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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 19/09/2026

Anyone in the PDX area who needs something to do this evening that supports a local childrens hospital, come on down to The Paladins League! There's also a silent auction with some really cool stuff and one of the only handmade copies of my daughter's game! pro.gofundme.com/live/auction...

Free entry event:
Warrior Princess Bash benefiting OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital

Sat, Sept 19
20% of sales donated
7:00 - 10:00 PM
Special Guests
Games & Prizes
Silent Auction
Free Loot Bag

Location:
The Paladins League
4765 NE Fremont
Portland, OR

Part of PDX Geek Week

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 10/09/2026

These may be my greatest (costume-related) creation. Boots for my daughter's Bakugo cosplay.

A pair of knee-high black boots with chunky orange soles and two rows of orange eyelets going up the front. The top has a slight flare for attitude.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 28/08/2026

Taking a picture with a camera phone through one side of my binoculars from middle school... Bringing you what I can from the far side of the country (Oregon)!

The moon, a reddish disk against blackness, with a brilliant arc of bright white light across the upper 1/4, at a jaunty leftward angle. The darker areas of the lunar surface are faintly visible as a darker brown-grey.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 02/08/2026

I finally got an opportunity to fix up the lighting for this art piece I collaborated on. Proper tools and materials make a big difference!

Mounted in the corner of a room, above a Marshall amp, a rack of guitars, and an extensive collection of records, a massive multicoloured disco ball painted on a disc of plywood is jauntily angled. Around the back rim, rows of LED lights broadcast patterns of rainbows. Painted across the wall leading away from the disco ball is a ray of rainbow colours, spreading out to the far wall.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 02/08/2026

When you leave Shape Invaders set up at a party, people make art between matches!

UV-reactive playing pieces arranged in a pattern. Two moon shapes are stacked in the middle and then two other moon shapes fan outward like shoulders. Three alien heads on each side form downward arcs. Atop the "shoulders" a planet/UFO shape forms something like a head.

Several different colours of UV-reactive shapes, yellow, green, orange, and pink form something like a vase with flowers, or a strange pineapple.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 31/07/2026

I mean, in my defense, I did go slightly overboard with the art...

A collection of small game pieces, representing bits of fantastic jungle foliage. Some have brightly coloured flowers, many have vines, some spines and leaves and rocks.

A club symbol, painted with different rock formations, dunes, a high arched bridge, and a foundation of bricks and inlaid gems.

Four small eggs. The first is leafy green, patterned with scales shaped like a spade symbol (though you can't see the stems). The second is mottled tan and brown and grey with scaled clubs. The third is red and black, like lava and cooled crust, on a pattern of scaled hearts. The fourth is icy blue with a diamond pattern.

A close up of a spade symbol painted with an abundance of leaves, vines, flowers of all different shapes and sizes.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 28/07/2026

Huge shout out to @pamwishbow.bsky.social for the use of the corner punch, seriously makes everything feel professionally produced and is a great tactile experience at the same time!

A stack of game books, their corners nicely rounded.

The rulebook and world guide for "Into the Dragonlands", corners nicely rounded.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 28/07/2026

Working up some card frames...

Two watercolour and ink card layouts. The left has a dark brown border with three divisions going up the card. The outer sides of each division has a motley mix of yellow, red, green, and blue splotches. The center of each is empty. The right has a black rectangular border, with some curved triangles of yellow, blue, red, and green coming inward from the sides, interlaced with wispy grey blobs. The center is lightly browned, like a parchment surface.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 25/05/2026

The second in the series. This may be one of the coolest projects I've ever done.

A heart symbol but painted to look as if it was made of lava and fire. The bottom portion of it is chunks of basalt with lava flowing and dripping below it. The twin lobes of the heart are spirals of flame wreathed in spines and spikes of basalt and lava rock.

A quick sketch concept of the heart with some vague outlines of where there might be rocks and two spiraling patterns surrounded by loose twisting flames.

A detail of the painted bottom of the heart where stone is interlaced with channels of lava, oozing through cracks and crevices.

