Marla

@bigironmarla

S&M! 40, She/her&she/her, weird techie kinkster, self-authorship appreciator, dognitohazard. 18+ only!

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Marla@bigironmarla· May 13

Kraken you have caused a thing to happen here. I am still in teeny bitty baby mode but I was a HUGE Dreadnought fan back when it was alive, and this is giving me vibes of that general variety. :9 Really enjoying timing out the torpedo strikes or using them for area denial! This is great.

A scoreboard from World of Warships showcasing eight sunk ships and multiple medals and awards.

Marla@bigironmarla· Apr 24

For folks having issues with the docket number not searching up properly: My dark-mode-ass computer looks weird and fucked up, but if you just throw 19-41 in there exactly as I did, you ought to see an option for comment on oversight. Also, 'COMMENT' is the first option under Type of Filing.

A screenshot of the FCC's extra-complicated comment-filing system, indicating Proceeding 19-41 | Media Bureau Seeks Comment on TV Ratings System and the Oversight Monitoring Board.

Marla@bigironmarla· Apr 22

Oh, excellent. I didn't even need to ask.

Marla@bigironmarla· Apr 15

There it is. :) Took me a minute to find the image I'd drawn.

A choke chain with a T-pull and a segment ring, styled like a snake eating its own tail, and intended to be permanent once attached.

Marla@bigironmarla· Mar 23

CW: blood, suffering That said: I -am- support-tank, so someday I'm going to get -hurt-. Well-Met has Mending, but no kind of healing; just between the two of us, I can only heal the hard way. o/` - Marina - I Am Not A Robot (with thanks to folks contributing to Hale's playlist <3)

Hale, under a bloodied blanket and divested of most of her prosthetics and equipment, in agony and barely-conscious while Well-Met repairs a broken prosthetic. Well-Met is not a medic; she can mend but she cannot heal, and Hale has no good answer to this in her own right. WIthout her hat on, her scarred and reconstructed face is more visible, as is the huge swath of hair that no longer grows after her initial injuries, and what (very little) remains of her right arm.

Marla@bigironmarla· Mar 23

Also, since I was talking to @brushwolf.bsky.social earlier and I respect the Hell out of his D&D drawing chops (his RPG art bangs, it looks just like the classic Monster Manual stuff and I dig it SO hard): We had a fight. With a Big Chicken. I want to include everyone but it's so hard!!

A super unfinished image of a huge fight: from left to right, a Night Paladin, Senka, smashing a wing with a hammer; a gnoll bard, Sprinkle, providing backup; a Battle Smith, Hale, and her spider-construct Well-Met swinging and defending; a Wizard, Lawrence, hurling a half-dozen Magic Missiles; an Avariel monk with stunted wings stabbing in with a pike. It was a big fight! There was also a hag but who has room?

Marla@bigironmarla· Mar 23

Also, while I rarely post progress sketches and things, we're in the Age of AI and everything sucks so: this is the only reference I used in making Sprinkle! Somehow I slapped this sketch together and her face is -so perfect- I was like, oh, oh! that's exactly what it should be! I gotta work it! <3

A zoomed-out image of the same gnoll bard as earlier, Sprinkle. This is a pre-critique version; the player's version stands straighter and is less obviously gnollish, and has shorter hair (which has been amended in the more finished verson). They said 'diagonal Sprinkle is valid!' so I share my initial understanding of her here.

Marla@bigironmarla· Mar 23

Also, one of my party members, played by my partner: Sprinkle! A 'tabaxi' Lore-school bard torn between 'standing straight so people don't know I'm a gnoll' and 'crouching a little so people don't know I'm seven feet tall'. Super adorable, great music, and the occasional Cutting Words.

Sprinkle, a laughing gnoll bard, many-times pierced through with bones and trinkets. She has a mane of dreadlocks flopped off to her far side, also filled with clinky clacky bones, dried beans, and other objects that make fun sounds; interspersed as often as she can make them are jingle-bells and other merry things.

