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Glad you got things worked out, it's so nice to see your art again!
I especially like that new picture of Ruse, it showcases his personality quite well! Is the longneck a friend of his, or simply his latest unwitting perch?

 

I'm gonna give it one more go on this thread, and if it doesn't upload properly, I'll make a new one!

Fingers crossed!!

I'm pretty sure I saw Ducky freelancing in that new Palworld game xD

Congrats to y'all, best of luck with the backend updates!

The eclipse has come and gone today, and I will say there's nothing like witnessing such an incredible celestial event from your own backyard.

During the partial eclipse leading up to (and following after) totality, I definitely used the solar eclipse glasses from the ten-pack I had gotten a few months ago to observe how much of the sun was covered up. I also used a pair of binoculars to project an image of the sun down onto a white paper plate so that I could take pictures of the partially eclipsed sun.

During the two minutes of totality, I took three pictures of the eclipsed sun, along with Venus that was visible to the lower right, but only the last of those three also included Jupiter to the upper left because I forgot about it in the prior attempts and essentially ended up rushing to get that last one taken before totality ended (the second picture ultimately came out the best, albeit hardly professional, while the third one in my effort to include Jupiter was unfortunately slightly blurred). Between taking those photos, I used the binoculars to get a better look at the sun's corona, and I was able to see a bright pink spot on the lower edge, which I later learned was a solar prominence, a special bonus I had really hoped I would get to see thanks to solar activity currently nearing the peak of its eleven year cycle.

As for the environment around me, we definitely heard several birds making a lot of noise in the minutes leading up to totality (including an owl). During totality and in the minutes following it, one rather unpleasant experience was so many mosquitos suddenly becoming active, so at least I'm glad I always wear a jacket whenever I'm outdoors. Also, we have a large tree in our backyard, but this early in spring means there's no leaves on it yet, so not only did it not obscure our view of the eclipse, it also gave us the opportunity to witness how funky the shadows of those bare branches on our deck got in the minutes before and after totality.

As much as I sure wished I could've gotten an extra minute to experience totality, I definitely enjoyed the once in a lifetime privilege to witness a total solar eclipse from my lifelong home, and I'm sure there were plenty of other people in the neighborhood who enjoyed it as well. I will now look forward to hearing from others both here and on other sites on what their experiences were like.