Today’s prompt for my blogging challenge in the last month of 2022 is:

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I grew up in the era of the Apollo space program, and see it as how human explore space. Of course, robotic space exploration is much safer for humans and requires less onboard support. Therefore, robots have gone further into deep space than human ever would or could.
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Today I will challenge myself blogging about the prompt:

rocket

Very apt now Artemis 1 has completed its mission successfully.

I’ve ordered pastel-colored gel pens and ink markers for my online ballpoint pen art. The colors I have are too saturated to be useful for art-making. They’re fine for writing, I guess, though I seldom write analog—pen on paper.

That I’m doing it now, is because I’m so excited. I’ve seen some artists on YouTube using ballpoint pen, and they all color with alcohol-based color markers, since the good ballpoint pen ink is permanent. I’m not sure about the pastel-colored ballpoint pen inks, though, and if it is water-soluble, to what extent. Anyway, I can adjust my order of operations if those pastel-colored ballpoint pens do indeed smudge.

Art is all about adjusting, after all.

R.

I’ve ordered some new art supplies for my ballpoint pen arting. I’ll still be using lined notebooks, as to lower my anxiety for the blank page. After all, a blank page is perfect nothingness; any mark will ruin its eternal bliss.
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If one’s only interaction with publishing is liking, retweeting, snarky oneliner comments, and shameless selfpromotion, blogging is going to be quite the adjustment. Have considerate somewhat original opinions on niche subjects that isn’t oneself is totally new to that person
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Instead of a mastadon, they could’ve opted for another trumpeting being, the swan or goose. »hôngk«
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I suppose they call it a computer 🐁 mouse, not a computer 🐀 rat (or 🐹 hamster), for good reasons?

Who knows?

Regular

Today is a swanny kind of day—normal in any other sense. I tried to do something different than I’m used to, because I never could follow instructions anyway, and loathe going the same route every day. Not very smart, though, getting myself in awkward situations.
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Today’s prompt for my extended blogging challenge after micro∙blog’s Microblogvember is:

regular

Chimpanzee

On July 14, 1960 Jane Goodall began her 6 year study on the human-like behavior of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Since all species closely related to humans are extinct, the endangered chimpanzee is now evolutionary the closest to us.
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Today I’ll use the randomly generated word:

chimpanzee

Should be interesting 🐵

Caturday means day of tolerance and love. 🐱

Average

My art has it written all over it. It’s the mean value of a set of numbers, yet originally derived from the Arabic averie, which means the damage after a ship has been wrecked. Re my art, I just have to keep pushing, not give up. Eventually it will improve.
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Today, December 10, the prompt for my extension of micro∙blog’s November 2022 blogging challenge is:

average

Fence

I had such a great sketch in mind… Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea after all. Sometime you need to adjust an ambitious plan. Anyway, I need to sketch more from reference, without downright copying, see the big shapes, and copy those.
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Tomorrow, December 8, the prompt for my continued blogging self-challenge is:

fence

It seems the best mindset to learn is to be humble, accept that you know only a little, and be patient. Learning is like gardening, new ideas are more like kernels, slowly grown and matured. Brains tend to relate established ideas with who you are and with who you belong to.

Squash

I highly recommend against an image search on this word, since you cannot unsee when what seems funny in a cartoon world has happened in real life. More disgusting is that someone actually photographed and uploaded it. This is why we can’t have nice things ☹️
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Today, 8 December, my prompt for an extended version of micro∙blog’s Microblogvember is:

squash

It gives me animation vibes—squash & stretch 💪

Hip

Not in any way an admirer of fast fashion, I’m pretty unaware what is fashionable and trendy. It seems all so exploitative and wasteful. The idea seems to be to wear something for a few weeks, then throw it away and buy something else. It’s very trendy with the youth.
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