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Gulls make a lot more sense when you properly consider their ancestry. Stomping around, loudly roaring, terrorising small mammals.

21:21 —

It feels like there’s way more going on than can conceivably be contained by the stuff it’s happening within.

21:19 —

Little bit of a contrast boop.

16:23 (1 media) —

Angrier rain, angrier thunder, angrier heat. The culture-shock slip into seen-on-TV weather.

11:12 —

Roaming the house in a daze howling for lollies.

15:59 —

Apron time.

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Ahh, forgot the ‘always put their hats on so you don’t have to paint their eyeballs’ rule.

18:44 (1 media) —

Using this one to do a bit of airbrush practice. What do we reckon, ‘green’?

15:43 (1 media) —

“Hey! What are you teens up to?”

13:48 (1 media) —

There are bad seasons of the X-Files and then there’s… whatever this is.

18:13 (1 media) —

They were just doing their best @1moremin

13:45 —

I paused at about the halfway point of the collection in the middle of an unfortunate back-to-back run of US editions that I just couldn’t power through.

Weirdly, looking back on it, the thing I remember most is the Dinobot characterisation. In the UK run, where we first met them, they were smart, capable and profoundly anti-authority, sick of being used as other people’s weapons. The whiplash to and from the “Me am Grimlock, me am smash lolz” of the interspersed US run was quite something.

13:44 —

The weather is definitely getting meaner. The sheer sound of it. Sonic boom thunder cracks, rain louder than conversation.

15:53 —

The fact that I’d also somehow automatically picked up toenail clippers beforehand, thinking this was the obvious solution, should not be entered into the permanent record.

13:05 —

I managed to remember that I’d bought dedicated parcel-opening scissors about two years ago, remembered that I’d put them somewhere easy to locate, and they were actually in that place when I looked.

Is this the kind of high that normal people feel all the time?

13:03 —

I’m pretty pleased with those gradients over black this time around: no airbrush, just a bit of glaze medium and multiple passes with a biggish brush.

14:57 —

At some point my self-distractions will loop back on themselves and I’ll actually finish a thing. Today is not that day! 🎉 Having a play at unifying yellows and reds via purples and pinks, inspired by @minis ‘s gorgeous Howling Griffons scheme.

14:23 (1 media) —

I dislike the current temperature and would like to return the unused portion please.

20:09 —

Boats on the lough, blooms in the bushes, buzzy things on the window.

13:51 —

He’s gone for the obvious progression, folks. Skin, dagger hilt, crown. The goal is always to make painting everything else as pointlessly fiddly as possible.

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