Moths in a human suit (they/them)

I'm sure the fact that I've been ignoring my inbox while catching up with shop stuff will have nooo consequences for future me next week… 🤦

FR tho. Looking at the walking moral vacuum heading the UK right now, honestly there's worse things I could be ignoring.

So comparatively I'm prob doing OK. 🤷

Thanks 🙏

Thanks mate 😁

I made. So. Many. Things. it's gonna take me an extra day to finish my update. Send halp/chocolate/liquorice/etc 🙃

It's one of my favourite for abstract/doodling/dice-driven painting games. So crunchy!

Mate, IDEK how I made so many things! 🙃😂

🙏 Help me hive mind - does anyone have a link I can share to info on why a lot of phone cameras make blue-greens & teals look just blue? I saw something on here a while ago on a post about blue-green minerals, but can't find it now.

Help appreciated 💖

Just saw this fascinating thread, which is both Gothic and profoundly heartwarming 🖤

An 8 colour half pan handmade watercolour set. There's a swatch card showing a strip of each colour, and an open pan of each resting on the swatch. There's also a swatched square tin to one side. The colours are woodland-themed, granulating and semi opaque mixed pigment colours; blue-green, yellow green, grey-green, pale brown, dark reddish brown, brick red, orange, and pinkish grey.

Three unwrapped pans of blue-green watercolour paint, in half, quarter, and eighth pan sizes, sitting in the middle of a postcard swatch. The swatch shows how the paint looks at different dilutions with water.

A wrapped pan of blue watercolour paint with pink granulation, creating a kinda crunchy texture, sitting in the middle of a postcard swatch. The swatch shows how the paint looks at different dilutions with water.

Three unwrapped pans of a granulating brown watercolour paint, in half, quarter, and eighth pan sizes, sitting in the middle of a postcard swatch. The granulation give the paint a kinda crunchy texture. The swatch shows how the paint looks at different dilutions with water.

It's a time to be alive, but an enby's gotta make a living… So I'm a bit absent here this week cos I'm restocking/updating my shop with all the things. So many things.

Normal swearing service will resume shortly.

Wanna know when my shop reopens? My mailing list is here: mailchi.mp/20162032d876...

Devastatingly sad.
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support

Still could be worse, looking at the news. Makes accidentally calling someone's uncle a twatulent butt-walnut seem pretty mild I guess.

My optician cranked all my specs up a notch recently.

Still getting used to where to put my face relative to phones etc.

I feel like this combined with a phone that likes aggressively switching language mid-sentence… it's gonna end in me accidentally texting profanity to some in-law or something.

You know a good giveaway that 'using whistles is disabilist' is not rooted in good faith or community care? I have seen no serious discussion about how to include Deaf/HoH folks in rapid notification. How are we quickly notifying targeted Deaf/HoH folks who can't hear whistles/shouts?

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...

Refocus. It’s still survival for Nya & her family of eight, who remain displaced in a tent. Inattention means families go without, and it’s what the occupation wants from us.

Help them survive with winter supplies & more. Give/find their link here.

A dark oil sketch using just olive and warm white. A rounded, weathered ridge line almost at the top of the composition, sloping inwards to a winding river that curves towards the foreground with rock shapes scribbled around. Above the horizon is a full moon, resting just above the valley and illuminating the dark sky around it. Flecks of white moonlight reflected off rocks along the river.

Oil sketching with just olive and warm white #oilpainting #landscape #wicklowmountains #irishart

That is some delightful alt text right there.

I started outlining this tonight, rolling over the graphite with a putty eraser to lighten it & going over the outline with colour pencil.

But 1st I spent chuffing ages trying to find the kinda compass's you can put a pencil in. I've 6 that have the little tiny leads. 🙃

#FebruaryFrost26

A digital drawing featuring some wintery items scattered on a page, with two text boxes on top. One says "february frost 2026 prompt list" and the other includes the prompt list as follows: Feb 1–7: Snowdrops – Nocturnal Feb 8–14: Stars – Quilt Feb 15–21: Crocus – Frost Feb 22–28: Sparkling – Robin. The drawing features birds, and owl, snowdrops, crocuses, mittens, an apple, and a mushroom among other things.

Prompt list here!! Excited to see what you all make!

Use #FebruaryFrost26 when posting your art to participate :))

I got one of these pins for xmas and it's utterfuckingly delightful, can recommend!

Thanks mate! 💖

Decided to have a go at this prompt list since it's weekly. Gives me time to do a lil bit each day!

#FebruaryFrost26 prompt 1: Snowdrops and Nocturnal

Making a sketch of snowdrops with a moth halo. Doing it on a light panel with a grid under paper to keep myself in line. 😂 Drew 1 moth & traced it…

A self portrait of a Vincent Van Gogh. A serious looking gent with a short range beard and brown coat and vest lined with blue, the background is a glowing, mint green.

Paris Green was a pigment created in 1814 and was used by many artists at the time. It was also VERY dangerous because of it was full of arsenic! Here's a self portrait, painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1888. He used Paris Green in the background.

Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 66, "Listen To Me And I'll Tell You A Story" by Ejiwa "Edge" Ebenebe: In the depths of the sea a little girl sits on what looks to be a giant pink/green octopus tentacle. Several other tentacles extend in the background, curling in the depths. Towards the front and surrounding the little girl is a school of pink fish, some of them stop to listen as she holds one finger up. She looks like she is about to start telling a story. On the lower right corner, another school of fish is making its way over the tentacles, towards the edge of the cover. The quote reads: "'…but what is it like, having a war criminal as your past life?' Sadie Salazar, Licensed Life Speaker, should have been professionally above the prurient interest lighting her hazel eyes, and much too old for the giddy excitement that lifted the corners of her full lips."

Congratulation to Alaya Dawn Johnson! Alaya's novelette “The Shadow on the Nest” is on the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading list! You can read it here! buff.ly/UAnjN1F

My chemistry degrees just began spontaneously weeping on the wall.

On the bright side, we’ve now discovered a more terrifying ALF on bsky than the one of @faineg.bsky.social’s making

A majestic looking crab, I can't remember what species it is, but it's a classic of the crab genre. Wide flat shell, lost of legs including two big pinchy ones up front. Serious facial expression. Dark brownish green. Standing on sand staring straight at the camera like it might be about to recite Hamlet's soliloquy.

Four utterly delightful hermit crabs standing on a rock in a marine aquarium. They're all wearing whelk shells that are fashionably decorated with tube worm casts of some kind. One of the smaller ones is perched on the back of the largest crab. They're all facing left and striking a pose like there's nothing to it.

Also, finding pics of the crabs at the Lyme Regis saltwater aquarium.

Tiny place, best crabs tho, would recommend. (No the county tourist board isn't paying me, this is just facts. Best. Crabs.)

Small joys in a fkd up world:

It's Sunday and I made fancy milk porridge, with raisins, ginger, cardamom and cinnamon.

(I know. What a wild-party-merry-go-round existence I have, eh? 😂)

Well worth reading this piece.

I hadn't realised that #SexMatters had been so explicit in their intentions re trans children, specifically. This is the horror they are knowingly visiting on kids. And they dgaf if the kids kill themselves. Which a lot of them are (see @goodlawproject.org's posts).

another week of ✨ Shameless Self Promotion Saturday ✨ where thinking about the ethics of trying to make a living in this moment in history makes us feel like turning our skin inside out

hi new people. hi old people. hi creatures who dont identify as people.

we love you.

please buy art. or dont.

Thanks mate 😁