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Tarasque
@tarasque.bsky.social
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Basically not enough hours in the day for all I'd like to make so I tend not to make a lot and finish even less. Fan of Black Sails and a few other things.
Some sketching, textile work and blathering about mountains might happen here.
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Ben c'est mon métier (pas dans les océans cela dit.)
Et en plus j'initie des apprentis.
Salle de labo avec une carotte sédimentaire ouverte sur une table et six étudiants qui apprennent à la relever.
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif
November 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Granny (Esme Weatherwax) from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
November 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Un avantage d'aller bosser sur le terrain un samedi matin
Un lever de soleil tout doux, orange pâle à l'horizon puis jaune-rose puis gris-bleu-mauve, sur un vignoble vert un peu brumeux et un chemin de terre au premier plan. En regardant bien on voit des petites taches dans le ciel qui sont le groupe de choucas du coin
October 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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You called?
#WidmarkWednesday
October 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Tiens y'a eu de la pluie mais aussi du soleil et c'est joli
Paysage de nuages à plusieurs étages après la pluie et avec du soleil et la montagne mouillée qui brille, vignes au premier plan
September 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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The Right Stuff, spaghetti western version
The same survival camp version from the original post, set into a vaguely pseudo euro-western movie poster
September 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy.

I'll take it
An illustration (Paul Kidby's) of Pratchett's Granny Weatherwax: head of a witch in a bkack with a stern face, steely eyes, grey haur and of course (to her consternation) perfect skin She has a speech bubble above her head because I needed this to react to a post somewhere else
September 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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I watched the Right Stuff 1983 (Scott Glenn!) then got curious about the real Mercury 7
Sure, Al Shepard wasn't the nice one but was he interesting
Then I found this pic of them during survival training

And this happened.
Didn't quite get that second tier 60's Euro-western feel, but I tried!
Real photo of the Mercury seven astronauts during survival camp, which I used as the centerpiece of a false movie poster with the title The Right Stuff in a kinda spahetti Western font, in red. The movie is suposeddly made by Sergio Corbucci and various details are in Italian. The names of the real astronauts are written as stars and costars, with Al Shepard, then John Glenn and Gus Grissom dominating the cast. It kind of reflects what the real 1983 movie did but mostly it's the way the astronauts are posing in the photo. They're dirty, sleazy and unshaven, in long underwear overlaid with various makeshift sun covers made of parachute and other unidentified bits. Al Shepard stands front and centre looking like the poor man's Clint Eastwood, John Glenn (looking menacing) and Gus Grissom (looking cool) flank him, and Deke Slayton to the right looks like Charles Bronson. The others also look suitably spaghetti-esque.
September 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Ooohh
First significant end-of-summet rain episode at home, thankfully not too extreme
And the most gorgeous double rainbow
Northern edge of the rainbow, showing the cloud edge and blue skies to the left, mirrored in the rain puddles on a small road. The interval between the main and the second rainbow is a darker cloud-gray. In the foreground, scorched yellow grass, green vineyards. Further away, the main rainbow ends into a pine tree growing alone on a jill. The outline of a long (smallish) mountain is revealed to the left of the background by the recessing clouds. The whole double rainbow seen from a field of dry yellow grass planted with olive trees. This foreground is illuminated with sunlight, while the sky behind the rainbow is very dark. You can see the shadow of my head and arms as I hold up the phone in the bottom. The rainbow forms a double arc occupying the whole sky from left to right with more light and a lighter gray in the clouds outside and a darker grey between the two arcs. Outside of the outer arc the clouds form an outgoing ray pattern.
September 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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We have two cats (two sisters) one is very polite and will get off when you tell her "je me lève" (I am getting up)
The other is a god-cat who sees humans as her pedestal and will only set her claws deeper into your shoulders if you dare change the angle
My daughter trying to text with the evil sister in her usual position The two sisters, one licking the other
August 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Postcard-sized watercolours from life
Small quick painting of a beach with rolling waves and a flag Waves are annoying, they don't pose. Another, partially coloured, of algae
August 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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And my daughter adding the last touches to hers
A teenager sitting on the grass with her painting on her knees and a brush in her hand, with the usual pier and boat in the background
August 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Half way done and completely out of focus
My (out of focus) painting on my legs and the palette to the right, with the pier and some of the boat being done, with the real pier (in focus) and boat (out of focus) in the background
August 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Same scene by my daughter and me
Two watercolours side by side: a blue and marigold yellow sailing boat seen from the other bank of the channel. There's a ricketty wooden pier in the foreground, some low buildings with brick red tiles in the background
August 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Hi
A large, probably Maine Coon adjacent cat, sleeping with two canines exposed. It gives him a louche, come-hither look
July 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Tiens voilà une licorne pas gentille en train d'embêter un griffon
Photo d'un chapiteau médiéval dans le château de Bruniquel: une licorne avec des pattes en forme de mains met les doigts dans l'oeil d'un griffon qui a l'air tout confus
July 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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The grandpa:
Scott Glenn as Kevin Garvey Sr. in the Leftovers season 1 He's in a black tank top and holding a garbage lid as a shield as he defends his bathrobe against a dog. He has extremely respectable shoulder muscles for a guy his age, over 70 at the time I think. Yeah he has extremely respectable shoulder muscles for anyone any age
July 20, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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While my ideal (spoiler for an old movie following)

Is the guy who'd cheat so he can die for Gary Cooper
Black and white promotional still for Henry Hathaway's Garden of Evil. Richard Widmark and Gary Cooper sitting at a table with whiskey glasses, Widmark in dandyish western attire and Cooper in a classical rugged look. They look into each other's eyes, Widmark looking smitten and Cooper interested but wary.
July 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Listen: an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's the Last Hero.

Scott Glenn, who I have just discovered is still alive and definitely quicking at 86, needs to join them as another member of the Silver Horde.
I don't know who could play Vena the Raven-Haired (now grey) Andie McDowell but she's too young?
Cover for Pratchett's illustrated novel The Last Hero featuring the Silver Horde as illustrated by Paul Kidby. It's a bunch of arthitic old warriors in loinclothes, one of them sitting in a modified wheelchair/sled, brandishing swords in a snowy landscape while assaulting Cori Celesti, the mountain of the Gods, and definitely looking like they could succeed.
July 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Here's one my daughter spotted in our car
We said hello and counted its eyes 🥹
More or less in focus jumping spider with its hairy chelicera and many of its eyes visible
July 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Clouds over the moon
A dark sky with a pink brow’ish tint in the clouded lower half. Wavelets of clouds over the moon. Black silhouette of a pine tree in the foreground
July 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Bonus chat intellectuel de bon goût
Le même chat sur le même fauteuil bien détendue devant une bd de Gaston ouverte
July 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Ici elle survit encore (38 dehors, 26 dedans volets fermés)
Chat qui veut savoir pour tu as interrompu sa sieste sur le fauteuil dans sa pose ridicule habituelle pattes arrières en l'air Chat qui se rendort sur le fauteuil en se tournant de l'autre côté Chat qui s'enroule pour dormir sur le fauteuil en se cachant les yeux avec la patte, que quelqu'un éteigne la lumière Chat qui doit avoir un peu plus chaud et qui s'étale sur le fauteuil et sinon elle veut toujours savoir pourquoi tu as interrompu sa sieste
July 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Meanwhile here (same result, different causes)
Looong cat sleeping on a couch Screencap of a weather service for Provence, France, indicating max temperatures of 38°C
July 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM