Had an amazing holiday, full of love and healing company - seems a shame that I have to go back to work tomorrow!

New year, new fantasy map 🖋️

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Winter Queen's Flowers, Zofia Plewińska-Smidowiczowa (1888-1944).

This one, of course

HELL YEAH LAMB AND PAV

New Year, new pav

Happy 2026 from the future to all my overseas pals!

Xmas ham leftovers put to the best use possible 🍜

I met this fine gentleman at the beach. He obliged me with pats and scritches but hunting lizards and mice was clearly the main agenda for the day

Always wondered how they got on filming Star Trek: Voyager with three Roberts in the main cast

All the butterflies out today 🦋

I want to do something positive to end what’s been a shit year. Change up the vibe etc. *lucky dip artwork* For $25 incl p&p I’ll send you a piece of art, many matted, no bigger than A4. Mixed media, mainly semi abstract landscape, signed. NZ only. DM me to order. Reposts appreciated.

🖼️ Edith Holden

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Gorgeous day for a swim - and my trans sticker is *still* there in the changing rooms 💅

Low key want to tell people who ask about my ancestry (due to my height) that they were immigrants from Zargorodka, which no longer exists due to wars in Eastern Europe

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Every time I read the Narnia books I get jumpscared by fucking SANTA turning up out of nowhere and giving the children swords and shit.

Tempted to play and rate every Cyberpunk themed video game. Other than Syndicate and Cyberpunk 2077, what other games fit the genre?

It’s pav o’clock team!

We have a pav!

🖼️ Judy Garfin

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Finally recreated my old map of the Baklands from Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! series.

Succulent flowers bold tiny delights

Prep has begun! Famous potato salad ready for the fridge

For Day 23 #ArtAdventCalendar Dawn at White Sands 24×36 61x91cm Oil on Canvas 2017 Commission

On the 15th of December this year, Aotearoa New Zealand passed the 2.5 year mark for Self-ID. As we always said, there have been zero issues arising from this. Not a single incident recorded formally or informally, not a whisper of a problem. The anti-trans activists lied to everyone.

Occurred to me that The Fellowship is made up of: a demigod, three princes, a rich military kid, three trust fund kids and their gardener.

Update: they arrived and are now wrapped and under the Xmas tree!

The hold up

🖼️ Winter Berries, Privet, Hips and Haws, Edith Holden.

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Slightly different lighting 💅

Landlord had too much salmon so we smoked it in our oven and made this and it was fucking phenomenal 💅

Xmas nails attempt! 🎄

New from me: Health officials said there was ‘no evidence base’ about the likely impacts of the Government’s decision to ban puberty blockers for transgender youth. newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/22/c...

Soundwave is technically a marsupial. Discuss.

Swim followed by fush and chups to round out an awesome day

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Superb end to an equally superb week

Follow you home

The wizard ponders his orb.

Pine Cones, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1925.

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Even though it’s unenforceable, as of today it is illegal to prescribe puberty blockers to a trans child in Aotearoa. We now know that the Ministry recommended against this, that no one asked for it, and no one thought it was a good idea except for cabinet. This ban is a stain on our history.