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  Drawtober 24. The prompt here is 'candy'. It's thought that in early to mid spring, so it's a bit past that now, that Nyoongar people might have made cuts in the bark of the jam tree, or Mangart, to encourage the outwelling of its edible, sweet sap for collection in the hot Birak and Burnulu times later in the year. When cut the wood is sweet, fruity smelling. I haven't damaged my tree, I'm going to let it give me sap if it wants to, at this sta...

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  Okay so today's #Drawtober 's prompt is 'Mask'. So I thought, aha, I have a photo I took of a Masked Lapwing over on Wadjemap, but then I did a bit more research and it turns out that the bird I saw was a Banded Lapwing, soooo behold, it is an Unmasked Lapwing. I used the glass nib, the Rotring Art pen and a water brush. Inks used were whatever is in the Rotring, and a bunch of pretty Diamine colours Brandy Dazzle, Bucks Fizz and Bubbly. #DrawingWithoutANet #...

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  It's Drawtober the 26th and the prompt is Cauldron. I'm going a bit lateral here, because it's Kambarang, heading to second Spring, and not Autumnal at all, and my prompt list is Autumn themed. When I was in primary school, in the late 70's it was decided by the powers that be that some campfire activities would happen. So we made damper, and Mum gave me a small piece of steak to wrap in foil and a potato to likewise wrap in foil and bake in the school fire coals...

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  Welcome to Drawtober the 27th. Today for me, the prompt is Gravestone. I've chosen the more punny side of the street, so here we have a Grave Stone. Aha ha ha. Anyway I drew this using a Water Brush, Kakimori Steel Nib and the Taranishi Guitar Glass Nib. Just two inks today, the Diamine Tundra and the Molten Basalt. The Molten Basalt was a bit of a surprise, because it's a standard ink but you get really quite nice reddish sheen with it which looks quite cool against its dark...

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  Well I think this looks cool. While I don't do horror much this looks lovely. Also weird fish and whalefall. I especially like the "No genAI ever we enjoy using our minds and our planet's continued existence" statement. https://haridraws.tumblr.com/post/831642543522529281/dont-you-ever-want-to-abandon-society-and-get A link to the game https://haridraws.itch.io/the-murmuring-depths #BrowserGame #Free #Horror #NoAI

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  Drawtober 28th's prompt for me was 'Bat' so I chose one of the most remarkable bats in Australia - the Ghost Bat. There aren't many white bats in the world, and this is the only Australian bat that goes after other bats, mammals, frogs and reptiles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_bat for more information. Unfortunately its tendancy to want to attack cane toads is leading to its decline, and it doesn't cope well with barbed wire too, alas. Drawn very...

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  Drawtober 29th brings me to the prompt 'coffin'. With butterflies starting to appear more frequently, as the weather warms up, and Kambarang flowers about I ask, what is a chrysalis but a coffin for a caterpillar? #Drawtober2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #Drawtober #FountainPen #Drawing #NoAI #OriginalArt #Butterfly #PenAndInk

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  It's day 30 of Drawtober and my prompt is 'skull'. I have an old cat skull I found near the Derbarl Yerrigan during a disc golf tournament, so that served as a great 'live' model. Here two tiny climbers are scaling the Catskull Mountains. Ah haha. Yeah the true scary bit around here is the puns. #DrawingWithoutANet #Drawtober2026 #Drawtober #FountainPen #NoAI #PenAndInk #OriginalArt #Drawing

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  Drawtober 31st and the prompt is ghost. When we approached the castle we could see one, or perhaps more, of the castle ghosts, winding in one of windows - was it a murder hole, I thought uneasily - and out the other. The ghost had been there long enough to lose any sort of human shape, if it had started out human at all. If you looked at it for a while, the surroundings seemed to melt away, except for where you could see through the ghosts whisper-y sparkles. There reality seemed to be sol...

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  Rotring Art Pen with black ink and a waterbrush wash, and Diamine Star Bright Glacier with the Teranishi dip glass nib. Spiders are in full swing here, half grown Orb Weavers are spinning their webs everywhere as insects ramp up as does the heat, so I had good hopes of finding something interesting in the garden. This little scene caught my eye. We had rain overnight, and while the spider was no doubt sheltering somewhere, the web was mostly intact and had caught a few rain drops, which at firs...

