our heads to the job, and end up over our quota week after week.

Nothing about my job is particularly difficult. It's just demanding, and there is a veritable legion of tasks to do each hour of each day. It's not possible to really get true downtime, simply because in a store of forty-two-thousand prices, there are always a few dozen that require attention, often at opposite ends of the building. To put things in perspective, my last store ran about twelve-thousand prices, but also had a team of three full-time hands.

Anyway, late last week, we had our yearly Tag Audit. It's our grade to show how much integrity we really have. Is the price we charge the same as what we show? Are there items missing prices altogether? How many UPCs are lost in the system and need to be temporarily linked to another in order to sell? What's priced too high? Too low? What tags didn't arrive?

And so on.

And so forth.

I'm the co-lead. My leader has worked with me, keeping me by her side for about six months now, guiding me and directing me in becoming a firm but fair leader. Our other clerk, who I admit has some form of impediment, is useful for getting our scan quota met on a regular basis. Sometimes we need to aggressively request something of her, and we did in the days leading to Audit. We kept it fair, simply asking that she go through three aisles that had not had attention since last period.

When the Audit comes through, we found out that one of those aisles - an electronic section that falls directly under my jurisdiction - was utterly incorrect. Out of the forty-two-thousand prices audited, two-hundred-thirty were wrong. Of that two-thirty, one-hundred-eight were on this aisle. And of that one-oh-eight, ninety-four were electronics.

She did not scan the third aisle as we had asked of her. And in not doing so, cost us nearly half of our total errors. In a grade based on percentage, we scored 99.5% (which, to be fair, was exactly what we were aiming for at minimum). But it upsets me that a single aisle is responsible for .25% of our mismatched prices. And it angered my leader that the girl we had asked to scan it did not. Had she done as asked, we would be sitting on a far more respectable 99.7% instead, which would have awarded us second place in our entire district.

The day of Audit, I got the paperwork for the aisle. When I saw the pages of errors compared to the physical space of work involved, I got upset. This was my aisle, after all, so I felt responsible. But my lead remembered us asking our third clerk to scan it, so we had to call her up to the office. My leader told her the truth in a straightforward fashion. "Mistakes were made, you were told to do this, you didn't do it, it's cost us quite a bit, do better."

Well, apparently that was the reason this girl needed to write out her two weeks' notice on that same day. And not even finding the proper form for it either. She cited her college semester as the reason for her leaving, but it reeks of convenience. I mean, really...I respect higher education, and I crave to learn something more than the bare minimum of a labor force, but to hand in your notice on the day of Audit immediately after being scolded for a lapse in memory?

Seems a bit much.

My team and I has pulled up miracles when it comes to our weekly work. When our workload is bloated beyond reasonable logic, we tighten our shoelaces and stand until the job is done. When we're behind on our scan numbers, we put our heads to the ground and see nothing but the task. When a problem on the registers causes a complaint, we're the first to know and the only to fix. Yet on the single most important day of our work, we slip up. Not by much, no, but the area in which the mistake was made was too narrow for comfort. And despite earning the grade we were seeking anyway, we're losing our third clerk for a catch-all reason following a brief discussion about what wasn't done right.

I'm not entirely sure what to feel. On one hand, I'm upset that an aisle I preside over was worth half of our errors. On the other hand, I'm frustrated because it's not the first time I've had to remind this girl about the job we've given her. She's been a difficult girl to train, but she's proven valuable in the long run. She sometimes leaves work with some work left over, but it's typically only a few dozen items that take less than ten minutes to sort out. She caused our grade to drop by .25%, but we achieved the grade we wanted.

Should I be more upset at the lack of work done? Should I feel happy to see her go? Should I try to talk her out of it? Should I remind my leader that we're a team, not a tyranny?

Whatever the case...

Whatever the cause...

The choice has been made.

The damage is done.

~Leo

[mlp-pic-a-day]

For anon

This isn't all of the original Kenner Littlest Pet Shop ponies, as I have a few singles still boxed and there is one supposed Sears one that's either super-HTF or nonexistent, I've never really been sure.  

The original Littlest Pet Shop toys were produced by Kenner, before / during when Hasbro took over the line in 1991.  If you're interested in getting more via eBay, it's easier to search by littlest pet shop kenner or vintage littlest pet shop, as if you don't you'll get inundated with the new line.