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Jesse Mostipak
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never was a cornflake girl

founder: Plain Jane Studio • bonkers obsessed with medieval history • Victorian literature aficionado • Pam Poovey stan • 2D/3D environment artist • author: The Lost Chronicles (WIP)
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happy first major snowfall day to all who celebrate!
Photo of Bjorn, a black and tan Schipperke, standing in the snow. His head is covered with snowflakes, and his nose is caked with snow from digging around in piles of the stuff.
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I hope it has a happy ending!
Photo of the Michael R. Katz translation of The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. There are thick, purple horizontal lines running across the cover, and in the foreground is an illustration of a man walking down a road that leads to a village. There are mountains in the background.
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I know neighbors are always a crapshoot but mine just told me about all of the research they did in picking out dog treats for Bjorn.
Photo of Bjorn, a black and tan Schipperke. He's sitting on an unmade bed, and half hidden under pillows. It was sheet-changing day, don't at me.
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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100% this pizza is going to change my life. I can feel it.
rectangular pizza with pepperoni and fresh basil sitting on a wooden cutting board
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
kierisi.bsky.social
without downloading any new pics, what's it like dating you?
Black and white photo of Edie Beale from Grey Gardens, standing in the room of a dilapidated house while holding two cats. Edie is wearing a head scarf, long sleeves top, and calf-length skirt.
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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recorded a webinar and wanted everyone to know I take it very seriously
Slack message exchange: Collaborator: Do you have cat ears on? Jesse (me): maaaaybe
November 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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bought the kittens a ripple rug. no regrets.
Floki, an orange and white tabby, and Luna, a black tabby, are playing with a ripple rug. The rug has holes cut in it, and is draped over a box. Luna is sitting on top of the rug on the left hand side of the photo, and Floki's head is peeking out from under the rug on the right hand side of the photo.
October 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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can't find my colored pencils (again) and am about to make some terrible financial decisions
Photo from the Caran D'Ache website of a Box of 100 Colours LUMINANCE 6901™ + 2 Blender $ 618.50 + 618 reward points
October 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I'm not saying I let him spend the entire night sleeping in the center of the bed, while I rotisserie chickened in the smidgen of space between him and the edge of the bed.

I'm also not not saying that's what happened.
Photo of Jinx, an (shaved!) orange and white tabby cat sleeping soundly with his head propped up against a large green throw pillow.
September 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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final project for my final class: ✨ submitted ✨

#3Dart #3Dmodeling #LookDev #xgen
Final model and LookDev layout for a character created by Lane Garrison. On the left is the concept art of a larger man with beard and ponytail, wearing a teal tunic, magenta waist sash, blue pants, fur-lined boots, a brown leather vest, and a necklace made out of garlic bulbs. Underneath the concept art are credits: - concept art: Lane Garrison - modeling instructor: Nina Tarasova - LookDev instructor: Jackson Spencer - 3D modeling and LookDev: Jesse Mostipak Three icons represent the software used: Maya, Substance Painter, and RenderMan. To the right is the completed model, based on the character art.
September 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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big caturday energy
Two cats, both short haired and one black, one orange, are sitting on a bench and looking out the window. They're staring at birds playing in the sunflowers and eating from the bird feeders.
September 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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utterly obsessed with this baby watermelon in my garden
Close-up photo of a baby watermelon, about the size of a thumbnail. The garden dirt is in the background, and most of the photo is leaves and stems from the watermelon plant.
September 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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sleeping bumblebees!
Close-up photo of a red sunflower, with three little bumblebees sleeping in the petals
August 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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I feel like I'm just a few months away from really getting the hang of Substance Painter and tbh I didn't expect it to be this much fun.
Physical based rendering of a stone archway with grapevines growing over the top of it, and a wooden door opening up out to the right Close-up of a physical based rendering of a stone archway with grapevines growing over the top of it, showing various texture patterns in stone, leaves, vines, and grapes.
August 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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once I get good at this I'm going to become insufferable

#lookdev #3d #substance #art
Renderman render of the vdev rig with a physical-based pineapple flesh material. The background is a warm tan, and there are diagnostic spheres in the bottom left, with Macbeth cards in the bottom right.
August 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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hey, so I didn't like that
screenshot of output and cadence from a peloton ride. The output is a series of escalating peaks followed by a plateau in zone four, then a series of six peaks and recovery. The recovery output successively gets higher. The cadence graph starts with five quick peaks, then follows a general trend of increasing from left to right.
August 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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took this a few days ago and the corn still hasn't stopped growing. we're easily past 10' at this point.
Photo of sunflowers and cornstalks growing against a fence, with the corner of a house and a bright blue sky in the background.
August 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Sonya deserved better.
Penguin Classics copy of War and Peace, with a navy blue cloth cover with printed white comets on it. This copy is the Briggs translation.
August 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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found this little guy who was described as 'medium energy'.

took him to training classes, where I found out he's a Schipperke mix.

the nickname for Schipperkes is 'little black devils' and hoo-boy does that check out.
Bjorn, a black and tan Schipperke mix, sitting on his hind legs and holding his paws in a prayer position.
August 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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that's my boy!
Jinx, a freshly-shaved red and white tabby cat is sitting in a kennel at the vet's. The ID card on the outside of the kennel has his information, along with the word 'spicy' highlighted in pink. Next to the word spicy is the drawing of a pepper.
August 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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a girl and her goldfinch
Photo of Luna, a short-haired black tabby cat, laying in front of an open window. Outside the window are a ton of sunflowers, and a small goldfinch perched on one of the flowers.
July 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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found a little visitor on one of my rogue sunflowers this morning

#nature #photography
Close-up of a sunflower in 3/4 view, with a bee walking across the seeds
July 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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it's my War & Peace year and even though I only have 500 pages left it's the point where I'm not entirely sure I'm going to make it!
Photo of the book War & Peace opened to page 886.
July 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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I screamed
Reddit exchange between two users, one of whom used ChatGPT to "write a book" and is trying to now download the book. User: Lorem ipsum dolar [sic] amet... OP: This is something I have not done. Thanks for the suggestion. I will get back with the results. User: Lorem ipsum dolar [sic] amet... OP: Right now it is working on Chapter 1 of 18. Hope to get back with a positive reply soon.
July 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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as a deadlifting weight I'm kinda bummed, but as my OHP weight?! heck to the yes.
Photo of a moose calf with the text: You are even lifting a Moose Calf. Keep it up and soon you'll be picking up a Clouded Leopard and putting it down with authority. There are two buttons: TWITTER-BRAG AT THE BROS WHAT OTHER ANIMALS DO YOU EVEN LIFT The website is: What Animal Do You Even Lift? https://share.google/jmKaHuYPaU0vrisdr
July 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM