Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕

Strata the torbie cat, Hobbes the orange and white tabby, and Joey the black cat all cuddled between Riley’s legs on a Godzilla blanket

Everyone comfy?

Photo of multiple figurines being held. They are inspired by cuttlefish and have bright colors

Photo of a cuttlefish inspired figurine being held. It has bright colors

Cuttlefish Guys!! This limited edition batch has a coloration inspired by the Flamboyant Cuttlefish. They’ll be coming soon to my shop as a part of the Ocean Guys collection :)

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Happy birthday! 🎉

Thank you!! I hope you like it. Feels good to be telling stories how I want to tell them.

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I should more often, be part of the change I want to see on the skyline

The self-serve racks of IKEA are where I shine, where my girlfriend can see me carrying heavy things around and therefore think of me carrying her around.

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Hold on I need to stim a little ::snorts leather::

Keeping a little roller of leather-scented oil in my purse was one of the best things I ever did for myself. The aroma always makes me that much happier.

A life restoration and a skull reconstruction of the fossil mammal Eoconodon in a museum case, a roughly dog or weasel-like carnivore

Eoconodon! You may remember them from the end of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs.

This German shepherd-size mammal lived about 680,000 years after the impact that closed the Age of Dinosaurs, an early member of an ancient carnivorous group called mesonychids. Plus they’re super cute. 🧪

Any touch with foot and the cats look at me like “What are you doing?”

Deliberately. Now and then she falls asleep with her paws around some part of me like I’m a pillow.

I know it’s coming because when Joey jumps on the bed, she always walks on me rather than the mattress.

Cats love “What if I stepped on you?”

Goo morning, monsters.

Leave silence between the screeches, to let the answering shriek find you.

It must be pretty spectacular when they blow their coats

Three vertical skateboards, black and gold art on raw wood. Left to right. A jackalope in a rampant pose, head turned back, a gold disc above the head. Second, a cropped in heron, gold snake around the neck and head. A golden crescent moon above. Third, art meant to be horizontal, a crouched hound looks back. A golden snake twines about it. The dog has a golden collar, and a golden dagger hangs above the head.

Triptych. Last 3 years of charity skateboard pieces.

Jackalope will be up for auction in April.

A forged iron hand chime with a single bell in the center, it's heart shaped and covered in thorny vines

Briaredheart Chime

She’s so sweet, she’ll just curl up facing me and blink at me over and over. When I talk to her, she starts to shut her eyes and go to sleep.

I swear every time I look at her, her coat’s a little different. Definitely a pretty little sassface.

Strata the torbie cat curled up between Riley’s legs on the couch, facing Riley and being adoring

I don’t know if I deserve how adoringly Strata looks at me.

Strata the torbie cat sitting atop a ladder to a loft bed

Love tortitude

Flortoise! How perfect.

Reminiscing, tearing up, reflecting on time and change, voice breaking to croak “Wow, what a difference… Blockbuster Video.”

It was the right choice to go for the Smuttynose because of the name and 🦭 on the tap.

Illustration of a sunfish (also known as a Mola Mola) floating above an aerial view of some farm lands. A plane flies next to the fish, really putting into perspective of just how large the sunfish really is.

I think that if sunfish could, the would be sunbathing in the sky ☁️
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how it's going

It’s so rough, especially with so many hard surfaces. Kids are going to be kids but it sucks when parents treat it like a playground and just hang back to let kids scream and run into the railings.