Jason C Daniels

@jasoncdaniels.bsky.social

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Disabled 54 yr old software engineer. I enjoy programming, TTRPGS, food & more! If you ever see me yell "I live!" I'm exaggerating. #spoonie #disability #ttrpg #programming #cartography #gamecartography #art Under 18? 🚫 DNI!

A picture of Jason in a mirror standing, face slightly turned to the right. He's wearing a short sleeved button up gray shirt, black slacks, a brown belt, brown loafers, and using a black cane, while holding his phone.
A small white and gray bird with black and yellow markings sits perched on a branch surrounded by tree leaves.
Four mallards are shown in a murky pond. Three (two males, one female) have their butts up in the air as they feed. One is on lookout, glaring at me, secretly seething in a way that only ducks can. Photo (C) Jason C Daniels, April 19 2026
A chess board with the pieces arranged according to a current game.
The spine of the book. It has a label that reads "Personal Journal 2026" in black ink on light brown paper. The spine itself is a medium brown book cloth. A small part of the front cover is visible on the right.
A photo of page 1 of the daily journal section. It sports date, day of week, sleep related, and meals related fields in addition to standard journal lines. You may note the page separating from the spine in the upper left. This is what I'm referencing for my motivation to rewet the spine and place it back in the book press, essentially redoing some of last night's work. (Except spreading the glue around, obviously.) The intent here is that as a hide glue (homemade with pine rosin to help delay gelling) rewetting it should make it, more or less, runny again. This time the book press has hardly any pressure. This should allow the glue to penetrate deeper, hopefully correcting this issue. In a couple of hours I'll tighten the press a bit. Then gradually tighten it every couple hours from there, then check glue penetration again this evening.
The book spine pictured in the heavy, metal, "good" book press, with spine cloth trimmed, headbands applied and a black bookmark ribbon glued in place.
A journal page with several fields at the top to fill in, including wake, sleep, pain numbers...etc. as well as date and day of the week. A second column is on the right side for half the height of the page to track meals.
The Affinity Designer settings dialog. I'm not transcribing it all. The important takeaway is that the setting I named is highlighted in yellow to make it easier to see.
My PFP/Avi/Avatar/whatever the icon representing my account is called by the cool, uncool, and others people, these days. I made it on South Park's avatar maker. Their URL changes every few years so I won't give it here. As for the picture, it's basically, a disheveled simplistic illustration of a short, rotund, blood-shot eyed and glasses sporting person giving a thumbs up with his left hand. He's drooling slightly from the right side of his mouth. He has patchy gray hair on his head, and wears tattered, stained brownish clothing with cream colored mittens. Also, his shoes are brown and cream colored. It is in a dingy-snow night setting with simplistic trees and a starry night sky visible in the background. I strongly resemble the picture, but I made it long before I went gray. The main differences are I mostly wear blues and blacks with brown shoes. Occasionally I wear browns and greens with black shoes. And until I took up traditional media art as a hobby, there were FEWER stains. Otherwise, yeah, this is spot on.
A 5"x8" pencil sketch of a mountainous landscape on a partly cloudy day with a floating island in the upper left. The landscape itself viewed through a giant eye shaped viewport within a giant metal structure. The landscape has mountains framing a forested valley with two rivers and a gulch running up the center. The outer set of mountains generally curve inward with the most distant set appearing to touch curved peaks leaving an oblong hollow bit showing one final mountain far off in the distance. A bit closer to the viewer and in the lower right quadrant of the visible landscape is a lone mountain surrounded by forest. The interior of the structure the viewer is in, is largely unfinished (in terms of the sketch) It features riveted panels generally forming the supporting structure. The lower left, unfinished portion features my initials and date. The upper left features the tentative title: A View From A [Colossus]. (I'll correct the spelling in the next version.)
A picture of a Red Backed Shrike sitting on a twig with an out of focus green background. A red backed shrike is small and is light tan and white breasted, medium-gray headed with a black stripe over the eyes, having reddish brown wings and back, with brown wingtips and a brown tail. They're a carnivorous bird found in Europe, the UK, Russia and as far south as Southern Africa.
