Cobalt_K - Go Big or Go Home 4

Ok.  I've been delaying on this for too long - just got so much else going on.  Let's wrap up this amazingly classy sequence.  Thanks again Cobalt_K!

Cobalt_K - Go Big or Go Home 3

Definitely running behind expected schedules.  Like juggling chainsaws right now....;p

Enjoy the gorgeous art!

Cobalt_K - Go Big or Go Home 2

Wow...not sure what happened with my posting schedule this week - but things got a lot busier than I was expecting.  Gotta play catch up now!

Continuing Cobalt_K's gorgeous pic set.

Okayokayokok - Cutting Costs

It can be really tough to run a small business....especially a restaurant.  The stats say something like 80% of small businesses will fail in their first year of operation...and I think the numbers are even worse for restaurants.  The following piece by Okayokayokok is one I've wanted to illustrate for a long time. 

Sometimes you might just get lucky...one wish is all it could take to turn things around.

Halcy0n - Coffee with Sugar AND Cream

Don't you hate it when the barrista gets your order wrong?  I ordered a chai latte with an extra shot - and the guy making it gave me a straight latte with shots - and no sweetener...obviously.  (and of course I'm several blocks away before I try taking a drink and find out it's the wrong drink).  Man, that was frustrating.

Anyhoo, this was a quick support commission from Halcy0n, and since it turned out so well, I think I'm definitely going to have to work with them some more in the future.

Art Contest Entry - Furrtografurr - FarmHand

Another day, another graphic failure by the genetic engineers at TransRepo Industries. 

Featured for the first time on this site, Furrtografurr has included a classified transcript with their visuals.



Transcript from a classified board meeting of TransRepo Industries:

Fashion Pageant Contestant - Jacques00

After graduating college, Kalina Korovin works as a butterfly gardener at a local garden and practices amateur biology and alternate agriculture at her own home garden.  Her studies have given her a deep interest in nature and the science involved in understanding it.  Due to her work, she dresses quite modestly and joining a fashion pageant seems to be the least likely activity on her to-do list, though receiving an invitation to Arianna's Le De Baucherie Magique Fashion Pageant has definitely piqued her interest.

Fashion Pageant Contestant - solios

As we've recently been seeing, this pageant has allowed a number of folks a well-deserved new lease on life - although I'm not sure of any quite as extreme as this one.

Meet 93 year old Margaret Eloise Studebaker-Ormsby, retired teacher and WWII Veteran, currently residing in the Falkland Islands.

 

Fashion Pageant Contestant - Darkoshen

Dan Malone - 40s - single- living in the big city hasn't been an easy life for an old country boy like Danny.  He works at a miserable job at the grocery store to make meet's ends, and comes home alone to an empty filthy apartment.  He yearns to be young again, to frolic in the farm with his animal friends.  Deep down he has always felt a strong connection to the farm animals, especially his old cow he called Margaret.  He took care of her since she was a calf. Now the only link he has to her is the milk he gets from the grocery store, which coincidentally is the only thing in his fridge. Surprisingly, he finds an invitation in the back of the sticker of the milk bottle. It's an invitation to Arianna's pageant, where dreams come true.




 

Fashion Pageant Contestant - powerman2000

Kim Li is a fashion design student that got a grant from Zig University. She is grateful, but is sometimes requested by an unknown source to test strange new beauty products. Usually this wouldn’t be a problem, but these products tend to yield …weird results. Her body, including her bust and butt, have been known to be affected as well as her overall appearance.

Fashion Pageant Contestant - caphca

Next up, we have a Lithuanian beauty....who winds up even more beautiful.

Please welcome Agne Balthis.

Fashion Pageant Contestant - mamabliss

I suppose it's only natural that some folks will have more extreme reactions to Mistress Arianna's invitations.  Think of it as a magical allergy.  Is there a .....vet... in the house?

Fashion Pageant Contestant - blackshirtboy

Max had the day off from school, and the house to himself when the strange letter came. Addressed to him, he found it was an invitation, but he hardly had time to register the words before the paper, and the world around him seemed to loose focus, like reality itself was becoming less real, and then he started to change. Within the span of a few panicked breaths he watched as his body matured into some bizarre caricature of a woman, something cartoonish and alien, though his new curves seemed... soft... and his new skin pleasantly warm.

Fashion Pageant Contestant - Wrenzephyr2

Another early entry (tomorrow's will probably be early afternoon).


Sam has attended several schools over the course of her childhood, her parents constantly moving all over Europe for archaeological studies before settling in Winchester in the UK. However, before she started her Junior year at High School her parents sent her to live with her sister, Jenny, in DA City. She was less than pleased with the latest move, having finally found a place to settle in. It didn't help that her sister's roommate was a guy, some idiot named Wren.