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Pretentious Auteur 🐟 Artist/TTRPG Designer One half of Super Despair World, a podcast for nice people DM or sinabsentia@gmail.com for art commissions. Portfolio: Podcast: superdespairworld.com

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· 25d

me n who 😌

Yanineko and Aruko from the anime Chainsmoker Cat. They are a pair of cat girls sleeping on the ground surrounded by red, orange, pink and white flowers.

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· 26d

To the extent any of you guys consider yourselves "fans of my work," if I ever start talking about myself like this, I need you to kill me. We gotta knock everybody with a massive kickstarter down a couple pegs

Finally, as I mentioned above, the Professor's nom-de-plume is all over this thing. Not counting the "About Us" section, his name is mentioned sixteen times, each with an air of breathless awe. It's in the title of the backerkit, the blurb, the Ultimate Dungeon Terrain is Professor DM's Ultimate Dungeon Terrain, designed by Professor DM himself! That particular phrase "by Professor DM himself", appears no fewer than eight times. It reeks of theme park podcasts where you have to use the full legal name of the attraction to stop things from becoming genericized. It's a bad look is what I'm saying.

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· 28d

Never forget that reddit is for consumers and consumers deserve nothing

For clarity this community is about as welcoming as indies deserve, probably moreso really. Me in particular? I've seen your drivel enough that I can see through your bullshit like the thin sheet of horseshit it is.
Your enthusiasm is your self absorbed desire to force your work into everything you talk about here. Sorry your stuff isnt (and never will be) popular and isnt one of the top 20 so you will never ever get mentioned beyond your self promo that you want to shove into everything you say. But maybe if you were half as serious as you claim you are you'd figure out how to handle promo without polluting subreddits that arent looking to be billboards?
And trust me, while I am very hostile to your type, this sub is frankly overly permissive as demonstrated by how people overly polite in shooting you down.

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Jul 13

How I know I'm about to read a dumb fuckin opinion

Bluesky UI that says "Some people can reply"

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Jun 29

you will always be my moral compass chiitan

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Jun 26

Tonight I'm working on banging out the remaining trinket tables I've gotta fill for #dowagerrpg. Someone once shared advice on here to come up with categories you can keep coming back to ("a weapon", "a belt", etc) when writing tables. Here's my cheat sheet of categories for all my trinkets.

General Trinkets:

Broken / Ineffectual Weapon

Walking Stick

Cool Glasses

Weird Musical Instrument

Trophy or remains of a creature

A neat cloak/cape/jacket

A toy

Camping gear/camp comfort

Object corrupted by magic

Book

Playing/tarot cards

A tiny familiar

A better version of a common tool

Something made of a weird material (ie metal flower)

Coins

Smoking pipe

A container with someone’s soul inside

Unconventional holy symbol/artifact

A self-replenishing object (paintbrush, jar of seeds, etc)

Fantastical alcohol

Token/badge/symbol of membership of an organization

Creepy preserved / disembodied organ

Magical sheath/holster/container for a weapon

spiders

A memento belonging to another character

A box or container disguised as another object

Portable furniture

An unconventional map

Item or offering that references an obscure god

Symbolic object that wards off internet demons and psychic forces

Bones and teeth

Bizarre light source

An interesting but empty container

Something that shouldn’t be long but is

Something that shouldn’t talk but does

Something that shouldn’t levitate but does

Something that shouldn’t have eyes but does

Antiquated tech or device

Illegible or unreadable text

Keys

Small effigy/statue/figurine

Letter or paperwork from a mysterious source

Something ephemeral made physical (an emotion condensed into a gemstone, etc)

A tiny but still functional version of a much larger item

Magical cosmetics and disguises

Cozy heirloom or cultural memento from home

An item that implies the bizarre death of its previous owner

Something incomplete (a collection missing items, a journal with missing pages, etc)

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Jun 25

Traveller: Singularity is a campaign book that costs 80 dollars for a PDF

A screenshot of Traveler: Singularity on drivethru rpg. The watermarked PDF costs $79.99.

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Jun 17

I'd like to offer an OG Black Lotus, The Devil from a Garfield-themed tarot deck, and the "You Have Been Asked to Leave / Your Actions Have Made Customers Uncomfortable" caed from the Valorant pop-up cafe. Without objective morality anything is permissible

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Jun 13

For a self-proclaimed professional artist of 26 years, this is a cowardly and contemptible way to present yourself online. Find a different profession if this is how you're going to conduct yourself online. We are all struggling to get work right now but that's no excuse to behave this way.

A post with two images. The first one is from an unnamed artist depicting a hand holding a sword, the second is from the OP, Blair Shedd, depicting a hand holding a gun.

Blair Shedd posts:
For $35 you can pay this guy who drew this hand on a character (no I'm not going to say who) or wyou can have me draw you a character with hands for $35.

Okay, neither is great, but they brought a sword to a gun fight.

They can charge whatever they want. And people do commission that artist, I know for a fact.

$35 for their full coloring digital pieces.

Meanwhile, I raise to $35 from $20 and am told I overcharge. #sigh #Shrug

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Jun 10

Hey, I'd love to be included in this! I'm a trans/lesbian artist, and I mostly draw sci fi and fantasy stuff for tabletop rpgs. 😊

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Jun 5

been a while since i did a full pager so here's some wip #ttrpg #art for #dowagerrpg. that's enough for today i'm goin to bed 🥱

A scene outside a traincar diner in a sprawling cityscape. In the foreground is a long-haired woman with elf ears eating from a bowl with chopsticks, looking content. Behind her is a man sitting on a crate, concentrating on a game he's playing at a table opposite a short, anthropomorphic cat wearing a coat and sitting on a stool. A cloaked woman wearing a half-mask steps out of the traincar holding a plate, looking delighted at a man stepping towards her offering a flower. To the right of the scene is an overgrown and abandoned railroad leading into a tunnel in the distance. The background shows a cityscape with towering layers of buildings, completely obscuring the sky.

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Jun 4

Hey! I'd love to be included if there's still room. I'm Absentia, trans/lesbian illustrator mostly doing sci fi and fantasy stuff for tabletop games. ☺️

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Jun 3

The Dollmaker (character background) for #dowagerrpg #ttrpg #art #digitalart #illustration #absentiaart

An overview of The Dollmaker's Powers and unique weapon.

The stat block for the Porcelain Servitor.

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· May 27

i mean i guess.......

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· May 25

Late nite update: I have a new blog post up about #dowagerrpg on tumblr, going into what I've been working on and what's coming in the next update. Version v0.06 will drop on June 9th and contain GM materials, if that's the main thing you care about. Cheers! sinabsentia.blog/post/8175746...

What can I say? Tumblr embeds look awful on this shitass website.

Click the link to read my blog post about

DOWAGER: THE SACRED & STRANGE
A Tactical RPG of SEMI-AUTOMATIC SORCERY and PSIONIC TURMOIL across the GOLDEN COSMOS

and maybe buy it on patreon or something

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· May 22

I was hoping to get a stranger, but...

Yoru from Chainsaw Man holding another character's face saying "You fell for my ragebait, that means you belong to me now."

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· May 22

Like ten minutes ago a friend tells me a chud streamer got banned from FF14 while live on twitch too. I could not have had a better day after such a shitty week.

Asuka from Evangelion striking a sassy pose with the text "Feliz Jueves!"

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· May 21

cheers fede 🍊

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· May 14

I've been struggling with the worst art block for months now, but as of yesterday I'm finally working up the nerve to take something past the initial sketch phase. I still know how to draW

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· May 14

you know what day it is 😋 Manifesting joy and success to all my followerss 🙏🌈⭐️

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· May 12

Hey there! I'd love to be included in this if there's still room 😊 I do sci fi and fantasy ttrpg art, mostly for my own game at the moment haha.

