I haven't been around much lately, so please give John Green five minutes of your time to say what I want to say to you. My hope for you is hope, both for your own sake and for all the things you'll do with it. 🌱

don't cry ok... tardigrade

Shieldmaidens ⚔️🛡️🐴 Rankin/Bass Eowyn and Hera from War of the Rohirrim! #art

Book Cover of the Day:

I always forget how Miyazaki's films make me think "maybe life really is wholesome and good and beautiful after all" until they're in front of me again. In life we fight for good things. Miyazaki makes me feel like they're just...there. All the time.

Mari’s new look in the making…

WOW✴*

The world is wide and full of wonders.

I've switched out my cover photo for a winter adventure for the season. Please join me in marveling at Bryce Canyon in the snow. ❇* #AmericaTheBeautiful #KeepPublicLandsInPublicHands #HZD #HorizonZeroDawn #Sunfall

mountain bluebird for the new year 🩵

You lose one light, you find another 🐇🌿

Go to bed! Yeah you too!

A final Micexplorers illustration painted by @louiems.bsky.social the last of 2025.

Wait, I think I haven't posted something new ALL YEAR 😱

A small hipster forge where they make craft blades.

Overgrown

micro microraptor 2" x 2" ink and watercolor on paper for sale: ko-fi.com/s/85035e67b1

The tiniest snow has been falling since just after dark

Sometimes what you need is to hear a good rant from somebody who sees things being taken apart, feels deeply that somebody's going to have to work to put them back together on the other side of all this, and has the hope and the will to start laying the groundwork now to be a part of that future.

Day 16 of #ArtAdventCalendar is a moon painting from 2023 before I decided to challenge myself by making the moon more realistic. It's more of a vibes-based moon :P

I steal a moment, Tuck it away in my heart, So it keeps me warm. #haikufeels steel

Speaking of Arthuriana, here are some Knights of the Round Table figures I drew up for Patreon some time back.

If you see this, post your purple art 💜

qrp with something watery 🌊

I just overheard my sister whisper, "It's okay, okay, okay," in the next room, like I do when I'm speaking to my own anxiety, and am relieved to realize she's talking to the cat.

Lavender Storm - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025 #photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #rain #petrichor #fineartphotography #art

Back from my unseasonably warm holiday travel, and not as ready to jump back into work as I thought I was. Post-vacation fatigue is real.

I painted something new! medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

QRP to reintroduce yourself! I'm Torres, a freelance fantasy illustrator. I work mostly with graphite and digital color. I love fairy tales and whimsical vibes in eerie and moody atmosphere 🪾🍂

Sunlight slips between snow-covered pines in the PA forest. #eastcoastkin #classicmono

We’ll follow The light Back to Ourselves. There’s still Time. Take my hand, Begin again. #poetry

Happy holidays ✨ [ #caemidraws #dnd #mars ]

gouache page

new fakemon for our world of Augury! Armordillo!

Wishes, like stars, can burn. Tangle like a spiderweb of constellations, a glittering noose of sharp-edged night. There are no safe wishes. Hearts are broken. Lives are lost. But when your calloused hand brushes the scars on mine, I wish, I wish, I wish silent words as if my heart would burst.

An excellent selection.

Anybody feel like giving ME a present this holiday season? First of all, aww, shucks, you're so kind! What I want for Christmas is to see folks helping each other through hard times. Please start with Jay, who has made my online experience better by being a lovely, thoughtful bsky friend. Thanks!

midwinter quiet the spaces between branches full of everything

important

Apologies to everyone following me this week. I don't automatically follow back, and I don't have time to check out your accounts. I'm sure you're very nice. If you reply to my posts, I'm liable to consider following back if I have time. Either way, happy holidays! ✴*

#Artober 3 - eyes #art #angel

Gossip Session 🫢🍵 #OC #art #ocsky

Gentle reminder that it's okay to go for a little walk, or a nap, and take a break from your family, even though you love them. It's easy to get overstimulated, or tired out from managing your emotions (and maybe theirs) around differing philosophies that come out when you all get together. 🍵🌱

On a nice, winter day 🐰 #sciart

we all just want a safe place in which to exist

Thread of my Loyal Hound Vesna comic:

Men are always complaining they don’t know what women want, when the answer has always been a man like Captain Von Trapp who rips up Nazi flags.

🪾 winter reveals trees’ true shapes how they’ve had to adjust #haiku #senryu #poem #writer

Yearning to be with the person you love? Check. Yearning to escape your own inner darkness? Check. Yearning to defeat the demon lord trying to take over your kingdom? Check. 2/2