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What’s here: camping, emergency prepping, dog, cool clouds, projects, new or old art by me, small triumphs, cool rocks/roadcuts/landscapes, old things, being disabled, autisming, Minnesotan forever but stuck in ND
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What’s here: camping, emergency prepping, dog, cool clouds, projects, new or old art by me, small triumphs, cool rocks/roadcuts/landscapes, old things, being disabled, autisming, Minnesotan forever but stuck in ND
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· Apr 8
Hello, I am not a career artist due to health barriers but I have done: traditional and digital drawing, watercolor, traditional and digital photography, and graphic design. I like nature, history, and cool imaginary creatures. #PortfolioDay
What some will never understand: I will die here. For better or worse, sooner or later, I will because I am not able to leave. To cope with that fact, I have to embrace the part of me that doesn’t want to leave. Because the alternative is acknowledging I am trapped, and risking a mental break.
December 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
What some will never understand: I will die here. For better or worse, sooner or later, I will because I am not able to leave. To cope with that fact, I have to embrace the part of me that doesn’t want to leave. Because the alternative is acknowledging I am trapped, and risking a mental break.
I took these around Thanksgiving on my 25 year old film, 2 days before everything froze under snow and ice. It was a beautiful day. This is the Kirkbride former mental institution in Fergus Falls. I always stop and say hi to the ghosts.
December 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I took these around Thanksgiving on my 25 year old film, 2 days before everything froze under snow and ice. It was a beautiful day. This is the Kirkbride former mental institution in Fergus Falls. I always stop and say hi to the ghosts.
A while ago I made an Apple shortcut that does speculative evolution prompts. Here it is if anyone wants to play with it.
www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4e...
www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4e...
Shortcuts
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November 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
A while ago I made an Apple shortcut that does speculative evolution prompts. Here it is if anyone wants to play with it.
www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4e...
www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4e...
Yesterday evening was good. I had mocktails, played my cozy game, and spent time with Vincent. My roommate says focus on the good.
I watched someone deliver food to a homeless man on Thanksgiving and that memory is still carrying the weight of every last shred of my faith in humanity.
I watched someone deliver food to a homeless man on Thanksgiving and that memory is still carrying the weight of every last shred of my faith in humanity.
November 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Yesterday evening was good. I had mocktails, played my cozy game, and spent time with Vincent. My roommate says focus on the good.
I watched someone deliver food to a homeless man on Thanksgiving and that memory is still carrying the weight of every last shred of my faith in humanity.
I watched someone deliver food to a homeless man on Thanksgiving and that memory is still carrying the weight of every last shred of my faith in humanity.
I get more medical care from foreigners making videos on social media than the American healthcare system.
November 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I get more medical care from foreigners making videos on social media than the American healthcare system.
NWS: No travel advisory!
Every single person in Fargo including me: *rushes out to run errands*
Every single person in Fargo including me: *rushes out to run errands*
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
NWS: No travel advisory!
Every single person in Fargo including me: *rushes out to run errands*
Every single person in Fargo including me: *rushes out to run errands*
I am still trying to get the hang of centering my Polaroids. Vincent is modeling for me today.
November 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I am still trying to get the hang of centering my Polaroids. Vincent is modeling for me today.
Tonight’s TTRPG highlight is when a player decided to have their elderly character whip out their taser (lovingly named “The Motivator”) to try to revive a drowned man and ended up electrocuting three nearby people because puddles conduct electricity.
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Tonight’s TTRPG highlight is when a player decided to have their elderly character whip out their taser (lovingly named “The Motivator”) to try to revive a drowned man and ended up electrocuting three nearby people because puddles conduct electricity.
I put 25 year old film in a new Polaroid and am having fun.
November 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I put 25 year old film in a new Polaroid and am having fun.
I am sad so here is a very old doodle. This dinosaur was my RPG character in a superhero campaign. I decided the best superpower was being a dinosaur. Also she could turn invisible. The campaign before that I was a space lizard disguised as a large old woman in a mumu.
November 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
I am sad so here is a very old doodle. This dinosaur was my RPG character in a superhero campaign. I decided the best superpower was being a dinosaur. Also she could turn invisible. The campaign before that I was a space lizard disguised as a large old woman in a mumu.
When I get overwhelmed I have a flight response but it’s a weirdly specific one. I always want to drive away to Nebraska and bury myself in a fossil bed so that I fossilize with the rhinos. When my mental breaks get real bad I’ve been known to get halfway to Sioux Falls.
November 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
When I get overwhelmed I have a flight response but it’s a weirdly specific one. I always want to drive away to Nebraska and bury myself in a fossil bed so that I fossilize with the rhinos. When my mental breaks get real bad I’ve been known to get halfway to Sioux Falls.
