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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower

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Color Neuromancer • Magic: The Gathering Artist • Worldbuilder • Taste all the Colors • Cyber Impressionism • He/Him I post about being an #Artist/#Writer/#Geek - Portfolio: www.ancientones.net Podcast: www.youtube.com/@PanakalAPodcastfor…

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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 28/09/2026
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” - Sylvia Plath
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 27/09/2026
No matter what you decide to do in life, you're going to piss someone off - no way around it. The secret is to make sure you're mainly pissing off the people who detract from your goals. One of the most liberating things you'll learn in life is that you don't need everyone to like you to succeed.
Life tip: No matter what you decide to do in life, you're going to piss someone off - no way around it. The secret is to make sure you're mainly pissing off the people who detract from your goals. One of the most liberating things you'll learn in life is that you don't need everyone to like you to succeed.
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 25/09/2026
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Ancient Ones. A Sci/Fi-Fantasy World-Building extravaganza.
Ancient Ones is about one man’s discovery of extraterrestrial civilizations that have been manipulating humanity. As he travels the Milky Way, a seemingly chance encounter with an alien cabal makes hi...
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 25/09/2026
"It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you." - Randy Pausch
"It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you." 
- Randy Pausch
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 22/09/2026
"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." - J.R.R. Tolkien
:: "There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 20/09/2026
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” - Søren Kierkegaard
:: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
- Søren Kierkegaard
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 18/09/2026
"Confidence isn't walking into a room thinking you're better than everyone; it's walking in not having to compare yourself to anyone at all."
:: "Confidence isn't walking into a room thinking you're better than everyone; it's walking in not having to compare yourself to anyone at all."
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 06/09/2026
To the person who stole my Morningstar playmat... "Prayne de crabug ahm keike rinedere be-yogt iglo kes gron!"
Spaceship in a nebula
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 06/09/2026
"Control the things you can control. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing." - Stephen King
:: "Control the things you can control. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing." 
- Stephen King
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 03/09/2026
"If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all." - Yogi Bhajan
If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.
- Yogi Bhajan
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 03/09/2026
Love this.
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 31/08/2026
"Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." - Stephen King
"Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." 
- Stephen King
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 22/08/2026
"'Someday'" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually,' just do it and correct course along the way.” - Timothy Ferriss
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 21/08/2026
"Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of tying yourself up in fears that you may never realize" - R.A. Salvatore
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 20/08/2026
“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.” - Lemony Snicket
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 20/08/2026
I am fed up with how often my Comcast internet drops. This is ridiculous. #comcast
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 18/08/2026
"Don’t allow your happiness to be interrupted by overly judgmental people. The problem is not you, because even if you do good all the time, they would still find a way to judge you wrongly." - Edmond Mbiaka
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 17/08/2026
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.” - Jonathan Safran Foer
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 12/08/2026
“Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you.” - Stephen Richards
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 10/08/2026
“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” - Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 09/08/2026
"People who love you for who you are and not for what you can do for them are the best kind of people." - Brigitte Nicole
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 07/08/2026
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - Dylan Thomas
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 04/08/2026
You will be relentless. You will have courage. And you will create art you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be. You’ll want to quit. Don’t.
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 01/08/2026
"The world is full of nice people. If you can't find one, be one." - Nishan Panwar
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 31/07/2026
Ancient Ones is at Gen Con 2026! Booth 1149 right under the aisle 1200 sign. Make it make sense! Come check out all the new work, exclusives, and tokens!
Ancient Ones is at Gen Con 2026!
Booth 1149 right under the aisle 1200 sign. 
Make it make sense! 
Come check out all the new work, exclusives, and tokens!Ancient Ones is at Gen Con 2026!
Booth 1149 right under the aisle 1200 sign. 
Make it make sense! 
Come check out all the new work, exclusives, and tokens!Ancient Ones is at Gen Con 2026!
Booth 1149 right under the aisle 1200 sign. 
Make it make sense! 
Come check out all the new work, exclusives, and tokens!
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 26/07/2026
"This is ten percent luck. Twenty percent skill. Fifteen percent concentrated power of will. Five percent pleasure. Fifty percent pain. And a hundred percent reason to remember the name."
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 21/07/2026
“No matter how buried it gets, or lost you feel, you must promise me, that you will hold on to hope and keep it alive. We have to be greater than what we suffer. My wish for you is to become hope. People need that.” - Peter Parker
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 20/07/2026
"The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward." - Steve Maraboli
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 14/07/2026
Today is rough. LeMar was a good friend and an amazing person. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 14/07/2026
"The steps you take don't need to be big; they just need to take you in the right direction." - Jemma Simmons
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 13/07/2026
"Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." - Stephen King
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 10/07/2026
“To create one’s own world takes courage.” - Georgia O’Keeffe
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 08/07/2026
"I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite." - Shane Koyczan
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 06/07/2026
"I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation to stand back up either." - Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 03/07/2026
“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” - Dalai Lama
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 02/07/2026
“If you found out you were dying, would you be nicer, love more, try something new? Well, you are. We all are.” - Lisa Starr
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 01/07/2026
Think about any attachments that are messing with your inspiration and flow. Now consider letting them go.
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 30/06/2026
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” - Paulo Coelho
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 29/06/2026
“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'” - Mary Anne Radmacher
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 28/06/2026
The Universe knows you’re scared. I know this is not news, but you need to hear this... I’m scared, you’re scared...we’re all scared. The difference is whether you’re going to keep moving.
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 27/06/2026
I try to do good in the World, not out of fear or for a reward, but because it feels better not to be an asshole.
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 26/06/2026
“God, let me think clearly and brightly; let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences, let me someday see who I am.” - Sylvia Plath
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 25/06/2026
It costs you nothing to be nice. It costs you nothing to be a decent human being. Seriously!
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 24/06/2026
"Sometimes you could get rid of the ghosts that were haunting your life if you could only work up enough courage to face them." - Stephen King
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 19/06/2026
"Head clear. Mouth shut. See much. Say little." - Stephen King
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 18/06/2026
“Sometimes it takes another person to believe in us." - Steven Pressfield
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 16/06/2026
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am." - Sylvia Plath
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 11/06/2026
It's both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so very acutely.
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 09/06/2026
"It’s ok if you fall down and lose your spark. Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as the whole damn fire." - Colette Werden
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Allen Panakal - The Watchtower @allenpanakalart.com · 08/06/2026
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.” - Jonathan Safran Foer
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