Halite

US climate with equivalent cities from around the world.

The light from the window was striped. It made stripes on my cigarette smoke. The end of my cigarette crumbled into ash. My marriage had also crumbled into ash.

She was not wearing a ring. It means something when a woman does not wear a wedding ring. Usually, it means that she is not married. “Seems your ring has also gone missing,” I said. I hoped her dress would join it.

Her red mouth curved upwards. She was smiling a little. “I don’t wear it outside. A diamond that large would only invite trouble.”

As the last post Involving ALL the formation stream pieces got too long to be comfortable for scrolling I have decided to start a new one this year! For new people a little recap:

The Formation streams are an ongoing series of live streams on my Twitch/YouTube channels where I draw every week one of these menageries portraying the flora and fauna of locality of geologic formation. The Discord community helps along and before you ask: no there are no prints of this and yes I would like to tun this into a book one day but no idea when and how.

Here a link post I kept expanding unto end of 2025 HERE

First piece of the year was the Elliot Formation from early Jurassic South Africa!

no, they were not just targeting sudanese people. anyone not white was a target - i know of indian and syrian families who were attacked, and their shops destroyed - along with people who aren't the "right" type of white (ukrainian, especially).

there were almost certainly some catholics in among the rioters, because catholics/nationalists/republicans are not immune to racism, but the vast, vast majority of them are loyalists - that's why they're going after people in those areas. they're attacking people in their own areas. i think it's important to note that well-known loyalist paramilitaries were seen in the riots and were egging it on on social media. genuinely, one of the people who was posting about it is a convicted UVF bank robber.

these are the same sort of people who rioted last year, and the year before that, and every time there have been riots. they're the same people who have spent months building bonfires taller than houses and who will cover them next month in the irish flag and will put signs calling for the killing of irish catholics alongside the signs denigrating refugees and other immigrants. the targets are different but the hate is the same, because they are deeply, viciously xenophobic. you don't have to be a person of colour. you just have to be Not Them.

[ID: Photos of a relief sculpture of a leaping horse, inspired by the palaeolithic cave paintings of Lascaux. The horse starts as a painting at the rear and is completely three-dimensional from the shoulders, so it appears to be emerging from the block of clay. Each photo shows a different angle. End ID.]

Commission piece from October 2024

A little bit for Monica, she's my wife

A little bit for Erica, for her strife

My books all go to Rita, cause she reads

My greenhouse goes to Tina, she plants trees

The furniture is Sandra's, on my lawn

Jewelry for Mary, she can pawn

Ashes go to Jessica, that's my plan

-Replacing his vitimens with poision

- getting her brother to invite him out onto his boat and then killing him and dumping him in the ocean and saying he got drunk and fell off.

- get tboned with him in the passenger seat and then once he was in the hospital theres all kinds of easy ways to kill him like not washing my hands after a poop and then touching his wound casually.

-replacing his drink of choice with moonshine!?

- take him on a hike thats locally notorious for a rapid otter attacking hikers and once he had rabies I could just kill him any ol way and say self defense.