🌸 Belle @ comicmaxxing 🌸

@torrent-empress.bsky.social

🧿shifting creative🧿 F/31/pondering 🔞 Minors DNI, occasionally NSFW. Art tag: #torrentart Comic Tag: #aavia Probably thinking about Astarion. https://torrentempress.neocities.org

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(All of) Comics has a usability problem.

And it's hurting everyone in it. So what's next?

5d ago·19 min read·3665 words

I finished the Artist's Way and it works sorry guys

the rich white lady might've been onto something, oh and what I've been up to the past 6 months.

May 27·20 min read·3849 words

2025 Creative Review: Wins, lessons, and my future [Round-up]

Art, writing, UX, creativity, bullshit, growing as a person, ect.

Jan 2·20 min read·3832 words

Anti-brainrot aktion: A guide to Digital minimalism for the brokes, queers, disabled, and everyone else.

Cuz Cal Newport can kind of show his whole lily white rich man ass in his lil book sometimes and the subreddits are just showing off stuff people bought.

Dec 1·16 min read·3123 words

Okay I'll talk about the Gabecube (the Skyrim method is what I'm calling it)

Could this be.... The year of the Linux?

Nov 14·7 min read·1363 words

[Art + Work round-up] What I did instead of Doomscrolling this week [11-2]

What a week!

Nov 10·2 min read·259 words

[Art + Work round-up] What I did instead of Doomscrolling this week: 10/24-11/1

2 writing 2 furious

Nov 1·2 min read·282 words

COMPVEMBER [a composition challenge for everyone]

bc everyone was doing something for October but October was hella busy

Nov 1·3 min read·435 words

What I did instead of Doomscrolling this week [Art + Writing Round-up]

Because reflection is good!

Oct 26·5 min read·843 words

the 3 major things I do with clip's 3D models for my comic

since I see a lot of people struggle with it

Oct 25·4 min read·752 words

Doing the damn digital detox (minimalism) thing

in which belle tries to fix her god damn phone addiction for the upteenth time

Oct 20·5 min read·931 words

I want a legacy like MF DOOM

Or, why I haven't put out more "original" work

Oct 16·6 min read·1126 words

The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet

Why every new "Art Community" fails. Equal parts eulogy, condemnation, and mourning.

Oct 15·24 min read·4681 words

Microsoft is killing Xbox on purpose, probably. On the altar of """AI"""

About the game pass debacle, OpenAI, and the (proxy) Linux wars

Oct 11·3 min read·577 words

Camgirls for Kids

A whore's treatise on the "for the children" era of the Internet

Oct 9·14 min read·2694 words

Is this thing on?

Branching past Bluesky in the post-"waffles" era

Oct 9·3 min read·469 words