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The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

#RIP is always the final prompt, and I never feel happy with the end result. So I just started sketching me sleeping, with the fervent hope that it will manifest better sleep for me. I do tend to tuck my hand under my chin like that. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

"This has nothing to do with policy. This certainly has nothing to do with leadership. It’s just a Presidency that is there to troll people it doesn’t like. That’s literally all they do." Great column from @mmasnick.bsky.social at Techdirt that dovetails with what I've been thinking.

Making hasty last-minute messes while you're trying to get ready...relatable. 🎃 #OCs #artjamolantern

#gothmoth is both fun and puzzling as a prompt. This year I went for a Mothman x Death of the Endless vibe. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

#UFO are not something I draw normally, but man if I saw one I would be sticking out my thumb and showing some leg. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

#swarm is the prompt, and I was feeling exhausted by the idea of drawing many of anything. Also I didn't know what to draw. So I drew a person trying to escape being crushed by stuffies. Bonus sketch of me running away from bad thoughts. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

#poisonplant reminded me of some of my favorite poisonous plants: bleeding hearts and angels trumpets. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

#laboratory was the prompt, and I started drawing a hand holding a test tube and then just kinda drew whatever. #mabsdralloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

#ghostrider stumped me, so I just sketched the second thing to come to mind and gave up. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

come get me, ronald reagan presidential foundation

#web and #candycreep mixed today and I love his little furry leggies. Arted with Jess @winterjustwinter , and she suggested the mallow pumpkins. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

I combined #finfolk and #lanturn from yesterday and today. I feel ok with it, though I want to go over it and smooth out the watercolor pencil since the heavy paper is textured. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

#Toad for today, and I tried to make it a little more interesting with the addition of the mushrooms and the remains of his snack. Bonus page of angry toad sketches. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

#mushroom is the prompt, and I wasn't sure what to do with it. I just started sketching and then coloring, and it turned out soft and semi-realistic. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

#spellbook is the prompt for today, and I enjoyed drawing this. It's meant to be magic rising from the pages. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

NYPD announces that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests today after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are violent terrorists.

After all these years, & a politics degree, & decades trying to teach it, & about 3 million mistily-grasped texts, I’ve finally accepted that it’s a 10 word phrase from a superhero movie that most precisely expresses my political beliefs: “I don’t like bullies. I don’t care where they’re from.”

#babayaga is such a fun folklore character, she's sort of morally gray and definitely someone you don't want to mess with, but the coolest part of her lore is her chicken-legged house. It never fails to delight me. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

#Gnome always makes me think of the book by Wil Huygen, but I figured I would try to do something a little more original. Bonus page of gnome sketches. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

This sounds familiar.

sweater weather

#vampire , but more like me as a teen. Because sometimes you just want boba and comfy clothes. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

#lovelybones is kind of a nebulous prompt, and I feel like I had thought of something cool for it, but I didn't write it down. So I give you my referenceless skeleton picture. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

it’s that time of year again 🍂🍃

#Omen is today's prompt, and I always feel like animals are omens, especially wild ones. But this fellow seems to be a bit more overt than most. #mabsdralloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

#yokai is the prompt for today, and so it's time again to go to yokai.com to get a random Japanese spirit to draw. A yamabiko is a mountain spirit who makes echos return strangely, and looks like a cross between a monkey and a dog. yokai.com/yamabiko/ #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

#pumpkin is the prompt, and that is exactly what I drew. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

#darkwater was today's prompt, and I was going for a threatening face rising up to the surface, but I don't know how well I achieved that. I don't dislike it, but it's not quite right either. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

#undead is the prompt for today, and I couldn't think of anything clever, so I just doodled. I feel like I could do more, but I kinda like it simple. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

#lightninglad is the prompt, but all I could think of was the little lad who likes berries and cream, so I smashed him together with Raiden. #imold #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

Alternate trilogy where Dooku and Yoda both end up on Dagobah squabbling about ideology and philosophy like a pair of bitchy old people at the senior home and Luke shows up like wtf. Yoda says "Teach you in the ways of the Force, I will. Ignore my former Padawan roommate, you should. Suck, he does."

#ghoul is the prompt for today, and I am not great at drawing realistic gore. I also didn't really want to get political and draw real-life ghouls. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

The prompt today is #werewolf and I was struggling to make this interesting. I figured I would make it kind of textural and patterned, so I drew a simple picture, filled it in with gouache, and then drew squiggles over it. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #drawlloween

Today's prompt is #forestsprite and it's pretty straightforward. I do enjoy drawing tree trunks, and I'm really happy with how the wings turned out. I even put some sparkly ink on them. #drawlloween #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025

W/o downloading anything new - where are you mentally?

The prompt today is #haunting and I was trying to draw a ghost being ethereal. I did a wash and then colored it with watercolor colored pencils. I also ripped the drawing when it was wet, because I did not learn from yesterday that this paper doesn't like water. #madsdrawlloween2025 #drawlloween

So last month when the prompt list came out for #drawlloween I sat down and drew some thumbnail sketches and took some notes for the prompts. All I wrote for today's prompt of #witch! was "spiderman meme but witches" so here is that, because it made me giggle. #mabsdrawlloween2025

Today's prompt is #yourfamiliar for #drawlloween so I drew a friendly bat friend to hang out on my shoulder. #mabsdrawlloweenclub

Drawlloween is here again. The prompt for today is #spookyintro and my first thought was The Twilight Zone. Life feels like a lot of static right now, so it was scribble time. #dralloween #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025

every republican president of my lifetime has completely destroyed the economy

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

@lastweektonight.com You might be interested in covering the user-driven protest happening since Friday on @imgur.com. We may have different business daddies, but we both want to see them get fucked. #lastweektonight #johnoliver #imgur #fuckyoubusinessdaddy

More Weird Sketch Nonsense.