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My Adventures with Superman looks amazing! Thought I’d mash it up with Ponyo.

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Painted my first patch the other day,,, turned out a lot better then I thought it would! she is so precious (◑́_◑᷅ )

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idk

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Disco Elysium inspired Jacket,, I’m actually so happy with how it turned out!!! Amazing what you can do with just a little duck tape!! …here’s hoping it stays😅

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ok i coloured her actually

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Almost two months ago I saw a video titled “how to make a muppet” and my brain went “that sounds like something we should try immediately. I’ll just try and see if I can do one…”

Two months later, here I am :D I may have a problem.

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“Nice girl, bright head on her, but she kept thinking that everyone else was as passionate about things as she was. All people really wanted [...] was to be left alone. The world was quite difficult enough as it was without people going around trying to make it better all the time.”

• Terry Pratchett (Diggers, Page 57)

TERRY PRATCHETT RANT INCOMING

Context: TP’s describing the character Grimma—a hotheaded, idealistic girl who gets launched into a leadership position in the second book of the trilogy. She’s taking care of a population of previously opulent gnomes who now has to prepare to survive the winter with little skills and resources to do so.

She’s demanding and short tempered with everyone around her, and while her morals and judgement of situations are in the right place she is not cut out for being a leader.

Hearing Pratchett both admire the character and redirect her with his gentle, paternal voice left a deep impact on me. It felt like he was directly addressing me, an intentionally difficult person concerned with being right first, and reaching people second.

When I first began reading this section, I found it off-putting the way he framed Grimma. She was right! Terry Pratchett is a master of satire; shouldn’t he be mocking all these foolish, stuck-in-their-way characters who are obviously short sighted and wrong?

But by the end, I appreciated his restraint. His lack of interest in mocking and punching down on some fictional, contrived masses of ignorance challenged the way I previously felt about people. It encouraged me to be gentler, to be better in a way I hadn’t previously thought I needed to be. And that gentleness will always be the most important part of Pratchett’s voice to me. I may sometimes be too stupid to get half the puns, too stiff to enjoy the comedy, too cynical to find catharsis in the satire, too pretentious to wonder at the fantasy. But I’m always human enough to feel his love for people.