thembo volante

@thembovolante

42 • He/They if you're nasty. Retired retro computing and gaming enthusiast turned hobbyist game dev. Live-skeeting the Century of American Humiliation™ until this platform dies or Cohost 2 launches. Pfp by @bachelorsoft.bsky.social

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thembo volante@thembovolante· 13d

I am also desperately wrestling with the magnitude of this knowledge against the fact that one of the book sellers they talked to shares a name with the Harkonnen mentat from Dune and I am a big dumb idiot who finds that very funny.

thembo volante@thembovolante· 18d

Saw this going around. I'm reuploading b/c I don't want anyone to feel called out, but boy do I have thoughts. I understand the sentiment here, but I can almost guarantee you that this came out of the same community of people who dismissed all of modern animation as "woke calarts bullshit."

thembo volante@thembovolante· 20d

thembo volante@thembovolante· 24d

Timeline cleanse. Happy weekend, everybody.

Nyx, the cyclops void-baby cat. She is lying on her side and had accidentally folded one ear under her head. One paw is outstretched and the other is curled up near her ribcage
Her one eye focuses on the camera but the edges are soft. The cat is relaxed and content.

thembo volante@thembovolante· 25d

I guess maybe if they don't sell out of these, the Wayans brothers can use them when they inevitably make a White Chicks 2.

thembo volante@thembovolante· 26d

They said the thing!! Roll credits! No, seriously. Please. Roll credits. I don't think I can handle another game and a half of this pablum.

A screenshot from .hack//Sign G.U. vol 2. Pi (left) says, "We're gonna go hack the Sign..."

thembo volante@thembovolante· 27d

Here's your enshittitification anecdote for the day. Power is out, potentially for hours. Internet too. Switch had to be factory reset so nothing really to play there except for the GBA emulator. GBA... Wait. I have a GBA. And it still works. And it's fully charged. Physical media rules.

OP holding a Game Boy Advance SP. It is on and the screen shows the splash screen from Doom.

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jul 12

Fambly ❤️

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jul 10

My cats look like they're about to drop the hottest hip hop album of all time.

Two cats looking at the camera. Nyx, the cyclops void-baby cat, is on the left. Trico the russian blue Tripod is on the right, on her back.

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jul 10

Nyx obviously has poor depth perception, so her ability to drink water is affected. As a consequence, she often returns from the water fountain with little droplets all over her face. And if her one gold eye looks like a moon against the night sky, the droplets become stars. ✨🌙

Nyx, the cyclops void-baby cat. Her face is covered in tiny droplets of water that look like stars against the night sky.

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jul 10

Please stop doing crimes, child. The day is dragging on and i have crimes of my own to attend to.

Nyx, the cyclops void baby cat, investigates the contents of a shelf very much against the wishes of her handler.

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jul 8

Incredible stuff.

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jul 8

This should be your author pic for David Brooks.

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jul 7

Goodness. I think I found the first miniature I ever painted. Must've been 25 years ago now? I'm really conflicted about whether I should put this one in the isopropyl bath with the other stray figs or if I should base it and preserve it just like it is.

A very early edition chaos warrior from Warhammer Fantasy Battle or maybe even heroQuest. It's painted badly, with splotchy colors and completely missed details.

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jul 3

Happy weekend errybody.

Trico the tripod cat, shown here in the bear trap position: on its back and flat as a pancake. She is looking intensely at the camera, or perhaps the cat dancer toy in the foreground.

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jul 3

Heavy Pounder is going on the rack for a few days to see what he wants to tell me. Even though the obvious inspirations are from Chuck Tingle and Tom of Finland, I keep thinking that maybe a little less over-the-top presentation might be the move. I did add a little something tho. Free will, etc.

The "Heavy Pounder", a Warhammer 40k space marine that has been heavily customized to echo a parody called Warpounder 40K created by author Chuck Tingle. The ornament on his helmet has been painted with a pride rainbow.

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jul 2

Hit our WarPounder 40k Heavy Pounder with a little matte grey over the work area. Still a bit of sanding to do but I was confident enough that this model was rounding the corner that I hit the top of his helmet with a little white to lay down the base of the pride rainbow. Next up, fine muscle!

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jul 1

Still giggling every time I have to give this little dude a zap-a-gap backshot.

A tiny plastic soldier that has been given a BBL for reasons not entirely understood by the op.

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jul 1

Probably not a great sign for me that my initial thought when reading this was:

The last frame of the legendary comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin, with his stuffed tiger companion Hobbes, ride a sled into a blank white page. Calvin is enthusiastically shouting, "Let's go exploring!"

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jun 29

Finally starting the Warpounder 40k squad so unfortunately no hope of being done this Pride. Apropos of nothing, if I ever do decide to actually field a Space Marine army I think I'm going to adopt this cheeked-up look by default.

OP's hand holding a pair of Space Marine legs from the game Warhammer 40k. A deep groove has been carefully sanded down the middle.

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jun 28

Gonna be honest with ya, Nyx. I'm not sure if this qualifies as a fitz/sitz situation.

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jun 27

Saturday morning. French toast on the brain.

Two slices of French toast cooking in a pan. They haven't intentionally been arranged to resemble a dorsal slice of brain, but paredoilia do be like that sometimes.

thembo volante@thembovolante· Jun 24

Found something I bashed together in an evening b/c I was invited to a pickup game of 5e the following night and I had unpacked my art supplies but not my minis or books. Good times.