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"Where my ideas go to die..."

[markrosewater]

Been messing around with shadow creatures lately. Where are the Soltari on the Beeble Scale?

And if we got them back, do you think it’d be more likely to be as a package deal with the Dauthi and Thalakos, or on their own?

I hope one day we find where the Rathi denizens, other than the Kor (we know where they’re from), are from.

I’d call the Soltari an 8.

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Pikafield *loves* lasagna but *hates* Mondays

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Honestly, i could probably just draw with highlighters the rest of my life, and I would be happy. This is highlighter and ink on canvas. The first one is under a UV light and the other is with some new glitch effects I’m trying out. #glitch #ink #vaporwave #cyberpunk (at Norwood, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz9YEO2g7YG/?igshid=lnvvx7pc6mjc

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I’m not a religious man by any means, but I felt a certain call to create something bigger than myself tonight... May you be touched by his noodle appendage. #fsm #smashultimate https://www.instagram.com/p/BxL5edTlhw_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hbitqc8niivb

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We love you very very very much— —and we’re sorry for the inconvenience. #glitch (at Kenwood Towne Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqbgmKvh0Tm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1v8y0jetf63f

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Hi. Go vote.

Not gonna bury the lead, here. If you post a picture of yourself with your voting sticker in the comments, then I will reply by saying something nice about you, and attaching a quick little sketch of your beautiful face

Rant below—

So like, this is probably the most important midterm election of our lives, right?

I mean, I used to think that every election was the most important one of our lives, right? But that was totally bullshit. This is the real deal. 2016 happened. Things are different.

Now we have a narcissistic, geriatric, orange monster of a human-beast-criminal with completely unchecked power in perhaps one of the most powerful positions in the world.

And every time he opens his stupid, perpetually puckered maw or his chubby, tiny hands log into social media, people get hurt.

People. Get. Hurt.

I can’t fucking stress that enough. Even if you don’t feel a change, personally, even if his garbage rhetoric hasn’t had a direct effect on your life, it has someone’s.

If you don’t believe me? Ask the mothers who are having their children ripped from their arms at the border and placed in concentration camps, or ask the trans people whose rights he keeps coming after, be it through his ridiculous bans in the military, or through the proposal to only apply civil rights to the “gender” assigned to you by your genitals at birth, whatever-the-fuck that means. Never mind the elderly (the majority of whom voted for him) that will suffer if keep the promise of cutting Medicare and ending healthcare programs is kept. Never mind the fact that one of his very first acts as president was to cut funding to crisis programs in place to help abused women. (I bet you forgot about that one). And certainly never mind the hate groups and violently disturbed individuals that are emboldened by his xenophobic, alarmist rhetoric, and who, for some batshit-insane reason, he refuses to give a strong condemnation of.

People, actual, real, living people are getting hurt. And if you don’t know someone personally being effected, then just try this— imagine a family member or neighbor of yours, someone you really love, then imagine them unable to seek help in a crisis, or mocked on public for a disability, or pulled from the only home they’ve ever known and sent somewhere far away, in spite of being told legally that they could stay. Imagine someone you love, and imagine whatever your worst case scenario is. That is someone, somewhere.

And there are no checks to this power. The senators and congresspeople, the “adults in the room” have rubber stamped almost every lunatic thing he has asked for. For example, Lindsay Graham, someone who in the beginning claimed to hate Trump, offered to propose an amendment to the constitution, ending birthright citizenship, based on the insane claim that the president could end it by executive order. (That’s one for the constitution lovers in the audience). Also, the courts, that held at first, have been packed with justices who will uphold these blatantly cruel laws.

People, real people, are getting hurt.

Voting tomorrow is our best hope for the next two years to end or at least slow the chaos. Activism doesn’t begin or end in the polling booth, but it sure as hell makes its way there if it wants to claim to be making a difference.

I know some of you don’t believe in the system, to you, I say that this presidency is perhaps the first and only time that I can show you a clear, satisfying difference in consequences between the two parties. It sucks, but between sucky and intentionally cruel, I take sucky every time.

To fiscal conservatives, I admit that I never really agreed with you in the first place, but I look forward to having the discussion about how our government spends its money (a discussion, I believe, is the whole point of a government), once we get this ship to shore and patch this hole through which water is gushing in—because the lifeboats are on fire, folks, and if this thing goes down, we all go down together.

Voting tomorrow isn’t a matter of politics, it’s a matter of right and wrong.

Do the right thing.

Oh! Also, I don’t know if this is anything, but brutal dictators the world over have taken to using the phrase “Fake News” to further suppress the press in their countries. Just something to think about.

Anyway, regardless of how you vote, post a picture of yourself with your sticker in the comments, and I’ll do the thing I said I’d do because of the things I just said. Even if I don’t know you... 😬

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So, instead of posting the traditional Dexter’s lab meme, I thought I’d get more creative in expressing my sadness in failing at #inktober . Next year, I’ll do better. Enjoy. #failure (at Hamilton, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpfdIokhyWT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5z0fhw0pnxx5

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Inktober day mostly 16: for today’s prompt I decided to draw my friend Abel #Angular . Get it? Because his name is Aguilar? ...I’m sorry, Abel. Miss you, bro! #inktober #inktober2018 #caricature #ink #watercolor (at Norwood, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpD4fa1hwyo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=54czmq70zc8t

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Another quick inktober drawing 15: this one is autobiographical. #weak #inktober #inktober2018 (at Norwood, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpBXC9Shven/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hz248pjsbx26

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Quick inktober catch-up sketch day 14 or something: round 2 of, when I don’t know what to draw, I draw robots. I might go back in and color this one eventually. There is more I think I can do with this idea... #inktober #inktober2018 #clock #ink (at Norwood, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpBUtijBiOy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ufy2nggckzqs

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Inktober day 13(ish): Guarded. Hi, my name is billy, and when I don’t know what else to draw, I draw robots. #inktober #inktober2018 #cyberpunk #guarded #ink (at Norwood, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo-ub24hxu1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1k5bzp96id7o0

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Inktober day 12: Whale. This is just a dumb little design I drew because I couldn’t think of anything more clever. #inktober #inktober2018 #whale #ink #watercolor (at Norwood, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo5stRdBFo6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lrz7kod67lq3

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Inktober Day 10: Today’s prompt was “Flowing” and nothing flows quite like infinity. Infinity: available everywhere Existential Dread is sold. #inktober #inktober2018 #infinity #ink #glitch #glitchtober #watercolor (at Norwood, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo0jnsuBweu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lo804zu4m76r

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Inktober Day 9: So, the internet is going nuts for Bowsette and Booette, right now, but do you know who’s really fucking #precious ? That’s right! It’s Lakitette!

#inktober #inktober2018 #pen #watercolor #bowsette #mario #nintendo #ink (at Norwood, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/Box84ZtBxbI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hmh02gcqdq15

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Sound on. Day 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8: Ok, so I’m really committed to doing this inktober thing, but a family tragedy kept me from really working in my sketchbook for about a week. I took some time to catch up on Sunday and Monday, but, while there were some drawings I was all about, there were others that I absolutely hated. Somewhere along the line, I thought it might be fun to montage them together and make something really cool instead of just a pile of middling sketches, plus it fit in with my whole “glitchtober” theme. I hope you enjoy. The song, BTW is Mounika.-Cut My Hair featuring Cavetown #inktober #inktober2018 #glitchtober #cyberpunk #pen #highlighter #chicken #roasted #drooling #star #exhausted (at Norwood, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/BovQun9hzeA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10kwpzgnt02w1

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Sooo, I haven’t given up on inktober. I just knocked out a bunch of catch up drawings after a little personal setback, and I’m going to try to do something special with them all tomorrow, but I thought I’d share this one with all of you, tonight. It’s my big mood, right now. #exhausted #inktober #inktober2018 #pen #ink #drawing (at Norwood, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bosyh4UhluS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1k3xkyoju9o5b

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Day 2: I’ve always found concrete more soothing than grass. #glitchtober #tranquility #inktober #inktober2018 #glitch #ink #watercolor #cyberpunk (at Norwood, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/BodWpEahRud/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=23jea6mjweqy