Kit!

Holiday meal discussions always give me flashbacks to the time I offhandedly used "celebratory protein" as a shorthand for "centerpiece dish, usually meat, served at a holiday meal" in a meeting, and my coworkers lovingly teased me for it until it became an unironic piece of internal jargon. 😅

I am amazingly proud to have inspired this

Digital art of a cartoon Polyphemus moth in a layered blue robe with round glasses and feathery antennae, holding an open large book and glancing off to their side. They have a brown belt with a pouch, two gold keys hanging from their belt, and brown boots with curved designs and a couple tiny four-pointed stars. Their head and wings are tan and brown with some of the patterns typical of their species visible. The background is made up of various pieces of parchment with drawings and indecipherable handwriting. Signed by the artist, Moth Monarch.

The Alchemical Librarian 📚
A wise friend now in color. Tried something a little different!

a candle wrapped in a banner colored in the shades of the trans flag. an hrt syringe and skeleton flank the candle.

this injection is a luminary in your name.
#TDOR ⚧️

Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)

A collection of magnets from Fat Gold olive oil containers, each depicting a still life or landscape painting along with the type of olives used for each batch and when it was bottled.

The company I have an olive oil subscription from (because I am the kind of food dweeb who has an olive oil subscription) prints their labels on magnets and use pretty public domain art, which they encourage people to keep. Seeing them on my fridge makes me so happy. 🥹

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A painting of a dachshund on a lead, it’s leggies & tail painting many times on the same animal to depict the action of it walking with its owner

If you’re feeling a bit sad it might help a little to know that this painting exists. It’s called Dynamism of a dog on a leash, by Giacomo Galla, 1912:

Thank you! Russel the porch cryptid is making a bit of a late appearance this year, but he's finally starting to coalesce. :D

Fifty patterns you can make with a standard brick www.architekwiki.com/wiki/masonry...

thanks, I hate it :D

(sending this to several of my partners IMMEDIATELY)

A pair of feet wearing bright red boots, standing on a wet wood floor with fallen leaves spread around.

Rainy and cold? Perfect weather to wear one of my favorite pairs of boots. ❤️

digital illustration showing Zuko and Iroh taking a break together. They are sitting on the floor at a small table and Iroh is pouring Zuko a cup of tea. Behind them is a window. In front of them is a blurry open door, to visualize that the viewer is getting a glimpse of a moment between the two. Zuko is a teenager with short black hair and brown robes, Iroh is an older man with long grey hair and a beard and green robes.

[ #Avatar | #ATLA | #Zuko | #Iroh ]

I think about the brief time in which they enjoyed a more normal life in Ba Sing Se often.

A hermit crab looks hopefully into the middle distance on a sandy beach with some leaves strewn about

You’ve all been very good this week, please have a crab.

It was a very cathartic kind of crying, which is the best kind really (even if sniffling into a face mask is kind of... soggy).

Congratulations! Lighthouse was one of the best things I read this year. (It made me cry on the bus several times. 😅)

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a greeting card with an illustration of two mossy kittens playing around a log. The kittens are decorating the space with red berries for the holidays.

A sticker book with a pink, blue and yellow space background. there are ethereal cats floating around in the starry spacescape.

a product photo of a sticker depicting a bottled moth kitten.

a product photo of a cat that looks like an orange, white and black koi fish that has a little hibiscus flower on its head.

✨ I've been adding new stuff. ✨
These are a few of my favorite new additions to the shop:
Very Berry greeting cards, Space Cats reusable sticker book, Bottled Moth Kitten sticker and the Koi Cat stickers!

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{ #art #artistshop #shopsmall #blueskynightmarket ]

Dick Cheney dies, Zohran Mamdani wins, a beaver moon shines in the sky… I just know the Etsy witches have been busy.

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.

The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.

The Absolute Units art. Three giant sheep hover over the English countryside.

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏

Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.

In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.

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my name is Oz
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair

(for context, this was in response to the fiancée of the friend who was hosting our get-together asking us how we wanted our coffee.)

One of my dearest friends described our little core group of four weirdos as "two of us have the palates of toddlers, and two of us are actually old men", and let me tell you I have never felt more seen. 😂

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

"You planted my heart in the sweet earth and it thrust taproots deep,
sprouted and budded and opened.
My love is a peach tree heavy with hot fruit, my love
casts a shade over the grass. Lead me to the feast
of your wild body, wrap me in the prayer shawl of your presence."

beahm apples, painted by bertha heiges, 1899

beahm apples, painted by bertha heiges, 1899

There are so very few opportunities in this modern life to say this, so I just want to record for posterity:

My copper merchant has delivered very high quality copper, in the amounts requested.

Break the cycle.

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Bisexual historical heists? Sexy demons? Regency beekeepers in political protests? Sapphic detectives solving mysteries in space? We’ve got ‘em!
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