Samantha Loyd

Samantha Loyd

@sbloyd.bsky.social

Artist, Teacher, Closeted Trans

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Here's a couple of cool little guys and their butter in the hopes that it can gain me 8 new followers on here because number go up.

Set up some of my minis and terrain to show off for my planned afterschool tabletop club. 6th grade students swarmed the table and stole a bunch of my shit. Fuck it.

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Replying to @pipermakes.bsky.social

I also shook ZakuAurelius' hand and that was cool. If anyone is interested, I made an archive of all the photos I took at the exhibition if anyone wants to look through them. Absolutley *wild* builds there. Worth the 18 hour drive xD

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My daughter (12, autistic) will, from time to time, go out in the back yard and run around in circles as a stim. Today I saw her silhouette in the sliding glass door holding something... Odd. Turns out it was a dead squirrel.

It was kinda fresh, but regardless I told her to throw it away and come inside so we could clean her up jic. Explained germs, disease, etc. Done? Thought so but no. Wife comes home, goes to take stuff to the storage in the yard. Tell her about today. Comes back in, "where's the squirrel?"

Daughter sneaked out, retrieved the squirrel, brought it inside to wash *it* and to try to nurse it back to health. She was keeping it in her bed. Her heart's in the right place, but... ugh.

First weekend of summer... and I have pneumonia. Getting thru the last days of school was murder, but at least now I can rest. Sike! Family has housework that only I can do apparently.

Fuck. Took the day off, and get dropped an email that one of my students' stepbrother was shot last night and may not make it. This kid was a total knucklehead last year and the year before but he's really turned himself around this year. I feel so bad for him.

Took a day off to take care of my 85 year old FiL while MiL at chemo. Came back this morning to stuff stolen off my desk, from my shelves, and from my first aid kit. I feel betrayed. Worse? I have more days off coming for the same reason and all I'll be thinking about is a repeat of yesterday.

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Steve Kenson ❌👑@stevekenson.com

Hey, folks, can I both commit capitalism and get a bit personal for a moment? I wanna talk a bit about the upcoming Kickstarter for the fourth edition of Mutants & Masterminds. (I'm probably gonna be doing a LOT of this for the next five weeks, so now's your time to mute or unfollow me.)

School librarian having a Valentine's Day competition thingie, and one of the categories is to design a book cover. No entries at all so far... so i banged this out thus afternoon to juice the pot.

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But these fascists, like many fascists and other authoritarians, confuse the pageantry of violence for power - they imagine that the state with armed men walking the streets is strong. But only a weak government needs to put armed men in the streets to exert power. A strong government has no need.

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The mini Gate Crushers is finally complete ! I added the Aromantic pride Terminator and the Asexual Dreadnought to the base, bringing that whole crew to 12 minis on a 40mm base. Very happy with the overall result. Now I can go back painting standard size space marines :')

Someone in my circles recently brought up a quote about Hope from the comic Freefall. I'd seen the quote before, but not known the source. Part of the conversation turned to recent political cartoons depicting Liberty. I thought of Watts' painting of Hope. So I drew a version of Hope... #hope

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.

Blue Appaloosa@blueappaloosa.bsky.social

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence. "The bones of the right forelimb are shown against the bones of the ribcage and neck." "The Horse's Muscles in Motion", by Sara Wyche, The Crowood Press, 2006

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"It was beautiful and terrible, fragile and ancient. [...] It was... kind of glorious, I suppose. It was all lost when that world was destroyed. The universe got smaller and less interesting. Turns out, I prefer my universe big." tfwiki.net/wiki/Escape_... #WeekendTFQuote

Some of my characters from City of Heroes. Counterweight, with her yellow and black uniform down around her shoulders, leans in for a kiss with Horizon Twilight, my Warshade main.

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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

My FiL wanted my brined turkey for his Bday in Sept. Everyone wanted it for Thxgiving. We received another turkey this past week, already defrosted. I think I'm turkeyed out.

Was on my smart board demonstrating how to save a picture to upload it elsewhere. At random I chose the imdb pic for one of the Kpop Demon Hunters VAs. Knucklehead student hollers out, "Is that a trans?!" I shoot back, "You wouldn't know a trans person if they smacked you." Sigh.

It's a shame I can't find socials for Rossi; I went to the Science Museum in Houston this weekend and a patron was extremely happy to notice me fangirling over the Dimetrodon they had there, and when he engaged me in convo was even more delighted that I knew it was a synapsid. @blizzardwatch.com

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Replying to @kenwhite.bsky.social

/3 I am informed it’s normal to get more intolerant as I get older and I think I am absolutely getting less tolerant of other people’s absolute bullshit.

So... we have off on the 31st. I was part of the committee that made this calendar, we specifically set it up to have off for the 31st to avoid all the drama that comes with students coming to school in costumes. So the (new) admin schedules the 30th to be "wear your costumes" day. Well...

...now I'm torn. Because last year I 'threatened' to come in drag this year. So now I'm pondering coming to school, in public, in Girlmode. IN. PUBLIC. First non-closeted girlmode. And I'm quivering inside with the thought of it. But also scared as shit that there would be reprisals.