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[Personal] Magnolias for my ex
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Watercolour of pink magnolias on a dark purple background.
Last September, I met at a woman through a dating site. On the first zoom call she told me that a week before we met up she'd been diagnosed with breast cancer and that I was allowed to run away.
Now I don't run away from stuff like that, and we very very quickly got into a very intense relationship. One month in, she started chemotherapy and things went downhill between the two of us. We split up in December. It wasn't very nice. She now has finished chemo, had one breast removed and is recovering - although it's officially stage four so the long-term prognosis isn't good.
But we stayed in touch, albeit at a distance. Tomorrow I'll be seeing her for the first time in months. I'm having lunch with her, together with a good mutual friend. The friend asked me if I would make a drawing for my ex so we could give it to her with a message. So this is what we're going to give her tomorrow. (top and bottom edge cut off so it's really straight and kind of nice at double postcard size.)
#painting #watercolour #ex #flowers
Now I don't run away from stuff like that, and we very very quickly got into a very intense relationship. One month in, she started chemotherapy and things went downhill between the two of us. We split up in December. It wasn't very nice. She now has finished chemo, had one breast removed and is recovering - although it's officially stage four so the long-term prognosis isn't good.
But we stayed in touch, albeit at a distance. Tomorrow I'll be seeing her for the first time in months. I'm having lunch with her, together with a good mutual friend. The friend asked me if I would make a drawing for my ex so we could give it to her with a message. So this is what we're going to give her tomorrow. (top and bottom edge cut off so it's really straight and kind of nice at double postcard size.)
#painting #watercolour #ex #flowers
That’s gorgeous.
good luck; i hope it goes well.
i know it's tough navigating these things, especially when you're balancing empathy for an ex and protecting yourself at the same time.
beautiful work, by the way. i think she'll really appreciate it
i know it's tough navigating these things, especially when you're balancing empathy for an ex and protecting yourself at the same time.
beautiful work, by the way. i think she'll really appreciate it
Sluggo is Lit
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A Sunday Nancy comic by Caroline Cash.
PANEL 1: Sluggo is walking by a store and sees a help wanted sign.
PANEL 2: MAN: Well… Er… Sluggo, was it? You need at least two years of work experience to get a job here.
PANEL 3: SLUGGO (cheerfully): How do I get that? MAN (off-panel): By working a job like this one.
PANEL 4: SLUGGO (less cheerfull): How do I get a job like this one without work experience? MAN (off-panel): Our time for this interview's up. Have a nice day.
PANEL 5: Sluggo frowns.
PANEL 6: Sluggo is sitting under a tree in a field of flowers, watching the sunset, still looking grumpy.
PANEL 1: Sluggo is walking by a store and sees a help wanted sign.
PANEL 2: MAN: Well… Er… Sluggo, was it? You need at least two years of work experience to get a job here.
PANEL 3: SLUGGO (cheerfully): How do I get that? MAN (off-panel): By working a job like this one.
PANEL 4: SLUGGO (less cheerfull): How do I get a job like this one without work experience? MAN (off-panel): Our time for this interview's up. Have a nice day.
PANEL 5: Sluggo frowns.
PANEL 6: Sluggo is sitting under a tree in a field of flowers, watching the sunset, still looking grumpy.
It always has been in its way.
I haven't been following and missed that Olivia Jaimes retired from the strip last year, good to see Caroline is continuing the high quality
@wjcstp People seem to think that Jaimes maybe published a book under her real name (which I've already forgotten) and no longer had time to do the comic.
saigon
Creepers du jour
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A pair of legs and feet shot from above but sat down. The shoes are red velvet pointer creepers with blue and purple striped socks.
Jeepers peepers, where’d you get those creepers?
Sock/shoe combo on point
@MackReed I came here to say that.
Clip-ons
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Me in shades
My favorite glasses are too big. And my progressive prescription is way to intense, to allow for good tintig options or conventional clip-ons, so I'm designing my own. This is fourth or fifth version
Nice image with the reflections.
🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
@artwells I'm up to playtest if you're looking for anyone. I have both a frustration with sunglasses v. normal glasses and lot of daytime free time as of a bit ago.
TFG
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three panel comic, a moon crab with its arms up says “yooooo! mezzanine beetle! what’s up my brotha!” a black stag beetle asides, “this fucking guy. here we go.” in the last panel the beetle sighs and says “hey prodigy crab.”
The Parklife greyhounds could not be reached for comment.
Let's go party with the Jar of Flies.
The Blind Melon bees have asked through their manager to be left alone.
ficus, 3000 sq/m
autoresponse
MPG: ∞
⭐️
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Long view down a narrow alley festooned with Vietnamese flags (a yellow 5-pointed star on a red field) at a woman in a conical straw hat sweeping the pavement between doorsteps and parked motor scooters
Long view down a narrow alley festooned with Vietnamese flags (a yellow 4-pointed star on a red field) at a woman in a conical straw hat sweeping the pavement between doorsteps and parked motor scooters
Either I can't count or you made a typo.
@rogrtheshrubber Fat-thumbing it here in the rideshare to the airport for the jump to Hanoi.
Bicycle Day
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Photo of a sheet of blotter acid with a low-res picture of Albert Hoffman in vibrant pink. "Father of LSD / Pure / ALBERT HOFFMAN".
source: https://blotterartart.wordpress.com
"This photo shows 20 hits of a very popular sheet from 1984, these 20 hits coming from a larger 1000 tab sheet."
