Rose in the Willows

…now with background

Finished first pass coloring this piece

Trying out color

REACH HEAVEN BY VIOLENCE

The general vibe that a lot of Americans are reporting back with

User the-frog-in-the-bog says "I want to decompose in a bog" well you clearly don't know the first thing about bogs. Clout chaser User thebigwolf says #in the bog is like the opposite of decomposition #get pickled idiot Huge fan of the phrase "get pickled, idiot"

Elite discourse

Like I've said before, this old girl here could solve so many problems.

Interesting strategy: Tell a big chunk of your customer base you don't give a shit what they think, only what people who hate them think, then insult them again when they leave bsky.app/profile/mims...

(This was clear enough in the text of the first three books, mind—it was obscured by my own preoccupation with beautiful, awful becomings)

Absolution has illuminated them as, yes, the pathetic flailing of fascists, but also as the ugly alternative to the utterly consuming transfigurations of Area X—an uncertain future, in which we may not recognize ourselves, but in which we *are* selves, not the debased tools of Capital 2/

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(Spoilers?) As much as I love the first three Southern Reach books, I’ve always been transfixed by the Mystery—the inexorable, ineffable beauty of the desolation as it unfolds, undoes, and fills us. Central’s MK Ultra antics seemed a side show 1/

Finished Absolution by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Such a joy. This installment is really elegantly engaged with some of the most compelling imagery from the film version of Annihilation—like the author buried the film for compost then wrote in concert with the vast fungal bloom that emerged after

Relationship Goals

“There was a way in which it was so real and immediate and yet also felt impossible and drawn out. Maybe he could not contain the feverish intensity of it and also the overwhelming beauty of it, how he could be reduced down to his bones by fear and yet also feel so alive.” - Absolution

page of novel describing collapse as hard to grasp and making each of us into a different kind of time traveler

sadly, my 2021 novel hummingbird salamander is not getting less relevant

Good morning sleepy head

Reposting inktober pieces from ig

Reposting inktober pieces from ig

A piece from the sketchbook

Offering slips to accompany my piece for next month’s show at The Ritual Division in Brooklyn

Sneak preview of a new piece coming soon

Before you say something mean about Henry Kissinger, take a breath and see if you can think of something meaner