Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void

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Factotum, Flâneur, Strawhat sympathizer Big Bad Con Community Coordinator Mugs and games and games on mugs: https://www.sassys86.com

My dearest lovely cat Frankie with one paw on the plastic spoon that I use to dispense treat tubes for her. She is a very dignified tuxedo cat in her 16th year. There is a steely look of demand lurking behind her eyes
A transition screen from the Bungie game Marathon (2026). Pictured are a collection of gold high rarity items, lore items and rare purple loot
A gif from Wild at Heart showing a panting and disheveled Nicolas Cage pointing menacingly towards the camera with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. His jacket cuff is spattered with blood
Frankie the Cat radiant, surrounded by greens
A cane made from a dowel with a 3d printed head that looks like a spiky head of a mace
A chart of the probabilities of various values of results of flipping a number of coins, counting the number of heads, plus one if they all come up heads
Willy Wonka smiling smugly after informing the rest of the group (including the parents) that some of the kids “won’t be coming back”
On the left about a third of the of the original plastic handle for the kettle lid. Below are two attempts at getting the size right and the third is at the top attached to the kettle lid, fitting snug as a bug
I also got: - some really long narrow envelopes - kitchen tweezers - a 4x6 canvas - some cheap water colors - one decent half pan of a purple-ish blue (or bule-ish purple) watercolor - a single stain treating moist towelette - two pencils - two cheap pencil sharpeners - a little brick of “papaya sorbet” colored fimo clay - six skeins of assorted colors of embroidery thread - one nice fancy watercolor brush And Whatever the fuck that green scrapey thing is
Me, flames of magic erupting from my gnarled fingers, before a pentagram of duct tape around a box of Mike and Ike’s (take what you can get, they are gluten free). A tired fellow exhibitor sits in the background looking longingly into the middle distance
A long vista down I10 heading east towards west Texas with the sun setting behind us and mountains in the distance
Dark uplit vampire reaching out to grab ya, with Frankenstein kinda vibes
Hand bound gridded pages with a gothic capital B on the cover
A screenshot from my meditation app, showing 180 consecutive days. A set of stars representing my milestones in the app, 535 total days meditating, 9.5k total minutes, and 46 milestones
Photo of a beautiful sunset, crimson red fading up into a deep blue across illuminated clouds over a city skyline
Frankie Cat on a sofa covered in Mexican blankets. Her normally black and white tuxedo markings are showing a deep orange hue underneath a strong sunbeam
Photo of a sketchbook in progress perspective sketch of a bar top with a pen and pencil sitting on top, and shadows of the coffee shop’s front window lettering falling across the scene. Not photographed, the chill coffee shop music in the background
A drawing of the Cardinal Ximenes from the Charles Bargue on the left and my attempt to copy it on the right
A black twibi fountain pen against two rulers in inches
Black letter calligraphy reading Fix Your Heart or Die a quote from David Lynch
Sketchbook page with a series of values at the top and some sketches of people around the room
A quick sketch of a broken heart riddled with bullet holes and pierced with a harpoon
A swatch of Colorverse Rosette Nebula the day five Colorvent offering. It is another deep red, similar to the Supergiant from day one, but tending more towards purple and burgundy, with less shading properties
Colorverse Day 4 is Sailing Stones, agrey with a brown base. It’s slightly cloudy shading is nice, but I don’t know that I’d want a full bottle of it
Gray swatches of the Colorverse Moonlit Veil. It is a cool grey with decent shading characteristics
Shiny box from St. Louis Art Suppy!
Day 2 of the Diamine Inkvent calendar brings us Wilted Rose, a dark brown with pink hues
Snow silently falling towards the camera
A collection of swatches from all three advent hauls from day one as detailed in the next slides. A robust red from Colorverse, a blue with a coppery red shimmer from Diamine and a Faber Castell ball point pen along with swatches and doodles with each
Photo of the Diamine Inkvent calendar, the Colorverse Colorvent Calendar and the @cultpens.bsky.social stationary calendar. Various blank sketchbooks and a floral wallpaper lie in the background
Eleven black postcards that read Ritual Greetings in gold and brass calligraphy. They sit on a cluttered table surrounded by other art and office supplies
A 52 year old white guy in a gnome hat