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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I have said before and will say again that it is such a loss that we no longer get covers of this caliber for fantasy books. This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.

Young man in a red tunic bearing a sword surrounded by armed glassy-eyed monsters

A red robed horseman with a skull face and stag's antlers rides through the forest, the horse rearing back, a shaft of light falling onto the scene

A red haired woman in a red dress and a boy in a blue doublet stand in front of a huge black cauldron. In the foreground, three cackling hags.

A boy in a blue tunic with a dagger tries to get a sword away from a giant orange cat

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Got way more done today than I planned. Crossing fingers these come out of the bisque looking as good as they do now.

A sgraffito-carved ceramic plate depicting a pair of hands holding the beginnings of a galaxy, surrounded by swirly clouds.

A sgraffito-carved ceramic plate depicting a spaceship zooming through space

A sgraffito-carved plate depicting a flying saucer hovering amongst stars and planets

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I will say Akin Collective (where my studio is) is a unique model in Toronto, and we’re very lucky. They negotiate with landlords for access to buildings that are slated for redevelopment but currently sitting vacant, so the spaces are crappy and our presence is temporary, but it works well for me!

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

So for me, renting a $240/month corner in a shared studio collective is cheaper and more feasible than either taking classes once a week, or getting in with a pottery studio that has a membership model. It’s TINY but I can keep my weird hours and habits happily.

An image of my tiny studio space that I’m embarrassed to say costs $240/month. But it’s absolutely the best option for me.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

It depends so much on your circumstance! I make ceramics and I’m a renter and I simply could not materially do it in my home without hazard and making my landlord so mad. HOWEVER, having a membership at a pottery studio is like $300-500/month. And taking classes is often a similar price.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Generally no! Unless it’s family, who channel invites through me, and it’s implied that *of course* I’ll bring him.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I’m with you on like 90% of these but you’re literally the first person who I’ve heard say something like this and I am RELIEVED not to be alone and HERE FOR IT.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I get why people feel impressed by AI art sometimes—cause it makes a whole thing you couldn’t do, to an arguably high level of finish. But you’re also fundamentally missing the point that the awe you normally feel in encountering someone’s art is about surprising decisions they’ve *made.*

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

So much artistic awe is looking at someone else’s work and thinking: “wow, I couldn’t do *this*” as you marvel at their choices. The appeal of AI art is that you get the same feeling but without the “wow.” It’s more like “I couldn’t do this, and I wouldn’t, and it doesn’t make any sense.”

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Thank u Rita! Coming in with exactly what I needed to hear! 🥹

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I made so many of these tea light tea cups and I thought they were so smart and cute but I just did a whole weekend sale and no one even said they were adorable, can you believe it?

A shelf of ceramic candleholders with two tea light holders in the foreground. They have little circular handles and scalloped edges like a flower and they are precious beautiful babies.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Britt: “This knife tattoo is too hardcore for me.” Also Britt: “I made these severed fingers, do you like them?”

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Yes I mean I love active parents of all gender and also Ricken might be the scariest person on this (very scary) show.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Watching Severance for the first time and I’m partway through season two and goddamn, WHERE IS THE BABY? I don’t mean that one time the baby was missing I mean every time Devon is staying up overnight watching over Mark and having urgent, time-sensitive conversations, WHERE IS THE BABY?

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Daaaaaamn I just read the latest update and that card art is Inspiring af. So excited.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Serious question: how horny is this emoji? 😈 I use it all the time and it’s my favourite. On a scale from 1-10 how likely is it that it’s being interpreted hornily?

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Congrats Daniel! This is so exciting!!! 🎉

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Never sure whether something’s an image, an object, or “content”

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I always take pictures of projects before the bisque firing but fail to post them because they’re not “done”… and then by the time everything’s finished I’m over looking at pictures of them! Like, if u want to see them, go look at them in the world, the picture isn’t the thing anymore 🙃

Various greenware ceramics on a wooden shelf. The focal point of the image is a black and white sgraffito plate depicting a gryphon, bordered by an arc of thorns.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Splashed in the rain by 3 teslas on the 2-minute walk between work and the streetcar stop. #mayday2025

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jex thomas @lastpinepress.com · 01/05/2025

The Bump in the Dark Bundle for Indigenous Health is live now! Get 18 supplements -- and the game itself -- for ten bucks, with all proceeds going to a clinic that focuses on holistic healthcare for Milwaukee's Native American community! itch.io/b/2982/bump-...

