Lorena M. Caraballo

A handbag that's yellow with brown leather simulating caramel drips with brown handles.

A mannequin wearing a handbag that's yellow with brown leather simulating caramel drips with brown handles and brown crossbody strap.

Pudding Bag has been unlocked and is available for pledging! 🍮 Cowhide or PU Leather options available this time~
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The Witchblade Annual, out this week, features a story I wrote, Pat Boutin illustrated, Steve Firchow colored, and Troy Peteri lettered. This ties directly into the regular Witchblade title continuity and centers on Nottingham. Stjepan Sejic and Giuseppe Cafaro did covers!

blue @bluewmist >be 14 >internet is designed for 30 year olds >wow i can't wait >approaching 30 >internet is now designed for 14 year olds

Before Nirvana, before Pearl Jam. There was Tina Bell, and her band BamBam. Tina Bell, is The Godmother of grunge, a mantle rightly earned! She played a pivotal role in shaping the genre during a time when it was predominantly white male-dominated.

An orange bear with pink bunny headgear and a green shoulder bag walks through a shopping mall.

Koapyon, a bear in a bunny costume, is the mascot for the village of Kamikoani in Akita Prefecture.

teen Lisa Simpson wearing a poofy red dress with a sweetheart neckline, red heart earrings and headband. she's playing the saxophone. the message reads "YOU take my BLUES away, Valentine!"

teen Bart Simpson wearing a white suit with a pink shirt and red tie, sleeves rolled up and shirt half-tucked into his pants. he's making a "phone" gesture with his hand. the message reads "HELLO? I'm looking for 'Ava Len Tyne'"

teen Milhouse van Houten uncomfortably wearing a light pink tux that is way too small on him and looks like the buttons are about to burst. he tugs at his red bowtie and offers the viewer a heart-shaped box of candy. he's sweating nervously. the message reads "Go out with me today, Valentine! My mom bought me deodorant! wait where are you going"

teen Nelson Muntz wearing a maroon suit and pink shirt, pointing with finger guns. the message reads "Haw-haw! I touched your heart!"

springkids valentines day cards from 2022 💝 just added to the secret club with their original rough sketches

Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a fantasy library scene. A woman with auburn hair in a cream and gold ensemble sleeps on a sofa. Bookcases line the walls behind her. A goblin sleeps next to her, and another goblin climbs down from a bookcase behind them. A faint shadow of a figure falls over her.

Asleep in the library 📚
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Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

Love Poems for Our Friends     Where are the poems for those who know us?   Not for star-crossed loves, for agonies of desire, but words for those who go with us the whole road.   How would they start, I wonder? You let me crash when I was new to ruin. You came to me though visiting hours were over. You held me when my loves were done, were flames. Yes, we will lose a few in the changes. But these are the ones who save us: not the charmers, not the comets of wild passion, not the ups-and-downs of love's unlucky hungers,   but the ones who stand by our shoulder at the funeral and lead us back to the city of the living and put our favorite record on the player and go away, and come back, always come back,   with bread and wine and one word, one word: stay. —Joseph Fasano

A day that celebrates Love doesn't have to be about Eros. Here's something for those other great loves in our lives.

A mythological oil painting of Hades and Persephone in an intimate pose, surrounded by a landscape that shifts to blooming spring florals, visually capturing the turning of the seasons.

Happy Valentine’s Day 🤍
Hades and Persephone prints have finally been restocked! My interpretation of the graceful turning of the seasons...winter’s stillness melting into the promise of spring.

#HadesAndPersephone #GreekMythology #MythologyArt #Persephone #Hades #MythologicalArt #SpringGoddess

Nerd and Jock's Valentine's Day Bromance!

Collage of the portrait and movie poster posted so far.

First Week of BLACK HORROR MONTH
#BlackHorrorMonth #BlackHistoryMonth

A post on threads from user stephens_bens. It reads 'I'll always remember an interview with Steve Buscemi on Bulleye, Jesse Thorn asked him "As an actor with many decades of varied and outstanding roles across your career, does it ever bother you that one of the things you will most be remembered for is a 3-second gif in which you're wearing a backwards baseball cap and carrying a skateboard?" And without missing a beat, Buscemi replied "I'm carrying *two* skateboards." And you know what? He is.' Below that is a screen cap of Buscemi's famous "fellow kids" moment.

I never noticed this either.

Vice headline reads: "Zara, Nike, and Abercrombie’s Indian Factories Weren’t Fully Paying Workers" The story was reporting on something put out by the Workers Rights Consortium.

Story at Mind The Gap reads: CASE STUDY: Zara fights sanctions for forced labour in Brazilian supply chain Spanish fast fashion giant Zara, an Inditex brand, has been found to source clothes from Brazilian workshops with modern slavery conditions but fought against sanctions in court – showing how corporations seek to avoid liability by hiding behind complex supply chains.

Disappointed to learn Bad Bunny wore Zara, effectively promoting the brand to millions. Although Zara has made admirable strides to address labor conditions, fast fashion can never be ethical because it depends on rapid production and cheap prices, which results in worker exploitation.

