Alexis, FRIEND OF HORNET @alexis@tilde.zone

just gonna leave these here in case anybody wants them idk

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.

that's a load bearing "may"

now that they're like three games into the series, it's nice to see IOI finally get the license

pictured: a stag trying to start a conversation about ansel adams and group f/64 at what would be the worst possible time if such a conversation could ever exist in a time that was not the worst possible time

just imagine if you could use your mouth as also a hand

wasps don't have to imagine

fucked up to only have one mandible and no palps tbh

a cat with an enigmatic expression and loading spinners for eyes

don't look too close

a dragon but the hoard she's curled up on is just a giant immaculately stacked pile of imported pens and stationery

also she wears glasses

supernatural fans today: this dumpster fire is totally unprecedented. this dumpster has never been on fire before. at no point in the past decade and a half has this dumpster so much as given off the slightest wisp of smoke. no one could ever have imagined that this dumpster would

a celebration of things probably not getting worse quite so fast for a while