He’s a genuinely photogenic cat but like 80% of the time he’s doing this

That pie you left on the windowsill to cool? Yeah, sorry… it was eaten by wolves. M

Buddy of mine wrote a doorstopper fantasy novel in 2019, self-published through Amazon, has sold like five copies of it. Now he's revising it and asked me to beta-read his revisions, and I think the "revisions" are being handled by ChatGPT. He's playing coy and I'm just like this:

Psyching myself up before I have to get on the phone for work and start arguing with insurance companies. youtu.be/NPCpz6HX33A?...

He’s so disappointed in me that I’m not giving him any of my French toast.

Posts like this always make me want to pic up a smaller scale like 15 or 20mm.

Tarskia of the Starklands strode down from the frozen north to see what civilization has to offer. A woman of gigantic mirth (and no small waistline), she's enjoying it all. swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/a-very-good-...

Zeynep & Kawtar are my current favorite fictional duo, and this is the best story of their exploits yet!

It snowed overnight so I’m glad I managed to spray a base coat on all the pieces yesterday. Should be able to make some nice progress on this today!

Additionally, got another solo game of Majestic 13 in tonight. The Last Liners got off to a rocky start, beginning the game injured, but managed to put the hurt on this week's monster regardless: dice-and-doubloons.blogspot.com/2026/02/maje... #wargaming #solowargaming #Majestic13

My first Sword & Sorcery story has been published! Check it out and meet Tarskia of the Starklands, a buff blonde swordswoman who has fun while slaying her enemies!

Test-fit and built some subassemblies last night because I’m pretty sure I can get some spraying in today. This is a little hot dog stand! Going to paint it in the colors of the one I worked at in high school. Then have a buddy 3D print me a grill and fryer for the inside.

I realized I never posted a picture of what was upstairs from the smoke shop on my most recent model building. COULD IT BE SATAN? Goetic demon from @illgottengames.bsky.social , altar from @pulpfiguresbob.bsky.social

Gina's yarn shop of choice had a 25% Happy Birthday discount, and she had rewards credit, so we were able to really splash out. This is the one thing she really has bougie tastes in - hand-dyed, handspun yarn from women-owned small businesses are her jam and we were supporting local today big time.

Feeling the itch to make more terrain for my modern games. I might hand-prime and paint the interior furniture for my dispensary, and I *might* be able to spray prime the pieces of my hot dog stand this weekend. From there, I gotta plan what comes next.

⚔️SWORDS WITHOUT MASTER⚔️ 🎲 ACTUAL PLAY LIVESTREAM 🎲 🌛 TONIGHT AT 7PM EST ⌚️ Run by @epidiah.bsky.social for a table of New Edge pals! 👁️ Watch it right at the top of the crowdfund 👉️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

I placed joint-third in the "Toy Story" bonus round at the AHPC, themed around painting something that recalls a beloved toy from your childhood! thepaintingchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

C’mon in, the water’s great.

Yeah, reading about some of Parker's vocalizations and behavior, we're more and more certain that Poppy has some Siamese DNA in him.

Gina's birthday weekend has officially begun with her favorite pastry from the Ukrainian bakery down the street and playing Stardew swaddled in a fleece blanket. Tomorrow, taking her to go buck wild at her favorite yarn shop. Truly, we live wild, dangerous lives in our late 30s.

The Swords Against! crowdfund is almost 150% funded and just hit 400 backers! And there's still 17 days to go! It's a Swords and Sorcery sure thing, so get on board!

It's 14 minutes until my weekend starts and I do not have enough bandwidth to deal with coworkers jumping into my work-queue to steal easy productivity points off me.

Drop something METAL Showa Mechagodzilla is still best Mechagodzilla.

I've just made my first donation to the Trans Continental Pipeline and will be setting up a recurring donation tonight. Fuck Kansas, support trans people.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

The energy I bring to your social gathering (the first time she encountered Blathers the Owl in Animal Crossing, Gina went, "Holy shit, he's you! As an owl!")

