if it stained my hands silver i too would wear gloves

IT’S FINALLY HERE AFTER AN ENTIRE WEEK OF WORK !!!

I’m super proud of this, I hope you guys enjoy !! :D

THIS IS FREAKING AMAZING

rain photo study

king 3d rendering 4k wallpaper i made last year. I will post more of my TOH works here this week~

[Image description: a 3D rendering of King from The Owl House. He's wearing a shirt with music notes on it, striking a pose where he winks and points. He's standing atop a wanted poster, and the floor is covered in coins and knickknacks. There's a photo of him and Luz in the background. End description.]

Justice 40

Joe Biden is boring and often bad at tooting his own horn, but by god, he is good at process.

Justice 40 is simple but powerful application of that. its a shift in how the executive branch works. 40% of money from a bunch of existing programs should go to census tracts that are overburdened with pollution, at higher risk for climate change, and have been historically underserved.

The shorthand here is basically "communities that don't have enough internal resources to deal with long term problems". So yes, communities that had been redlined for decades, ones that have Superfund sites, ones that have high rates of asthma from air pollution.

and this is by census tract. Not city. census tract. So parts of New York City qualify... but other parts don't. And the city HAS to use the money in the targeted part. it doesn't go into the communal pool. it's for THAT tract specifically.

Also all land federally recognized as belonging to a Native American tribe and all Alaskan Native Villages qualify, specifically.

And again, this is for existing programs that are already running and have existing staff and budgets. They're supposed to prioritize grants and projects for those areas specifically. And that's everything from Department of Agriculture, to FEMA, to Labor, to Environmental Protection.

Does it instantly get rid of all the baked in racism from decades past? No, not even close. But it puts in a countermeasure that has a concrete and measurable goal to aim for rather than a nebulous "suck less." even if the administration changes, many of those changes will stick.

And as things improve, some tracts may come off the list! Some may go on that weren't there before!

You can see a map here. Blue highlighted tracts are "disadvantaged" so qualify for that extra assistance! Check and see if you live in one or part of your town does. Because if you've been hearing constantly "we can't afford to fix X problem..." and you're in that tract.... there's money available. For you. Build that sidewalk, fix those lead pipes, get that brush truck your volunteer fire department has been asking for.

And tell your local officials that! "did you look at Justice 40 for funding". And even if they're doing their best, particularly people in little towns.... being a government official isn't their full time job. They may have missed it. Just asking them about the program may suddenly open a world of possibilities.

#this is fascinating stuff!#the map has SO MUCH INFORMATION about specific risk factors#like i can zoom in and see WHY my census tract is considered 'disadvantaged'#(historic underinvestment#+ high population density/lots of cars#+ minimal green space#+ lots of linguistically isolated communities#+ just literally so much lead paint#but NOT#say#high flooding risk#or serious risk of agricultural losses#fascinating stuff)

Okay, I am reblogging this from myself and copying my own tags, because it's even COOLER than I thought!! it specifically pairs burdens with socioeconomic markers, and in order to qualified as 'disadvantaged', a community has to be BOTH 'more likely than other communities to be dealing with this problem' and 'less likely than other communities to be able to RESPOND to this problem'.

so for an example: my census tract is in the 93rd percentile for the presence of lead paint! because that's what you get in older New England buildings! BUT because our overall poverty level is pretty low, we're not actually considered 'disadvantaged' on that metric - basically, yeah, we have a lot more lead paint than most places, but we also mostly have enough money to be able to deal with that.

On the other hand, we're in the 97th percentile for 'linguistic isolation' (aka having a ton of households where nobody over 14 speaks English well) AND we have a relatively high level of people who don't have any education past high school, and that combination specifically is what has us considered 'disadvantaged'.

You can argue about what metrics should be paired together - and I'm sure people do - but it's just a really interesting way of looking at a lot of complex and intersecting issues.

took me 8 months and very approx 380m of embroidery floss, and I’m now finished. going to have it framed soon :)

I was gonna draw canon Ford in this but I had to have Kelvin reacting to him >.>

Fairy Tale Tarot by Yoshi Yoshitani

Whew, finally sat down to finish this thing up! Second go-around at my art thief Crowley / antique expert Aziraphale AU, studying off of one of Leyendecker’s compositions! Proud of all the trinkets I squeezed into this one, so why not ping @neil-gaiman himself– your work is inspiring! Thoughts: -Crowley’s boots are most definitely Louboutins, & the sheer half of his shirt is purely to show off his tattoo -Aziraphale’s suit was made on Savile Row, but he’s had it for 20 years so it’s starting to thin out -the entire high tea except 1 scone is for Aziraphale

For those who asked on the last drawing: I’m indeed writing this AU, but the outline is super long, so you’ll have to be patient! :’)

Faunwand’s Wildcraft Tarot Deck 🌿 

First part: Suit of Pentacles. 

I made the whole deck with real plants; leaves, herbs, flowers, roots and reindeer moss. Backside: Real tree bark.

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Happy Summerween, children! Remember, you have until the last Jack-o-Melon goes out.

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“That’s why they call it a "dying breed”, brother.“ . . . (This ended up being a little Flight of Dragons inspired. :’D)

Finished Brock’s model after neglecting him for too long.

I have discovered some really wild filters on snapchat

“We are the reckless, we are the wild youth…”

And after so many tests and homework I made it, I finished the drawing for the thrird week of @stanuary . I decided to make a digital drawing on my phone that way I could work on it in the breaks, so I am sorry if the quality is bad. So that’s all I had to say, I hope you enjoy this guys see ya later, bye!!!