Elizabeth Metz

Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children Lately I’ve been calling my House rep and screaming about one zillion things, and maybe you have too. But today I want to talk about one thing in particular you should add to your list: H.R. 7661 i…

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

Intriguing! Can't wait to see it!

This is gorgeous! I love how the sun is framing her, in particular.

My postcard this month *also* features a message in a bottle, so I am tickled by the overlap! 😅

An illustration postcard. Art depicts a sea green glass bottle held aloft by waves of blue water (an ocean or a river? unclear?) with a folded piece of paper tucked inside. A cloudy gray/blue sky is in the background. Overlaid text says "Author + Illustrator Elizabeth Metz, www.elizabeth-metz.com" and "#50PreciousWords," plus the following micro story titled "Message in a Bottle": The bottle washes ashore, dusty despite the sea. Not dust, I realize--salt. And time. Sun glints weathered glass. I spy a scrap of parchment tucked inside. The ink is blurred from years, maybe continents, traveled. I breathe deep and uncurl. Blueberries, it says. Jam. Toothpaste. Cool Ranch Doritos.

Happy March! This month #KidLitArtPostcard meets #50PreciousWords. I'm an author-illustrator seeking representation. I ❤️ colorful textural art, funny stories for kids, antique and vintage finds, and a twist ending.

Portfolio: www.elizabeth-metz.com
50-Word Story: viviankirkfield.com/2026/03/02/t...

PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

Help us stand against this national book-banning legislation!

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Okay, actually... I just posted mine for this year, and I lost my paragraph breaks after copy/pasting, and even manually hitting enter didn't get them to come back. So I actually have no idea!

Wait, why would it be about the Mets?

Like... maybe the Orioles I could see? But there is nothing birdish about the New York Metropolitans.

I don't think you need HTML formatting. Just type or copy/paste like you would into a Word doc, and it should preserve line breaks.

Here's a link to my entry from last year, and I don't remember doing anything fancy to make it look like htat: viviankirkfield.com/2025/03/02/5...

IT IS!

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

I'm sure there's a better answer (I really hated There Will Be Blood, for example) but my first instinct is Avengers Endgame. The movie overall was fine, but hoo boy that ending was bad for fans of Agent Carter (after they first let us have the little treat of seeing Mr. Jarvis on the big screen!)

Maybe it's my art-and-English-double-major coming out, but I feel like someone could write a whole essay analyzing the posture of each pigeon in this piece.

The snow is finally melted enough that I was able to walk to AND from work today. For the first time in two weeks, I think?

And I am a much happier person for it.

I think I might be the only person of my specific age (HS class of ‘01) who never watched an episode of Dawson, but I loved him on Don’t Trust the B. Just a fantastic, totally game, performance.

Oh, yes! Not just a hat tip, a stright up homage!

In an homage to Norman Rockwell's famous Triple Self Portrait, a woman with dark flippy hair and an A League of Their Own-style AAGPBL-looking baseball uniform (skirt, cleats, snazzy belt, etc.) perches on a stool faced away from the viewer. To her left we see her peering face in a mirror (with a baseball decoration on it) leaning against a chair. She looks pretty normal-human-ish, if a bit nervous, but she has baseball stitching on her face. To her right, a big canvas is affixed on an easel, featuring an unfinished painting of Cincinnati Reds' mascot Rosie Red. Her eyes are sparkly, her smile is made of lipstick, her baseball stitching is made of hearts, her hat is a vibrant red. There are gray stripes on the wall, and a giant baseball hat (big enough to fit over our artist's hair) is perched on the easel. The painting is in color, while the rest of the scene is black and white.

Happy #PitchersAndCatchers report to #SpringTraining Day! Every year (19 so far!) I mark this holiday with an original ⚾️ illustration.

This one's about color as a symbol of baseball as a proxy for spring as a metaphor for hope. It's also a little bit about the inherent surrealism of mascots.

Ahhhh, of course!

I actually chose number 22 because of who wore it in A League of Their Own. I don’t actually think Rosie the mascot usually wears a number, though reference photos were a big lacking.

