Toasty

I was going to say doughnuts in general but I think maybe all I've ever actually had is krispy kremes.

Markhat Files by Frank Tuttle are thematically similar but miles better in my opinion. I got fed up with Dresden around the same point.

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They may have been other places too, but I know they were escorting them in Lexington SC.

What if in 2026 I gave up mindlessly scrolling and instead drew badly in one of my 47 abandoned sketchbooks 😤 neuroplasticity don't fail me now

I really try to alt text but sometimes the whole reason for a pic is that I don't have the words, especially when it comes to posting my art.

Inside the Tiny, Weird World of Halloween ‘Villaging' As part of this Boomer-coded subculture, two companies vie for the attention of weirdos like me, who prefer to spend their time—and money—constructing small, spooky landscapes.

@tinavasquez.bsky.social  explores a little known Halloween subculture: Halloween 'Villaging', where grown adults make little Halloween villages to celebrate the holiday everyday.

a girl with pigtails wearing a black jacket and tie looks at the camera Alt: a girl with pigtails wearing a black jacket and tie looks at the camera

My local Michael's massively disappointed me this year when I went to do my annual Lemax shopping (Christmas had already taken over in early October 😭). And I've never heard of Dept 56 or "villagers" so I read this like...

Sylvester Stallone as a mob boss in Oscar.

Jane Lynch as Sazz Pataki from Only Murders in the Building

Left is the look I aimed for tonight. Right is much closer to what I think I actually pulled off.

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Leather bag shaped like a bat.

Things have been very busy lately but when one of my favorite pattern designers (Vasile and Pavel) released this earlier this month, I HAD to make it and it had to happen before Halloween. So all my spare time has gone into him. Isn't he adorable? Just a couple finishing touches left. #leatherwork

I don't understand why people aren't more troubled by this. It terrifies me.

🦇 Noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula) hunting a Noctua moth.
Illustration for "Animals on the Move" series for Dina Dechmann's lab at MPI of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
#SciArt #art #bats #wildlifeart #insects

*10/13/2025 noncooperation thread*

Going to a #NoKings event? Can't? Either way, can you:

Print/make Megan's "Report ICE" zines (find yours: drive.google.com/drive/folder...) & ALSO her new zine ⬇️ to bring/give to folks who are going?

h/t @besecretandexult.bsky.social who apparently made 2000‼️
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Guys, a five ounce flying human is a ✨fairy✨ so I'm just here looking forward to all the fairy John art.

You've convinced me to give it another try. I watched the occasional episode when I was a kid and was fond of it. So when the pilot popped up recently, I was curious if it would hold up. I enjoyed it, but not enough to keep watching past the pilot.

October is #BatAppreciationMonth! Here they are being fully appreciated in plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s dazzling Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), published in 1904. More about the image, including details of the line-up, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e...

I have both of these shirts! 🤩

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A four panel comic called Happy Halloween From The Birds. In panel 1, a pileated woodpecker has pecked its huge gaping rectangular holes in a pumpkin. In panel 2, a yellow-bellied sapsucker has pecked a face using its standard rows of small holes. In panel 3, a satin bowerbird has carved a pumpkin into a bower and placed its favorite blue candies all around it. In panel 4, a loggerhead shrike has impaled mini pumpkins on a fence's metal spikes and is saying "fight me."

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

five pose reference models crammed into a tiny hallway attempting to emerge monsterously

...zombies.

#PoseRef

Man holding flowers, face looking grim, and woman with mouth open looking astonished.

These people too.

A wooden geometric slatted dome with glass enclosing it.

“why don’t we make buildings pointlessly beautiful anymore?”

LOOK AT THIS. just LOOK at THIS.

Thought I gift linked to it. Here you go. READ it. Your welcome.
GIFT.
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Set of books titled The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Spines show increasingly deteriorated columns.

Yeah, that strategy got me through Fellowship but I ran out of patience somewhere in the middle of Towers. My boxed set looked a bit like this but reversed.

Ugh. I adored The Hobbit but never finished LOTR. Around the same time period I was completely enamored with Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, etc. I don't think the "not quite modern" language was the problem.

Exactly. Like it came out of a dollar tree trump themed monopoly game.

It's brand new to me and delightfully unexpected, so thank you for sharing!

Well that was delightful.

You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office!

There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! 🦆