Best and worst Great House in Morrowind?

Morrowind sounds like a region of Elderscrolls. Don't know much about this world. In terms of fantasy houses, I find hobbit holes pretty neat though. Having a big house that's mostly underground or built into a hill side would be pretty cool, but you'd have to figure the ventilation out. Wouldn't want the radon to build up and get radiation poisoning. And the worst in fantasy houses is if they don't even have a bathroom. Sure, outhouses make sense if a medieval looking setting, but sanitation did exist in ancient Rome and makes life a lot better.

Maybe the ring of power Bilbo was carrying was pretty radioactive. Obviously not enough to kill him, but it probably nuked his organs over time, so he had to adopt Frodo instead of being able to make more Hobbits.

By Great Houses, I was referring to the factions rather than player homes. But if you join the wizard house Telvanni, you are given the opportunity to live in a giant mushroom in a Mordor-like ash waste. Which is obviously pretty ballin'.

I see! If it's factions, then the right answer for me would be that I wouldn't want to blindly associate with a group of people I don't know. I would have to play to game to see who's trustworthy. d:

Neat! Relating to the question above, when drawing or seeing fantasy buildings, do you think more of the aesthetics or their utility/practicability?

What do you love drawing the most? You draw dazzling clothes, so that would be my guess.

And is there any particular part of drawing that you find frustrating, or is all of it engaging and exciting?

To design buildings, there's a balance you got to strike between the time you can spend on something and how much you understand what you're painting. Every detail can be considered for how it ended up there. Aesthetics often are a result from restriction in functionality and resources. For example the steepness of a roof is directly related to amount of snow able to build up on them.

What I enjoy painting the most changes a lot over time, because I greatly enjoy developing a deeper understanding of the world through exploring it by painting. But there's the grand topic of self expression which offers near infinite depth, because it's the human mind trying to understand the human mind. The subtleties in body language, facial expressions and clothing are fascinating. Clothing also has that sense of cultural context that allows the wearer to play with expectations of others. To portray intentionality with that is something I enjoy.

When painting something for someone else, the uncertainty whether their desires are interpreted correctly and if the resulting painting will make them happy. Frustration by definition is the result of lack of control over a process' success. So, having someone else arbitrarily determine determine success fulfills the definition of "frustrating."

Perhaps isn't the most interesting question, but I always wonder — what exactly "your custom painting software" is? Did you bought its development based on your exact needs or even built it yourself? Why was such a decision made, does all other software lack some specific features or have heavy interface issues?

Before I used my own software, I used to use Paint Tool SAI. I generally want a light weight painting software without long loading times. The reason why I moved away from SAI was, because I found the brush engine lacking. For the most part I was happy with the simple circle brush, but in some cases I wanted a bit more control over the brush stroke edges. Now I only use a brush that's a line sensitive to the pen angle, creating quads with the current line and the last line position. No textures or stamping in the brush. Just polygon chains along the brush stroke. I also changed the working color space to CIE Lch. You could have that with GIMP too, but that software is so bloated, that I don't want to use it because of all the loading times.

Aaay, we answer questions in a similar-ish fashion c:

I wonder what got us to be that way. Is it because we grew up never fully matching the expectations of others? Did we have to justify ourselves more? Or is it just fun to frustrate people when they want easy answers? c:

Maybe it could be a mix of all of them! Or maybe completely unrelated?
I find it funny that when I write this, I do continuously second guess what I write - definitely a symptom of being misunderstood a lot in the past, and how I have to rewrite it so much to justify even replying x3
A common thing I feel that a lot of "atypical" people I know feel, that we have to justify our "otherness", which also turns into hyperawareness of how we are different, reinforced by the constant affirmation of how odd it is for us to act the way we do.
I do also think that it could be as simple as the fact that we're curious, both about the world and the people around us. And maybe we answer questions more in depth because that feels more genuine and exciting to us, which is met with mixed response based on what people expect to get out of a question.

There are just so many side to every question, and I am more than happy to explore those, even when it takes me forever to write a simple comment - And when that comment becomes kind of rambling ^^'

Sounds like we definitely have a lot in common in how we answer questions. I too end up spending sometimes an hour to word a single answer, because I keep going over all of my words to make sure nothing gets misinterpreted and that I don't oversimplify something.
The honesty is something I value greatly about it too. It's very human to imitate others in the way we present ourselves. Learning to communicate happens through imitation after all. So we act like others do and see how people around us react, hoping that they react in a way that affirms our self image. And for the few where others don't, we gotta work hard and think hard. And it becomes even worse when there are people out there who think you're trying to get benefits through deception, if you don't fit the role your physiology would suggest. Then you don't need to just defend against misunderstandings, but actively justify your existence.

Anyway, don't worry about rambling here. It's an important topic and we gotta practice to learn how to express ourselves and it's much safer to figure things out with friends. With every time you ramble, your words get distilled into more specific and useful expressions. :D

I used to worry about how others might intepret things do/say wrong, but now that is mostly contained to misunderstanding and obvious miscommunication - part of this is because I worked on getting rid of my "toxic positivity", as well as the notion that me taking pleasure in helping and being kind to others makes me inherently selfish. Generally I found that the "deception" scenario played out more in my head than it ever did in reality, and it was way easier to work with myself than with the few outliers that I'd otherwise not want around anyway ^^'
A lill tangent all in all, but as you said, most of these things don't usually have an "easy" answer that doesn't oversimplify things c:

And on a very related note, you are a fantastically wholesome person and friend, and I always enjoy our lill interactions! Thank you for being there to just ramble with me <3

It's true that worrying less about those things is often the better choice. And weirdly to get better at that, it seems the best choice is to make friends you can trust. So to bring that little tangent back around, isn't it great to have friends we can frustrate with our tangents in our answers? :D

And thank you for being such a great friend too. We may not talk very regularly, but when we do, I always feel welcomed by you. I'm grateful I get to know you. (:

It sure is! and it is a LOT of a fun to send friends on a lill tangent spin! So both for reflection AND as a way to tease friends a bit for fun, they're both equally great in the right company c':
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What do you wish other artists in the fandom would do more art of?
Is there any species you haven't drawn that you really hope someone commissions you to draw?

If I find something I think should have more art of it, then I should paint it myself. I can't think of anything I find lacking at the moment. And the art I usually enjoy seeing the most is something I didn't didn't even consider beforehand. (:
In terms of species, I like to paint material differences, but if there was an animal I wanted to paint, I could just paint it and wouldn't need to wait for a commission to do it. What commissioners can uniquely offer is attitude and aesthetic for their characters. What I hope for most is that the character feels genuine in some way. There are two motives I find particularly difficult to work with. First are characters who are only there to have fun. No desires or goals, just indulging in whatever brings joy. And the second are characters exhibiting some sort of self hatred. Thinking of themselves as sort of monster, having their existence defined by wanting to be something else. I like treating painting as a form of communication, with body language and expressions telling everyone who sees them how the character wants to be perceived. Those two concepts don't give a chance for that unfortunately. ):

What is your favourite insect?

I remember thinking that dragonflies where really cool. But I don't have any significant emotional attachment to them now. If we think about the favorite as insects that I would favor, I don't think there are any insects who's well being I'm particularly invested in. There's the general group of insects essential for the eco system, which is important, but none of them seem especially important. And the group of flying insects intersects with that group and is also loosing a lot of it's numbers in recent years, which should encourage efforts to help them, but does that mean I like them more than other insects? Not really. So we got to go into analyzing why you asked that question instead. It's in response to a journal where I encourage questions and it the question itself fits the pattern of generic "what's your favorite" questions, so the obvious answer in my mind would be that you're here to partake in a social group activity. In that case, the socially expected reply should be: I dunno, what's yours?

Clearly dragonflies