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Trina Short
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Science teacher, cat owner, reader, walker, Doctor Who fan.
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Award, day 31 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of a Crazyflie drone (with horrible perspective, whoops!) This is a little quadcopter that fits in your hand. There are little silhouettes of five other drones with whoosh lines to indicate movement. The caption reads "Thank you Miami County Foundation for awarding me the money to buy a classroom set of Crazyflie drones!"
October 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Vacant, day 30 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of a brand new cat bed (with price tag still attached) beside the cardboard box it came in (from PetsRUs). No cat is sitting on the new bed, but a pair of black ears & a tail can be seen in the box.
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Lesson, day 29 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of a kitten and a cat sitting on a shelf. The kitten is looking down as a mug falls off the shelf while the cat is posed with its paw outstretched as if it had just knocked the mug off the shelf. The caption reads "Kitten's 1st physics lesson."
October 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Skeletal, day 28 of #inktober #inktober2025
Two very simple pen sketches of dinosaurs. The top one has an exaggerated head and itty bitty legs & arms. I followed the Art for Kids Hub instructions on "How to Draw a Dinosaur Skeleton" to draw this one. The bottom skeleton is leaning forward and has a head closer in proportion to its body. I followed Hello Artsy's instructions for "Dinosaur Fossil Drawing (Easy)." I wish I'd had the Internet as a drawing lesson resource when I was a kid!
October 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Onion, day 27 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of a whole (red, though it's black like the pen) onion with a half (red) onion (cut side showing) beside it.
October 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Puzzle, day 26 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of a mixed up Rubick's Cube (squares either some pattern in black, or purple, green, or orange). Under the Cube is the word Puzzle. To the right of the Cube is a sketch of a hammer with the caption Solution.
October 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Inferno, day 25 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of a brick fireplace with a raging fire, the silhouettes of two cats lying in front of the fire. Looks cozy to me!
October 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Rowdy, day 24 of #inktober #inktober2025
A pen sketch of six simply drawn cats sitting in a rough row all singing (or speaking or howling - their eyes are shut & their mouths open).
October 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Firefly, day 23 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of a night sky over a field of tall grass. The night sky is represented by lots of horizontal lines while the grass is represented by vertical lines that lean to right near the top like blown grass. The moon & many fireflies are represented by gaps in the lines.
October 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Button, day 22 of #inktober #inktober2025
A pen sketch of Corduroy, the teddy bear from Don Freeman's children's book. A stuffed teddy bear is wearing overalls with one missing button so he reaches toward a "button" on the mattress below him. Caption on the sketch says "Thank you Don Freeman for Corduroy!"
October 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Blast, day 21 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of a generic multistage rocket blasting off with lots of orange lines coming out the bottom & plenty of smoke. The rocket is a simple column with fins & a cone nose.
October 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Rivals, day 20 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of the two characters from Spy vs Spy, a comic that appeared in MAD Magazine. The page is split down the middle with the white spy holding a stick of orange dynamite, lit, on the left side. The black spy is on the right facing away from the white spy and he is holding a round orange bomb, also lit. Both have thoughtful devious expressions.
October 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Deal, day 18 of #inktober #inktober2025 #handsarehard
Pen sketch of a pair of hands, one holding one card and the other holding the remains of the deck while the first hand is dealing the single card. The stock photo I used as my inspiration had a complex card back, but I made a much simpler one with a purple hatch pattern. Thanks to Hans Geel for the stock photograph.
October 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Ornate, day 7 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of a rococo style mirror frame (very ornate) with a black cat looking out of the mirror.
October 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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What's the best one-liner in movie history?
October 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Blunder, day 16 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of a 2 panel scenario. Top scene, table set with bowls & condiments on a tablecloth currently being pulled by a cat. "Tug tug" Bottom panel shows the foot of the table with a bunched up tablecloth, broken bowls with stuff spilled out & the pepper shaker broken with pepper spilled out.
October 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Ragged, day 15 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of an old teddy bear with a missing eye, a patch on its chest, and a couple of other stitches (including one of its ears). There is a quote from an Enter the Haggis song: "If your heart is worn, it's 'cause you've loved someone." (The song is "Lived a Life" from Penny Black)
October 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Trunk, day 14 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of a wooden trunk that's partially opened. Three soft toys' heads peek out - a teddy bear, an elephant (whose trunk is dangling out of the trunk), and the side view of a doggie. To the right of the trunk is a small tree in a pot. 3 trunks for you!
October 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Drink, day 13 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of a pint glass with a fizzy liquid in it. The logo on the glass is the side view of a barrel with a cursive 21 in it. Around the circle barrel is "TWENTY ONE BARRELS HARD CIDER." This is the local cidery/winery that I've been visiting since they first opened in summer 2020.
October 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Substitute teacher for lab.
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In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Shredded, day 12 of #inktober #inktober2025. Thanks to Pippin first for inspiration & second for posing for me today! #catsofbluesky
Pen sketch of a cat sitting on a toilet beside a very shredded toilet roll. Caption says "Thanks Pippin for posing!" Photograph of a grey striped tabby sitting on a toilet and looking at the camera. There's a toilet roll hanging on a dispenser in front of him. The toilet roll is NOT shredded cuz Pippin doesn't do that sort of thing anymore. Nope! Never!
October 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Sting, day 11 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of a bluespotted ribbontail ray (inspired by the Wikipedia entry on Stingrays). The sketch portrays an undersea creature that is a flappy wafer with a long tail and big eye bumps. With spots (not colored blue cuz I'm not using blue as an accent color for Inktober. Just green, orange, purple, or red (red for blood only).)
October 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Sweep, day 10 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of a very fluffy cat sitting on a Roomba & looking at the viewer. The Roomba is saying "Whirrrr!" There is a caption below saying "Thanks to Mattyboy555 on Reddit for photo inspiration"
October 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Heavy, day 9 of #inktober #inktober2025
Pen sketch of a balanced seesaw (teeter-totter) that has an elephant sitting on the left and a big group of cats on the right. (I'm not sure if it's a small elephant or a bunch of big cats)
October 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Reckless, day 8 of #inktober #inktober2025 I have some senior boys who want to try D&D during our enrichment period, and I've always wanted to play it too. So we're working on our characters. Meet Olive Evergreen, my Dwarf bard. She's excited to be on her first campaign! Even if it is reckless...
Pen sketch of a stout female Dwarf with green hair & beard. She's blowing into a set of bagpipes, which she is holding. She's wearing a plaid skirt (with green & black pattern) and large boots. Her nondescript shirt has big cuffs. Behind her is a Jobs board with a partial sign saying "ANTED ARRIOR, ZARD, BARD. CAMPAIGN!" The sketch also says "OLIVE EVERGREEN JOINING HER FIRST CAMPAIGN!"
October 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM