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The Public Universal James
@greatbigjames.bsky.social
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Largely cis, mostly het, mid-fat, very left. (He/they)
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A cropped-in version of the image from the quoted post (a coyote drinking water, viewed from beneath the water's surface), with the text from the DVD box cover of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within crudely superimposed on top
October 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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A banner hanging in a window reads: OUR HOT DOG -THE THUNDEROUS POP WHEN YOU BITE INTO IT- THE SALINE TANG OF THE PINK FLESH!!...OH! YES! (Please -I'm Getting Hungry Already!!)
October 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Post a mage! 🪄
A goblin "trash wizard" wearing a tattered purple robe. One hand holds a torn purple parasol over one shoulder; the other is raised toward the viewer, with various junk objects suspended in glowing energy above it. A rat familiar sits on the goblin's shoulder, one paw outstretched in an imitation of the goblin's gesture.
September 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Having finished the moon base set of terrain for my terrain tile system, I'm trying to decide what theme to cover next. Thoughts?
Future FDMecha terrain sets - Hercynian Forest (Big trees and stumps, overgrown and buried machinery, dirt and root risers) - Frontier Settlement (prefabs and shanties, corrugated metal and muddy roads, cement slab barrier walls) - Ships and Stations (spaceship hull + greeblie tiles and risers, space scaffolding, multi-tile engines/reactor core/machinery, big blast doors) - Urban Warzone (paved streets and sidewalks, elevated highways, modular multi-story buildings, piled rubble) - Baronial Capital (rococo vibes, columns and carved walls, topiaries and hedge mazes, statuary) - The Meat Planet (???)
September 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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A meme showing Obama checking his pockets, then turning back the way he came as if he's realized he's forgotten something. Top text: "Phone, wallet, keys..." Bottom text: "Oh shoot" and then in the Dark Souls subtitle font "the furtive pygmy, so easily forgotten"
August 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Endurance zoomies (where "endurance" here means running around for a *whole* minute)
August 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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I'm not usually a guy who takes a ton of pet photos, but come on, look at this fucking doofus
A close-up shot of the face of a greyhound lying on green carpet. His collar is somehow around his head rather than his neck, with the tag somehow tucked into the collar. He looks toward the camera, his expression wistful. A close-up shot of the face of a greyhound lying on green carpet. His collar is somehow around his head rather than his neck, with the tag somehow tucked into the collar. He looks away from the camera, his expression wistful.
July 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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No cheating, post the last pic of your pet.

The new pup explores the surrounding environs.
The head and neck of a fawn-colored greyhound stick out of a bush covered in pink flowers; the picture is taken from above, looking over a porch railing into the flowerbed below.
July 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Glad to see our new doggo is, in fact, a greyhound
A fawn-colored greyhound sleeping in "roach position", a twisted belly-up pose with all four legs in the air. The same dog in the same position as the previous photo, taken from a slightly different angle.
July 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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An illustration of Gravelord Nito wearing sunglasses, with the text "That's real fuckin' Nito" in the top left
July 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Show us your favorite character designs you've made

If there's a common theme here, it's "ttrpg characters I barely got to play before the game prematurely ended"
A deer wearing leather armor/barding, with a spear and quiver of arrows slung across its back. In front of it, a bow and arrow float in the air, wreathed in pale blue energy; the deer's eyes glow with the same energy. A small white owl perches on one of the deer's antlers. A young man with dark hair and glasses, fiddling with some sort of technological doodad. He's dressed in armored modern clothing in teal and black; his left arm and both legs are made of orange hard light, with emitter devices visible within the limbs. A large young man in a factory environment, wearing dark tactical clothing and a domino mask, in a kneeling posture with one arm outstretched. Bullets float near his outstretched hand as though intercepted in flight; in the tank behind the man, a series of dents form a pattern identical to the floating bullets. A sea slug-like creature roughly the size of a large dog, with green and yellow fronds on its back and a pale teal underbelly, stands in a cobra-like pose in a hallway with lockers like a US high school. Several of the fronds on its back are curled into tight spirals, and four tentacular limbs extend from the front of the creature, with a curved blade of hard light floating before the tip of each limb.
May 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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A screenshot of Dark Souls 3, in which the player character is talking to the crestfallen knight NPC. A subtitle of the knight's voice line reads "Gives me conniptions."
May 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Don't talk to me or my son (or my son or my son or my son or my son) ever again.

(Another Lancer NPC mini, the Engineer, based on @retrogrademinis.bsky.social corpro sprites)
On a surface of hexagonal terrain tiles, a miniature of a quadrupedal mech with a rack of deployable turrets and an anti-aircraft gun on its back, along with five other miniatures depicting those deployable turrets with a variety of weapons attached.
April 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Only a matter of time before you've got a space marine (mammal) on your hands
An illustration of a dolphin with a mechanical harness, giving it robotic arms and legs reminiscent of a T-Rex.
April 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Progress on the next set of terrain things: looking pretty lunar.
A small diorama of plastic hex tiles depicting a moon base, made up of cylindrical modular buildings with corridors between them. The diorama sits on top of a cardboard box that's been labeled "hex terrain" and "moon stuff".
April 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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(cont'd)
- Capable of multi-level and bridged topography
- Colorable with simple layer swaps, so I could avoid painting if I didn't have the time/energy/focus
- Leaning toward sci-fi and overland terrain, rather than the semi-ubiquitous fantasy dungeons, castles or sewers
A close-up of the river terrain from the first post. Another close-up of the river terrain from the first post.
April 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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What I wanted in a terrain system was:
- A hex grid with defined, readable spaces
- Easy to print on my FDM 3D printer with no supports
- Simple/abstract enough that it'd look good printed with a standard .4mm nozzle
- Not so abstract I had to try to remember what tile was supposed to be what
A closer view of the city terrain from the previous post, showing the lava and dry land in more detail. Another close-up view of the city terrain. Another close-up view of the city terrain.
April 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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A few months, ago I went looking for 3D-printable hex-grid terrain for playing big robot tabletop games, specifically the mech TTRPG Lancer. I found a number of terrain systems doing a lot of cool things, but nothing I found was quite what I was looking for. So, I made my own:
A table of 3D printed hex terrain, depicting a gravel path running down a low, swampy defile with higher grassy areas around it. A table of 3D printed hex terrain, depicting a river flowing down a short ravine, with buildings on one side of the river and a bridge crossing the ravine in the middle. Mech miniatures stand off with each other across the ravine. A table of 3D printed hex terrain, depicting a city area protected by a wall, outside which is dry ground and an encroaching lava flow. Mech miniatures face each other through the gate in the wall.
April 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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If you see this, QRP your green art!
An army-green mech with a bunker-like head (an IPS-N Drake from Lancer), wielding a tri-barrel sci-fi minigun and a spear with a grenade attached to the tip. The letters "R-03" are stenciled onto the side of the mech chassis. A sturdily-built white woman in roguish fantasy dress, with pale teal hair and green serpent scales running from her temples down her neck, arms and legs. An empty warehouse-turned-nightclub rendered in flat green and yellow tones. Light from the upper story windows casts patches on the empty dance floor. Stairs lead up from the floor to a balcony level with standing tables, then up further to an elevated closed-off office area, below which is the bar. On the side of the office, a large neon sign reads "DISCO WILL NEVER DIE" in 70s-style large block letters. A sea slug-like creature the size of a large dog raises the front of its body in a defensive manner, somewhat like a cobra rearing to strike. Its underside is smooth and teal-colored, while its back is covered with green and yellow fronds, several of which are curled into tight spirals perpendicular to the viewer. At its front end, four tentacle-like appendages wave energy blades in the viewer's direction. The background vaguely suggests the presence of school lockers.
March 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Give me my combination wheellock pistol/cleaver/calendar of saints' days, you cowards
A combination wheellock pistol, cleaver, and calendar of saints' days, of 16th century Czech origin
February 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Also literally this Simpsons bit:
A shot from The Simpsons depicting the Democratic National Convention. A crowd holds signs in the foreground while a man stands at the podium on stage; above the stage, banners hanging from the ceiling read "We hate life and ourselves" and "we can't govern!"
February 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Don't forget, mobile artillery needs headpats too

(Been working on 3D modeling and printing some Lancer NPC minis inspired by the designs of @retrogrademinis.bsky.social; this is the Bombard)
Two tabletop miniatures of a quadruped mech, one white and red and one in grey and green, both sporting large artillery cannons and cockpits that look cutely grumpy. Both face forward and to the left. Two tabletop miniatures of a quadruped mech, one white and red and one in grey and green, both sporting large artillery cannons and cockpits that look cutely grumpy. Both face forward and to the right. Two tabletop miniatures of a quadruped mech, one white and red and one in grey and green, both sporting large artillery cannons and cockpits that look cutely grumpy. Both face to the right.
January 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Apparently my brain decided that what I needed to do for lunch today is to try to reproduce the EVA Unit 2 McChicken.
A promotional image for the Evangelion 30th anniversary special Japanese McDonalds sandwiches, with the "Spicy Mexican Cheese-Chicken" in the center. A picture of a McChicken with special order label and a packet of "Mexican Style Salsa". The special order label reads: McChicken, ADD American Chees, ADD Pickle, NO Shredded Lettuc The McChicken from the previous image, unwrapped and with the salsa from the packet applied under the chicken patty. A screenshot from Evangelion 1.0, in which Fuyutski stands beside Gendo Ikari while Gendo does his pensive hands-covering-mouth pose. The subtitle of Fuyutski speaking reads "Ikari, you're absolutely sure about this?"
January 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Just watched the first episode; their Marion is perfectly cast, exactly how I pictured her, and I love how they intercut the first two stories, works perfectly for the medium. (Coincidentally, this just happens to be sitting on the desk next to me this evening.)
A paperback copy of "There Is No Antimemetics Division" by qntm, sitting on a desk.
December 18, 2024 at 4:17 AM
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Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.

The most mid of the Universal Action Pack properties; no Xena, but no Tekwar either. Featuring a pre-Firefly Gina Torres.
A promo image for Cleopatra 2525, with the 3 leading actresses of the show in their 'futuristic' costumes against a backdrop of random sci-fi crates and wall greeblies.
November 22, 2024 at 8:19 AM