valerie ✶ distant moons

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artist • hobby enthusiast • fellow human • future compost • queer ✶ she/they https://lnk.bio/distant.moons

ms paint, the canvas area has magenta and cyan from the spray tool and irregular white stars as a background. black text over top reads “if the fringe poster is ai, i ain’t going”
a badly drawn comic. panel 1: val washing dishes, a radio set to an 80s/90s station plays rockstar by nickleback. panel 2: val looks up from the dishes, "why does this station play so much nickleback?" panel 3: a lightbulb clicks on, val goes back to the dishes, "cannon."
fb post: "A friendly reminder that the man who is most dangerous to Canada is not Trump, but the man who says he stands up to Trump, using that as an excuse to implement a right wing agenda of militarism, austerity, and runaway climate catastrophe. If you have a Liberal MP, question them about why they are silent in the face of this massive desecration of what little is left of civil society. Spending $100 billion on armed submarines doesn't prevent the fossil-fuel-caused fires. And cutting the nerve centre tasked with ending those fires is a profound act of stupidity and callous racism, especially considering that the majority of victims of those fires are Indigenous folks, while those who suffer the ill effects of the smoke are generally poor and racialized populations who have to work outdoors or cannot afford AC and air filtration." from article screenshot: "Carney government cut nearly half the jobs at nerve centre for managing wildfires: union About 50 of the approximately 100 positions at the Government Operations Centre have been eliminated under the federal 'comprehensive expenditure review,' according to the largest public sector union." article photo caption: "Prime Minister Mark Carney during a visit to the Government Operations Centre meeting with workers at the federal emergency preparedness operation, to discuss the wildfire situation in northern Ontario, in Ottawa on July 19, 2026."
screenshot from princess mononoke of nago the boar god and members of the boar clan in the forest. subtitles for nago: “we’re here to kill the humans and save the forest.”
a mixed media piece of many earthworms in a little pile in the centre of the page. most of them are unfinished, just painted hot pink. several have more colour and details done with pencil crayon. the page is sitting on a wood desk surface with a few pencil crayons and a sharpener to the left.
image of callisto from xena on a black t-shirt - she has an evil smile and wears her sexy armor outfit and holds a sword, ready to fight. the background is flames and within them is an image of xena’s face. below reads “callisto” in metallic text (the t is a sword) and smaller underneath that in red “warrior queen”
a very badly drawn 4 panel comic on a yellow stickie note. 1. me (hollering) “HEY EVERYONE!” 2. me: “I have an art show this summer” 3. random person wearing a hat: “Cool! How’s it coming along?“ 4. my face is drawn huge, my eyes wide and my pupils small. i am grasping the random person in a hat by the shoulders. me: “do not ask me that”
screenshot of a business insider article titled "The author of 'Station Eleven' couldn't update her Wikipedia page to reflect her divorce without citing an article where she confirmed it, so she got a magazine to interview her", with a portrait photo of emily st. john mandel looking at the camera
closeup video of a colourful but unfinished rolly polly bug as i paint pink details with a small brush. text of screen reads “what’s your favourite detritavore? rolly polly is a solid choice tbh. there is life after death (but it’s not what you think) opens aug 27 at slice of life vancouver”
my score for a colour guessing game showing a total of 47.33/50. individual colours scored at: 9.37, 9.46, 9.37, 9.31, 9.82. #349 of 10420 players today.
violent stick figure meme depicting 6 crudely drawn bloody stick figures engaged in violent acts or showing distress, the text in the centre reads “artists when they spend $150 on 20 pieces of paper”
photo of a sketchbook page showing an ink brush drawing of a pigeon walking done in black and grey
photo of a sketchbook page showing an ink brush drawing of a fisher skull done in black and grey
bluesky post thread as follows- commenter: “exceptions for screenshot showing how dumb chatbots are, right?” op: “no” commenter: “hard bar. okay then.”
me (a white late 30s woman-person with short purple hair) holding an artisanal handmade witchy-looking broom with a gnarly wooden handle. i have my phone in my other hand, taking a selfie in a mirrored elevator wall. i’m wearing a winter jacket and toque.
a line drawing coming panel of two men in suits wearing the same hat and waving at each other. speech bubble for the first man: “same hat!!” and for the second man, a bit larger: “same hat!!!”
a lemon piglet made from a whole lemon with ears cut from the peel, whole cloves stuck in for eyes, toothpick legs, and a tinfoil curl for a tail. there is a shiny penny in its mouth.
a screenshot from the film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) showing a closeup of a woman’s face speaking - she has blue eyeshadow, her blonde hair is done up in a braided crown. subtitles at the bottom of the image read “The tortures all start at once.”
a stock image of an angry mob of people facing the camera with angry expressions, many are wielding pitchforks, axes, baseball bats, etc
a screenshot of an email from ups letting me know the amount of duty due on my delivery: $75.04 cad
a pov shot of a shelf in a “little library” of my hand picking up a harry potter book and tossing it aside, the shot pans up to the section of any animorphs books - text reads “books by transphobes in your little library? trash em 🙂‍↕️ animorphs author is very pro trans btw ♥️”. the second shot shows me (a white woman with short purple hair wearing a striped t-shirt” holding up the harry potter book and then tearing it in half, then smiling
top down view of a coffee table completely covered in zines of different styles and sizes (illustration, photography, poetry, etc) with some other art books, stickers, and prints in the mix
a meme with a drawing of a woman on the left and text that reads “thank you for changing my life” and photo of a baby crow with mouth open and wings out with text that reads “i’m literally a baby crow”
screenshot from the “succulent chinese meal” viral video of a middle aged white man being arrested by two police and being pushed into a car, his mouth is open as he shouts
a sketchbook being held up to the camera to a page with the image of an opossum skull. the skull is in profile with open jaws over a scribbled bright red background. in the shadows of the skull the scribbly texture of the neocolors is especially visible.
screenshot from step brothers: a woman looking upset/frustrated at someone off camera, text at the bottom reads “get out of my office!”
a mixed media painting of dark green ferns and many different colourful wildflowers partly obscuring a deer skull, vertebrae, and ribs. the background is bright orangey-yellow
stick figure violent meme (image macro of six low quality stick figure cartoons that are bloody, gruesome and committing violence against each other) with text in the centre that reads “me when i have just finishing touches left to do on a painting”
an image from the animated show scavengers reign. azi (a black woman with very close cropped hair), sits on the ground reading a book. beside and behind her there are alien plants and insects/small creatures. the ground is orangey-red, the sky is blue with a few far off clouds, in the distance there are mountains on the horizon.
a sketchbook lays open on a wooden table with a loose and messy sketch of a cafe on the left page. there are a number of other things on the table around the sketchbook: black pen, coffee cup, water glass, small pencil case, canvas pouch, and plate with a croissant.
a cyanotype print on a wooden surface - the cyanotype image shows the white silhouette of several snowdrop flowers and their leaves on a dark blue background