well now I feel obligated to include like hardcore vore or sadomasochism or something in my next project, on principle, because that’s just goofy
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It’s a vampire. Whose character model has like permanent blood stains up to the elbows. And a minor god of “fuck you”. If we’re not allowed to make THOSE two do mean, fucked-up stuff, who CAN we?
vampire… god-honoring… WHAT?
Photo of a raised garden bed with two patches of soil full of leafy beets
Too soon to tell what the root situation down there is like, but on the surface the beets are looking pretty dang good
Alternate of my art for Blight's 2024 single, Behexen. The final art went a different way with the logo treatment and deep red color palette, and I love how it all came out, but I'm still quite fond of this version.
Photo of pea plants climbing up a trellis
We’re a mere week or two away from the garden becoming an all you can eat pea buffet
Congratulations! Such an exciting process, hope it goes smoothly for you <3
A sitting and a standing ceramic female figure, they are both turquoise and have half their heads anatomised. The standing figure has their abdomen opened and has their hand outstretched holding an apple
The previous standing figure viewed from the front.
A different view of the first seated figure with a different anatomised figure in the background
Fell a bit in love with Serena Korda’s Wild Apples in the Wellcome Collection today. It uses the bodies of perimenopausal, menopausal and post-menopausal women to respond to the wax Anatomical Venuses I’ve talked about here in the past.
bsky employee with a fancy title decided to mass block like 300k users of the platform he’s supposed to be developing because you get better market research results if you proactively exclude everyone who thinks you personally are a ding-dong
Knowing how the sausage is made at tech companies just makes this stuff even more hilarious when I get to watch it from the outside
Also, and I mention this for no particular reason, but “Technical Advisor” is the job title you give to someone you pay a lot of money to but who produces nothing. They do no work & one wonders if they even CAN but they keep getting paid for political reasons.
Can you even imagine the experience you’d have on here if you blocked 300k+ users on an “Anti-AI Users” list? Your feed would become devastated. Desolate. No artists, no writers, basically no creatives of any type.
Did you talk with any of them about it and hear them explain how they resolve the, uh, cognitive dissonance of using these tools?
Photo of a single brilliant yellow flower growing in a scrubby yard
the wildflower mix I dumped in my yard continues to surprise and delight
The Chariot of Octopolis. A starry night octopus sits within the shape of a giant 'paper nautilus', an egg casing of an argonaut octopus. She holds a golden sponge, wears a skirt of chiton armor and a crab helm. The nautilus chariot is pulled forward by two yellowfin tuna lashed to a yoke. An iridescent banner streams behind the chariot. In the background rise archways and towers of a coral city.
The Chariot💙💙💙🐙
#octopolis #tarot
🐡🦑🐋
I can testify that these words did in fact come out of their mouth in that order.
Photo of a standard issue tabby cat going CRONCH on a whole bag of smarties candy
smarties are my cat’s favorite candy
I’m inclined to cite chittlins but I’ve also been informed that my family‘s cornbread stuffing recipe, which involves tipping a few cans of oysters into the casserole dish along with the usual corn meal & herbs, is considered an abomination by outsiders
Fight or Flight (2025) - Started this one almost exactly a year ago. Still really happy with how it came out.
Feels like that has the same energy as straight men who refuse to eat pussy because they assume their dick is all she needs to get off
Acid Burn
"Noor"
Oil on canvas 16" tondo Ø 45.5cm
This one’s going in my display cabinet but I’m also gonna just keep casually bringing him over to my DM’s house for games on the offchance that they might happen to need a grotesque seraph of some kind to inflict unimaginable horrors upon us
Photo of a dungeons and dragons miniature depicting some kind of betentacled, many-armed monster with one single massive central eye and smaller eyes in the palm of each of its many hands.
For a little change of pace today, we hit the D&D mini-painting studio for a while this afternoon
Photo of two small mason jars containing sliced radishes and amber pickling juice
I’ve probably photographed this exact same series of radish prep images every year since I started the vegetable garden.
Right?! ‘Easter Egg’ radish blend, always reliable.
Photo of a small mason jar full of multicolored sliced radishes. A small pile of pink, purple and white radishes sits beside the jar.
chopped
Photo of a small pile of multicolored radishes, cleaned and with the tops removed
washed
Photo of a basket about half full of mixed radishes plucked straight from the garden
It’s radish time
FIVE HUNDRED AND FOURTY NINE DOLLARS?