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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 6h

Jared Leto has to be involved in some „the producers“-type scam with the studios. He keeps getting big money to star in big budget films that immediately tank. He‘s got to be getting a portion of the money on the tax writeoff.

Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 1d

I usually have to choose between fitting either my 80 inch arms or my 440 inch waist, it’s nice that this brand puts those both into a 3XL

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 2d

Or if it needs to be a thing, ask her what her favorite sketchbook and get her another copy.

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, gift card to a local art supply store would be best. You could also phrase it as the gift being a shopping trip to the store with you, where you pick up the tab up to X amount.

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 2d

Every artist you admire has, at most, 4 very specific tools that they use to create their work don’t buy them art supplies unless you know them exactly. If you buy me a set of pencils I will use the 2h and F pencils down to the nub and throw everything from 9b-2b into a drawer and forget about it.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · May 9

Every single person with any kind of creative hobby or even interest is guaranteed to get the worst fucking gifts related to it possible.

"Here, I searched for "frog" and bought the first item I saw under $5. It says it's now 40% less neurotoxic"

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 2d

For the love of god if you have an artist in your life please do *not* under any circumstance buy them any of those „complete drawing kits“ that have, like, a single pencil of every hardness and a charcoal stick and some cheap watercolor paints and whatever.

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 3d

Graphic designer / animator here: Edit Someone Else‘s .PSD

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 4d

My son this evening: „Uuugh there’s no gluesticks in this house and no peanuts either. I can’t do ANYTHING I want to do.“

Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 7d

Love it!

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Brandon "Tunnel Ignus" Kirkman @kirkmanbrandon.bsky.social · 7d

The Songtober drawing for today is Black as Crow by Rhiannon Giddens requested by @mcthrill.bsky.social. A very beautiful Appalachian folk ballad so wanted capture something nice and simple with some hobo signs thrown in

A black crow standing on top of an old stone with the hobo symbol for safe camp drawn on it

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 8d

It’s probably my fault, I just don’t post that often. Social media is so tiring now.

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 10d

just sacrificing an endless stream of surfers directly into the maw of the ocean god

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 14d

The Blackest Crow (aka Black as Crow)

Rhiannon Giddens - "Black as Crow" (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Rhiannon Giddens

youtu.be

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 15d

I’d be much more interested in playing the game again if I knew I didn’t have to spend 30 minutes yelling at myself while auto-potioning in order to beat Wiegraf.

Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 15d

Something I haven’t managed to find in any review is if the game has been rebalanced in all those missions where you could be softlocked just by not having the right class for ramza or a character fast enough to stop an NPC from being killed.

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Brandon "Tunnel Ignus" Kirkman @kirkmanbrandon.bsky.social · 16d

After 2016: I think there’s many factors that have led us here. Starting with American imperialism and exceptionalism being fueled by past decades of Reagan policies and fear mongering, we can see how…

After 2024: computer bad and computer should always have been in separate room, away from people

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 15d

„Our computer has its own room. But don’t worry, even if you have to go into the room for non-computer reasons like vacuuming you still won’t have to see computer.“

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 15d

Not only did it have its own room, it had its own furniture that had its own little door you could close like a computer airlock. Bring back hutches.

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 18d

Finally made it through "Megalopolis" and man, it is wild that this film came from the same man who made The Godfather.

Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 18d

Can I also have a vat of goo as well

Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 19d

If cuckoo ever gets a reprint and cover update they should add

„this is a great book! Really wacky stuff“
- Sarah‘s Aunt

As one of the blurbs on the back.

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 20d

Ishmael just like me fr fr

Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 22d

It's the perfect example of US christianity - the Bible says that once the antichrist comes there will be 1000 years of suffering before God takes everyone to heaven, so US Christians invent a thing where they get to skip the bad years and go direct to heaven and only non-christians have to suffer.

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 23d

The new youth pastor at my Methodist church was a young earther who invited a speaker to talk to the youth, and our church band leader (who was a scientist at a national lab) just fucking eviscerated every single one of his talking points in front of the whole youth group, it was really impressive.

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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill @mcthrill.bsky.social · 26d

It’s like watching a graph line just go down down down and you think „there’s literally no physical way it can go down any farther and then the graph shifts and you realize there’s a Z axis and there still a whole other dimension of embarrassment to traverse.

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