H. Dithmer

Detail from a painting of the head and upper body of a European goldfinch, photographed with a penny and a traditional Chinese brush. The piece is small and delicate. The bird's head is roughly comparable in size to the penny, only slightly larger.

European goldfinch. Watercolour on silk mounted on paper.

I had to wash out and repaint the scapulars and marginal coverts three times. Hugely relieved it worked out in the end. 🥲

I'll post the full piece when it will be available at auction next week. 🙏

Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics

My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics

www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...

I'm trying to connect more with the ttrpg community in general at the moment. I make short video reviews of a different #ttrpg game every week on YouTube and I'm keen to find more games to review. What games are you looking forward to in 2026?

Stonetop is the big one, was incredibly stoked even before the kickstarter, and now it's finally, FINALLY getting here

Normalise saying ‘not all men’ when a man does something right.

My son is at ski practice, so I’m in the warming hut with a terrible coffee, experimenting with a more traditional way of drawing/painting. Kinda fun to do something different.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.

Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Dreamt that my bike broke down and I was at a luxurious hospital getting treated for 'diversity addiction'

What the hell does that even mean?

This is why I don't crowdfund my games. I just have way too much anxiety for it!

Can't believe we're actually getting Stonetop in our hands this year. I haven't read any playtest material yet, because I wanted to read the finished version blind, and now it's almost here! Just lovely

Heirs of the Leviathan wasn't tested much, so I never got around to playing a full campaign of it until like a year post release.

I can't believe the amount of game I managed to put in such a tight package!

knight with flail, tower with light, two witch king types

using some of my drawings to tell a story, i guess.

Collages on Gaza

I feel it with Denmark too; yeah, US imperialist interest in Greenland is a great distraction from our, uhh, history of forced sterilization.

Social democracies are not innocent bystanders.

I hope they don't stop at TikTok, but go after every oligarch!

TTRPGs are such beautiful, impossible things. Think of how hard it is to get any group to get on the same page on *anything*, and then marvel at how we play these games that allow you to build worlds together.

I think about that a lot.

This isn't defeatist because the fight has already been won. It was won when animation companies moved from hand painted cells. Maximize profits. Until that system goes the same set of calculations will be made and repeated.

Renfeild: I booked your passage on the Demeter, master
Dracula: thankfs. dont foret the box of,, dert

Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."

A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.

Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

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Also the point of taxing the rich isn't just to increase revenue, it's also to curb inequality.

Every RPG is a one-page RPG if you only read one page of it

Mike Pondsmith Michael Alyn Pondsmith (born April 14, 1954[citation needed]) is an American roleplaying, board and video game designer. He is the founder of R. Talsorian Games and the creator of the acclaimed Cyberp...

So it's Black History Month and that means I think it's a good time to get familiar with Mike Pondsmith, if you're not already.

When you see R. Talsorian Games, that's him. When you see Cyberpunk 2077, that's his world.

Mekton, Castle Falkenstein, also him.

cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Po...

A solitary figure wanders through snowy terrain. The figure casts no shadow

sad ghost casts no shadow

#digitalart

Yildiz, the dreamer 🐑

Gray tone ink drawing of a big ugly face. Maybe a stone idol or a troll or a giant. I don't know.

Love to take an invigorating nap by leaning back in my chair with my feet up on the desk, secure in the knowledge that none of the king’s prisoners (especially not the one with the oddly charming rodent confederate) will notice or attempt to misappropriate the ring of keys hanging from my belt

Soirée chez Castel
(Encre et gouache)

Just backed this, really intrigued by the Twin Cities setting (I love The City & The City) and by seeing Houses of the Blooded as an influence.

Also got me to read a cool ancient poem, always a plus!

Just a reminder to folks.

Shipping is as expensive as hell and indie creators should not try to subsidize it.

It will tank their project.