BABY, YOU'RE A HAUNTED HOUSE!

art: @kayleerowena

[hauntwednesday]

pinned post! ♡ i'm kaylee rowena & this is a main blog for my art sideblog, so i don't have to follow cool art friends from my other main blog, which is slightly more embarrassing. (read: i post about video games there — mortifying!) since we're all fleeing from the flaming wreckage of twitter, i wanted a slightly more professional blog to follow people back from, so here we are!

i'm a comic artist and illustrator, and i draw a lot of haunted houses. find my art @kayleerowena!

here i'll be reblogging art, mostly, i think. i'm planning to use it as a sort of inspiration blog. we'll see where it goes!

[eriserinyes]

before 2023 end anyone wanna tell me if they're the thing

[eriserinyes]

[triangleguy]

[wrender]

Transparent pins taken from the Arquives' button collection!

[divorcedwife]

more fairies

[girlsloths]

Alison Bechdel, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For

[petitelappin]

"For a moment or two I could see nothing, as the shadow of a cloud obscured St. Mary’s Church and all around it. Then as the cloud passed I could see the ruins of the abbey coming into view; and as the edge of a narrow band of light as sharp as a sword-cut moved along, the church and the churchyard became gradually visible. Whatever my expectation was, it was not disappointed, for there, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white."

Mina and Lucy in the kirkyard at Whitby, August 11th.

[soberscientistlife]

A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.

Librarians are amazing. They love reading so much, they will find a way to get books to people.

[librarianmouse]

Some more great images in this article:

The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky

During the Depression, they delivered books and other reading materials in remote rural areas, to people with no other access to the world o

And PBS has a half hour show about them:

The Pack Horse Librarians of Appalachia | PBS

This documentary tells the story of pack horse librarians - women hired by the Franklin Ro

[mr-ribbit]

not to keep harping on this but if you HATE shaving your body or any other part of your "beauty routine": stop doing it. just stop doing it, at least for a little while (maybe when you don't have a lot going on if that helps) and HONESTLY gauge how it makes you feel. is this feeling better or worse than the amount of time, stress, and money the routine takes? do YOU actually prefer how you looked before, or are you only worried about what others think? if you stopped doing the routine forever, could you find other ways to feel better about yourself with that energy?

when I was like 19 and the idea of not shaving my legs anymore first occurred to me (bc I had a Cool Progressive Boyfriend that Didn't Care) i just stopped and it was immediately like... a quantifiably large chunk of unnecessary anxiety just sloughed off my life forever. instantaneously I got rid a bunch of effort and stress I had been accepting as normal, and replaced it with more time to do what actually made me feel 'ready' in the morning, like hygiene, coffee, preparing for my activities etc.

and i DONT feel self conscious about body hair personally but even if I did, no amount of shame over hair could outweigh how much easier my life is. not just bc 'shaving annoying' or 'long showers' or whatever, but like. yeah I don't waste as much time getting ready anymore, and I also don't have to realize last minute before some leg-showing event that im unfit for display and have a whole self-esteem plummeting anxiety attack about whether I should rush it unsafely and risk being late, cut up, and stressed out before the event, or go With Hair and feel judged the whole time. i don't have to go through any of those emotions and when anyone does comment on my hair rudely, im in a much healthier place to deal with it and tell them to fuck off rather than validate THEIR fucked up standards by feeling bad.

once I realized I didn't give a shit and neither did anyone I cared about, it also gave me the freedom to cut out a bunch of other shit I was only doing (or Thinking I Should) bc it was what girls Have To Do to be presentable. fuck shaving fuck waxing fuck eyebrow shaping fuck concealer fuck multi step skincare fuck shapewear fuck lip fillers fuck contouring fuck teeth whitening fuck all of it, you do not need to change ANYTHING about how you look Every Single Day.

for those of you about to say "but I like being shaven/wearing makeup/literally pulling hair out of my face painfully every day etc etc etc":

have fun and mod your avatar all you want but for gods sake if you hate it and complain about how long it takes and all the stuff you "have" to buy or do just to "get ready" - you do not have to. you're not just having fun. you are not getting Ready, you are making your mood and experience worse for yourself, which is going to make you feel unready and unprepared for actually being yourself comfortably.

[mr-ribbit]

OBVIOUSLY if you enjoy doing these things, find them relaxing, or like what they do to your appearance, that is FINE. you know it's fine bc every single piece of mainstream media, advertisement, celebrity etc is reinforcing that it is not only fine, but *necessary* to be acceptable and normal in society.

less obviously but more importantly: many feminine people do not have the privilege of embracing this mindset due to safety, and the pressure I'm talking about is a lot more severe. if you need to do this shit in order to pass, prevent abuse, or otherwise keep yourself safe, keep at it but remember that it is not your fucking fault that they make you do this.

