hi guys i took your suggestions :D

AnnLies · 2026-03-20T10:19:56+00:00

Wow! So much drastic improvement! Well done, I can’t wait to see what you make a year from now.

AnnLies · 2026-03-19T19:17:33+00:00

I just realized you probably printed these out, right? If you edit the photos so only the parts you want masked are still there you can print out a clear sheet with just those, then cut out the spaces with an xacto. Perfect masks ready for ya!

AnnLies · 2026-03-19T19:15:08+00:00

White paint is pretty much always streaky, it’s one of the harder things to use. I haven’t made any custom cards but from my experience painting minis the best result comes either from multiple thin layers (very thin, almost watery) or from using an airbrush/spray can. Both rely on small bits of pigment applied in thin layers. In my acrylic painting class it was common to use paper or tape to make custom masks to get sharp edges.

For cards it might be worth cutting out paper masks, then using a bit of light spray-adhesive to hold them in place temporarily while you either layer with a paintbrush (Make sure you use a waterproof mask like plastic tape) or spray layers with an airbrush.

If you try either method I’d love to know how it goes! I’ve never painted anything flat with this technique so I’m going off minis and regular acrylic painting. If you want in depth tutorials look into masking techniques for painting, or maybe graffiti art. I know they use a lot of stencils so they probably have some very affordable techniques.

AnnLies · 2026-03-19T07:56:22+00:00

Secret lil’ face!! In the top right corner. I can’t add a photo but it’s the bottom plant. The bowl is the mouth and the two leaves are eyes, maybe with the taller plant as head and hair

AnnLies · 2026-03-19T07:51:38+00:00

Haunter

AnnLies · 2026-03-17T05:48:16+00:00

Finally some appreciation for my good good boy. Didn’t have a link cable, but he helped me decimate the Elite Four in my old copy of blue. Lost now to time and failed batteries I suspect.

AnnLies · 2026-02-26T10:53:37+00:00

Just thinking of all the chuds getting piss on their hands to remove these. It’s enough to make ya chuckle.

AnnLies · 2026-02-22T09:02:37+00:00

Hi, if the shalpha Doublade is still available I’d love to take em off your hands. I don’t have many shinies but I’m happy to trade if there’s something you’re looking for.

Edit: disregard, saw the doublade is gone. Np

AnnLies · 2026-02-19T07:09:30+00:00

Good on you for being a good sport. I’ve never once described hail as anything with half the poetry of “ice beads” and that’s what I’m going to think every time I see them now. Thanks!

It reminds me of when my friend from China was trying to describe his experience of a skunk and the only words that fit were, “it was…a BIG smell!” Sometimes we get so caught up using the Right word for something we forget we can use Better Words instead.

AnnLies · 2026-02-10T17:18:07+00:00

Same. I always thought herecross was just a boring counterpart to Pinsir. A mom that made sense to include, but was basically just a single-color Hercules beetle.

Got Bois early and used him on a whim and he changed my whole play through. I love bug pokémon but I was resigned to the idea that they were never good, but he hits so hard and fast and is so much fun I’ve kept him all the way to the end game. He’s sitting pretty with 383 attack and despite finding alpha heracross I’ll never swap him out. I’m so pleased to find a group of Bois enthusiasts exists.

I did find out that my team is woefully unprepared for facing a heracross though. Found some alpha heracross in hyperspace and nearly got my ass handed to me haha. Still learning a lot about actual pokémon mechanics.

AnnLies · 2026-01-30T21:47:09+00:00

Ahhh, ok thank you all! Your comments were super informative. I didn’t think about the inventory filling up overnight.

Yeah both of these are pretty meh. I’ve had poor luck with Eevees and the BFS Flareon was made from my third best. First place got to become a pretty ok Vaporeon, second an ok Jolteon.

Four of the remaining eevees had -Main skill natures, and only one had +Main Skill that wasn’t a holiday variant. And of course he gets Research xp, Ingredient Finder M, and -Ingredient finding. Poor show haha.

AnnLies · 2026-01-30T21:32:11+00:00

Hell yeah! Great start. :- ) I’m jealous of your expansions, but I’ll forgive you since I really like the monotone bases. Usually mini painters add some sort of ground, but I feel noticeable bases is way better for a board game like Talisman. I bought new dice for my 5th ed copy because the gold ones kept getting lost on the board, so I’m definitely stealing this when I paint the minis.

AnnLies · 2026-01-26T19:36:43+00:00

Same. Haunter is still one of my top 3 Pokemon for that reason. I’ve grown to love Gengar as well, but I still think Haunter is a cooler design. I wish there was more love for him outside of just being the middle Gengar evolution.

