Being in love with a woman who has a 7-year old, and simultaneously being a perpetually broke graphic artist have revealed 1 very important secret that conservatives don't want men to know: My sense of security, family loyalty, and deep comfort in my masculinity come from doing domestic labour.

I designed the Christmas card this year for my local @ndp.ca MLA. Really fun project to work on! #Halisky residents will likely immediately recognize the corner of paradise (Halifax) I submitted. Can't wait for my postcard of it to arrive!

#Halisky I just finished designing these 8X12 posters as an homage to the commuters who walk, roll, bike and bus everywhere! Every day, thousands of commuters in the city get around without using a car. This subject is close to my heart, as someone who doesn't own a car and commutes by ebike.

Trying to remember that picking up a part time job because my design business isn't making enough money (YET) isn't a failure...it's just that my long term goals are still long term goals.

#halisky if you're looking for a refurbished bike, my beautiful bike mechanic friend Alex is holding a bike sale on Saturday! For months and months, he's been collecting old bikes and carefully refurbishing them to a really good standard. Bike prices are quite reasonable. Join us!

I'm feeling myself slowly becoming obsessed with animating stuff...it's gonna take over my life and make me even less employable, isn't it... #procreate #procreatedreams #animation #designsky #halisky

Lil bisexual masc witch for the timeline. If you're here, can you comment a spell to help me keep a part-time job? 🦎✨ #designsky #procreatedreams #animation #animationbeginner #halisky

Cosmic turtle process + tiny procreate animation #designsky #illustration #procreatedreams #halisky

Back in 2019, one of my first illustrations was this cosmic turtle. I had just decided I wanted to begin the long journey of making art full-time, and I sold the original to a dear friend. I'm about to start selling stickers with this design, so I figured it was time for a redraw! Turtle ASMR 👇

Did anyone else have a Gwent phase? #witcher3 #gwent

This was the finished product, for anyone curious!! #designsky #conceptart #illustration

This was the finished product, for anyone curious!! #designsky #conceptart #illustration

Little Guy explorations for a client #designsky #conceptart #illustration

PLEASE WISH ME ALL THE LUCK!!! I just had an interview for a part-time freelance position that would allow me to continue building my own business without worrying constantly about money. And I'd be so, so good at this job! It's more design + marketing. It's local. It's ethical. Fingers crossed 🤞

This is so smart. Took me 2 seconds to do. Opt in, go to "posts," heart your pronouns, done! Magic. Now you can see everyone's pronouns. Did #halisky miss this?

I'd love to hear from blind folks: should the way bluesky incorporates alt text into its images be the standard for all social media moving forward? Are there things that could be improved? As a sighted person, I find bluesky's alt text system smart. It's changed my own accessibility standards.

Very "Kimono comes from the greek word 'χειμώνα' (hee-mo-na)" energy here. (Quote from My Big Fat Greek Wedding)

Do you like this pink shirt with a cosmic turtle on it? Well the good news is you can have it. And thanks to modern technology, after paying for printing and shipping it to you, I take home enough profit to buy furniture for local ants. Proceeds of all sales go to ant bedding. www.ravenswild.ca

I'm obsessed with the fact that my girlfriend likes cheap Chinese food and we can go to the dingiest places in the city and it feels romantic

Google + apple + Netflix + 1 password for everything GF 🤝 Android + piracy + password manager + ublock origin BF

In England, the Cookie Monster is called the Biscuit Bloke

For every happy group of trans bionicle lovers, there's 1 salty conservative who HATES it when he realizes he's been enjoying the company of queer people #bionicle

Shop is now LIVE! I've been working pretty tirelessly to create witchy+ cosmic designs for the people who want to support my art, but don't need a graphic designer ✨ Link: www.ravenswild.ca Please read the product descriptions if nothing else. They're pretty funny. #halifax #designthreads

Who else has.... THOUGHTS about warlocks VS witches

Decided to throw up a little shop with a few limited designs. Official launch is tomorrow, but everything is live and these stickers are on there! 🙌 www.ravenswild.ca

Last night I hosted a blanket fort party and it was a wholeass VIBE. Real "conversation pit" energy. The blanket fort, it has been decided, will stay up all week.

