Riusuke Fukahori’s Lifelike Goldfish Painted In Acrylic Between Layers Of Resin

there are three wolves inside me:

one is catholic. one is protestant. one is pagan.

i am a heretic.

The jury’s ‘guilty’ verdict delivers much-needed accountability for Derek Chauvin. It’s a small step to delivering true justice for George Floyd and other people of color who face a fundamentally racist criminal justice system. Let’s keep going.

Black Lives Matter.

You know, with all the language throughout Star Wars about “giving in” to the Dark Side, how the Dark Side makes you more powerful, how the Dark Side makes you age strangely and destroys you, it sure doesn’t sound like an “opposite side of the coin” so much as the “deeper end of the pool,” like it’s actually the true form of the force and being a Jedi is about keeping it tamed so it doesn’t eat you the way it actually wants.

Any elder gods out there looking to trade mystic powers in exchange for loyal service in the physical planes? Asking for a friend

Land Back because the indigenous people and the land evolved together. The Americas (Turtle Island) was NEVER a “virgin”, unused, underutilized landscape. It has always, ALWAYS been cared for, listened to, learnt from by the people who live there. There were trade routes, homes, battlegrounds, grave yards, there were prescribed land fires that shaped the forests and plains. These are only a couple teeny tiny examples.

Land Back because indigenous knowledge is key to restoring ecosystems. And to help us adapt in better ways to the impending changes as our planet warms. If there is hope for our beautiful planet and every being in it (and there is) then it is with anti colonization, indigenous sovereignty and solidarity. The future is Indigenous....

Unfortunately, I do love you now that you can dance

“It was a mistake to keep this single knife in my heart so long, but it is my knife, and my heart, too,”

— Richard Jackson, from “Basic Algebra,” Richard Jackson Greatest Hits: 1980-2004 (Pudding House Publications, 2004)

toxic love • art by Roberto Ferri