Zannah

Male canine leaning on a pumpkin bean bag, with a green glow, wearing purple stockings with spiderwebs on them

An early piece to celebrate Halloween
(Markers, pencils, acrylic brushes)

I’m in a weird position because I work retail, but for a tiny unique place with a tight knit community and a great boss. Literally told them the other day “if the govt kills me, politicize the hell out of my death” and they get it. My long term goal is to keep myself and them alive, lolsob.

A cute pose reference of a thin white female model in a grid anatomy suit wearing a pointy black witch hat and carrying a pumpkin.

"Hmmmm what shall I turn this into...?"

From the shoot today! 🪄🎃
More to come.

#PoseRef

Oh my God this.

I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

You’ll now be able to get an updated coronavirus shot in every state without a prescription, according to the American Pharmacists Association.

CVS and Walgreens have stated you won’t need to attest to any underlying conditions and the questions will be removed from their online booking system.

Hey uh, Ireland...you...got a place I can crash?

Grayscale map of the Atlantic showing most of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. There are arrows showing the direction of trade, and each arrow has at least one number attached to it. The numbers match a key on the side that lists the products being traded and their place of origin. There are 15 different sets of commodities listed: 1:Midlands & Birmingham: Guns, Gunpowder, Metalware, Silks 2: Liverpool & Lancashire: Cotton-linens 3: Lancashire: Linens, Cottons, Cotton-linens 4: India: Cottons Cowries 5: Midlands & London: Metalware, Silks, Ceramics, Glassware, Guns 6: London & Glasgow: Credit, Shipping Insurance 7: New England: Beef & Pork, Fish, Rum, Wood, Whale products 8: Mid-Atlantic: Grain 9: Chesapeake Colonies: Tobacco 10: Carolinas, Rice, Indigo 11: Caribbean: Sugar, Molasses 12: Brazil: Coffee 13: Brazil: Gold 14: Mexico / Peru: Silver 15: Britain: Grain, Manufactures The map has a set of grey arrows going from West Africa to the Americas showing the number of enslaved workers transported. The arrows are sized relative to the numbers. The largest arrow shows 6 million enslaved workers going to the Caribbean. 3.5 million went to Africa, 650,000 to the Spanish colonies in Central and South America, and 400,000 to North America. A key in the bottom right lists a set of African kingdoms that participated in the selling of enslaved workers, including Benin, the Oyo Empire, Dahomey, the Ashanti Confederacy, the Kingdom of Allada, the Kingdom of Whydah, and the Nupe people. These kingdoms are outlined on the map.

Greyscale drawing of a floor plan of what looks like the first floor of a house, with ten rooms and a flight of stairs. The title at the bottom reads: "The Magic Bookshop." There are two exterior doors: a front door and a back door. The floor plan is on a tattered piece of paper that looks as if it is being unrolled from the top, so there is a curl of paper, or a scroll, at the bottom. Around the floor plan are four animals. A cat, labeled Angel, is resting on top of floor plan, dangling a paw down. To her left is a huntsman spider named Drusilla. At the bottom of the page on the left is a golden retriever named Willow, sitting behind the scroll like a good boy. On the right side is a cat named Spike, who is sitting on top of the scroll and crushing it like an jerk. Typical dog and cat stuff. There are four piles of books around the outside of the floor plan: two large, and two small From top left down in a switchback pattern, the rooms are labeled: Yellow: Books with gold covers Possibility: Mystery, Crime (where they do the spell) Exeunt Omnes: Older books (where Kennedy finds the magic book) The Office (where hazel makes tea) Bathroom Gurgler: Sci-fi, Fantasy (where Hazel goes to hide out) The Scriptorium: More modern books (where Hazel sends Luke to find a book for his niece) Taboo The Fishbowl: Romance (where Luke makes a pink and purple bookcase) Pooh Corner: Children, Young adult (where Bob has his armchair and the silent book club happens) A label in the central hallway reads: "(where they put a bookcase for Today's Donations). Another label on the stairs reads "Hazel's loft apartment" and there is an arrow pointing up the stairs.

Art. A greyscale map of southern Africa showing different biomes. The map map key indicates 7 different biomes: Succulent Karoo; Fynbos; Albany Thicket; India Ocean Coastal Belt; Mixed Woodland; Grassland; Nama-Karoo; and Kalahari Savanna. Each is represented on the may by a different shade of grey, with areas of more rainfall being darker, and areas of less rainfall being lighter. Several of the rivers are labeled, as is the Indian Ocean.

