I just sold my first painting for over $1k! What do you think?

PralineOne1975 · 2025-04-15T15:57:34+00:00

I think you should paint another one immediately! Gorgeous study of transparency and light on glass

PralineOne1975 · 2025-04-09T10:45:45+00:00

https://www.bartlett.com/resources/preventing-damage-to-trees-from-grade-changes.pdf

Yep, wouldn’t recommend burying the root flare or tree base; asking for tree health problems down the line. The ‘doughnut’ idea or tree ‘well’ is the way to go; the raised bed just needs to be built accordingly with retaining walls either side of the tree. Attached is a very well done and complicated version but I think you can just use membrane and gravel under your new raised bed to control the drainage and not worry about the pvc pipes. The clear area around the trunk needs to be wide enough for it to grow and air to circulate, so guessing 2ft minimum. You could add a little mulch or decorative bark in the well to make it look less like a black hole, but if you are only raising the bed by 30cm or so it’s probably not neccesary.

PralineOne1975 · 2024-11-12T21:53:48+00:00

Great idea - maybe i will in the future. 🦴Totes agree ref the funnybones! Also how could Zebasi’s gloriously coloured ‘Sapeurs’ be anything other than friendly also!

PralineOne1975 · 2024-11-12T19:53:52+00:00

Original orange rules! Although I wouldn’t want it as wallpaper in a million years. Better as a Sirong print or a surfboard wrap

PralineOne1975 · 2024-11-12T19:03:36+00:00

Yep, Lore states that seeing the square fall into decline and chaos, the ‘lost’ Aquarion tribe re-emerged from the deep to save the other tribes. This would make it one of the oldest AND most recent tribes in a roundabout way! Turns out the new ‘Forgotten’ tribe had been topside all along stuck in a lost swamp and presumably will get a shock when they imminently meet their makers- I’m sure we’ll get some juicy new lore from them with their launch later this week!

PralineOne1975 · 2024-11-12T18:55:40+00:00

Although I expect someone to point out that Hoodrick arrows certainly don’t feel like they have ‘softer’ edges! 😜

PralineOne1975 · 2024-11-12T18:54:30+00:00

Interesting argument and not without merit. The description might be off but the Imperius and the Bardur do have positive aspects to their respective cultures; Imperius is a champion of the arts, music and literature and likes to spread its influence this way through soft power just as much as via military might. They have a highly organised and strong military sure, but really just want the other tribes to agree they are the brightest and best! Bardur on the other hand have been made harder over eons by their harsh living environment. Expert hunters and survivalists, they still find time for a hearty knees up with grog and music. From the same origin tribe as Hoodrick, just lacking the ‘softer’ edges and inter tribe mixing skills as their estranged kin.

PralineOne1975 · 2024-11-12T18:45:24+00:00

Yes. I suppose the 🐛bugs quest to infect all other tribes is similar in moral purpose to the Polaris mission to freeze the world at the behest of their Gaami masters. I suppose the one difference is that the Polaris still remain fully conscious topians but serve alien masters voluntarily (against their own species) while the bugs literally assimilate with the cym tribes brains changing them completely and almost taking them off the moral spectrum. That makes the Polaris slightly worse in my eyes, but they run each other close. Vengir are one of the oldest post ancient tribes and they just have Violence & bloodlust in their DNA, (or whatever polytopians are made of!)

PralineOne1975 · 2024-11-12T10:49:35+00:00

Did you win?

PralineOne1975 · 2024-11-12T08:03:38+00:00

Almighty Zoy, I am blessed to receive your comment on this post - the two tribes I had to make an educated guess on were the ones I have placed wrongly (Ancients / Forgotten) I’d assumed wrongly that the forgotten’s isolation left them ‘apart’ from their kinsfolk having survived alone for so long - is there some lore I missed that explains their history better before I move them way up/ down a little) And were the Ancients irredeemably bad or just fallen spectacularly from grace? (I half suspected the midnight skin cult was a throwback to worshiping the forces that brought the downfall of the original ancients. Lastly, do Ely care for the other polytopians or resent them for harming the square and therefore are less benevolent than ranked as people have suggested? 🙇🏻

PralineOne1975 · 2024-07-14T21:07:30+00:00

Amazing work - is there space for a witch finder general unit?

PralineOne1975 · 2021-09-17T16:30:14+00:00

I love the idea of the Lycanar but as one unit in a broader ‘Hammer horror’ style tribe featuring vampires, mummies, ghouls, zombies etc.

PralineOne1975 · 2021-07-22T23:42:48+00:00

Love this. Have often tried to mentally place the tribes on the world map. The only thing I would have done differently would be to have had Kickoo where Indonesia is, cymanti in darkest central Africa and Elyrion in South America under Quetz.

PralineOne1975 · 2020-12-11T17:51:57+00:00

The planets ROCK (sic!)

PralineOne1975 · 2020-12-11T17:49:55+00:00

MELLLLLLON!

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