Digital painting of a twilight sky, dark blue, with a large cloud rising up into it. There is pink light cutting across the cloud. On top of the large anvil, a tangle of odd, tentacle-like shapes are spread out. There is a wash of dark grey clouds in the bottom tier of the frame.

We report: it is yet another beast that rose high in the sky at the last possible moment of the day. We could only follow it, and in the cold, we saw it reach across the sky with its strange arms and legs. Our expert looked at it with binoculars, and affirms it was only a cloud.

but wait

Digital painting of a sunrise sky, a pale blue sky with a layer of haphazard, pink clouds in the background, half-covered with some long blue-purple, fuzzy clouds.

We report when the dawn chorus is at its loudest, even over the morning traffic. All edges of the world are still blurry, whether it is from our sleep-filled eyes, or the simple fact of the dim light. It is chilly, and we are not all the way present, but we feel a little warm.

Illustration of two bears wrapped up in a quilt blanket. The beige bear shows a glowing pink heart to the smaller brown bear.

It's a love thing

Digital painting of a blue sky, filled with a variety of wispy and fuzzy white clouds. Some of them span the height of the frame, many are small and scattered all over, withering into the sky.

We report: around noon, the air is dry and the sky is blue like it has never rained before. It feels this way, despite the full gutters, the puddles, the mud we track wherever we go. The sun is as bright as it gets in late November, and the wind is a whistle instead of a howl.

A moment of appreciation for the camp food illustrations by George Kamitani for Dragon's Crown, it really set an insane standard for fantasy food illustration.

I've made about $17k all year, INCLUDING my adjunct teaching job.

There is this idea that anyone working in the arts has wealthy family help, and sure some do, but a lot of us are simply poor. If you enjoy someone's work please pay them for it. It is not greedy to want to be paid for your labor.

Digital painting of a cloudy sky in three layers: the tallest one on top, heavy, tinted silver, and underneath, a flat, opaque blue-grey. The last layer features distant, voluminous clouds bathed in pale yellow light.

We report as different skies meet into one: somewhere to our right, and to our left alike, something different is happening. We have to choose where to look, which is a common motive of heartbreak we suffer from. Worst of all, there comes a time when we must look away entirely.

Here are several happy Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana). Some are carrying babies on their backs. Fallen leaves surround them. The atmosphere is cozy and warm.

Happy possum

Digital painting of a blue sky, half covered in rain clouds. There is a rainbow in the middle, with a bright section showing against the clouds, looking washed out against the blue of the sky.

We report: after the fact, we think we drove through the rainbow, or by it, or under it. We cannot recall how it went exactly, although there were a lot of light and colours, and the rain glittered. And then, the rainbow faded so soon anyway, the whole moment felt like a dream.

Digital painting of a dark blue, starry sky, with a green glow above the horizon. There’s a couple of houses with glowing windows there, and a line of trees as well.

We report on a day that we stumbled through, tired, our mind stuck somewhere else. Only now, with the stars above our head, do we feel a little awake. Distant houses watch us with their orange eyes, but we do not feel observed, and we find our solace in this darkness.

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Illustrations of amanita muscaria/fly agaric mushrooms arranged into a repeating pattern.

Illustration of an amanita muscaria/fly agaric mushroom.

Illustration of an amanita muscaria/fly agaric mushroom.

A beautiful and majestic mushroom, amanita muscaria 🍄

#art #patterndesign #fungifriends

Digital painting of a dawn landscape, a lilac sky over a dark field of grass, with trees in the distance. There is a small bird flying above the field.

We report in the tall grass that remains when ferns have dried up and wilted. There is a skylark practicing its lilting flight across the meadows, the only moving part of this hushed morning. We follow the desire paths of foxes and boars along the trees, trying to dodge cobwebs.

Digital painting of some large, gold, fuzzy clouds in a deep blue sky, brown tones in the shadows.

We report: some clouds have taken it upon themselves to kickstart the sunset before the rest of the sky. First, the threads of gold that snag onto our eyelashes, and then the rush of humidity that takes hold of the air. We feel sparks and shivers in the crook of our neck.

Grapefruit 😇 #art #oilpainting

Frame 1: A blue background with green font that says “Native American Heritage Month” framed by black wavy lines. In a light green box, a line map of Turtle Island. With pink boxed framing them, there are two book covers from the QLL NAHM list: Buffalo is the new Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel and Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead.

Frame 2: A blue background with pink font that says “Two Spirit & Indigiqueer” framed by black wavy lines. With pink boxed framing them, there are two book covers from the QLL Two Spirit and Indigiqueer list: This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples and Queer Indigenous Studies edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, and Brian Joseph Gilley.

