We all known A*azon tends to sell books bellow list prices, but I've recently found them selling books at below WHOLESALE prices. I know this because I own a store. That's fucked up.
Anyways, support your local book stores. Shit's tough.
You may recall this as the year I complained a lot about writing three books. This is inaccurate. In fact, I wrote FOUR books. Here's the fourth one: www.cbr.com/dc-comics-cl...
My reviews for this year's Lupercalia collection from @bpal.bsky.social are live on the blog this afternoon (along with details for a giveaway!) A graveside Barry Keoghan scene, an exuberant Haribo candy burlesque, Rilakkuma with a purpose and a donut. And more! unquietthings.com/bpal-luperca...
The cover to first issue of my newest self-published comic, THIS PLACE IS FULL OF FIENDISH THINGS. It features 3 trick-or-treaters: a skeleton ghost, a witch, and a pirate. Each one holding a sign that reads "Terrible" "Treat" "Tricksters"
The cover to my self-published graphic novel MY BLACKS DON'T MATCH!. It features a pink-haired girl screaming while wearing a black t-shirt with a ghost on it.
A pumpkin-headed skeleton, wearing a cloak, is carrying a wooden pitchfork that has a crow perched on it. He is walking through a pumpkin field sectioned off by a wooden fence.
A black cat with orange eyes covered in a spiderweb. In the upper left corner the web forms a jack o' lantern face in the full orange moon.
Hey #PortfolioDay, I'm Drew, and I draw Halloween-themed comics and art in a style that mixes brutalism and spooky whimsy.
Which you can buy from my store, a place you should visit before USPS raises shipping rates 8% (4/26), and I have to adjust them by my skeletal hand.
drewrausch.bigcartel.com
Stethoscopes draped over a makeshift picket cross at the Alex Pretti memorial site 🩺
Convincing enough that on set, someone mistook me for the actual makeup artist and asked me to do a touch-up.
Hi, Tom here — I’m in this excellent short film for a handful of seconds! 🍿
The arch of the entrance to the monastery of St Macarius the Great
An icon of the saint
A page of Coptic pray we r
The Honey and Sweet Incense Atmosphere Spray offering from @bpal.bsky.social sends me back, in the most pleasantly visceral way, to a Coptic monastery between Cairo and Alexandria where I had a clairaudient experience
"Peace is available to you."
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Scent of the day: Rose Quartz Phallus from @bpal.bsky.social conjures delightful visions of a grapefruit Haribo candy burlesque performance, pearled sugar pasties, bright pinky-coral musky-soapy citrus wig.
We are watching a dangerous and unfit President drag this country toward catastrophe — and Republicans refuse to act.
Invoke the 25th Amendment. Do your fucking job.
I dunno, I think it would make cleaning a lot more interesting. What's the current bid?
The ACTUAL, OFFICIAL, no take-backsies date of the event is Saturday, April 4th from 12-3pm at @oddmartmn.bsky.social
Please, whoever you are, come back!
We changed the date of our Twin Cities pop-up because of No Kings, and tried like hell to notify everyone. But we just heard that someone DID, INDEED show up at Odd Mart last Saturday to see us, and that is both touching and sad ☹️
An array of 5ml apothecary bottles and 4oz pump mist bottles from BPAL's The Yellow Wallpaper scent collection. The bottles are arranged on a wooden surface with a worn-out antique doll. The background is the wall of a very old house, missing chunks of plaster and stripped to bare wood slats.
You didn't miss it! 💛
Our perfume adaptation of "The Yellow Wallpaper" will remain in our shop until the Halloween '25 collection departs sometime in May.
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An unforgettable film! Marking the occasion with a dab of our perfume inspired by Arthur Rackham's painting "By Day She Made Herself Into a Cat": a feral eyeshine of amber gleaming through a pool of ink-black musk.
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Just a reminder, you can purchase signed copies of my weird art books directly from me! unquietthings.com/buy-my-book/
hand holding two 5ml vials of perfume oil. one is labeled On Love and the other On Death, both titles in yellow text over black and white artwork. white text on both labels says The Prophet and Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab.
somehow ended up with the bookends of this 2025 fundraiser series from @bpal.bsky.social based on The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran: On Love was released in January and On Death in December.
the former is my #SOTD and it's a stunner!
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The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today.
Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere.
Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
Vermonters will have an opportunity to sniff beautiful things in person on April 11th! Please tell someone who needs to know this
illustration inspired by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's 1891 short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" depicting a woman touching sickly yellow torn wallpaper on a wall while shadowy hands reach toward her. There is another tall shadow of a figure on the wall and both figures look toward the viewer.
"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight."
I made a "Yellow Wallpaper" piece back in 2017, but I re-read the story over the weekend and wanted to try again. Much happier with this version 🖤
See also:
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TDoV posts from high-profile allies are great, because they appear to invite commentary from the community re: matters that urgently need to be addressed.
The best way to demonstrate the visibility of trans people is by signaling that you've seen and heard their concerns!
Deep burgundy musk, red labdanum, smoked rose petals, opoponax, 17-year aged patchouli, blackened vanilla bean, dried black cherries, blackberries, and tobacco absolute.
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A performance of D.H. Lawrence’s 1929 poem “The Elephant Is Slow To Mate,” recorded in-house in 2021 to announce our sumptuous perfume oil of the same name — which recently returned for Lupercalia! 🐘
I have never felt snobbier than while wearing this!
A 5ml bottle of BPAL's Champion Bitch perfume oil. The bottle is sitting on top of a sparkly pink dog collar, next to a vintage golden pin in the shape of a poodle.
Is she really "high maintenance," or is she just a...
✤ CHAMPION BITCH
Winners only beyond this point! Blue hydrangea, airy white musk, and pink jasmine buds.
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We will have a few of these at Vermont Lunacy on 4/11 :)
