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Chapter Two: heavenly hurt it gives us; we can find no scar

101. Desert Rose

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While the influence isn't always visible in FINDING DEE, I really adored the work of Todd McFarlane when I first discovered his work back in junior high. And for YEARS, I emulated the heck out of his approach to superhero comic-making. As such, I finally decided to try a more DIRECT homage to his work, doing my level-best to match the composition, line style, and even colors and letters of his SPAWN era.

Every year, California’s largest sheep and fiber festival, Lambtown, takes place in Dixon, CA. On the second day of Lambtown, teams of eight compete in a “sheep to shawl” competition, where the teams must start the day with un-spun wool and end the day with a 72” woven shawl. Teams may “warp” a loom ahead of time (where you thread the loom with its foundation of parallel threads), but on the day of competition they must spin their wool into yarn and weave it into a complete shawl.

This year competition was stiff, and very very close, and the winning team finished their shawl with two and a half minutes to spare.

I frequently hear about “needing to keep “politics” out of fiber arts, but art is inherently political.

These were beautiful, masterfully spun, woven, and finished shawls and that in itself is worthy of note.

But watching this team of eight would fight for hours, and pour their love for their community into their art was deeply moving and I am still reveling in the opportunity to have seen this win.

Ghibli style challenge (AI Free 🤖🚫)

I thought of putting dialog at first 🤔 but them though that is more fun not to, so people could imagine what could be happening in each one hehe ...So tell me in the comments if you have some guesses 🤭

Thank you so much for all your support of the previous one!!

honk mimimi honk shooo

If he had still been breathing, it was much too quiet.

Zelink Week 2026, Day 3: A QUIET MOMENT