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watercolor and gouache painting of a girl wearing a feather cloak and holding a small blue flame, surrounded by crows and an overgrown forest

My sixth piece for my solo show @gallerynucleus.bsky.social! 🐦‍⬛

#illustration #fantasyart #magicalforest #forestspirit #watercolor #gouache

I was habitually guilty of this as a kid, ngl. I liked reading the last chapter first and then trying to reconstruct what led up to it as I went back and started from the beginning.

Having family in the area it’s hard to understate how chilling they find all this. You know it’s not good when it gets Des Moines riled up.

Impish cartoon self-portrait of the artist, a fellow with sticky-up hair and round glasses, shouts at you: You NEVER NEED TO FOLLOW ME BACK!!! I want to follow your posts, not insinuate myself into your life! BUT IF YOU DO FOLLOW BACK AND WE DEVELOP A NICE RAPPORT OVER TIME, THAT WOULD BE TOTALLY CHILL.

Reissuing this as a point of etiquette

I’m really thankful you verbalized this because it is genuinely the most dispiriting part of this moment to me. It’s like a shadow self is taking hold: my faith and higher principles tell me to love my neighbor and yet I despise them. I get absolutely zero joy from this.

I like this point, and I think it points to the problem lying not with relying on intermediaries but their quality

someone who depends on (say) local newspapers and their union to make sense of the wider world is just not as likely to be grossly mislead as someone who relies on Youtube Shorts

If you’re a decent and liberal-minded person it feels perverse to think your average fellow citizen is functionally illiterate and barely able to navigate the complexity of present society. But it’s getting harder and harder to deny, and I don’t know what we should do to fix it.

People writ large are simultaneously far too credulous and too inappropriately skeptical to engage constructively with the vast amounts of information we’re all exposed to now. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that faith in science (for one) peaked in the age of local newspapers and evening news

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

A woman sitting on a bed overflowing with white, silky sheets, her left leg up in a chair, her right hand on her knee and her left hand holding a sheathed sword

Katarina, in her dress from Welcome to Noxus, slicing away at unseen opponents with a grin on her face

Wolverine, in her NYX fit, sliding backwards while slicing away at opponents

A woman caught by surprise by a sudden burst of power emanating from her chest

COMMISSIONS OPEN

I opened up 3 commission spots, at VGen, so if you like my work, this is a good time to get you some of it.

#art #digitalart #illustration #VGenComm #commissions

vgen.co/Sarkastiklover

The best and most American-est part is how she somehow turns the rapture into an opportunity to consume

If Jesus comes back and handpicks you for ascension into Heaven, I’m pretty sure what underwear you had on is gonna be the last thing on the minds of all the heathens you leave behind

Try spending some time in academia or tech and you can’t miss it. Idk how they’re so consistent when it comes to tearing down America’s legitimate strengths/blessings

Maybe this is different in plain ol’ tech but in biotech the job market is screwing over the H1Bs worst of all. No one wants to pay for sponsorship when there’s a sea of unemployed Americans applying for every position.

The funny thing is it doesn’t even work, we still average around 300 in losses per DAY. It’s just that now no one wants to shop there either so earnings are down too

Private equity retail rocks

I work at a retail pharmacy atm and literally at least half the store is locked up. And then there’s a skeleton crew of employees to cut costs so there’s never anyone available to unlock everything you need. It’s hugely disincentivizing to honest people who actually want to spend money there

Off topic but this meme hits so incredibly close to home it has to be a neurodiversity indicator or something.

Voluntarily produced passion project excel sheets just hit so good, idk

politely asking apps not to track my my activity across other companies’ apps and websites. Demurely asking. Midwesternly asking

not a Patch person but I would buy this so fast

reddit screenshot from r/queervexillology depicting the “flag of disaster bisexuals”, a De Stijl-esque scattering of magenta, purple, and dark blue blocks.

r/QueerVexillology hits so good idk

Artists!!! qrp w/ your favorite portrait you’ve drawn!!! 😽

Spongebob tries not to cry after a jerk ass customer yells at him for forgetting the Diet Dr Kelp. He will fail

> Only tech at work today
> 6 straight hours putting out fires
> Didn’t get a chance to eat/use the restroom let alone take a real break
> Pt pulls up to the drive thru 3 minutes before close
> Screams that I’m a “lazy bitch” when I tell her it’s too late to fill her prescriptions

Don’t do this

A one eyed orange tabby cat with a white muzzle peers above the headrest of an armchair with his paws under his chin. His mouth is agape on the right side, displaying the tip of his fang. #caturday

jump scare

desperately need more Great Plains queer pride aesthetics in my life tbh

A circular sticker depicting a cow wearing a trans flag bandana and cowboy hat, and waving a pride flag. The cow is framed by text reading “cattle country queers for bodily autonomy”. The background consists of a corn field and a sky in rainbow pride colors.

sick sticker spotted on the bus this morning

"artists should charge more!" then pay them. Do comission them. tip them what u think they're worth.

Artists wont believe they are worth money until u give it to them. They know what it's like to not have much, & hope everyone can afford their art. SHOW them they CAN ask more. Don't just Tell them.

That’s why the flight attendant tells everyone to stow them under the seats and out of the way of feet. This stuff is well researched, they’re not making best guesses at the fastest way out.

Everyone on this thread like “oh I’d just take a second to grab my important stuff” has no idea how fast fire moves

We had a house fire when I was a kid. I didn’t even get to put on shoes. If experts say you don’t have time to grab ur stuff in a plane fire it’s bc u DON’T. Ur not faster than fire

Some artists have gorgeous aesthetic sketchbooks to proudly share with the world

I am not “some artists”

A ballpoint pen/ink drawing of a rat smoking a cigarette. He doesn’t look like he’s having a good time

Me: I should get out my sketchbook and brainstorm a new drawing to welcome all my new followers!!

My brain: best I can do is chain smoking rat