Whaaaat!!! That is so nifty! 🤯 Did you sew on a border to stretch it?

A screen shot of an Animal Crossing New Horizons playable character in the sea holding up a lobster. The caption below reads "I've completed my diving collection! That's deep. Real deep."

I finished my diving portion of the Critterpedia today in Animal Crossing New Horizons! 🦞🎉 I still need to finish the other two sections, so hopefully that can happen this year

I decided to pick this project back up and forgot I quilted this before finishing the embroidery. Why did I do that three months ago, I don't know! Anyways, I tried using couching embroidery stitches with some reclaimed yarn and don't love it... fingers crossed I can find some new yarn this week. 🥲

I'm not gonna lie, I went and grabbed some cheddar cheese and crackers to munch on hehe

Awww I love all the little notes! Your hatching is wonderful!!!

I must be hungry because when I saw the photo, I immediately thought of cheese haha. Those curves are impressive!!!

Congrats on the move!!!

My job sends fake phishing emails as a test and the one I got today was "Claim your 30 day ChatGPT subscription" 🤪 I would have instantly deleted it regardless haha

He's so small!!!

Right??? It's such a harrowing fact and so intently reckless ugh...

Whaaaaa what a wild thing to ask during your first appointment

The cover of my latest zine "Checkpoints, reflections on my travels through southern Arizona." It has a black and white drawing of a border patrol interior checkpoint.

The cover of the zine, since I didn't want to disrupt the order of the interior pages.

Some of my earliest memories are of the drive to southern Arizona to visit my grandmother in Sierra Vista. Along the way of the nearly three hour drive from Phoenix, I recall my mom trying to keep my brother and I entertained with songs and games. Sometimes I still dream of visiting the commissary at the nearby Fort Huachuca. As I’ve gotten older, a more common memory I have is passing through a border patrol interior checkpoint when traveling back home. The one we frequented is in Huachuca City, off of AZ SR 90 north, nearly 40 miles away from the Mexico-United States border. While not as thorough as an actual border patrol checkpoint, we were still asked if we were U.S. citizens before being waved through. I hadn’t realized how close I was to the border until the first time I visited Bisbee and a family friend drove me 20 minutes to the border wall near Naco. It was incredibly unnerving to see it for the first time in person. Image description: A black and white drawing of the border fence.

The handful of times I’ve visited southern Arizona in the past six years, I haven’t seen that checkpoint opened. From those I ask who live or frequently travel through in the area, it seems to be rarely open, if at all. But there is no definitive proof that it’s permanently closed or if other surveillance technology may be nearby. There are similar checkpoints off of AZ SR 80 near Tombstone and AZ SR 83 near Sonoita. From what I’ve gathered online, the most active checkpoint in the Tucson sector is on AZ SR 85 near Ajo, Arizona. Even if the checkpoints are closed, they still weigh heavily on my mind. Given the current administration and ramping up of immigration enforcement, I am concerned this could cause alarm for those traveling through southern Arizona for the first time. Image description: A drawing of a map of the Tucson sector. Major highways are drawn with a dark line. State routes and highways are drawn in thinner lines. Interior checkpoints are represented by a circle icon.

The blatant reliance on racial profiling by federal agents is apparent from a Supreme Court ruling in September 2025. The Trump administration requested an emergency hearing in August after a federal appeals court had granted a temporary restraining order against unlawful stops due to racial profiling during immigration raids in Southern California in July (ACLU of Socal, 2025). The Supreme Court granted a stay for Perdomo v. Noem, resuming agents' ability to use “any combination of four factors – “apparent race or ethnicity,” speaking in Spanish or accented English, presence at a location where undocumented immigrants “are known to gather,” and working at specific jobs, such as landscaping or construction – to justify conducting detentive stops" (Dallas, 2025). Even though the case originated from California, it is not a far stretch for it to be applied in Arizona and the rest of the nation. The report “Latino ICE Arrests Surge Under Trump” from UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge sheds an alarming light on available data for ICE arrests. Between February through July 2024 under the Biden Administration, there were a total of 915 Latino arrests by ICE in Arizona. Within the same timespan in 2025, that number increases to 3,205 arrests (Ong et al., 2025).

