For some reason, I seem to have totally missed this one - I remember the Bitmap Brothers of course, the "Rock stars of the Computer Game world".

I played a tonne of Xenon 1&2, Speedball 1&2 and Chaos Engine, but seem to have completely missed this one!

I had a look at the wiki page for the Bitmap Brothers, and it looks like Z was only released on MS-DOS, and I probably still had an Atari ST or Amiga at that point, which might explain the gap.

Ouch. Poor little guy. That's a lot to go through. I don't think it's wasting time to check up with a vet - especially if it's seemingly a source of pain or an area he's over grooming or scratching.

Of course, that's as long as you're prepared to pay the fees, accepting the risk to find that he's just a bit chubbier in that area - but I still think the "it hurts him and he tries to run away" suggests it's worth checking out if you're able to.

I'm a bit out of the loop as to what's been discussed, but it looks like you've deleted a bunch of your posts.

I don't really know what the situation was here, but find it sad to see you perhaps feel like you've been pushed away.

Maybe it was something with the specific community, but I'm sure there's 10 or more "art" or "art share" communities on the Fediverse, and hopefully you'd find another one more welcoming.

I quite liked your perspective on things, and I'd like to see your stuff again somewhere. It's upsetting to see someone creative being discouraged.

It's always a bit surprising to remember this is now about 109 years old, produced during the First World War.

That makes a lot of sense - some favour acrylic gouache for the opposite reason - its ability to quickly form permanent waterproof independent layers, which won't blend afterwards. Depends strongly on the style of work, of course.

Do feel free to share studies and tests - I don't think the community is strict about it being finished work only - and it would be nice if there was a little more discussion on here, as well as showing new works.

Not necessarily the case here, and both sides makes me think it's not, but when you mentioned the cat had a recent injury here, it made me suspect an infection and an abscess - if only because I've dealt with one recently.

One of our cats had this from a cat bite wound. A swelling, sort of ball shaped, soft, but the cat says "ow!" If you touch it.

In our case, that cat had a fairly intense scratch and the abscess burst all over the floor (thankfully in a room with easily wipable tiles). This was followed up with a vet visit for antibiotics and painkillers.

The "both sides" and the amount if time between April and now makes me think it's not that, but still might be one to add to the possibilities list.

Aside from the off-topic conversation, I was just thinking about this:

gouache on paper

perhaps one day when my skill matches my imagination i will repaint it with oils

Are you using traditional gouache or acrylic gouache?

I was just thinking, if traditional gouache, it's probably actually harder than using oils or acrylics, because of the way the existing layers of paint reactivate when they are re-wetted, like watercolours.

I actually think you've got a nice surrealist scene here, and it's well composed, and really, nothing about it strikes me as "not being worth retrying with different media" - so perhaps it might be worth re-trying sooner than you think - and probably working on board if possible.

Hooray! So happy to see these being exhibited.

I wouldn't have thought it if I'd not been staring at it, trying to work out what these two rings were about.

They might be making a slightly rude joke.

I wonder if one of the rings is something like "the girl with a pearl earring".

I fear that the other, based on the position of the hands, may imply a "goatse" stretched "ringpiece" (e.g. bumhole).

Good question, but no.

A cookie is one of the types of biscuits.

Cookie monster, to my knowledge, normally ate cookies in the English sense, so the name still worked either side of "the pond".

wiki article - chocolate chip cookie

We probably just accepted that he occasionally ate other biscuits too - but also, we grew up with Standard Definition TV, so maybe there just weren't enough pixels to tell what he was eating.

Yeah, sorry man. My bad. You're right - why am I trying to explain cookies and biscuits to the worlds #1 expert?

Shame on me. You have my apologies.

I'm actually pretty convinced by this impression.

Assuming you are the real cookie monster,

In English, "Cookie" is a smaller subsection of the category of "Biscuits".

In American, "cookie" is equivalent to the English word "Biscuit", like it's the entire category of everything slightly in that area of food.

That is a top fact.

It seems so obvious now you mention it, but somehow I've managed well into adulthood without ever hearing this once.

I'd mostly like them to decriminalise peace protesting, stop taking orders from The Israeli government, and return basic human rights to trans people - but in the absence of any of those, this is still a win.

Didn't he only join the Reform Party after they offered to "make his allegations disappear"?

... and up next, "The Birdie Song" 300 times

Do you like cheese?
Do you like peas?
Well you'll love these!
Cheesy peas!

I hope they get washed afterwards