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· May 7

A man's voice called from up the river, and an-other man answered.
"Go on," said Lennie.
George raised the gun and his hands shook, and he dropped his hand to the ground again.
"Go on," said Lennie. "How's it gonna be. We gonna play a little RPG."
"We'll have an elf," said George. "An' we'll have maybe a goblin an' kobolds.... an' down the map we'll have a... little Dungeon-"
"For the Dragons," Lennie shouted.
"For the Dragons," George repeated.
"And I get to roleplay the Dragons."
"An' you get to roleplay the Dragons."
Lennie giggled with happiness. "An' play on my homebrew rules."
"Yes."
Lennie turned his head.
"No, Lennie. Look down there acrost the river, like you can almost see the RPG."
Lennie obeyed him. George looked down at the gun. There were crashing footsteps in the brush now. George turned and looked toward them.
"Go on, George. When we gonna play it?"
"Gonna play it soon."
"Me an' you."
"You.... an' me. Ever'body gonna be nice to you. Ain't gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gon-na hurt nobody's character nor steal magic items from 'em."
Lennie said, "I thought you was mad at me, George."
"No," said George. "No, Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. That's a thing I want ya to know."
The voices came close now. George raised the gun and listened to the voices.
Lennie begged, "Le's play it now. Le's play that RPG now."
"Sure, right now. I gotta. We gotta."
And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie's head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again. Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering.

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Apr 28

You cannot make me mad in a way that matters hotdog.

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Apr 21

Sketched out some full pagers for #dowagerrpg to hopefully be done in May. Which illustration should I work on first tomorrow?

The Dollmaker and the Diabolist are looking through magic books in a library. The Dollmaker has a hardcover book wide open and looks surprised at something about to pop out of it while the Diabolist stares at her from behind with concern and disapproval as she pulls another book from a shelf. There are spooky gaseous spirits around both of them.

A wide landscape shot of a party gathered before a traveling merchant's hover van. Tall trees and rustic windmills surround the clearing they're gathered in, at the edge of a cliff further back. In the distance is a towering cityscape that rises above the clouds.

A small food truck is parked at the edge of an abandoned rail station with a sprawling cityscape in the distance. A cloaked trader steps out of the food cart holding a meal on a plate while the Reaper offers her a flower. In the foreground, the Ronin is seated at a table and enjoying a bowl of food by herself.

The Star Mariner and the Esper stand defiantly on a crumbling road before a trio of otherworldly monsters of varying sizes. In the distance are layers of tall cityscape buildings and the underside of higher tiers of the urban megastructure.

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Apr 18

Fear & Hunger is a really popular indie horror game that blew up in the last few years. In terms of explicit content, it's pretty extreme- I pitch it to folks as a game with essentially "all the content warnings", but the description on its steam store page uses fairly plain, matter of fact language

Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Apr 17

"What's Y2K?"

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Apr 15

Take him to Xanth.

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Apr 15

When I lived in Vancouver a few years ago there was this bougie restaurant near my apartment called "What's up? Hotdog!" and they had a menu item that was a bowl of fruitloops with liquor instead of milk that cost like $20. What I'm trying to say is the karmic debt we millenials have incurred is weighty beyond measure and at the end of this life I will surely be reborn as a locust, or perhaps some kind of writhing grub

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Apr 15

I've often talked about a "Make it Make Sense" rule when I'm explaining #dowagerrpg to people, and recently I've finally put it into words. I feel like this approach to character options in a game is so much more fulfilling than dumb shit like "medium armor proficiency" or "requires 16 INT"

Make it Make Sense

The freedom to pick and choose Traits for your Companion regardless of Type comes with the responsibility to make it make sense in the fiction. It’s not unreasonable, for instance, for a Humanoid-type Magician to acquire the Blade Ward Trait associated with Spirits: You could just think of this as your ally learning a new spell.

It may seem strange for a Beast-type War Dog to acquire the Soul Sludge Trait associated with Outsiders: A dog cannot normally learn to cast spells, but there is no issue with this combination if you choose to think of your Companion as an otherworldly hellhound bound to their master, or an ordinary dog corrupted by exposure to occult magicks.

If a combination of Traits seems nonsensical, talk to your friends at the table about ideas on how to make it work. If the combination still seems too jarring for your liking, then simply choose different Traits.

As a game, Dowager is not interested in establishing an arbitrary system of pre-requisites and legal combinations of character options outside the most bare necessities.

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟@sinland· Apr 10

Thinking about one of my favorite excerpts from a game full of gold bars