Marla@bigironmarla· Mar 23

I am once again playing D&D. This time it's Curse of Strahd-adjacent. Meet Millibrande Halestrom and Well-Met! Hale was a high-level wizard who was 'killed' and discarded by Strahd, now rebuilt as a Battle Smith; Well-Met, once a mobility aid, is now a combat-capable companion.

An icon of a scowling Artificer, Hale, clearly in a moment of threat or combat. While black-and-white, the background evokes a fiery radiance, and there is a combination of newer armored prosthetics and near-forgotten, tattered wizardly trappings from her former life.

Well-Met, a nearly shoulder-height, jumping-spider-adjacent mechanical entity built by Hale.

Marla@bigironmarla· Mar 7

I was the most powerful single party member by a mile by damage, hit points, etc., but impossible to miss. -Devoured- healing, not to mention food. Relied on my party members to negotiate for my upkeep and clear the way, couldn't enter cities, had to steal livestock, make my own equipment... neat.

A sketch of a fighter/blacksmith wolftaur appx. 10ft tall.

Marla@bigironmarla· Mar 4

A Fallout meme reading '[Everyone disliked that.]'.

Marla@bigironmarla· Mar 3

An image of the Borderlands 2 character responsible for coining the name 'Bonerfart' for a monster in-game.

Marla@bigironmarla· Feb 17

I'm a little late, but of the many cookies we made this evening, this is the one that made Cay point and go 'oh! this one! your friend Hex!!', so obvs I gotta @hexlatex.bsky.social .

A snowman-shaped gingerbread cookie with a cat face, a spiral, and the word 'drop' drawn on in royal icing.

Marla@bigironmarla· Feb 6

We had one of these 'wee' beasties, and it was the only way we could print, like, 15,000 waitress pads, three on a sheet, ten reams of paper, and every time we misprinted one we had to manually reset the pressure-actuated sequential numbering machine. Ours had a motor but you still had to start it.

Photo of a flywheel-powered letter press.

Marla@bigironmarla· Jan 29

I happen to have a -thing- about that. ^_^ (This is something I did for a performance; white fur, black skin, so it's usually black and I have a ceramic-and-gold or calacatta marble prosthetic to use depending on whether I went to the effort to gild the keloid or not <3)

Marla@bigironmarla· Jan 15

What games did I play that I doubt other people are gonna remember? Okay: Think Quick! on the good old IBM PS/2.

The opening screen for 'Think Quick!', a 1987 game by The Learning Company. The image is in only four colors, black, white, cyan, and magenta, and pictures a girl and boy standing on the approach to a castle in the foreground while a dragon flies in the background.

Marla@bigironmarla· Dec 16

Meet Liv. <3 Her partner, Cherry, is another PC (and my partner IRL) whose contribution to Most Things was being the catalyst for her tagging along on this trip; Cherry's a crazy little lawyer who took down a major corporation, and also a sort of feral bard. Alt text has more about Liv.

Olivia Cheryenkov as she can often be found. Wearing a backpack covered in various pieces of equipment and carrying extra tanks of oxygen, a closed breathing system with a set of filter backups in case she runs out of tanks, a smoked visor, and bicep-length gloves. Barely pictured in the lower half of the frame is an ancient Obrez, a cut-down Mosin-Nagant, which she uses to tell people (and bears) to go fuck themselves at the maximum possible decibel level.

A rare image of Olivia Cheryenkov outside of battle-rattle. She has curly black hair tied back beneath a Jolly Roger bandana. Black slight-catseye glasses. Permanent frown from squinting at tiny oscilloscope monitors too much. From the outside inwards, she is wearing a labcoat covered in Scotch-Gard, a rubber-coated canvas butcher's apron, bicep-length rubber gloves, and a button-down shirt.

A sketch of 'Marlene', Olivia Cheryenkov's trusty field laboratory, absolutely bristling with various arcane pieces of equipment, extra lights, etc. What can she do? Yes, that.