Art. Colored map showing the locations of Alderely Edge, done in a fantasy style. The map is drawn to look like an old map done on parchment, with torn edges curling up. Two bars with ribbons wrapped around them form a frame at the top and right sides of the map. The ribbon on top is blue, the one on the right is a dusty red. On the right side of the map, between the frame and the edge, the map is colored turquoise and does not show any land forms. Written in large vertical letters in this space is the maps' title: "The Edge". The main part of the map is cut with forests and cliffs, and has 13 locations noted. Each location name is in a small frame that looks like a torn piece of parchment. Two roads cut across the map, one labeled Macclesfield Road and the other labeled Artists Lane. They meet in the bottom 3rd of the map by a location called "The Wizard Tearoom." An arrow at the top left points up one of the roads and has a label reading "to Alderely Edge (village). An arrow a the other end of the road, at the bottom of th emap, reads: "To Macclesfield."

Friends, with the world on fire, it feels useless to be here selling my services. But I do need to keep the lights on, and the #maps pay the bills.

So...if you need a map(s) for a book project, let me know! I have space for new commissions.

Here are a few of my favorite maps I've done lately:
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Hell is not hot enough for those people.

More telegram stickers.
done in blender.

Figured out how to generate a outline, rather then hand drawing.

I knew about them growing up in New England, but definitely never saw one in person.

aaron @hillenjoyer.bsky.social ai inspired me to start making art because instead of comparing myself to fucking leonardo davinci or whatever i just have to make something more worthwhile than the worst thing ever, a bar i can easily clear September 26, 2024 at 11:06 PM

20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could

now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest

Agree. My parents attempted to police my reading materials when I was a kid. All that did was teach me to be sneakier in getting the books I was interested in.

This is one of the reasons why so many artists were raising the alarm about ordering specialty art supplies that we use from overseas. Probably wont be able to do it again for a good long while

So if you're a marginalized person in particular saying fuck trans people, #1, you're garbage, but #2, you have ZERO right to bitch when the face eating leopards decide you're the next face to devour.

Are you NEW.

Do you think once you add a gray area to who is and isn't people it magically stops?

The moment you concede some lives are acceptable losses--I'm speaking specifically about trans people rn--you're adding a gray area to who deserves bodily autonomy and safety in a society.

Once you concede some people are acceptable losses, you've established other lives are ALSO negotiable.

WTF, nobody should just expect to get followed back because they follow someone. I certainly don’t! I follow people I know, folks who make interesting stuff, and people who say neat things. If they wanna follow back, cool. If not, that’s also fine. Only weirdos and engagement farmers obsess over it.

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Same people who complain that the _recent_ Star Trek “got political”, not understanding it always has been. Can’t see the forest for the trees people.

The tech is a tool. There are narrow, specific, well defined use cases where it’s a good fit. GenAI overall is garbage with a big marketing budget that’s suckered a lot of otherwise smart people into a cult. Speaking from experience growing up in and escaping one. The language is the same.

Right? I could have done without the allegory.

Yeah, no animal companion that I remember on that trip, just the kids and Puddleglum. He’s a wet blanket the whole time and not fun to read about.

I don’t think we’re going to fix bad faith edgelords gleeful about finding a new dog whistle for an old bad word.

In this case, though, it feels like the hurt feelings of folks upset by criticism of their toys cloaking things in social justice terms to make it seem like an ethics argument.

The Chronicles of Narnia BBC Series - YouTube

Ha, found a playlist of all of them on YouTube for the curious. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

There was a BBC movie of it in the 90s. That was as far as they got in the series, though. The production values weren’t the best. It got played at my Christian school as one of the acceptable fantasy movies.

Those were also both my favorites, because they showed some of the world beyond the borders of Narnia. It was some of the only allowable fantasy I got as a kid because of the allegory stuff. Parents were very clear on Aslan-as-Jesus when we were reading it, heh.

Two not terribly likable kids drag a depressed marshwiggle across a grim landscape. It reads more like the darker parts of LotR (I know Lewis and Tolkien traded chapters here and there) than most of the other books. Also not one of my favorites.

Yeah, I have a queer/trans community IRL, but I kind of found it by accident??? Until a little over a year ago, the vast majority of folks in my circles were mostly online.