On this day in 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman had a very unsettling bicycle ride home from work.
"This photo shows 20 hits of a very popular sheet from 1984, these 20 hits coming from a larger 1000 tab sheet."
On this day in 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman had a very unsettling bicycle ride home from work.
I may, or may not, remember that blotter.
I apologize.
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I look forward to never unseeing this.
The old slack logo was better and it's not even close.
@samh Hehehehehehe
@Mr_Encyclopedia +++
@Mr_Encyclopedia +++
Lunch cuddles
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I photographed this couple while documenting the coast. I love tiny printers and often carry one with me when I'm out shooting. I still consider printed photos pretty special. I quickly printed two copies for them while they were getting ready to leave.
If a photographer printed a photo of me or my family out in the wild I can only imagine it would just be the most delightful feeling!
lung ngoc hoang nature reserve
Sew Neat
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A vintage Singer sewing machine head repurposed as a wall sconce with a sleek black fabric shade
I hate it and it’s brilliant.
Sewing in space, a whole differ'nt thing, but for now...
I want to believe that the spinny handle thing at the bottom has been converted so that it adjusts the brightness.
update
TBH I'm not very sorry either
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A drawing of a gnome captioned "I'm sorry for acting strange, I'm strange and it will happen again."
/same
I met Rien Poortvliet, the Dutch artist who painted this, once (he was a friend of my foster family) and he was pretty strange.
Dinosaur High
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The text "Michael Crichton was 6'9" when he wrote Jurassic Park. Imagine the dinosaur adventure Robert Wadlow could have wrote" along with a diagram showing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (6'1") who wrote The Lost World, Michael Chrichton, (6'9") who wrote Jurassic Park, and Robert Wadlow (8'11") who wrote no known works of dinosaur literature.
Source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Heehee
And just like the dinosaurs, they're all dead.
into the comments like
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ninja turtle on a computer with the caption "talk to me, cyber-babes"
How I work
Builder Bird, In Blue
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A female Eastern Bluebird, with wings on the downsweep, morning light shining through her feathers; brings pine needles in her beak, to nest build.
A female eastern bluebird brings pine needles to her nest, Tuesday, April 14, 2026, in Freeport, Maine. AP Photo #RobertFBukaty
Bukaty is so good. I featured his work from Maine is a photo story a few years back: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo...
@kokogiak Those photos are truly wonderful.
Maine is nice, but that is clearly grass, not pine needles :)
Black Cheeseballs
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Korean black cheese balls are now on my personal Holy Shit Menu. Sharp Cheddar melted in a crispy, chewy and shockingly sweet mochi-ish dough, colored with squid ink. The only uncomfortable part was having to ask the guy at the counter to describe his balls to me and my family.
One is enough. They are definitely in the big leagues of unhealthy, near the top with the greatness of Pizzaria Uno pizza skins.
One is enough. They are definitely in the big leagues of unhealthy, near the top with the greatness of Pizzaria Uno pizza skins.
That, with the edamame, looks fantastic. I take it they are fried, not baked?
@0y3ahSansAcut3 Totally deep fried and served hot in a paper bag. That cheese stretched a good foot and a half after we first cracked one open.
Careful; you are about to spark an entirely different kind of cheese ball obsession on this site.
SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT
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Fun fact: I liked zardoz.
Me too.
Someone built this as a corvette-class ship in No Man's Sky.
https://www.reddit.com/r...
https://www.reddit.com/r...
It is one of my favorite movies
how I work
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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Woodcut illustration of a naked man run through with multiple swords, axes and sharp implements. Meme inscription: WHATEVER… LIKE IT FUCKING MATTERS
source : https://www.tumblr.com/curatoro...
Graves Mountain Pit Mine.
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A tall cliff of rusty red and pale blue rock is topped by scraggly pines. An overcast sky looms close. Here, everyone is a dwarf, and we dig carefully: Neither too deep nor too greedily.
Graves Mountain was a small collection of three hills in Eastern Georgia where Tiffany sourced the rutile for their jewelry and NASA sourced the kyanite for the Space Shuttle heat shield tiles. The hills have been flattened, and the mine closed, but rock hounds still come from all over on the two weekends a year it's open to the public for digging. It has a kind of Southwestern US feel, and if you look at the cliffs with the right eyes you can catch echoes of Georgia O'Keefe, but mostly the only echoes are from hammers and chisels.
beyond the sea
what doesn't kill you
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3 men enjoying a water pipe surrounded by the wreckage of cars from the Israeli bombs
Lebanon - David Guttenfelder/The New York Times
Liked but NOT liked
Lynda
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Lynda Carter in a newspaper ad for Vic Tanny’s Health Club (1978)
Dammit! I missed a screencap of "Artwells saved this image"
So it goes...
So it goes...
Tax all billionaires, including Lynda.
Well, now I know where I'm going when my time machine is ready.
Glass Harvest 2026 (so far)
Weekend Plans
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California Angels pitcher Nolan Ryan, 1972
I am Nolan Ryan. And my mom in the 80s was that chef.
Pitcher!
Watched him pitch in his last season, against Cleveland. I wasn’t much of a sports nut but I knew he was a legend, and it was great to be able to see him play.
