Can you tell my self-esteem is at an all time low right now? lol

A bunch of peeps are on FB are doing this, "Post on your timeline for what people appreciate about you" but I don't want to post there because what if no one responds?

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In my dream last night my sister scolded me for not posting this link enough.

I really want to make a few cosplays and my fursuit this year but goddamn finding time for that feels impossible lol

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This morning another filling fell out of my mouth!

You absolute renegades are currently saving us from being super homeless, so I wish the dental horrors would wait their turn, but would you be a badass and share this anyway because this one really f*ckin hurts? 🥲

Sometimes you find yourself in patterning hell so you have to make a meme about it

An illustration of a man smoking in front of a stained glass window showing a saint with a morning star in his hand and two angels turned towards him. At the bottom the title of the story this illustration was made for; MARROW is front and centre.

An illustration of a three mouthed, four armed, emaciated, monster with the text POLTERGEIST above it. At the bottom the title of the story it is from MARROW is front and centre.

An illustration of the two main characters of a dark urban fantasy story, MARROW. A witch nervously talking to a horned demon who has him in a grip by the front of his sweater. The sweater is adorned with eye iconography. Which the witch has a mark of on the back of one hand clutching a grimoire. The demon has dog tags and bracers on his wrists. They are ringed in electricity and magical stars while smoke from the demon’s cigarette trails off to one side. The title of their story, MARROW, is at the bottom.

An early illustration of the demon, NOX, inside a birdcage. With chains and demonic hands bordering him. His named is scratched across the front of the cage, while beneath it in faint blue his old name is featured. At the bottom of the image is the title of the story he belongs to: MARROW.

Happy Portfolio Day! 🌈👹🌟

I’m Lou, I love to make queer, heartfelt, illustrations, comics and animations.

I’m a Jack of all trades and an art style chameleon. But atm my focus is on creating concept artwork for the dark urban romantasy I’m writing with my beloved @theazrai.com.
‘MARROW’

vent: theres honestly many days where I feel like a little forgotten toy. sometimes its pretty hard to know you're not a priority for anyone and that no one is gonna check up on you and no one actually gives a f*ck about you. some days i wonder what it would be like to pack my ish and just go.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

BREAKING: Congress just gave final approval on a budget bill that guts Medicaid, defunds Planned Parenthood, and supercharges funding for ICE.

We the people will bear the brunt of these harmful policies — and we won’t forget who caused this devastation to our health, rights, and dignity.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I have turned into someone completely humorless because Elon Musk and Trump feud is completely unfunny to me because the wreckage of their little playground is the world I live in. Everything pisses me off bad

Everyone feels lonely sometimes. Autistic people experience it MORE ❤️‍🩹 #autistic #autism #adhd YouTube video by Kaelynn Partlow

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This sums up how I feel....always

Working on my new Landsknecht and finally at the point where I have stuff to share that's not boring for non-sewists lol

Right??? 😍 was an amazing event

Just came back from the MOST beautiful event I've ever been to in my life 😍 definitely gonna try and make it out to more reenactment events!

To continue my last post, I would also like to refer to someone as, "babe" or similar pet names but purely platonically. I just like being vaguely affectionate lol

I just want someone to platonically call me "baby" IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK????

A book I've heard about and dandyism has been something I've been interested in forever (it's the same reason I'm so interested in people like Matthaus Schwarz, Beau Brommel, Dapper Dan, etc across history) so it's time to do some learning 🤩

I made it! I have a silicone mold i got from Joanns and just poured beeswax in it and set it in the fridge to harden 🙌 i use it for honestly all of my beeswax blocks~

Gonna be teaching a hand sewing class this weekend and prepping the kits for my students 🤩🤩

Yooooo congrats!!

Cut all of my hair off to prep for locs eventually~ I never feel shorter than when I have no hair lol

Thank youuu

Sampler is done! I have about a thousand notes to take and corrections I'll wanna make for the final version 😂

The chalk will eventually go away but also since this is a sampler I'm okay with imperfection 😂 finally adding the diamonds in after finishing up the outline stitches

Once again, the media is pretending they don't know what a N*zi salute looks like.

The toothlessness is staggering.

Sampler is sampling, this is the most finicky and fiddly work I've ever done 😂 also you can literally watch this project in real time as I start to understand how to keep straight on the grain lol

(Major royal artisan progress let's goo 💪💛)

Experimenting with mixing pieces for Bicolline

Oh I'll be going with this color theme! The original woodcut was just black and white, I colored in everything so i could keep track of what colors were going where~