A detail of the upper lobe of the heart where a spiral of twisting, yellow, white and red creates a flaming vortex with flames washing up over and abuttong a dark stone exterior.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 24/05/2026

Made a cool thing. 100% tactile, physical, real, human art. Kiddo art directed it. Such a joy to make things, and beyond pleased at how it turned out.

A spade symbol created out of elements of nature. Its base resembles a tree with ferns mushrooms and small plants. Vines creep up the trunk before expanding into the two lobes of the Spade. On the right side, there are spines along the lower edge and a swirl of vines that culminates in a red and orange flower burst on the left hand side are larger leaves with blue teal and pink flowers. A swirling Vine with leaves forms that lobe and up through the center is a spine of leaves, culminating in a lotus type flower with a dark green spined base and pinkish white petals swirling up into a crowning bud.

A rough sketch of the Spade symbol where you can see the outlines of the vines, spines, lotus style flower, major leaves, and the trunk of the tree.

A detail shot of the lotus at the top. The ink wash is dark on the underside mottled green across the bottom of the flower. The petals themselves have an outer lining of deep purple with a lightish pink blossom shape.

A detail of the bottom of the Spade showing the mushrooms clustered around the base of the tree. The ferns and the start of the vines creeping their way up the trunk.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 08/04/2026

It has arrived! @dresdencodak.com 's incredible Dark Science! Wahoo!

A large book lies flat on a table. It has a fine black cloth band along the spine and a glossy dark grey cover. The words "Dark Science" are centered at the top in a silvery font that evokes art deco signage. Beneath that, in smaller text, is "Volume 1: The City of Giants". An illustration is centered below it: a figure with shoulder-length black hair, whipped back by the wind, is striding up along a grassy slope, looking upward and away from the viewer toward a large shell of a creature's face, smooth like porcelain with two circular spots as eyes that forms the foundation of an island that appear to be floating in the sky with a city visible on its brim. Below the illustration is the creator's name "Sen".
Perched on the left side of the book is an embroidered patch, circular, with teal text against a black background around the edge that reads "Department of Opposition". In the center of the patch in black against a lilac background is a wide brimmed hat atop the tips of two crossed daggers, with a skull below them. Across the center, split by the daggers, is "Est. 1928". In the black border along the bottom edge of the patch are the words "Lawful Evil".
Perched on the right side of the book is a magnet depicting a black and white cat with a screen for a head. The antennae are styled like cat ears.
Below the book is a print of a pair of figures sitting and leaning against each other, facing up toward the viewer, as a rainbow-hued aurora spans the sky and dozens of bright white shooting stars blaze downward at stark diagonals from upper left to lower right. One of the figures has shoulder-length poofy black hair with a shock of white, is wearing a blue jacket with their hands in their lap and is looking up in wonder. The other figure is taller, with poofy white hair swept to the side, a lilac and red sleeveless tunic, and has their eyes closed and their hands raised in front of their chest in a moment of blissful delight.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 25/03/2026

Sculpting some game tokens from paper mache clay and driveway gravel, casual-like.

Three greyish circular tokens are aligned next to a ruler. They're each about 40mm across (1.5 inches, give or take a few). The left has several small rocks in it. Eventually, it will look like the surface of lava. The middle one has a small bud with leaves rising above several smaller plant-like shapes: some vines and leaves, with another flower behind them. The third has an upraised ring of clay and small rocks around a central depression. It will eventually look like a tunnel entrance.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 12/03/2026

Also, this ridiculous project where I made eight deck boxes...

A sketch of an unfolded deck box, with thick borders to the panels and vines winding continuously around the whole thing.

Four linocut blocks, each a different layer of the deck box design. The lower right is black, underlying the vines and edges of the panel edges. The lower left is the thick border, destined for silver. The upper left is the vine details, to be green. The upper right is the outline of the box, to be cut out. There is a wooden block that will be used for alignment with pegs.

Eight completed deck boxes, with leaves stamped along the vines and different symbols (the five colours of Magic, the planeswalker symbol, a red dragon, and a dragon egg) in circles on the front of each box.

