mystrangebones

ppl who still commission their favourite artists even in this era where everyone is broke and genAI is being pushed on us at every opportunity—you are appreciated more than words can express!!!

If you haven't had the pleasure, it smells much better than cat litter 😅

When I started getting days-long migraines like 9 years ago, I started getting olfactory hallucinations, that stuck around after the migraines mostly resolved. Sometimes they precursor a migraine, sometimes not.

One recurring one is snake excrement, and it really makes me miss my baby noodle.

I'm so sorry. That's such bullshit:(

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A single line poem

A dark, digital painting of a figure that is just a torso with arms that are shrugging and has a floating skull wearing a golden laurel. There's a glowing orb beneath the torso.

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2024, Ren Varela
Digital (Clip Studio Paint EX)
🎨🖼️ #DarkArt #DarkSurrealism

Long ago in the South, in a BDSM club, yours truly is deep in conversation with a man who says he's mastered the non-cracked cheesecake by counting exact number of stirs. Say, 362.

This is your reminder to use a waterbath, & that seriously unhinged shit goes on in those places.

A pale ginger tabby kitten and a gray adult tabby have planted themselves on a printer and PC tower, respectively, to judge me while I'm trying to clean my work area.

These two assholes are so judgmental that I left my desk in such a mess after craft fair chaos.

Dana Scully in the X-Files episode 'Død Kalm' They've made her look like a stereotypical old lady looking so sad she's old

Gillian Anderson present day on a red carpet in a bright red dress looking like the hottest person on the planet.

Cackling in lesbian at the X-Files episode where they age Scully.

Ooh. There's going to be a Punk Market and musical festival in March in Huntington. Hoping they'll be into a whimsigoth occultist who hates power structures.

I am obsessed with this baby. His eyes finally settled on a color and they're the exact hazel of my mama's eyes. She would have loved him to bits- she had ginger tabbies since her childhood and into mine. 🖤

Heidi (bald white femme with jewelrylike glasses) wrapped in a black shawl with Biscuit (tiny ginger-gold kitten) perched on their shoulder.

It might be illegal to be this relaxed. We're skipping Thanksgiving so I'm not in the kitchen, it's a sunny autumn day, and my tiny boy is in full snuggle mode.

Sell it! You deserve a cash reimbursement. Two of mine were signed & my son was begging me to ask more for the collection, but I was gonna just give them away so any money was a bonus.

Poster for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth showing Lady Macbeth whose back is turned to us, and Macbeth posed towards us with his hand on the back of his wife's neck. The long cut in the back of her dress reveals skin in the shape of a sword/dagger that Macbeth seems to be holding.

Poster for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth showing Lady Macbeth facing us with her cleavage cut into three pointy triangles. Macbeth is kneeling in front of her, away from us, his face in his wife's chest. The exposed skin of Lady Macbeth looks like a crown that aligns with the top of Macbeth's head.

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art

Both happy and vaguely surprised I was able to sell my NG book & comics collection. Extremely thrilled someone can appreciate them while giving me cash instead of him 😌

I kept them for a good while to see if I could ever stomach them but I get too sad about the books and angry at the man.

Photo of shelves in my studio. There are lots of vessels and wooden boxes full of art supplies along with a bunch of witchy stuff like a faux human skull and a bird's nest.

Prayers currently accepted for strength as I try to get my studio space functional for a huge art binge for a holiday show 🖤✨️

A tiny newborn kitten, desaturated ginger golden boy, is napping adorably on an embroidered pillow with my sketchbook and pencils next to him.

Biscuit's keeping me company while I sketch out a design for ChristmaSolstice cards ✨️

Again it’s not good that the most prominent leaders of the party keep insisting it’s a trap to talk about “identity” when the Trump administration is pushing white supremacy.

He's still here! I'm keeping this baby 🖤 He has two (2) braincells: Bottle at night, mommy cling always.

Heidi looking so happy with a black and gold kitten resting on their chest with a grey calico exploring the couch behind them.

Wow, surprise: It's much easier to find a forever home for adorable baby kittens who are weaned and litter-trained than to find a foster parent who can bottlefeed 😅

I'm so glad it worked out to foster them myself. It was a joy. And the golden butter Biscuit stole my heart forever.

Democrats in a year: We're proud to announce that we're fighting to make sure the public executions are conducted with fair trade rope, American made firearms, and organic poisons grown right here in what was called America's bread belt before it became illegal to feed each other.
💙💙💙

Two farmers looking at a tower. The one of the left Is pulling up on their bootstrap to no effect. The farmer on the right is using a pully system and people pulling on the rope to pull him up the tower.

Idiom Origin

“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”

This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.

A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.

This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.

Drawing of a tall white tower against a black starry sky. The tower is shaped like a human forearm skeleton with a boney hand at the top appearing to clutch the moon between its pinky finger and thumb. Long curving trails of water droplets stream on 2 sides of the tower from upper windows.

The tower

#art

"We need a Joe Rogan of the left so that people (not me) will listen to him and then we can convert them to political donors and reliable Democratic voters."

That's not how this works. There's no demand.

You want viewers? Take CEO's and drop them in the tundra and film them being chased by wolves.

been outta church a long while but i do still have my father's priestblood in my veins & [licks finger too wetly, slowly flips onionskin pages] yeah, ok, they got jesus chilling with a sex worker in here & [licks finger too wetly again] mmmm...ok, i didn't think so...he doesn't build death camps.

I don't have energy to make anything today and worry my spirit has shrivelled, however perhaps an art sale could marginally inflate it

Two very small, soft and beautiful kittens. Daphne is a desaturated calico and she's half on top of Biscuit, an even smaller little baby who's a pale gold

Biscuit the tiny gold kitten lying on a pillow where a sliver of Teen Son is visible. Bat, a larger black baby kitten with huge round eyes, is peeking over Biscuit. A adorable kid is visible only barely in the bottom corner.

Biscuit and Daphne cuddles, and Bat doing a peekaboo, with tiny hint of cryptid son. #caturday

We have an excellent henna artist ✨️

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