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the dog… or the handler?

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woe. sad serana be upon ye

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I’ve been patiently waiting for a nice second-hand wood dresser to appear on fb marketplace or at Goodwill for months. Finally, I grabbed this one yesterday for $50.

My inspiration for this project are some dressers I saw at Anthropology that have gorgeous carved details. But I want my dresser to cost $200 or less rather than $2,000.

Of course I can’t add actual hand-carved wood, but I’ve got clay and some silicon molds + epoxy and a potential overconfidence in my DIY abilities.

First up, I removed the existing hardware and sanded this pretty lady down. She is now looking MUCH better without all those terrible stains (and the drawer pulls weren’t doing it for her, tbh).

Up next, I’ll give her a paint wash or three and start trying my hand at faking some carvings!

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Painted an alternative cover for Break the Day. I really like the concept, and I think the painting itself turned out good, but I think the typography needs work. It's not hitting for me yet. But either way it was fun to work on it

Here's the version without the title

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The original vid got taken to Youtube copyright hell so Todd…tell me more lies

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Care for a drink?

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Wild Duribug, modelled, textured, and animated by me

Original concept by @pipythecat206

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Hell yes beloved, those stickers are so cuuute, I love this

NaNoWriMo Replacement Challenge

Hey y'all I don't know if anyone would be interested in this but ever since I saw NaNoWriMo's bad, wishy-washy take on AI generated writing I felt so very heartbroken because the challenge is a lot of fun and they ruined everything with this insane unwillingness to stand against AI stealing and destroying creative writing.

SO!

I went and designed a firmly anti-AI replacement challenge with exactly the same goal as NaNoWriMo, to write 50k in a month, except it's gonna happen in October.

I made a lil poster for it, some stickers, drew a lil mascot, and I'm thinking it could be a fun way for people to still take on the NaNo challenge without having to swallow the heartbreak of their pro-AI stances.

I called it OctoWriBo, October Writes Bookies.

Does this sound good to anyone? I'll put a poll and if people seem to like it, I'll make a blog for it and start posting some cute stuff so we can all vibe with our writing and ignore this betrayal.

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Did some painting for my website. Meet Idriseth, the book-loving dragon

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happy tuesday

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Just a little fae character design. I wanted his fae form to look like the night sky and stars, and invert to freckles in his human form. I'm posting the sketch too, because I kinda liked it :>

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Hera wanted Athena to win

Guys hear me out, this is my conspiracy theory LMAO

I feel like in God Games when Athena is battling the Gods to help Ody, of all of them, Hera wanted her to win the whole time.

Hera is the final "level" of the game, and if Athena convinces her to say yes, then it's a yes and Ody must be released, and I'm sure Hera knew that fact.

Now look at what all the other Gods say.

Each of them gives a very specific reason why they don't want Ody to be freed.

Apollo's reason is slaughtering the sirens.

Hephaestus' reason is the Scylla sacrifice.

Aphrodite's reason is abandoning his mother.

Ares' reason is being cowardly in the Trojan war.

And then, we get to Hera, and she's just like 'Yeah just give me any good reason and I'll agree to let him go'. She has no qualms with Odysseus, she has no motivation even to fight with Athena on this. She doesn't really require convincing, per se.

She's legitimately just asking Athena to give her any half decent justification so she can say yes and make it look legit in front of Zeus.

The whole time as Athena is giving Hera reasons, Hera is also continuously egging her on to give her a better one, a more sound one that would look really convincing. She's saying things like 'Try Harder' and 'You can do better than that.'

So my theory is that after Zeus announced the God Games, Hera saw it as a chance to stick it to him for once, for all his cheating and disloyalty to their marriage, so she wanted Athena to win, and played her cards accordingly.

All she needed was Athena to give her any half-decent justification for her to say yes, so that the games look legitimate, but ultimately she was on her side the whole time. She made the game really easy for Athena, because she gave her free reign to think of absolutely anything and everything she possibly could in favor of Ody, instead of giving her a specific, niche argument she has to fight against.

Additionally, Hera is the goddess of marriage in the pantheon, and even if she doesn't care the least little bit about Odysseus, I am willing to bet she very much cares about Penelope.

Think about it, Hera herself is stuck in an awful marriage to Zeus and is not very happy about that. And she would 100% relate to Penelope's struggles of being alone, missing her husband and trying to ward off the suitors who are trying to force her into a, let's be real, abusive marriage with Antinous.

Hera as a wife definitely sympathizes with Penelope as a wife, and releasing Odysseus so he can return to Penelope is the only way to help her be protected again.

So there you go. My conspiracy is that Hera for one absolutely wanted Athena to win the entire time. I think she at the very least tried to help her, I mean she couldn't have known that Zeus would fucking kill her for winning LMAO

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Luxarx Files #1

Decided to make a series of one shot comics set in a The Office style version of the secret agency Luxarx from my Children of the Sun series. Kaleth is a bit upset about people calling him straight

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colors of the sky.

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Oracle Deck WIP

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My most beautiful creatures on earth