#Heraldecember2025 7 | Cinnamon Too good for this world, too pure #heraldry #heraldecember

#Heraldecember2025 6 | Fate The distaff, spindle, measuring rod, and shears of the Moirai, or Fates, of Greek mythology. Wanted to use a Greek shield but didn't want a round one, so I went with a Mycenaean figure 8 shield, and a boar tusk helmet to match. #heraldry #heraldecember

#Heraldecember2025 5 | Journey An albatross for the long migrations they complete. When I looked up references, I found myself on Wisdom the Laysan albatross' wikipedia page. Since that species nests in Hawai'i, I drew a Mahiole for the helm. #heraldry #heraldecember

#Heraldecember2025 4 | Passing A relay-racing themed coat of arms, because why not? Gave our proud runner a headband reminiscent of the torse of a helm. Had this finished on time but had no scanning time til today, aaa #heraldry #heraldecember

never had a spotify because I'm an absolute luddite, but i can't even do a My iPod Wrapped because my bedtime playlist wildly skews my results

flat file real???? soon????? flat file within my grasp???? finally????????

#Heraldecember2025 3 | Cavalry The motto “fumus ante ignis” is my tentative Latin translation of “smoke before fire,” the phrase indicating that white starts a game of chess. #heraldry #heraldecember

#Heraldecember2025 2 | Feast A crest for Senshi from Dungeon Meshi. #heraldry #heraldecember

really cool how Google uses "how long you've had your email" as part of their age verification, a few years after pulling out of their agreement to provide schools unlimited storage, leading them to terminate alumni's accounts which they had been using for ages, forcing them to get new gmails......

I've been dead tired all day, which perhaps explains why I wasn't 100% paying attention and bought a small thing on etsy not realizing it was from the UK. Got absolutely bodied by the tarrif, didn't figure it out until I finalized the sale. Oh well!!! c'est la vie i guess!!!!

#Heraldecember2025 1 | Counterfeit I told my partner I might do coins, with one bitten to test its quality, but they thought I meant chocolate coins. I was like oh wait i like that even better! Then I made the helm chocolate too, with the ripped foil wrapper as mantling. #heraldry #heraldecember

And once again - now for the fifth time - we kick off a new edition of #Heraldecember! This year's prompts are inspired by various famous novels from around the globe. (More info below...) #heraldry #heraldecember2025 #artprompt #promptlist #artchallenge

The fictional character that traumatized me was the grey aliens in Close encounters of the Third Kind. I was like 4 and I wandered into the room while my parents were watching it, right at the climax. I remember seeing the big tall alien silhouetted and all the little ones running around at its feet

When I was five I told my mom I wanted to be an artist when I grew up, and she (a struggling writer herself) said "Oh hon... art doesn't make much money..." but I thought about my other options and decided being president carried too much risk of assassination, so I kept drawing instead.

me, struggling under two different deadlines due before Thanksgiving: i wanna plot out heraldecember....

while watching the new Frankenstein, I dug up the book to settle whether the creature's creation method was described clearly, (not particularly), and what a spooky little surprise to realize the Creature was originally brought to life on a rainy November night... just like tonight!! wooo~

just about getting back to normal, healthwise. still have no idea what was causing my immune system to freak out so badly this spring but it seems to have calmed down. now i'm just recovering from the recovery process; sitting around so much left my legs in rough shape.

My ipod nearly ran out of space over the weekend, but I jettisoned a bunch of apps (why did I have Keynote on this thing?!) and STILL was low on space, until I realized the podcasts app was holding onto so many downloads it was taking up as much space as my music app.

pouring an entire packet of ginger drink mix into my chai to create The Chai That Bites

Was up late sewing my halloween costume and then had to get up early today, ooooh mannnn i am gonna fall asleep during the rocky horror picture show tonight, aren't i, orz

I have a Mon Mothma playlist called Chandri Crashout which is full of club bangers about having a bad time, i just put Bad Apple!! on it and feel like a supergenius

yknow that bit in PeeWee's Big Adventure (spoilers) where he's rescuing animals from a petshop fire & several times he pauses at the snake tank, grimaces, & goes for a cuter pet, until finally it's just the snakes left & he runs out covered in snakes, anyway that's what avoiding tasks feels like

hmm, a very save me Young Modern (2007) by Silverchair kinda monday morning

my partner needed a mask to paint on for halloween and i remembered and located one I'd bought but never used roughly ten years ago, which managed to survive a move. this is doing nothing to dissuade my craft supply hoarding tendencies.

