AbstractCactus art site

Have you considered Anise Tatlin

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:46:44 +0000

Hiii I've continued to have a billion things going on but here's something I drew!

Blog post: Blogging

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:57:21 +0000

I tossed together a lil blog post again, you can read it here.

I'm home and uploaded an art

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:06:34 +0000

Hi I'm back from vacation although a billion things have been happening since I got home so I just kind of tossed something together and might not have anything else to show for a bit! But here's some new art.

New art

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:09:21 +0000

Hi I drew something new! Going on vacation soon so will probably be a while until next one.

Blog Post: Of the Year

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:37:26 +0000

New blog post! Last time I updated the blog I just threw the whole thing in the RSS feed, but I think I'll just stick to links to keep my wonky rss.txt a bit cleaner.

RSS Fixes!!!

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:31:04 +0000

Just overhauled the rss.txt a bit, hopefully everything should be fine? The template I've been using from rssguide on Neocities was suddenly causing problems on pubdates with the reader I use because of spacing. I've also gone back and differentiated all the links and added guids, so hopefully this feed should be working with no issues now. If there are duplicate entries or such now then maybe re-add the feed to your reader? I truly have no idea what I'm doing or how RSS works, I'm just making this an update to let people know in case this feed looks weird for you!

Also, I uploaded new art today!

Art!

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:08:41 +0000

Got some good rest in over the past month, back to drawing again! Added new 2024 art!

I think I'm having some issues with the way this rss.txt works... Dates are displaying all incorrect suddenly I'm sorry I have no idea what I'm doing.

New art!

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:07:13 +0100

Added new 2024 art! Two commissions I did for friends in the past month.

I said in my most recent blog post that I was planning on reopening public commissions again soon, but unfortunately life has been so chaotic for me in the past month, and I've continued to be on and off sick, so I'm gonna need take it easy for a while.

New blog post, Links page, and website button!

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 18:45:31 +0200

I've made a button for my website and added a links page! I also wrote a new blog post:

(Peon voice) Work Work

2024-10-05
Feeling: Need a break
Listening to: Do You & So You by Kuchibashi-P

It feels like time to write another blog post.

It's been a while since I had some art to show unfortunately. I've been sick twice in the past month (and as I'm writing this I think feel a cold coming on...) and at this time of year things are really hectic at my job and I'm very drained. I have actually been drawing though, a friend of mine commissioned me to draw some emotes and artwork for their Twitch channel, and I just usually don't upload emote work I do because I can't think of a good way to present it that I like.

Hopefully I'll be back to my usual, somewhat slow, speed of art to upload next month. I've been thinking about formally reopening public commissions as well too, because I'm going on a trip next year and making some extra pocket money to make up for the expense would be nice, but I'm not on any social media nowadays so I don't know how well that would go without that advertising boost. If you're reading this then watch this space!

Beyond that, I continue to tinker with this website and having fun with it. There's been a real enthusiasm for 88x31 website buttons going around recently, and I made one for this site! I also made a Links page where I've put some buttons and links to share.

I've been really getting back into playing video games this year, and recently I've gotten a lot of joy out of replaying childhood favorites. I've been sloooowly going through the original four .hack games, putting a break between each game to avoid burning out on the virus core grind lol. They really are one-of-a-kind though, I finished Mutation the other month and its ending sequence is just jawdropping. Such special games, and the clunkiness of the game design really adds to the experience honestly. During my most recent longer sickness last month, I also decided on a whim to replay Tales of Symphonia for comfort food, and that game has aged far better than I expected? It's a really fast-paced game, dungeons are bite-sized, and I knocked it out in a mere 25 hours. Story's as silly as it always has been but that dub cast really is excellent. Maybe a perfect video game. I recently acquired 8bitdo's new Xbox Lite SE controller, and I have an extremely rocky track record with 8bitdo and their devices, but so far this controller is really allowing me to play video games more often with my hand issues. Just hoping it holds up better than their previous revision of this controller.

Media I've enjoyed lately
I lost my mind over the Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I don't even really know what to say I just loved my time with all three books, excellent creatures, really fun concepts explored. Instant favorite new thing status!!!

I played Sephonie recently and really really loved it. Wonderful retro-3D visuals and atmosphere, fun and relaxing platforming with some movement control options that made it easier for me to play with my hand issues, really resonant melancholic writing. I played Anodyne years back and liked it but never kept up with this development team and I'm realizing that was a mistake. Gonna go back and play Anodyne 2 soon.

Photo Corner

Until next time!

Website code update

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:24:44 +0000

Tidied up some html on the site and added RSS!