Colourful Language (literally)

• Artist -> Arthurbutus Designs • Synesthete • Aspiring Cryptid • they/them • Vancouver, BC •

[arthurbutus]

Hi I'm Jes, the artist behind Arthurbutus Designs!

For anybody who would like to order a custom piece and/or browse the stuff I currently have for sale:

Website/Shop

To see a more comprehensive catalogue of the names I've done so far (I'm always adding to this) or to buy stickers/other redbubble products featuring my art:

Redbubble (for stickers)

I also welcome you to follow my other socials, should you feel so inclined!

Tiktok

Instagram

[arthurbutus]

My family plays "duck hunt" with tiny, colourful plastic ducks on Christmas morning, and this year I chose violence 🙂

1pm: my sister has yelled at me twice for hiding them too hard. This one still hasn't been found.

4pm: neither has this one. My parents have given up. I regret nothing.

[arthurbutus]

let me just...

oop.

[the-last-teabender]

A little something for Linguistics Tumblr.

So the Crunchyroll newsroom isn't a "room" so much as a Slack channel. We have news writers all over the US, in Australia, and in Japan. This means we have something akin to 'round-the-clock coverage, but it also means that our schedules respective to each other are skewed. For example, when the East Coast contingent is starting their day, the Japan contingent is shutting down for the evening.

Because of that, we started experimenting with greetings that could apply when Party A was coming in for the morning and Party B was leaving for the night. One person came up with "konbarning": a combination of "good morning" and "konban wa" ("good evening" in Japanese). It stuck.

Over the following months, "konbarning" got shortened to "barning" and other permutations. Now, a year or some later, this is how we announce our arrival:

[awkwardrosestuff]

This is honestly so interesting and so cute at the same time

[arthurbutus]

Pride Collection is now live on my website!

I also take custom orders if I haven't done your pride flag of choice yet ☺️

[sunnyrabbit05-deactivated202508]

please

[thepileofclothesonyourdesk]

[ID/ A simple drawing of a person holding a sign that says "if you're trans please stay alive/End ID]

[depsidase]

[petrowriting]

this year while we all celebrate pride month and celebrate ourselves as well as those who came before us and paved the way for us to do so, we must also think of those in gaza, queer or not, who live every day under a brutal occupation and don’t have that same privilege. happy pride, and may we see a free palestine in this lifetime.

[lakemojave]

Happy Pride Month everyone! Remember 4 months ago when the CEO of this platform harassed and chased a trans woman off this website just for posting her transition timeline, then chased her to other social media platforms to continue harassing her, and threatened to call the FBI if she continued disputing the multiple dubious terminations of her blogs that did not violate tumblr's terms of service in any way? And despite tumblr staff insisting that the CEO was acting against their interests, the broad transmisogyny evident in the site's culture and moderation policy has still not been adequately addressed?

[lakemojave]

Remember that staff is continuing to nuke the blogs of trans women even after all of this. Remember this post when they call this site the queerest place on the internet again this month

[arthurbutus]

Pride Collection is now live on my website!

I also take custom orders if I haven't done your pride flag of choice yet ☺️

[arthurbutus]

Hind's Hall by Macklemore

I know times are pretty tough right now and most folks can't afford to drop a couple hundred bucks on a piece of art when they're struggling to put food on their table, so here's what I'm going to do:

I'm going to send a digital print of this piece to each and every person who emails me proof of their donation of $15 or more to the Haboub family's GoFundMe

(my email is [email protected])

Dear supporters' friends, My name is Marwa, I’m a single mom in Gaza. I … Marwa Awni needs your support for Urgent plea: help my family

[arthurbutus]

I've been working hard on my new pride series for a while now and I've finally got a good chunk of them up on my website!

https://www.arthurbutusdesigns.com/pride-collection

This is just a little sample of what's on my website, and I'm always happy to do custom pieces if I haven't gotten to your flag yet!

[longlivepalestine]

[tremendouslyfreedreamer-deactiv]

I used to identify as a pacifist but then it clicked. Evil people rule the world because moral people think it's wrong to fight back. God knows we will have to.

[longlivepalestine]

this.^ the palestinians tried the peaceful way, it resulted in them getting massacared by their oppressors.

[arthurbutus]

I dunno who needs to hear this but ACAB includes Jake Peralta

[arthurbutus]

So I experience sound-colour synesthesia which means that my brain processes the things I hear as both sound AND colour

I recently started creating paintings on vinyl records that are based on how I see various pieces of music

This piece is based on "Someone New" by Hozier!

(PS this video took FOREVER to make so please appreciate it)

Also, for the vinyl collectors out there who are inevitably horrified by he fact that I'm painting vinyls, I almost exclusively paint on damaged/unplayable vinyls (the only undamaged ones I paint on are those old "top hits" style LPs that are basically the equivalent of a top 40 mixtape)

[thatgothsamurai]

[lesbian-in-leather]

THE PLOT BOOPENS

[arthurbutus]

WHAT IS A SUPER BOOP AND WHY CAN'T I DO IT