My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

This is your winter holiday reminder that I sell a chicken hat knitting pattern for a steal! It's an easy make if you know basic knit and crochet 🐔🐥

Patreon Policy Team emailed creators saying they'll host a livestream clarifying existing 18+ guidelines on DEC 11. If you're a creator please show up! You can submit issues you'd like them to cover in the rsvp form.

I made a big version of the character design sheet that old comics used to use, if you want to use it. it could be useful #characterdesign

It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.

I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc. F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨ Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne More info below 👇

I love answering questions when i can!! Especially when it's something very specific instead of broad "how to get better at x" questions, bc then i can give more specifically helpful answers

in the unlikely event that any of yall are in birchington, i'm tabling at the renaissance christmas craft faire at quex park! 🌿✨️💚

I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate

Mm yes 2 am a week into december, my favorite time of year for (((remembering)))

I’m sure people are sick of me posting about this, but it’s the FINAL DAY to grab the Sickos Selection bundle! For $25 you can get BOTH of these books from me in ADDITION to 25+ other PDFs from other amazing creators! itch.io/b/3393/sicko...

The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge "Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."

So am i overthinking it or does this feel a little like a decision weighted in favor of all those Marble Bust Profile Classical-Purism Anti-Modern insufferable "history appreciation" types

I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being. Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.

If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.

Please keep supporting indie ttrpgs. It’s more important now than ever! Play something new, gift them to friends and family, share your favourites on socials, rate and review on @itch.io. Thank you!

a whole new world to explore

Masala Chai: black tea with milk, spices, and ginger Dirty Chai: Masala chai with a shot of espresso Café Mocha: espresso shot with steamed milk and chocolate Bastard's Mocha: coffee with a pack of hot chocolate stirred in Proposal: Filthy Chai, a Dirty Chai with hot chocolate stirred in

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It costs 0$ to share a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. Get 10% off using code BIBIPINSSALEWEEK on almost everything in my store!! Ends Dec 5th at 11:59PM MST. I rarely have sales. These bags can be worn in many ways! Store: Bibipins.com

These people want legal clearance for murder at scale, and they can just say it out loud, in public. Meanwhile, in here, if we get a little colorful expressing our derision for these monsters, the ban-hammer finds us with a pointed quickness.

Between the meet with Mamdani and now this, i can only assume there's a contingent of fashtypes out there giving themselves ulcers over what could be construed as some kind of soy-fueled beta commie optics pivot. Affordable housing, tiny efficient cars? What's next, free childcare?

By June of 350k Black women had lost jobs and it wasn’t really covered by anyone else til August, and Black women were publishing studies about this in journalism…. In 2020. If everyone wants to ignore Black womens conditions? They will suffer them

If you are a justice-minded person in Chicago, there's a good chance you are exhausted and catching your breath in the wake of the CBP surges here in recent months, but we can't just fight what's evil in these times. We must also fortify and defend what's good. We must defend our libraries.

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hi everyone! i’m going through some financial hurdles so it’d really help me if you shared this post promoting my brushes, maybe consider gifting them? it is the season 🫶 you can find them here: 🫶 www.patreon.com/MerlinGG ✨ ko-fi.com/everydaymerlin ✨ merlin2g.gumroad.com

Call to Action for anyone in the Bay Area! The Concept Art Association is asking for a big turn out of people to voice their support for AB-412; a new California Bill that would allow artists to get clear evidence from GenAI companies that they've stolen their work. #antiai #fuckai

Button got separated from the group when Theodora died, but luckily nothing can break the bond between a halfling and her abomination <3 i challenged myself to do the inks in one sitting, which i could have done if i hadn't started at like. 9 pm lmao [ #art #oc #ttrp ]

i've been drawing on my portable tablet for months and need to recalibrate my hand to use my non-screened PC tablet again lol. what better way to do that than my favorite thing: character expression design [ #art #oc ]

"It means somethin' like 'friendship', which'll be important once she gets bigger. But I think she's got a pretty good shot, cause maybe you just gotta raise em right, right?"

you can't "look at the trans men" your way out of transmisogyny (opening up trans men to anti-transmasculine violence & humiliation). bigots do not operate on gotcha logic especially when they can just use michfest logic in response to keep trans women out anyway 😭

who is your favorite illustrator/comic artist who draws everyday mundane, seemingly boring, interiors really well and makes them lively and interesting to look at? it's a very specific skill and not everyone is good at it!

Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.

"Maybe it would be fun to start collecting little charms for my earrings :-) i dont want do buy from big jewelry stores, but i bet there are some cute handmade things on etsy-" etsy: can i interest you in twenty seven million listings of the same dropship charms mislabeled as handmade? "ah. right"

Massive cheese recall! It’s a lot of shredded cheese sold under store brands so please check carefully. www.allrecipes.com/cheese-recal...

This is DEFCON 1 priority, y'all. Call your senators, reps, call your friends and tell them to call their senators and reps about this. Call your grandma and tell her to call her senators and reps about this. What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.

Anyway, this is why live drawings are so heavily recommended to folks still learning how to draw. When you do studies from flat images, there's a lot of possible distortion that the observer may not be aware of. Observations from life are being received by that universal organ, the ol' eyeball.

Put very, very simply: "the further things are from the camera, the closer they are to each other."

Its not "the worst" as in "i hate hearing it", but the MOST EMOTIONALLY HARROWING was the time as a 16 year old i doodled a tree in my lined paper notebook and ran out of room for the top right quadrant of branches, but a girl in my class looked at it and said "oh wow... can i get a tattoo of that"

Celestial dragon ✨

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

It begins ✒️

There literally wasn't a single citation given. Even when she referred to the Bible--the ONLY text she refers to by name--she couldn't even cite which verses she quoting. I was an English student at OU. I can fuckin guarantee that any one turning in an essay like this--Bible or no--would get a 0.

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I just I love comics I love them so much, and comic creators deserve better for all their hard work Here's a bunch of my personal must-reads; please read comics, they will improve your life by 300% according to sources (it's me, I'm sources) bookshop.org/lists/must-r...

My wife’s favorite book is Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, and for her birthday this year I made her a Gideon custom figure and diorama #thelockedtomb

You gotta be silly, dude. At least a little bit. You gotta have a spring in your step and a smile in your heart or else none of this matters

So, you admire horse whiskers too, I hear you (I have more) 🐴🐴🐴🐴