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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Juniper Blessing was 19 years old when someone took her life. She was just a kid who deserved better.

Painting of Juniper Blessing on a yellow background

Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

To Be Hero X has gotta be the coolest anthology storytelling I've seen in an anime in forever. Took a great premise and pushed the premise all the way to its logical breaking point. Canterbury Tales with a soundtrack by Hiroyuki Sawano.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

It's incredibly sad that BBNO$ is actually quitting music but CTV citing the Fear& podcast as their source is frying me

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Tried hotpot for the first time today. I have been missing out

Two hotpot trays with various vegetables and sliced beef.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

And here is a chart of real housing prices vs what they would be growing with inflation. Taken together doesn't that suggest it is more difficult to buy a home? listwithclever.com/research/hou...

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Doing some fall illustration 🍁🍂 🍄

A painting of a young witch girl holding a mushroom. To left is a yellow bouquet of flowers and to the right is a ceramic mushroom.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Can't WAIT to move to socialist New York after the revolution

A painting of Zohran Mamdani against the New York City skyline

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Working on some paintings of the countryside since it actually just looks like that

A painting on an easel of a small historical Japanese house in a green field and blue sky.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Going to see if I can do some en plein air in the countryside today

A small coffee cup on a window ledge in front of a rice patty and mountains.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Mr Beast is just inventing Omelas now

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

The animation is incredibly detailed, the violence sometimes shocking. The style and shaders are so realistic, that if you squint it often feels like live action. At the end of one particularly intense bout, the whole theater started clapping as though they'd been watching a real fight.

A boy doing a deep one legged squat in a field of grass. It is animated but looks like photography.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

showing my friends the leftists influencers i like in 2025 like

a grainy jpeg of Nicki Minaj captioned "so there's this enemy of the state"

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

It might have gone up near the end, but most his of term saw negative wage growth versus inflation. I think it's pretty fair to assume most people attributed that (falsely) to his presidency. This economic pain is supported anecdotally by everyone i know living paycheque to paycheque

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

NeZha Reborn on Netflix really blew my mind. I have a hard time imagining North America 3D animation producing something that original, or frankly, that violent for such a high budget. Check it out if you can!

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Underpainting and some initial colors are done.... I like blocking in my shadows like this

A work in progress painting of a young man.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The cultural riches of 2025 never cease to amaze honestly

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

One season and I still think about First Kill. Some great characters.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I like to paint architecturally dubious fantasy buildings. Even if you gotta wonder about the zoning laws...

A painting of a lopsided medieval Tudor style building.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I'm really enjoying learning gouache but it is such an emotional roller coaster to paint with, you will go from Bad to Good to Bad Again but In a Different Way, to Good if You Squint in like the same ten minutes

A painting and paintbrushes of a small grey house surrounded by greenery and flowers.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

My Youtube algo is really popping off lately

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

As a kid, someone who had a crush on me painted this for me before I broke their heart. I've kept it for like 17 years and four moves for reasons unclear. It is a beautiful reminder I'm kind of a bad person.

A wrinkled ink calligraphy painting of flowers on a branch.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Genuine question, how do explain that Trump's golf buddy landed a ceasefire in a few days if Biden couldn't do it the entire time he was in office?

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Almost impossible to overstate how big a deal it is for the industry that Sinners is printing money. There's a real path here to pulling film back to auteurs out of the late stage studio system.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Crazy how all the tariff stuff they said he would never do is spelled out in Project 2025 to the letter

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Doing what's right is often unpopular. What is the point of trying to win an election at all costs if you have no principles, no ideas, no moral compass, or any real vision about how to make life better for the people electing you?

Polling showing Martin Luther King Jr. had negative approval ratings during his life.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

When the GDP estimate looks like the Marianas Trench that's good right

A graph of the GDP estimate from Atlanta Fed shows the GDP estimate falling off a cliff in the last week of February.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

What are two stories you think are better together? I recently read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas back to back with The Fever by Wallace Shawn. Together, you realize Ursula LeGuin wasn't just doing a thought experiment. shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf www.wischik.com/lu/senses/fe...

Cover art of the Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin. It features a drawing of red human figures above ground walking away from a malnourished grey child underground.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

A busy afternoon of inking coming up....

A pencil drawing of a metal dome surrounded by cables and pipes. Next to the paper there is an ink well and calligraphy pen.

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

An inn at the end of the world...🧭

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Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Visual development with watercolors 🐢 🎨

Watercolor and ink sketch with a pelican and turtle creature in saddles, a blimp and a boat with wheels.

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