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30s He/Him 🌈 "You’re putting on airs. You’re dreaming big. Bigger than the life you have. You’re aspiring, you know? But you don’t really know how to get there." - Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine

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solidork | A jumbled pile of person. @franticshepherd.bsky.social · Nov 13

A write up I did for a family of "werewolves" that live in the Walking Fields, part of the setting for Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine. Revisited it yesterday and I'm still pretty pleased with it. It's inspired by the fairy tale of Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf. 1/3

The Volkovs

(Illustration for the Fairy Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf, 1902, Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin) There is a traditional tale about a prince who sought a firebird for his father,…

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solidork | A jumbled pile of person. @franticshepherd.bsky.social · 2d

It's been rough. "I don't have space for more bookshelves" was a huge part of my impulse control.

Nikki 'Samyazan Scion' Ophan @nikkiophan.bsky.social · 2d

yea im living in the house of leaves, you know, from the documentary/manuscript/book thing? its been chill, idk what everyone else was complaining about, bought it dirt cheap and ive had a great time, love my real big house

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 9d

Dude if the Democratic Party has a place for anti-trans and anti-abortion candidates then I’m not a democrat and I won’t vote for one

I don’t know what to tell you man, there’s already a political party who believes these things

It’s not a “big tent” to have zero fixed values in pursuit of power

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fennec :verified: :therian: @fen.yiff.life.ap.brid.gy · 10d

finally some normal fucking people on reddit

A reddit post in r/mildlyinteresting titled: "I add a layer of paint to this quarter whenever I’m in a meeting". The associated picture shows a rounded conical glob of blueish white paint on top of a yellow kraft paper square, with a paint-riter+ pen behind it, on a desk.

A comment by the author of the post named "nominyomom":

Some information:
- The coin has been in progress since February 2025.
- Daily standup is the biggest contributor.
- Engineering at Big Tech is 90% figuring out what everyone is doing.
- I’ve emptied 2.75 Markal Paint-Ritter+ pens.
- I also add colors with Expo and Sharpies but those don’t add much thickness.
- The paint blob never fully dries, it takes fingerprints very well and sags due to gravity and surface tension
- If it ever gets misshapen, I add a bunch of the paint, it softens up and surface tension pulls it back into symmetry.
- The quarter is a State Quarter, but I have forgotten which state.
- if the meeting is especially useless, I lift it to my nose and take nice big whiffs.

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solidork | A jumbled pile of person. @franticshepherd.bsky.social · 10d

Used it yesterday to check out tournament coverage of @magic.wizards.com from the 00's earlier this week, looking for when a specific deck innovation was made. Interviews, deck lists, individual match reports—youd be surprised how much was written in that era.

Internet Archive @archive.org · 10d

We're celebrating 1 trillion webpages archived in the Wayback Machine on October 22 🎉

We want to hear from you: Why is the Wayback Machine important to YOU? Make a short video & share it with hashtag #Wayback1T 🤳

Let's celebrate a trillion memories together.

INFO ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/09/23/

Frame grabs from videos of two people responding to the text at the top of the image, which reads: "Why is the Wayback Machine important to you? Share your story with us!"

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tama @tama00001234.bsky.social · 29d

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fibbing 24/7 @phimeirai.bsky.social · 13d

hydraulics

3 drawings of henriette, a short satyr-creature with varying states of tilt. background text reads 'ACS - ATTITUDE CONTROL SYSTEM', alluding to attitude in the geometric sense, and somewhat in the psychological sense.

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🌿barayajis (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و🌿 @ziggyzagz.bsky.social · 19d

GARGOYLES!!!
#art #zigzart

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Logan V. { 𓃥𓃥𓃦 } @animalshapes.bsky.social · Jun 27

Long + bow. 🏹

(commission)

Able to hit a sparrow's egg from 200 yards. Happy taursday!