This image features a view from the inside of a cave with a very large, and front-most radially symmetric, trilobal, alien looking creature rooted to the ground with two of the three "arms" at least partially visible. The one fully in view has two "fingers", one of which has a massive claw. The other "finger" has a broken claw. The second visible arm mostly extends off the page. The third is not visible. The creature faces upward as a matter of physical structure. It has three proportionately small chelicera and pairs of gill/breathing slits arranged roughly equally spaced around its body. Behind the foremost creature is a natural stone pillar, where a stalagmite and stalactite that met, and a view out of the cave. In front and near the top of the pillar are a row of 8 paired fangs/chelicerae. These extend down towards the large, radially symmetric, creature. The exterior of the cave shows a drizzly and overcast landscape with some clouds visible. The landscape features a tree, grasslands, a barely recognizable lake, some hills, and some distant mountains. The doodler's initials and date are scrawled on the stone column in the cave. The title of the doodle, "Broodlings," is scrawled on the foremost creature. NOTES: This started as another attempt at using up the ink (still got some left) mentioned in the prior picture. I intentionally practiced drawing fangs/claws/chelicerae. I made a row of 4 rightward curving and one leftward curved chelicerae. When looking at it, I saw it could be a set of creatures suspended from a ceiling. So I went with it. The trilobal "brood tender" came about from a botched attempt at a clawed hand. (I intended to have what became the tender picking and eating the ceiling suspended critters.)
A demented doodle in black ink with some red and black lettering practice in the foreground. From the left, it has a bishop-like figure (chess) sprouting horns up top and tendrils from below. A demented jagged smiling face can be seen on its surface. The tendrils become other parts of the landscape. Behind the "bishop" and right a little ways is a forest comprised of giant flora, possibly a mushroom forest. Beneath it are more tendrils and the doodler's initials (JCD) with the year (2026). Above it are two flying spermatazoa-shaped creatures the leftmost of which has only its face visible. Immediately to the right of the "bishop" is a piece of landscape supporting a gigantic sphere, which itself shows a partial scene within it. To just the left and below the sphere is a large and dark hill with markings that resembles the upper part of a skull or face, with hair. The giant sphere's scene shows another, very small, flying spermatazoan-shaped creature towards the mid left. To its right a land based spermatazoan-shaped creature is balancing on its tail, apparently scrutinizing the scenery outside its domain, or something which is out of view of the observer. The background has a faint grid pattern and a shadow of the creature. Beneath that sphere and cutting off view of the bottom of it, is a jagged mountain with another gigantic tree with shrubs beneath it. To the right most of the page is a gigantic hill or mountain topped with a demented sharp toothed half face (the rest is off the page). The hill looks almost like sloughing of flesh, or perhaps gills. Above the rightmost hill are two more spheres. The topmost appears to be showing a view from inside a cave looking out at a mountainous landscape. The other is unclear, but could either have giant pockmarks, or show a top-down and close scene of a forest with a segment of river. (Intended, but not well executed) I blame Stone Temple Pilots for this drawing. (I had their album "Purple" playing for most of it.)
Exterior rear view of homemade hollow 1/16th inch basswood plywood panels (panels are 1/4th inch thick assembled)
The album cover for Fear Factory's "Obsolete" [1]. It's central feature is a brain and spinal column rendered to resemble a spermatozoon against a brownish aged-paper effect for the background, with the color lightest near the center, getting darker in an irregular manner moving toward the edges. A blocky sketch of the Brain-spermatazoon is visible on the aged-paper, and a zoomed in, cropped, and rotated, slightly out of focus, version of the brain-spermatazoon is "closer" to the viewer, Trivia: A. The album itself is a dystopian story based on Burton C. Bell's short story "Conception 5." It doesn't end well for the protagonist. B. The song "Timelessness" features Mario Savio's "Bodies Upon the Gears" speech as it's intro. C. After the main story there are several "bonus" tracks, including an industrial remake of Gary Numan's "Cars" featuring Numan on vocals. D. For further reading, Wikipedia has a very good article about this album. End Notes: 1. The text for the album title is highly stylized using a degree symbol for the first O, Greek capital Omega for the second O, a plus sign for the t and a lower case e, all other letters are uppercase.
A practice fantasy style map made with pastel pencils featuring 23 numbered locations. The left has a column with space for the end user to name the various numbered locations on the map. The artist's initials and year are in the lower right corner on either side of the simplistic compass rose.
An image of a bunch of precariously stacked blocks with two text blocks describing the concepts represented by the blocks. The top text (for all of the blocks) reads: "All Modern Digital Infrastructure" An arrow points at the most precarious spot in the stack of blocks, one that, if removed, would cause almost everything to collapse, and has the following associated text: "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."
The scroll with instructions on how to make the scroll, with the closure string at the bottom. (I'll transcribe these later, my wrists hurt too much right now.)
A smallish scroll (27cmx41cm writable surface) made from Shu (ripe/sized) sumi/xuan paper backed with grade 100 cheesecloth and two umbilici (dowels) attached at either end, place on an SI unit cutting mat. The right-most umbilicus has the ends capped with simple finials. The left-most umbilicus is trimmed to barely wider than the paper. The paper and cloth are thin enough so that the white grid on the mat is still semi-visible as is the wood color on the umbilici.
A "strigoi" (vampire) from "The Strain" (2014) with blood running down its chin.
A slightly cropped 8.5" x 11" pencil drawing of a planet with two moons on 5mm dotted-grid paper. The planet has a lot of surface water and polar ice caps. Each polar icecap is attached to a continent. There are 3 other continents visible. Most of the landmasses are on the night/shaded side of the planet.
The (mostly) finished left eye drawn in graphite (HB, 2B and 6B mechanical pencils) on dotted grid paper. The iris is intentionally distorted to appear fractured.
A left eye drawn in graphite (HB mechanical pencil) on dotted grid paper. The iris is intentionally distorted to appear fractured.
A hand drawn journal title page with "Compass Roses" in very large and fancy text, beneath are three scaled down compass roses and the artist's name (Jason C. Daniels) along with the word "sketchbook," all in black ink. The pens used to ink it are to the right of the page, Pigma Microns, sizes 005, 01, 02, and FB (fine brush). - The top-most compass rose is patterned after a handheld compass. - The left-most compass rose is a squat broadsword with the point facing northward. - The right-most is a 4 point star elongate on the N-S axis, superimposed on a ring with markers between the points on the star, every 22.5 degrees (approximately).
Pictured is a floral patterned mandala with concentric rings of color patterns. The inner most is a combination of yellow and orange with red highlights. The next ring is blue and purple with red highlights....etc. the outermost ring alternates between blues and oranges. Blues, greens, and oranges are the main colors used with red and yellow serving more as accent colors. The colored pencils I used are from the 36 color June Gold mechanical pencil set I purchased in Nov of 2024.
Two very small "minimaps" on basswood. The leftmost is plain graphite and of a mountain range with some adjacent grtasslands and forests. The rightmost is in colored pencil and features a major shoreline, a lake, multiple rivers, forests, and mountain ranges. They're both "rough draft" quality. The short edges are just over 4cm (just under 2 inches)
Two very small "minimaps" on basswood. The leftmost is plain graphite and of a mountain range with some adjacent grtasslands and forests. The rightmost is in colored pencil and features a major shoreline, a lake, multiple rivers, forests, and mountain ranges. They're both "rough draft" quality.
Oblique view of the basswood box. It shows two magnet caps placed atop the central bar and polystyrene foam in the interior. Each cap has an alchemy symbol with a dot towards the exterior of the box, to indicate how to place it. The side and top also feature the same symbol near where each cap belongs.
