saltpeter

Oligarchy (noun):

A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

please help chloe and her family if you can

come thru with the snow poets! 🙌

"Maybe you have similar memories, piled high with fallen snow? No wonder poets so frequently wonder at winter marvels."

❄️ Flash reader @adrianf.bsky.social wrote a round-up of winter snow poems for their poetry column in the Stratford Crier! buff.ly/REBkT9h

can we all agree Q was madly in love with Jean-Luc Picard throughout all of TNG

SETTLEMENT by Benjamin Niespodziany after Chris Erickson Tristan Funicular fell asleep not long after dawn. His teeth were on wrong and his bong was full of something less like water and more like moss. He was lost. His stress level was...

"He reached for his bong. Parlor crushed it with her toes. She did not flinch when the glass entered her calloused heels."

A BANGER from @neonpajamas.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social today.

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In these troubling times, it feels meaningful to be able to harness the AWP community to support the local Baltimore literary community. Join us! Support CHARM! And enjoy these incredible readings!

PLEASE RSVP as space is limited! Thank you! splitlipthemag.com/lip-service/...

Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had.

I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

The Council of Frogs is back with a third printing, now with the original short comic it started as included. And even better, you can order it direct from your local comic shop!

Two guys kissing >>>>>>>>>>>

"SODOMY IN SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS' The boy found himself lost in a misty forest. No one he ever met failed to comment on his peculiar heavenly odor. He was finally rolled in broken pottery, then locked up and left to starve. He mailed his underwear back to his mother who fled with them into the deep waters.

James Tate

#smallpoemsunday
cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

image of ceramic monk figure with a gray bob and lipstick. a label on the figure reads "coalport friar $16"

firm believer in thrift magic! found this lesbian monk on a sojourn to the local. spoiler: we paid the $16.

yes daddy! love the color and shape blocking!

I don't know who needs to hear this, but how much you publish or whether you've finished that book or achieved ___ only matters in your own head. Anyone else who has thoughts about your productivity can fuck off.

This guilt or shame is yours and you can let it go.

This is art, not a finish line.

thank you much, Althea!

Thank you!!

merci!

The mice have moved in for the winter.
Now I am forced to be cleaner,
but not that my house is, at all, in order.

love the movement, joy and color palette!

love the shadow play at work! gives such intimacy and risk to the scene.

digital pencil sketch of Dan After Dark. low angle, looking up towards his hand reaching into his hole. in his other hand, he holds his hard dick. the work is washed in gray grit texture. it is signed "sp."

digital illustration sketch of a man from behind; the suggestion of the back of his head is rendered as sharp pencil line hair; there is negative space between these lines and the body form. dark lines are used to accentuate body curves, and light is cast to highlight the butt. a grit texture is used for contrasting shadow. the work is signed "sp."

comic illustration. pov two hands grabbing an ass, the torso of the person arched, their head buried in forest shrubbery. in the background, two men watch, further behind them is a clean-line modern suggestion of trees. the work is signed "sp."

allo! I'm saltpeter 👋. I'm a queer adoptee from New England and often work in queer cruising themes...

Study of the heads of four old men, listening. By Antonio de Pereda of Madrid, whose day is today.

I’m not sure that I’ve ever appreciated intimacy so much. The world wants to cleave us apart with fear and violence, but the most beautiful among us lean toward each other, not away.

Unsubscribing from your Substack because of AI slop art

this is the lords work 🙏

digital quick sketch of a lesser scaup, bobbing in water suggested by a thin line; the scaups head is black with a golden eye and blue/gray bill, its back is mottled black and white, rendered in dot fill; its tail is black. the work is signed "sp."

saw some lesser scaups on the Long Island Sound today!

#birds #birding

😍

image of a large swatch of snow fringed with mugwort stalks, the dark gray water of the Long Island Sound beyond, a white icefloe at its center.

This is the Housatonic River outflow—frozen as a mass—and moving into the Long Island Sound ❄️

you do indeed! trusty "constructive anatomy" by my side. Bridgman is a superb teacher.

page of digital pencil sketches in deep red of various body parts including a torso with head turned upward, two arms in different flexing positions, and two feet in different flexing positions; a detail on three toes. the background is a soft pink. sketch notes in cursive read: "the trunk, the (underlined) cage of the trunk," and "wedging & interlocking the masses of arm & shoulder."

anatomy sketches, wedging and interlocking...🦶