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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 1670744" data-attributes="member: 1025">Thanks for your comments on the pictures. I really enjoyed seeing how people used them. Piratecat said something not too long ago about art in Ceramic GM allowing the possibility of having woolly mammoths, which resulted in me doing a large series of mammoth pictures. Such a pity Piratecat did not get to suffer the gift of this one himself, no? (Yet another reason it's ironic that one of the themes was "be careful what you wish for," eh?) And then my wedding anniversary with Bandeeto came up while I was in my "mammoths" phase. The card practically drew itself. Hence the title.  In the first version of it--before I knew what it was for--she was carrying a sickle, which suggested a very different story, I think. Also, she kept looking like my college character, and I kept changing her to not look like that character--I'm not sure why I didn't want to use that particular face at first. By the time I realized it was an anniversary card, the resemblence was faint and I regretted having switched it, but it was too late. She was gone.  Bandeeto and I first fell in love while playing that particular game.  Then I switched the sickle for the trilliums, because the first flowers Bandeeto ever gave me were trilliums.  I remember getting all pissy at him about it because I think they're endangered, moreoever, I'd been watching that particular patch of wildflowers bloom behind our dorm for weeks, and I couldn't beleive he had picked "my" flowers.  And yet, of course, the intent was so sweet. And he is so adorably fuzzy. Who could resist? He is my own dear shaggy trampling bundle of good intentions. It was a perfect anniversary card. The story about the fish is too sad to tell right now. The picture was drawn using a plastic model, but the memory is about a real fish that lived with me for a while. I wrote many pages of really dreadful, soppy poetry about that incident. Both of the Ceramic stories are far better. I thank the authors for them.</blockquote>

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