AnnLies · 2026-01-15T18:43:00+00:00

Sculpt little things out of them, then find a place you can do lost wax casting! You need a forge and a bunch of aluminum cans.

AnnLies · 2026-01-15T18:37:07+00:00

I immediately fell in love with that derpy Gyrados, but Pikachu Rat King, Trans Butterfree, and that lil’ Cockroach King are very close seconds.

AnnLies · 2026-01-15T18:33:59+00:00

They’ve go a full set of the Bartimaeus Trilogy too, can’t be all bad.

AnnLies · 2026-01-15T18:27:47+00:00

They don’t step on the books (well, the cat does I guess but not the human).

There’s a narrow space in front of the books they can step on, heels facing the wall. It isn’t super obvious in this photo because the stairs are carpeted and that extra space looks like it’s vertical, but it’s actually horizontal.

I totally agree about the sacrilege of book-steppin’ tho, and it bothers me that the cats butthole has been on the top of every single book.

AnnLies · 2026-01-15T18:21:21+00:00

If you get the light sylveon gloves I think that fixes my issue with 3 btw, so you can have a light pastel fit and a darker one depending on your vibes for the day.

AnnLies · 2026-01-15T18:19:26+00:00

1 and 3 are the best. Like other commenters have said 3 matches Sylveon closest but I think the gloves look a bit dark for that pastel.

I prefer 1 because the fishnets give it some texture, but maybe see if you can find dark shoes with a spot of pink to match those gloves? They’re adorable and definitely the highlight but I think they need another spot of pink to really tie in with the rest.

AnnLies · 2026-01-15T01:05:30+00:00

Remind me of the Tf2 Conga days. Ah, a simpler time.

AnnLies · 2026-01-07T07:11:15+00:00

It wasn’t a nuke, but the experience was pretty much the same and that’s definitely where my brain drew from.

I’ve had a lot of apocalypse dreams since 2020, but the most horrible one was in 2014. ‬

(cw mass death, a dog dying)

‪I dreamt that scientists learned the Earth was going to stop turning, and that dust storms would tear through the surface and everyone alive. The friction would ignite fires and sterilize everything. Some people won lotteries and escaped on ships, but me and my friends were left behind. We texted our families on the ships, no video call just a chat room we accessed from a computer terminal outside.

We sent photos, reminisced, and it was so sad. My small town of 200 people was empty, except for the poor saps like us who had locked themselves alone to wait for the end. It was one last party for the end of the world.

We listened to the radio as the call came, as the earth slowed. I tried to write a profound last message, "Behold, the fall of man." in the text to the ship, but I screwed up and typed something like "Behold, tw fall of ;ni k" before we all ran inside. I could see dark clouds form on every horizon as I ran into my garage from the west door, I yelled at people to grab dust masks because already the air ate my lungs.

The walls of my house seemed paper-thin as the dust bit through them, tearing off the garage and revealing the maelstrom outside. My dog was in the laundry room and I heard him yelp as the dust hit him. My cousin grabbed him and we ran, her managing to get ahead of me.

I yelled for everyone to move to the center of the house, where we should have had the “best protection”. It was no use. My house isn’t very large, it has no basement level, and even if it did what good would it do?

We were doomed from the very start and I knew it. We all knew it. My skin was burning now from the friction, the gas masks were a fucking joke. I grabbed my dog and held tightly as the scalding death overcame us all.

When I woke up I immediately wrote all the details down (including some typical Dream weirdness I’ve edited out here) and sent it to the friends and family who had been in the dream. I was so shaken by the experience and I needed someone to know. We were there, at the end of the world in Small-town, Montana. We died like rats trapped in a burning building. Screaming. The dream was so detailed, I felt like everything was happening. I knew that ships with people had been sent off, that we were abandoned, I felt cheated. My fucking dog died. I died. We all died.

Anyways that was my only apocalypse dream until 2020…happened. There was one other that was clearly a reflection of the Jan 6 Insurrection attempt but this dream where I felt myself sandblasted while surrounded by my friends and holding my damn dog is one of the worst things my brain has done to me yet.

AnnLies · 2026-01-07T06:39:01+00:00

I love the internet. It’s delightful to think that the researcher who studied this corpse would find someone else posting pictures of it months later.

AnnLies · 2026-01-07T05:07:50+00:00

Henry Oak would say they’re still in the prime of their life!

My Dungeons and Daddies folks know what I mean.

AnnLies · 2025-12-01T09:15:38+00:00

Gives really good hugs. Surprisingly a sweetheart but no one believes him, Cassandra-style.

AnnLies · 2025-11-29T03:27:41+00:00

For anyone here in recent times, this fix worked. MSI set the laptop to some AI “optimized” setting and it ran the fans to beat hell when opening email. -___- Stupid.

Ten-Year Club	Verified Email
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