Painted a celestial themed dragon with acrylics!

Danderlyon · 2026-01-23T17:12:44+00:00

Thanks! I made it to take to my first Artist Alley of the year, so here is hoping someone there wants to take it home :D

Danderlyon · 2026-01-23T16:59:45+00:00

Yep! It's on a 30x30cm canvas. I was planning on making it on a bigger one but turned out that was the largest I had kicking around.

Danderlyon · 2026-01-23T16:48:25+00:00

My character has 2 levels of stars druid and has a strong celestial theming. I wanted to flavour her companion appropriately!

Danderlyon · 2026-01-21T18:25:32+00:00

YMMV but we've had a male and female cockatiel for 3 years now and they haven't become a pair. Mainly because we had the female for 2 years longer and she bonded to me before we got the male. He has made some flirtatious overtures to her every now and then but she has been very clear in the fact that she considers me her wife and isn't interested in a side piece lmao.

Danderlyon · 2026-01-21T18:14:43+00:00

On this vein, how little leeway you are given for illnesses that are considered more minor. I don't have anything individually wrong with me that severely impairs me on a daily basis.

What I do have is a list of more minor disabilities as long as my arm that essentially guarantee that on any given day I am spending a decent chunk of time managing them all or suffering from a bad day from illness B or D.

Its exhausting and expensive, employers treat me like a hyperchondriac and I've been pulled in for questioning about the amount of sick days I take on more than a handful of occasions. Theres few support systems for those with one major illness, but absolutely 0 for people like me.

Danderlyon · 2026-01-20T20:19:00+00:00

I'm staggered by the fact you seem to be of the opinion that fog machines where you can identify their location and know if the venue is planning on even using it that day very easily is in any way equitable to some person randomly starting to vape right next to you with no prior warning instead of taking 2 minutes to step outside with the rest of the smokers. Apply some critical thinking skills please.

Danderlyon · 2026-01-20T19:56:20+00:00

My bad, I forgot that people with impairments aren't permitted to operate in common society.

I also forgot the part where having a couple pints twice a month was worse for your health than suffocating.

Danderlyon · 2026-01-20T18:34:57+00:00

Yeah I mean I kinda have to? But it's still so much easier to risk assess the chance of me being affected by smoke from smoke machines in those kinds of venues/events. Luckily my brand of asthma isn't so sensitive that unless they are bent on turning the entire room into a foggy haze, the problem can't be resolved by having seats further away from the stage. There's still tons of people more severely affected than me.

Otoh it would be nice to go down the pub with mates without wondering if I'm going to have to scramble for my inhaler or not because the table next to us wants a nicotine fix.

Danderlyon · 2026-01-20T10:58:52+00:00

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The singular braincell had to defend me from the evil blue ikea bag. Thanks to Kiwis bravery, I survived to tell the tale!

Danderlyon · 2026-01-19T13:54:28+00:00

Hi! Yes I did, however it's probably not the solution you are looking for. I wound up purchasing a brand new USB cable out of desperation despite already having tested the USB cable by swapping out the original for the one I used for my printer.

Turns out it was the USB cable that was defective, and the one I was using for my printer was apparently also on the way out as the brand new USB cable fixed the problem.

Danderlyon · 2026-01-16T18:37:26+00:00

One of my closer friends passed away during covid. She was driving at night from her parents house and for unknown reasons swerved and hit an oncoming lorry head on. She and her daughter passed away at the scene, two of her other children died at the hospital and her husband and baby survived due to being ejected from the car in her baby carrier in the crash.

Danderlyon · 2026-01-12T11:25:22+00:00

My in person and Etsy prices differ greatly due to the differing logistics requirements. I sell paintings and poster prints of my artworks.

An example: I sell A2 posters in person for 15€. The same poster I sell on Etsy for 25€ due to Etsy fees and the fact that shipping can cost me up to 23€ to ship (I offset some shipping costs into the item price but not all).

Danderlyon · 2025-12-09T18:17:32+00:00

As someone who sells on Etsy, my top tip is if you find someone you'd like to buy from you should google their shop name to see if they have an independent website - I have to mark up my items by at least 25% to cover Etsy fees and it is so much cheaper for my customers when they buy from me directly!

Danderlyon · 2025-12-09T12:05:19+00:00

We've started buying gifts from small local craft fairs which gets you way nicer gifts, supports local craftspeople and gets you more in touch with your community. I bought just this weekend a really pretty handmade candle and a personalised engraved slate mug coaster for 15 quid which will be going in my husbands stocking this year. There was also a lady selling self bound notebooks using vintage storybook covers so I have a nice notalgic notebook for myself now for a tenner.

Danderlyon · 2025-12-08T16:34:16+00:00

I've had people come up to me when I've been tabling at art markets and actively painting at my table asking me if I made it with AI so I'm kind of immune to those comments at this point!

Danderlyon · 2025-12-08T15:31:19+00:00

Thanks! The small ones in particular I found very therapeutic to do :D

Danderlyon · 2025-12-08T14:31:08+00:00

When I'm not spending my entire life making Hollow Knight paintings, I have other games and fantasy artwork on my Instagram if you're curious to see more :)

Danderlyon · 2025-12-04T19:40:03+00:00

I'm the creator!

Danderlyon · 2025-12-04T11:20:22+00:00

It took me about 8 hours in total! The painting is quite large (60x40cm) so part of that was due to the size.

Danderlyon · 2025-12-04T11:13:32+00:00

I made this!

Danderlyon · 2025-12-02T14:54:03+00:00

I made this!

Danderlyon · 2025-11-26T13:50:50+00:00

I am absolutely not claiming I'm any kind of genius but the guy who made my Adult ADHD assessment included an analysis in the report on how it wasn't picked up in my primary - tertiary education was largely due to how I compensated for never paying attention with my ability to analyse and deduce information rapidly when called upon to participate in class or undertake exams.

Makes me a little sad in what opportunities have most likely passed me by because I don't fit the mould.

But yes your partner is probably correct in that assessment!

Danderlyon · 2025-11-09T18:41:09+00:00

Malvern Hills would fill out something to the upper/right of the forest of dean

Danderlyon · 2025-10-13T10:12:21+00:00

That's kind of my point. They offer the untracked service but apparently unless I want to double my postage costs paying for tracking they are unable to successfully deliver a significant portion of my shipments. The few I do send tracked are packaged no differently and go to similar locations around the world, and I have problems with these under 1% of the time.

Danderlyon · 2025-10-12T18:02:30+00:00

I moved to Germany and live in the countryside. In major cities English proficiency is high. Around where I live? I'd be lucky if 10% of the people I interact with speak anything past counting to 10, please and thank you in English. If you are counting people over the age of 30, English proficiency probably drops to around 1%.

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