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Kiku Hughes

Hi, I’m Kiku Hughes, a nikkei (Yonsei) comic artist and writer based in the Seattle area.

This blog is fairly casual, but you can find my work below:

🎨 “Displacement,” my debut graphic novel about Japanese American incarceration, generational trauma and reconnecting with lost community

🎨 My published short comics

🎨 General art tag

🎨 Sketches, WIPs and doodles

🦋 Bluesky

☕ Ko-fi

geniusbee

Updated this with my Bluesky and also Ko-fi if you are so inclined bc i am waiting on two freelance checks to come in and have $50 to my name until then lol!!

valeriapryanikova

THE BUTCHER / THE BUTCHERED

gaitou

do you remember Angel Maxine, the artist behind this song?

Angel opened a gofundme about a month ago, so if possible please consider donating to help fund her future projects :)

I’m Angel Maxine, a trans woman, artist, musician, and activist using my voice, music, and vis… Maxine Angel Opoku needs your support for P

if you aren't able to donate, please share! as of writing this, Angel has only raised €433 out of her €7k goal

fictionalgod

shithowdy

it's 1pm at the marsh! come on down, we've got

𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒷𝓁𝒶𝒸𝓀𝒷𝒾𝓇𝒹𝓈!!!

shithowdy

this is now available as a free downloadable file with transparent .pngs and a grackle recolor on my kofi!

shubbabang

dark-wizard-guy-fieri

context (via @mellorocket)

chimthecappy

doubly funny that I saw a compilation of all the corporate accounts like "aw thanks elmo, we're doing well" meanwhile all the flesh and blood real human people are extremely not okay

artistefish

Okay but Elmo had actually the best and sweetest response to all this trauma dumping:

And then all the other Sesame Street character accounts joined in:

And now I’m thinking maybe we’re gonna be okay… 💗

(Comment compilation from this Twitter)

aqueerkettleofish

I kinda feel for the poor person running Elmo's Twitter.

"So, boss... I may have messed up."

"What did you do, Ray?"

"Well, I made a post for Elmo saying 'Hi, how's everybody doing?'"

"I mean, that's kind of what we pay you for."

"Yeah, but.... <sigh> it turns out pretty much everyone is hanging on by a thread, badly enough that they needed to tell Elmo."

"Oh."

"God help me, boss, I think Elmo needs to be there for them."

"Get the others."

shu-of-the-wind

this is the energy that jim henson would be proud of.

anna-neko

and important addition

Source: instagram

athanza

From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest

gothiccharmschool

Something something people not knowing the history something ...

abigailnussbaum

I am increasingly of the view that the besetting flaw of modern, internet-based, leftist-progressive culture is the tendency to take concepts that were intended as consciousness-raising, "have you noticed"/"makes you think" moments and treat them as all-encompassing rules for life. The Bechdel test is not a yardstick for feminism and/or artistic worthiness. It's not a test you were ever meant to apply to any single work. It's a thought experiment intended to illustrate how the entertainment industry as a whole discounts the interiority, desires, and relationships of women except as they relate to men. But again and again you'll see people - and perhaps especially people who define themselves as feminists - who treat it as the one and only meaningful measure of a work's value. In reality, there are feminist works that don't pass the Bechdel test, and works that pass the Bechdel test that are not feminist, and works with tremendous political value that do not foreground feminism because they're about something else.

And if the Bechdel test is a relatively old example, this is a phenomenon that keeps cropping up. "Some artifacts in museums were stolen or looted, with colonialism and racism providing a cover for acts that in other circumstances we'd easily recognize as criminal" has become "all museums are piles of loot and stealing from them is righteous even it it's to melt the artwork down and funnel the profits to organized crime." "Zoos sometimes abuse their animals and the goal should be to reintroduce specimens to the wild" has become "open all the cages and let the animals out (to spaces where they will almost certainly die/be killed to stop them killing people)". "Ethnic foods are sometimes treated as more palatable, and sold for more money, when they're marketed by white people" has become "people should only prepare and eat food from their own ethnicity". Again and again, it feels like these ideas that were meant to make us think, to pause a moment and notice the unspoken assumptions and elisions that exist in our world, have been turned into catchphrases that shut down thought. I think the reason that happens is that people enjoy the feeling of righteousness that comes from calling out institutions like museums or the film industry, but along the way you can become just as dogmatic and tunnel-visioned as the bodies you were calling out.

kroovv

A little Brushbuddy 🍊

theancientwayoflife

~ Earring with a dove standing on an altar. Culture: Greek Period: Hellenistic Period Date: 150–100 B.C. Medium: Gold, garnet, and glass paste.

bowelfly

NEW ART TELEPHONE GAME

^header art by @blossompigeon

PART 1: TEAM SWORDS

starter image by @ibenkrutt, team swords: @slowedmountains nocturnalfiend delocyte @hurtanminttu @lymphwyrm @blossompigeon @mossymandibles @odetoscavengers @yellosnacc @undergrounddawniii @tench-art @spiralshells guro @ohpsshaw @slimekingmike @skelebee @nardacci-does-art @dosprompts @psalidodont

PART 2: TEAM SORCERY

nardacci-does-art

Another wild ass telephone, honored as always to participate!

thekoshertribble

Scotty’s Dress Uniform Kilt: What Tartan is that?

In the season three episodes “Is there in truth no beauty?” and “The Savage Curtain” we see Scotty in the rarely featured dress uniform. But his uniform is different from the others - he wears a kilt along with a belt and sporran.

As a proud tartan wearer myself I always loved this detail, but only recently did I wonder 1) if the tartan is real and 2) if so, whose clan does it belong to?

Luckily Trekcore has screencaps that make solving these mysteries a bit easier. The tartan is fairly simple, just black and white. Most tartans include a mix of warm and cool colors so this is somewhat unusual. (See samples below).

So is Scotty’s tartan real?

Yes! Not only is this a real (official) tartan, it’s from the real Scott clan!

self-made-purgatories

I am obsessed with Scotty's dress uniform. He looks spectacular. I also went looking for more information on his tartan before finding this post, and I discovered that, not only is it a real Clan Scott tartan, it is a specific tartan that means Scotty is related to Sir Walter Scott, the poet and author who wrote Ivanhoe! Such a cool backstory and easter egg!

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartandetails?ref=3694