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Can someone recommend Book Stores who are Neurodivergent and LGBTQ friendly? I'm planning more signings for my new book Becoming an Artist and I need welcoming places for my readers who mostly fall under the Neurodivergent and LGBTQ umbrellas. 1/4

Help me out here: My wife @dsavaproducer.bsky.social made homemade chocolate chip cookies. Hot out of the oven. Delicious. Now, is it MY fault I ate so many that I got sick? Or HER fault for having the audacity for baking them? She's obviously the villain in this story. Right?

Happy Galentines Day to all that celebrate.

How did I not know that Sir Ian McKellen played Nosferatu in a 1988 Pet Shop Boys Music Video???? www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlIs...

What Would It Cost to Feed the Entire World? U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley told us it would take an estimated $40 billion each year to end world hunger by 2030.

I feel like this is such a important and wonderful paragraph from @ssavaart.com s new book "The world needs us artists. It needs our art in whatever form we wish to create. It needs poets and painters and dancers and singers. It needs art in color and in text and through weaving and rhyming. -

Spent the morning drawing curls and listening to records.

One of my favourite creators, @ssavaart.com, the digital version of his book is on sale at most places afaik until valentines day, I got mine this morning, and highly recommend getting a copy!

New Videos (I'm doing Long Form Videos Now) up on my Youtube channel! I hope you like 'em. www.youtube.com/@ssavaart

I know there's a few short-form-content junkies out there that reeeeally need to watch this: youtu.be/uDkyP37JgY0

Today through February 14th you can get the eBook of Becoming an Artist for only $2.99 wherever you get your eBooks! If you've been waiting to pick it up...now's the time!

My Library Card has a Racoon riding a Moped!

I like to dress up when I leave the Hobbit Hole, but I hate the feel of a sweater on my skin... so just know: If you see me wearing a turtleneck sweater... I absolutely have a Thundercats t-shirt underneath (or Speed Racer)

Every American needs to watch this:

How can someone be worth half a TRILLION dollars and go through life looking at EVERY PROBLEM IN THE WORLD and say to themselves "I could fix that... but I won't"? How does a human being look at a hungry family and... KNOWING they could end world hunger... do nothing? 1/2

Post a ship that's not #StarTrek or #StarWars.

I know I’ve already talked about this. But it’s a really big deal and I’m so excited!

Each week I visit my local bookstore and sign, personalize, and add the hair on the elf to a stack of books they ship anywhere in the world. Thank you all who send me messages (I read them all) and thank you to Landmark Books in Franklin Tennessee for providing this personal service.

Day Four of Black History Month (This is a collaboration I did a couple years ago with my buddy Levert Blount aka Levert the Bassman)

Day Three of Black History Month (This is a collaboration I did a couple years ago with my buddy Levert Blount aka Levert the Bassman)

Day Two of Black History Month (This is a collaboration I did a couple years ago with my buddy Levert Blount aka Levert the Bassman)

Day One of Black History Month (This is a collaboration I did a couple years ago with my buddy Levert Blount aka @levertthebassman.bsky.social )

Matthew 25:40-45 #LiamRamos

Current: $1505. Goal: $10k. Final days for Jay Ward Avatars for charity! A new avatar theme comes next week! And you can donate for a My Magical Ungulate avatar until the end of Feb! Only $50+CAD. Tax deductible! Details in jpegs! Donation link: tinyurl.com/mscure2026

Just posted a new long form video on Youtube and I'm really happy about it. It's about the making of Hair Journal Page 7. The Transgender piece. I hope you like it too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qAA...

I don't usually paint what I'm reading... but I was listening to Madeline Miller's Circe on audiobook at the time of this painting and... this kind of happened. Gouache on aquabord (also... hands. yuck)

Five jobs I’ve had: Domino's Pizza Delivery Video Game Designer Comic Book Artist Movie Director Author

I hate drawing/painting hands. And this painting, I think, shows that. I love everything else about this... but the hand. 😭 (also, I think I painted her hand too small) Gouache on Aquabord (my mom owns this piece)

Goodbye TikTok End of an era...

I signed books (and added the hair to the elf) at Barnes & Noble Stevens Creek while visiting my mom in San Jose. They have them on a table in the self help section. (This wasn't an official signing. I just happen to be in town and they had books) I'm flying home back to the Hobbit Hole now. 1/2

I'm trying out Upscrolled. If you're there, come say hi. ❤️ share.upscrolled.com/en/user/3bcf...

Assyrian Chada and Armenian Nazook and tea for breakfast with my mom. Apologies to my fellow Assyrians, but Armenian Nazook is superior to Assyrian Chada.

Got this art piece by @ssavaart.com a while back and finally got to putting it up. I fucking love this art piece! As a trans person, I say this is fantastic

If my job required me to invade a foreign country or kidnap people or shoot them... I would quit.

Fun Fact: When I painted this for Pride Month in my Hair Journal years ago, the musical notes in the background are "Sometimes the clothes do not make the man" from Freedom 90. Also... I have NO idea what they're listening to since I forgot to add a music player to the headphone cords. 😅

Didn't even come CLOSE to finishing my 2025 Travel Journal... so I'm going to just start 2026 right here. Hopefully this year I can leave the Hobbit Hole a bit more. Thank you for always inspiring me with amazing reference @redsreferences.bsky.social

Should Artists Be Activists? (A Reading from Becoming an Artist) #bensound #mlk #mlkday #becominganartist www.youtube.com/shorts/8ikZF...

Is Mark Cuban still funding bluesky? Because if so... are we okay with that and his love of AI?

Should I turn this into a poster?

A little painting last week at my local bookstore Landmark Books in Downtown Franklin, TN.

Library Friends: My book is now SEVEN WEEKS OLD and I am getting asked... a LOT if I can get my book into School Libraries (especially Jr. High and High School) to encourage young artists. My publisher doesn't really do this, so how can an author make this happen? What steps must I take? 1/2

I JUST got the news that the signed (with the original sketch) copies are FINALLY in the UK! Remember when I did those 7,000 original sketches and they sold here in the states? We finally got word that some copies made it to the UK and you can order one there. www.hayhouse.co.uk/becoming-an-...

I finished the inks for the Luna Fairy painting I started and you can now watch the entire process on my Youtube channel! youtu.be/1KWKewpL7B0?...

What is the best Adobe Photoshop Photomerge replacement? I scan in large images in pieces and need software to stitch them together at the best possible level. (recently ended my Adobe relationship)

Really disappointed in Libby adding AI to their Library App.

Happy 33rd Wedding Anniversary Cara Mia ♥ @dsavaproducer.bsky.social

Back to making art...

Trying to make art while the world is collapsing seems so pointless. Give yourself permission to step away if you need to. I'm doing the same... for my sanity.

When your anniversary is coming up and your wife's favorite series is the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice... (this was actually done a couple years ago... but I just found this pic)