twenty-odd frogs in a trenchcoat

I'm old enough to remember a year or two ago when both "we're not killing journalists that's illegal!" and "We're not bombing *hospitals* for god's sake" were major talking points. Violations of these things now no longer seem to even register.

Christ.

signs of cats who are running for cat mayor of somerville, massachusetts

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named hermes squirmies

a pink sign for a cat running for cat mayor named beatrix. her slogan is “no kings, only princesses”

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named Luna. her slogan is “pro zoomies, chaos, and attention”

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

sayla says "guys.. i have something i need to confess" "i'm char's sister" mirai, fraw, and kai look shocked holding lesbian pride flags and a trans pride cake in front of a banner that says GAY IS OKAY. mirai's shirt says I <3 lesbians and kai's shirt says BI SHIDEN

trouble on white base

A shoal of silver-blue swallowtail shiners, small minnows, surround a shining orb in the top left corner of the painting. Their scales shine with yellow light.

🌕🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟 // swallowtail shiners // gouache on hot press paper

well apparently i need to catch up on after god

“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic

they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned

This isn't just affecting games hosted on itchio...

Comics, books, zones, etc with these tags are also no longer searchable. This is going to impact indie scenes across the board if not challenged!

so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with 'nsfw', 'adult', or 'erotic' so they don't show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning

my new art log for 2025🥹🥹
40+ pages of fanart and original sketches…

izutsumi comm

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#FF9

a skull painted with blue shadows

a skull lit with orange hues from below

today I did a challenge where I painted using inverted hue/value/saturation and got some really fun results when I flipped them after!!

it was tough!

first up, a skull, lit from below...

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Japanese release of The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures, and to celebrate the chronicles of Ryunosuke Naruhodo, we're presenting a new commemorative illustration from the game's Art Director, Kazuya Nuri! Please enjoy!

happy #TGAA 10th anniversary! some oldies...

Digital fanart for Got dropped into a ghost story still gotta work. It's a portrait of Kim Soleum with his side to the viewer. He is looking ahead of himself, sweating bullets, illuminated from below with bright pink light. Around his head there are many bright pink rabbits - Brauns - dancing in a circle. In the background, barely visible there are many empty portraits, all belonging to someone deceased yet unpictured.

#괴담출근 #gsgw

warrior of light, an stonks @ adamantoise

ffxiv/wol sticker for ax.....!

-> table helper @ anime expo AA L17. yippee

Gimme Cat from Final Fantasy IX

samesies wrt one of my ffxiv guys. that va is also starting to get work again >:[

i can believe that production was so long that they had it recorded before the news came out and by contract they had to do it for the five seconds he was there. but it still stinks!!! just ditch him!!!! if not on principle then what else

not a single person was happy about that

RG char's zaku holding a heat hawk

he's never betrayed anyone in his life.

SFPD with riot weapons in a standoff with a growing crowd. Love to the Bay homies

"'Israel has no legal authority to detain international volunteers aboard the Madleen,' said Huwaida Arraf, human rights attorney and Freedom Flotilla organizer. 'This seizure blatantly violates international law and defies the ICJ’s binding orders requiring unimpeded humanitarian access to Gaza.'"

the river has roots by amal eh-mohtar. short and sweet fairytale of a novella that's really about sisters. and murder ballads! im a sucker for stories about faerie and also siblings, so of course i had a great time

bat eater and other names for cora zeng. wish it signaled earlier if this was psychological horror or supernatural horror (latter, elements of the former) but overall pretty good read. the horror of ocd/psychosis(?) while a pandemic is also legitimizing the intrusive thoughts

honestly i keep forgetting that i read books sometimes. did a big murderbot reread. remains excellent/10 my very good unreliable narrator competent at violence bot who just wants to watch space operas keeps getting into SITUATIONS

eden's promise 💜 ryne/gaia print that will be available at yeti!
#ffxiv #art

cant draw properly bc of carpal tunnel flare up atm so,, have haro

I can't begin to apologize enough for this visual travesty. Our robot mascot is the largest element. It sits in the lower right, with a flower wreath on it's head and a waving capybara is poking out from it. In the top left, there's a screaming possum, yelling READ CLARKESWORLD!!! Our robot will be sad if you don't. Across the top it says The only science fiction magazine that is possum approved! Oh, and I forgot to mention that this includes the most offensive fonts, primarily comic sans, but also papyrus, brush script, and courier. I won't pain you by explaining each use. Oh and wingdings, which is under the approval notice. Apparently, it's Clarkesworld in wingdings. How did I forget to say that the background is blue and most of the text is pink? Next down from the top is an area just labeled This space intentionally left blank, then the possum speak. Now we have No Zombies Allowed even with the capy, who by the way has lens flares arcing down and away from the robot. That runs into a sloth with its arms and legs outward, like it is falling. It's saying fun! As it falls towards a hole, which has above it, Get the hole story! a callout to Isabel J. Kim's story that's on so many award ballots this year. Above the sloth, it says science fiction written by humans! and below the robot's chin, it says Online now! In the bottom right corner is the I'm just a girl hamster with subscribe written over it's head. The text is at all sorts of angles. Chaos reigns. And nowhere does it say where you can find Clarkesworld.

This is what happens when you get marketing suggestions on Discord. (And because it's not in the actual image, you can find us at clarkesworldmagazine.com)