It’s Native American Heritage Month!  

We’re celebrating all of the Two Spirit and Indigiqueer people in our community, along with their stories! We put together a couple lists of books focused on Indigenous perspectives that you can check out on Libby!

Digital painting of a dark blue-grey sky: long, heavy clouds blending into one another, thin gaps of a very pale blue showing through.

We report: even with the weight of the sky, the clouds are rushing by. There is no time even for rain now, only the obfuscation of daylight, and the impression of a torrent streaming across the sky. The same few spots of blue curiously remain open through it all.

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The first two are painted in acrylic on canvas board. The third is crayola crayon on paper. All are cats that I rescued.

A photo of a newspaper advertisement, showing a zoomed in photo of a hand holding a Pilot brand fountain pen. "Make AI Jealous" is written in Japanese next to the hand, with "Write what AI can't touch" in English underneath.

Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it

Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

Digital painting of a partly cloudy sky. It is a cornflower blue, very light on the horizon. There is a row of burgeoning clouds there, and then a few fluffier clouds here and there, higher in the sky. There is yellow light coming from a low point, tinting the clouds.

We report in the mid-afternoon light, which it seems is in fact the evening light. The sun is trailing along behind low clouds, casting a golden something in the air. Our expert‘s coat is too thick for the mild temperature, but they insist on wearing it, visibly red in the face.

Digital painting of a night sky, with an apparently full moon highlighting a crisscross web of contrails surrounding it with its diffuse glow. Off to the right-hand side of the frame, there is a moon dog, a bright spot of iridescence. The sky is a dark blue, with city light glow tinting it slightly orange in the lower tier.

We report: since the sky is oddly bright, we look for the moon, finding it pretending to be full (as you do). It sits in knots of cirrus, like a particularly talented spider on its web. Our expert gasps at the discovery of a moon dog, brilliant remanence of second-hand sunshine.

Digital painting of a stormy sky: large, dark clouds looming and raining in thick curtains upon a small, pale blue corner of the sky.

We report in deep October, standing between two storm cells. The clouds rain well, assiduous in the task, and we are well-rained upon, impressed with the efficiency of the whole apparatus. We longed for this in the summer, so we try to enjoy it to the height of our expectations.

Digital painting of a twilight sky, medium blue, with deep blue clouds coiled around a small waxing moon crescent.

We report: the moon is in the sky again, only just dipping into the chilly night before it sets in a few hours. The clouds are spreading out along invisible patterns, like a flock of birds scouring the horizon. The air is redolent with damp wood, and the deep scent of the mire.

We report: a well of light dances on the water far away. The wind unhurriedly moves the clouds, and the patterns of the shade are predictable. Our expert stirs us towards the sunshine, and we immediately feel the heat high on our cheeks. The seabirds flee on our approach.

We report: a well of light dances on the water far away. The wind unhurriedly moves the clouds, and the patterns of the shade are predictable. Our expert stirs us towards the sunshine, and we immediately feel the heat high on our cheeks. The seabirds flee on our approach.

Illustration of Beowulf titled 'Heorot' by Yoann Lossel. Created using a mixed technique combining graphite, copper leaf, gold leaf, and silver leaf on paper. At the center, Beowulf stands on a rock, illuminated by a golden halo, facing a grand hall (Heorot) perched atop a hill, bathed in golden light that pierces a misty, dark atmosphere. The image is surrounded by intricate ornamentation in Nordic-inspired arabesques: intertwined motifs of dragons, serpents, and mythological figures rendered in copper and gold. In the upper left corner, a sculpted head resembling a Viking helmet or mask adds a narrative element. These details imbue the artwork with an epic and mystical aura.

I created this illustration in 2018 for an illustrated edition of Beowulf. 'Heorot' — graphite, copper leaf, gold leaf, silver leaf, and hydrangea petals on paper.

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Digital painting of a grey, cloudy sky, filled with a large murmuration composed of two parts joining in the middle. The clouds in the background are slightly wavy, bluish at the bottom of the frame.

We report: amidst the fluttering of thousands of wings, we spot some kind of vulture circling the murmuration. Every time it attempts a strike, the cloud of birds dissipates, and immediately, smoothly finds its shape again. Eventually, after a long time, it seems to get tired.

a digital painting of a juvenile five-lined skink sitting on a decorative pumpkin. it is surrounded by vine and leaves. the lizard is striped lengthwise down its body in white and black, transitioning to a bright blue tail about halfway down. the colors have been very saturated, and the shapes are abstracted to be rigid angles.

It's finally time for Skinktober!

What's that? No, I'm pretty sure it was never called anything else.
#art 🦢