ame but upside down (Patreon)

tonight we come to you live from marcello's kitchen all the way in london, trash island
hence the upside down! that's how hemispheres work, right?
( marcello responds, 'then surely that's just ame but 90 degrees to the right'. and no, that's not true, because i'm always right 😎 )

so we're on that grand eurotrip we mentioned before. actually, we've been on it for like, a week and some change? i've wanted to, in that entire time, at least drop a message to you all letting you know we've been off for it, but i've somehow consistently lacked either the time, the energy, or the internet connection to make the post proper.

it has been a fun time though! we are getting to meet, aside from just several friends and long-standing community members, folks from our very own dev team! i would post pictures but we literally forgot to take them like dinguses!!! still, it's nice, um, teambuilding! yes!

and then we got the damn rona.
no one could have foreseen this.

for the record we are double-vaccinated+boosted, but alas. there's no real cause for worry, all of our cases have been mild and we are, best we can tell, over the worst of it already. but it sure has thrown a wrench into the energy part of the posting plans, let alone the actual travel plans themselves. 

anyway so i slept early to try and recover quicker, woke up early and couldn't sleep, and so that's why i'm here at like 1am uk time making this post in the middle darkness of the crown nerd's kitchen

unfortunately, i don't exactly have much in the way of content ready for this post besides just to say, once again, thank you all so so so much for still being here and giving us the freedom to have taken this trip at all.
and on one hand, i hate making any kind of post without content. and i do technically have a few notes of things that i could scrape a better post together from...
...but it's 1am and i'm still not feeling 100% and that is a lot more commitment than i was mentally prepared for at this hour when i realized 'hey i never actually made a post that i was leaving, shit kdfjgkfd'

...so instead, i posted a few of these before but a few more came up, have a few more straggling Silly Images from the folks working on models

first we have this from us trying to update star's model to be a little bit more robust/flexible, and that not really playing nice with her animations...

...and like that's fine, right, as a funny image, not an animation, but then someone, and i don't have the wherewithal to go check who it was but i think it was vulpes(???) went and made it into this:

which is truly just beautiful.
and then we have whatever's going on here:

marcello says that this is yet another unfortunate effect of unrealistic expectations for women in media. her waist really does just need to be that thin :/

and then, i'm not really sure what's going on here, but boy have i felt this over the past few days:

this is what covid feels like i guess.
(marcello: the K in karus stands for kovid)

on a final unrelated note, have a small pony which march got me for my birthday. we have some other new friends too and maybe i can post them at some point but they are oh so far away right now and it's still 1am.

fren. what should i name her?