Kambriel 🌿🦌🌔

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

A freshly-bloomed, exceedingly vibrant yellow daffodil emerging from an otherwise dormant Wintry backdrop. (photo: Kambriel)

Fittingly as they symbolize new beginnings, daffodils are the first in my garden this year to burst into bloom.

May they inspire us to face challenges unabashed - foretelling of the Spring sun, even on a wintry day. #FlowerReport

I love that you take such good care of making sure your neighborhood birds have a nice place to rest/revive. 💙

This means so much, thank you.

I was going through the black box of old letters the other day & noticed one from Kim Traub (in "The Tower" days) ~ something I love about her illustrations is you can recognize who drew them right off the bat.

I adore everything about the darkly whimsical combo of history & humour on display here. 💀🌈

For the keen-eyed & sentimental among you!

Below the gilded Art Nouveau Kambriel sticker, that gothic linen Atrocities card w/raised ink Gorey bats + Salem, MA address? Dates back to 19 NINETY FIVE & was printed right after my move to the Witch City.

@sethanikeem.bsky.social & I go ~way~ back. 🦇🪶🐈‍⬛

I 🖤 you, brother. ✊

Beasty Bestie! 💕🦇🐈‍⬛

Fun fact: I made some of these petite bats (in different fabrics) as a gift for Edward Gorey back in the day. Originally meant as holiday ornaments, he also ended up using them as year-round cat toys! 🎩☠️🦇🐈‍⬛

Alysa Liu ~ putting the 🌈free🌈 in free skate!

Seriously adore this part-fae & full-artist Olympian from Oakland who gave a monumental F-that to abusive/controlling practices, and achieved this by setting terms that worked for a happier & healthier *her*. #SolidGold 🪩💃

OK, that's weapons-grade beauty taunt.

This picture literally could have been taken in my back garden where ALL THE FROGS recently decided is *the* hip new party spot to... do their thing. 🐸💚🐸

He's just there taunting @leannareneehieber.bsky.social with his beauty...

Preach, sister!!! 👻🌳🐐

p.s. Hope your back feels improvement soon. I had the flu in a similar setting & while a lovely surrounding in which to recover, I get wanting mobility/regaining ability to explore.

p.p.s. Thank you @nickcharles.bsky.social for looking out for Nora & fetching help & supplies to ease the discomfort.

For how much the EU is ahead in many ways comparatively, when I travel there & contend with 1/2 or less enclosed showers, sink faucets that don't properly blend hot/cold water so one hand's scorching while one's freezing, I realize they ~could~ benefit from some good ol' (new) USA plumbing/etc...

Email me one about yours! 💞

Truly! Such an honour to be in that room & have an opportunity to hear the strength & passion of his *care* first-hand.

And way to go, mom. 🏆

Also - shout to my mother for bringing her young eccentric/gothy daughter to a Jesse Jackson rally at the local airport so she would have that opportunity to sit & listen a while to one of our nation's most heartfelt orators & dedicated visionaries.

Thank you Rev. Jesse Jackson for a lifelong commitment to empowerment/equality.

My mom took me to one of his Presidential campaign stops in 88 & that day lives in me for the vibrancy of community shared among all. Shout out to the girl there who wore a t-shirt printed "I ❤️ My Attitude Problem". ✊

For anyone in/near Philly, this version of Molière's Tartuffe w/ @trillianstars.bsky.social and "a cast of stalwart Philadelphia actors bringing mayhem, wit & urgency" is sure to be... wicked timely.

Attend if you can and support the art & artists of live theatre!

tickets here ⚜️
thekammerspiel.com

OK, so apparently this ode I wrote in love & celebration of the #gothic aesthetic (in the form of a lush poetic essay, featuring some of my wearable art & originally published in Enchanted Living magazine) wins 7 of 7 in "is it goth" bingo! 🥀🦇🥀

#UndeadUndeadUndead

YES to Calabrians (...the people *and* the peppers)!

My paternal great-grandparents married in NYC on Valentines Day in a neighborhood church that's still there today. Got to visit it (thanks to @theaurorac.bsky.social!) on what would've been their 100th anniversary. 🗽💐

*nom*

Fellow lover of chili-in-abundance here. I ~may~ even carry a shaker of TJ's dry version of that in my purse. 🌶️

Happy St. Valentine's Day everyone! 💜 #pagansky

Thank *you* for awakening this into the world.
And Happy Galentines Day dear-heart!

a black and white photo of a man in a tuxedo and a little girl dancing in a living room . Alt: Lurch lurching and tiny Wednesday Addams dancing in the living room.

"And I’ll probably do it again, mwoohahahaha"

The world could use more poetry, and this is going to be ❤️‍🔥.