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Update: Thank you so much for all your help! She is okay, but they want to do some tests to make sure. She is talking normally, but is very wobbly on her feet. Will update more as we know it.

Original: I just got a call from my husband. His mother had a stroke. She is in her late 80s. Please send healing prayers and spells her way!

She's someone I love and respect. I want her to be okay! She also Type 2 diabetes and Parkinson's, but has never drank alcohol or smoked cigarettes AFAIK.

Thank you everyone!

She is doing ok. She is not slurring, but she is unsteady on her feet. We are waiting for them to do some cautionary scans.

Original: I just got a call from my husband. His mother had a stroke. She is in her late 80s. Please send anything healing her way!

She's someone I love and respect. I want her to be okay! She also Type 2 diabetes and Parkinson's, but has never drank alcohol or smoked cigarettes AFAIK.

Thank you everyone!

I turn 48 in a few days, and I don't know what I'm doing with my art anymore. I don't know if I can even have an art career at this point, given different health barriers and the advent of the Instant Maker Machines that only require a few words to make something.

I wanted a career in art. I got an associate's degree in graphic design, but it would not have happened if it wasn't free at a local community college.

In my younger years, my original bachelor's worked for a while, but it is nowhere near an arts degree. I'm so far away from my original intent back then, but I wouldn't want to be back there.

Money is tight, hut I have zero confidence in my art making money. I know it would make at least a little, but....is it worth it?

I worry constantly about my art being used to train That Thing, or about it being stolen in general, but that makes me feel arrogant. Why do I think my art is good enough to get stolen?

I want to put all the good supplies I have to good use, but I feel like I just waste it on nothing. Even with encouragement and permission from loved ones - nearly all my life about art and writing - why do I still have all these negative voices inside of me? Why can't I overcome them? Why can't I clear them out so I can make real progress and not just sit around and feel sorry for myself?

I hate aging. It really sucks.

Hi! I've been fineing remnants of my chihuahua's discarded claws here and there throughout the house. Is there any specific use for them?

(He needs a proper grooming, but he will NOT tolerate a home nail clipping. :/)

Hi all! I was just wondering what you folks do when it comes to signing and possibly dating your art.

Lately, for practice sketches and non-serious pieces, I feel compelled to put my signature, date, and time finished on each piece. However, sometimes I will go back to a piece and add more, and then make a separate note about that on or attached to the sketch or art piece.

Signing I know is fine, but should I date it? Is including the time on it if I were to give it to someone a bad idea? Would it look amateurish? Should I avoid a date and time altogether? What do you good folks think?

(I realize this may just be my own paranoia about keeping track of when things happen.)

The perimenopause, the glue allergy, the increased PMDD, the exhaustion.... I jist feel like quiet-quitting life sometimes.

I go to dictors. I think I get the help I need, the prescriptions I need. Turns out I need to go to a specialist.

I haven't been to the gyno in a long time, because I had a hysterectomy seven years ago, but kept my ovaries.

Had I known they were the main culprits of my misery, I would have yeeted them, too.

Most of all, I hare the uncontrollable snippiness and irritability. I literally feel like I have two personalities constantly battling for control whenever That Time rolls around.

I'm almost 48. I don't want to live the next decade like this.

Why. Can't. My. Body. Ever. Just. Chill.

Has there ever been a Gorillaz tarot or oracle deck, official or unofficial? Thanks!

I have about 20 to 25 typewriters. I only use a few, and those I only use occasionally.

A lot of the others need minor repairs and medium to heavy cleaning. I love them, and would love to have the space, motivation, etc. to take care of them and display them, but I don't, and I'm desperate to reclaim some space in my house. (They are all my doing, not the hubby's. lol)

What would be the best method of letting go? I thought of locally to Facebook Marketplace, or maybe local listings with "pickup only" on Ebay. I don't want to have to ship them, as we got rid of all our really big boxes and packing material during the Great Box Purge of 2026 a few months back. (I needed my dining space back, guys. Real bad!)

Anyways, what would you do? Most of them are manuals, but there's a few electrics and electronics. There is at least one non-working Selectric II that I really don't know what to do with. I don't want to bin it, but I don't want someone to take it and turn it into a planter, either.

Note: While I had a wild hair some years ago, and thought I could do what it takes to get these suckers up and running, that dream is now dead. I'm getting older, and there are other things I need to spend time and effort and money on. I also don't have a permanent workspace or garage. I just want them to go to people who will appreciate them, and take care of them...

The Goodly Spellbook by Coven Oldenwilde.

I'm getting rid of a lot of books soon, not all magickal. I keep going back and forth on this one. In the one hand, it has a lot of information. On the other, I don't know if I trust the information as the authors and coven have, in the past, been accused of abusing members. I also read an article once where a journalist documented one of them doing a death curse, of their own volition, which goes against their whole "harm none" thing.

I don't know. I have several other spell book options at this point. What are your thoughts?

Other than the usual Murdoc nonsense (being drunk, crazy, pursued by bad actors, etc.), why was he so abusive of 2D at the time? I mean, it seems pretty intense, even for him. Was it a reflection of what was going on behind the scenes with the real band at the time?

I have a theory that he was unhinged because he blamed himself for what happened to Noodle, like he just couldn't live with the possibility that he was potentially respondible for her death, or at least disappearance.

I've been listening to the old pirate broadcasts lately for the first time, hoping for some insight. I'm on episode five. Thus far, I haven't really found anything.

Separately, I wish they would have kept the part of the storyline where he's actually centuries old. Him basically being Aleister Crowley makes an obnoxious amount of sense. Lol

I just saw a Youtube video from a little less than a year ago where the artist was using alcohol markers on canvas. She said she liked how the colors would "spread out and do their own thing".

First iff, wouldn't that just be bleed? Second, wouldn't the rough texture of the canvas damage the nibs? What do you think?

I just saw a Youtube video from a little less than a year ago where the artist was using alcohol markers on canvas. She said she liked how the colors would "spread out and do their own thing".

First iff, wouldn't that just be bleed? Second, wouldn't the rough texture of the canvas damage the nibs? What do you think?

I've never seen it, as I've only this summer started really listening to the band, but are there any official shirts that explicitly have the phrase "Jealousy Is Vibe Down"?

If not, I'll probably go to Michael's or Walmart or something and do it myself. Or, something. (I really like that phrase, and may add other lyrics or something to it.)

What is the difference between the acrylic inks you can get in the little jars at the art store or elsewhere, and the ink in acrylic ink pens?

Thanks!

[This is NOT a "shipping" post. Just a general discussion about reincarnation possibilities. Please no one freak out. Thank you. :) ]

With the themes of reincarnation so heavy in this phase, it's made me wonder what the band would look like if they were reincarnated as a biologically related family instead of a found family. (Found is great! This is just for fun.)

My first thought is, (assuming that both of them are adults at the same time in the reincarnated life,) Russel and Noodle being married, with 2-D and Murdoc either being their natural kids, or their adopted kids.

And that's about as far as I've gotten. lol

Again, just something I've been pondering lately. I'm not about to write a slash fic or anything. But with reincarnation, I've heard it said that people in your life (and sometimes even pets) will come back to you, and you to them, but in different forms. That someone who was your brother may end up being your cousin, or a pet would come back as a romantic interest, etc.

Again, no intention of grossing anyone out or being disrespectful or anything weird. Just kind of a philosophical pondering, if anything.

Also, I can't imagine either Murdoc or 2-D married to anyone, even in a new life.

I could be wrong, but who knows.

Feel free to add your own lighthearted thoughts.