In an article published by CBS, between January 2025 through January 2026, less than 14% of ICE arrests nationwide involved those accused or convicted of violent crimes, and “nearly 40% of all of those arrested by ICE in Mr. Trump's first year back in office did not have any criminal record at all, and were only accused of civil immigration offenses, such as living in the U.S. illegally or overstaying their permission to be in the country” (Camilo Montoya-Galvez, 2026). My goal for sharing this is not to fear-monger. I’ve struggled with feeling too paranoid bringing this up to others, but unfortunately it’s the reality that we live in. It is my intent for others to make informed decisions and preparations while traveling in southern Arizona. My hope is that my community can travel safely and freely. Image description: A black and white drawing of a mountain range nearby a road.

Here is the interior of my latest zine, "Checkpoints, reflections on my travels through southern Arizona."

It is available to read on my website, which also includes links to the references, related reading, and resources: www.staceart.com/checkpoints

Thank you!

The cover of my latest zine "Checkpoints, reflections on my travels through southern Arizona." It has a black and white drawing of a border patrol interior checkpoint.

The cover of the zine, since I didn't want to disrupt the order of the interior pages.

Some of my earliest memories are of the drive to southern Arizona to visit my grandmother in Sierra Vista. Along the way of the nearly three hour drive from Phoenix, I recall my mom trying to keep my brother and I entertained with songs and games. Sometimes I still dream of visiting the commissary at the nearby Fort Huachuca. As I’ve gotten older, a more common memory I have is passing through a border patrol interior checkpoint when traveling back home. The one we frequented is in Huachuca City, off of AZ SR 90 north, nearly 40 miles away from the Mexico-United States border. While not as thorough as an actual border patrol checkpoint, we were still asked if we were U.S. citizens before being waved through. I hadn’t realized how close I was to the border until the first time I visited Bisbee and a family friend drove me 20 minutes to the border wall near Naco. It was incredibly unnerving to see it for the first time in person. Image description: A black and white drawing of the border fence.

The handful of times I’ve visited southern Arizona in the past six years, I haven’t seen that checkpoint opened. From those I ask who live or frequently travel through in the area, it seems to be rarely open, if at all. But there is no definitive proof that it’s permanently closed or if other surveillance technology may be nearby. There are similar checkpoints off of AZ SR 80 near Tombstone and AZ SR 83 near Sonoita. From what I’ve gathered online, the most active checkpoint in the Tucson sector is on AZ SR 85 near Ajo, Arizona. Even if the checkpoints are closed, they still weigh heavily on my mind. Given the current administration and ramping up of immigration enforcement, I am concerned this could cause alarm for those traveling through southern Arizona for the first time. Image description: A drawing of a map of the Tucson sector. Major highways are drawn with a dark line. State routes and highways are drawn in thinner lines. Interior checkpoints are represented by a circle icon.

The blatant reliance on racial profiling by federal agents is apparent from a Supreme Court ruling in September 2025. The Trump administration requested an emergency hearing in August after a federal appeals court had granted a temporary restraining order against unlawful stops due to racial profiling during immigration raids in Southern California in July (ACLU of Socal, 2025). The Supreme Court granted a stay for Perdomo v. Noem, resuming agents' ability to use “any combination of four factors – “apparent race or ethnicity,” speaking in Spanish or accented English, presence at a location where undocumented immigrants “are known to gather,” and working at specific jobs, such as landscaping or construction – to justify conducting detentive stops" (Dallas, 2025). Even though the case originated from California, it is not a far stretch for it to be applied in Arizona and the rest of the nation. The report “Latino ICE Arrests Surge Under Trump” from UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge sheds an alarming light on available data for ICE arrests. Between February through July 2024 under the Biden Administration, there were a total of 915 Latino arrests by ICE in Arizona. Within the same timespan in 2025, that number increases to 3,205 arrests (Ong et al., 2025).

In an article published by CBS, between January 2025 through January 2026, less than 14% of ICE arrests nationwide involved those accused or convicted of violent crimes, and “nearly 40% of all of those arrested by ICE in Mr. Trump's first year back in office did not have any criminal record at all, and were only accused of civil immigration offenses, such as living in the U.S. illegally or overstaying their permission to be in the country” (Camilo Montoya-Galvez, 2026). My goal for sharing this is not to fear-monger. I’ve struggled with feeling too paranoid bringing this up to others, but unfortunately it’s the reality that we live in. It is my intent for others to make informed decisions and preparations while traveling in southern Arizona. My hope is that my community can travel safely and freely. Image description: A black and white drawing of a mountain range nearby a road.

