Bonesdrawstuff

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Wesley Dodds, Sandman

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Ride the Cyclone

My youngster loves the musical RIDE THE CYCLONE, so I made her this moving wooden movie poster for Christmas.

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considering

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last night I was thinking about bees and how dumb it is that science hasn’t given us genetically modified pet bees yet

if you’re reading this, science, this is how big I want them to be

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Adding to the THREE MUSKETEERS collection I'm working up (building on the existing lead character drawings); the lackeys! Pious Bazin, daredevilish Mousqeton, stoic Grimaud, and crafty Planchet.

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There's no wrong answer

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Ranch Romances Feb 15 1957

Everett Raymond Kintsler

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Operation Legacy - Wikipedia

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Not gonna even pretend to think that wasn't the norm during decolonization either, I'm sure there were several such programs in France, the Netherlands, etc.

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I'm four hundred pages in on the Three Musketeers and so far Athos's lackey Grimaud has uttered only one line of dialogue, which is to call D'Artagnan, at the time wearing a floral dress and sneaking into Athos's antechamber, a slut

(Chapter XXXVIII)

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The VDL Volos is a Witch-class electronic warfare specialist chassis developed by the Sparri Volsung Clan from SSC's successful Swallowtail line. To match the considerable range and sensor power of the Swallowtail E-War Suite while maintaining a lower profile, the Volos makes use of a distinctive, externally carried OATHBREAKER Projection Rig, coincidentally resembling a shamanic stave.

[wyrd-bones94]

Was looking at this Leyendecker piece and got nostalgic for TaleSpin.

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Companions of Christmas, day 6: The Krampus

The Krampus was a rural giftgiver who would deliver presents to good Alpine children, but the naughty ones? Well, he'd stuff them into his basket and take them back to his lair, where they would be forced to spend the next year making toys for good kids.

They'd be released the following Christmas, but even so, a year spent toiling away in the clutches of the Krampus was a pretty terrifying prospect for the children of western Austria, southern Germany, northern Italy, and Bohemia.

When word of this Santa Claus fellow started getting around, kids in these regions, terrified of the Krampus, started writing Santa letters asking for his intercession, and Santa obliged. He and the Krampus had a rumble, and Santa successfully shackled the Krampus with the chains that had once held St. Paul of Tarsus.

Bound by the magic of this holy relic, the Krampus was forced to accompany Santa for the next few years, and in observing his captor came to see that his punitive approach to kids wasn't the best way to ensure their good behavior or long-term character betterment after all. Thus reformed of his kid-beating, kid-stealing ways, the Krampus was released by Santa, but he asked to retain the chains so that they would always remind him of how the best way to put right kids that are straying from the path of goodness, kindness, and charity, would be to practice those tenets himself.

He still has his avuncular sense of humor, and likes to put milder scares into wee ones, so expect to get a light whap with his bundle of switches, and a short ride around the room in his basket.

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"To never again walk on a Summer's day with the hot wind in your face, and a warm hand to hold. Oh yes, I'd kill for that."

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I was rewatching Mike Flannigan’s MIDNIGHT MASS on Netflix, and I thought I’d do a portrait of one of the characters from the show: Father Paul (played by Hamish Linklater), one of the most interesting and rich characters to grace horror fiction in many, many years.

If you haven’t seen Midnight Mass, it’s like most of Flannigan’s other offerings: profound beauty and hope wrapped inside a surface of truly terrible horror. As a meditation on faith and also on guilt, and death, I think it’s a really spectacular work. If you haven’t watched it, and aren’t adverse to scary stuff, I’d highly recommend it (on Netflix).

In the background of the piece is the hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” which features pretty prominently.

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Blam!

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The Joker