Aster Fialla's Miscellany

I'm Aster: software engineer, game designer, illustrator, comic artist, and sundry-other-things-doer. This site has my art, games, blogs, and miscellaneous other stuff. What do you want to check out?

Art

Laios from Delicious in Dungeon in a monstrous form. Princess Cathabel and her alien girlfriend, Dor. A psychedelic satyr, Manny.

Blog

Octothorpes!

Posted: February 12, 2026

Category: meta

I just joined Octothorpes, which is a server (not like a Discord server) for the Octothorpe Protocol. It basically connects my blogposts with other websites...

Accessibility is not an afterthought

Posted: January 30, 2026

Category: essays

Tags:  coding

Accessibility is not an afterthought. You should be accommodating to the many, many people out there with disabilities who want or need to access your...

An atheist/non-spiritual approach to tarot

Posted: September 19, 2025

Category: essays

Tags:  tarot

I am not a spiritual person. While I recognize these are important to many people, spirituality, magic, “magick”, and “metaphysics” are not practices I follow...

Games

Andromeda Chained

An etching of Andromeda from the Perseus myth, chained to rocks..

A myth retelling in dynamic fiction.

After the Mind, the World Again

A magnifying glass looking over a brain and blood, with bursts of color in the background..

A Disco Elysium-inspired murder mystery TTRPG about a detective and the voices in his head.

Compassionate Simulation

A brain made out of circuits..

—our company mission to provide grieving families with accurate, compassionate simulations of their deceased loved ones—