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Logan V. { 𓃥𓃥𓃦 } @animalshapes.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hang in there! 🛠

[ #art #characters #taurs ]

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solidork | A jumbled pile of person. @franticshepherd.bsky.social · 23d

Rewatching Revolutionary Girl Utena Episode 7 (Jury Unfulfilled) as a thematic complement to this episode on Signs.

Friends at the Table @friends-table.bsky.social · 23d

Hey the latest episode of Media Club Plus is now out, covering Signs (2002). In this one M Night Shyamalan personally kills a wife. Find it in your podcast app, or at mediaclub.plus

And find the screenshots here, as always, as a public post on our patreon
www.patreon.com/posts/tv-is-...

TV Is The Fifth Character - Signs: Media Club Plus S02E03 | Friends at the Table

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solidork | A jumbled pile of person. @franticshepherd.bsky.social · 29d

Ever have one of those moments where music that's playing accidentally perfectly complements what's going on?
Pulling up to drop off my parents at the airport this morning:
"If you want to see the world you have to say goodbye / cause a map does no good hanging on a wall"

solidork | A jumbled pile of person. @franticshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 9

Obviously everyone knows what they actually do, but it could be fun to remake them with more modern design sensibilities.

solidork | A jumbled pile of person. @franticshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 9

The names of the original 14 Magic: the Gathering cards according to Austin and Jack on the most recent Side Story. Back in the day you could only play with these, and Ludevico's doesn't really count because it'd make your friends stop talking to you.

The Frog
Dog Leg
Wizard King
Fight of Leaves
The Song
The Sun
Awful Son of the Demon
Father Demon
Box Containing Egg
Crowbar
Four Cats' Wishes
Fireball
Ludevico's Ice Shield
Strange Device
The Whisper in the Night

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gob 𖦹 @goblinpng.bsky.social · Aug 18

there he is

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alex moore @notanotheralex.bsky.social · Sep 7

do love a good DnD breif where you get to sink your teeth into some TRULY unruly characters 👌

#art #dnd #ttrpg

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solidork | A jumbled pile of person. @franticshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 8

The main consequence of this would just be that I spend less time with my friends who all loved it, so it would largely be a self defeating endeavor.

solidork | A jumbled pile of person. @franticshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 8

Had a particularly miserable first time with Gloomhaven (partly my own fault, partly not) and I'm tempted to just be a hater about it and not give it a second chance.

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Léo Chérel @cherelleo.bsky.social · Aug 29

A bunch of nasty foes you might encounter along your way :

Sketchbook pages depicting a few fantasy inspired ennemies. from top left to bottom right : a tiny wizard, a great harpy covered in gold jewelry, a fly-guy thief, a bullfroag in armor with an axe, a regular harpy, a barbarian toad, a frog assassin with a scar on his face and a classic goblin bandit.

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solidork | A jumbled pile of person. @franticshepherd.bsky.social · Aug 31

3x Revolutionists is 🔥

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Goldentar @goldentar.bsky.social · Mar 18

Let the man sleep~

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Matt Garbutt @artmonkeymg.bsky.social · Aug 23

A commission WIP

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · Aug 22

Like suggesting you need to floodlight a stadium, when all you need is a torch to find your seat. And I'd argue that most net zero experts are not waiting for new technology to solve the problem - its a willpower and financial issue. We have the solutions, and AI wasn't, and isn't, part of it.

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VER @verface.bsky.social · Aug 21

hare hare hawk

An etched black and white picture against a stark yellow background. The picture depicts a hawk surrounded by six stylized hares.

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solidork | A jumbled pile of person. @franticshepherd.bsky.social · Jul 23

I'm playing Adventure Mode on Forge on my phone a lot lately, and my deck has some real sweet lines. Only starting with 8 life is making things challenging in a fun way.

Magic the Gathering card - Gixian Puppeteer

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sbeep @sbeep.bsky.social · Jul 22

Need to establish my knightly credentials on this site.

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