Marla@bigironmarla· Dec 16

This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the kind of magic I would do if I -had- to do magic.

Marla@bigironmarla· Nov 21

I've been playing this on and off all day and I'm so happy about it. <3 Look at this nonsense:

An image of an airborne mech, Ancyor, with nothing but a sword and a handgun, leaping over a hilltop into a valley with three other mechs in the frame.

The same mech, having now destroyed the entire valley full of other mechs, depicted at the very end of the final sword stroke.

Marla@bigironmarla· Nov 21

God -damn-. My single heavy 'mech in Phantom Brigade has the following build: Super-hot-firing long range missile launcher Heavy shield Awful heat dissipation A capacitor bank that eats heat and shits lightning c'mere gimme a lil' kith >> BONK >> ZOT

A sequence of images: the first is of a heavy mech chasing a damaged light missile mech.

A heavy mech simply brushing aside a lighter mech, knocking it down

The heavy mech's capacitor banks using its missile launcher heat to strike the knocked-down light mech to death with a massive electrical discharge.

Marla@bigironmarla· Nov 19

Oh fuck I forgot alt text, what a jerk. Here:

A Discord screenshot including some text and multiple small snips from Phantom Brigade, plus an achievement toast. They read:

it begins
Role: dog icon, Name: ANCYOR, Level: 1.7
LMAO WHAT THE FUCK
achievement: Dog Person - Cultivate a strong bond with the dog.
THEY KNOW
AS SOON AS I NAMED THE MECH I GOT THIS ACHIEVEMENT

Marla@bigironmarla· Nov 12

The disclosure says nothing of the kind. Devs say the -opposite- of that, and then describe the reasoning behind the disclosure. These disclosures (and generative AI, which caused the need for them) are quite recent, but ML, procgen, and AI as a concept are old tech used all over, before GenAI.

A screenshot of a disclosure, reading:
AI GENERATED CONTENT DISCLOSURE
The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

During the development process, we may use procedural- and AI-based tools to assist with content creation. In all such cases, the final product reflects the creativity and expression of our own development team.

Marla@bigironmarla· Aug 19

My mole-person lighting is fuckawful BUT: I have been gifted a copy of WARHOUND for my birthday and felt I ought to participate. <3 With thanks to @caylmao.bsky.social for the bite marks, and @kallidorarho.bsky.social for the bangin' wordsmithing. :9

The photographer's bare tits, taken with a copy of WARHOUND and several bite marks.

Marla@bigironmarla· Aug 5

Three photos of a cheetah being held by the chin in sequence, through which the cheetah progressively closes their eyes and appears to feel profound relief.

Marla@bigironmarla· Jul 26

With thanks to Tom Morgan (now with alt text because I am sometimes a very silly dog).

Screenshot of a tweet by @tomowenmorgan reading: "Libertarians are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand."

Marla@bigironmarla· Jul 2

Well I was going to go and lambast the UPenn bluesky but I guess whoever is running it (for today) is fantastic and I'd prefer not to yell at them while they're probably in the process of getting fired.

A skeet from upenn.bsky.social reading: Since the admin won’t say it, I will. This school is run by cowards who tarnish our legacy to appease right wing donors. We can never call ourselves a bastion of education and thought. I’ll get fired for this but oust the board of trustees, go to another school, and #FreePalestine always

Marla@bigironmarla· May 30

Marla@bigironmarla· May 27

This is a nice example of what I mean. You twist the cuff around the gate so that the little catch you see there admits the striking surface of the carabiner through it; it's easy to use but hard to fuck up and drop something. Also, this one is 28kN, which is 'pull the house down' strong.

A red Metolius carabiner with a twist-locking gate.

Marla@bigironmarla· Apr 28

Battlezone.

Marla@bigironmarla· Apr 22

This fuckin' came OUT. MM. This is a very dog thing to post but I wish I could link to a smell.