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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 07/10/2026

I did the album thing! 🤩 #Music

A poster of 9 albums: Ágætis byrjun, For Your Pleasure, Dog Man Star, The Holy Bible, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, London Calling, Zen Arcade, Pleased to Meet Me, and OK Computer

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 27/09/2026

speaking of things I've been crocheting ...

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 12/09/2026

it is done. dinosaurs!

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 11/09/2026

learning/improving sewing with a machine at a class this month! Tonight I make a small zipper pouch with dinosaurs! stay tuned!

small orange tote bag covered with rows upon rows of cute black cat faces with varying expressions

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 13/08/2026

fun fact about me: I once did a report on the okapi in the fifth grade and they have been my fave ever since!

an okapi... mostly brown with stripes legs and a white face, related to the giraffe but shorter and more elusive 🦒

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 10/08/2026

sketches from the work desk 😄

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 08/08/2026

ok, so it turns out I did already pre-order this Reytons album, but the pop up one--I had to get😍 (more pop up sleeves! they delight the kid in me!) I don't regret getting the signed one too and everyone who ordered that one has their name in this giant lyric book. this is the page with my name! 😆

one signed copy of the Reytons album A Love Letter to a broken town I forgot I ordered next to the pop up sleeve edition that was released later on

lyric booklette featuring the song wicker arches next to an picture of a graffitied arch above a road

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 31/07/2026

I saw log Turtles at the zoo!! (including one that knocked a couple over and proceeded to try and climb atop the other ones)

red ear sliders sliding on top of each other

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 26/07/2026

got to meet the guy my yarn is made out of today!

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 17/07/2026

finished a scarf (the pattern is called Louis Louis and you can find it on Ravelry!) I still don't know how I feel about the finish in just one of the yarns but it was fun to make! 😁 #knitting #fiberarts

scarf knitted by me. modeled by St. Francis 😆

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 16/07/2026

wall update, I picked this up when I learned it was the soundtrack and the score. + I'm a sucker for colour vinyl (Wolf Parades in the middle to stay on theme 😄) ps.. been trying to pivot to posters instead of t shirts but nobody's had a cool poster since I saw the Darkness 🤣

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 12/07/2026

Hanks of Yarn: 1000 Me: 0 😩😆

yellow and pink yarn in a diabolical tangle

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 11/07/2026

spinning the Ks tonight! Also got a fun air freshener to go in the Record nook!

record with pink liquid inside spinning with the jacket in the background (its Pretty on the Internet by the Ks...check them out!

a bath and bodyworks wallflower in the shape of a suitcase record player

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 03/07/2026

spinning Muse tonight! 😃

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 01/07/2026

prepping for artfight? hah!🙃 We'll call it research 😆

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 30/06/2026

I posted the link but I don't think I posted the card. I didn't make as many refs as I'd like, but I did add some characters with what did have on hand. 😀

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 16/06/2026

The age old dilemma: should I buy this thing I already have, because now it comes in a pretty orange colour?!🙃 (also I highly recommend Voxtrot in general ❤️❤️❤️)

voxtrot's early music LP now in orange and black swirly vinyl black and white cover art of some guys around a campfire? I think.

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 26/05/2026

The Wolf Parade single are arriving 😆 (the b-side to this one is This Hearts on Fire!!)

heart shaped Wolf Parade 10in single "milky ripple" record

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 25/05/2026

Ok I've been remiss in posting terrible pics at concerts lately...here's one from Afghan Whigs last night...none of the band because we were politely asked not to so I didn't. a crewman tossed me a pic too! 😆

some white amps with a wolf painted on them dramatically lit up with string lights

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 16/05/2026

recorder in da house! 😆

glowing translucent electric pink recorder hiding atop a drum

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 11/05/2026

Happy #webcomicday ! a little intro to my comic: [Real Bands Need Electric Guitars] (realbands.rocks) is about a band doing band things and other things (currently mostly other things...😂)

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 27/04/2026

Made Bruce Jr. the piggycorn & learned felting this weekend, a fun activity if you enjoy stabbing 😄

A ceramic piggycorn next to a smaller felted piggycorn

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 02/04/2026

on a recent road trip I stopped at Eddie World and came away with the weirdest stuffie I could find....this short necked giraffe 🦒

