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Simon MacEwan
@theblastedheath.bsky.social
Hopeless dilettante
Picker-up of unconsidered trifles
Cool
December 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I finally finished this linocut folding card, after redrawing it many times, actually cutting three different lino blocks and in the end switching the head on the final one.
December 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
British sorry often requires extra emphasis and a particular tone in order to convey to someone that you are actually sorry, and not just putting a little drop of oil on the gears of social interaction
December 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I have heard their name uttered, but not felt that my life would be improved by knowing who they are
December 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Ate'nt Dead yet
December 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
It's more about which particular book is enjoying most favoured nation status at any particular time
November 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
November 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
You do love stubborness though, and that can carry a person a long way
November 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The real version may be some kind of proto-mammal, but the plastic version is definitely a dinosaur
May 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Some of us grew up with entirely inaccurate representations in the form of luridly coloured injection-moulded plastic Dinosaurs with made in Hong Kong written on their bellies
May 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
It's always so difficult to get right, because so many times I try to adjust things and end up overworking it, and it just ends up looking kind of fussy and heavy.
May 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I'm glad that it actually arrived, it's always stressful putting art in the mail
May 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Thanks, I had three attempts at an earlier version that I just could not get to work, and then I did this one. Here is the earlier attempt
May 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This is literally the reason I stopped taking things like cocaine, there's no outside of the system we're in and the many forms of violence with which we are complicit, but taking Coke was just directly funding torture, murder, sex trafficking etc, so I could be annoyingly hyper at a party for 10min
May 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
My birthday present to my sister finally arrived in NY and so did some kind of summery weather in Copenhagen
May 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hahahaha I wondered how that would be received
May 23, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Thanks!
May 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM