CrankyPantsMel

After the recent Trump rallies, it's a novelty to see a president able to fill a venue again.

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#Poetry #Painting #Autumn Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed, speak not a whispered word of them, or they'll send the talon for your head. - Scott Snyder 🎨 Selyn Lee

Here's a new Halloween project for you . . . Paper Plate Skulls . . . one plate, four skulls! I'll put this up on my website in the next couple of days with some clearer photos of the process. 😁💀💀💀 ➡️ www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #sculpture #halloween #Halloweencraft #Halloweenidea #skull #skulls

We all need to make a pact that we're just going to log off. Just get tf offline until the adrenaline high fades as otherwise we won't be fedposting, we'll be fedbaiting, possibly fedfluffing or even fededging. Fedging.

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Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

Leonie Connellan's Perfect Zombie Costume For Knitters! Braaaaains! 🧟🧠🧶

Yes, please.

With those idiots Brain Worm Roadkill Sewer Swimmer and Mr. Shine Light Up Your Heinie in charge of public health, here’s our next pandemic.

I tried to take a photo of his yawn but the sunset turned him into a fire breathing monster

Hubs & I (early) voted today. Despite my cynicism, I felt a wee spark of hope as the machine sucked in my ballot and reported that my vote had been recorded. #BringOnTheBlueWave

Witch's Brew 🧹 a variegated mix of black, orange and gray. Pair with a festive orange and black to make the perfect spooky-season 🧦, hat, or mittens. Knit Crochet #knitsky 🧶: MakerWool Sock Cuff: Minuit Socks by Tanis Fiber MakerWool.com

subbed! sharing in case any of my no-ai artist friends would also like to know when they're opening up applications again

I’m okay with doing this.

In lieu of a recent claim that folks like King "don't do enough to boost other writers", I'll just post this. Aside from financial contributions/fundraisers the Kings have regularly facilitated toward their community for yeeeeears, Stephen King also does shit like this CONSTANTLY. Dude is a lifer.

Winning feels good. Channeled my inner Rihanna for some celebration shenanigans. 💰🍾✊🏾 Run me my coins, @washingtonpost.com!

#Poetry #Painting #Halloween All our life so much laundry; each day’s doing or not comes clean, flows off and away - Ruth Moose 🎨 Julie Horner

This inept chode. 😒

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I bet he took out 2 Russian data centers all by himself. He's Black Opspspspsps. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

“Do more of what works. Do less of what doesn’t.” James Clear Sometimes making more of our lives isn’t about doing more… it’s about consciously choosing what to stop doing too. What will you put on your stop-doing list? 🧡 #SelfAwareness #Wellbeing #Kindness Artwork by Positively Present

this European paper wasp is an expert hider

There is a doofus currently arguing here that no "creative talent" would choose to write tie-ins, and since I just did a panel this weekend on why creative talents choose to write IP, here are a few reasons. Non-financial reasons, for fun and because frankly it usually doesn't pay that well.

NEW: Hegseth's chaotic secret evacuation of a US base in Bahrain left military families in harm's way. “They’re not telling the truth. They’re not telling the full story. They’re not telling how much damage there really was." www.ms.now/news/militar...

today marks one year since we learned about THE HUNT FOR BEN SOLO "someone who has hope" first posted 19 nov 2025 read the essay here: buff.ly/chb9Usg or on ao3 here: buff.ly/Jbel3SE digital painting / #art / #AdamDriver / #THFBS