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 29/03/2026

A one off I meant to finish a few weeks ago when la metro first dropped this shirt I am timely as ever 😅 #webcomic #oc #realbands

a full comic about a guy receiving the gift of a tshirt

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 27/03/2026

at a show trying not to let my intrusive thoughts win. 😆

the power strip all these pedals are plugged into. JK i would never. 🙃

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 27/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 23/02/2026

sketching on the tablet...might use for a future panel, since we will be meeting Richey soon again for the first time 😆 #sketch #oc #rbneg

guy sitting on a stone wall in front of birds of paradise (The flower) drinking tea and reading a paper

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 15/02/2026

In which I finish a page early instead of months late! Here's a preview! 😆

Kid Tom in a brown hooded jacket in front of a green background

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 13/02/2026

I bought a bunch of cheap fountain pens and a cute case to keep them in! (I also got a cat shaped case to put my crochet hooks in)

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 04/02/2026

Theres a reason I never look at the UK record store day list 😿 Whatev, It's not like I need 3 copies of this album (BUT THIS ONE IS GOLD!😆)

The K's album, Pretty on the Internet. Record Store day gold splatter edition.

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 31/12/2025

on the #ComicArtTrain with #ComixCleric! Some supplementary artworks, and the map page is still my favorite, since I never used to have scene setting pages (back in the days of yore😄) I was going to do holiday art, but then the holidays happened 😆

Pink Telecaster on a purple blue and pink paisley background with "Real Bands Need Electric Guitars" written on a blue ribbon around the guitar neck

a man in a tank top and jeans laying on an ugly green and yellow stripped couch playing a blue flower telecaster next to his kid

A transitional comic panel featuring maps showing the way from London to Mesquite

guy in brown trousers and a maroon sleeveless button down top leaning against an Orange Amp smoking a cigarette

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 03/11/2025

went to a folk art workshop today and did a horse painting 🐎

painting of a horse in the desert during a sunset with a cactus

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 19/10/2025

I do have a page in the works, but instead of colouring that, I did this. #OC, #Realbands, #webcomic

Graeme in a pink bunny costume holding an i-mac box and emilee in a trench coat standing behind him.

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 01/07/2025

Art fight time! I didn't get a chance to make new refs, but here's my graphic...I'm at artfight.net/~manicdak Team fossil, because I am a fossil. 😆 Hopefully I'll add some other characters sometime this week. #artfight

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 25/06/2025

finally got all the patches I have *so far! on my jacket! I sew them because I don't trust my iron 😆

Jacket featuring patches from The Comancheros, the Struts, Interpolation, the Backfires, Contains DC, the National, and Green Day

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 07/06/2025

Some inexplicable sketches I found while organizing craft supplies 😄

squirrel buddy cops walking away from an explosion

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 25/05/2025

I drew some musical gorillas. the eponymous Gary from Blossoms last album, Lil guy from Air's Sexy Boy video, Snowflake from Basement Jaxx' Rooty album cover, and of course, Gorillaz! 😆

illustration of some gorillas (and the band, Gorillaz)

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 12/05/2025

a happy #webcomicday to you all! I didn't make a promo image or a new page, alas, but I did make this bonkers looking relationship chart sketch of most of the characters feom Real Bands Need Electric guitars instead 😆

sketch of a bunch people with arrows explaining thier relationships

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 10/05/2025

The horses have escaped the mind 😄 #countyfair

palomino horse from behind horse serving an over the shoulder side eye

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 10/05/2025

made a giant poster book! might add something to the stripey cover yet!

the Struts Pretty Vicious tour poster demonstrating the inside of the poster book.

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 11/04/2025

Sometimes you just gotta take a picture of the ceiling at the Wiltern.👍(also defying all artistic logic by taking a pic of the sign at dusk so you can't see it fully lit up, and making sure that balcony is blocking it as well!) 😆 #architecture #thewiltern #graffiti

Art deco details of the ceiling at the Wiltern theatre in Los Angeles

Red Graffiti that reads "Doug" on the pavement in front of a blue/green wall

Marquee outside of the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles

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Manicdak @realbands.rocks · 04/04/2025

Quote with your art that has stars 🌟

Sketch of a T-Rex T-shirt. (not the dinosaur, the band. Marc Bolan in a circle & 20th Century Boy written around the edges with stars in an orange/pink/purple gradient!)

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