Brendan, I have been thinking about this all morning, and I’m afraid it’s time to concede the cleverness has gone over my head.

The only reasonable conclusion to draw from this tweet is that our muppet population hails from a wonderful ancestral homeland that now I long to visit.

Man, if *all* Muppets are from somewhere else, that really messes with the whole premise of Gonzo’s journey in Muppets From Space (1999).

You can see all 19 years of #PitchersAndCatchers illustrations here: thefinestmuffins.blogspot.com/search/label...

I can't believe I've been doing this so long!!

In an homage to Norman Rockwell's famous Triple Self Portrait, a woman with dark flippy hair and an A League of Their Own-style AAGPBL-looking baseball uniform (skirt, cleats, snazzy belt, etc.) perches on a stool faced away from the viewer. To her left we see her peering face in a mirror (with a baseball decoration on it) leaning against a chair. She looks pretty normal-human-ish, if a bit nervous, but she has baseball stitching on her face. To her right, a big canvas is affixed on an easel, featuring an unfinished painting of Cincinnati Reds' mascot Rosie Red. Her eyes are sparkly, her smile is made of lipstick, her baseball stitching is made of hearts, her hat is a vibrant red. There are gray stripes on the wall, and a giant baseball hat (big enough to fit over our artist's hair) is perched on the easel. The painting is in color, while the rest of the scene is black and white.

Happy #PitchersAndCatchers report to #SpringTraining Day! Every year (19 so far!) I mark this holiday with an original ⚾️ illustration.

This one's about color as a symbol of baseball as a proxy for spring as a metaphor for hope. It's also a little bit about the inherent surrealism of mascots.

Football's over! And guess what? Pitchers and catchers report tomorrow.

Got some new baseball art locked and loaded. ⚾

Between this horror show + the one where a sweet mom-kid chat imagining a garden at their new house was incomplete w/out a bland-ass genAI photo (in the old days, we'd cut pictures out of magazines or pick up a crayon, and that was GODDAMN MAGICAL!)

...I've yelled at a few commercials tonight.

Cincinnati enquirer headline about how Ohio depends on immigrants for growth

Love and support you always, Cincinnati Enquirer (support local media), but esp today

This is a Midwest daily paper. About as middle of the road as you can get

& they understand that this is an objective, straight news headline, in the context of a planned Trump/GOP onslaught in Springfield, etc

Imagine seeing a child and thinking they shouldn't have health care unless their parents can afford it

Love your use of color in this one!

Illustration postcard. Art features three kids enjoying a pizza party. The first kid is a Black boy with dark hair, curly on top, and a fuzzy green sweater, biting into a slice. The second is a girl with light skin and straight black hair with bangs, wearing a blue striped t-shirt and jeans. Her head is tipped back, her eyes closed, and she's holding a slice of pizza above her, pointed toward her open mouth. The third is a girl with pink skin, a blonde side bubble braid, and a yellow sweater with a white collar. Her slice of pizza is sitting on a plate on the table. She holds her hands in the air while pulling a long bite of stringy cheese, stretching straight from the plate with just her mouth. On the gray table between the three sits a big old pizza pie with mushrooms and jalapeños, a few slices missing. Overlaid text says Author + Illustrator Elizabeth Metz, www.elizabeth-metz.com.

Hi #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I'm an #unagented author-illustrator seeking representation. I ❤️ colorful textural art, funny stories for kids, and PIZZA.

My go-to order is mushroom, pineapple, jalapeño. When I'm cooking, it's mushroom, basil, red pepper flakes. What's yours?

elizabeth-metz.com.

I'm using this quote in my message to my member of Congress tonight, attributed specifically to "former Cincinnati Red Sean Doolittle."

(This article is a few days old, but I only just stumbled on it!)

One.

I have one school visit scheduled for the 2025-26 school year.

Before the book banning movement and the politics of hate metastasized, I visited 40, 50, and 60 schools each year.

This regime of monstrous evildoers is actively trying to erase LGBTQ+ stories, identities, and humans.

Resist