Lise MacTague

Getting my print on. Nothing is call ready for prime time, but I’m getting closer. I’m enjoying getting into a new art form and figuring out the process. Once it clicks I’ll be able to start cranking!

@cmsullivan.bsky.social Any chance you could add me to your sapphic SFFH starter pack? Thank you for pulling it together!!!

How the LGBTQ+ community can use the lessons of ACT UP to fight what comes next - News Is Out Since the election, I haven’t been sleeping much, and I know I’m not alone. When it became clear that Donald Trump—convicted felon, opponent of LGBTQ+ rights, and found liable of sexual abuse—had won ...

There are so many lessons current day LGBTQ+ activists and advocates can learn from what ACT UP did in the 80s and 90s. Really great piece by Anna Wenner. newsisout.com/2024/11/how-...

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Sadly, I don't know who to credit, but here is one of the greatest flow charts of all time. (There will be no discussion on this matter.)

📌 for after the next royalty cheque shows up in my mailbox…

Batman’s aff his nut Have you seen the way he cuts aboot Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat Batterin guys I was lit at: “Mate, I’m worried aboot ye I know your ma and da died But everybody’s ma and da dies And we’re no aw runnin aboot Hookin muggers and Kickin psychopaths in the baws.” And that was when Batman went “Aye, but do ye ever feel like it? Do you ever look at the world and feel like it? Like having a big mad base under your hoose? Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor that turns intae a tank? And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night? Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?” And that’s when I was lit at: “Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.” And that’s the Secret Origin of Robin And everyone else.

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

Lovely!! These were outside my doctor’s office

Bien sur! C’est une motive excellent, et plus pratique que l’utilisation du guillotin. (Woo, got to dust off that high school French!!)

Like candy corn. Maybe someone spilled a bag there last fall.

A tight cluster of three vibrant red and orange mushrooms against a background of pine straw.

A tight cluster of three vibrant red and orange mushrooms against a background of pine straw.

Four orange and red mushrooms sprout out of a bed of pine straw.

A side view of four mushrooms sprouting out of a bed of pine straw. Their gills are quite prominent and their stalks are off white in contrast with their orange caps.

When you’re that person who is climbing through the pine straw at the edge of the doctor’s office parking lot trying to get a good pic of the super cool mushrooms they have coming up…

Is it really necessary? Pretty sure “guillotine” is the same in both languages.

Oh, you're a master of puppets? Come back when you have your doctorate of puppets.

‘Equivalent of Tasmanian tiger for bird watchers’ discovered in Western Australia desert Rangers and scientists thrilled as they find the largest known population of one of Australia’s rarest birds, the night parrot, living in Great Sandy desert

'Very few people have seen them. But on a recent field trip the Ngururrpa rangers were lucky enough to have one fly in and land in their camp.' 😮

The largest population of night parrots has been discovered in Western Australia, including a breeding site! 🥳🧪🦉
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/s...

100% this. I hated having my cancer crap cast as this heroic struggle. I out one foot in front of the other until treatment was complete. I was lucky enough to have tumors that responded well to treatment before the treatment killed me. There is no glory in not dying of disease.

Remember: if this funds, I have to write a story for them!

So if you want to force me to write....you know what to do!

First linocut in 20+ years, and I went with mushrooms, bc why not. They’re neat lil guys and offer so much opportunity for experimenting with texture and line weight. First few look good, but I need to clean up the block a bit before trying to pull enough for a decent edition.

So orange! Such mushroom!!! Were there ever more perfect mushrooms than these?

A green frog with a prominent white tympanum sits on the edge of a pond.

A green frog with a prominent white tympanum sits on the edge of a pond.

Apologies for the crappy photo. Has anyone seen a white tympanum on a green frog before? Pic was taken at one of my ponds. I’ve never seen this on any of the local green frogs (I’m in Raleigh, NC) and trying to find an answer on Google was useless. #frogsky #herpsky #frogs

A 9 by 12 inch piece of grey linoleum with a marker drawing of so many mushrooms ready to start cutting.

Lots of shrooms! I’m taking a printmaking class and a one color linocut is our first assignment. I’m looking forward to figuring out all the different textures. And to not cutting my fingers…

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Those look amazing! I need to get me some of those. Not a fan of blue raspberry or sour apple, but any of these in nearly any other flavor will do it for me.

Classical Periodic Table xkcd.com/2975

And of course there’s a typo… the cutest fur rug in the world

It is such a trap! You never know if it’s going to be licks, light nibbles, or heavy chomps.

A substantial brown tabby cat lies on his back, belly exposed for the world to see and one paw raises in question. He licks his chops and looks directly at the camera as he reclines on a bed of throws and blankets next to a Totoro throw pillow.

Is Wiley the cutest fur rug in the work, or what? Asking for him.

Two pots that have been bisque fired, one with a grey top and lid, one with a black top and lid. The image of cat eyes peering over the edge of a table/counter are carved into each pot.

Two pots that have been bisque fired, one with a grey top, the other with a black top. One shows a goldfish bowl complete with fist, the other a glass of water. Both remain unconcerned about the cats who are scoping them out from the other side of the pot.

Two new pots getting ready for glaze and second firing. I can’t get over how talented my wife is, and I’m always happy to do my scratchings on the pots she makes. I’m in love with the naughty cats scoping out forbidden objects.

I would attend a Sword Lesbians convention in a second!