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What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

A lemon pig holding a shiny copper penny in his mouth, with a Christmas tree and a glass of beer in the background.

🎶Make a little hog out of a lemon for the Hogmaaaaan...

Happy Hogmanay, folks! May 2026 be a bit less shite for us all. 🥳

I hope tomorrow night you are all blessed by the New Year Good Luck Lemon Piglet ❤️...

The Goblin Knight's box and matching pin badge, displayed in a Christmas tree.

The Goblin Knight mini on my desk, grey and unpainted.

Tom got me this incredible @roguehobbies.bsky.social Goblin Knight for Christmas, and I love him. The level of detail on this wee guy is incredible, but also mildly terrifying. If anyone needs me, I'll be painting practice Warhammers for the next while so that I can do him justice.

YouTube video by Michael M Step Into Christmas by Elton John but all the lyrics are 'Welcome to my Christmas song'

'Step into Christmas' by Elton John but all the lyrics are 'welcome to my christmas song'

Happy birthday! 🥳

A traditional illustration of Totoro in a forest. The Totoro has a ditto-like face. The illustration was created using Gel Ink, Watercolor, and Gouache on Paper

My piece for Giant Robot’s 2025 Totoro Show!

My replica Kermit puppet sitting on the edge of a shelf. His head's sagging and flopped to one side, giving him a look of hopeless resignation.

Same, Kermit. Same.

A Blender screenshot, where I've made a simple face in my own likeness. She's smiling vacantly, nary a thought behind her beady little eyes.

Hiya.

A model of Holoptychius at Kelvingrove museum, next to the fossil on which he's based. He's a brown, trout-sized fish with a wide, grinning mouth and vacant little yellow eyes.

Today I met Holoptychius, my new favourite fish from a time before thoughts. He's no Sacabambaspis, but he's trying his best.

I finally got the good ending! But only after dying repeatedly to:

- spiderbumdeath
- bonegone horsefright
- blunt force decapitation
- tractor implosion

Game of the year. No notes.

Clumpws enjoys curling up in a wet, leafy mound with a good book and a family-sized bag of mulch or a chippy tea (“ wood chips, that is!”). Be careful when clearing out that woodpile. Clumpws might be in there absorbed in a Ken Follett.

An Instagram advert for an exercise programme that promises to "Release your nervous system and get rid of stubborn tightness - in just 15 minutes".

A preserved human nervous system mounted in a glass museum case, eyes and all, staring blankly at the floor. To be fair, it's what mine would probably do if I let it wander around on its own.

Why would I want to release my nervous system? Have you seen one of those things?

ASIWYFA on stage at the Hug & Pint.

The band are playing a quiet bit, and the audience are all crouching down for reasons I don't understand. Is this what the kids do at gigs these days? Anyway, it looks like something culty's going on.

The band's bassist, who appears to still be playing whilst having a little crowdsurf. The ceiling is low and full of obstacles (lights, cables, aircon vents), so he's perilously close to braining himself on a lighting rig.

An audience member attempting to crowdsurf. He's wedged between his friend's shoulders and the low ceiling.

And So I Watch You From Afar. Immense, joyous noise in a tiny, sweaty basement. Shout out to the brave souls attempting to crowdsurf under the Hug's low, sticky ceiling. 🫡

Worm QWOP! 🪱🪱🪱

A small cardboard tub piled high with ice cream, sitting on a picnic table next to a beach. There's a few ships anchored in the bay in the distance, including the ferry that should have been halfway to Troon with us on it at the time.

Stranded on Arran for an extra day because it's too windy to run the ferry. It's not all bad, though.

A very wet and disgruntled whippet, standing on a beach and glowering up at the camera. He's wearing a soggy orange raincoat.

We've gone on holiday by mistake. 🌧️

Some electronics (a small battery, control board, and some LEDs) lying on a green cutting mat next to a little 3D printed jetpack - as yet grey and unpainted.

Good news: I've started working on the No Man's Guy again, and finally got the jetpack to print! (It's the wrong way round, but after 5 attempts I'll take it)

Bad news: I now have to figure out how to make the lights a) work, and b) fit inside. Thoughts and prayers are appreciated at this time.

Watercolour magpie illustration

Magpie - Watercolour on paper.

The scan and touch up, this painting gets the proper treatment!

Available as a print at www.inprnt.com/gallery/fion... to whatever places inprnt ships to (not just the UK :P)

A horse struggles to exist

#art #animation #indieanimationday #horse

Blender's also great for stuff like this. Can't think about the Horrors if every braincell in your head is at capacity trying to sculpt a silly little guy. 👍

Two magpies on a wooden bench. One stands on the arm, reaching to pinch a blueberry off a bush. The other stands by, presumably keeping lookout, and eager to learn the art of avian crime.

Hello, I would like to report a ✨birb crime✨

The local magpies are teaching their younglings to ransack my garden in various ways. Not content with their usual petty vandalism, today's lesson is Blueberry Heist.

I made one that raided my pantry. 🧶

I think I've just discovered my calling. 🤘

Jake (a white whippet) in his bed. Only his eyes and snoot are visible, peeking out from under a thick, brown furry blanket. He has achieved maximum cosiness, which would be fine if we weren't in the middle of a heatwave.

I worry about this dog sometimes. It's 27°C outside, and yet the heat-seeking idiot still stands by his bed forlornly until I tuck him in under his heftiest blanket.

King Kiwi, a regal little potato, sitting on his wooden throne. Above him is a stained-glass window, which bears his kiwi fruit emblem.

11. King Kiwi. I know we're not into kings at the moment, but can we make an exception for this guy? 👑

This is incredible

A round, crusty loaf of bread cooling on a wire rack. The crust is split in a cross shape across the top, and the sticky-up corners look like cat ears. I've drawn a crude cat face onto the photo.

Hello from Tom's accidentally kawaii walnut sourdough.

I needed white spray paint for Kermit's eyes. The Warhammer shop was the easiest place to get it, and now all I can think of is painting wee space guys.