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Hello, did you do 'soup for my spoop'? Because I need you to know every time I walk past a can of soup I say that to myself and have for years, your art has had a profound impact on the way I live my life!

Yes, hi, that's me!

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When your roommate borrows your stuff.

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This is my pet peahat, Peabody. He is my best friend and kills all my enemies.

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I feel like we could put a trail of shiny rocks leading to a box on a stick and you would still follow it

You give me too much credit. They wouldn't even have to be shiny.

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My Kazuichi corner!

do you have any official or fanmade DR merch of your fave? 🤔

(daily-ish question #5)

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Spider plant report!

Last week, I repotted Charlotte! I also got pots for all of her spiderlings, so they can finally move out and become independent. I think you're supposed to cut them off and let them establish little root systems in a cup of water first, but I just plopped them right into their pots still attached to momma, to see what they'd do. They got right to work putting down roots!

Peter, the oldest spiderling, got a checkered pot. He is green and happy!

Georg, the middle spiderling, got a pot with leaves on it. He is smaller, but also green and happy!

And baby sister Muffet got Charlotte's old pot. She was the littlest when I potted her, but a week later she's about as big as her brothers! Dark green, very happy.

And Charlotte is THRIVING in her big blue pot! It might actually be a little too big for her, but she'll grow into it. She is putting out huge leaves and taking over my living room.

A healthy spider family!

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Hi, I love your danganronpa songs! I was wondering if you were planning on posting them anywhere like YouTube or iTunes or Spotify? I was also wondering if you’d be willing to post the instrumental backing tracks for them both?

Like I said, they’re really good! If you do make any more in the future I look forward to it!

Thanks! The backing tracks can be found on my soundcloud. As long as you credit me properly, please feel free to use them!

Maybe eventually I'll make some sprite videos or something and post them to youtube.

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We're the Demon Underpants Gang, and we're BAD KIDS!

Shamelessly drawing stuff from my own fanfiction, 'cause who else is gonna do it? It's Kaori, ex-Monokuma Kid and ten year old leader of the terrifying Demon Underpants Gang!

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Anyway speaking of rocks, here is my newest specimen! It is old stock golden barite from Eagle Mine, Colorado.

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It's time for Tiktok video of the day from my stash 🎶

I saw this, and I thought of a tumblr person that I follow might enjoy this. @reddpenn

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OVA redraw!

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Towa Kid

As a child, Maki learned to kill on the chaotic streets of Towa City. When a Future Foundation raid dragged her away, she found herself cast into a strange new world. An orphanage dominated by a precocious five year old supreme leader. An adoptive mother who moonlights as your friendly neighborhood serial killer. And a gaggle of teenage siblings who once ruled Towa City with an iron fist. But getting involved in this world makes her a target for Team Danganronpa, a mysterious organization kidnapping people for their dark web copycat killing game. And nothing is safe from them, not even Maki’s memories. A story that welds two canons together.

I finally got around to mirroring this story to Ao3! So if you've never read Towa Kid, or if you feel like reading it again, now's a good time, I guess!

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I'm back from the rock show! Here are the Cool Rocks I got!

Let's start with the fossils this time.

This year I finally tracked down a Tully Monster, which is my state fossil! He's not a complete fossil, but you can see his eyestalk and the bottom of his proboscis very clearly.

A big chunk of dinosaur bone from Utah! Dino bone is easy to ID due to its distinct pattern, where agate and jasper have filled in the porous structure of the bone.

This is a coprolite, a piece of fossilized dinosaur poop! This one is from Madagascar.

This one is a stromatolite, a rock formation created by a colony of bacteria! Stromatolites are some of the oldest fossils on Earth. In fact, the microbes that make them were likely the very first lifeforms on the planet. And they're still around today, mostly unchanged from their ancient ancestors, and still making rock formations! This little stromatolite came from Madagascar.

A giant chunk of Turritella agate, which I won at the silent auction! Turritella agate is made of a bunch of fossilized snail shells all packed together and filled in with agate. (Despite the name, they're not actually Turritella snails, but rather Elimia tenera.) When cut and polished, it reveals beautiful organic patterns. This stuff comes from Wyoming.

That's all the fossils I brought home! Now on to the minerals!

I was very responsible and didn't come home with a million agates this year, but I couldn't resist this gorgeous rain flower agate! Hailing from Nanijing, China, these agates are naturally polished by the Yangtze River and have a unique, frosted finish.

Another cabochon for my cab collection! This is afghanite, a blue mineral that isn't related to the sodalite family, but likes to grow alongside it.

It fluoresces!

Vesuvianite, a mineral that gets its name because it was first discovered on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius! The dark crystals growing on its surface are garnets. This piece is showing off a great example of vesuvianite's crystal habit and terminations.

A huge zircon crystal! Zircon is the oldest mineral on planet Earth. There's a deposit in Australia which has been radiometric dated to be about 4.4 billion years old! Not this guy, though. This one is from Pakistan.

It fluoresces!

An AMAZING specimen of anatase! It's extremely rare for anatase crystals to grow this large. In fact, the only other anatase crystals I've seen in person had to be viewed under a microscope!

Here's the most expensive piece I came home with - a South African diamond! Can you believe I didn't have a diamond in my collection yet? That problem has been remedied.

It fluoresces!

And finally, my friends and I broke open a few geodes at the geode-cracking booth. I picked out some Trancas geodes from Mexico.

This locale produces weird, wavy, wormy crystals! These formations occur when quartz (in the form of chalcedony or hyalite) grows atop hair-thin, curly crystals of anhydrite.

They fluoresce!

And that was my haul from the rock show!

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Rock show tomorrow!

Gonna get Cool Rocks!!!

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DRIZZLE

Writing is like,

Hm, well, I’ve already used the words patter and spatter, but splatter feels like way too much blood, and sprinkle is way too little blood. I need, like, one line of a Jackson Pollock worth of blood.

I have dithered over this for twenty minutes. The actual story is slowly atrophying away in the background. “Please,” it begs. “Please, just write the plot.” It is sobbing. I open thesaurus.com yet again.

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There's still time to preorder this zine that I was a part of! There are some really amazing pieces in here!

💎 PREVIEW

Our next (Steven) preview is an Era 3 piece featuring all of the Diamonds AND Spinel in a family photo by artist @reddpenn!