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COMMISSIONS OPEN! she/her, demisexual, geek, artist, mom. Fanart, Portraits and Illustration, multi fandom blog with occasional real life ramblings - Safe space blog  Two rules of my blog:  #1  If you cannot be kind then be quiet, keep scrolling.   #2 I block porn blogs, if your blog is simply naked people doing this and that, don't bother following me.

[plaguedocboi]

ITS GREAT LAKES AWARENESS DAY!!!!!

On this excellent day, be aware that this is the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world, covering over 95,000 square miles and reaching depths of over a thousand feet. They are beautiful freshwater seas.

Also when you die in these lakes, the very cold, oxygen-poor conditions at the bottom preserves you perfectly for all eternity. You will not rot and nothing will eat you. You will exist for as long as the Great Lakes do. Many shipwrecks still have the crew on board. Be Aware.

[bunjywunjy]

that last paragraph only applies to Lake Superior, the northernmost Great Lake! to be fair though, Superior is bigger than all of the other Great Lakes combined.

and that's not to say that the other Great Lakes aren't equally dangerous! each of these things earned the 'Great' descriptor for a reason, and the only reason they aren't all classified as inland seas is because they're not salty.

Lake Michigan in particular is really good at creating waterlogged corpses and hiding them in weird places, and every single Great Lake is full of shipwrecks and ghost stories.

and you know what? 10/10 I would let these things eat me anyways.

be aware!

[bunjywunjy]

fun optional addition, LAKE SUPERIOR VS THE EAST COAST

you could drown an entire small country in this thing

[lookninjas]

Great Lakes Awareness Day is May 5th this year!

[thesanityclause]

LET'S GO LAKE WHO NEVER GIVES UP HER DEAD LET'S GO!!!

[alex51324]

Great Lakes Awareness Day for 2026 is May 4. You only have a few days to get ready!

[alex51324]

My scheduled reblog worked perfectly!

Now I just have to decide how I will observe Great Lakes Awareness Day.

[attackofjak]

Lake Michigan is absolutely gorgeous and I am privileged to see her almost daily. Please enjoy some of my personal favorite pictures of Lake Michigan, including frozen shoreline. Descriptions are in the alt text. Don’t repost without permission and credit.

[balimaria]

I just really love how human this mission feels. Both the crew and the ground making fun jokes and references ("amaze, amaze, amaze!") or things like Glover saying "hello baby!" to his family back on Earth, or how "moon joy" has become the team's favorite phrase, or those craters being named "Integrity" and "Carroll," or the astronauts being encouraged to describe how seeing the moon makes them feel (and doing so to a moving degree), and also describing how much working and talking together improves their capabilities on all fronts, and both sides constantly telling each other how excited they are and that there's "smiles all around" Not that missions like Apollo never had stuff like this, but it's different hearing it all live. Wonderful experience all around.

[dmsilvisart]

Health update:

Again, amazed by modern medicine. The surgery for the flow diversion stent went well. Cathedar up the radial artery in the right arm up to the brain to place the stent.

My left wrist and hand had a total 6 IVs for various things..Anesthesia, brachial artery blood pressure monitoring, and other things that I forgot.

I imagine some colorful bruising is in the near future

For both arms

The Stent was placed inside the artery kind of like a new arterial wall, cutting off blood flow into the aneurysm, the body will eventually accept the stent and place new cells over it & assimilate it into the body. Stent placed well, and the aneurysm was showing proper signs of stagnating.

This makes me sound smart huh? No it's just that the Allegheny General medical team is AMAZING, and take time to explain in detail everything, and answer all questions. I really can not say enough good things about them. From registration to discharge, housekeeping and cafeteria staff, just all so good.

A patient chart app that actually works and messages get answered in it quickly. Everything from ordering my food to future billing and all my records all there, easy peasy.

I have a follow up on the 31st and scans in three months to make sure all is going well.

Right now I have mild pain on the right side of my head, my hands are banged up. Neck muscles and throat (from breathing tube) are sore.

No writing, typing, drawing, driving, or lifting anything larger than cup of water until Monday.

After that I have a 10 lb weight limit, exertion limits, avoid things that raise blood pressure etc until the 3 month mark.

Two more aneurysms in my noggin bit they're too small to warrant surgery so they will be monitored when I go for follow up scans from this surgery.

That's the update for now.

[windflowermary]

as a bit of a side note but still related to ao3 being down, ai bots are scraping the site so hard that it caused an outage. so to all of the people who didn't care about ai in fandom spaces, and didn't care that ai is being trained off of people's works, and didn't care that ai bots are harassing people via comments all over ao3: do you care now? now that it affects you directly? now that it's literally crashing the archive???

[dmsilvisart]

Where I've been...the good and the bad

Hello all,

I had a health hiccup....well a (going on two years) of health issues....bouncing between doctors for multiple problems. Really too much to get into. Much of it is fixable with various treatments, life style changes etc. but the one really big issue that came out of all of it is I found out I have an aneurysm, fairly large, requiring surgery before it ruptures.

That is scheduled for March 5th.

After all of that is done, I'm hoping to get back to life.

I have a gallery show as a visiting artist in May, the subject is Jim Henson creations. I'm so excited for it. I need time to actually work on my pieces tho. ..so this surgery is I'll timed but it is what it is and I'll adapt.

Sorry I feel like all I ever post anymore is "hi I'm back," then I disappear for another 3 months.

I hope everyone is staying sane in the currently dystopian hellscape popping up around us and please be kind to yourself and may you be at peace, happy and healthy.

[mooseinthebooks]

I know which angel I’m praying to this Christmas Thursday 💙

[wilwheaton]

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.

[sparklejamesysparkle]

Happy 100th birthday to television and screen legend Dick Van Dyke, born on December 13th, 1925 in West Plains, Missouri. ❤ Gifs of Mr. Van Dyke from an interview with Good Morning America, originally broadcast by ABC on December 12th, 2025.

[dmsilvisart]

Hi Dayas, it's Becca from the fox clark gallery today. It's so cool to meet another illustrator, geek, and mom. 😚

Incredible stuff! My favorite is Rage Against the Weight of the World. Keep posting!!

Thank you! It was wonderful meeting you! Hope to see more of your work!

[dmsilvisart]

Hi everyone, I've decided in order to get back into things here I should probably start by reminding y'all and myself what I do. I'm queueing my artwork, reblogging my favorite old art posts, before posting some new stuff with the NEW year, and then.....THEN I've got an announcement involving a show at a local gallery in March that I'm extremely excited about.

Stay tuned

[envydean]

Like a force to be reckoned with A mighty ocean or a gentle kiss I will love you with everything I have (x) Atlas: Two ~ Sleeping At Last

[dmsilvisart]

Just ram that stake right thru my heart

[digitaldiscipline]

unfuck google drive by shooting gemini

Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again!

Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever?

Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps

Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push)

Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

[hamthezombie]

Do check this out people. I had manually switched all the gemini nonsense off months ago, but when I went and checked just now it was all switched back on.

[dmsilvisart]

"You Know, Morons"

Charcoal, 11x14

Currently showing at The Artists Hand Gallery & Espresso Bar

Clevon Little and Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles

Every time I've seen this movie I thought this reaction was so genuine. When Clevon Little starts laughing.

The quote from the movie goes, spoken by Gene Wilder:

"What did you expect?

Welcome Sunny?

Make yourself at home?

Marry my daughter?

You got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land, the common clay of the New West

You know... Morons."

It wasn't until years later that I learned that You know morons was ad-libbed by Gene Wilder and that was in fact a genuine reaction and I knew I just had to draw it!

[dmsilvisart]

I don't even know what my dashboard is anymore 😭

[evilwriter37]

Saying “this niche, properly tagged, warned, and rated piece of fiction could theoretically hurt someone” is not a good argument. This properly labeled cookie with the allergen information at the bottom that contains gluten could theoretically harm me very badly, but only if I consume it. Tags are like nutrition labels, and warnings are like allergy information. If you know you have an allergy to something, the logic is to stay away from it. It is the same with fiction. I’m not running through stores yelling at people to take all the products with gluten off the shelves just because it could hurt me. Instead I ignore it and go to the gluten free section and find cookies that are right for me. And if running through a grocery store yelling sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is. Stop doing the same with fiction.

[kokichis-dead-dove-club]

this is the best way i’ve seen this put!!

[lynati]

And just like with food, what might be harmful for one person to consume could be quite *beneficial* for others. One man’s trigger is another man’s catharsis.

[randomslasher]

AND if you lack the maturity/self control/awareness to stop yourself from eating things that could potentially harm you, you either 1) are too young to be making your own food choices and should be supervised by a parent/other adult who is supposed to be responsible for you (and the store clerk who put the food on the shelf is NOT) or 2) need to take accountability for your own actions, because if you deliberately consumed something you knew could hurt you as a fully autonomous adult, then you really have no one to blame but yourself.

[nikoford]

I’d like to add that within AO3, “Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings” is, in this food analogy, like the food labels that read “This product was manufactured in a facility where [potential food allergens] are used in the production of some products”. It’s not telling you they’re in there, but even more importantly, it’s not telling you they’re not. This is not the same as “No Archive Warnings Apply” which would be the certified [food allergen] free food. One guarantees a certain experience, the other has given you no promises as to what may or may not be included and is very much a consume-at-your-own-risk product.

[sevdrag]

perfection

[kuttenberg-gauntlets]

the 3 rules of enjoying Any fandom are 1. follow everyone who you find funny 2. block everyone who you find annoying 3. when you like someone's art tell them

[dmsilvisart]

How do you know you've spent too much time away from your art studio?

#1 You have a layer of dust on your drafting desk that you can write in

#2 There is a spider web stretching from your lamp on your desk down to the table beside your desk attached to all the clutter that hasn't moved in months... like a little spider zip line

😢 Health and stress have really put the kibosh to creativity.

I'm working my way out of it tho.