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Back to school 🐈‍⬛📚✨

‘bread is bad for you’ ‘rice is bad for you’ sorry im not subscribing to the idea that staple grains that have been integral to cultures for centuries are evil. i love you carbs

she found a flower for you!

thinking about these guys again

HERE THEY ARE! Tattoos that stare back 👁️👁️

This was super fun, I’ve wanted to design more tattoos since I designed my first ones for myself. So if there’s massive interest in these designs I’ll happily make more sheets. Just reblog with what you want to see next and I’ll see what’s popular <3

❗️Tattoo Passes are available on my Ko-fi if you are interested in getting one of my designs tattooed as well as sticker versions of these designs available in my Redbubble❗️

paws at u paws at u paws at u paws at u paws at u

Here are some close-ups of my fav paintings, I still love the details and colors from these paintings :))

beginning vs end of the cycle

Cause back in my day we didn't need no feel-good pills and no psychiatrists

No, we just drank ourselves to death, and god damn it, we liked it

Who makes the call? What's a symptom, what's a flaw

Can it be both? Well I suppose that's an answer

Would you give up your humanity for just a touch of sanity

Cause God knows it's not like it's cancer

And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure

For the symptoms of being alive

It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure

But very few patients survive

And a little conformity never hurt nobody

But lately I've been worried that you're losing yourself

So how many milligrams of you are still left in there?

So, how many milligrams of you are still left in there?

[This user has mood swings.]

Well, that's our time. See you next week.

Art is not a hierarchy or progression where one style or subject matter is more inherently valuable than another. It isn't necessary to graduate to something more complex or realistic or serious in order for your art to be good. Your art is already good. Challenging yourself by learning new techniques and gaining new skills and practicing is wonderful. That's the joy of growth. Drawing the same exact thing every day because that's what you want to do is wonderful. That's the joy of multitude.

Art is expression, emotion, nostalgia, curiosity, comfort, joy, sadness. Art is an outlet, a way to share yourself with others, a way to give to the world, a way to give to yourself, a conduit for ideas, a well of humor, a space to take risks. Art can be a breathtaking landscape, art can be a simple pattern on the edge of a dish. Art can be a scribbled facial expression that makes you go 'yeah, I feel exactly like that.' Art can capture ugliness, oddity, uncertainty, beauty, charm, change, love, and so many, many, many intangible things. Art is everything, and your art is a part of it.

Cats social life. 🐈🐈

Nick Cave, London 1982

Photo by Bleddyn Butcher

[This user loves cryptids.]

Bring a friend! Or maybe an enemy!

EDIT: There’s been a lot of people asking/wanting a physical poster of this poster design, I don’t have any way to sell any of my art at the moment sadly.

EDIT EDIT: Scratch that. I’ve set up a Redbubble 🥳🥳 should be officially live in a few days!

EDIT EDIT EDIT: REDBUBBLE IS LIVE 🥳🥳

Wow, a Latin name too! Delightful. I'm glad I left him alone then! What a cool fluffy little creature.

Anyone recognize this bug? Spotted in the northeast US. Very cute and fluffy. Click for quality :)

hickory tussock moth caterpillar

Omg a mysterious stranger identified my bug this is so cool! You are so very kind and also somewhat cryptic. Thank you, and I wish you well!

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Anyone recognize this bug? Spotted in the northeast US. Very cute and fluffy. Click for quality :)

Anyone recognize this bug? Spotted in the northeast US. Very cute and fluffy. Click for quality :)

Rider of the Storm by Roberto Diaz

tattoo flash, 8-25-24

16 hidden isopods who are on their way to kill you

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Homemaking, gardening, and self-sufficiency resources that won’t radicalize you into a hate group

It seems like self-sufficiency and homemaking skills are blowing up right now. With the COVID-19 pandemic and the current economic crisis, a lot of folks, especially young people, are looking to develop skills that will help them be a little bit less dependent on our consumerist economy. And I think that’s generally a good thing. I think more of us should know how to cook a meal from scratch, grow our own vegetables, and mend our own clothes. Those are good skills to have.

