Hello! some news: I'm writing & drawing a comic chapter book series for young readers! it's published by First Second, a long-running comics imprint for kids at Macmillan. Thanks to Robyn Chapman, editor, & Susan Hawk, agent, & YOU, friends who see my sketches. rachelelliott.me/2025/09/26/i...

La Hermana is a 24 page, silent, done in one, horror story. You can read the first 6 pages here 👇 tinyurl.com/LaHermana Watch the trailer here 👀

Hello! some news: I'm writing & drawing a comic chapter book series for young readers! it's published by First Second, a long-running comics imprint for kids at Macmillan. Thanks to Robyn Chapman, editor, & Susan Hawk, agent, & YOU, friends who see my sketches. rachelelliott.me/2025/09/26/i...

im on a social media break but just stopping in to share this please open the doc at the link, there are lots of resources inside it for faculty experiencing censorship or harrassment bye 💜 www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

friends i am taking a break from social media for a bit.

“CHiPs” premiered on this date in 1977.

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

hey any friends asked their feed to filter out certain name/s this past week? and did it work?

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awhile back i learned that “nigada” is cherokee for “everyone” and “nigadawu” is cherokee for an extended version of everyone. so in cherokee there is a “y'all” and an “all y’all”

Send a thank you note to a librarian! Don't forget school librarians!

Some glad morning when this life is o'er, cash will fly away; To a home on God's celestial shore, call will fly away (cash flies away).

"A Viking-age woman who goes through a magic portal to present-day Seattle and falls in love with a Filipino American graphic designer."

We are in the middle of a cancel culture movement but it's coming from the right. The free-speech warriors are targeting professors and attacking speech, revealing the bankruptcy of that entire movement, as @ryanlcooper.com notes. prospect.org/education/20...

So about that “transgender ideology” WSJ report

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

hey friends, if you teach comics and graphic novels (reading them or writing them) can you please tell me how you make the readings accessible? do you prefer to type up descriptions of the images in each panel, or record an audio file of you describing them, or something else?

its been too busy of a week for me to draw mr martin short hugging people

@okieelliott.bsky.social you and Mr. Short have been my mental hug on many occasion. Thanks for that. For real, these drawings delight my weary soul just when I need them.

Oh hey bluesky, any recs on a book about prehistoric fossils with illustrations and neat facts? (preferably of sea animals, and more than just dinosaurs, K1 is onto Cambrian now) (K1 has resorted to reading wikipedia, he asked me if there were books)

Since it's clear I'm going to need to put in extra work to cleanse the current timeline, how about Diego Rivera's horny radishes? Rivera painted this quasi-Surrealist scene of radishes in erotic poses—"The Temptations of Saint Anthony"—in 1947, inspired by an annual Oaxacan radish-carving festival

Banned Books Week 2025 Resources to Educate, Inspire Action www.slj.com/story/Banned...

The American Library Association is accepting applications for the 2026 Jason Reynolds/Simon & Schuster Travel Grant. Grant covers expenses of 5 Black/African American youth/teen services librarians or school librarians/media specialists who work in public or school libraries. #BlackSky #LibrarySky

Handle Spout Vessel in the Form of an Anthropomorphic Owl with Clasped Hands https://www.artic.edu/artworks/9321/

Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ?? 🦑 🌊 🌿

New page of CHICKENS! A TRUE STORY OF CHICKENS up on Patreon. www.patreon.com/c/Shaenon

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

I've compiled a bunch of picturebook #kidlit #kidlitart making truths that I think are helpful. Things like #9: From my Mom: “If you speak with your heart, people will hear with theirs.” open.substack.com/pub/jacobsou...

so... i was looking for a 2023 press release from the office of the oklahoma superintendent of schools, ryan walters, that has my book THE REAL RILEY MAYES on a list of "inappropriate materials in schools", and WOW, i had NO IDEA he went and MARRIED the main character.

Today’s Supreme Court ruling is just more proof that no matter what’s in the constitution, code, or regulations, the bottom line is this: the law is what powerful people say it is

i passed my cherokee 2 post-class test!

How to record ICE: 1) Record from a safe distance. DO NOT INTERVENE. 2) Put the DATE, TIME, & LOCATION on the video. 3) Ask for NAMES & BIRTHDAYS 4) CONTEXT, how many people were taken? What happened? How? 5) If possible, document vehicles used and agents, even if masked. @eltragon.bsky.social

For a story: looking to talk to Gen Z workers in different fields about how/if you’re pushing back against the “everything-is-an-emergency” approach to work. If you feel you can’t take this approach (because of your field, disproportionate pressure, etc) would also love to talk. Email/Signal in bio!

remember when the faculty of a department would meet with a university dean, and the dean would talk to them about, like, branding?

Vincent van Gogh, Rain, 1889 philamuseum.org/collection/o...

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

please forgive me but i repost drawings of martin short hugging people to keep myself from reposting 100 news items and typing “WTHHHH??” at the top

apparently theres only one more match game episode left, i hope theres lots of hugging

sometimes Mr. Short just straight up asks for a hug on Match Game, maybe this is a lesson to us all #drawingfromthetv

drawings of mr martin short hosting match game and looking at selena gomez's drawing of a butt with boots #drawingfromtheTV

Rabbit magician or knight! I really like that I gave the rabbit an eye patch :'D

The Rock Needle and the Porte d'Aval - 1886 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10209

reel version with music www.instagram.com/reel/DOO9RmH...

drawings of mr martin short hosting match game and looking at selena gomez's drawing of a butt with boots #drawingfromtheTV

oh look a day and time when everyone in the administration will be distracted by their own shiny thing

If you wanted to hear all the details of my life transitions, you're in luck!

please forgive me but i repost drawings of martin short hugging people to keep myself from reposting 100 news items and typing “WTHHHH??” at the top

Here is a quick sneak peak of pg 2 from Tess's graphic novel. tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com/product/take...

i accidentally wrote "spreadshit" in a comment for a student instead of "spreadsheet" how is your day going?