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Hi, it's also very unhelpful sometimes. Like, I spent 15 minutes in a field yesterday trying to explain the colour (rusty brown) and squareness of an Irish dialect... in Czech. (Unsuccessfully.)

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From the watercolour zine mines. #bloodymary #zine #watercolour #watercolor #akvarel #水彩 #漫画 #comic #wip

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Aw snap, ya'll. Do you see it? I'm looking forward to this book. I'm also looking forward to everyone pointing it out to me when they see it.💙

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Work in progress watercolor zine about the time I saw a picture of a bloody mary and ended up introducing them to my Czechs. #watercolour #zine #art #comics #bloodymary

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I am so goshdarn proud of @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social!

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At the doctor.... My lungs feel like rusty knifes. Scrape, scrape. My American-made workaholic heart is racking up such guilt. But also I miss my kids.

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I'm three partner-dances away from live tweeting my despair as a guy who just wanted to go dancing with friends but everything here's so damned choreographed and gender roled. I love this country, but damn it, play something with a beat. The folk music of my heart lies further east and I know it.

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Gender fuckery aside, I'm pushing 40 and wearing a strapless dress for the first time. I do not know what to do with myself. My SHOULDERS.

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These matches. Safety Madness. #czech #saintdymphna #design

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5 minutes, what are you wearing? Honestly my wardrobe is hopelessly boring when it's all gonna be under a coat.... But it's comfy! #sketch #art #selfie

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🎶... stress dreams about work, leading into Monday, also inauguration, very little sleeeeeeep, not the day for this... 🎶

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[Mexico City, Mexico] Following the attempted murder of a trans woman. Cops just let the alleged perp go. So actionists from the Mexican sex workers union stormed the judicial building. Via Ghost of Durruti

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My friend insisted, correctly, that I let him take this photo. #24hourcomics #comics #zines

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Reblog once, Reblog again, Reblog always.

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Sometimes bouts of pop-up depression get coupled with NHK coverage of sumo tournaments, and wow, what a balm for my soul. Especially Ura.

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Just taught my guys here the phrase "sun's out, guns out". I'm a fucking hero.

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Panelák on Steam looks so forking cool and dark and Czech, but it's for PC only, so whomp whaaaa, my streak of not playing any video games at all (which is excellent for my productivity, but at what cost?) continues. I mean, I could super recreate it in reality on the cheap, but....

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Just some free resources you are encouraged to access. www.si.edu/openaccess #TTRPG #WritingCommunity

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Impromptu Parisian puppets for the last project of 2024 (and a possible prequel to a big 2025 puppetry project?) #puppets #paper #toytheatre #loutky ... Also, what the hell is up with Instagram? This post is utterly broken there.

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Tis the season for binge-listening Dimension 20's The Unsleeping City.

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I'm in #Paris. Such culture! Such art! Food (though I did get food poisoning, so...)! ...but a true highlight was finding this sarcastic rock outside the national archives, we have named "Ignatius". #pareidolia

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Pro travel tip at the Prague Airport. This has become my tradition. Coffee machine at Billa, between terminals 1 and 2, super easy. 30 Kč. It's the same machine used in the cafes for twice the price (or more). Get it. And happy trails. You're welcome.

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I cut my thumb open on old paint (no blades necessary!) while making puppets... but now it looks like cute little guy!

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Painting the #puppets! (I didn't carve them, my puppetry partner did, but I did the characterization sketches and will do all the painting and finishing work)

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Oh god. NINETY EIGHT ESSAYS TO MARK AND A COMIC TO FINISH. It's so much more than I expected. I was expecting 60. I was getting appropriate sympathy for 60. 98 is madness.

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#Mikuláš in my little village in #CzechRepublic It's like St. Nicholas (it is), but nothing like St. Nicholas we'd think of in US.

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Another December 5th, another #Mikuláš. I love this country.

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I love being added to Czech WhatsApp group chats. 💙 #bilingual #polylingual #nonsense #jdeme!

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Despite being a mostly atheist or at minimum, nonreligious country, CZ goes hard for Christmas. I am teaching kids a christmas carol that is quickly becoming my favorite. The 12 days of Christmas. It's great for ordinal numbers practice, and now having kids shout "MORE BIRDS!". So many #birds.

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I stumbled on this comic and swooned, and it reminded me of mine from 2021. Something about #crows and #keys in #comics. 💙 I miss my crow friend... Holy shit, did I misspell "shiny"? Oh well, it was a 24 hour comic.

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Spent the afternoon making little candlelit paper lanterns with children for the Mikuláš parade in my village next week. Good stuff.

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If you see this, post fungi 🍄 #art #illustration

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We successfully imported a #Thanksgiving! #Díkůvzdání It included vegan turducken, this time it was a spring onion inside celery inside a leek inside an eggplant inside a butternut squash, with lentil stuffing in between the layers. Also I made a pie worthy of a magazine cover. Well done, all.

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