Got an email reminder to fill out my employee self-performance review. “When I walk in, Alexander the Great starts looking like Alexander the Needs-Improvement!” No?

I’m getting issues 3-7 as a discounted bundle with the crowdfund, which sadly means I have to wait on reading the second and third Astartha stories (I’m old and not a digital reader), but I loved the first one and have used it as a selling pitch to encourage people to check NESS out.

You don’t get between a crab and his pizza.

Fruit Stripe Gum didn’t have lasting flavor back then, either.

"Why not sell 3d prints?" "Metal models are old fashioned", etc. These are all things people have said to me. When I set up Northwing Miniatures I wanted to sell metal models because I love the feeling, the heft, and the style. Sure, 3d printing has some advantages, but metals are what I love.

Gina's been after me to reward myself for getting "A Very Good Dog" accepted. So I just treated myself to some historical reference material on the Bronze Age Mediterranean and Ancient Near East. Onwards and upwards!

Bryn is a phenomenal author, and even in this short interview dropped a lot of wisdom that I'm eager to digest and incorporate into my own writing. Check it out, and check out her Goatskin stories.

Two monsters painted this week: thepaintingchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/02/from...

I finished the first draft of a new Tarskia story last night (the new #3, taking the place of "No Good Deed," which had a lot of structural deficiencies), which might end up with a title along the lines of "Beyond His Reach." Now it needs to sit so I can look at it with fresh eyes in a few days.

Finished this last night; I enjoyed a lot of it - the prose, the setting, the character of Kamose himself - but there's a lot of plot threads woven through multiple stories that just never get resolved, and that got frustrating after a while.

Just turned in a signed contract. I made a fiction sale! youtu.be/BdKu01WCMwk?...

Old sketch for a Trollbabe illustration for Adept Press way back in early 2000s. I love trollbabes!

Getting a holographic Book-It button and a personal pizza for reading books might fix me.

The New Edge 2026 crowdfund has skyrocketed so profoundly that they’ve needed a chart to track ongoing goals!

Behold the Brookie: chocolate chip cookie dough and brownie batter marbled together and baked, topped with crushed Oreos and containing a whole additional Oreo in the middle. I went to Sprinkles Cafe & Bakeshop for dinner and this came home with me. Should have gotten two.

No cheating: your last saved pick of a celebrity is your therapist Jackpot.

Hit the 5,000 word mark on the current WIP. One more important scene left and then a brief epilogue. Can I bring it all in under 6,000 words? Most likely not. 6500? Maybe.

I've always been a people pleaser, more than willing to set aside my own wants and needs to do for others, to my detriment. It's been hammered into me, over and over, by so many people over the past few decades, that my value as a person is based on what I'm doing for them next.

Gina is sorting mini-skeins of yarn for her next cast-on in her lap and Poppy can’t believe I’m not helping him get Da String

Since it’s been on my mind and I haven’t played a solo game lately, I unpaused my Majestic 13 campaign and played the next mission: our heroes have done well enough against the various big alien monsters that have been thrown against them, now alien soldiers have shown up. #wargaming #solo

If you see this, post a monster. 3D printed “generic Cthulhuey thing” I’m currently painting for Majestic 13. Gonna lengthen the fade on his arms so he doesn’t just look wrist deep in gore. Sticking with the ultra pale blue-gray for the rest of him though.

Gina and I stopped at a used book store near our house. LOTS of vintage scifi, decent amount of horror, some century old printings of Tarzan novels I couldn’t afford. Walked out with this, which turned out to be autographed!

Thanks to @weidbrewer.bsky.social for selling me this marvelous collection of gribbly abominations from the Zombicide: Invader board game! Looking forward to painting them up.

Stepped outside to discover the neighbor’s dogs had spooked the neighborhood skunk into spraying. It’s been a few months and I’d gotten used to this not being an at least once a week occurrence. The dogs aren’t even getting sprayed, they bark and the skunk unloads two houses away.