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Writer and illustrator of fact cards. My website https://www.playground-of-nations.com/about-the-author
I have a surprise in the works when I reach 565 followers on here😁
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Here's the ornament in question. I just read up about managing two BSky accounts bad I think I might use my Outlook email to run a potential account for the il little guy on here.
A white haired, bearded nutcracker in silver attire sitting on a matching rocking horse. This is a Christmas ornament that still has its manufacturer tag on it and it is displayed on an open notebook
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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I even had this to say on the ToXic when. I saw the film's poster:
Let me guess. A generic "we have to help Santa save Christmas from an evil force and then preach about Giving being better than receiving + spending time with family > presents" Xmas flick. I've haven't seen it and I can already tell the plot already.
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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It makes me wonder how long it will be before a plot like this but for Internet server outages (like AWS or Crowdstrike) start popping up.
A starterpack by u/mimitchi33 about Power outage episode of a kids show, featuring various plot points like characters announce the outage when it happens, characters try and fail to get the lights back on, (power outage) usually caused by a bad weather event, characters try to entertain themselves without electricity, characters pretend to be people living in ancient times and if it's a preschool show, expect there to be a moral about not being scared of the dark. Starterpack features screencaps from Arthur, Bear in the Big Blue House and Rosie Rules.
October 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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It's been a long time since I shared a newly made handkerchief here (or anywhere online) so here's one I made a few hours ago.
A brightly coloured handkerchief lies against a pink throw over a dark blue duvet with pink and light blue flowers. The handkerchief has a white background that is osbcuted by yellow and orange flowers with light green leaves. It is hemmed with purple thread.
October 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Here's a quickie on what he did that saw him being sent down the trap door to my block list (TW: inappropriate behaviour)
Matthew "Animator320" Littlemore, who is best known for his series CartoonMania, was hit in June 2020 with accusations of inappropriate behavior by several crew members, namely his attempt to sexualize the show's underage characters, acting perverted towards others even when they were clearly uncomfortable, and being emotionally abusive to his colleagues. The planned CartoonMania reboot was scrapped, Animator deleted all of his social media accounts, disabled comments on all of his videos, and has stated that he would never be returning to the limelight. However, Matthew seems to have returned to making short animations as of 2022, albeit with comments disabled. Source: Role Ending Misdemeanors - Web Original (TV Tropes)
September 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I just did another Ozzy Osbourne drawing and the mood in this one kind of matches how I felt reading about the Dress To Impress scandal.
A digital side profile illustration of Ozzy Osbourne, looking shocked through his purple tinted Windsor style sunglasses. Long dark brown hair worn loosely, he is dressed in black clothes and gold jewellery, like a cross are seen being worn around his neck. Ozzy has black eyeliner around his eyes. My reference for this was from the Pepsi Twist advert that featured Ozzy Osbourne, his children Jack and Kelly as well as the unrelated Osmonds Donny and Marie. To the right of Ozzy, my socials in a coloumn This includes my DeviantArt:OffClaireBlue2001 my Instagram @scullyclaire, my BlueSky @clairebigblue2001.bsky.social‬, my X/Twitter ClairebigBlue, my Tumblr sweatyrunawayphilosopher, my website www.playground-of-nations.com and my email clairebigblue@gmail.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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#dreamdiary #castle #library #ifonlyitwasreal
I dreamt that there was a giant castle on a hill with a strange entrance. In order to get into it, you went into a three storey building that was in the town that the castle was in and that buukdling had steps that took you into the castle. The castle had a very big library full of books and there were spectacular views from the castle courtyard of the town below you. The castle was indeed con top of the town and the walls of the town buildings below were the castle's foundations. There were also different parts to explore in the castle like a bedroom in a round tower.
August 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Alongside listening to Miracle Man, I've been teaching myself with reference photos to draw Ozzy Osbourne himself. Here's a sample of one of the drawings since I have a 400KB Microsoft Paint file (PNG) that features him about 17 times so far.
A digital illustration of Ozzy Osbourne. A section of his dark brown hair partially covers his purple tinted Windsor style sunglasses. Shirtless, he is holding a small golden cross while showing off a bat themed tattoo.
August 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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So I was playing Miracle Man by Ozzy Osbourne earlier (well, for the past couple of days since discovering it) and I apparently played it enough times to eradicate another evangelical. A second less evangelical for this pagan to worry about:
#DingDongTheWitchIsDead
Cropped DuckDuckGo search showing a BBC news link for an article about the death of "Influential US evangelical leader James Dobson dies aged 87". preview for article reads Dr James Dobson, a prominent and influential evangelical leader who advised four US presidents, has died aged 89. Dobson was a fixture in Conservative US...
August 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I was reading the Western Animation examples of the trope Incredible Shrinking Man + this link at the Inspector Gadget got me think what if a reverse of this happened where a cyborg was imprisoned in a giant version of his house and was followed by giant versions of his family-
The western animation apge for examples of the trope Incredible Shrinking Man. Most of the page has been darkened after I hard pressed the sentence "Gadget gets the wrong end of the Stick" which has seen a dialogue box pop up for the TV Tropes page Comically Missing The Point with options to open the link in a new tab, open the link in a new private tab, copy link, download link or share link. The example of the trope Incredible Shrinking Man in question reads as follows: Inspector Gadget: "The Incredible Shrinking Gadget" sees Gadget getting shrunk by MAD agents. Naturally, Gadget gets the wrong end of the stick and assumes he's in a giant version of his house populated by giant robot versions of his family.
August 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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#dreamdiary one I had ealrier this month
À photo of a dream diary entry for 12 July 2025 featuring a drawing of a donut shaped (referred in text as circular) apartment building with 4 floors next to a small hill with 8 crosses marking 8 graves. Handwritten text reads: A scene that I had from my dream last night where my town had these abandoned circular apartments that were abandoned after all the residents died in some nuclear disaster and were all buried in very deep graves on the very property that killed them. Oddly enough, I never became sick but was anxious about becoming sick.
July 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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#dreamdiary
Dream Diary entry 21 July 2025 My dream first started out with an anthropomorphic blueberry character and thier anthropomorphic bucket friend and they had to complete an ancient indigenous temple video game that they were trapped in al while being watched on a giant screen by a dark haired man with a tawny ckin complexion in red and black clothes watching them while leaning back in a chair and enjoying a cocktail. Only the bulberry character got out by jumping through the screen. The rest of the drwma involved bmy dad and I having drop my mum off at the hospital because she needed to catch a bus at for the airport there. As we watched her wlak towards the bus stop, I recognised a pale skinned, dark haired woman in the AnE. She told me when I went in there that she was there because someone threw a snowball at her and she nearly died of frostbite. I decided to add her number to my phone's contacts and even though her name was Tiana, the phone contacts had her down as Andrea. I then tried to follow her so I could rectify the mistake but I needed up losing her and went down the high corridor of the hospital before I ended up in another tall room with a wooden ceiling nad fan lights. I woke up after entering that corridor and I recognised it from another dream I had.
July 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Here's a Did Not Finish review of a book that I will gleefully donate the next time I need or want to go to a charity shop. #dnf
My mum Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson I can't get passed the part where the narrator says that her mother took up a part time job at a wine bar to fund her media studies course at university only to love the job so much that she dropped out which came back to bite her when the narrator (her daughter) was born and she was fired so now she struggles to pay the bills with her current job and sleeps with random blokes. Realism aside, I expected much better from Tracy Beaker. If Elsa (an aspiring comedian) from The Bed and Breakfast Star (another Jacqueline Wilson character I liked growing up) gets a sequel where she's also a struggling single mum, I will be livid!
July 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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#dreamdiary
The railway lien from that previous dream was also in this one. I forgot to mention in the notes that the shop was up in a mountain range in Northern Ireland.
I dreamt that we took a train to Northern Ireland to this place with cone shaped rocks that you could buy for a school trip and there were some childhood favourite toys there like a Barbie and the Three Musketeers doll and a royal palace toy chair that open up and you yould put things in the seat. There was this word being thrown around orally called Perjolsy and I can't remember if it was being used to describe the rocks or the dollhouse furnishings that had secret compartments. Before we headed back, I had collected several items to being home and I was also making of things that I wanted to bring home with me the next time I would tiem to the business.
July 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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open.spotify.com/track/3Y980P...
An English Rose (same melody, same feelings but different person) cut of Fragmented Memories by MilkyyMelodies where instead of it being Sally's origin, it would be about my cyborg coming to terms with his cybernetics.
July 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Plus, the yellow would have to be a bright and saturated one so I'll need to get some yellow dye to make the bow more or less accurate to the source and realistic too! I only have canary yellow which will make it look like it was bleeched.
A close up of Xan Adrenalini's bright yellow bowtie. Much like the wearer, the bowtie's composition consists of triangles, in this case just two yellow triangles.
