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Gluten-free baking is even more like performing chemistry than regular baking is!

On my crossed legs, a large hardback book with a photo of a beautiful rustic load of bread on an olive green cover. The title at the top in cream text: “The Art of Gluten-Free Bread.” Below the bread photo, the subtitle and author: “Groundbreaking Recipes for Artisanal Breads and Pastries” by Aran Goyoaga. (Beyond the book’s cover, you can see my cat in the background, loafed on the floor.)

I grew up loving and making bread. I lost so much with my celiac diagnosis but most especially I lost the joy of breadmaking. I’m hoping to get that back.

Lets post some Fire 🔥 art

First mind horse of the year! Happy New Year 🐎 🎉2026🎉

First mind horse of the year! Happy New Year 🐎 🎉2026🎉

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Thank you! 😁 I’m so pleased with how he turned out!

Just gotta say I had an absolute blast looking at photo references for suits. I looked at HUNDREDS of the fanciest suits, on some frankly very stunning models, and I discovered that tailored suits may cost an awful lot of money but they are worth every penny. No, I did not buy one, but I wanted to!

A black-and-white illustration with spots of color representing a waist-up portrait of older Gladiolus Amicitia, dressed in a fine suit and holding a bouquet of long-stem roses in his arms. He looks out at you with a soft smile. His eyes are amber, and his shirt, the roses, and the ribbon binding their stems are deep red.

"Bouquet"

My art piece for Rowan for the @charityartauction.bsky.social this year, which raised money for Doctors Without Borders. I was so excited Rowan chose Gladio; I don't get to draw him all that often! A fun event for a worthy cause. #gladiolusamicitia #finalfantasyxv

Every streaming service has its good and bad. Tidal is one of the better ones for artist pay, but not as many artists are on it. Apple Music and Amazon Streaming are better for artist's pay than Spotify, but then you have to deal with Apple or Amazon.

I think that’s really indicative of the problem, actually! Artists used to be able to make a living on album sales. With the streaming landscape, and the scummy way the streaming services calculate royalties, artists can’t just make albums anymore. So we get less music.

Exactly! I have a little Sony Walkman mp3 player that holds a LOT of music and when I have a hankering for a song I can just play it and I don’t have to be connected to wifi to do it!

That’s fair. And I really should have said ‘consider buying in addition to streaming’ because honestly streaming is just convenient.

When I said buy, I meant digital albums. MP3 players do still exist, and when you buy and download, you can play the song whenever you want.

Reblog by @puffbirdstudio · 1 image 💬 50  🔁 14015  ❤️ 14581 · Since it’s Spotify Wrapped season I thought I’d share this reminder that streaming services are killing the music industry. Musicians can’t make a living like this. If you…

Time to share my most-reblogged post on tumblr… if you buy an artist’s album, they make more money than the royalties from 5,000 streams on Spotify. Support artists and buy instead of stream. #spotifywrapped #spotify www.tumblr.com/puffbirdstud...

Scott Wills paints a background for the first run of Samurai Jack (2001–2004), created by Genndy Tartakovsky, Cartoon Network Studios

A cartoon drawing of a dapper balding man in round wire-rim glasses and a three-piece suit and a giant fluffy white beard, holding a rectangular tablet in one hand and gesturing excitedly with his other hand.

My YouTube feed just pushed a video where a curator at the British Museum talks about a cuneiform tablet in the collection and the curator’s name is Irving Finkel and he looks exactly like his name sounds and he’s so excited about cuneiform tablets that I could listen to him for hours…

The Auction is TOMORROW! Check out the auction’s Bluesky feed for links and bid to tell me to draw something Final Fantasy! Creatures and beasties, Warriors of Light and Scourge Abominations… and all funds go to support Doctors Without Borders!

Thank you 😭

I was a slug all weekend because I couldn’t be anything else, and I’m tired of being a slug but also I want to get better…

I’m gonna sit here and drink my mug of hot broth and play my vidya game…

I called in sick to work today because I’m still hacking up a lung even though I’m feeling a little better—but because I’m feeling a little better, my brain is telling me “hey! since we’re home, we should Get Stuff Done around the house!” Please help me tell it to Shut Up

A painting of a leafless tree silhouette against a sunset. Seven black birds sit in the branches, spread out, all looking to the left.

An unfinished painting; the drawing depicts a woman leaning to the side, her hands nearly cupping her face. Two ghastly arms with long, clawed fingers ominously reach for her.

Day 11 of art show prep… the one that was done in the beginning is still the only one done, but I have made progress! Two in good shape, and two prepped boards waiting in the wings.

Molding paste applied to one canvas 💪 and now it’s time to get ready for the day job 😂

Thank you!! I am… more than a little stunned…

elf in armor

i don't usually work with a lot of green so this was actually a lot of fun 💚✨ time to start something new! twitch.tv/kandaem #art #oc

I wasn’t expecting anything to come of it so it came as a huge surprise..! I definitely have my work cut out for me 😅

THANK YOU 😭

I think today I’m going to make do—I have two blank (or essentially blank) canvases that I can start with, and if I get those done in a reasonable time, I’ll consider getting more.

It’ll give me time to make more thumbnails, too. Of the 10 thumbnails I made last night, one has promise.

(Basically, “do I need to go shopping for canvases?” The answer is, naturally, “YES, you imbecile! You ALWAYS need more canvases!” Unless I’m talking to my business budget self, who looks at all this and says “You can make do.”)

A butcher-block table with a bunch of painting canvases and boards laid out on it—all in various sizes and various stages of completion, from still wrapped in shrink wrap to finished.

Day one of art show prep: Inventory.

What do I have? What’s finished, what’s not? Of the finished stuff, what’s appropriate to the show’s theme? Of the unfinished stuff, what will work and what won’t? What materials do I have and what can be repurposed?

Right now I have maybe an hour a day that I can spend on art, so I’ve gotta be somewhat methodical about this so I can accomplish everything while not panicking…