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Sandy Lapka

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She/they aspiring author and ADHD odd-job specialist I know a little about alot.

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The Flames of Burzin Part 02
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July 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM

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The Flames of Burzin Part 01 #perpetua #friendsatthetable

July 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM

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Erika Ishii

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My friends (who are also some of my fave game devs) are making an ADORABLE indie game and I get to join the cast of woodland critters! 🐿️🦔🦝🦡🍂🌰🌾http://www.playhawthorn.com/Crowdfunding

May 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM

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Alt National Park Service

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Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

April 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM

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JJ in DC

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Found these old grievances online. Sound familiar?

He cuts off our trade with all parts of the world:
He imposes taxes on us without our consent:
He deprives us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
He transports us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses…

a man with a crown on his head and a cane

ALT: a man with a crown on his head and a cane

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April 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM

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Jack de Quidt

@notquitereal.bsky.social

reading this makes me feel more and more like making music is just a different kind of drawing

Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · Mar 19

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

INTRODUCTION

Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling.

You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse.

You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life.

TIPS

1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything.

2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought.

3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook.

6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case.

8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes.

9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out.

10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

March 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM

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Roger This

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Gary Peters (MI): @peters.senate.gov
Jeanne Shaheen (NH): @shaheen.senate.gov
Brian Schatz (HI): @schatz.bsky.social
Angus King (ME)
Maggie Hassan (NH)

March 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM

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Roger This

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Chuck Schumer (NY): @schumer.senate.gov
Richard Durbin (IL): @durbin.senate.gov
Catherine Cortez Masto (NV): @cortezmasto.senate.gov
John Fetterman (PA): @fetterman.senate.gov
Kirsten Gillibrand (NY): @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social

March 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM

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Helen

@homotoptheory.bsky.social

i’m literally always saying this

julia 🦄 @hypv.bsky.social · Dec 26

the illiad > the odyssey cuz the odyssey is about a woman remaining faithful to her absent husband while the illiad is about going on a self-destructive rampage cuz your gay lover died

March 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM