Kali

@helloitskali.bsky.social

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I stitch art and make ttrpgs // award winning game designer // usually tired & angry // Half of @gemroomgames.bsky.social // (she/her)

Pokko's mom, a frog, cozily nestled in a rocking chair under a blanket with tea and her nose in a book
a magnadoodle screen with a drawing of a little truck filled with round things and a waving driver
simple black ink drawings in 4 panels on white paper, titled "Recent Small Joys." 1st panel: Stick Kali ooohing at a cool tree. 2nd panel: Stick Kali gleeful over italian parsley at the winco. 3rd panel: Stick Kali happily drooling over pizza rolls she gets all to herself. 4th panel: Stick Kali, heart-eyed, watching bees make lavender flowers bounce up and down. At the bottom is written #makeaterriblecomicday2026
a fledgling crow standing on a fence beneath where a metal crow silhouette sticks out of a tree trunk, in a very similar pose. A bit of down is coming loose at its side.
crow pal just sitting on the arm of a red chair like it has nowhere better to be
two books side by side on a wooden floor. To the left is "Tales from Central Russia" with a cover filled with a landscape of folklore characters prancing about. Very folklore. To the right is a smaller paperback, "More Soviet Science Fiction." The cover shows a 60's-era fantasy cosmonaut contemplating a spherical robot and a domed city in the distance. Very sci-fi.
screenshot of the ebook cover to Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest, with thin gold type on a background of leaves. Golden animals with visible skulls approach the title from all sides.
screenshot of a weather app reading "Cloudy today. High of 68°. Full overcast. Low glare, easy light, and a perfectly good temperature. No complaints."
screenshot of an ebook reading "Something impatient and snappish has swollen inside me." It's from Kat Dunn's Hungerstone, though that's not the point
A hand holds an empty jam jar. The jar fills the whole hand and then some.
screenshot of the ebook cover of Catherynne M. Valente's Deathless. Styled like a block print in black on cream, it depicts a silhouetted woman in military uniform standing before a car and group of 3 riders on a bed of vines, with birds all around. Red text at the top & bottom emphasize the book's title & author's last name.
Screenshot of the jelly belly jelly bean website on mobile. Near the top a red notification circle reads "2" above a little bell icon. I don't think I've ever even been to this website before.
A paperback book on a table. It's The Wicked + The Divine Compendium by Gillen, McKelvie, Wilson, and Cowles. The spine is rather thick.
a conventionally attractive blonde white woman with conservative makeup uses a neti pot with a mild smile. No water drips out to wet her face.
A chocolate layer cake on a cake stand, with chocolate frosting filling visible along the sides. A decadent amount of thick whipped cream is heaped on top, scattered with mini marshmallows. Decorative bunting made of tiny paper snowflakes hangs from skewers above the cake.
A car window from outside the car. A few sizeable clumps of moss line the bottom edge, with smaller bits running between.
still from a 1982 NYE performance by Billy Joel playing Auld Lang Syne. A grown man with dark curls and a soft middle, dressed only in a diaper, sash, and top hat walks across the stage holding his hand out to the crowd at Madison Square.
screenshot of instagram story by @theheistpdx explaining their SNAP calzone & pay it forward button
record sleeve with black text reading "Tropical Moonlight, Stanley Black, piano, with Latin rhythms." An acoustic guitar hangs on a large pink window shutter that leans against an open grand piano. To the right, a pale woman stands behind a large white window shutter. She's barely taller than it in heels, peeping over to play a large drum hanging from the shutter while saucily sticking out a leg. The whole thing has late 1950's vibes.
An angular, cream, paper craft wolf mask hanging on a wall
screenshot from article quote-posted below: "He said the public should consider reviving some forms of pandemic-era precautions, such as proper hand hygiene and avoiding unnecessary touching of hands and eyes."
screenshot of the ebook cover of North is the Night by Emily Rath. The art and text are all dark and pale blues, blacks, white, and red. Figures from the story including two hooded women, a bear, a raven and a skull surround the title.
screenshot of the ebook cover of The Witchwood Knot by Olivia Atwater. Floral motifs on a dark background frame a heart that holds a silhouette of a gothic mansion. Within the silhouette are two figures, seemingly a man and a woman, standing on different floors of the house.
screenshot of the ebook cover of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's "The Bewitching." Black thorned vines curl at the edges. A green-tinted hand delicately reaches up across the title text toward a golden bird pierced with pins.
painting of a big shaggy brown dog with darker ears and muzzle gazing nobly into the foreground.
a pink step through bike with chrome fenders and a bell
a shelf at Guardian Games in Portland, Oregon, featuring 9 Lives to Valhalla next to Anamnesis
a big buzzy fuzzy bee nestled into a cluster of lavender flowers for an overnight snooze
Life Magazine cover in a checkout display stand. There's a vivid red cardinal on a pink flowered branch with a green background. Headline reads: "Birds: the world's most remarkable creatures." Other text reads "How birds think. Jurassic origins. Bird watchers' paradise."
