Bree 🌻💜

Just saw a post where people used rabbit poop to spell out the names of people’s exes (one person also spelled out ICE, which is so valid), so I know what I’m doing when I get home.

This is what I get for not considering the pain involved in a daith piercing until 3:30 today.

(It did not hurt much, but somehow my brain skipped over the “this will hurt at least a little” when deciding to get the piercing.)

a man wearing glasses and a purple shirt is making a face . Alt: a man wearing glasses and a purple shirt is making a face. Bottom text reads “Bruh”

Me, reading a piercing aftercare guide: it says pain and swelling can be a sign of an infection! Oh my god, my piercing is infected!

My 15-minute-old daith piercing:

Been having GI issues all week and after trying to figure out what food was causing it, I’ve discovered it’s my old friend, anxiety.

My anxiety’s pretty well controlled, so this is an unpleasant surprise. Time to drink some ginger tea/ginger ale and further limit my screen time.

Sidenote: legit have no idea what I’d do if I asked someone in court to repeat something and they refused. Probably look at the judge like “?????”

Funny exchange in a transcript today. The witness answered a question in the negative, I didn’t hear and asked her to repeat, and she did.

However, in the transcript, it looks like:

Court Reporter: Sorry, could you repeat?
Witness: No.

a mini barbie dreamhouse atop a giant (relative to the house) chicken legs

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.

It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.

No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

a reporter asked “is mutual aid a form of resistance?”

and i felt my body pulled into of a room of movement elders who have made this seem like a question i don’t have to think about to respond

of course

of course

mutual aid is an expression of love

love is an act of resistance

even if you *can’t* imagine life before Harry Potter, you can still imagine life after DHS 😉

A drawing of a cat hissing with his left claws extended. He is wearing a bandana that says "FUCK ICE".

Hiss 😾
(Anti-ICE donation commission, DM for details)

#art #abolishice

I was planning to write a note today asking one of them to put it outside or take it to my building (the lobby isn’t locked, but all the others in my complex are), but someone went above and beyond without me having to ask.

Heavens bless my neighbors. My grocery box got delivered to the wrong building yesterday so I couldn’t get it, and one of my neighbors was kind enough to drop it off right outside my door!

For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok.

Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

astarion and alycerys from baldur's gate 3, dancing together in a ballroom at night, lit by candlelight.

a close-up of the previous image

#bg3 #bg3art #tav #tavstarion aly and astarion dancing at her grandmother's ball set after the game ends. and also making everyone painfully jealous.

First on the list: taking myself on a date to the Domes.

Putting it out there for accountability purposes.

Gonna make a list of all the fun things I want to do in/around my city and plan to do at least some of them!! I’ve lived here for seven years and for various reasons, I haven’t done most of the fun local attractions.

The words "$2.99 e-book deal! Today only!" are at the top of this flyer. Below them, the cover of Automatic Noodle is shown against a background of flowers.

Today only, Automatic Noodle e-books are on sale for $2.99 on all platforms! Grab one while they're still hot and chewy! bookshop.org/p/books/auto...

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Photo of Athena, a black rabbit, sitting in a large box of hay.

Anyways, I’ve been going through a lot of emotional/spiritual growth this year and have been mostly off social media. It feels good, fam.

Anyways, here’s a pic of Athena, who is spoiled as ever and has to eat her hay directly from the box.

It's really OK to change your mind when new facts are presented. It really is.

shaking people violently so they get over themselves and acknowledge the necessity of protecting pornography so literally everything else doesn't get thrown down the garbage disposal

Someone please tell me why, despite there being tons of empty seats in this coffee shop, this man decided to sit in the one next to me.

Digital illustration of two original characters, a changeling and an emerald Dragonborn bards. The lovers are peacefully sleeping, with the dragonborn resting his head on the girl’s torso and gently holding her hand.

Someone told me bearded dragons purr when content or gently handled. And while it’s not exactly true, it’s now my headcanon for dragonborns. That’s all I’ve got in my defence.

Hanar from Mass Effect in a sweater

I know this gets said a lot, but I just want to reiterate how important comments on fics are! It's not because writers demand them, or are "entitled" to them, but because they're genuinely some of the most affirming feedback we could get.

Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it.

It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.

A watercolor painting of a black and white dog looking out over a landscape. She is sitting in the shade of a tree.

A watercolor painting of a black and white dog in a blue life vest. The background is green with clover shapes.

I haven't received a pet portrait commission in a long ass time, so just a reminder: I WILL PAINT YOUR CRITTER AND LOVE IT!

Check out my website for more neat info!
www.kayamalie.com

thank you everyone who still makes art despite everything

"to get anywhere as an artist you need to make instagram reels" "you need to draw memes" "you need to go to conventions" wrong wrong wrong you just need to be insane