Not a whole lot came by this month that I hadn't already spotted and mentioned. But there were a few things.


A halfling wouldn't be too heavy! Ride into battle, spotted on Pintrest. Not sure where the picture was uploaded before it appeared on that site's radar.

Nice looking painting by Ryan Barger from Fine Art America. I may have come across this before, but it was nice enough to include again. You can get it as something to hang up in your lair, on apparel, and even on stationary...thinking about that!

Last month I had quite a few tea accessories; this month I came across a coffee pot on Etsy. Much more my speed!

Also on Etsy, a plush that comes with a book I've mentioned before, Once Upon the Rhine. I like the tail!

Included for completeness; I think there are translation issues, as well as...design issues with the pacing of the manga. I guess they can't all be hits. Volume 1, Chapter 3 of Isekai Desu Ga Mamono Saibai Shiteimasu. Speaking of tails, I did think about having the more traditional snake head at the end but didn't have the guts to go through with it so I'm stuck with just the single chicken head. ;>


I sometimes think about getting a fursuit. Here's someone's interpretation. They say they hate the way the comb came out, maybe it looks worse from the side? But I like the teeth.


And finally:

Half-Wishes of the Cockatrice

To skim a curdling light
from the blue of dawn,

to slither in the furrow
of a mud-churned wagon rut,

to bellow above warbling
and spit forth, no parched

throat, no red eyes, no dust.
To bless the day without

looking any of them
in the dying canopy dead

but knowing one bald
morning they'll collapse

in shrieks
with sticks and feathers.

-Cal Freeman