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  Everyone in #Australia it's time to register for The Great Aussie Bird Count! Just 20 minutes a day for a week. https://aussiebirdcount.org.au/register-for-the-aussie-bird-count/ #CitizenScience #WildOz #Birding

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  Kambarang, and the Dianella revoluta is flowering in my garden. #PerthWesternAustralia #Kambarang #NoongarSeasons #Bloomscrolling

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  Kambarang, and the Dampiera diversifolia is flowering in my garden. #PerthWesternAustralia #Kambarang #NoongarSeasons #Bloomscrolling

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  Pimelea ferrigenia is flowering in my garden right now in #Kambarang and it's sure living up to its insect attracting reputation. The Australian Painted Lady #Butterfly and the Boatman Fly give it 5 stars. #Bloomscrolling #PerthWesternAustralia #NoongarSeasons

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  It's the 16th of Drawtober, and today's prompt is 'candle' What with the fire danger warnings starting to crank up we don't want to be lighting any fires around here, so as it's #Kambarang (you might call it a second spring, or Sprummer) in the #NoongarSeasons calendar the Candlestick Banksias are giving us a show with their bright lemony yellow flower spikes. Also known as Biara by some Nyoongar people. #NoAI #Art #DipPen #DrawingWithoutANet...

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  @rdm has his birthday today. March 11 he had a cardiac arrest so now he has a resurrection date as well. I am so very thankful he is alive to celebrate this, and hopefully many more birthdays. We kicked off celebrations last night with gf curry puffs, profiteroles and colourful fruit and chocolate hummus and orange almond cake with the rpg-ers. One of our friends gifted him a bottle of finger lime flavoured non alcoholic gin (we're both teetotal but rdm is a serious nonalc mixologist)...

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  Now the cat's out of the bag about @rdm 's present, here, besides the obvious "Godzilla" and "Boardgame" was what convinced me this might be a good pick. Rob is a serious fan of retro Godzilla flicks. https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogpost/188552/king-of-tokyo-godzilla-developer-diary I am looking forward to that satisfying deer-scarer 'tok' of taking possession of Tokyo. We will be sure to report on our first play. #God...

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  Title: Drawtober 17th Moon In The Freeze, Ross MacDonald (the pseudonym for Ken Millar) introduces us to this poem. My dad was a big fan of gumshoe novels, and I read anything I could get my hands on, including the 87th Precinct novels, Travis McGee, Lew Archer and Spencer for Hire, and MacDonald was amongst them. I would have read this poem in my early teens, and it stayed with me up until now, decades later. So when I looked it up I was surprised to find that Jim Steinman had used it in one...

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  I discovered, way after it was created, the world of Serina. Everyone probably knows about it but if you don't , and want to see a masterpiece of a deep deep dive into speculative evolution, take a look. World gets seeded by various lifeforms from Earth, the only vertebrate being canaries and left to simmer until the end of the planet. Over the lifetime of the planet, creatures evolve, some of them even get stories! Use the side bar to go forward and back in time. I don't kno...

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  #Drawtober2026 number 18 and the prompt is 'Owl' for me. Hmm, I've already done one of our local owls this #Drawtober - so let's go to another night bird, our big muppet like Tawny Frogmouth, commonly called the Mopoke, but, ha, we covered that with the Boobook earlier, this bird does not make that sound. You might say it goes oom oom oom oom oom oom but it's hard to describe. So let us explore its Nyoongar names shall we? In the Languages Other Than Eng...

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  SO MUCH FOR THE ALIEN'S WARNING! So unsatisfying except for the rich guy shooting himself accidentally. Now THAT was satisfying. Although the nice alien said her people would help, maybe they meet up with her people and stuff. #Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

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  Hey, hey, I bet everyone forgets the nice alien's warning with all this trauma. #Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

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  The Monitor says things are all the same back here a million yearssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ago. #Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

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  You haven't known what you're doing since you got here. #Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

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  Are we there yet? #Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

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  I'm just surprised humanity lasted *that* long. #Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

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  The time-space continuum? Yes, I use it every day! #Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

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  Try turning it on and off again. #Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

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  Full moon? AROOOOOOOOOOOOO! #Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

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  Someone call Public Service Broadcasting! #monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHIo6qwJarI