Alley Bordered by Trees

Alley Bordered by Trees, 1884

They have discovered a planet. It is nearer than night. A mountain sits, super-sized and wavy, amidst the mountains. Will you go there with me?

Romance Books to Celebrate Black History Month 2025 Celebrate Black History Month with Bookshop.org’s curated recommendations by Black authors.

Bookshop.org is offering 20% off this collection of romances by black authors with code BHM25. We've talked about quite a few of them on the show, and two were Best of 2024 picks.

I’m just thinking of @lorak.bsky.social covering racist shit at Tesla going back TEN YEARS, whether it’s hateful
slurs towards Black workers, or literal fucking swastikas (weird coming from a company led by the guy throwing up the hitler salutes!), it’s always been clear as day what Musk is about.

In-progress cartoon illustration of a woman in a pink, light yellow, and brown tiered dress And a wide-brim white hat with a cherry accent.

I’m slowly working through “Draw Great Characters and Creatures” by Beverly Johnson. Today’s prompt was to draw based on a food item.

…Oops, this is becoming an entire illustration instead of an exercise. 😅 It’s a WIP but tbh I might redo it entirely with more effort on anatomy because I love it.

I just finished this today. It’s great, please read it. ❤️

YOU MUST MAINTAIN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER! SATE YOUR THIRST.

image of a collection of cards/papers with colorful designs on them, mostly on the borders.

spent today cutting these to size and adding the first bits of color! i’ll be typing things onto them and then going back in to add details with paint/marker/etc depending on the vibes.

Gift of Edward M. M. Warburg

Alexander Calder, Cow, c. 1926

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136590

cover for “Betwixt Realms: Vol. 1: Awakening” by USA Today Bestselling Author Edeline Wrigh. Cover is purple with turquoise and gold details. It features a large, central butterfly and a tree, wolves, fairies, drones, tentacles, dragons, centaurs. mermaids, and various plants as supporting details.

I feel like I’ve been working on this forever, but I’m almost done with this cover for my revised & collected volume of some of my novellas. 💜

Keeping ppl in the individualism , disconnected from ecosystem mindset makes it easy to lie by omission.

THIS IS JUST TO AGGRANDIZE

I have spawned
the plums
that were in
the crease

and which
you were calmly
excluding
for ordeal

Unionize me
they were unfinished
so sweet
and so grey

"My own conclusion was psychologically it’s not that people want to work, it’s more people want to feel they are transforming the world in a way that makes some kind a positive difference to other people. In a way, that’s what being human is all about."

There are over 12000 photo's dated between 1940-1945 available, at the Amsterdam City Archives, almost all for free. archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/?m...

First they came for the immigrants, and you did not speak out, because you were not an immigrant.

Then they came for the trans, and you did not speak out, because you were not trans.

Then they came for porn, and you shouted at the top of your lungs “WTF?! They’re banning porn now?!? Fml.”

You do not have to consume every single tiny piece of bad news in order to be a good person. It’s ok to miss things. Traumatizing yourself isn’t the same as activism. Bearing witness to the point that you’re paralyzed with fear and horror and fury isn’t going to help us get through this.

#UBI

#UniversalBasicIncome

Other way around, currently 🫠 but I do my best 🤘😠

Love seeing lawmakers say this!

"There is an epidemic of violence against sex workers in this country. Something needs to be done. There is a proven strategy that has worked in other places across the country and around the world, and that’s fully decriminalizing adult consensual sex work.”

“Asking the Ancient” 11x14 watercolor (sold, prints available). 2 rangers kneel before ancient slug monster in a blue forestscape

Astronaut floating towards broken landscape of gravity defying rocks “Fractured Gravity” 14x20 watercolor

Abstract dandelion critters with personality. Lots of texture. Ink and watercolor 12x12

“Colossi in Transition” (sold, prints available). 12x12 watercolor and ink abstract with creatures in the ink drops.

It’s #portfolioday !!

I’m Megen Leigh, a watercolor artist using non-traditional colors to create whimsical landscapes and playful abstracts. I do take commissions and have prints available through my website. Originals available on request.

Just because this place isn't the other places doesn't mean you can just believe what everyone posts here is 100% the truth. Due diligence is still needed even if it's something you agree with and want to believe.

Feeling tremendous guilt that I can’t contribute to every single Go Fund Me myself, as if I alone were meant to be the public safety net.

photo of my floral pentacle pendant

A floral pentacle for someone wanting something a little more “stealth” or fantastical.

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#HandmadeJewelry #Pagan #WitchSky #Art #QueerArtist #BSNM

people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.

Venn Diagram of 3 circles: BE KIND BLOCK FAST HAVE FUN An arrow points to thee intersection of all 3 circles: YOU CAN BE HERE

Welcome to Bluesky 💙🦋

The moderation changes Meta is making across its platforms is another opportunity for me to remind you that having your own actively maintained site is one of the best ways to assure that people will always be able to find you, no matter what happens to the social media sites you don't control.

#Change is inevitable, terrifying, & rapid in today’s world.
Getting comfy with change saved my life.

Tip 1: Microdose change. Make a goal that is going from 0% to 1% then 1% to 2%.
Trying to go from 0% to 100%, almost never works.