Progress On Venus From #weknowthedevil #wktd

Done with Venus and sometime tomorrow I'll upload the full triptych of #weknowthedevil #wktd thank you all for the likes on this

Hard at work at Delta H con! Come on by at table A106!

Kyrie (eleison) 2020, 10x20-ish mixed media on masonite Media, in no specific order: Watercolor, acrylic, acryla gouache, gold and silver leaf, gold mica flake, lace

Done for @capri-bigbang2k19 

According to the date on my phone, I finished the sketch in late August. I finished not too long ago, making this my first painting of 2020. How fitting, given this piece includes a lot of firsts: mounting a piece on masonite with matte medium as an adhesive; using squeeze bottles and blunt needles to do fine lining/piping (I need to go thinner,) and making shell gold for the purpose of being liquid gold paint (a technique adapted from how Russian icon painters make shell gold, which is both time-consuming and kind of fun.) I also used matte medium as more adhesive for the lacing after looking into how collage and assemblage artists make their pieces stick without fear of glue breaking or yellowing.

I'd visit this intermittently along with working on bees for my local town - it became a form of therapy in which I was allowed to “get real fucking weird,” as some professionals say.

The dried grass, camellias, roses, sweet peas and baby's breath are a reference to my writing contribution to the Captive Prince Big Bang, which needs to be worked on oops, but I got until Saturday.

Title is from the Christian liturgy, but also a reference to my album of 2019: Lingua Ignota’s Caligula, specifically If the Poison Won’t Take You... (TW: loud music, references to domestic abuse.)

The Spaces in Between

Commission for @chaddiecakes that took entirely too long, hey-oh.

Title from the How to Destroy Angels song.

It was a rare day off for the Lantos household, or specifically the women. Jin took the time to check up on the production and readings at the plant. He trusted Heru to tend to the house, and Tama to – not behave, but just be Tama. While like a sparrow, Tama made her nest; she’d fly back home, coming through the door filthy, askew and completely happy.

Today, her wings were clipped. Heru wanted her to stay inside to help with chores. Tama reacted as expected: put out, frustrated. Why shouldn’t she be allowed outside? Her father let her out all the time. And he liked the mess fine, last she noted. He knew where everything was, how the chaos operated for them both. Why didn’t Heru see that? Everything had its place; Heru insisted on uprooting everything.

Always with the cold logic, always with the reason; never with the heart, never with the instinct.

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And something from glass-blowing I’m actually pleased with! Well, I’m proving day by day I’m incompetent at glass-blowing (for now, I guess,) and my art teacher has determined that I should just make figurines. They just came naturally to me.

So enjoy a little snake/cobra. Ain’t he cute?

It begins :3

Update :3c #charcoal #subtractive

BAIL FUNDS FOR PROTESTERS

ATLANTA

LOUISVILLE

HOUSTON

BROOKLYN

please reblog if you have links for bail funds in other cities or other resources!

More carving/etching/idk and I'm sure if I used tools for wood it'd work but jamming to bjork and using scratch board tools will suffice

As a content creator

I will no longer be using tumblr to write and post my content. Why?

Because I sometimes write adult content. Not only sexual content, but violence and other adult themes. Why do I write such things?

Because I have written them for years. Because, as a writer, life is not all rainbows and butterflies. I write books and stories about humans. There is sex, but also themes of death, violence and sadness. This is part of human nature.

Tumblr’s full-ban on adult content is one of the most ridiculous things that I have ever seen. This is their way of trying to clean up their self-created mess that will drive away large portions of their base, because “adult content” is more than just the annoying porn-bots.

Adult content, as we have seen, has hit things such as “Chronic pain” blogs but also blogs that are LGBT+ friendly. I’m queer and I have a chronic illness.

While my run on tumblr has been long, I am willing to move on from it. I lived through Strikethrough on LJ. I will survive this.

My friends, my fellow content creators, my readers, and anyone else who sees this— don’t delete your tumblrs. Leave them as skeletons. Allow tumblr to cannibalize itself and only leave the bones behind.

This really is Strikethrough 2.0.

Stay calm, and begin to back up everything.

Good luck, my loves.