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babs, they/them, i have an emmy

my comic Bottom's Up! is out now!!
https://store.silversprocket.net/products/bottoms-up-by-barbara-benas

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I am tired but I will never say no to treating myself to future garlic
Photo of a row of 49 garlic cloves freshly planted in a dirt trench in a narrow garden bed in my yard. They will go to sleep and wake up in the spring to become garlic bulbs 👋
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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good shit
screenshot of the introduction to the linked paper in the quoted post, which reads: “ In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) in operational and decision-making pipelines, we observe a structurally similar failure mode: poetic formatting can reliably bypass alignment constraints."
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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meetings are the best for drawing
photo of a day planner open to Nov 18-19 pages that has been filled with sketches of my character Suzette from my comic Bottom's Up! She is drawn in various chef's knife-action poses
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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vinny
photo of a pencil sketch of my adult cat son vinny sleeping. he loves to grab his foot. i thought i could get more detail in but he rolled over
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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digital color illustration of a red, horned devil magician reaching into his magic hat. inside the hat is a cacophony of doves and the magician’s assistant, who is carefully hiding in wait to stop them from being taken
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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finally finished this giant honker 😤
photo of my hand holding up a hefty paperback library copy of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel by Susanna Clarke, clocking in at a sweat-inducing 846 pages. Its substantial shadow is cast over my cat son Vinny who is dozing in the background. The book was very good
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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🕴️🧎
digital illustration of a lizard businessman dramatically passed out in a tiled urban courtyard at night. the streetlight cast on him creates an iridescent glow, illuminating the papers spilling out of his briefcase
October 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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traversed a great distance to see @realgdt.bsky.social 's Frankenstein in the cuntiest theater imaginable, Five Stars
photo of the outside marquee of the Paramount theater in Kankakee, IL photo of the inside of the main auditorium, built in 1931. Built in "movie palace" art deco style with cherry red walls, green and silver decorative detailing on the ceiling, and detailed golden wall sconces and edgework. also multiple dainty little chandeliers because why not photo of the inside of the main auditorium, view of the screen from the center of the room photo of the exit doors from the inside of the main auditorium. more art deco styling of the doorway facade featuring golden sun rays emanating from the glowing exit sign, a lot of intricate fancy detailing on the border, and two flower petal-shaped stained glass window panes on each door that are fitted with iridescent rainbow colored stained glass. like, oh my fucking god
October 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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👋
photo of a newly hatched monarch butterfly perching on a bit of lavender in my yard. its chrysalis shell can be seen on the white plastic siding behind it. i believe this is another male. he will make the long migration to mexico due to eclosing this late in the season 👋
October 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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this lucky lad just won a trip to Mexico
photo of a green monarch butterfly chrysalis attached to some white plastic siding (different one than last time) - Monarchs typically live only around two weeks, but those that hatch in late fall are able to live for up to 6 months in order to make the migration to Mexico for the winter. apparently their bodies instinctually determine this by temperature and the angle of the sun in the sky close up of the same monarch chrysalis, its gold pigment "diadem" markings visible
October 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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photo of my orange cat Vinny in a blue cone. His eyes are closed and he's soaking up some morning rays Screenshot from The Sopranos of Paulie Walnuts sitting on a folding chair outside of an Italian deli. His eyes are closed and he's holding a sun reflector up to his face to soak up some rays
September 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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I Want to Be Inside the TV
screenshot of the quote post that has been translated from japanese to english with google translate that reads: "---Hideo Kojima/Game Creator On the flight back home, I didn't read any books, didn't write any manuscripts, and just watched movies as my heart desired. Of the many movies I watched, the only one that stuck in my mind was "I Want to Be Inside the TV." Hats off to director Jane Schoenbrun's skill."
September 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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was able to get a beauty shot of him before he flew away to finish drying off in a tree 👋
photo of a male monarch butterfly perched on a bamboo pole and spreading his wings
September 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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oh!! hello!!!
photo of a newly hatched male monarch butterfly next to his chrysalis shell that was attached to some white plastic siding. he looks great and is probably feeling himself, making plans, etc.
September 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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:^)
photo of a monarch chrysalis attached to some white plastic siding. the chrysalis is completely transparent and the insides of mostly black with a distinct orange wing can be seen. the chrysalis is likely minutes to hours from eclosing
September 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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photo of a monarch chrysalis attached to some white plastic siding. the chrysalis is starting to turn transparent and a black and orange wing can be seen inside. it will likely eclose (hatch) within 12-24 hours
September 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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yeah
photo of three fat monarch caterpillars lounging on some milkweed photo of a shiny and perfect monarch chrysalis in dappled light, attached to some white siding
August 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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i actually do not want to animate this, but my brain keeps insisting that "it will look cool." like, please fuck off
screenshot from an animation project file showing a rough drawing of a scalloped and tasseled austrian curtain segment
August 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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💅
screenshot of an animation sequence with onion skin turned on, so that all the drawings are visible superimposed on top of each other. the sequence is of a clawed hand unfurling its fingers while reaching upwards screenshot of an animation sequence with onion skin turned on, so that all the drawings are visible superimposed on top of each other. the sequence is of a clawed hand flexing from relaxed to coiled and anticipatory
August 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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i still love this ant archeologist character i designed for a comic that i will make someday
digitally colored pencil sketch of a gregarious and snappily-yet-practically dressed anthropomorphic ant archeologist in two poses - one where she is possibly enthusiastically gabbing about the progress of a dig site and another - of her body poised and alert, but her gaze and contemplation elsewhere
July 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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2022
photo of a sketchbook page filled with pencil drawings of a chill pterosaur in a tracksuit, in various poses
July 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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wishing everyone already growing an inadvisable amount of basil a very merry pesto season
photo of an actual pile, a veritable mound of basil that will become pesto soon
July 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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also today is my bday
screenshot of Professor Kapp from episode 41 "Naughty Boy" of Gumby where the tight-skinned and moisturized Professor sits at a computer screen which proclaims nothing except "AGE 37" Like I said, Proffesor Kapp looks hella good, glowing even. Like a person who know's his shit and what he's all about. Someone with many decades of a long, bright and adventurous future ahead of him. He's hot
June 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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a pyrrhic victory bc my other elderly cat is now sick... but celebrating Vinny's 6 months being FIP free nonetheless 💪😌 every day he teaches me how to love life and be chill as hell
photo of my suave and popular orange and white cat son Vincent, who is loafing very handsomely in a patch of dappled sunlight. He is better than everyone but humble about it
June 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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my little men
photo of a sketchbook page of queer little guys in various masquerade dress, all looking a bit cheeky
June 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM