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I'm going to check out the Buffalo Indie Lit Expo today!

I remembered BlueSky exists. Here's a caterpillar. I took this video last month so it's probably made itself a cocoon by now. Just look at it go. Got important places to be.

Happy Birthday!

Digital graphic with the text "anti-censorship campaign" and screenshots of headlines about how multiple storefronts have removed NSFW content due to pressure from payment processors and Collective Shout.

I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones

Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign

But we can EASILY top 1,000!

I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send!

↻💬♡ to boost

We CAN make a difference 💕

#itch #censorship

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A pink and blue neon glowy photo of a pale-haired woman with Farah Fawcett bangs, clutching her chest - she's wearing a black leather or vinyl high-collared jacket. Against this image is white text reading: "WRTIING TIP: "This is too weird" - no, it's not, and we need weirdness more than ever..."No one will get it" - believe me, they will, you're not alone..."Writing this is emotionally uncomfortable" - good, good, you're writing into vulnerability which means it's working!"

What if I told you that in this age of AI slop and enshittification, there's nothing more important than your weirdness, your individual quirks, your human creativity and whatever your niche, people are willing to join you there, and that writing into weirdness & vulnerability is the answer? 🖤

A digital fanart painting of the ps2 game Haunting Ground. Fiona steps out from a dark background, one hand to her chest and the other resting on Hewie’s back, who walks beside her. Fiona has a worried expression on her face, looking past the viewer & to the right. Intangible hands grasp at her from the darkness, clutching at her arm, shoulders, and neck. The faces of the stalker enemies from the game emerge from the gloom; Debilitas, Daniella, Riccardo, and Lorenzo; their eyes glowing faintly in the dark. The left side of the background contains abstracted shapes reminiscent of the architecture in Castle Belli. The color scheme is muted, featuring dark purple and mauve hues along with warm off white tones.

[ Fortes Fortuna Juvat ]

#HauntingGround #Demento

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

If you want to stop funding everything Amazon does and stands for, you’ve come to the right place.

We’re Bookshop.org, an ethical alternative for buying books online. Every single purchase financially supports independent bookstores, allowing them to continue serving their communities.

We should all be way nicer and way weirder and we should all know we are broke and we should be kind to one another.

No one is making bank. No one is secretely a millionaire. Its all very hard. Things are very up in the air and we need to be nicer to one another. Solidarity and comradery.

MyLocalArtStore.com

St. Louis Art Supply even compiled a site to help you find local independent art supply shops!

www.mylocalartstore.com?utm_source=K...

A head's up for those of you who use analog art supplies in the US. One of the two largest distributors went out of business and indie art stores are suspected to suffer pretty significantly. Please support your local indie art shops if possible.

Newsletter from St. Louis Art Supply

So anyway, I created an updated version of that XdanielArt chart that contains all the Adobe alternatives since there are a lot more now than there were back when that list was originally made, and Adobe has continued to get shittier and shittier.

YouTube video by Becca Hillburn: Comic Artist How to Create a Bokeh (Lens Flare) Effect in Watercolor Tutorial

Painting is calming & centering for me, it allows me to recharge & destress. I love watching colors mix on the page, & I love how watercolor flows. Let me share my love of the medium w you today w a #watercolortutorial that demonstrates how to create bokeh (lensflare) effects!

I know I'm a bit spicy lately but I have developed an intense vendetta against people stifling creativity and scaring off others from creating and sharing fir no goddamn reason. Humans NEED to create! Everyone has art only THEY can express, a story only THEY can tell. I want to see it all!

Floorboard gang rise up. NobeyOne presents the Floorboard Guy plush. His candle lights up too! 🕯️ 😮

Only available for 30 days!
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Catwoman #77, variant cover. (Work-In-Progress)

Batman done and sent. Jumping onto my next Catwoman cover.

Then onto Harley Quinn.

Very busy week.

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

Ruhle: The left-leaning podcast MeidasTouch has just done the unthinkable—dethroned Joe Rogan to become the country’s most popular podcast…

This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/

Check out Thrift Books! I've ordered from them several times and they were great.

Add Thriftbooks✅️ to the list!

Midnight waterfall💜
Commissioned work
#embroideryart #embroidery #embroideryhoop #embroiderydesign #landscapeart #landscapepainting #miniatureart #beadwork

We will be painting art again tonight. Since the theme of this art is an imaginary world, the pace of line drawing is relatively slow. The reason for this is that I will be imagining and drawing the modeling. It is quite a mind-intensive process.

#Illustration

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Something people may not realize: a lot of the paper used to print books in the US are from China. In fact, a lot of the books are PRINTED in China, esp the ones from big publishers.

Expect the price of paper books to really hike soon. If you want paper copies of your favorite books, get them now.

Please keep this in mind: get physical books. YOU DO NOT OWN KINDLE BOOKS- they're essentially borrowed and can be removed from your collection! Or convert kindle to PDF/epub

Your reminder that good still exists all around us ❤️

Incineroar and Sprigatito big stretching on a window sill in the late afternoon

Big cat is still a cat

A hand is holding an embroidery hoop ik front of a grassy lawn. The cross-stitched embroidery shows a goose wearing a cowboy hat, red bandana and bullet belt. They are standing in a grassy area. On the left side of the goose's head, the text reads "Yee honk".

It's a lovely Saturday morning in February, and you are a horrible goose. 🪿 ✨

#art #crossstitch