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exciting. my new acquisition is on top, and you can see the number of golden tips and length of the leaves compared to even my imperial grade in the middle or premium grade at the bottom

three grades of keemun tea, with the best one on top. the number of golden tips difference and quality of the leaves is acutely visible

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thierry shirt alert 🗣️

thrift shop shirt, all black, with white text in helvetica: Suffer Better

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what the tech companies don't want you to know is that they come to me for my illustrations because they know AI doesn't hold up, especially at the B2B level

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I just watched a tech company CEO get incredibly mad at AI coding in real-time and AI is soooo fucked lol

okay actually that helped me fix a massive failure in my shipping rates ahead of people actually buying stuff so thank you, buyer who I guess waited two fucking years for Mitts & Reue

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TheEFAF @efaf.hanby.design · 05/10/2026

I HAVEN'T ANNOUNCED ANYTHING YET!!! STOP!!!!! IT'S BEEN 15 MINUTES!!!!!!!

i ALREADY HAVE AN ETSY ORDER STOP IT SHUT UP

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I resampled my other keemuns and yes, this one beats even the imperial grade I have. I haven't been this excited for a package in a while

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TheEFAF @efaf.hanby.design · 05/10/2026

customs did not like me ordering half a kilogram of tea but they have now released it 🙏

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TheEFAF @efaf.hanby.design · 03/10/2026

the local barcade has free to play ddr AND wacca? I'll never have to travel an hour to round 1 ever again

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TheEFAF @efaf.hanby.design · 03/10/2026

I've had Moonmilk on my potentials list forever and yet here I am, booboo the fool

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TheEFAF @efaf.hanby.design · 03/10/2026

Upset to think Moonmilk is Ilya's alternate (earthside) scent and I didn't pick it up while I was there because I couldn't smell it well enough on the blotter when it comes out great on skin. I originally thought it was Bois Imperial but...damn

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I've been related to Odysseus before, but that's getting a little real now

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because both of the people that hit on me during vacation had golden eyes and tried to stop me from going home, I'm now creating a mythology for myself where they were a god there to tempt me

I woke up from surgery and felt happiness for the first time in my life. it's simply inexpressible. I can find no words to convey it, so it's no wonder nobody could find the words to convey it to me before now. you know it, or you don't.

the gulf that's opened between where I am now and my past is so wide that at points I can get giddy at the thought of twisting my old pains up into new story entertainments. a fun toy in my hands, despite the blood shed. I can't believe it could be like this without losing myself, yet here we are

TheEFAF @efaf.hanby.design · 01/10/2026

I deleted my stuff off Tapas a couple years ago and requested if they could send my $8.25 in "ink" to me even if it didn't meet payout thresholds and they said no. Now today I thought, "hey maybe they will now!" The ink has been deleted, lmao. When did everyone's opinion turn around on Tapas fr

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TheEFAF @efaf.hanby.design · 01/10/2026

haunted by [redacted], thinking about [redacted], wishing you could stop having thoughts, slamming it back and entertaining the worst decisions. push yourself down, put the mask back on, go back out on display. yeah

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TheEFAF @efaf.hanby.design · 01/10/2026

stream of consciousness when you're making the most of a bad time, the song

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TheEFAF @efaf.hanby.design · 30/09/2026

I didn't want to risk it being particular to this flush, and find out next season it doesn't taste the same. it reminds me of the tea at the local family chinese place when I was a kid...

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TheEFAF @efaf.hanby.design · 30/09/2026

every tea shop I go to I ask for their keemuns and this time I think I found The One™️. every night I think I'm fooling myself that it's so different and every night I have another cup and go "no, that's it! that's the one I've been looking for!" so, I ordered half a kilogram of it.

50g bag of Qi Men Hong Cha from The Tea Centre of Stockholm

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my favorite total shot on the trip though is this riddarholmen one on the konica

the church altar with king's caskets in front. nice contrast, bloom, very gloomy.

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I can't believe my favorite photo of myself from the trip was on the film camera and it has a condensation blur. I guess that's the beauty of film huh?

leaving helsinki by boat. there's a god damn blur blob right over the city. I'm clear though so! I guess it is what it is!!

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and yes that's all him, even live

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20 years later and I'm still doing the circling on the back of the CD so everyone in the station can know which one to play on air

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I wanted to laugh because it was right after a conversation with a friend about people in his circle eating each other despite being on the same side. I was standing there like lady, you're gonna hate on the other ladies?? let 'em have fun!! I should've told her I draw porn anyone can look at lmao

someone at the convention tried to make me upset that fujoshis would be all about T&I and I thought it was very strange that a woman would try to speak for me. I told her it was not my business what my audience is or does, only that I tell my own story how I wanted as best as I could

I am extremely unwell about bush and hornblower and george being english and giving the camera that look didn't help

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george doing the camping shower at the track makes me think about that part in lieutenant hornblower where hornblower asks to get hosed down on deck (a strange frivolity!) and then bush feels an odd prick along his skin and heat under his shirt as he watches hornblower turn under the stream of water

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I think it's a crime that Finland doesn't have a grade 1 track so I fixed that in Downforce, by the way

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I noticed Finlandia Trophy tickets are like 1/3 the cost of Skate America tickets so I am perhaps big braining 2027 and fulfilling my desire to revisit the sauna

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I still can't believe we have to put up with this shit because they're too lazy to go video the tires out on track anymore

primitive 3d rendering for baku's introduction of the tire compounds

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ELO DOES rule and I dislike everyone that tried to make me feel bad for thinking so because they thought it was cringe due to being too pop

TheEFAF @efaf.hanby.design · 26/09/2026

someone at this show just compared my art to naoki urasawa's and 🙌 that's it, pure success fam

I just had an idea that involves drawing a shitton of flowers and WHY do I do this to myself

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anyway, maybe next year I can finally get a quote for melting the damn thing down into a nice new pendant necklace

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Turns out it was symbolism either way huh. Especially when he'd talk about "everything we built"...

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I bought my wedding rings since my ex was unemployed, so being poor I had to buy the cheapest gold rings available. When things got better I would bring up wanting a more stylish ring and he'd always say he didn't. I went along because I felt like it was negative symbolism to have mismatching rings

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TheEFAF @efaf.hanby.design · 24/09/2026

ahh, just a couple weeks too early to grab a copy of the helsingin sanomat with kimi and ace on the cover while I was there...

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I was slightly too early for true autumn but it was still the perfect temperature

TheEFAF @efaf.hanby.design · 24/09/2026

I found out Down is back and releasing a new album next month by chance poking through Levykauppa Äx's website. Took me straight back to the station when Over the Under released, looking at the back of the album and seeing this song circled by a member as one of its standout tracks. And it is.

downofficial.bandcamp.com

On March The Saints (2026 Remaster), by DOWN

from the album Over The Under (2026 Remaster)

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TheEFAF @efaf.hanby.design · 22/09/2026

I DON'T think you understand how obsessed I am with Finnish forests at this very moment. like this forest will eat me alive without remorse if allowed and my flesh will become the carpet of moss

mushrooms in Nuuksio. did you know I saw a whole coven of witches, all dressed the same, spread out into the forest looking for mushrooms? yes.

this grove of birch trees is overseen by the fae and you can simply tell