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Artist, Illustrator, & Educator johnleedraws.com linktr.ee/johnleedraws

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Ghost in the Shell (1989–1990): A detailed side-profile illustration of a young woman with short black hair and intense red-brown eyes, her face and neck overlaid with glowing white circuit board patterns resembling electronic circuitry. A complex mechanical headpiece with robotic arms, wires, cables including a green and blue one, and a small rectangular device labeled with Japanese text and the date 1989.5.25 is attached to the top of her head. The background consists of intricate dark green circuit board designs with geometric patterns. The artwork is signed by Masamune Shirow.

Ghost in the Shell (1989–1990): A detailed side-profile illustration of a young woman with short black hair and intense red-brown eyes, her face and neck overlaid with glowing white circuit board patterns resembling electronic circuitry. A complex mechanical headpiece with robotic arms, wires, cables including a green and blue one, and a small rectangular device labeled with Japanese text and the date 1989.5.25 is attached to the top of her head. The background consists of intricate dark green circuit board designs with geometric patterns. The artwork is signed by Masamune Shirow.

Ghost in the Shell (1989–1990) promotional telephone card illustration of Major Motoko Kusanagi by Masamune Shirow.

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A painting of a bird beside the text "can anyone tell me what the fuck is going on?"

A painting of a bird beside the text "can anyone tell me what the fuck is going on?"

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China’s Fragile Future How secure is the CCP?

Read Andrew Nathan’s review of β€œPolitical Trust in China” by Lianjiang Li and β€œInstitutional Genes” by Chenggang Xu, two books that imply a bleak future for the Chinese Communist Party.

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πŸ˜‰πŸŽŸοΈ

25.02.2026 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I never bought anything so fast in my life

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Animation by Toshihiro Kawamoto, Toshiyuki Inoue, Mitsuo Iso, Yoh Yoshinari, Ko Yoshinari, Koichi Arai, Hisashi Ezura, Yasushi Muraki* | Ghost In The Shell / game opening (1997)

#penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

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A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

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Imagine for a second if this was a multi-use cultural/retail/living space with community buy-in from all the various existing Chinatown groups instead

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Kinda maybe don't fw this?

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what if those ppl met and fell in love w each other, but unforeseen circumstances prevent that life from ever happening for them, and then later they visit Cambodia and they're like ohhhhhh fuuuuucccccccck

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Celebrating the Year of the Horse with Jason Raish | Adobe
YouTube video by Adobe Celebrating the Year of the Horse with Jason Raish | Adobe

Adobe came to film me for Lunar new year. Nice edit (even if I sound like a dried up toad) www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJQC...

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found a god-tier panel in a history of hyrule promo zine

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Brutalist KFC in Mombasa r/brutalism

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Happy Horse to all those who partake

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#sketchbook #sketch #art #illustration

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From Shirow's Ghost in the Shell manga: tree panels of Motoko Kusanagi diving backwards off of a building and fading out of sight through optic camo.

From Shirow's Ghost in the Shell manga: tree panels of Motoko Kusanagi diving backwards off of a building and fading out of sight through optic camo.

The GitS manga's first depiction of optic camouflage looks really pretty in color.

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That panel burned itself into my brain chemistry

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Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show Was Party as Protest And this protest is about Boricuas taking back narrative control, and shifting that narrative to one of love.

I got to re-up my Super Bowl XL Halftime show predictions/PR history breakdown from October for @teenvogue.com ! New intro to the original essay below ✨✨✨

www.teenvogue.com/story/bad-bu...

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My comic β€˜EVERYWHERE’ is about a girl who meets a boy in a tulip field 🌷

After losing one of my best friends to s*icide, it was a way of tackling that grief the best way I knew how & how I ultimately approach those who come and go in our lives.

Link to my comic: chainsaw-shan.itch.io/everywhere

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only in america could:

watching fun ball game = billionaire getting richer off of bombing civilian targets

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My nba team's owner has been heavily implicated in actual war crimes selling drone parts for weapons, and they just traded away the best player to start a rebuild

wtf i hate rich ppl

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Also related Noel Sickles did an illustration about my gramp's unit in ww2

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Just a reminder that I do reportage

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Scoffing Down That Dog
'Fatal Fury'
NEO GEO

Scoffing Down That Dog 'Fatal Fury' NEO GEO

Scoffing Down That Dog
'Fatal Fury'
NEO GEO

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ai wrote this when they prompted "target a successful writer"

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AI is absolutely insane, beautify these slides about family separations wtf

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screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

bars

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Chow Yun-Fat double fisting beers inside the 7-11 [from Wild Search (1989)]

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In her essay β€œRhapsodies in Blue”, Paige Hirschey explores the cyanotypes of Anna Atkins: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/anna-atkins-cyanotypes/ #longreads #photography

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