The printed deck boxes, before they are cut and folded, arranged on a table, with a representative spread of matching card sleeves next to each one.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 05/02/2026

Hi folks! I have 20 Protect Trans Kids patches that I'm going to send out to donors to this fantastic cause! Donate and then reply in this thread to be included. I'll randomize respondents and get them sent out after the drive wraps up!

2.5" diameter merrow edge patches bearing the trans flag stripes and the words "Protect Trans Kids".

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 05/02/2026

Aw heck yeah, here we go again! @giftsgiven.tolariancommunitycollege.com I have 20 Protect Trans Kids patches that I'd love to send out to randomly selected donors. Last year I spun up a separate thread for that, not sure if we can incorporate it into your randomizer this go round, let me know!

A 2.5" diameter patch, with a merrowed edge (over stitched) and a small loop for hanging from a button or zipper. The patch bears the trans flag colours, striped horizontally with light blue, pink, white, then pink, and light blue again. The words "Protect Trans Kids" are embroidered in black over the pink-white-pink stripes. The patch sits in my hand, and behind it are a dozen more scattered on a playmat.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 23/01/2026

My kiddo's Pinewood Derby car... @teamcherry.bsky.social

The Bell Beast from Hollow Knight: Silksong, carved from a block of wood, it is about 7" long and 3" tall with wheels, with a bone-like horned mask as the front, a silvery-grey segmented body like an isopod, and a small figure with a red dress and a horned white mask atop it. It sits in a tray with some paintbrushes.

A small figure, resembling Hornet from Hollow Knight, sculpted out of polymer clay and painted with a red dress, white horned mask, and black eyes and legs, with a slim silver needle-like sword across her back sits astride a carved wooden model of the Bell Beast, a silvery-grey isopod-like creature. In the background are some small wheels with nails for axles, some paintbrushes, and some paints on a tray.

Hornet, a figure with a red dress and silver sword across her back, her horned mask tilted back from implied speed, sits atop the Bell Beast, a large segmented bug. It has wheels, because it is a Pinewood Derby car; carved from a block of wood, it is about 7" long and 3" tall.

A sketch of the Bell Beast design sized to a Pinewood Derby block (7" long, 1.75" wide, 1.25" tall). It has been noted with colors, like "selvery gray", and augmented by a bunch of painted marks, including smiley faces, frowny faces, and a snowman wearing a hat.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 01/01/2026

Absolutely accurate.

Merriam-Webster post (quoted below) declaring that my 2026 word is theatrical.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 23/12/2025

Rocking the OG today!

Light blue shirt with four Kirbys on different rides. On the left, a yellow Kirby on a wheelie scooter. On the right, a red Kirby atop a winged star. At the top, a white Kirby on a wagon. And down the center with a trail of yellow speed lines and stars, a pink Kirby atop a warp star. I'm the background, in darker blue, is a clutter of different power ups and items from the game.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 22/12/2025

I did that a few times with pickles (the nails + wall socket), but I put a switch and 30 amp fuse in the circuit. They glowed and then exploded... Found the cooker thing, for entertaining reference:

A box from the 70's for the Presto Hot Dogger. Next to the box is a device made of white plastic, with a set of vicious metal spikes pointing inward along parallel edges of an arched space. A matching smoky clear cover is poised to slide over the cooking device.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 30/11/2025

Following up: it is absolutely fantastic. This is how I'm rolling up to every gathering this season.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 29/11/2025

My kiddo found this one the day after we got stormed on while camping!

A small mushroom with a rounded cap dotted with clusters of white nodules against a smooth, lustrous red surface.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 17/11/2025

I made these a few years back.

The magic card Sensei's Divining Top. It is a 1 mana artifact that lets you look at and rearrange the top three cards of your library for 1. You can tap it to draw a card and then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of the library.

A custom magic card: Sensei's Divining Bottom.
The art from Sensei's Divining Top has been flipped upside down.
It is a 2 mana cost artifact that for 2 and tapping lets you look at the bottom three cards of your library, put one in your hand and the rest back, and then return Sensei's Divining Bottom to your hand.

A custom magic card: Sensei's Divining Switch.
The art from Sensei's Divining Top has been rotated on its side.
A 3 cost artifact, for 1 you can look at the bottom three cards of your library, then put them on top in any order. You can tap it to draw a card and then put Sensei's Divining Switch on top of the library or back in hand.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 08/11/2025

The sudden urge to block print MTG tokens. (Who am I kidding, this has been a backburner project for yeeeeeaaars...) Thinking the style will be like my Game of Shrooms art... Unique watercolour with block print and ink lines on top...

Several playing card size pieces of art scattered across a tabletop. All are prints of two mushrooms with a fairy with varying colors of watercolor, some pastels, some gradients, some shapes and squiggles.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 08/08/2025

Actual question: Why is the early bird pricing twice the all day?

A parking garage sign declaring that it's $10 all day after 8:00 a.m. but $20 for the early bird in by 8:00 a.m.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 29/06/2025

And the cube fits in a cube, for reasons...

All the components nicely racked into the two sides of a wooden box.

The wooden box, closed. It is a stained maple with shiny brass latches, handles, and corner hardware. It is a twelve inch cube.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 29/06/2025

Finally took a good picture of my Magpie Cube... @jdragsky.bsky.social as an update from all my random pings a year or so back...

A collection of components for playing a weird game of Magic. Some disks marked with different symbols, a book with a silver Magpie flying in front of the moon printed on it, two folios with illustrations of magpies (one wearing a jester cap and perched on a squeaky hammer, the other landing on a devilish hand emerging from a lava field), several envelopes printed with a Magpie design, several other envelopes with a Magpie and a golden sun, a glue stick, scissors, a small pile of cut-apart pieces of Magic cards, a little folio case with stickers of mana symbols and different abilities, a black box with Magpie skulls painted on the sides. Behind this spread are boxes containing more of the folios and envelopes, all backed by a wooden case with brass hardware.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 14/06/2025

Twas the night before #GameOfShrooms2025, and all through the lands, the artists were prepping their secret plans. The pieces were done and laid out to admire, while fiendish clues spun from our brains all afire.

Eight watercolour and blockprint pieces of art, each a little bigger than a playing card, each with different colours and details, all arrayed and ready to be hidden around the town.

The backs of the art, each with a tag reading "If you find me, take me home! Game Of Shrooms is an international art-and-seek. Post your find on social media with #GameOfShrooms2025"

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 11/06/2025

#GameOfShrooms2025 is two days away, here's a sneak of some in progress work for the pieces I'll be hiding around Hillsboro, OR!

A watercolour painting of a small lady with a fancy hat and an orange poofy dress under a blue and pink mushroom, with a pink and purple mushroom nearby. A hint of grass and dirt around the base of the mushrooms set them apart from a dreamy background of blues and yellows.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 12/02/2025

This is such a great cause. The impact that TCC has is significant. I have 15 "Protect Trans Kids" patches that I'd love to send out to donors. If you want in, reply or DM with a screen shot of your donation confirmation (no PII please). I'll randomly pick when the campaign ends and contact folks!

A 2.5" circular patch with a button loop, the edge is overstiched and the face has the trans flag stripes blue, pink, white, pink, blue, with the words "Protect Trans Kids" over the pink-white-pink stripes. The patch is in my palm to show scale, and behind it are several more patches scattered across a gamemat printed with Kaga Foglio's "Bottle Gnomes" illustration.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 02/02/2025

Okay, there's no spot here to set a phone up, so would have had someone take it. It's a public pathway, so he'd have to have waited for a clear spot in the constant foot traffic.

An empty stone path, with shrubs on one side, palm trees on the other, and the ocean and West Maui visible on the horizon.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 21/01/2025

@angelic.style I did it! I rocked the set AND a look!

