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bracingtincture.bsky.social
sam, ambiguously
@bracingtincture.bsky.social
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simple country anticapitalist. old hag (over 30). friend to all cats. i make art (ink, digital, jewelry, baking) sometimes. followback-farmers get blocked. 日本語少し分かる
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#ThePitt roommates, week one (reposted from Tumblr)
a short comic of Santos and Whitaker from The Pitt. Panel one: the two of them are in pajamas watching TV on a couch. Panel two: a closeup of Santos sighing, apparently frustrated. Panel three: Santos, staring ahead at the TV and fidgeting, says to a nervous Whitaker, "...h-hey, Huckleberry" Panel four: Santos in closeup, blushing and a little frustrated still, thinks dreamily of Garcia and says, "...not that your opinion matters or anything, but...do you think it's messed-up to be kinda into a supervisor on the first week of the job?" Panel five: Whitaker looks at her questioningly Panels six and seven: Whitaker considers this, then, a little bashfully, says, "Hmm...I don't think so? I think everybody kinda feels like that about Dr. Robby" Panel eight: Whitaker in the foreground watches TV, a faint blush across his cheeks, as Santos stares at him disdainfully
April 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Succession (2018)
a fortune cookie fortune reading, "A billionaire's joke is always funny."
March 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The Pitt (2025)
a fortune cookie fortune reading, "A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine."
March 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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everything's terrible so look at these nice pictures of my cats
a portrait of Julius, a black cat with gold eyes a portrait of Gustav, a fluffy orange cat
March 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Severance is the best show of the last five years and every single episode this season has left me like
depressed Ben Affleck with a cigarette meme
February 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Roman Roy looking at explosion footage on his phone
January 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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wow i sure love giant robot anime
a crop from an ad for a pro wrestling promo collab with Bang Brave Bang Bravern; the image is an illustration of Lewis Smith in wrestler's boots, knee pads, and matching briefs straddling Isami Ao, shirtless in cargo pants, on his hands and knees with his back arched like a slut. also Lewis is for some reason (that reason being that it looks more lewd) holding Isami's shoulders right next to his neck. this fucking series.
January 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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your cabochons are gorgeous, holy shit.
anyway, these are the last three necklaces i finished. i thought they came out pretty.
an art nouveau-style necklace in antique brass, featuring a purple and mustard-yellow acrylic flower pendant with brass "stamen", accented with matching crystal beads an art nouveau-style antique brass necklace with a pendant made from a resin cabochon with small floral inclusions; there are glass beads accenting the piece in shades of soft pink and mauve an art deco-style necklace in antique brass with a crystal pearl drop pendant and matching crystal pearls accenting the neck, in an iridescent aqua-gold shade
January 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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mood:
a photo of my cat, a large black shorthair named Julius, inside a grey hoodie with an Aperture Labs logo; his face is the only part of him visible, peeking out from under the hood as if he's wearing it (which he kind of is). he looks grumpy and a little tired.
January 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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what have we done
a screenshot of my tl wherein the top post is my joke qrp about beef organs for "optimal menstruation" followed immediately by a headline from The Onion reading, "Cows Go Extinct"
January 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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i actually do remember RealVideo in the late '90s and what the fuck is this guy talking about, people weren't repulsed or disturbed by rudimentary streaming video technology. the reaction was more like "i can't wait until we can watch whole TV episodes on the internet! 🤩" lmao
screenshot of a post that reads: "Remember 1997 when RealNetworks put 30 second 2-inch low res video online - it sucked in every way. But it evolved into the streaming that the entire world depends on for most info and entertainment? This is AI's 1997 and the maturity will happen at 10x the pace. Don't judge the toddler too harshly."
December 27, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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my parents had it before i was born, but:
the inscrutable Intellivision controller
December 18, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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still they haunt me even now
a Taco Bell sauce packet; the usual cutesy text bubble on it reads, "prove it..."
December 13, 2024 at 1:55 AM
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i've been selling off a bunch of my late grandma's vintage Japanese paperbacks and in the process have discovered that she read some real weird shit
a cover of a vintage Japanese pulp paperback. the illustration is a painting in realistic style; foreground is a man clad only in a dirty loincloth, aiming a rifle and apparently distressed; behind him looms a scaly blue-green humanoid creature with sharp claws, bared sharklike teeth with outward-pointing fangs, and pointy ears; in the distant background, a beautiful woman's downcast face is at the top of the illustration, eyes closed
November 29, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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#108artsofdestiny
103 - CHISOU STAR: Urda ( #Suikoden V)
finally, your obligatory hippie environmentalist recruit is someone who just straight-up hates humanity! also why is her outfit so goddamn detailed, this is after simplifying a LOT
a digital drawing of Urda from Suikoden V, here pictured as an angry blonde elf young woman carrying a protest sign reading, in large red handwritten text, "END ALL HUMANS"
November 28, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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the KManga app when i've checked for the fifth time that month
the American Horror Story "there's not going to be a swimming pool, you stupid slut" meme screencap edited to read "there's not going to be a new chapter of RaiseTanin, you stupid slut"
November 26, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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#108artsofdestiny
104 - CHIRETSU STAR: Goro ( #Suikoden III)
have you seen this guy's full character portrait? what's he doing out here with all that ass
a digital drawing of Goro from Suikoden III, pictured here as a sun-dappled ambiguously Japanese young man with short hair, a blue and white shirt, and yellow shorts, and he is examining a tree trunk thoughtfully. also he's caked up.
November 25, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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#108artsofdestiny
105 - CHIKEN STAR: Chisato ( #Suikoden V)
V is gonna be very overrepresented in this project, but it's because even extremely minor recruits get SOMETHING to do, SOME characterization. Chisato's one of the weirder recruits and i love her for that.
a digital drawing of Chisato from Suikoden V, pictured as a young brunette woman with a worried expression, holding and appearing to converse with a pair of hand puppets resembling the Prince and Princess Lymsleia
November 22, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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#108artsofdestiny 106 - CHIMOU STAR: Templeton (Suikoden I-II)
he's just a cute little nugget
a digital drawing of Templeton from Suikoden I/II, here pictured as a tween boy, blue-eyed with blond hair in a blunt chin-length bob, in a baggy beige sweater and brimless blue hat, smiling excitedly down at a weathered old map he grips tightly in his hands
November 21, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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#108artsofdestiny 107 - CHIZOKU STAR: Roy (Suikoden V)
no character in this series turned my opinion of them around like Roy did. that one optional route? with the arrows? whoever wrote that is not seeing heaven
a digital drawing of Roy the bandit from Suikoden V, pictured here as a young man with long chestnut hair, wearing a dark blue sleeveless ninja-esque jumpsuit, matching opera-length fingerless gloves, fringed tan boot covers, a utility belt, a yellow neckerchief, and a crown, seated on top of a treasure chest filled with gold coins and jewels. he looks at the viewer with his cheek propped against one fist, a slightly pouty expression of tired annoyance on his face.
November 19, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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#108artsofdestiny 108 - CHIKOU STAR: Gordon (Suikoden III)
starting strong with "guy i picked because he has the best character design of anyone with this Star". i only remember that this dude was really fixated on "gentlemen" but you could recruit him with Chris? sure.
a digital drawing of Gordon from Suikoden III, pictured here as a middle-aged man with dark hair and a fancy suit and ascot, holding a brandy glass and carafe, smirking at the viewer with one eyebrow raised exaggeratedly
November 18, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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anyway i make cakes and cookies and stuff sometimes
#baking
#cakedecorating
#cookies
a six-layer chocolate cake with a mousse filling, chocolate Italian buttercream, and a ganache drip, photographed after one large slice was cut a plate of holiday cookies including sugar cookie Christmas trees, gingerbread snowflakes, meringue cookies, linzer cookies, and macarons a cake with robins-egg blue buttercream decorated with assorted pink, peach, and cream buttercream flowers--roses, peonies, and dahlias--along with green buttercream leaves and ferns; smaller buttercream plants are "growing" up the side cupcakes decorated with a zombie apocalypse theme--sugar glass spattered with candy "blood", modeling chocolate rotting fingers with visible "bones", cake pop "eyeballs" complete with modeling chocolate optical muscles and bright red capillaries
November 8, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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i did what i always do when i don't know what to do: i baked
a batch of caramel pecan sticky buns, fresh from the pan, on a sheet of parchment paper
November 7, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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(for the unaware:)
a screenshot of a section of Sinclair Broadcasting's Wikipedia article under the header "Political views". it reads as follows: "Sinclair's stations have been known for featuring news content and programming that promote conservative political positions. They have been involved in various controversies surrounding politically motivated programming decisions, such as news coverage and specials during the lead-ups to elections that were in support of the Republican Party."
October 30, 2024 at 4:51 AM
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here's some of my traditional-media (ink on paper) #art. i do not draw frequently enough. i should make more of a habit of it.
sketchbook piece with surrealistic imagery of plants growing eyeballs and broken hands sketchbook piece inspired by dream imagery sketchbook piece of a faceless nude ostensibly-female figure, opened like an autopsied corpse, with a black void inside, her organs surrounding her sketchbook piece of a stylized self-portrait, my head opened up to reveal, well, what's on my mind, in images both literal and figurative
October 17, 2024 at 11:43 PM