#covering the sands

[inkedwingss]

In the wilderness of my heart, I was wandering, listening The wind cried, and so did I But my dry were my tears Until I saw him Against the horizon line Shining as the sunrise The mountains far behind falling apart, silently They bowed down and I reached out to touch

The light The fountain of wine Exploding in the middle of my desert

[s-aint-elmo]

pass it on!

(ID in alt text)

[aleksandracoffan]

Блог активно стартует после нового года. Новый год - новый вдох. Всех с наступающим и прекрасных выходных! / The blog is actively starting after the new year. A new year is a new breath. Happy New Year and have a wonderful weekend!

[bertoyana]

something something when your best friend, your wife, and your daughter take the killing shot that was meant for you

X-Men: First Class | X-Men: Apocalypse

[maulfucker]

beach blorbo from my dreams

[ikroah]

It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin’ — Volume 3

Left My Heart in the Sierra Madre

Variant Cover Guest Art by @memepipboy

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Notes / Original Pencils:

NOVEMBER 2022. ALMOST EXACTLY TWO YEARS AGO. THAT WAS WHEN I @memepipboy DREW THE VOLUME 3 VARIANT COVER FOR ME. AT THAT TIME, THE LAST PUBLISHED ISSUE OF IKROAH WAS #23. "SURELY," I THOUGHT THEN, "IT'S GOOD TO GIVE MY GUEST ARTISTS A HEAD START, BUT I'LL GET TO VOLUME THREE IN NO TIME!"

It is no exaggeration to say that I have been sitting on this commission for so long that it outlived not only my marriage, but the beginning and end of several other entire relationships since. I changed house. I got a cat. My life is completely different now than it was when I commissioned this variant cover from Pip (hell, so is her's: she gained a marriage!) but that's just how the cookie crumbles when you dare to invest yourself in a hobby that stretches itself over so much time. And in my defense, I have a very good excuse. I did get divorced, after all, and nowadays I'm enjoying my life a little too much to sit hunched at my desk like I used to.

Still! Despite the age of the commission, Pip did incredible work. Like my own cover for Volume 2, Pip's variant is an homage to a specific comic book cover. I wanted a parody of those melodramatic old romance comics, since it's such a stark contrast to the tone of my own cover this time around.

And according to my computer, the "Last Modified" date on the thumbnails I made for all of IKROAH's planned covers is June 11, 2021. Christ alive. I don't want to think about this single cover piece technically taking even longer.

Volume 3, "the Dead Money arc," is something that I have very specifically been looking forward too since I started making this comic in 2020. As it creeps toward half a decade of life, if any of you have any worries about how much gas I have left in the tank, know this: I basically wrote the first two volumes of this comic just to get to this one.

Here's hoping I can haul ass on it and stop falling in love or shipping across the country or having any other lifechanging events happening to me between the rest of these issues.

[nofatclips]

Endangered Species (Wayne Shorter cover) by Esperanza Spalding (featuring Lalah Hathaway) from the album Radio Music Society - Sand art by Kseniya Simonova

[queermomo]

Haha I hope everyone is doing well it was nice knowing you all I'll just go and combust into flames no worries!

[inventedfangirling]

[geekynerfherder]

Showcasing art from some of my favourite artists, and those that have attracted my attention, in the field of visual arts, including vintage; pulp; pop culture; books and comics; concert posters; fantastical and imaginative realism; classical; contemporary; new contemporary; pop surrealism; conceptual and illustration.

The art of René Aigner.

[valewritessss]

I felt so seen when I first read pjo and it mentioned Annabeth’s arachnophobia. I used to have so many nightmares when I was younger (probably started when I was around five or six), I would wake up in the middle of the night and be so terrified of moving because I thought there were spiders all over my bed. The shadows on my popcorn ceiling looked like spider figures and I remember just laying there sweating and not making a sound because I thought it would attract the spiders I guess? It was routine for me to shout for my mom—poor her, she would be woken at 2 in the morning like thrice a week— and she’d always shake my sheets and lay with me until I feel asleep. She would also take me to sleep with her and my dad in their massive bed (who was I to say no to the invitation?) and it got to the point where I was embarrassed that I couldn’t sleep a whole night without someone. Occasionally, I still have these nightmares about spiders and I just turn on a light, go to the bathroom, come back, and pretend it never happened.

Idk, just thinking about that. I kind of had forgotten about those nightmares but I don’t play when I see spiders because I know it means I’m going to dream about them.

[prisile]

having a bad bad day!

[thebeautifulbook]

FADETTE [aka LA PETITE FADETTE) by George Sand. (New York: Richmond, 1893) Translated from the French by Jane Minot Sedgwick.

750 copies on Windsor hand-made paper.

[evilhorse]

JSA (Volume #2) #2 (Jeff Lemire variant cover)

[dailyjsa]

JSA #1 cover by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer

[jkparkin]

JSA #4 (DC, February 2025) variant cover by Riley Rossmo