Decided to throw up a little shop with a few limited designs. Official launch is tomorrow, but everything is live and these stickers are on there! 🙌 www.ravenswild.ca

Last night I hosted a blanket fort party and it was a wholeass VIBE. Real "conversation pit" energy. The blanket fort, it has been decided, will stay up all week.

Good morning! My monthly brain med injection is this morning. Medication stops me from believing I'm Jesus or propositioning men in the parking lot of a Tim Horton's, and all it requires is a monthly Clockwork Orange-like torture session where a giant needle is stabbed into the base of my skull!

Saw this weird sign next to the bathrooms in a cafe in Cape Breton on Sunday. This isn't an airplane or a gas pump, I'll smoke where I want to, thank you.

Made today in #Affinitydesigner. I'm an affinity witch, not an Ad$be witch. Would you buy window cling stickers with this design on them, for your spooky home? #designsky

Design client pays me a $1000 deposit: I am PEAK business owner. I'm so successful. Watch me crush this career forever from this point forward. It's been a month since someone hired me: I am terrible at this. Nobody will ever hire me again. I will die poor and destitute in a debtor's prison.

It's sneak PEEK. It's BEAR with me. That is all.

I hate the fact that whenever I decide to get on bluesky or threads and type every silly thought in my head, I get more #designsky clients and contacts. But in order to do that, I have to basically be on here all the time. I love talking about art but like -- there are waterfalls to chase!

Sometimes the world really does feel separated into Bad Guys and Good Guys, huh.

Last night, I made chicken and potatoes. Today I had chicken and potatoes for lunch. Coincidence?

I've been getting really really good at making homemade ramen from scratch. Marinating soy eggs for 2 days in the fridge, braising pork belly, and simmering broth on the stove for hours. Behold!!

So apparently 0° Celsius feels a lot warmer when you're sitting in the sun and smoking cigarettes than it does when you're biking to your appointment in shorts.

Ah, Monday. The day where I drink 7 coffees and smoke 5 cigarettes and start working at 11 AM, just like every other day. Yes, I draw silly little pictures for a living, why do you ask? #designsky

As much as I hate AI, I'm really not worried it's going to take my design job. AI can't *strategize,* a key element in doing small biz branding. And I'm noticing that new clients are turning to AI to iterate ideas -- and then coming to me to take what they liked and develop it. #designsky

I'm going to just drop that if windows defender warns you about a file called Hack!Windows64CRACK and you're freaking out because you've been engaging in...certain "activities," just know that to windows, those activities are indistinguishable from a real virus. You are the virus. Don't panic.

Sketch, line art, final. #gameart #ttrpgart #fantasy #frog

Practicing rendering and minimal lines and colour palettes with this elf+frog mount. Doing game art is kind of like a "background goal" for me. Designing logos pays the bills, but I've always had such a deep love for wacky n weird characters and concepts. #halifaxart #ttrpgart #conceptart #frog

Practicing rendering and minimal lines and colour palettes with this elf+frog mount. Doing game art is kind of like a "background goal" for me. Designing logos pays the bills, but I've always had such a deep love for wacky n weird characters and concepts. #halifaxart #ttrpgart #conceptart #frog

2024 was a big year for me. I drew a bunch, made more money from art than any previous year, registered my business in an official capacity, and designed lots of small biz logos. Join me in making art & design a full-time career in 2025! #artvsartist2024 #illustration #designsky

Had therapy the other day and it reaffirmed how often I use bisexuality as an excuse to internally dismiss the fact that I am actually Very Gay still, and holy moly...big feelings associated with allowing my deepest desires to cut thru the internalized homophobia. Yearning is off the charts.

Made this cute lil holiday art piece yesterday for @hireillo.com 's festive newsletter! Click to expand full image. #christmasart #holidayart #festive #medievalchristmas #halifaxart #novascotiaartist

It's so crazy that Timothée Chalamet assassinated the United Healthcare CEO

Left the house wearing the fit in pic 1, came back to the house wearing the fit in pic 2 I love vintage shows, and I LOVE being overdressed

Inside me there are two wolves