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Michelle McMurrie
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Transgender writer (see Amazon) and miniatures painter on TikTok (@waitingforsquats). Linktree: https://linktr.ee/shellymcmurrie
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I'm just getting my European Beaver Facts straight from the Beaver's mouth. This entry brought to you by my internet search of "do beavers have favourite types of wood?" treesforlife.org.uk/into-the-for...
A stout European Beaver sits in lush greenery looking off to the right as if to a likely-looking log, ripe for felling, an expression of intense concentration upon its Beaver features. It holds its little Beaver hands in front of it as if wringing them in anticipation of the construction to come.
November 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Just playing the PS1 port of Doom and had a glitch where items weren’t able to be picked up. I struggle through the level heroically and then…
A black screen with white lettering that reads, “2 MALLOC: FAILED ALLOCATION ON 35856”. A screen I had never seen before!
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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I know next to nothing about baseball that I didn't learn from Field of Dreams and A League of Their Own (and that other film, the one with Susan Sarandon, er, Bull Durham), but this hat from here (www.19cbaseball.com/image-baseba...) is majestic.
Pictured is a black and white hand drawn picture of the kind of hat that really marks you out as a person of taste and quality. The hat has a little bow or gather to the hat band at the front, and has a circular rim around the whole of the hat that looks to be about 1.5 inches (eyeball estimate) in breadth. The hat bowl is of wide segmented construction and is topped with a little fabric covered button at the top. It is magnificent.
October 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I saw a post quoting an AI advocate stating that unless the AI companies can use content without the author's permission, then the AI business would fail, and all I could think was some version of this meme I once saw
Pictured is a cute realistic cartoon cat in a tight close up on its eyes and nose, captured in orange and yellow hues with the words "THEN PEWWISH" (perish) picked out in all-caps in a white font.
October 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Does anybody recognise this intro to a kid’s tv show in the UK from the last century?
Text reads: in an old town in an old street there's an old shop full of old things, like a grandfather clock, and a pocket watch, and they tell the time, from time to time, but most of the time, they just tell stories
October 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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I have had to take the step of writing the ink colour on each on my pens because I keep filling them with the wrong inks by mistake! I make notes in different colours you see.
Fourteen fountain pens with two rubber triangle grips on each, in several different colours, sit in a row on a lined piece of A4 paper. Each of the pens has the colour of the ink that it carries written in permanent marker on the lid, varnished over with Army Painter Dark Tone.
September 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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I'm not saying that I would collect another Astra Militarum army if I had the money, but I'm not NOT saying it. My current army is as-pictured.
Pictured is a list of totals of different types of models in my Games Workshop official models Astra Militarum army. Text reads: "Totals Commissar Yarrick 2 Lord Commissars 1 Commissar Colonel Ironhand Straken 4 Company Commanders 1 Tank Commander 2 Tempestor Primes 5 Primaris Psykers 3 Officio Assassinorum Agents 4 Lieutenants Sly Marbo 7 Astra Militarum Command Squads 1 Militarum Tempestus Command Squad 1 Special Weapons Squad 45 Rough Riders 40 Ratling Snipers 3 Bullgryn 6 Ogryns 6 Chimera APCs 9 Taurox Primes 9 Armoured Sentinels 7 Leman Russ Battle Tanks 3 Leman Russ Demolishers 2 Valkyries 13 Heavy Weapons Squads 130 Veteran Guardsmen 80 Tempestus Scions 30 Conscripts 310 Regular Infantry" I do have other proxy Astra Militarum armies - Troublemaker Games Nuns with Guns; Warlord Games WWII models; Warlord Games Roman Legionnaires with STG44s; Max Mini Halflings; Taured ImagiNations; and LOTS of Napoleonics. And yet, I would still collect more Astra Militarum - enough to defend Helsreach from the Orks to be honest.
June 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Voila.
In this super-professional graphical representation of the previous Bluesky post, a Warhammer 40,000 red winged skull Night Lords symbol has been expertly copy-pasted over the face of Dr Manhattan from the The Watchmen franchise. The Dr Mahattan picture is so low-res that it could be almost any blue humanoid on a pink background at this point. Dr Manhattan here fills in for Konrad Kurze, the Primarch of the Night Lords, imagined here sitting alive on a barren planet wondering why the Emperor had to go and make him.
May 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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This is the best gold paint I can remember ever using; does anyone have a recommendation for good gold paint currently available for purchase?
An old bottle of Citadel Metallic paint in the colour Burnished Gold.
March 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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If the toy solider hobby offers anything, it's the ability to let your creativity flow. Pictured are some of my fleet-based Wandering Stars Chapter of Space Marines including male and female Astartes. Their Chapter iconography features white five pointed stars and rainbows.
Pictured are a Space Marine Primaris Ancient, a Space Marine Eradictor, and an Invictor Warsuit. They are painted in a shade of blue somewhere around PSG Blue with a Uranian Blue highlight (see: https://cssgradient.io/shades-of-blue/), with brass-gold accents and trim. Each model bears a stylised rainbow and the Chapter Symbol is an arrangement of white five pointed stars that differs from model to model. Pictured are Space Marine Primaris Infiltrators. They are painted in a shade of blue somewhere around PSG Blue with a Uranian Blue highlight (see: https://cssgradient.io/shades-of-blue/), with brass-gold accents and trim. Each model bears a stylised rainbow and the Chapter Symbol is an arrangement of white five pointed stars that differs from model to model. Pictured is a Space Marine Primaris Intercessor. It is painted in a shade of blue somewhere around PSG Blue with a Uranian Blue highlight (see: https://cssgradient.io/shades-of-blue/), with brass-gold accents and trim. Each model bears a stylised rainbow and the Chapter Symbol is an arrangement of white five pointed stars that differs from model to model. Pictured are a Space Marine Terminator Captain and five Terminators as an honour guard. They are painted in a shade of blue somewhere around PSG Blue with a Uranian Blue highlight (see: https://cssgradient.io/shades-of-blue/), with brass-gold accents and trim. Each model bears a stylised rainbow and the Chapter Symbol is an arrangement of white five pointed stars that differs from model to model.
January 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM