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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

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

A ceramic plate with a sgraffito illustration depicting a ruin in a space landscape. The left column of the ruin looks distinctly phallic, with a vein and everything.

Felt phallic, might delete.

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!

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.

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.

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

Ben this is FANTASTIC

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.

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.*

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.”

A small white clay mug with a black fuckoff unicorn and sparkly stars on it.

A small white clay dish with a broken sword in black underglaze.

A white clay mug with a fire-breathing monster in black underglaze on it.

A white clay mug with two handles, and a design in black depicting various weapons.

New mugs in the works!

Where do you get the thin tape

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

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.

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?

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

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

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?

Woah dude this is wild! Congrats!

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

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?

Congrats Daniel! This is so exciting!!! 🎉

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

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.

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 🙃

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

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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.

Outfit was good and 2 people saw it 😔

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

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

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.