“Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone."
~~THE HIGH KING
Lloyd Alexander
Today is my birthday! And the best gift you could give me is to share my artwork 🎉
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months.
Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs.
Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food.
Placed in solitary.
Denied medical accommodations.
They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!
It's Trans Day of Visibility, but a shout out to the invisible trans people - the ones who haven't realised, the ones who haven't shared it, and, sadly, the ones for whom it's just too dangerous to be yourself in public.
I might not see you, but I know you're out there.
This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...
"In immigration detention, he missed 4 out of 5 chemotherapy sessions scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma.
A scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow.
“I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan...”
www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...
Black and white overhead view of city named Ilis for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
Latest city map for our D&D campaign
I like to add it for mood. The party was investigating a kidnapping and as they got closer to the truth, the light rain gradually became a torrential downpour.
I hate that kind of vague, shaming language. If they have an issue, they should discuss it like a mature adult, not shame you because they’re upset about something.
“How fucked are we as a country that an incredibly successful actor who worked into the last year of his life was left penniless by a two-year cancer battle?”
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
«Woman with a Yellow Parasol”
Lena Rivo
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
Black and white map of a city called Elion, for a Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition 2024 campaign.
This is the coastal city of Elion on the moon world Arion, which features an arts district in the middle of the city with a theatre, art museum, and circus. The Fallen Tree Circus features a fallen petrified tree that lies outside the main tent.
Keep them guessing!
Illustration of a skeleton riding a black horse through a battlefield as he's holding a magical pen and parchment paper
Illustration of a vampire woman luring the viewer closer
Illustration of a knight holding a handkerchief with a somber expression, his horse by him
Portrait of a fae creature with a crown of sticks against a background of fallen leaves
Today is my birthday!
As always, one of the best gifts for artists is sharing their art🖤
Thank you for all the support throughout the years!
For folks in Maine. Folks at risk of being targeted are being advised to stay off the streets. This includes Black, Brown, and immigrant folks.
The ICE activity is truly all over the Greater Portland area.
Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.
Text description about a us citizen who was dragged from her car on her way to a doctor's appointment
ICE smashed this US citizen's car windows, cut her seatbelt and dragged her handcuffed to a detention center all because she was trying to get to a doctor's appointment near a protest.
portrait of Jester - blue tiefling with dark horns and darker blue hair - she is surrounded by a pink magic and pink magical creatures - rodents with unicorn horns.
Jester time 🎀
#art #themightynein #dndart #cr
“Pandora doesn’t want to look into the big end of the telescope and see, jewel-bright, distinct, tiny, and entire, the Valley. She shuts her eyes, she doesn’t want to see, she knows what she will see: Everything Under Control. The dolls’ house. The dolls’ country. Pandora rushes out of the observatory with her eyes shut, grabbing, grabbing with her hands. What does she get, besides cut hands? Bits, chunks, fragments. Shards. Pieces of the Valley, lifesize. Not at a distance, but in the hand, to be felt and held and heard. Not intellectual, but mental. Not spiritual, but heavy. A piece of madrone wood, a piece of obsidian. A piece of blue clay. Even if the bowl is broken (and the bowl is broken), from the clay and the making and the firing and the pattern, even if the pattern is incomplete (and the pattern is incomplete), let the mind draw its energy. Let the heart complete the pattern.” From Ursula K Le Guin’s “Always Coming Home”, a collection of anthropological texts about a community that does not yet exist, “in the valleys of what will no longer be called Northern California”.
Came across this piece of advice I saved for myself, on world-building.
Do you build a world like you build a doll's house? Or do you build a world at a person's size, for people to live in?
From Le Guin.
"... the pattern is incomplete ... Let the heart complete the pattern."
Make it exist first. Then keep making it exist. Don't look back. Do not consider what you have wrought. Continue making it exist. It must exist. You must feed it. Don't look at it. Feed it. It's the only way. Feed it. Feed it. Soon it is all there is and all there ever will be. Save you. Feed it.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel
