Alexis, FORWARD HORNET @alexis@tilde.zone

Semiotic Standard: the icons from Alien

Following on from our Solar System transit map, we settled on this as our next vector art project: recreating the "Semiotic Standard" icons used to decorate the Nostromo spaceship sets in the 1979 film Alien.

We also thought it'd be fun to make them usable as fediverse emoji, so we did that.

Find the full set in emojo form here: https://lexie.space/post/blogstuff/2019/12/16/semiotic-standard.html

See the attached image, or https://noisy.lexie.space/@alexis/103322172832060183, for examples.

We'll be publishing large SVG files of these, too - as soon as we get the source file sorted out so we can export them easily. (we still suck at illustrator lol) In the meantime, we hope you enjoy these, and watch this space for more!

The Solar System: A Transit Map

Ever wanted to take a bus from Earth to another planet entirely? Us too! If we could, this is the map we’d use to get from here to there. Now you can use it to do that, too!

Physical things that have this on them: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/p/43181011.C3TL5.strewn-joey?ref=artist_shop_grid

Different sizes, transparent backgrounds: https://lexie.space/assets/posts/2019-12-12-the-solar-system/The%20Solar%20System-%20A%20Transit%20Map.zip

We want to make this into a depiction of a solarpunk future, designed by consensus, that we'd all love to see! If you have ideas or thoughts on that, please add them to this thread: https://tilde.zone/@alexis/103294731882121379

More at our website: https://lexie.space/post/blogstuff/2019/12/12/the-solar-system.html

Special thanks and 💜 : @anarchiv @RedFuture @velexiraptor

We hope you enjoy it, and please feel free to boost and share with anyone you think might like it!

It's probably about time for an #introduction, isn't it?

So, hi, I'm Alexis. At my day job, I'm a fullstack engineer for a company you've heard of. If that interests you, it shouldn't, and I won't, and that's really best.

When I'm doing what I choose to, I'm an sf/weirdtales writer, a wildlife photographer, and a doer of helpful stuff for people.

I've never said this out loud before: I'm intersex and genderqueer. I don't know how I feel about saying it now, but I guess I know how to find out.

some folks in japan put on a 5th anniversary concert for Undertale, featuring a new and complete orchestration, and uh if you haven't seen it already maybe watch it it's good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srZdDAJbHfc

happy diopter dial hopes you are having a good morning, and reminds you that you've got this!

feeling like this morning would be a great time to rewatch threads but it's actually just the fact that i have to work today sapping my entire will to live

hey so since this is blowing up why don't y'all check out it's not my soundcloud it's an organization that's doing kickass work to push back on and ameliorate the incredibly regressive cash bail system that's still the law in this town. if you can afford fancy notebooks you can afford to https://jotf.org/donate/

sunday lexie: hot paper takes, apparently

PSA: moleskines are bullshit btw, they make a big deal but the paper is garbage. for the same price you can get a rhodia with clairefontaine paper that's smooth as silk, or if you like a spiral binding, maruman makes A5s with really beautiful paper that cost like a third of what a moleskine will run you

oh my god i put a new screen protector on this phone and have just noticed there is a hair stuck under it, right above the edge of the screen

Player 1: OCD
Player 2: Laziness
FIGHT