As a nonprofessional, I like to imagine that ancient polytheistic cultures worked a lot like fandoms. Everyone had their favorite deity and argued over it and put their likeness on their doodads and housewares. They made fanfictions of them which later became “canon” myths.
November 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As a nonprofessional, I like to imagine that ancient polytheistic cultures worked a lot like fandoms. Everyone had their favorite deity and argued over it and put their likeness on their doodads and housewares. They made fanfictions of them which later became “canon” myths.
I am ashamed to say I almost forgot about the TMBG-athon because life is terrible but I am now listening.
November 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I am ashamed to say I almost forgot about the TMBG-athon because life is terrible but I am now listening.
I made honey garlic shrimp for myself. It turned out quite well, but I won’t be attempting again. A painful reality of chronic illness is needing to accept where to draw the line for things that you can’t quite handle doing. It took 3 hours for me to prep for a 10 minute prep recipe. I am exhausted.
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I made honey garlic shrimp for myself. It turned out quite well, but I won’t be attempting again. A painful reality of chronic illness is needing to accept where to draw the line for things that you can’t quite handle doing. It took 3 hours for me to prep for a 10 minute prep recipe. I am exhausted.
Sometimes we get bored while doing laundry.
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Sometimes we get bored while doing laundry.
Today is the day all the midwesterners listen to Gordon Lightfoot
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Today is the day all the midwesterners listen to Gordon Lightfoot
Vincent says when the world feels like it’s falling apart, the best place to be is in a warm bed.
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Vincent says when the world feels like it’s falling apart, the best place to be is in a warm bed.
Vincent is not a fan of the gales of November. He says they are too cold.
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Vincent is not a fan of the gales of November. He says they are too cold.
Food is still in fact very expensive. It is almost cheaper to just buy premade deli food at this point than buy the parts of a meal.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Food is still in fact very expensive. It is almost cheaper to just buy premade deli food at this point than buy the parts of a meal.
I love dressing up and decorating but Vincent is glad Halloween is over. We do share a fear of clowns.
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I love dressing up and decorating but Vincent is glad Halloween is over. We do share a fear of clowns.
Sometimes you just need to buy baked goods to celebrate a few evil men being removed from power.
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Sometimes you just need to buy baked goods to celebrate a few evil men being removed from power.
I am very angry today. The best way to help with a full bodied eruption of focused anger toward something you have no control over is to do a productive physical activity. Clean the shit out of your shower. Weed the shit out of your garden. Walk the shit out of your dog (if they can handle it).
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I am very angry today. The best way to help with a full bodied eruption of focused anger toward something you have no control over is to do a productive physical activity. Clean the shit out of your shower. Weed the shit out of your garden. Walk the shit out of your dog (if they can handle it).
Before bed thought of the night:
I hope, someday, another Earth being can find as much love and wonder from the remains of us as we find from the fossilized remains of extinct prehistoric creatures.
I hope, someday, another Earth being can find as much love and wonder from the remains of us as we find from the fossilized remains of extinct prehistoric creatures.
November 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Before bed thought of the night:
I hope, someday, another Earth being can find as much love and wonder from the remains of us as we find from the fossilized remains of extinct prehistoric creatures.
I hope, someday, another Earth being can find as much love and wonder from the remains of us as we find from the fossilized remains of extinct prehistoric creatures.
If you want to spend two extra hours of preparation before every session of your 3.5e Dungeons and Dragons games without being the gamemaster, then I highly recommend playing a multi class cleric/wizard.
I’ve been doing it for 20 years and at 20th level it’s now more like four hours. No regrets.
I’ve been doing it for 20 years and at 20th level it’s now more like four hours. No regrets.
November 3, 2025 at 3:55 AM
If you want to spend two extra hours of preparation before every session of your 3.5e Dungeons and Dragons games without being the gamemaster, then I highly recommend playing a multi class cleric/wizard.
I’ve been doing it for 20 years and at 20th level it’s now more like four hours. No regrets.
I’ve been doing it for 20 years and at 20th level it’s now more like four hours. No regrets.
Every year today becomes the day people post on social media to try to get back stolen candy bowls or decoration. Decades of being involved with retail taught me 20% of the population is evil, greedy, and psychotic. They teach it to their kids. Don’t take risks, but don’t write off the other 80%
November 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Every year today becomes the day people post on social media to try to get back stolen candy bowls or decoration. Decades of being involved with retail taught me 20% of the population is evil, greedy, and psychotic. They teach it to their kids. Don’t take risks, but don’t write off the other 80%