The quasi-finished version of the map in the quoted posts. Read those ALT-texts to get a full description of the map.
An updated photo of a, work in progress, practice, and simplistic fantasy style map drawn/painted using watercolor pencils on a 4 inch by 6 inch piece of basswood. The woodgrain is evident and a feature of the piece. This revision has: 1. Deepened (more saturated) ocean/sea colors 2. Grasslands are a deeper green as well as some forests. 3. The rivers flow into the ocean/sea instead halting at a line. (i.e. the line is now broken) 4. Some highlights and shadows have been added. Most of these for the landmasses are complete. The forests are mostly unfinished in this regard. ------------- prior description --------------- The map features a central ocean/sea cutting diagonally across the image from the lower left to the upper right with the landmasses bordering it on either side, with the left/topmost occupying around 50% of the area. The ocean/sea contains three islands, one of which has two mountains indicated. The largest mountain also sports a cavern indicator. (black, rounded, doorway-like symbol.) The main landmasses sport mountain ranges and forests running roughly parallel to the ocean/sea, with the bulk of the upper left being grassy and hilly plains. Amid the mountains and forests are various lakes and rivers. The righthand side sports a minimalistic black compass rose comprised of the letter N at the top, and a half-barb arrow pointing upwards indicating that's North on the map. The arrow in set on a circle with a crossbar implying east and west are right and left, respectively.
A photo of a, work in progress, practice, and simplistic fantasy style map drawn/painted using watercolor pencils on 4 inch by 6 inch basswood. The woodgrain is evident and a feature of the piece. The map features a central ocean/sea cutting diagonally across the image from the lower left to the upper right with the landmasses bordering it on either side, with the left/topmost occupying around 50% of the area. The ocean/sea contains three islands, one of which has two mountains indicated. The largest mountain also sports a cavern indicator. (black, rounded, doorway-like symbol.) The main landmasses sport mountain ranges and forests running roughly parallel to the ocean/sea, with the bulk of the upper left being grassy and hilly plains. Amid the mountains and forests are various lakes and rivers. The righthand side sports a minimalistic black compass rose comprised of the letter N at the top, and a half-barb arrow pointing upwards indicating that's North on the map. The arrow in set on a circle with a crossbar implying east and west are right and left, respectively.
HERO TTRPG Tiers points per tiers/ranges in tiers.
A screenshot of my TTRPG Game System (d20, ...etc.) repository. There are 21 rows and 4 columns of folders. Some contain only a single game (i.e. single game "system".) Most contain multiple games and/or supplements. d20, GURPS and similar contain multiple versions and/or games. Some folders like "Misc" and "Historical Reference Data" are clearly, not any specific system. (Misc has things I didn't think of a good category/system name for.)
An image of AI generated text for "Domain-General Ability." (I'm skeptical about it) -------------- Domain-General Ability In subject area: Psychology Domain-general abilities refer to overarching cognitive skills that allow individuals to respond flexibly to new or complex situations, learn, and innovate, rather than being limited to specific tasks or domains. These abilities can coexist with domain-specific skills and are associated with larger brain sizes in certain species, particularly birds and mammals. AI generated definition based on: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2012
A screenshot of the thank you page you get when signing up to get The Onion delivered, in print, to your mailbox. Most of it is black text on a white background. The last item is rendered with white text on a blue background. --- A Toast To Your Redeemable Qualities In order to have made it here, we strongly suspect you have at least one of the following qualities: A wisdom sought out by leaders and scholars An indomitable will that can’t be broken A sexual allure that no man or woman can resist. A thirst for knowledge that can’t be quenched A working credit card A friendship with a sass-mouth raccoon that craves adventure
a partial screenshot of the horror movie "1408", and the director's cut, displayed in VLC.
A dual hemisphere orthographic projection of my prior linked map, Sumnar VI - Talgaea. G.Projector, free software from NASA, was used to render this projection.
A zoomed in view of the post mentioned above, in google chrome. The letters are quite tall and wide.
