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Tenuously Tethered
@tenuously-tethered.bsky.social
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I POST MY ART 🖼️ AND RUN MY MOUTH 🗣️ Resister✊💙. Truth-Seeker. 🕵️‍♀️ Writer. ✍️ Artist 👩‍🎨. Believer in equality 🟰 and human rights 🏳️‍🌈. A rare blue 💎 in the reddest of states (OK). Ultimately, I’m just a bag of flesh and bones tenuously tethered to this mortal coil.
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This line from Hamilton is stuck in my head today. The party of “family values” needs to get it the fuck together. #hamilton #politics #political #ethics #morals #values #conservative #christians #hypocrits
If you stand for nothing, what will you fall for?
February 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Ahead of the #inauguration of Orange Mussolini, I am resharing my original #poem about #billionaires with mommy issues and #fascism. #oligarchy #poem #poetry #art #poet #politics #political #resist
I’m in a nightmare upon waking I’ll keep screaming till I’m dead Or until the people rise up And put fascism to bed I can’t live under oppression I can’t love if it’s illegal I can’t flourish under censorship I won’t bow down to evil You can keep your gold and power It won’t buy you what you crave You can own the world and all its riches But you can’t take it to the grave What you’re really desperate for is love Starved for genuine happiness and connection And you’ll burn this country to the ground Just to avoid a little self-reflection -Tenuously Tethered, 12-22-24, titled “Narcissistic Billionaires With Mommy Issues Cause Fascism Because They Refuse To Go To Therapy”
January 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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“Despair”:

A sketch of the emotion that forces surrender to the body and mind. The can’t-breathe, curl-into-the-fetal-position feeling is unmistakable. The most intense form of grief.

My first abstract.

#abstract #art #sketch #doodle #emotion #despair #grief
Abstract sketch in ink of women with her head collapsed into her lap and body distorted from grief/despair
January 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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It’s hard to create art and tbh just to exist rn. I’ll be ok, but tonight: I present to you this illustration of my exact mood/feelings at this moment. I hope this is “clear as mud” as my Meema used to say. #art #sketch #doodle #comic
January 19, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Random apocalyptic thought:

“Hey, look 👀, the milk expires at the same time as our democracy!” 🫠
January 13, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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I’m trying really hard to impress this upon my kids. You can not be complacent, or you may become like the Germans & be complicit in something like a genocide.
January 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Just finished her up.

It’s for my best friend, she’s decorating a new room in her new home with mushrooms 🍄. I’ve titled it “Best Fungis Forever”

#art #artist #beginner #mushrooms #gift #bestfriends #alcoholmarkers #pen #handdrawn
January 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Today’s WIP 🚧

#art #fungi #beginner #mushrooms #marker #pen #artist
Handsaws with pen and colored with alcohol markers: 2 large mushrooms, one slightly in front of the other, with cream colored stems and red caps with white dots, amongst some flowers and grass, with a background of a big moon jutting out from the upper left hand corner and a black night sky with a light and dark blue colored ribbon of sky running through it
January 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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More #CreatureCommandos #fanart! GI Robot is a badass‼️ #art #artist #pen #markers #beginner #DC #animation @hbomax.bsky.social
Hand drawn picture of GI Robot from HBO’s Creature Commandos, outlined with fine black line markers and colored with alcohol based markers. Picture is from the waste up, he is in a green army WW2 hat and army greens, with a brown belt around his waist and is saying “Let’s kill some nazis!”
December 31, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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I visited the @ushmm.bsky.social at age 17 and again in in my 20s. It changed my life. I often think about this quote that was on the wall there, and it feels particularly poignant today. Please, look out for each other. #resistance #activism #standup #speakup #resist #donotobeyinadvance
December 30, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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I often think of this part of the poem “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Elliot. Maaaaannnn is it feeling relevant rn.
December 30, 2024 at 7:38 AM
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I’m obsessed with #creaturecommandos on @hbomax.bsky.social lately, so I had to draw The Bride today. I am still v much a beginner, and made some mistakes (doesn’t everyone?), but I’m learning everyday. This is my first fully colored piece. #art #beginner #artist #pen #markers #animation
Hand drawn picture of The Bride off of HBO Max’s Creature Commandos drawn with fine line markers and colored with alcohol-based Ohuhu markers. View is from the front with her head slightly tilted to the right, she has a tall beehive of black and grey hair, orange eyes, red lips and wearing a red bustier and red jacket with brass buttons, she has blood smeared on her face and neck/chest area
December 30, 2024 at 3:19 AM
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I can’t make this shit up. They have even started naming their businesses after 🍊 💩! It’s like if there was a “Third Reich Concrete” company. Wiiiiild. #oklahoma #maga
Lawn sign that is red white and blue that reads “MAGA’s concrete” with “one day driveway” and has a 918 phone number on it (918-813-4438)
December 12, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 11 submission!! #wolverine #art #pencil #beginner #sketch
December 11, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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Day 6 submission for #ArtAdventCalendar

Loving sketching these little #mushroom houses lately #art #beginner #pencil
Pencil sketch of two mushroom houses. First house has a rounded cap with a chimney sticking out the top, and a rounded wood door with brick around it and a window above it also surrounded by brick, along with 3 front steps. Grass and flowers are in front of and behind the house. The second mushroom house is a bit wider with a rounded wooden “Hobbit” door with a round window built into the door itself and a window protruding out of the rounded cap of the mushroom. There are flowers and greenery protruding from the sides and back of the house and steps in front.
December 7, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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Didn’t sign this, because I’m planning on gifting/framing it, and signing the back, but here is my #ArtAdventCalendar submission day #5!

I am still learning how to do the alt text, so bear with me. I’m trying to improve my descriptions. #art #artist #pencil #sketch #artsky #beginner #mushroom
Picture is from the perspective of looking up into the mushroom from the ground, it contains three whimsical mushroom houses sketched in pencil. The first house has a rounded wooden door with a window above it and in the cap of the mushroom with a chimney coming out the top, grass in the background, and a stone walkway. The second house has “shingles” on the “roof” of the mushroom . The roof winds up and around itself in a whimsical fashion like a gnomes hat, with blades of grass and flowers around it, a square wooden door with steps and a window above the door, along with two windows in the roof. The third mushroom house is “bricked” with a wooden balcony going around the stem of the mushroom with a round window in the cap of the mushroom, a rounded front door with steps.
December 5, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar submission for day #4! #art #artist #beginner #sketch #pen #pencil
Pencil and pen sketch of an eye crying with one tear hanging from the bottom eyelid, lots of detailed shading
December 4, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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I’m trying to include alt text from now on (sorry! I’m a newbie!). Today was a bad day, and it definitely showed up in my art. But that’s ok. I’m gonna draw/post anyways! Here’s tonight’s #artadventcalendar submission #art #artist #beginner #pencil #pen #deadpool #marvel #sketch
Deadpool side profile in pencil and pen
December 4, 2024 at 3:48 AM
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#art #artadventcalendar #sketch #pencil #pen #beginner #realistic
December 2, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Art is inherently political. Today I sketched along with a YouTube tutorial, then realized how angry I was, and turned it into #art. Getting better everyday. #artadventcalendar #artist #beginner #sketch #pencil
December 1, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Started this tonight. #booksky #howdemocraciesdie #democracy
December 1, 2024 at 4:19 AM
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Todays sketches 🫶🏻 #art #beginner #realistic #artsky #artist #pencil #sketch
November 29, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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#neverforget that the true Thanksgiving story is that Indigenous peoples helped a bunch of religious zealot immigrants who couldn’t farm survive a winter by feeding them, and, in return, those same mediocre white men committed genocide against their people for land and money. #thanksgiving #history
November 29, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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As a new artist, sometimes I finish a drawing, post a picture thinking it’s complete, and then I end up reworking it. So, for full transparency, here is the final piece from earlier! It’s totally ok to go back and fine tune your work. It’s part of it. #beginner #art #artsky #sketch #pencil #artist
November 28, 2024 at 6:33 AM
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Prime example spotted on my feed just today:
November 28, 2024 at 5:37 AM