A balljoint doll stands next to a small pile of branches, holding a few smaller sticks herself. She has long brown hair and brown eyes and is wearing a gray denim jacket and skirt.

"The community is better when neighbors works together!"

We had a tornado last night. Everyone in the neighborhood has been working this morning to clean things up. I took a little break to grab a photo of Mirai helping out. The wind was doing a number on her hair.

#bjd #dollsky #smartdollmirai

Tonight was a wild night. A jr. DBA broke a major table and needed help restoring it. During the restore, we got hit by a tornado and I lost power and Internet. Fortunately it was short because my Kindle is under 20% battery.

#tornado #jrDBAwrecksLikeATornado

An art book for the video game Tactics Ogre lays flat, unopened. There is a plastic wrap on it that has fancy gold lettering, but no such lettering is on the cover. A small green cervitaur (deer centaur) doll is in the background, out of focus. It wasn't meant to be in the photo, but it's almost impossible to not have a doll in a photo at my home.

The Tactics Ogre art book came in recently. I haven't opened it yet because the fancy lettering is only on the plastic wrap. It looks really good and I wish it was on the cover.

Sorry for the poor lighting. I took this with my cheap phone camera, not my normal camera.

#tacticsogre #art #book

Transistor, from Supergiant?

Yikes! I hope the weather has turned enough to not be dangerously cold.

The Skeb + BlueSky integration is live!

You can now create a skeb Account using BlueSky! Or connect BlueSky to an existing Skeb account and use that for login!

But what is Skeb?

Skeb is a communication-less service where you can request art (and other works) from Japanese artists.

Get a small, fake tree and different colors of lights that you swap out for different holidays. Then you only need to change a single strand of lights and can leave it up all year without guilt!

Seconding this. If you want to create but don't know what, doing a random project with a friend (or even a rando) can be fun and introduce you to a lot of interesting new concepts.

Good luck!

An old pedestrian bridge spans a narrow creek in a park. Wildflowers grow along the bank while several tall trees reach into the blue sky in the background.

There's nothing pedestrian about pedestrian bridges!

A small humanoid rabbit doll stands by a large ham salad, holding a fork. She has brown hair, giving her the name Coco, and a yellow apron that looks orange in the light. Everything is tinted yellow due to a blue light filter on the overhead lights.

I haven't done a food-and-doll photo in a while. The new blue-light filter I have makes photos very yellow, but the light is fine in reality.

Dinner was a ham salad with sauerkraut and balsamic dressing. Coco seems like she could do with less ham, though

#bjd #doll #dollsky #food #photography

I love when someone gives me an excuse to nerd out about Tolkien stuff dude

Rest well!

Dracula is a good classic, but if you'd like a "modernized" version of Dracula, Elizabeth Kostova's _The Historian_ is a good read.

Yikes...

Right now, the most similar is probably Stoat (formerly Revolt), but they'll potentially end up in the same place down the line. Looking into a federated system might be a safer long-term wager.

VOTE IVY FOR CYL10!

Ivy’s a great character and unit; she won Overall MVP in my Maddening Blind + Xenologue run. And this is Engage’s last CYL before Fortune’s Weave sweeps the polls! Go Ivy!

vote10.campaigns.fire-emblem-heroes.com/en-US/cyl

#fireemblem #fireemblemengage #cyl10 #fireemblemheroes

欢迎回家
#bjd

A shower in which someone with dark hair attempted to dye it purple. Purple dye has been splattered everywhere, leaving the white porcelain bathtub splotched with purple.

Good luck, and may it clean up easily! A former girlfriend dyed her hair purple once. It took bleach and elbow grease to clean up!

A small angel doll with white hair and eyes holds an enamel pin of the Fashion Souls Doll, from the Pixel Dust book series by D. Petrie. The first book of the series, Party Hard, sits in the background with a bookmark of a fairy, one of the characters in the series, leaning up against it.

A small angel doll with white hair and eyes holds an enamel pin of the Fashion Souls Doll, from the Pixel Dust book series by D. Petrie. The first book of the series, Party Hard, sits in the background.

I picked up a Fashion Souls Doll pin from @taverntoldtales.bsky.social, from the Pixel Dust series. Is it a surprise the doll pin was the first I got? 🥰

I have scissors like these somewhere. I'll take a few more photos when I find them.

#bjd #photography #dollsky #books #taverntoldtales

AI uses em-dash because they were heavily used before, so that's what it was trained on. Also, note that modern word editors typicallly change hyphens to em-dashes if they aren't hyphenating anything. If the text was written with an editor, it'd be automatically changed.

It's been a blast working alongside the Starlight crew! Here's to the next 10 years, and beyond!

Congratulations!

A small ball-joint doll in a black EGL dress with red highlights stands between several books and a set of dice. Most of the books are standing upright, but two are laying flat, with one of them still in the wrapping and wax seal it was shipped in when bought directly from the author.

I saw Elizabeth looking at several books from one of my favorite authors, @taverntoldtales.bsky.social! They're both LitRPG series. They're longer books that flow well and have fantastic characters. Elizabeth recommends them (and so do I)!

#bjd #photography #dollsky #books #necromanticapocalypse

Happy birthday, Kingston! 🧁

This is happening tonight in around 7 hours from now! Maybe see you there!

Work is finally slowing, so I can really get into polishing the skills I need to replace our Sr. DBA when he retires this summer.

Bonus: more time to read! I started a new book by an author I adore, but could only read a few pages at a time due to how busy I've been.

#dba #reading #iamsonotready

The ghosts are upset you put away the Halloween decorations!

Cozying up to Republicans now isn't going to change that. Shame on you.

It's time to step down _now_, not when your term ends. You've cozied up with Trump and the Republicans far too many times and now you're biting the hands that helped bring in historic swings in Democratic favor. You're part of the problem, not the solution. Step down _now_.