House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly

bird's eye view painting of a neighborhood of a dozen small box houses covered in snow at night around a frozen moon-lit pond where a lone figure skates on the frozen aqua-green ice.

The Skater
- Leonard Koscianski

painting of winter scene: a snow-covered field with black birds around a watering hole or puddle near a group of stark black trees.

The Puddle Bathers
- Fiona Watson

*thats my artwork!*
— (fwiw) 😊

A white and pink doll bed rats on to of a fuzzy long-limbed pink stuffed animal in a thrift store.

This thrift store is selling both the bed and the monster under it. Economical!

THIS is how you reject a faulty premise. Don’t rush past the facts to argue with a straw man. Remind everyone of the facts first!

STAY DOWN, PAUL,
I'M NOT PLAYIN'!

the upright bass was banned from music in 2003 so be careful out there...

Gremlins is STILL the best werewolf movie.

That’s no ballroom…

painted wooden statue of a male figure wearing long black wig or head adornment. the body is iin white mummiform with arms crossed over chest. several lines of hieroglyphs are written down its body.

ushabti of Ka-ha, the Chief of Painters for the royal tombs - 19th Dynasty, circa 1279-1213 BC.

the ushabti is now in the Walters Art Museum.

Fund Me Fridays is back!

In honor of Link, who remains unjustly banned, I will be reposting mutual aid links under this thread.

Drop your links and let’s meet some needs!

the words "in god we trust" repeated in 13 lines one above the other; with each line the dollar symbol replaces one letter starting from left to right until all the letters of the last line are fully replaced with dollar signs.

in god we trust by Eric Amann

close-up portrait drawing of a young woman in red chalk on yellowish paper; her full lips curl into a soft smile while her eyes starkly gaze (perhaps startled or leary) at something unseen to her left.

drawing of Elisabeth Welch, 1946. Red chalk, 14½ x 11¼ in. — by Gerald Brockhurst (1890-1978)

Elisabeth Welch (1904-2003) was an American singer, actress, and entertainer noted for singing Stormy Weather in Derek Jarman's The Tempest.

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Why are people who study art taken to have greater expertise in art than the artists who create it?

the creative process is a capitalist food chain...

very few stumble out the streets and reap their own benefits.

i used to work with an old southern playa (jheri curl in 2001, toothpick always in his mouth) - he called it "slow walkin'" where you hang around until she runs outta options & finally gives you a chance. for him "no" meant "let's see how heart ache plays out in 5 more years." 😂

political wannabe: to be fair, i was a nazi 15 yrs ago...

voters: oh? and what helped you grow from that phase?

political wannabe: a week ago when when my maturity conveniently blossomed and i decided to run for office.

i mean, unless the smoke screen covers a city mile no one is gonna miss seeing a 2 story ufo flying from a billowing black cloud... 😑

bookcover for i know what you did last summer with a painted illistration of 4 young adukts, 2 male and 2 female, standing next to the open door of a car.

reportedly, Lois Duncan disapproved of hollywood turning her Hitchcockian psychological thriller into another slasher flick and tho ive never read her work i 100% agree with her...

BROOKLYN DREAMING Tomorrow sees the release of Dark Horse's new hardcover edition of Brooklyn Dreams. I wrote an introduction for the occasion and you can rea...

Tomorrow sees the release of the new @darkhorse.com hardcover edition of Brooklyn Dreams. I wrote an introduction for the occasion and you can read it over at my website.

www.jmdematteis.com/2025/10/broo...

a black and white photo of a woman sitting in a chair . ALT: a black and white photo of a woman sitting in a chair .

This means that the same doesn't always be repelled by each other or attracted by the opposite. It's 2025 darling, wake up. (/J)

A picture of He-Man

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day:

At least if you give your money to a round faced woman… you will have a round faced woman

who robbed the louvre? right answers only.

firefly shoulda had a second season and scavengers reign shoulda had a second season, but those injustices both pale to the lack of a second season for the dark crystal... that one is a true travesty.

malcolm x would talk about how the u.s. would positively receive african delegations while maintaining segregation for those of us here.

inclusion hits different for those lacking context.

it's like how america still struggles to see african americans as african or our place in the diaspora - insiders see & understand the spectrum while some outsiders are limited in how they perceive race.

illustration of the x-man character, storm, with a white mohawk with pink highlights. her brown skin appears atmospherically green (the sky behind her is green) as pink lightning streaks behind her.

Storm by Brian Stelfreeze

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

country darkness is scary af... it's like "whoa, we are all in outer space!"