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Bump in the Dark Bundle for Indigenous Health by jexjthomas and 11 others

Bump in the Dark Bundle for Indigenous Health: 18 items for $10.00

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OrbWitch @wildwoodgames.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Outfit was good and 2 people saw it 😔

Selfie of Jupiter. She's wearing a black respirator with a silver chain over the nose and swords hanging from the straps. She has a little moon necklace and a chunky chain collar clip on. Her purple hair is half up in little buns.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

There is something extremely special about being as un-adaptable as a hefty genre series.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Like, there are a lot of media I can experience and imagine in some other form (wow, I’d love to see this audio drama as a comic book, this short animation as a feature film, this tv show as an rpg), but there is something so immersive and untranslatable that happens 30+ hours into reading a series

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It’s been literal years since I read a science fiction/fantasy SERIES (at least, reading multiple books in quick succession, not years apart, as they’re released) and it’s such a potent reminder of what a durational medium books are.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

No aesthetic studio pics, only this

An image of a messy wooden
board with many freshly thrown clay candle holders on it, and big swooshy smudges of clay.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

No fancy sketchbook sketches, only this

A pinky pink hand showing an open sketchbook with lots of imperfect line drawings of candleholder shapes.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Having a studio in a collective space is great not only cause I get to have an art practice, but also cause I get to giggle and chat about BBC’s Pride and Prejudice mini series with my studio mates and they give me mini eggs

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Do iiiit! I saw some last year at the Robin in the Hood Faire in Elmira and it gave me a good chuckle!

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

You can go to the studio until midnight and drink a whole pot of decaf *any time* but it feels especially good when your partner’s out of town. BACHELOR MODE, BAYBEE

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Go nominate the projects that made your heart sing this year! (Bump was definitely among them for me!)

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Aaaaand by “you folks,” of course, I mean @shoutingcrow.bsky.social and @acbenning.bsky.social. Bluesky is obviously not yet among my key skills.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Replying to this weeks-old note to say you folks successfully influenced me on the granny square chicken-making front. Your con legacy LIVES. Look how cute!!

A chicken made from crocheted granny squares, with big dumb safety eyes.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Anyone who has ever got delivery via bike should fight for safe lanes & infrastructure as a moral imperative. (Would love to see how many anti bike lane people also enjoy delivery)

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

One bright side to being forced to live in an AI slop tornado is now I see my artistic mistakes as incredibly endearing. The human machine of my body made that weird line. My worst day of drawing is completely untouchably better than anything AI will ever produce until the heat death of the universe

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

OHHHHH yeah i was going “Ashhh Deyyy???” in my terrible French accent over here

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I’m sorry Ben, you’re going to have to explain that one to me.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

For $100, you can hire me to enforce an imaginary deadline. I will send you increasingly urgent reminder emails as your deadline approaches, pressuring you not to let me down. I am serious. I will do this. For $100.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Accepting name suggestions for smile guy and his friends.

8 small ceramic dishes featuring dragons, unicorns, a smiling skull guy, a bird and a little space environment.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Tonight he reframed it: “you know what’s cute? You see a pot on the stove and you always want to check it out, see what’s going on in there.” And literally, WHO WOULDN’T WANNA KNOW?!?!

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

My partner always makes fun of me for opening the pot of rice to check on it. It’s my fatal flaw: I have to look at the rice.

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imp in a sweater @impinasweater.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Which isn’t to say those spaces aren’t serious. They’re full of legitimately talented people, it’s just that the primary focus is on self-improvement, play, and pleasure, not on some dry version of professional development that is divorced from your human life.

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