July 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Making that hair bow has made me realise that I can finally make a hairbow inspired by one of my first hear me outs🏍️
Screenshot from Google Images. A drawing of the character Xan Andrenalini from The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers. In this screencaps from the episode Balloon of Lunacy, he is in a hot air balloon and spying on the inhabitants below with a big telescope while sticking his tongue out and holding a photo of a fair skinned, blonde haired woman in a pink dress. Xan is a tall and slender male character with tawny coloured skin, black hair that stands up in a singular area on his triangular shaped head (though almost his entire character design consists of triangles), violet tinted sunglasses which have slipped down his long pointy nose and exposing his green eyes. He also has a black handlebar moustache that curls slightly at the tips. He also has green eyes. He is dressed in an ocean blue leotard with a fiery yellow capitalised A on it surrounded by a white boarded red circle, black gloves and boots (though the boots are not shown in the drawing), a yellow bowtie and a red cape with a high collar.
July 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
clairebigblue2001.bsky.social
Happy Bastille Day!
Here's a photo of the homemade hairbow in the French colours that I am wearing in my hair today. I made it myself out of fabrics that I had from previous projects while following a TikTok tutorial. It took me almost 3 days to take time out to make it.
A blue and red fabric hair bow with a white middle resting on an open notebook that has bee motifs on the bottom corners of a page. The silver clip the bow is attached to is peeking out from the bottom underneath the bow
July 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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youtu.be/IxjnWh-DYpI?...
Looking at this Lego stop motion animation on YouTube made me realise that if there was ever a live action Fireman Sam film series for older viewers then a nuclear power plant fire could be that hypothetical film series' No Time to Die where Sam risks and eventually succumbs to radiation poisoning with Everyting I wanted by Billie Eilish playing in the scene (or even a Welsh language cover).
July 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Here he is with his facepaint on. What would you call him?
A digitalised drawing of an anthropomorphic Finn-Dorset sheep wearing a brown flat cap and has facepaint on his face of violet five point star over his right eye and a flower on his left cheek.
July 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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It finally happened. After nearly 24 years on this planet, I created by first two anthropomorphic characters. I never thought it would come to this since I am more inclined to make cyborg and human and even robotic characters.
#frictionpen #WritersofBlueSky #drawing #humanart #anthro
A photograph of my notebook resting on a floral quilt. On the left hand side of the page we have a wooly sheep standing on two feet (George Orwell would flip if he saw this mouton) wearing a flat cap accompanied by the writibg "sheep man with face paint (gets de-ticked in one segment)". The actual face paint will be added later. The right-hand side of the page features a bespectled climbing plant with the caption Harry Benny Climb vine. He came about from a scene in an episode of Harry Hill's Shark Infested Custard where his dad got him reveal how he used to be a climbing plant and the name came about from a misconception I had as a kid about Harry Hill being relate to Benny Hill when in actuality, Harry Hill is a stage name for Matthew Hall.
July 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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A cross post from the ToXic, now completed in a notes app format with ALT Text for the visually impaired.
Since the mid 2000s, I don't have a uvula (dangly mouth piece) which was removed along with my tonsils and we don't know why it was removed. I wasn't even told that the uvula was gone and found out while watching cartoons and they showed the inside of the mouth. What's strange is that I don't even know and neither do my parents know why my uvula was removed along with the tonsils which were removed due ot being swollen.
July 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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One walk down to the caravan park in Salthill, Galway and back later...
Redmi Step counter app showing a tall red-orange pole for the 5,365 steps taken between 18:00 (6PM) and 19:00 (7PM) Below, statistics show it was a duration of 1 hour 49 minutes, 7km travelled and 509 calories were burned.
July 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Placing all these pins into this pin cushion made me feel like I was putting in a load of candles into a novelty birthday cake for someone old in those birthday cards.
A cheery but near colourless hedgehog themed pincushion loaded with butterfly tipped tacking pins for sewing and a sewing clip on the ear.
June 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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I have many but here's a taster of those tropes
1. Body swap (whether voices are the only things swapped or not) 2. Treasure quest where the treasure was something along the liens of family/ friends made along the way 3. Glaslighing into not being yourself until the climax plots 4. Lying to avoid non existent scolding 5. A makeover/ weight loss plot that delves into a forced be yourself message. 6. Eavesdropping plots 7. Forgotten on surprise birthday plots 8.Any plots that say relationships > cash to pay the bills 9. Going on a quest with a magic feather that breaks in the third act and makes everyone realise that they needed to believe in themselves.
June 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM