Alenka

The good: I start my new W4 tomorrow.

The bad: My new gig pays *monthly* at the end of each month and I'm starting at the beginning of the period, so I wont get paid until New Years.

There's 12% or $8407 left to close out this ENTIRE campaign. I REALLY need a hand to hold onto the gig.

Thank y’all so much for your support so far. We’ve reached 35% of our goal! 🧡

Shrimp is doing great! He’s the bravest little lad. If you want to help us recoup the rest of the cost of his vet visit, I have zines for sale or you can leave a tip! 🐈✨

ko-fi.com/theverbalthing

Staple + Stitch Art Book and Print Fair Chicago-based art book and print fair. Exhibitors include arts publishers, small and independent presses, book artists, zine makers, and printmakers.

Temporary Services/Half Letter Press will be at Staple + Stitch Art Book + Print Fair starting tomorrow 11/14 through Sunday 11/16 at Hotel 55 in Chicago. Get all the latest from Public Collectors too. AND Brett Bloom will be there. Find us at table 30. More details here" www.stapleandstitchfair.com

GoFundMe has deleted my friend Sama'a's account and refunded its donors. She is struggling with depression and despair and needs our support now more than ever. They have created a new fundraiser to help them survive in the war-torn wreckage of Gaza City.

chuffed.org/project/1575...

With the disclaimer that I'm in union leadership and also working very hard to shed light on our situation 🤣 but grateful to everyone stepping up to help us

Deeply grateful for everyone shedding light on the library budget situation. As a CPL worker it feels like we just get more exhausted and burned out, while the city tells us to do more and more and more, but gives no support.

A plea for help. 🙏
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.

His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org

Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙

Injustice Watch's 10th Birthday Party We're throwing a fundraiser celebrating 10 years of impactful journalism. Join us for bowling, Chicago-style magic, cocktails and party food

For 10 years, we’ve told human-centered stories about the local court system and held powerful institutions accountable. Join us for a fundraiser to fuel our next decade of public service journalism.

The subheading is a wild, unpredictable ride

Here's my letter. Share away. Tell the city of Chicago not to cut the library's budget.

buttondown.com/papersquared...

SAMIDOON: COMICS FOR A FREE PALESTINE

Do you have a little money to spare? Want some good, original comics to read, and also to help get some money to the Palestine Red Crescent Society? You can always check out Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine!

Donate to Help Sinead Afford Johns Hopkins, organized by Sinead Kinney Sinead is a trans femme with a background in medical illustration, patient advocacy, an… Sinead Kinney needs your support for Help Sinead Afford Johns Hopkins

I am desperately trying to raise enough money so that I begin the slow process of getting my Masters in Bioethics from Hopkins. Being the sole stream of income and with lots existing debt to pay off, anything helps.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-si...

If you were ever wondering what we're up against, this is a website book banners created to train people to get books banned in their own communities.

I found my kids' school in here, and the books this website suggests I get banned from their library.

www.takebacktheclassroom.com/school-detai...

I can’t stop thinking about this little girl firing me with her little clipboard and everything, I’m absolutely haunted by this kid

OUR #WheelsAndRoses trailer is HERE✨🌈🛼

LOVE MAGICAL GIRLS? LOVE ROLLER DERBY AND ROLLER SKATING? LOVE QUEER GALS AND THEY THEMS?? Look no further!!!

WE'RE SO EXCITED TO FINALLY SHARE OUR TEASER TRAILER WITH THE WORLD!!!

youtu.be/sT23E5MyZKQ?...

#IndieAnimation

Last full day...come get

Feds Won't Pause Immigration Blitz During Halloween, Día De Los Muertos, Homeland Security Boss Says During a news conference Thusday, Gov. JB Pritzker also slammed federal agents' targeting of people without criminal records and using tear gas on neighborhood streets.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/30/f... They are targeting children and religious holidays. They are staging ICE raids in cemeteries. There is nothing about this that has anything to do with law and order. This is lawlessness and desecration.

12 Chilling Books by Transfemmes to Read This Halloween (CW #16) Tales of Nazi censorship, haunted houses, and mushroom cults to keep you up at night.

As the dread day approaches and the spirits begin to stir, now is the perfect time to hunker down with a horror novel! 😈🗡️

This Halloween, TFR shares twelve chilling tales from transfemme authors to match the mood 🖤

A handcrafted rec list with a scariness rating for each book.

#halloween #horror

A bright green drawing of the author doing the “hang in there baby” cat on a rope pose. The text reads: LOOKING FOR WORK Skills: Comics, writing, illustration, character design, storyboarding, social media, content creation, editing Clients Incude: Critical Role, Dimension 20, Dark Horse, Abrams Kids, Random House, MTV Networks +more Adaptable, efficient, nice, communicative, funny pretty cool, tall

I’m looking for work!!! I’m a writer, illustrator, designer, and game dev seeking longer-term projects, especially in the animation, video game, TV/movie, or TTRPG industries! I’ve been told I’m delightful to work with and would love to prove that to YOU!! . ݁₊⊹
Portfolio: kendrawcandraw.com

Datura Magazine Datura Magazine is a queer josei-inspired anthology series featuring a range of speculative and realist stories for an adult audience that, like the poisonous datura flower, might have an edge to them...

more news: DATURA magazine volume 4 is now available in both print and pdf form! 🌸💘
daturazine.carrd.co#issue4

one last week to pick up my comic about the death of all beautiful things @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social

Border Patrol Agents Fired Tear Gas at Little Village Crowd with No Warning, Ald. Sigcho-Lopez Says If agents deployed tear gas without a warning, that would violate an order issued by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis two weeks ago.

BREAKING: Federal agents fired tear gas at a crowd during an aggressive raid in Little Village with no warning, Ald. Byron Sigcho Lopez told @wttw.bsky.social.
If agents deployed tear gas without a warning, that would violate an order issued by a federal judge two weeks ago.

Welp

Disclaimer that it has been over a decade since I saw either but the American One Missed Call is a remake of a Takashi Miike film that, if it holds up to what is in my memory, absolutely slaps. The American One Missed Call was just nonsense? I think?

🌙☁️Now Available!☁️🌙

My sapphic horror mini-comic is now available for download for $5 or pay what you want on itch!

"Sweet Dreams" is a 10-page mini comic about a ghost saving a young woman from a nightmare.

Buy it here: mcapriglioneart.itch.io/sweet-dreams...

Hello Bluesky! We have 12 days to help fund my indie comic book and could use a little push! It’s funny and QUEER! If you have anything to give, please consider backing our kickstarter! We need a little over $18k!! Sharing is also caring! 🙇🏾‍♀️

www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

My friend Sama'a has two little girls to feed and clothe, and after two years of genocidal horror she is tired in ways we cannot fully understand. Please give what you can to help her family survive.

gofund.me/db56c7ce3

Doaa with her little son Omar.

⚠️♿️⚠️

Doaa is an embroiderer.
She managed to escape to Egypt
with her 6yo child Omar who has autism.
Doaa is now with no support.
The rest of her family remained in Gaza.
She is trying to help Omar and
her family in Gaza.

Please help.

✅ Verified by Molly Shah

chuffed.org/project/1153...

A flyer credited to Coalition Against the Trump Agenda announcing an Emergency Protest Today, 10/8/2025 in Chicago: 5:30 PM at Michigan and Ida B. Wells, demanding that ICE and the National Guard leave Chicago. A large crowd is shown marching in downtown Chicago.

Emergency Protest Today, 10/8/2025 in Chicago: 5:30 PM at Michigan and Ida B. Wells. We're demanding that ICE and the National Guard get out of our city. I'll attend this.