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Worms In Space Jewelry // Compost Craft

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I think that corner stores with a house above them are so important for communities and we need to begin to reopen them in our historic neighborhoods, it doesn't even have to be a convenience store, you could open a book store or a art gallery or whatever here and it would benefit the neighborhood so much, but instead the old corner stores of our cities are just left to rot, it makes me sad.

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Creature Creation Station version 0.4 update is now up for download or freeplay in browser!

IMPORTANT NOTE for those upgrading from version 0.3 and before: ⏩ Loading the game for the first time from the previous versions will initially display your creatures as all the same default cat. Fear not! Just close and reopen the game and from then on they'll load with their correct features!

⏩ There's a few other bugs like the giant cursor in browser and such, but I've been waiting too long to get this update out, so please bear with me as I work on patches!

A short list of the many new features: 🐈 Pick up your creations and drag them around with right click! 🐈 Use the whistle button to arrange all your creations in the center! 🐈 Cute new paw cursor! 🐈 17 new body features! 🐈 A ton of new randomized name options 🐈 Added blob shadows under creatures and lil dust particles when they run 🐈 On feature change, a Sparkle particle effect and animation play 🐈 … and much more!

View the full changelog on itch: Grab 'Em Update! version 0.4 changelog

Thanks for your continued support and patience!! 💜 And PLEASE show me your creations!!! ~Xenon

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Dragon Brush Rest // Ceramicorn

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This is gonna sound rather conceited but I feel like it highlights an issue we have in Art.

I'm good at art. I've never had a hard time making art. I started using crayons before I could walk. Painting, Beadwork, sculpture, sketching, stippling, whatever- once I have a feel for the material, it doesn't take long to start doing what I want with it. It's been a common theme my whole life.

(Y contrast I'm awful at things like dancing, performance, sports, etc- in all things there is balance, right?)

Now, I've taught myself to use so many artistic mediums now that I KNOW how to most efficiently integrate them into the brain database. Once you really *understand* a material, it's much like memorizing the layout of your house, or flexing a muscle, or something in-between- it becomes PART of your brain in a way I cant quite articulate. But to get there involves just fucking around for a bit doing nothing in particular.

And I've found, especially in group settings, that nobody seems to be able to see you make something badly and leave you alone. Even if you say you're fine, you don't want help, you're happy, you're having fun, it's fine, they gotta ride your ass and hover.

I was at a class the other day for something I hadn't done before. The medium was one I've never used, so once the instructor told us the basics I started experimenting with weight, gravity, texture, viscosity, saturation, temperature, etc. The instructor had given enough info to know what was dangerous and what was safe, and beyond that I just wanted to absorb what I could about it.

And no insult to the instructor, but they kept checking in. Which was fine the first few times.

But then, without asking me what I was trying to do, started giving tips. That I told them I was grateful for but didn't really need just yet. If I had a question, I'd ask.

But they kept coming over. And touching my shit. And manipulating my project. And touching my hands. And using my tools. Without fucking asking.

And this happens every time. EVERY TIME. And by now I know the best way to get them to fuck off is to make something way beyond their expectations so they know I'm capable, then go back to doing what I want.

So I did. I wanted to keep having fun and learning, but instead I made something beautiful that I really didn't want to make, and wasted my time, and really didn't learn what I wanted to learn at all. I knew the formula to create a beautiful thing, so I followed that formula the same way I have a hundred times before, and didn't get to try anything spontaneous or ugly or exciting, just so I could be left alone.

And I know when I was a kid, I was aware aware people saw me puttering alone on something ugly assumed I had a special issue and treated me like I was stupid because of that. (I was neurodivergent.) And at at time I knew that I could do a neat trick for them like a trained pony and they'd go, "Oh, surely they aren't defective if they can do something like that!" And piss off.

But what if I hadn't known how to do that?

What if I hadn't been talented, or "special"?

What if I'd been just any other average kid trying to learn, and I couldn't pop something pretty out of my ass to get them off my back?

My problem my whole life has been that I haven't been allowed to make anything ugly in peace. I'm capable of beauty, so I have to make beauty, or get stepped on. And once people see what I can do, they get loud about it. "Look at this! Look what they did! We all know who the best is, don't we?". And that used to feel good, but it's tiring.

And how many people like me just wanted to play? Just wanted to have fun and experiment? Who were having fun with no goal in mind, or just took longer to learn, who gave up because of all the obnoxious helpers breathing down their neck with no way to shake them off?

How many of us are made to feel defective because we aren't doing things beautifully?

I have a lovely piece of art I didn't want to make.

I think I'm gonna frame it.*

(*I think I'm gonna burn it in my yard.)

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crow collection

shop

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you know how people say soup is round and so it's messed up to put it in a square tupperware? that's how I feel every time I see a square watch

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ranibow drangon~

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fog of war in the grocery store

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3d printed start gate

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OH ! Bited