Heralds of otherworldly Powers, for Ben Laurence's zine "Through Ultan's Door #4"

My milkweed brings the cocoons to the yard

In one of the drafts while the fellowship is arguing about the snow on Caradras Gandalf suggests lighting Legolas on fire

Warmup toad drawings while trying to solve some problems for a new assignment

If anybody missed my solo D&D game reports, they're back! I lost some steam after hitting what felt like a decisive end of a chapter that resulted in a downtime session with so much bookkeeping that I had to split it into three posts! Read on for a resurrection, a curse, a wedding, and a departure

“The End of the F***ing World,” except that it’s exactly as long as it needs to be

Round 2 of Who's That Magic Card

Round 2 of Who's That Magic Card

I wonder if there were any Haradrim who were going “look: of course I worship Sauron the Great! We all worship Sauron the Great. But is this military adventure in the north really the *most* important thing we could be doing right now? I have granaries to manage and a census to carry out”

My friend’s son may have infected me with a vile plague that he picked up in preschool, but the good news is that I had the foresight to make a big pot of chicken soup yesterday.

I’m working on a targeted portfolio. Name that Magic card!

Most "ghibli vibes" stuff is shallow marketing shorthand, but it is trading on a real emotional response people have to something that does feel meaningful and distinctive.

I did theater in high school and we all hated and feared the Rock Island salesman song in the Music Man so much that we’d run through it over and over again at lightning speed in practice. 30 boys sitting in a grim circle chanting “whaddayatalk whaddayatalk” in flat, stony voices

Boy Kavalier telling one of his own robots that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, so just do some magic” is really low effort technobabble.

One of my favorite things about Warhammer 40k was how they seeded the setting with contradictory information so you could have lots of different interpretations. Here are some of my favorite (now largely debunked) 40k conspiracy theories:

Going to be looking at a lot of 32mm heroic scale elf butts

If somebody wanted to watch a movie with similar vibes to 2021’s Titane, what would you recommend?

Reading Christopher Tolkien’s History of Middle Earth is great. At one point Frodo was named Bingo Bolger-Baggins and he killed a dog.

salacious b crumb practice

The wood elf women looking snazzy with their various shield designs

Some of the variant wood elf heraldries

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

The wood elf troops now come with optional cloaks

The wood elf spearmaids are going faster since I'm repurposing most of the stuff from the spearmen

With 30 troops, that's all the boys done* *sort of, I still have to assemble their back sides and swap in the different unit heraldries

100% funded in less than a week! Thank you guys so much for your support in bringing this book to life! So excited to get these dragons into your homes! *I am not liable for any damage to your knick knacks, sofas and carpets that may happen as a result #dragons #smaugust2025 #kickstarter #artbook

And many a fair elf that should have lived yet long ages merrily in Kokiri Forest

Placing five opinions on the table and taking one away for every like

Filling out the unit

Paper minis test 2: more wood elf spearmen. I drew the parts for 60 different elves (secretly just 10 bodies but with a bunch of head swaps) and 10 different shield devices, which was probably more than I needed.

A few years ago, I thought about my own childhood Appendix N, the things I read and watched as a kid that formed the foundation of my idea of fantasy. @prismaticwasteland.com 's next Blog Bandwagon is an invitation to all of us to do the same! #osr #ttrpg 💙📚🪐

STAMPS!

My many wasted hours of looking at sprues for Warhammer minis I’ll never buy have finally paid off!

It’s important to check in on your chaps

My Waypoint-style Dark Souls 3 essay is that it helped me out when I was at a low point because everything about the game is design to *feel* intimidating and overwhelming and impossible but (unlike real life) was specifically designed for you to beat it.

I was watching In The Heat Of The Night yesterday and they really nailed it with the genteel “scientific” racist who slaps Virgil Tibbs, threatens to have him shot, and then breaks down weeping the second he’s alone because Tibbs slapped him back

People in the past who got a majority of their meals from food stalls and street vendors generally spent a larger percentage of their income on food.

While working on the bodies for my elf spearmen I have accidentally recreated how it looks when I dance

A bookplate design created as a private commission for someone's personal library.

Fell asleep in a mountain lion’s den

A bookplate design created as a private commission for someone's personal library.

The Great Broceliande

As an Ohioan, I grew up saying “soda” and “pop” interchangeably. Now I don’t because 10 years ago I went to college in Baltimore and the way people screamed when I said “pop” you’d think I’d have shit on the floor

Elf headswap mockups

Elf headswap mockups

Back to my paper minis idea with some wood elf head variations.

I think it’s a shame that Warhammer dwarfs have conquered and colonized the dwarves of every other fantasy setting. They’re definitely a cool version of dwarves, but I don’t think they should be the only one.

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I have a few spots open this month and next to take on some pet portraits! Thankful to everyone who's commissioned me in the past 🥹 Check the link in my bio for more info.

See what I hadn’t factored into my calculations is that the rage virus was actually full of magic