A gorgeous lady is grinning broadly after wrapping up an hour-long DJ set. She is rocking a choker, a blinged up letter J on a gold chain, and her dress reveals a hint of bra and shibari rope.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 30/12/2024

My "cheating" for wall mounts: 1. Measure, mark wood and wall. 2. Test fit. 3. Pre-drill wood: pilot and countersink. 4. Test fit, check align. 5. Insert screws through 1/8". 6. Fit to wall. Validate level and align. 7. Hearty whack near screws. 8. Voila! Marks for drilling pilot holes in the wall!

A board with two screws, their points sticking out a little bit.

A board held against the wall. Marks on the wall where the studs are align with the screws on the board.

Divots in the wall left by the screw points, aligned with the center of the stud, ready for drilling.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 25/12/2024

Holy shit, the footnotes in the liner!

Liner notes from Antimai, detailing terms and concepts in the societal structure of the world, like The Indigo Child, Bio-Pariah, Consistery, XCV, LoTown, Meka-Nik, along with some really interesting information regarding gender segregation in rings 6 and 7 as well as the govt structure in Ring 3.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 25/12/2024

Happy Holidays indeed! My wife orchestrated a group effort of 1. distracting me from personal efforts to find these for months and 2. locating and surreptitiously acquiring these. @angelic.style check it out!

Six records, arrayed across a couch: The Dear Hunter "Acts" one through five and "Antimai".

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 29/10/2024

I tap into my echolalia and quote Airplane's "we gave at the office"

A man portraying a Hare Krishna (wearing a robe with a shaved head) dismisses a petitioner (a woman with a shoulder length bob haircut) at an airport by saying "No thanks, we gave at the office." and then turning and walking past her dismissively.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 27/10/2024

Here's hoping it doesn't flood my crawlspace again this year!

Looking down into a crawlspace, the moisture barrier is visible under 16 inches of water. A thick hose is attached to a sump pump hard at work bringing the water level down.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 27/10/2024

Simple, adorable, spooky.

A tiny axolotl figure with a cartoon face wearing a Lego witch hat. Super adorable attempt at spooky vibes.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 27/10/2024

Designing a game with my kiddo: "This game can be played with a standard deck of cards and stuff you have around the house." Me: "I don't need to make custom components for it." Me an hour later: "Welp, there's the art design for the custom deck of cards and here's a set of custom markers..."

A set of game tokens. Six rectangles that represent tunnels. Six inverted teardrops that look like plants. Eight diamonds with four-point stars. Ten circles that sorta look like lava.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 15/10/2024

Spotted a bird, probably some sort of hawk, but I'm not totally familiar with what's resident near Carlsbad, CA. #birds

Hawk-bird perched on a lightpost, looking at me.

Hawk-bird mid-launch, all sorts of action blur.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 15/10/2024

I held my phone steady for THIRTY MINUTES to get this sunset lapse. Next time, I'll try to remember some sort of grippy phone mount or something.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 15/10/2024

My phone made a little time lapsy thing. I could watch this on loop for a while... #comet

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 15/10/2024

I'm somewhat into taking amateur pictures of the sky, so being on a plane tonight was a nice treat.

I don't know how to alt text this. The faint horizon, night sky above, a thin nearly-vertical smear of light that is a comet.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 11/10/2024

Right-O Fav colour is a toss up between bright orange and bright blue, depends on the usage. For example, these heels.

A pair of bright orange heels. Chonky 4" in the back, 1.5" in the front. Closed toe with a thin strap around the ankle. Somehow available in an EU 45.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 28/09/2024

According to the Kickstarter page, you're not far off (and this is just the count from those who pledged during the original campaign)

£2,090,104 pledged of £175,000 goal. 73,206 backers

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 21/09/2024

Vibes of uncertainty about the interloper

An orange cat perches pensively atop a cat tree with a look of "I'm not sure what to make of this". On the level below him sits the Lego Tuxedo Cat, unperturbed, plastic, but friendly looking.

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Zorgle @zorgle.art · 17/09/2024

Nothing to fear... Word nerd status has been confirmed by random internet script.

Says I have an English vocabulary size of 30124, I assume from extrapolation of knowledge of words graded by obscurity/specificity...

Does "e-peen" mean "English-pe*****poster taken out by a meteorite*****

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