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Diamine #Inkvent Day 6. Fir & Fog is marked as a chameleon ink. Gonna have to sketch something with it, bc I'm not seeing it in my swatch. A very pretty blue-green-gray shade though.

On a bit of Rhodia paper today bc I have. Um. Misplaced my swatch cards.
An ink swatch on a bit of lined paper. Reads Inkvent Day 6 Fir & Fog. The g in fog has smudged. The ink swatch itself is a sprucey green-blue with a hint of grayish.
December 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Diamine #Inkvent Day 5! Marie Rose is an orangey brown standard ink. Kinda boring.
A Wearingul Cheshire cat swatch card. The swatch is orange. The ink off the nib is more orange-brown and the text reads: Diamine Inkvent 5. Marie Rose.
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Diamine #Inkvent Day 4! Today's ink is scented! It's also called Smoky Tabacco, and yes the scent is what it says on the tin. Not sure I'm a fan. The ink itself is a medium gray-brown in the swatch but is a dark brown-black off my nib. Ignore the shine, that's just my lamp on wet ink.
A Wearingul Cheshire cat swatch card. It reads Diamine Inkvent Day 3 (it's actually day 4!) Scented! Smoky Tobacco. The writing is in a dark brown-black but the swatch itself is a more medium gray-brown.
December 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Diamine #Inkvent Day 3! Carousel is marked as a pigment and is a rich brick red. This is my first pigment ink, so I'll need to read up.
A Wearingul Cheshire cat swatch card. The ink swatch is brick red and you can see the white Cheshire cat smile peeking through. The card reads: Diamine Inkvent 2025 Day 3, pigment, Carousel.
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Diamine #Inkvent Day 2 is Energy! Marked as a sheening ink, it is a deep plum that shades to an odd green gold. A drop of water brings out an eggplanty shade. Also, yes, I smudged this swatch card to hell.
A Wearingul Cheshire Cat swatch card. It reads (smudgily) Diamine Inkvent 2025 Day #2: Energy. The swatch itself is a deep purple, shading toward a purple-black at the top left. You can see a bit of the green-gold sheen at the shade change.
December 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Seeing others report the glitter is gold. That may be right, and this is a color mixing issue, but it looks green to me! I'm willing to concede as far as green-gold. 😂
The bottom of a Diamine ink bottle. The glitter stuck at the bottom looks green.
December 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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It is time for the Inkening! Diamine Advent Calendar Day 1 is called Celestial Skies. Marked as a shimmer ink, it's a beautiful deep blue with a pine green shimmer. Also seeing some purple sheening under a lamp.
A Wearingul swatch card. The text on the card reads: Inkvent 2025 Day #1 Celestial Skies. The ink swatch on the left half of the card has an embossed chesire cat smile showing through the ink. The ink is a deep blue like the night sky with a subtle green shimmer.
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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As an agnostic, I am...dubious. And as a student of greek mythology, rather frightened.
A screenshot of Mirriam-Websters post with instructions to take a screenshot and whatever word shows in the photo is your word for 2025. The word in the screenshot is providential.
January 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Without downloading new pics, what's your energy going into 2025?

I'm trying to keep this in mind. (Technically a graphic, not a pic, but it's in my gallery, so it counts.)
A 2x2 table with column labels: something goes poorly, and something goes well. The row labels read: worry about something, and don't worry about something. The first row of the table reads: suffer twice and suffer once. The second row reads suffer once and don't suffer. The chart is saying that worrying about something that goes poorly, you suffer twice. If you worry about something that goes well, you've still made yourself suffer by worrying. If you don't worry but something goes poorly, well you'll be suffering after rather than before. But if you dont worry about something that goes well, you havent suffered at all. So really the best thing to do is to not worry and hopw things go well.
December 29, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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If you listen closely, you can hear the sound effects from PONG coming from between his ears. #cat
An orange cat looking above and to the left of the camera. He is wearing a red bowtie collar and his rabies vax tag is visible. He is lying on a desk in front of a blurred monitor screen and a string of purple LED lights.
November 5, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Paged through 90% of this as soon as I got the package open and looking forward to going back and reading some of many snippets and PTerry anecdotes. GNU Terry Pratchett. Thanks Harper Collins! (This is a review copy.)
Cover of the Designing Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD art book by Paul Kidby. Foreward by Colin Morgan. The book title is in a fancy gold frame and surrounded by characters including Death at top center, Rincewind, Vimes, the Luggage and more.
October 25, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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How stinking adorable is this packaging? I know what I'm doing later! Thanks @hornedlarkpress.com ! #FightEvilReadBooks @lilithsaintcrow.bsky.social
An advanced copy of the Coyote Run novella by Lilith Saintcrow from Horned Lark Press. The cover of the book has one figure with guns blazing, messy hair and a long coat. There is another figure slightly below the other, wearing overalls, who has clearly just smacked the hell out of someone with a large wrench. The someone has a skull face with electronic protrusions and a red symbol on its forehead. The novella lies on top of a mailing envelope with the Horned Lark logo (which is a Horned Lark photo). The envelope has "Today is a good day to defy fascism. Lets read a book." printed on it.
October 21, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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I am... slightly ahead on my reading goal this year. Yay, novellas.
A screenclip from The Storygraph showing a 2024 Reading Goal challenge. The goal is for 100 books and shows a tracker bar mostly filled in with blue-green. Then it says 95% (95 books) Brilliant! You are ahead by 22 books!
September 23, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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I think I'm getting this whole bread thing down.
A loaf of baguette bread, brown on top and fresh from the oven.
August 24, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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And this one is my personal favorite, because it shows that it really did just become nighttime for about 3 minutes. These are all my photos, all rights reserved, etc.
Photo from April 8th eclipse during totality. A wider shot of homes with their outdoor lights lit. The white ring of the eclipsed sun is shown above the neighborhood. It is twilight dark and the sky is a deep blue-black with orange city glow in the distance.
April 9, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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And this one I'm just referring to as "The Ring".
Photo from April 8th eclipse, during totality. A white ring of light with solar flare lines radiating from it, against a black background.
April 9, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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So. Photos. This one was pre-totality and at the time I called it the "amazon frowny face".
Photo from the April 8th eclipse. Pre-totality sun, which is an orange crescent with the horns pointed down and slightly right against a deep blue sky. Looks like a frown.
April 9, 2024 at 1:27 PM