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THE ZENBUNNY MADE ME DO THIS. BAD BUNNY. BACK IN THE BOX.

Mayflower, the shortest-legged pony in the UK, uses her ultimate Crataega Operandi attack - Equipulchritude.

So this is, um, Mayflower the (real) Shetland pony using her ultimate attack, which is coincidentally similar to Problem Sleuth's.

I hadn't checked some RSS feeds in a while, which means I got a bumper load of photos of pretty people of nonspecific gender waiting for me. Below, the best of the I'll-be-in-my-bunk¹ crop as selected by yours truly.

Bear in mind that some of the page titles have large rude words in them. The pictures are offbeat, but aren't NSFW in an explicit nudity sense.

¹ Or whatever we asexuals do instead of going to our bunks. Seethe with enthralled jealousy, I suppose? Point and make speechless "ffdfsdfdsssdfsfsff" noises? Blog abou– oh, right.

• Punk metal finger-shiny thing
• I has a black bag
• fffffff CUMMERBUND
• I like to think this one is seconds away from robbing a petrol station at gunpoint
• I has silly floopy damp hair
• Pants. Er, blue pants.
• A vampire my dear why no ha ha um why would you say that?
• fffffsssfffff FRECKLES
• My shoulders, I padses dem
• ffffffff STRAY HAIR
• This one's rather clinical, but he(?)'s pretty.
• Brooding, I does it.
• ffffffff BIKER BABE. I can't even hate the ugly lip piercing.
• Is mah laundrymats finished?

Before anyone asks, I don't know what's with all these people looking so moody. I had to exclude a few quite nice photos because the subjects looked too miserable and it made me uncomfortable (autism-related I think: bad expressions spook me badly). Cheer up, emo photographers. :P

HELL YES MY SON I HAVE A FLAT CAP.

Now for the whippets. Feel free to send me some addressed to God c/o lotsofplanetshaveanorth inc, PO Box 1666.

Updates from my Twitter feed don't seem to be being crossposted here for some reason. I don't know why that could be yet.

As far as important updates blog readers may have missed, @cubicgarden is improving slowly and able to receive visitors.

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Khaosdog's Bolt fan artwork.

Khaosdog is a German artist I admire. Khaosdog is great at expressing shiny lighting effects, paints fantastic fur and is canine-obsessed, which, let's face it, is always a plus.

I found a really nifty artist's site: Tim O'Brien.

Tetrapods! I LOVE tetrapods.

Anyone like Beatles? Sopranos? Horses? TRAINS?

Finally, a great one this: prepare to be distoibed.

In today's "won't you walk into my parlour" news…

Cat Party to recruit mice, Nazi party to admit Jews, Roma, disabled people, and: BNP to consider non-white members.

Vatican to host Galileo exhibit. Sounds fabtastic. I'd like to see it.

Nice try, kid, but no cigar. Of course, he will have learned much from this preliminary attempt.

Israel taking a leaf out of the Bush administration's books. I'll be interested to see if Obama takes action on this kind of thing. America's about the only country to whom they're remotely likely to listen, and at least the "We Take the Book of Revelation Literally, Roll On Battle of Megiddo" loon squad are no longer in power.

Seal pups: look cute, but don't approach or you could cause them to starve.

Beautiful microscopy photos of blood cells and nerves.

Adults with autism 'cast adrift' in England

This, er, wow. So what are Auschwitz's five favourite singers and which Heroes character would Auschwitz be? Now we can find out. Er.

RIVAL CHILD OVERACHIEVER! It is so cute pathetic that at age 27 I still feel threatened by this kind of brat… oh man… issues. ;D

These poor kids, on the other hand, are lucky if they can learn at all.

Finally, I have to post this for you lot for the name alone. North Korea's Hotel of DOOM.

(Not to be confused with Latveria's Doctor of Doom or Disneyland's Tower of Terror, of course.)

Here, have an "accessibility fail" image macro. Perfect for sending to your DDA-flouting website friends, or any other (real life) instances of accessibility fail.

Today I did a painting, and very tiring it was too.

Giant tiny kitty!!!

I tweeted it as I went, so you can skip back through the stages.

This is fairly obviously an in-joke of some kind. There's a whole anecdote about a toy tiger and a pot plant.

What's Weft saying? Suggestions for caption, please.

*readers should not infer from the word "competition" that there will be any 'prizes' beyond the awesome honour of seeing this heartbreakingly awesome work of ART

(First more-than-quarter-assed attempt at a Shade dragon in a SMALL variant of its polar, pedestrian form. Despite being huge, armoured monsters, they're about the only thing alive that can sneak up on a Weft. This is because they are epic.)

The Inspiration

Awesomeness here via Almostwitty: Fiddling contrast gives you sex!

I guess it sort of makes sense – darker lips look quite female?

The Plan

1. set up shop offering Sex Change While-U-Wait
2. fiddle contrast on before and after photos
3. ???????
4. profit

Hey! Ha ha!

Look what voodoo-vibe posted! (Apologies to AW who'll see this twice…)

HA HA HA HA HA.

First sketch of Sankmarray ninja and pirate (crewpir, not king)

I'm not happy with the pirate — pe needs to be a bit more doggy as well as chimpy — and I still have no idea about head hair growth on either of 'em. Luckily you can't see the ninja's hair anyway, thanks to ner headscarf.

Petpet Park load test = slashdotted. There's a surprise…

Look out, unsuspecting fuzzy omnivorous hulking thing!

A crappy thing I sketched just now without references or owt. The brown animal is unnamed, the others are called fuzzboks.

Drawn for a mate, who wanted evil clowns. For her own reasons. Into which we shall not probe too deeply.

I told her she had to look at the picture while listening to this… which had her, and shortly thereafter me, in fits of giggles.

Send in the clowns! (~200K PNG)

Another artwork post. This stuff is by someone called Jesse McGibney, whom I found through some random Google or other. Here are some nice ones.

Dog tags

Gryphon for Anke and another gryphon too

Lionfish!

Fisher Dragon (never let it be said that I'm a pushover when it comes to blues and greys… oh, all right then)

Some kind of Roman or Spartan cat or something for Vespers

For Ree SHE KNOWS WHY

Hatchling for everyone. Everyone must love.

Butterfly for Anke

Coffee for Snog

Succubus NSFW (nudity, not sexualised, or I wouldn't be linking it at all!)

Some fighty dude in a swamp, I dunno

Funny gunner

Chell and Cube for Slen

I recommend you browse Jesse McGibney's gallery for yourself: he has more, including sketches.

Andrea for Kendime. Two hours, tablet/Photoshop.

Another for the Jack forum art exchange. I skipped it for several weeks; there was a giant panda (one of many things I can't draw), then I forgot for a while.

I thought this girl was a wolf while drawing her, because her owner didn't say and the reference pic was inconclusive, but I suppose given the tail-tip she's more likely to be a fox. Then again, who knows with furries?

lolbackground. Two hours, though.