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New Class! WHOOO!

Winter is here. That means snow, sleet, and GREY.

You need some color!

And I’m teaming up with Three Buds Florist to bring you some!

If you’re in the Columbus area, come by on December 5th for a watercolor class! Learn to paint three kinds of flowers and turn them into a bouquet. These are great for cards, presents, or just because you cannot stand ONE MORE MINUTE without sunshine.

Class covers basic techniques and provides supplies - More advanced students are welcome!

Your ticket includes:

- 2 Hours of Instruction

- Paintings made during the workshop

- Technique Packet

- 10-page Watercolor Block Paper

- Flowers used during the workshop, care instructions and flower food to take home

- 10% off Three Buds Flower Market Coupon

Register here - There are only SIX SLOTS, grab yours before they’re gone!

See you there!

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spookystitch said: So I know that 2017 is a very long way away, but I plan out my big costumes very far in advance. And I'm leaning towards a big creature build of a librarian. Like, exoskeleton, talons, ropey limbs, several jaws, multitudes of eyes, full on creepy shit. And I think that you would be the perfect person to shoot it, preferably in an actual library. (I may also have a friend doing an angel.) I mean I SHOULD concentrate on figuring out when you will shoot Lion first I guess... But LIBRARIAN!!!

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D&D Build: Pond Terrain

Our Heroes are out for a Very Nice Walk! Surely nothing bad will happen!

Oh no! AMBUSH!

I cast PUNCH INTO POND!

Let us continue our Very Nice Walk!

Terrain: Pond/ wetlands

Materials:

Insulation foam

Paint

Black wash

Straight blade

Nail polish (to dissolve pond beds into foam)

Resin (water)

Cat litter

Rocks

Woodland scenic turf

Fake plants

Scrap flowers (fabric)

Time: A week or so

Resources:

Black Magic Craft: Water Effects

So Dungeons & Dragons has eaten my brain - and all the crafting that comes with it. Latest challenge is sculpting scenes! Modular terrain is not NECESSARY for a game, but it’s really neat. It puts me right into the world as I craft campaigns.

Lately I’ve been building a LOT OF SNOW for a future game. And am very sick of white. Time for a nice day! With ponds so I could learn RESIN POURING!

Yes. I have at last conquered resin! Or at least am not scared of it anymore… <3

PROGRESS PICTURES

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CANDLES AND PENS AND FOUNDING FATHERS WHO SING

THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS

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Gotham City Forensic Files (x)

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I didn’t want to do this...

The time has come.

I have never posted anything explicit on this blog. Not my jam. Just found out I have photosets from YEARS ago flagged as ‘Explicit.’ It’s a FULLY-DRESSED cosplayer and they are PAINTED PURPLE AND GREY.

This makes me quite sad. I’ve had a wonderful time, and it’s a blast nerding out with y’all. I’m going to let my scheduled posts run out, but will be shipping out.

So let’s keep having fun! Click the below to keep the good times rolling!

You can find me at ctgraphy.com

Instagram

Flickr

Hope I see you out there, friends! <3 <3 <3

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It Knows the Power It Wields 🖨

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decided to put these in a bit of a chronological order as i can’t help but form a story behind the scenes. it’s a storyteller’s habit. and yeah i do have an idea i would genuinely like to explore with gail simone as a crossover comic. 

i don’t want to be the writer for this. but at the same time i always found diving into these things and exploring the character chemistry was the best way to get an artistic feeling for it.

this is also how i usually develop my own stories.

anyhow, while many think this is me drawing some shipping, in fact this a proof of concept for an adventure story  featuring lara and diana. Gail simone at some point asked if they would kiss and i gave it some genuine thought. i am a character first kind of a writer, myself, so i contemplated this. then i decided, yes, probably.

after all, romantic subplots have been the bread and butter of adventure writing since its inception and i always liked that aspect of adventure stories.

 i hope this puts some things in context from my end XD

and while there will probably be a few more of these, there will be no nsfw pics. after all, camera pans away from indiana jones in those moments as well  XD

okay… there may be a chance of a kiss… but that’s about it. 

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Hey yall I had a fuckin thought 

So, as it’s roughly explained, the state alchemist program is a kind of “recruit potential human sacrifices” mechanism, with a side-order of “brute strength for the army”. But basically, the state alchemist title is mostly about being a researcher–given people like Shou Tucker exist, and given that the only requirement to stay a state alchemist is to submit a yearly report of your research that says “look I’m still being a useful scientist”.