ok so bear w/ me: there's an ep of the pokemon anime where team rocket had set up a gaudy pokemon salon as a rival to a more established holistic one, until everyone realized how dumb their pokemon fashions were (literally being a mob front was not at issue but sure the problem is they're tacky) 1/2

here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update

here at amazon we've innovated the latest in cutting-edge tech: a basket that holds just like. so many eggs.

physical therapist said she can't believe the way I stand could possibly be comfortable, hahahaha

I'm doing the posters for a local theater group and the director said my sleeper agent hyperfixation activation phrase, i.e., "please design heraldry for the characters." I've been gleefully scribbling escutcheons ever since, aaahahahha >:))))

I'm an absolute wimp about horror so I'm not sure if I'll ever see Good Boy (2025) but ohhh my godddd an entire movie where you get to look at a nova scotia duck tolling retriever???? are you kidding meeee what a slam dunk premise

psst the onion social media staff... don't screencap your file to get a jpeg... please the onion social media staff, i can help you find Export in the File menu, maybe even Export For Web, don't leave your spellcheck squiggles and text cursors out there for the world to see...

ooooh I might try this one!

ooohhhgggh i wanna papercraft Guinevere so baddd, i have that paper with constellations on it in the perfect shade of bluuuue but i gotta learn how to draw her fiiirst

I continue to enjoy great pottery throwdown but it's also interesting/frustrating on a meta level to see the more annoying aspects of the recent Bakeoff structure seep through the cracks. suddenly we have poorly-thought-out Theme Weeks, and projects that seem designed to fail, and that feels Weird

having to make some calls to my credit card company today and nearly got trapped in a robot phonetree that kept mishearing me. the rapidity with which I went from yelling "CONNECT ME TO A REPRESENTATIVE, NOW!!" to having a pleasant, informative conversation with a human being was staggering.

my current tv: a series of unfortunate events: after every episode i have at least ten complaints about the writing, directing, stylization, and bonkers color grading, which is a real shame because i love the books! keeping at it because i like the actors but hmmm. :T tbh it shoulda been animated.

ordered a flat file cabinet for my paper collection, hoping against hope that THIS one actually gets SENT TO ME... ತ⁠_⁠ತ

I signed up! The other frame projects I've done have been fun!

🩶QUAKERS🩶

Slowly realizing that this collapsed arches thing has been quietly affecting my entire life for decades. When out with friends I get fatigued just standing around to chat. I avoid chores like dishes because of all the standing involved. Jobs where I couldn't sit were uniquely torturous. Just...dang!

anyway, as of the new lease we've been allowed to adopt a cat!!! probably won't happen until after the holidays but aaaa caaaaatttt

"No need to dangle your liver in front of the eagle" - litany against concessions-in-advance I came up with yesterday

great fun when the doctor asks to see how I stand and then he kinda goes (ô_ô) and point-blank asks if I've ever seen a podiatrist so uh now i have a referral for a podiatrist (collapsed arches! whoops!)

papercrafting sundays have not really happened so far, I keep overdoing it in other activities and running out of energy. I've been having foot pain but spent most of Saturday walking around anyway, and now I'm left with Even Worse Foot Pain, so today I'm resting and also feeling unhappy

went looking through older sketchbooks for a DnD design I'd done at some point. couldn't find it (might need to look further back) but I was reminded of how many papercraft ideas I have languishing... wait for me, depression robe ed i was gonna do in day-glo papers, i will make you one day...

Love when I look back at design work I did the day before in a panic and can go "oh yeah, this slaps"

one thing I need for the studio is a flat file to keep my papers in. in the apartment they were in bins in a closet, but we just don't have that kind of space, and they neeeed to be inside something to stave off light damage

ok i think i'm going to declare that all upcoming sundays next month will be Papercrafting Sundays. I've had a Farcille piece languishing without a background for an entire year and a Mon Mothma one crying out to be started, and I've missed just sitting and cutting paper! aaa!!

Haven't updated in a bit, oops! I've been on several back to back vacations, and i got bound up in feeling like I have to make A Grand Post About Them With Photos, which then keeps me from posting anything at all because I have to get the photos off my camera.

i was sitting around in the heat feeling Okay, not Great but Fine, then made the mistake of getting up and trying to feel Better. now i'm overheated and contemplating the necessity of disassembling and cleaning the air conditioner, which I realized was covered in mold while it blew in my face