RJ Aurand

Three panel comic. Panel 1: a giant squid wearing a yellow Bart t-shirt and some terrible hypebeast shorts is looking in the mirror. It says, “need groceries… but all my clothes are in the laundry.” Panel 2: the squid, now also wearing hot pink crocs, exits its apartment and says, “eh. I won’t see anyone.” Panel 3: two fisherman are pulling the squid to the surface of the water and pointing at it. An overlayed news caption reads: RARE SQUID SIGHTED - the fit was crazy

Literally every single one of my friends is turning 30 this year. I'm past that milestone but I'm still getting a lot of mileage out of the 3 and 0 candles I tell you what

Made a German chocolate cake to celebrate my friend's 30th tomorrow. My mom had all the Cake Mix Doctor cookbooks and would let us pick our cake from the photos for our birthdays every year. Now I'm the person who does that for my friends. Admittedly this one is a bit ugly, but hopefully very tasty!

My favorite part of spring is watching all the neighborhood birds flit around carrying tufts of my husky's fur. Those nests are going to be premium.

No matter how many times I uninstall it, it pops back up a month or two later. It even downloaded itself on my Pixel 7 without my consent. It's awful.

Magazine cover with a painting of grey and white clouds on an acid yellow background.

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Sunburnt myself sitting out on the porch reading poetry all weekend but man it was worth it

Bumping this story because it's been getting some unexpected love this week!

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Oh my heart 💔

I read through the piece before looking at the footnotes and it’s such a gut punch

Another painting of parrot tulips, this time a pastel. These are in a favourite vintage glass jug which is a bit wonky and I like that. This was framed and sold and I think I probably pastelled out the white blank area top right

Another painting of parrot tulips, this time a pastel. These are in a favourite vintage glass jug which is a bit wonky and I like that. This was framed and sold and I think I probably pastelled out the white blank area top right.
#pastel #flowers #tulips

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

3/5 ⭐️🌟⭐️

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"Do not forget it, i can remove you from this transaction" goes so hard

The way you convey such a dramatic shift in tone using such minimal color is incredible. I love these two, can't wait for more!

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Engineer at a chemical plant. Owner of a flour mill. Blacksmith. WWII vet. Railroad man. The list goes on

Mirrorwoven Del has two rules. One: Stay away from royalty. Two: Don’t fall in love.The first is because Del is secretly Adeleine Ventris, runaway princess. After the ...

Hello! I have a sapphic YA fantasy publishing in August, about a disaster bi runaway princess slash classical musician in fantasy Renaissance Venice who gets caught up in politics, power struggles, and a love triangle with two sisters: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

This is the sickest depiction of Gawain & the Green Knight I've ever seen. Incredible work

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I’m so excited to have a story in this incredible issue! “The Trees and the Frogs and the Sun on the Water” is 50% insistence that queer love is magic, 50% insistence that poetry is magic too. I hope you love this one. 🌳 🐸 ☀️ 🌊

Hello From the Children of Planet Earth by Chris Scott My brother and I found a golden record in our grandpa’s field. One of the golden records, the ones that had been sent into deep space on the Voyager probes half a century ago. It was just resting…

Chris Scott on just an incredible streak of dropping heaters

"My brother and I found a golden record in our grandpa’s field. One of the golden records, the ones that had been sent into deep space on the Voyager probes half a century ago."

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Acceptable ty

To Slay the Great Regurgitator

David Lynch saying ‘One day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.’

False Beet - Small Wonders Her lips pale as chalk, / she begs me for sustenance. / There is nothing left.

Sharing again my favorite poem from last year (by @rjaurand.bsky.social), because it was nominated for a Rhysling <3 smallwondersmag.com/piece/false-...

Lily of the valley, gouache 🌱