Danilynn Jiibay ᐧᐋᐸᓄᑮᔑᒃ

Artist commissioned by Gichigamiin museum fired after controversial draft - Evanston RoundTable Michigan-based artist Jamie John, who was commissioned by the Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum, said he was fired after only one day of his planned

I heard about this recently. I think it was a brilliant piece of work. Too bad Gichigamiin doesn't understand this at all.

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Don’t. Do not. Do literally anything other than this. See a licensed therapist. Get a plant. Volunteer at an animal shelter. Shitpost 24 hours a day on Bluesky. Anything but this.

Digital art by Danilynn Jiibay (2025). A visual depiction of the three main characters and aesthetics from Angeline Boulley's debut novel. Firekeeper's Daughter Characters from left to right: Jaime (dress shirt and pants while looking west and upward; Daanis (green shirt while holding tobacco and wearing a medicine pouch necklace); Lily (red shirt and grey pants while looking east and upward). Other aesthetics: Background is dark blue with emblem designs based on the first book's design aesthetics. Foreground are the fires reminiscent of said book cover.

Originally planned for July 1 ala Angeline Boulley Day, here is some fan art I made to commemorate my cousin's 1st book #FirekeepersDaughter as I imagined the main characters would look like with my art style. Enjoy!

#Art #IndigenousArt #IndigiArt #NativeArt #Indigenous

Selfie of me. I'm wearing a foresty-like tunic while in the woods during daytime.

A selfie from earlier this week.

Everdark Caligo is a bitch to tackle. Probably the hardest variant by far, for me at least. #Nightreign

An illustration of my pathfinder character dima

Dima post two year timeskip

John Coltrane. Acrylic, ink, pencil and ink. Painted this day in 2018.

I'm reminded of my ex after the divorce rofl

As a comic creator, your main goal should always be to make the reader think “what the hell is wrong with the person who made this?”

“transphobia is a distraction” would be a hell of a lot more compelling as an argument if any of you motherfuckers actually paid attention to what they’re doing to us.

Keep calling your Congressmen about stopping KOSA and SCREEN dead in their tracks.

Keep calling Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Stripe.

I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money.

Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

Digital art by Danilynn Jiibay (2025). A visual depiction of the three main characters and aesthetics from Angeline Boulley's debut novel. Firekeeper's Daughter Characters from left to right: Jaime (dress shirt and pants while looking west and upward; Daanis (green shirt while holding tobacco and wearing a medicine pouch necklace); Lily (red shirt and grey pants while looking east and upward). Other aesthetics: Background is dark blue with emblem designs based on the first book's design aesthetics. Foreground are the fires reminiscent of said book cover.

Originally planned for July 1 ala Angeline Boulley Day, here is some fan art I made to commemorate my cousin's 1st book #FirekeepersDaughter as I imagined the main characters would look like with my art style. Enjoy!

#Art #IndigenousArt #IndigiArt #NativeArt #Indigenous

Back from my hiatus. Gonna post some art very soon.

As recommended by my fiancé, I'm taking a massive break from social media for the sake of my mental health.

I will be back at a future date, whenever that will be.

Quick digital sketch of a humanoid bee/wasp.

Something I quickly sketched because I really needed to draw something, anything, without thinking about it.

My fiancé reminded me how powerful art is on a political level, whether or not you use it for that purpose.

It's kinda helping me get out of my art funk of late and I'm gonna try to return making something very soon.

Also, making art is very therapeutic for me, personally.

(And I can't read the full article because it's behind a goddamn paywall. Fucking capitalism I swear.)

All that potential wasted, and yet I'm not surprised by this, at all. Ugh.

Literally none of the time you spent calling Visa/MasterCard this week will matter if this shit passes

Yes it's exhausting to have more calls to make

But this *is* life or death

Censorship is the first stage of removing marginalized people from public life, and then from life itself

I have not made any art in over a month. All of the news stories relating to creativity gradually being censored is among the reasons why I haven't made anything new of late.

Sigh.

Hey. Hey.

Please don’t wait for an indie book series to be finished before you pick up the books. Just buy them. Don’t wait.

So MANY indie series never get finished because the author gets zero sales on the opening volumes and gives up.

Give them a reason to keep going.

Buy the books.

And yet, the HP fanbase can't let go of the property despite all of the harm JKR has done given her ongoing personal vendetta and aspirations to eradicate us trans and gender-noncomforming communities.

It's a reminder for me to never trust anyone who support creators who use their $ for that harm.

Switching gears to JKR given the connection of said headline:

Thankfully I never read the books but have seen all of the films (due to my ex's pleas for me to do so). Regardless of media format, the Wizarding World is very mid and overly problematic, given the author in question.

And yet...

I used to own all 28 volumes of Rurouni Kenshin until the news broke then of what type of person Watsuki really is. I immediately removed everything associated with him shortly after.

Similar to what I did in response to Alexie and Gaiman's works due to their own depraved tendencies.

Reach out to your favorite indie creators. They don't have big corporations behind them to push them in front of millions of eyes. Letting them know you enjoy their work can get them through their next project.

Adding: SHARE THEIR FUCKING POSTS SO EVEN IF YOU CAN'T GIVE THEM MONEY SOMEONE ELSE CAN.

You might not have the money to commission them, someone who
follows you might. Likes don't show up on people's feeds, RTs and Quotes do.

My biggest criticism with Oda is he still supports his mentor Nobuhiro Watuski (Rurouni Kenshin) despite the fact the latter mangaka has lost my respect since then due to being a massive POS human being.

This is probably why I never was interested in One Piece despite its massive popularity.

I never explored delving into the One Piece series despite being fully aware of its evolution with representation over the years.

But yes, I would LOVE to see him surpass JRK in every capacity imaginable partially for that reason alone.