Tracie Clover

Artist with moderately large dreams. You can call me Tracie. She/they, cat-hearted, furry

[traciekitten]

hello this is my pinned

Bluesky, Cara, Twitch, Itch.io, Ko-Fi, ACGGOODS store

Find me more places and learn a bit more about me: my carrd

Commissions are open: info post here, comms carrd

Tags:

#traciekitten art - all my arts

#traciekitten talky - all my other posts that i deem worth remembering

#tracie answers - asks that I've answered

#ragosh world - posts regarding my original fantasy world

#fly by night tk, #lack comic - subtags of ragosh, projects in that world

#heroes in light au - stuff about my Linked Universe x Sky: Cotl au. fic here. Also here is the tag sorted chronologically

#heroes in light updates talky - tag for my random behind the scenes rambles and update announcements for said fic

#tracie lives - announcements for when i stream

#tracie talks biz - promos and announcements for commissions, my store, and stuff

#reblog gems, #cool reblogs, #reblog sources - for me to keep track of posts i like or might want to come back to

My fandom/alt blog is @24smallcats. I also run @i-give-you-a-cat-doodle and @whatdoesthe2tailedfoxsay

[ghostintheclawmachine]

As someone who collects a LOT of physical media but doesn’t make a lot of money, I want to share the rule that keeps my wallet from crying out in despair every time I enter a store. I don’t remember who I got this from, but thank you whoever you are because it has been a game-changer when it comes to building a large collection without breaking the bank.

The $1 per hour rule. It’s exactly what it says on the tin. If I’m purchasing physical media, I consider it good value if I can expect to get at least one hour of enjoyment for every dollar I spend on it.

I don’t remember what I spent on BG3, but I know it was a good deal because I’ve logged 600 hours in it. Hades II costs $30, and I was more than happy to pay that because I know I’ll play it for at least 30 hours. When I add books to my library, I almost exclusively buy used books that cost under $5 because 5 hours is a good average estimate for how long it takes me to finish a novel.

Will there be a treat you splurge on every now and then? Of course, but $1 per hour is a good standard to stick to if you want to responsibly build a dragon's hoard of physical media.

[bitchesgetriches]

This is a way better way of expressing it than I've seen before. It's mathy, it's clear, it's easy to remember.

Anyway we took way longer to say something similar in this one: Ask the Bitches: How Can I Absolve Myself of Financial Guilt Over My Pricey PS4? 

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[tibby]

people love to complain about sex scenes in tv shows and violence in movies when the real danger is scenes that make you feel second hand embarrassment.

[memory-of-stargazing]

“It just means you have to work double as hard as most people!”

Well maybe I don’t WANT to work double as hard as abled people!! Maybe I deserve a BREAK!! Maybe I’ve been working MORE THAN double as hard for MY WHOLE LIFE and it’s led me to immense burnout & caused me to develop several MORE disabilities!! Maybe I should be ACCOMMODATED so I don’t have to KILL MY BODY AND BRAIN over trying to do what abled people can do!! Maybe I DON’T have to work double as hard!! Maybe if there’s the option to let me NOT work double as hard, I should have it, because I’m already working double as hard JUST TO SURVIVE!!

Why do you think disabled people deserve less rest than mentally & physically abled people?

[sapphireh3arts]

i know folks are gonna call me a pedo for this one, but i grew up seeing my mom and grandma naked. they had health issues and at times needed care and help showering. and i truly think more kids need to be shown the nonsexual reality of naked women at a young age. there is nothing sexual about my grandmothers breasts, they were simply body parts. more women die of heart attacks because people are too afraid of breasts to do real chest compressions, because they are scared to touch their breasts. the sexualization of our bodies literally kills us. i need people to be more normal about naked bodies and i'm 100% serious.

[covid-safer-hotties]

I keep saying there are literally millions of good reasons to wear a respie in public, and people keep ignoring me.

[traciekitten]

stream todayyy (startin 6-6:30 pst) probably having chat pick the game again

Watch this video on Twitch Live

[h0lyshift]

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

[weird-alterhuman-culture-is]

Weird alterhuman culture is I’m a lot of vague concepts. I’m the shadows in your peripheral vision, and strange noises in the house at night, and a dozen other horror movie tropes.

I’m also a cryptid, but that is VERY DISTINCTLY not related to any of the other things. I’m just coincidentally a creature in the woods.

omg so fucking cool. immaculate vibe honestly

[traciekitten]

finally made this thing... because I reached the goal on Ko-Fi, I set up a short google form poll that you guys can use to pick something that I'll add to my acggoods store. screenshot of almost the whole thing:

I'm already working on a vsmp drift keychain, so v!drift will be excluded from the response count because I want this to be a new thing that I wouldn't have added otherwise. If you're a fan of any of these things in the options, there's very much a chance your pick could be the one that wins! I don't think I'll get very many responses.

[sashimi55]

Human bodies are so weird like the upper half consists of every single vital organ and the lower half is legs

[dambiex]

[millastaria]

oh what's this? more big art from milla???

HAPPY PRIDE!! 🏳️‍🌈✨

[traciekitten]

stream todayyy (about 6-6:30 pst) either chat picks game, minecraft parkour, or both idk

Watch this video on Twitch Live

[plaguedocboi]

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

[bogleech]

I always felt I couldn't possibly be upset about dying to an alien monster because proof of otherwordly life is exactly what it'd take for me to die happy

[ryebreadedd]

happy aromantic visibilty day to one of my fav fandom wiki comments

[totallynotsilversora]

I forgot I have to be active here so here’s my Twitter tutorial on how to draw folds I made a while back to help a friend!

[milcahsmeikerblog]

Drawing fabric types