u/halcyonfox

I recently left my job because of a toxic work situation, and I genuinely miss helping customers find the products they're looking for. I also miss answering all those odd or quirky questions that crop up even with experienced artists.

I genuinely loved working in art supplies, and getting into the granular details of how different supplies worked. Since quitting I feel really underutilized mentally as I no longer have new customers that need help or old customers calling or emailing to ask questions I can help them navigate.

I don't intend to sound pretentious or like a know-it-all, but if anyone has any general, or even more esoteric, questions regarding art supplies I'd love to help!

I can answer questions regarding traditional watercolor, gouache, Japanese watercolor, acrylics, oils, watercolor pencils/crayons, brushes, paper, pencils, etc. I even have opinions about sharpeners. I also have a fairly robust understanding of art material historical context.

Tell me your issue you're running into or your question you've never asked(?)

Edit: misspelling

Im partially looking for good games I haven't tried yet that are preferably finished projects, or at least finished books. I prefer to have solid romance options, and I don't care for school settings. Im just too old at this point. It's hard to be in your 30s and read about school age kids and not think of them as well... kids.

But I also want to hear people's genuine opinions about games and what makes or breaks it for them. Im relatively new to IF but did grow up on cyoa goosebumps books when I was a kid.

You can list as much or as little as you want, but please keep it to valid criticisms where possible, or at least qualify why it makes your list. I'll comment mine below though right now I only have vastly overrated. I hope to find some gems.

Edit to include: im using the term overrated, but I mean that in a personal sense. Just about every work has it's audience which is why I'd ideally like to also hear your reasoning behind it.

And this honestly kind of applies to other IF games too. It really bugs me when the RO supposedly is interested / has feelings for MC, but then they high key flirt with other characters. In this case, it bugs me how much Ortega flirts with the puppet. At one point MC is even thinking to themselves about how Ortega never wanted to sleep with them but does want to sleep with puppet (even though MC caught the memory in Argents head teasing Ortega about his crush????)...and like that would literally make me not want to hang out with him? I mean I do love him but.....

Idk, maybe I'm wrong here. This might just be a pet peeve of mine, but it almost turned me off book one cause I was concerned this was going to be the cadence of RO routes. .....but I do love Ortega...but I hate that he does this.

Note: this was a rant please forgive the lack of coherence and ....proper punctuation. I just need ro talk about this with people.