I'm hearing an #artist or two on birdsite saying they've been given an invite to Mastadon.art, suggesting that's a thing that's happening now.

If anyone on #mastoart sees this, peeps my #art and deems me worthy, I'd love to jump on over there to see what all the cool kids are up to.

Despite the state of the art engineering facilities at HQ, Hayun was not content to sit and wait for the squadron to come limping back from the battlefield for repairs. Never a fan of doing things in an easy or straightforward way, she opted to take a fighter jet and mess with essentially every function that it was originally designed for, creating a field and combat-ready maintenance vehicle.

The addition of air brakes and VTOL wing pontoons allows for hovering and precision maneuvering at low speeds. Standard machine guns were replaced with single barrel carbines to make room for sensor arrays and what I can only think to call "grippy claws." In the back are sensor-jammers and shorter fins, allowing a better range of movement for the center-mounted cutting laser. The laser has its share of combat applications, but it's mostly intended for making quick and dirty field repairs to friendly units.

All this added kit results in a craft with low top speeds, making it a sitting duck in dogfights. Rather than make head-on engagements, her suite of tools lends itself best to sneak attacks in obstacle-dense environments.

#art #mastoart #CharacterDesign #ConceptArt

#CharacterDesign is fun, but giving a #character stuff to use is a personal favorite exercise. An ongoing series of mine involves designing space fighter pilots and their jets. Taoyi here is a very by-the-book soldier, so she doesn't mod her kit. She could, she's allowed to, she just chooses not to.

#art #vehicle #VehicleDesign #artist #mastoart

The news of #Twitter going into open free fall is only surprising in terms of the sheer speed at which #elonmusk can destroy a company.

All he had to do to avoid this was nothing.

@mlyon0486 You'd feel right at home at a Taiwanese Fami, then! Our door jingle is different, though; dunno why.

My only gripe is we don't have the same selection of Suntory Strong Zeros that youse guys got over there.

Not a secret that #Taiwanese and #Japanese convenience stores are uniquely accommodating, though I give Taiwan the edge for having more of them (the most per capita globally) and almost always having at least few places to sit, relax, and have a snack or something.

Plenty of worse places to wait out a little rain.

#art #artist #artists #artistsonmastodon #artistsofmastodon #city #catgirl #taiwan #conveniencestore