cody 🌱

Art of a dryad who is a part of her tree, in spring. She wears a flower crown.

Growth. 🌸 Watercolor & colored pencil.

Amazon Trail 3rd Edition [Full Gameplay] [No Commentary] YouTube video by Darkgothic16 Gaming

I love PC games and Amazon Trail from 1998 was a favorite. it isn’t perfect and reflects the time it was made, but it definitely contributed to my human and animal compassion.

youtu.be/Q0aixTP9ZLM?...

I’ll finish it one day, but I’m working on a zine about this process and a ritual I designed to “unbaptize” myself and sever those old connections and obligations. that ritual was probably the best deconstruction tool I ever gave myself.

leaving home and meeting a diverse group of people for the first time released me. I spent a long time feeling lost, but I was growing. I know now what works better for my spiritual practice (which I still need and want), and I’ve taken big steps to untether myself from abrahamic faith systems.

it is near impossible to listen to one’s own inner voice when you fill that space with someone else’s interpretation of god. my connection to divinity was based in fear. I stayed to please people and suffered for it. the confusion ate me alive. I couldn’t even hear my own red-flags waving.

it should have started earlier, but I was really lost in the sauce. trying to be a gay Christian, baptized in churches that might accept me and my partner, thinking God might be listening and loving where life had taken me, but so much stopped making sense when I just… looked at it.

college, honestly. at 18, I met and talked about god with an atheist figure-drawing professor. I had a geology professor explain evolution to me for the first time in my life. I made queer friends who weren’t Christians/were recovering from religious trauma. and just started asking more questions.

The character(s) vs how you drew them #madmax #roadwarrior

Protection

A personal piece to explore the meaning of collaring.

spring ~ 🌱

anyone make handmade paper that need scraps for processing? I have a lot of clean scraps gathered that I will happily hand off or mail to anyone who wants them! • #papersky #hobbysky #craftsky #trianglenc #rdu

Chicago.

happy international women’s day but especially to all of the Black, Indigenous, and women of colour; to 2-Spirit women, to intersex women, to trans women. you deserve the most

on international women's day i'm mourning all of our lost indigenous siblings. please take a moment for our women, our girls, our two-spirit relatives, and consider even a small donation to some of the organizations in this thread.

www.niwrc.org/donate

It's called Fellowship of the Ring bc you're meant to ship all those fellows.

An illustration of Gawain holding the head of the Green Knight, with an axe held over Gawain’s neck.

“ what else ought there be? “

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

TAPS THE SIGN LOUDLY

Plate 2. Radiolaria

that’s totally fair, yeah. it’s definitely different for various folks, and I’m sorry that extreme weather poles mess with you so much 😩

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

And they're done! I'm so happy with how this turned out. I'm starting to feel a little more confident in being able to produce finished illustrations in traditional media, not just studies. 😊This is watercolor + gouache., with a little bit of color pencil and pastel for final touches.

as a trans person in the US, I aspire to be like a Canada goose:

1. loud as fuck
2. have no fear
3. shit where I please

I made a zine about this based on a post from last year… winter makes me feel like I’m at the bottom of a pit that I cannot climb out of, but when spring hits, I see the contrast like night and day.

I also argue it is a condition made much worse because many of us have to work though the winter (sometimes it’s our busiest season), so no one has a chance to decompress and rest.

they call it “seasonal affective *disorder*” but isn’t it… kinda… normal? for animals to lose energy, retreat inwards, and hibernate during winter?

maybe we called it a “disorder” when it started interfering with our productivity under capitalism

as a trans person in the US, I aspire to be like a Canada goose:

1. loud as fuck
2. have no fear
3. shit where I please

a screenshot from IG of the back of the Bluegill Signature tail by Finfolk. it is a warm and cool green with orange accents and dark green stripes along the back. the tail for sale does NOT include the hip or calf fins.

a photo of the fabric tail’s waist band with original tags showing and a piece of paper with a last name and the date the photos were taken.

a photo of the tail for sale folded to show the back with a spiky dorsal fin and broad fluke on a white background. the name and date paper are placed in the center.

a photo of the tail for sale’s front showing the bright orange belly and big green and orange fluke with dark green veining. the name and date paper are placed in the middle again.

hey #mersky, I have a tail for sale! I’m selling a Size L Finfolk Bluegill Signature fabric tail with a dorsal fin (no hip or calf)~

New With Tags and original vinyl—I tried it on, but it has never touched water!

$500 + shipping from NC, USA (no issues, just need it sold)

DM if interested!

“living people eat dead mushrooms.
living mushrooms eat dead people.”

a photo of brown kraft paper with the words “Queer Joy Is Punk” hand-printed on it with a spiky quirky font

a photo of some brown tree roots under a creek bank, dipping down into clear water lined with sand and stones.

a tight photo of two bright orange mushrooms emerging from a dense and messy forest floor. there are green plants and tall trees in the background.

a photo of a burning log and ash, surrounded by warm flames and orange-red embers

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