Here is the interior of my latest zine, "Checkpoints, reflections on my travels through southern Arizona."

It is available to read on my website, which also includes links to the references, related reading, and resources: www.staceart.com/checkpoints

A very green moss covered Snorlax sleeps peacefully in the middle of some sun dappled woods

Mosslax! 🌱

TPUSA (Action) dumped an obscene amount of money and man power into this local utilities race. This low-turnout election (that literally measures your vote by land owned and excludes a ton of people) saw record turnout and they still lost 8-6. Hilarious.

It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but ...

I’m completely sick and tired of hearing about HP but this article is excellent.

“What you feel in your heart towards the series is almost entirely irrelevant. What matters is what you do, because J. K. Rowling is out there doing a lot of things.”

defector.com/its-time-to-...

the cover of hello sunshine with the ala award sticker on it

a drawn photo of Alex facing Daisy eyes, a red monster with Daisy eyes, on the ceiling

Alex and Noah kissing

the kids from hello sunshine looking uneasy with daisy eyes' hands in the back ground and an inset panel showing a cassette tape

Hello Sunshine is a horror mystery GN about a boy who comes back from bible camp to find out that his secret boyfriend, Alex, is missing after a very public mental breakdown. #comics

Available now!! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...

keep trying.

A green marker drawing of the artist within a hand mirror. The mirror is placed in a cup of markers. The artist's full face is in view, drawn very simplistically. In the background is the words "keep trying." written over and over and over again in a light green marker.

mARTch day 31 - Self Portrait Re-Draw

So I did fall off the mARTch horse. There is a handful of other art I made for the month that I might eventually scan. At the very least, even when I fall behind, it's important that I keep trying.

#mARTch #mARTch2026

A digital drawing and a prompt list for an art challenge called "repost your art", that reads "Repost your art April 2026" followed by the prompt list, and then the text "Repost art of yours that fits! #repostyourart". Here is the full prompt list visible in the photo: 1. Hello! 2. Bloom 3. Spring 4. Cat/dog 5. Mountain 6. Bird 7. Silly 8. Autumn 9. Light 10. Pencil 11. Sparkles 12. Cozy 13. Artist 14. Yummy 15. Soft 16. Colorful 17. Doodle 18. Everyday life 19. Fruit 20. Critter 21. Cloud 22. Paint 23. Magic 24. Fast/Slow 25. Abstract 26. Mushroom 27. Garden 28. Cottage 29. Plant 30. Whimsical

I made a new art challenge for reposting your art! The challenge is to find existing works that fits the prompts (get creative!) - no new work needed! woho!!

Starting April 1st I will be reposting existing art based on these prompts!! All artists welcome to join :)

#repostyourart

another #transdayofvisibility bump. this is the absolute bottom line.

you don't have to like me, you don't even have to understand me, but you do have to recognize that you have no right to control what i do with my body & you have no ability to control how i define or relate to it 🔥

The Problematic Author The online portfolio of Maia Kobabe.

Here's my breaking up with Harry Potter essay comic- if you need some fuel to convince relatives or friends not to watch the new show, maybe this will help: redgoldsparkspress.com/projects/718...

So pretty!!! I always love how textural your paintings are!

Good news, I think I figured out a "good enough" layout for this layer cake puffy quilt!!! Yay!

Bad news is the fabric I used for the foundation (thrifted bed sheet) is already severely fraying 🥲 I'm debating if I need to redo some of it before progressing ahhhh...

do not ask yourself whether or art is good instead ask is it sincere was it cathartic was it fun to make is it made by me and don’t forget to stay silly

Nothing quite like meandering through a quilt show today, falling in love with two quilts by the same quilter who uses repurposed materials, and then finding their third quilt that has a poem written by ChatGPT quilted on it 😭

I will!!! There were some really stunning quilts today!!! And some of the folks who made them were available to chat with, ahhhh