So far, so far this is sensible, yeah? Father and the delightful children from down the lane are running a recruitment program for potential human sacrifices. So sure–butter them up! Give them lots of money, get them buddy-buddy with the government, and give them endless resources for research. It’s be pretty easy to trick a state alchemist in that position to open the portal if Sugar DaddyBradley is nudging them to do it.

And I’m still willing to go with this logic for the whole “draft the state alchemists into war” move. They make it pretty clear that was something of a last-ditch effort. And the blood transmutation circle around Amestris was an absolute necessity for Father’s plan. So the risk of a few state alchemists dying or resigning from your Potential Sacrifice Pool is worth it for the completion of the circle.

Now. To get to my fucking thought. 

Edward fucking Elric. This fucking fight-me 12 year old troglodyte shows up to the exam and performs circle-less transmutation in front of mother fucking Bradley, demonstrating to one of the seven Actual Fucking Homunculi that he’d already opened the portal. Ed was literally prepped as a human sacrifice before he showed up to Central. A fully set human sacrifice showed up at the homunculi’s door, said “hey look what I can do!”, proved he’d opened the mother fucking portal already, and said “hey yeah hire me”. Human sacrifice, free shipping, no assembly required, handcuffs not included!

They could have just tossed Ed into a shoebox and kept him there until the Promised Day. They wouldn’t even need to make up an excuse he attacked the f u  c k i n g president. That’s fucking treason babey. He’s 12, he’s an orphan, he’s from a rural town in buttfuck nowhere, he’s literally the easiest person alive to disappear. They could have arrested him for assassination crimes, kept him in gay baby jail, and just popped him out for the Promised Day

What do they do instead?! “Oh lmao this kid’s great. Let’s give him infinite money, no supervision, no governmental responsibilities, access to all our secret resources, and toss him on a train to who-the-fuck-knows-where-land”

They fucking did that

And like? They then had the audacity to be concerned when Edward “Fight Me” Elric almost got himself killed about 293 times. Just an endless game of “I thought u were watching him” from one homunculus to another when Ed fucking absconds half-way across the globe to go entice some other hostile entity into murdering him to death. That’s the whole series. Every arc is Ed baiting death while the homunculi are in the background like “:/ wish he wouldn’t do that”

This only gets worse when you consider they later learned Al opened the portal too because really?? These two stab-happy globe-trotting public menaces are 40% of your final evil plan for godhood. 40%. Almost half. You couldn’t fucking set aside a cardboard box to keep these idiots in?

We all knew Father was terrible at planning when we learned his thousands-of-years-in-the-making-plan involved him procrastinating until the last five minutes to get his last sacrifice, while he was?? playing chess in his fucking basement, I guess. But it’s like every time I think about it like really think about it I find 7 more reasons Father was a fucking shit idiot moron, king of the stupid fucking idiot club, flesh and blood founder of seven other established dumbasses, all living in their idiot hovel under central, just giving random dumbass 12 year olds infinite money, j u s t  b e c a u s e.

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I relate to Entrapta on a personal level.

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I have some DARLING people disparaging Planned Parenthood on this post - Just donated in your names, AND they are doubling donations right now.

You’re welcome! ~

Also, for those arguing that SA is a major supporter in the South (and want to make an impact in that area) - Pointing you towards the Southern Poverty Law Center!

So what will you do with your morning? <3

Reminder not to support the Salvation Army who are a bunch of bigots

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Lin ALSO played a game of D&D with them for an Adventure Zone donor episode and if THAT isn’t worth throwing money at Maximum Fun for access I don’t know what to tell you. <3

nothing has shaken me to my core more than learning that lin manuel miranda not only knows the mcelroy brothers, but directly wrote at least one verse in the hamilton song “we know” with their ‘vocal cadence’ in mind

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Laughing and crying OH MY FRITH 

This is absolutely incredible!

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funny how when i started on being trans my end goal was post-serum captain america but a year and a half in i just wanna be mr rogers. gimme a comfy sweater and some cute magical friends to be nice to. that’s enough. today i saw a bat and made brownies. i used to think that righteousness was about violence and anger and now i think i’m finally done with that. righteousness can just be keeping a good home and finding things to laugh about and being kind even when the world is falling apart all around you. that’s good enough. 

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the players handbook: tieflings have mostly human skin colors, but sometimes they can be red!

everyone else:

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Whooooooo boy XD

Hoot Hoot

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Here’s JUST A FEW charities to support instead! <3

Kaleidoscope Youth Center

The Trevor Project

Planned Parenthood

All Out

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