sketchy black line illustration of a seated woman surrounded by her handwrittwn thoughts spiralling out to fill the space. Thoughts include but are not limited to: groceries, the cost of paint, the height of umbrellas, food sensitivities, car safety and child size, kid party rsvps, backpacks, small business, the sounds from the block, and whether or not any of these things will work out as intended
A creased stack of unbound papers. The title page reads "ARROYO: Adventure and Intrigue in a World You Made." A public domain image of fish-shaped airships decorates the top half of the page. Dan Phipps isn't explicitly credited but he wrote it.
A cake stand covered in cupcakes with chocolate frosting and rainbow sprinkles. The sunny lighting makes the frosting swirls stand out.
a tiny dingus bird called a junco with dark feathers on its head sits on an overturned green plastic chair surrounded by overgrown grass. A kid in pink shorts and sandals runs by behind it.
A mid-bout shot of flat track roller derby: two teams scuffle on a blue track, surrounded by referees, in a hanger with blue, pink, and white lights on the ceiling.
a green plastic chair tipped over on grass, legs sticking up
a table scene: a piece of art is propped above a cutting board, metal ruler, craft knife, and glue stick, with wilting flowers pushing in from the side. The art is a photo of a desert scene with a coyote looking at the viewer that has been cut into small, irregular, angular pieces and reassembled on white paper with spaces between, creating crooked lines of negative space that shatter the image.
The Cardigans' "Life" (1995)
Los Angeles Dodger Luis Cruz shows a child an open book in front of a book display
A scrap of white paper with an uneven grid of 10 boxes, each with a small silly face drawn in it. There are goofy grins, oversized features, crossed eyes, and more.
The jacket for Los Lobos' "Llegó Navidad" sits on top of a turntable. A mirrored reflection shows the red record playing.
A still of Marge Simpson smiling at a potato that has been labeled "games generally"
In the background are many cardboard boxes filled with stuffed brown kraft paper rigid envelopes. In the foreground is a pile of the same envelopes. The top one is decorated with a large round sticker of an orange rubber duck on a polka dot background, and taped shut with kraft paper tape. On the tape, "dukk yeah!" is written in red sharpie.
Screencap of Lydia Deetz played by Winona Ryder saying "I myself, am strange and unusual."
a close-up photo of Kali as a younger woman with pale skin and glasses, hair pulled back. She's looking pensively into the distance with her arm slung around a puppet. The puppet is a small, blank faced, big eared white guy in a yellow button-up shirt with oversized collar. His beady painted eyes look right out at the viewer.
A mess of unadorned square cream tiles on a wooden floor. A toddler hand holding a tiny metal scepter pushes at the tiles. A bananagrams bag sits empty at the side.
A breakfast scene: a mug with art by Erica Henderson featuring a bearded man having his head walloped off. Ribbons of red splash under text reading "BREAK THEIR PRIDE BY A WOMAN'S HAND." Apple slices and a muffin sit behind the mug.
A white hand holds a small embroidery hoop. It is stretched with translucent chiffon. Thin paper with a spirograph drawn in blue, green, and yellow, each part labeled, is basted to the chiffon. Blue stitches and the beginning of green stitches pierce the paper. The thumb holds green thread in place, with the needle at rest part way through the fabric.
A bronze antique wall register, with Kali's legs in cozy pants and a blanket mere inches away. Can't see it but there's hot air blowing out of it.
Here is Kali, a white woman with pink hair and pink glasses wearing a pink shirt in front of a pink wall. They're all different pinks.
A white hand holds a magnifying glass above a stack of DUKK BÖRG proofs, enlarging an armored duck on the cover
A hand holding a white paper plate. The back of the plate is decorated with a terrifying blue ink drawing of a ghost, wild hairs and possible horns spraying out around large, angry, asymmetrical eyes and a mouth of gaping tears in flesh
Inside the drum of a front-loading washing machine, a small thing is stuck to the back wall
A small chocolate wrapped in foil printed to look like a little smiling yellow duck wearing a blue cravat with white polka dots, sitting on green grass. The foil wrapping is wrinkled over the form of the chocolate, skewing the print so it looks like the duck has one eye half-winking, one open under a raised brow. This duck is about to hit on you.
An old Sleeping Beauty Barbie. Once upon a time you could probably wipe her eyes with a warm or cool cloth to give the impression of her waking or sleeping but the effect has faded so now she has the effect of creepy translucent eyelids.
Two homemade mortar boards, assembled from foam board, cardstock, and embroidery floss. One has a blue & purple tassel, the other has a red & pink tassel. Both have been decorated with crayons by small children. They sit on a bench filled with vinyl records on a sunny day.
screenshot of two .png files named "chompchomp" and "urk" respectively
Screenshot of the most popular car colors in Oregon: 25% white, 25% gray, 18% black, 8% silver, 8% dark blue.
A children's book open to a spread about happy bouncing baby frogs. 9 frogs have been glued into place (including 2 handmade replacements) to join the only printed frog for a visual that matches the text about 10 frogs.
Cut-out illustrations of 8 multicolor smiling frogs (two noticeably smaller) with blue borders sit on a desk surrounded by scissors, a craft knife, and pens.
Close up of a thin white forearm featuring a temporary tattoo of a Clippy-esque cartoon yellow pencil in round black glasses and big white gloves with mismatched eyes, grinning as it leaves a yellow streak across the skin