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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Stop! This is a work in progress checkpoint. QRP with your wip. I guess this is technically several works in progress...

A workbench piled high with an assortment of cast and 3d printed parts. Among them are a few sets of hands, a head, and a pile of pieces that will become a spine. There are also mix cups, batteries, a drill press, and several other things littering the space.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Yeah, I really want to just keep this. All of it. Oh well, guess I need to get paid.

A mad scientist costume set I'm working on. There is some arm and hand armor linked by glowing tubing. On the back of the hand, two glowing syringes are emerging from a metal box. Two more syringes, full of green resin, sit next to the armor set. Behind all of it are a glowing gas mask and a set of old-fashioned lab goggles.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Because I can't ever leave well enough alone, I now have brackets for ribs and started designing a sternum to link it all together. I get the feeling that I've started something that's going to get out of hand quickly.

A large 3d printed spine sitting on a workbench.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Guys, good news, I stopped burning the candle at both ends. The candle:

A completely melted candle in a tray. What remains of the wick is sitting in a puddle of melted wax, barely able to stay lit.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Just a couple things to finish, and it'll be off to its new lucky haunter.

Mechanical looking pieces of armor on a long, fingerless glove. On the fore arm is a bracer with a green switch on top and two tubes extending from the front. Both the tubes and switch are glowing green. It is attached to the hand, which supports a metal looking box with two glowing green syringes coming out of the front.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Was thinking about how I wanted to do some armature and suddenly remembered I have a 3d printer (don't judge, my brain and I aren't on speaking terms). Anyway, now I can print spines. That's pretty neat.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

OK, the ultra brights were the way to go. Hell yes.

A prop costume piece. Three bright green leds glowing in a darkened room are all that is visible.

A costume prop piece. It is a piece of armor for the forearm. Two hoses are attached to the front, with green light glowing through them.

The same costume piece showing the hoses going to a box with two syringes sticking out of the front.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Post a random picture, or everything will go wrong in August.

A man standing om a cliffs edge, watching a sun set. The text above reads "I may be stupid"

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Superman was fun. Now that they have a Guy Gardner on screen, I absolutely need this to happen in a movie.

A four panel comic. In the first panel, Batman is punching the Green Lantern Guy Gardner clean in the face, knocking him out. The next panels are the justice league mocking the downed lantern. The final panel is a closeup of Batman, ignoring the laughing superheros and addressing a character who just walked in.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

A friends band is on tour right now. If you're in any of these cities and like folky music, go check em out!

A tour poster for the band Propolis with dates all over the country.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

If you see this post game with a 10/10 soundtrack.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I don't know why, but this has been my favorite porch plant this summer. Going to have to try and keep it going indoors for winter.

A coleus plant flowering in a planter outside. It is a campfire variety, so it the leaves are vibrant reds and oranges with purple undertones. The flower stem comes from the center with about 2dozen light blue flowers opening up on it.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Thanks for hosting a share! And double thanks for making it spooky! Howdy everyone! Im Pragmatic Magic, and I make monsters!

A large monster with purplish flesh. The mouth is open, the jaw unnaturally distended, in a silent scream. Ragged cloth covers the form.

A figure made of wiring and tubes bathed in red light. The torso is vaguely a human shape, but the head is more reminiscent of a bird.

A large human shaped undead figure. Multiple sets of eyes dot the head and from its mouth the skull of a wolf emerges

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Oh! This is something I do! I'm Pragmatic Magic, and I make monsters, masks, costumes, and props!

Two costumed figures were filthy aprons and gloves. Their faces are covered by masks of twisted flesh.

A screaming monster with the skull of a wolf emerging from its outstretched jaw.

A figure bathed in red light. The torso is vaguely human, but with avian features in the face. The bottom half is a mess of wires and tubes curled downwards to an assortment of epectroic equipment.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

If you see this, share a skeleton! I really need to do a repaint on that home depot plastic barrel.

A collection of four skeletons dressed as pirates. In the foreground is a cannon on a wooden platform. Behind them a treasure chest.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

My partner got me The Onions kitchen apron, and I absolutely love it.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Excited to get going on the final version of this. It's nice when things come together without fighting you at every step.

A costumed figure whose face is obscured by old welding goggles and a glowing green respirator mask.

The same figure from further back. The shoulders are covered by plate armor decorated by skulls. Other left arm is another piece of equipment covered in alchemical symbols.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I mean, if they don't want cat pictures, I'll share em anyway. Here's one of my cats and one of my dogs (that thinks he's a cat).

A cat and a dog (that thinks he's a cat) sitting on a cat tower and looking out a window.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The turkeys behind my work are all grown up.

Two big toms hanging out in the parking lot.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The new meds have been great, but high anxiety without physical symptoms is a new and strange sensation. It is literally the meme.

Classic meme. A dog character is wearing a hat and sitting at a table. The room around him is on fire. The dog is absent mindedly smiling despite the chaos around him. In the second panel, the dog says, "This is fine."

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Finally, most of the ttrpg stuff is mobile. Slowly, but surely, I will replace all storage in this house with toolboxes.

Stacked toolboxes containing a frankly excessive amount of tabletop gaming stuff.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Even if...no, ESPECIALLY, if it's complicated.

A collection of wires attached in different ways to a series of clips for testing.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Happy pride. No matter your build, orientation, or how many adaptors you require, there is a place for you in this world.

A collection of plug ends with different pin outs and orientations.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Without downloading any new pictures, what is your mental state?

A picture of a baby opossum. The text over the image says, "If you can't handle me at my worst, imagine how I feel."

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Thanks for hosting the art share! Howdy folks, here are some older costumes and monster figures I've made. Working slow, but new things are being put together now, so stick around for more!

An 8' tall monster with a huge gaping mouth and multiple sets of eyes. It wears rags and manages as a cloak. The skin is veiny with a purple coloring.

And undead spider monster. The torso and head are human with long arms and fingers. The bottom half has eight legs.

Two costumed figures with fleshy masks covering their faces. Dirty aprons and huge gloves cover their bodies.

A santa Claus figure with green skin and poorly defined facial features. It appears to be screaming.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This one. It has been immeasurable helpful.

The drawing book "Anatomy for the Artist"

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

You are getting eppy. Really eppy even.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I went through some older pictures and found one of my favorites from when we first got one of our dogs. She only ever did this once, and I'm still shocked she got up there at all.

one of my doofus dogs stareing at me with guilty eyes after she climbed on the dining room table.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Having a lot of fun turning these little sculpt sketches into magnets. I'm really looking forward to painting them!

A series of 6 magnets stuck to a refrigerator. One is a withered Frankenstein's monsters, one a strange screaming face, two jack-o-lanterns, and two bat faces. On pumkim and the screaming face have bones around them, in the style of a skull and crossbones.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

HUMAN artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you.

A bust sculpt for a mask. The face and head are a patch work of flesh, with the bottom jaw being mostly bone and muscle. On the back of the head is a second face, crudely attached to fill a gap in the skin.

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Pragmatic Magic @i-make-da-things.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

If you see a doggy smile, post a doggy smile.

I dumb shiba, Koji. Smiling like he doesn't have a care in the world and showing off his bow tie.

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