Unfortunately, these “self-sufficiency” skills are often used as a recruiting tactic by white supremacists, TERFs, and other hate groups. They become a way to reconnect to or relive the “good old days,” a romanticized (false) past before modern society and civil rights. And for a lot of people, these skills are inseparably connected to their politics and may even be used as a tool to indoctrinate new people.

In the spirit of building safe communities, here’s a complete list of the safe resources I’ve found for learning homemaking, gardening, and related skills. Safe for me means queer- and trans-friendly, inclusive of different races and cultures, does not contain Christian preaching, and does not contain white supremacist or TERF dog whistles.

Homemaking/Housekeeping/Caring for your home:

Making It by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen [book] (The big crunchy household DIY book; includes every level of self-sufficiency from making your own toothpaste and laundry soap to setting up raised beds to butchering a chicken. Authors are explicitly left-leaning.)

Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair by Mercury Stardust [book] (A guide to simple home repair tasks, written with rentals in mind; very compassionate and accessible language.)

How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis [book] (The book about cleaning and housework for people who get overwhelmed by cleaning and housework, based on the premise that messiness is not a moral failing; disability and neurodivergence friendly; genuinely changed how I approach cleaning tasks.)

Gardening

Rebel Gardening by Alessandro Vitale [book] (Really great introduction to urban gardening; explicitly discusses renter-friendly garden designs in small spaces; lots of DIY solutions using recycled materials; note that the author lives in England, so check if plants are invasive in your area before putting them in the ground.)

Country/Rural Living:

Woodsqueer by Gretchen Legler [book] (Memoir of a lesbian who lives and works on a rural farm in Maine with her wife; does a good job of showing what it’s like to be queer in a rural space; CW for mentions of domestic violence, infidelity/cheating, and internalized homophobia)

“Debunking the Off-Grid Fantasy” by Maggie Mae Fish [video essay] (Deconstructs the off-grid lifestyle and the myth of self-reliance)

Sewing/Mending:

Annika Victoria [YouTube channel] (No longer active, but their videos are still a great resource for anyone learning to sew; check out the beginner project playlist to start. This is where I learned a lot of what I know about sewing.)

Make, Sew, and Mend by Bernadette Banner [book] (A very thorough written introduction to hand-sewing, written by a clothing historian; lots of fun garment history facts; explicitly inclusive of BIPOC, queer, and trans sewists.)

Sustainability/Land Stewardship

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer [book] (Most of you have probably already read this one or had it recommended to you, but it really is that good; excellent example of how traditional animist beliefs – in this case, indigenous American beliefs – can exist in healthy symbiosis with science; more philosophy than how-to, but a great foundational resource.)

Wild Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer [book] (This one is for my fellow witches; one of my favorite witchcraft books, and an excellent example of a place-based practice deeply rooted in the land.)

Avoiding the “Crunchy to Alt Right Pipeline”

Note: the “crunchy to alt-right pipeline” is a term used to describe how white supremacists and other far right groups use “crunchy” spaces (i.e., spaces dedicated to farming, homemaking, alternative medicine, simple living/slow living, etc.) to recruit and indoctrinate people into their movements. Knowing how this recruitment works can help you recognize it when you do encounter it and avoid being influenced by it.

“The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline” by Kathleen Belew [magazine article] (Good, short introduction to this issue and its history.)

Sisters in Hate by Seyward Darby (I feel like I need to give a content warning: this book contains explicit descriptions of racism, white supremacy, and Neo Nazis, and it’s a very difficult read, but it really is a great, in-depth breakdown of the role women play in the alt-right; also explicitly addresses the crunchy to alt-right pipeline.)

These are just the resources I’ve personally found helpful, so if anyone else has any they want to add, please, please do!

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