A picture of my departed dog Foxy laying on light tan carpet. Foxy was a cinnamon colored (likely) Shiba Inu mix. Her tail is a blur in the picture because she was wagging it vigorously. (She liked any and all attention from me)
A raven head made with white plastilina modelling clay. (Non-drying). It currently lacks eyeballs because, eyes are hard and I seem to do best once the rest is nearly done. Also visible are portions of two reference photos of black ravens. Copyright Jason C. Daniels 2025, All Rights Reserved for the photo and sculpture. In plain terms you can't make copies, and you certainly can't make money off of 'em without a contract with me.
A picture of two alien heads sculpted from clay. Each has four eyes (Large one over a smaller one on each side of the face) a narrow jaw and large flared nostrils. The head on the left is tall and oblong, while the one on the right is bi-lobal. and sports rigdes flaring back from the eye sockets. The eyeballs were omitted to save time and hassle. (I keep goofing them up. Photo and Sculptures Copyright (C) Jason C Daniels, 2025. All Rights Reserved, meaning you may not copy this, nor use it or a rendering of either head in your own works.
Some mountains labeled for how I drew them. Four were drawn using Prismacolor Premier colored pencils for all but the white peaks. A Holbein colored pencil was used for those. Another without a snowy peak is nestled among the four. A separate one was drawn using only Prismacolor Premier colored pencils, including its white peak. Shading didn't take very well on the peak. Below are two more snow capped mountains drawn using Kalour Pastel pencils (Kalour is a cheap Amazon brand) and a Pandafly White tinted charcoal pencil for the snow caps. A white pastel would have worked as well, but I prefer the feel of the white tinted charcoal as charcoal gives up its pigment more readily. Both tinted charcoal and pastels have similar blending characteristics. Additionally a blue lake with a barely darker center is in the center of the page. It was drawn with Prismacolor Premier colored pencils.
A pencil on paper drawing of a TTRPG style map. The landmass is on the right hand side of the page featuring a central mountain range extending left and downwards towards the shoreline, with some rivers a lake, and a large amount of forest and some grasslands. This map is licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA. You can use it for non-commercial purposes, so long as your work is licensed under the same license, or used for strictly personal purposes and you must credit me. See this URL for details about the license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
A screenshot of improperly rendered content on Windows 11 with Google Chrome. Several items below this initial one do not render.
A fictional continent drawn in pencil from a top-down perspective. The eastern portion shows lush woodlands abutting a massive mountain ranges. The western portion is also mountainous, though not nearly as much as the eastern part. The southern half of the western part has forests abutting the mountains as well. The central portion and Northwest are mainly desert with some scrublands. This map is licensed under CC-BY-SA-NC 4.0. It is Copyrighted to Jason C Daniels. You may NOT use it for any commercial purpose.
An Artist Bad Habit Bingo card with most of the boxes checked off.
Map Title: Fél'ihír This is a Fantasy style TTRPG map on a medium gray paper. The border, compass rose and title box are a faux metallic-gold style with brownish/coppery parts. Grassy areas are denoted in plain green. Deserts are a mix of browns, yellows and light peach. Forests are semi-3Dish looking darker green blobs. The ocean sports some deeper blue colors. Named Seas/Oceans: Gihrad's Sea, Nurwall Sea, Féhern Ocean, Pescíhl Sea Named Rivers: Aelic, Déhal, Frûn, Haern, Lenn, Níhl, Pahk Cities/Settlements: Ahnpahk, Béndûfrûn, dû Haern, Dûníhl, Ettûlen, Kaeric, Síndû, Tûdéha Usage Rights: CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0; URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Basically, You cannot use this for commercial purposes. But you can reuse/remix so long as what you create uses this same license. - For Remixes: You must attribute the original to me, Jason C. Daniels. - As long as attribution to me, Jason C. Daniels, is kept, you may redistribute this map, unmodified.
