If you let them, the horrors will devour you whole. Making space to live and smile is an act of resistance. So is helping others to do the same. If you’re an artist in this time, remember that what you’re doing is part of the emotional support infrastructure. They want you silent. 1/2

Today's aesthetic: fic that spends several thousand words establishing Kink World, the world structured entirely around the author's excruciatingly specific kink, does one sex scene in like chapter two, then spends the next thirty chapters interrogating the sociopolitical implications of Kink World.

Draft under word limit DRAFT UNDER WORD LIMIT *roars in triumph* U N D E R! W O R D! L I M I T!

And now the medical bills roll in.

still hibernation season

I will never lose weight haha #art #fishcrow

"Life Unrelentng" #Frankenstein2025 #art

"Life Unrelentng" #Frankenstein2025 #art

“In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.” (Catherine Mansfield) 🎨 Eyvind Earle #wintersky

making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless

it is apparently dad joke day here on the butterfly app and I am here for it

#art #wolfart #wolf #horror #digitalart

*2026

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

The inks of dawn Our expedition embodied the desire to find a new hue for our souls. After a year of travel, on the first day of the year, we arrived at the borders of our world. There, we discovered the color of the unknown. Happy new year 2026 everyone! 🎆

If you didn't see this coming, you're a fool. I really missed the reference calculus game but it's amazing how far i can get without them these days. #Frankenstein2025 #art

A single crow flies in front of the 97.8% waxing gibbous moon tonight. 🪶

I wish i was ultra wealthy so i could immediately max out all my friends' healthcare gofundmes.

OKAY I HAVE SEEN THE DEL TORO FRANKENSTEIN the internet is safe again.

I lied I have one more piece in me before the year ends. This is an experimental illustration though. I'm not great with the flat graphic stuff but I thought I'd give it a go again.

Illustrations by Charles Keeping for Neil Philip, THE TALE OF SIR GAWAIN (Philomel Books, 1987). Post 3 (of 3).

Buried 2025 in the backyard like a failed pot roast. Good thing i don't care about my lawn.

ending the year with some dumb shit!!!!! this is from last month or the month before or something. lex and the joker, evoking those weird old magazine ads where everybody looks vaguely debauched and they're selling watches or fragrance. this is very small because i drew it small! happy new year!

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

Hitting the restless part of recovery. Tired easily and with some nameless craving for Something to eat, but with glimmers of my usual bullshit.

face card body card 🐦‍⬛🗡️

🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾'The Git Hoan Dancers (People of the Salmon) from Metlakatla/Seattle are known for their theatrical performances' (IG: gatheringtribes. Dec 2, 2025) #Art #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations

Jaenelle Monae in Glass Onion is IMMACULATE.

Lust and thorns #Castlevania #Alucard #darkart #fanart #gothicart

have a merry Christmas or else

Me at 5: I can't wait for Santa to get me a new lego set! Me at 15: Santa isn't real Me at 25: Santa isn't real, but we can collectively make him real through our actions Me at 35: The ways in which Santa is real are myriad and disturbing. The Wild Hunt rides again, wearing the mask of a Saint

I've spent the majority of the week in two ERs and two hospitals. The majority of my care teams were people the current admin maligns, and I'm here and on the mend because of them. Happy Holidays to my neighbors, thank you for spending your holiday caring for me.

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday

💯💯💯

Me, stumbling out of a hospital in a johnny and accosting a small Victorian child: WHAT DAY IS IT?? "UH it's xmas eve--" Me: I HAVEN'T MISSED IT! TAKE THAT, GALLBLATTER!!!

Portrait of a Raven (2025) #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography

It’s Hanukkah, so I’m going to repost the seasonal Marvel fan comic that @brandtandstein.com and @deezoid.bsky.social and I made back in (gasp!) 2018. I’m still awestruck at how great Ted & Ro and Dee’s art is in this. Enjoy!

Gather it. I don't care if it's spite, joy, anger, bile, defiance, loneliness, relief, sexual energy, humor, recollection, pride, confusion or infinitely reliable curiosity. Use it like a storm under your control, filled with lightning. Let bolts fly.

Sure, the Veteran’s Administration is being gutted, but how about this tiny one time cash bonus to show I love the troops? Again, we are trapped in Shitty Father World. Yeah yeah, I cheated on Mom and verbally abuse you and deprive you of love and support, but I bought you a bike!

We who are about to get real intimate with regex salute you.

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

can someone just make a "does the dog die" but for "did this movie/series/videogame/book use gen AI" so i can avoid them

I hope there's enough pushback that Vincke reconsiders his position. I would really like to enjoy the great work all the devs at Larian are doing without upper management forcing this unnecessary shit into their workflow.

I think about this all the time (from catandgirl.com/the-genius/)

Just finished "Silver in the Wood" by Emily Tesh. It's short but its lush and queer and exactly what I wanted.

Sounds about right.

what part of this comic took the longest time to do? that's right: clark's kitten calendar