To a Life in Despair Don't. Don't go to the bridge. Don't wake in your coat in the morning light and carry those stones into the river. Don't find your father's pistol in the attic, hidden in the family albums. Don't. Don't pour the pills into the whiskey, the walls dissolving like childhood. Don't, just don't choose not to wake. Stay. Just stay. Tell yourself you'll do it tomorrow. You can always walk alone into the darkness. But not yet. Not yet. Not this soon. I don't have a reason to give you. All I have is the morning, and the autumn wind, and the child you once were in the darkness, looking at the new moon through the ruins, saying save me, save me, save me, and the moon looking back with her vacant face, saying I promise, I stone- cold promise that the face of utter hopelessness is the face of something just about to change. —Joseph Fasano

Sending this, with love, to everyone who may need it.

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History The Place of Sugar in Modern History

For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism

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A cheerful white dog mascot with rosy cheeks and a pink flower on its chest waves to the camera.

Shirakawan, the mascot of Shirakawa City, is a white dog with distinctive eyebrows based on those of Shirakawa’s traditional lucky Daruma dolls. The city’s flower, the plum blossom, is on its chest.

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

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Uh oh! I guess I should be spending less time over there.

It's just there that most of my contacts, as well as the group I was at, aren't here.

And we're live! Partnering with the British Library is lifetime achievement stuff, we're very excited. 🥲

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Someone wearing a Lithuania Olympics uniform by Issey Miyake. There's a cape across the back that says "Lithuania." Also pleated, flowy sleeves, puffy chest, cinched torso, and close fitting shirt below the waist point. Wearer has metallic pants and white sneakers.

The hood on the uniform is pleated, so it has lines everywhere. The hood is half zipped, so it's covering part of the person's face.

Bunch of athletes in the Lithuania Olympics uniform. The capes across the banks say "Lithuania." There's a Olympics logo on the seat.

Similarly shaped Olympics uniforms for different countries, so they feature different colors in accordance with those countries.

Lithuanian Olympic uniforms by Issey Miyake for the 1992 games in Barcelona. This was Lithuania's first time in the Olympics after gaining independence from the Soviet Union. Fabric was cut and shaped using heat, not scissors or sewing machines.

A smiling rectangular beige mascot with leaves and stars on its head stands on some astroturf.

Sutamu-chan, an angel of good fortune from the Milky Way, is the mascot of Ogawamachi, Saitama. Sutamu-chan’s body is a piece of the traditional handmade paper the town is known for, decorated with bamboo leaves and stars from the Tanabata star festival held there each summer.

THE EVIL WITHIN (2017) Nunca olvidar este film de culto alucinante hecho durante 15 años, festival de stop Motion, efectos visuales artesanales y decenas de alucinaciones macabras, hombres araña, marionetas humanas y hombres del saco dentro de espejos.

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2026 Goals by Erika Moen, published Feb. 7, 2026 on https://www.patreon.com/posts/150188134 Comic in a cartoony, simple style with watercolor-textured background fills in a purple/pink palette. Erika, a white woman in her early 40s, stands forlornly, looking at a mountain of boxes and misc items labeled "GOALS" She has short-cropped hair and wears a t-shirt with a black skirt and boots. A sign labeled "2025" points left-wards, in the same direction as the boxes. To the right is a sign labeled "2026", pointing right-ways. "I had so many goals for this year..." Erika bemoans, looking at the mountain of last year's goals. "...and barely accomplished any of them."

"I wish I could just see in the future to find out what's realistic to get done in the next twelve months, so I won't be so disappointed with myself at the end of the year." A "RIIIIIIIIP!" sound cuts off her statement as a a gnarly gnash pulls open through the air on her right. "Yeep!" She yelps, leaping to the side. A jagged, glitching window opens up, revealing the mirror image of Erika on the other side, except she looks like she's been through a war. Her hair is unkempt, as are her Mad Max-esque clothing, complete with eye patch. Simultaneously, the two Erikas exclaim, "Gasp! A tear in the space-time continuum of my life! "

In unison, they continue "You! -I mean, me? What year are you?" "I'm 2025." Replies 2025 Erika. "I'm 2026!" Says 2026 Erika. Pumping her hands in the air, 2025 Erika exclaims, "I have so many questions for you!" at the exact same time as 2026 Erika desperately cries, "I have so many warnings for you!"

Hauling a medium-sized potted lemon tree, 2025 asks, "Do we finally repot Lemony Snicket? Do any of her baby lemons survive this time?" 2026 Erika is now depicted in the time rip as a stick figure, and in a different front declares, "2026's Answer Will Go Here" The rest of the panel fades into nothingness with text over the top reading, "Read the full comic on patreon.com/ErikaMoen"

This is my first temporally-interactive comic! I'm sharing my goals for the year now and leaving space for Erika of December 2026 to fill in the TBD spots. Who knows how this comic will progress? We'll both find out at the end of the year!

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lydia deetz from beetlejuice the musical, wearing the iconic red wedding dress. her back is facing the viewer and we can see her holding a bizarre sculpture behind her back by a metal pole with a sharp point.

"married in red, you'll wish yourself dead"