[min8taur]

hey

[lucydykeus]

can't stop thinking about this chappell photoshoot from 2022

[sleepnoises]

im the king of the world and can achieve anything i set my mind to (blobbily approximating the boston metropolitan area in fabric)

[sleepnoises]

some applique progress + backlit photo

[sleepnoises]

finished the shoreline applique (78.3ish feet of thread!) and have added trim details to the castle that represents an apartment

[sleepnoises]

Quiltachusetts made it through the washer and dryer intact so I am calling it Done

Some points about this project:

it is intended as a baby quilt for a Cambridge baby

I think it's funny to imagine a baby eclipsing a city by laying on it or trampling it like Godzilla or playing blocks on a big map. this joke led me to do a lot of work

this is 44" by 44" and the biggest quilt I've ever made... yet

It would not pass muster at a quilt show (didn't bury thread ends when quilting, silly corners) but I think a baby will be okay with it

My favorite parts are the ocean texture, the quilted "roads" that meet up with the bridges (plus the quilted "tunnels"), and the embroidered trim details on the center castle

All the gingham is from the same thrifted shirt that I dyed different greens. The top middle chartreuse gingham is a pocket from the shirt. For crumbs, etc

Heck yeah

[hangsawoman]

happy hill house day

[littlealienproducts]

The Star Tarot Card Print by beccastadtlander

[apolladay]

What age did you get your first job? (can be part time or even just a one time paid help at an event)

<14?

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

>22?

I never worked a day in my life

Voting ended onJun 22, 2024

[wuntrum]

what if a femme robot liked it when her butch creator performed routine maintenance tasks on her (in a sexual way) (and they were both girls)? i guess you'll have to read my new (free) comic to find out!!

[chippyanddippy]

I got this bag with cool rainbow straps at pride last year, but it had a Corporate Logo printed on it so I had to take matters into my own hands. LOVED paper piecing this carpenter’s wheel from a Goodwill jelly roll, which almost made up for how much I HATED appliqué-ing it onto the bag!

[mortalityplays]

the whole point of a zine is that it's cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you're being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than "my work can be reproduced as part of this publication" it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.

[mortalityplays]

this isn't snobby gatekeeping or imaginary semantic problems or whatever, this is an issue that has come up irl at cons and zine fairs local to me and which keeps coming up online. people who show up to trade fairs selling professionally printed $15 anthologies as 'zines' have a direct impact on the people trying to sell their $3 chapbooks at the next table over. submission based kickstarter projects that bill themselves as 'zines' exploit the connotations of amateur, punk production values to induce creators to work for less and eschew formal guarantees and protections they are entitled to.

[leog4u]

my favorite zines have all been $1 or free and printed on highlighter paper. i used to pick em up from a book store in chelsea that sold predominantly self published work, and had sections for zines. Some were about how to eat cheap in the city when most of your paycheck went to rent, others were talking about the best drag performances in town, and plenty of DIY stuff. all of them had the same unique quality: nobody but the author and their collaborators could've made this, and they wanted to make it easily accessible to the community

i kinda hate that the word that was used for extremely personal and cheap works is applied to essentially art books of your favorite anime OTP

[mortalityplays]

hi! sorry, real quick:

grab a piece of paper and fold it in half like a book

write "im indifferent to zines" on the cover

write "i've never been able to buy one" on the first page

write "and i'll never be in one" on the second page

write "just want to be a hater today" on the back

congrats you're in a zine! if you like you can photocopy it and sell it to art students, fellow haters, or anyone with a sense of humour. I'll buy one.

[theliltchirurgeon]

ive been saying this since 2015! all my illustrator friends kept submitting to them (and gettin in which i was proud of) but they... werent zines. they were like massive books with grandiose color schemes and gilded bossing. i couldnt afford them even. zines are oft free or traded and they arent about how pretty a picture you can make.

the first zine idea i found was in a book i checked out from the library (id never remember what it was. it was about cartooning i think and had a section about chibi style lol) that had a little section on taking one sheet of paper, marking it into eighths, cutting a line in the center of the page and folding it over for a quick eight pages. like this

this makes printing soooo easy too. id love to see these floating around places

[iwanttodance]

So I scrolled past this post and was thinking the same thought I always do when I see people talking about zines, which is basically ‘zines are so cool, I’ve never made one because I don’t think I have anything interesting to say in one, but I should make a zine someday if I ever have creative energy again’ and then it gets added to my ever growing mental list of things I want to do but don’t end up doing (I have spent the last several years struggling so hard with my depression that I can’t seam to create anything at all)

And then I thought, hey I have a piece of paper by my desk I should at least follow that diagram and fold it, that way I’m halfway there even if it’s blank and sits on my desk for months, and then 5 minutes later I had this:

Now I’m just holding this little thing I’ve made in my hands and I love it so much

So thank you to this post for inspiring me to make something today! Even if it’s just a simple silly little thing I’m going to treasure it

[cephalopodqueen]

I should try making a zine..