The beginnings of a Fantasy Style map on a medium gray paper. So far the map border, the title box, compass rose, landmass borders, mountains, rivers, inland seas, city markers, and islands are present. A bit of the ocean has been sketched around most of the continent in light blue. The border, compass rose and title box are a faux metallic-gold style with brownish/coppery parts. Also, unfortunately visible are some oily finger smudges due to errors in handling.
A very rough sketch of mountain ranges that tries to better capture their actual appearance from a satellite view (like crumpled paper).
Six hand drawn spheres of multiple sizes. Four are graphite. One is blue. One is red.
A CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 licensed map, Copyright Jason C. Daniels 2024. The map shows a fictional planet named Sumnar IV aka Talgaea,. It uses a 2:1 Mercator projection. The map adornments include degree markers, climate zones and prevailing winds for said zones. There's a shattered main continent occupying the western 2/3rds of the map, an arctic continent and a small continent in the south eastern portion. The shattered continent is now 3 sizeable continents and one subcontinent. Numerous islands populate the center of the now shattered continent. This revision has tentative biome symbols. Flavor Text Follows: ----- UWP: X-B87___-_ Ga __ R Travel Advisory: Interdicted; Biohazards; Hostile Fauna Archive Status: Solmani Archive Reconstruction - In Progress Overview: After acquiring Jump Drive technology, during the First Imperium, Terrans sent colonization ships to many worlds. Among the worlds was Sumnar IV, Talgaea. One million people moved from Terra to Talgaea. The initial survey showed a massive continent and one subcontinent, abundant life, modest mineral deposits, and modest gravity. Within roughly 100 years a massive cosmic object containing some highly mutagenic materials collided with the planet, shattering the main continent, and plunging the world into an ice age. Survey Data - Initial: Pre-3rd Imperium Latest: 3I-1065 Notes: By 3I- 0897 environmental factors returned to levels suitable for performing surveys. After roughly one week the survey team was killed by local mega-fauna. A recording fragment of the attack was recovered by salvage crews. To date five extended survey expeditions have been lost within a week presumably to local wildlife. Minimal documentation has been recovered. All ships were abandoned, though largely undamaged. Short surveys of roughly 1 local day have seen no significant troubles. No humaniti, indigenous sophont, or uplifted species encountered to date.
A CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 licensed map, Copyright Jason C. Daniels 2024. The map shows a fictional planet named Sumnar IV aka Talgaea,. It uses a 2:1 Mercator projection. The map adornments include degree markers, climate zones and prevailing winds for said zones. There's a shattered main continent occupying the western 2/3rds of the map, an arctic continent and a small continent in the south eastern portion. The shattered continent is now 3 sizeable continents and one subcontinent. Numerous islands populate the center of the now shattered continent. This revision has updated ice floes near the polar ice caps and corrected latitude markers. Flavor Text Follows: ----- UWP: X-B87___-_ Ga __ R Travel Advisory: Interdicted; Biohazards; Hostile Fauna Archive Status: Solmani Archive Reconstruction - In Progress Overview: After acquiring Jump Drive technology, during the First Imperium, Terrans sent colonization ships to many worlds. Among the worlds was Sumnar IV, Talgaea. One million people moved from Terra to Talgaea. The initial survey showed a massive continent and one subcontinent, abundant life, modest mineral deposits, and modest gravity. Within roughly 100 years a massive cosmic object containing some highly mutagenic materials collided with the planet, shattering the main continent, and plunging the world into an ice age. Survey Data - Initial: Pre-3rd Imperium Latest: 3I-1065 Notes: By 3I- 0897 environmental factors returned to levels suitable for performing surveys. After roughly one week the survey team was killed by local mega-fauna. A recording fragment of the attack was recovered by salvage crews. To date five extended survey expeditions have been lost within a week presumably to local wildlife. Minimal documentation has been recovered. All ships were abandoned, though largely undamaged. Short surveys of roughly 1 local day have seen no significant troubles. No humaniti, indigenous sophont, or uplifted species encountered to date.