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Neurotic creative, book sniffer, luddite lite, failed scientist, art lover, and chronically-ill stationery hoarder (autistic & ace) 📚📓📝🖋️✂️📌 #thedeskgoblin 🇵🇭 30+ #commonplacebook haver ❗1# genAI hater❗

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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · Dec 8

#commonplacebook #notebook #stationery habit

Set up.

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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · Aug 7

I was not prepared for how much fur my dog actually had when deciding for this apartment. Open storage with fluffy dog fur?? I was asking for a bad time ugh

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Tokyo Sexwhale @tokyosexwhale.bsky.social · Aug 5

Just sayin’

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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · Aug 5

My stationery EDC (Errand Day Carry)

Passport sized traveler's notebook system together with a mini notepad and a tape measure attached to it.

👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · Aug 5

I did. But it's such a loose sketch because I got anxious someone was gonna peak over my shoulder. He was using the steering wheel as a writing surface.

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Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · Aug 4

01: A girl labeled 'Artists' is holding a drawing tablet and pen under her arm. She is wearing round glasses and a blue sweatshirt. She has messy dark-brown hair and a brown skin-tone. She says "We don't really wanna MAKE A.I. art."

02: A guy labeled 'Art Enjoyers' holds his hand out while speaking. She is wearing a purple and yellow hawaiian shirt with a floral pattern over a white t-shirt, and has red hair and a light skin-tone. He says "We don't really wanna SEE A.I. art."

03: Behind them both, there is a cute girl in a business suit with a pink tie. She is blushing a bit and has pink eyeshadow, and looks upset. Her messy shoulder-length hair is parted in the middle, and held by two hairclips: one that looks like a red arrow pointing down, and one that looks like a green arrow pointing up. She says "Um ... I-Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?" She is labeled 'Shareholders'.

04: She puffs up her cheeks and pouts, a tear is on the verge of falling from one of her eyes. 'Artist Enjoyers' Guy is now in front of her yelling "AH!! SHAREHOLDERS-CHAN!!" while 'Artists' Girl is in front of her yelling "WE'RE SORRY WE HURT YOU!!!!"

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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · Aug 3

Gotta say…

Sketchbook comic page 3:

Panel 1: Lucy is surrounded by speech bubbles and text, repeating the phrase “gotta say…” she looks terrified.

Panel 2: she is fleeing the repeated “gotta say”s, yelling “you gotta live with yourselves, but I don’t gotta!”

A note with a heart at the end reads “stop doing this I will not absolve you.”

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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · Aug 4

Watching the bus driver handwrite his routes and stats for the day and seeing him being picky about his pens. He has really nice handwriting. Maybe I'll sketch him later.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Aug 2

Wow, this 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box still contains original pigments!

Looks similar to a modern-day set!

An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II.

📷 Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680

#Archaeology

Cleveland Museum photo showing an ancient Egyptian paint box carved from boxwood with five oval wells containing original paint pigments. From top to bottom the preserved cake pigments are red (red ochre), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ochre, and orpiment) and two of black (carbon black, from charcoal). Dimensions 2.2 cm x 21 cm x 3.6 cm.

On the front of the box there’s an inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue with the name Amenemope who was Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II, Dynasty 18. It translates as ‘The overseer of the city and vizier Amenemope. Master of secrets of the west bank [of Thebes]’. A red inscription on the back reads ‘Amen-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands’. Dated c. 1427-1401 BC.

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Tungsten @tungstenbrass.bsky.social · Aug 3

You can post here twice in a single day!
No one will stop you
It's also possible no one will see you! Ha!
Part of the fun on this platform. In my case, at least. Refreshing.
I'll show Sue Sakamoto this time as I was talking about Cave Story with a friend yesterday.
Used the Pelikan m205 fountain pen

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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · Aug 3

Finally have a proper plastic storage for my dip nibs. A bit giddy about restarting drawing with inks again.

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Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers @drtiffanyaflowers.bsky.social · Aug 2

There is a a Black-owned bookstore in Las Vegas. It is called Analog Bookstore. Please support!

#Blacksky

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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · Aug 2

I can only afford to get the nice things when they're preloved and that's okay 👍

👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thrifted an old tray with handles and a leather pouch today at the nice Japan-Korea surplus today. I now have a pouch for all my annotation supplies and have a tray to eat out of when I am reading on my computer chair.

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bsb @blackshirtboy.bsky.social · Jul 31

Let's Keep Calling!

An image of a huge jackboot crushing a comic artist and a bunch of comic pages. The boot is marked by the logos for MasterCard, Visa, Paypal, and Stripe. Below the image there is text which reads: Don't let Payment Processors tell YOU what you can buy! It is not a payment processor's role to decide what kind of content you can or cannot spend money on, so long as it is a legal transaction. Fight back against the unjust policies hurting artists and creators online!

https://yellat.money/
https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

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leyla spoopydova 🎃✨ @leylses.bsky.social · Aug 1

i was affected by the cancellation of zenimax online's unannounced MMO, which means you 🫵 can hire me to help your art & cinematics teams.

reposts, recs, and leads appreciated! the DMs will remain open until the employment situation improves.