Kiki Valken (they/them)

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Woodshop goblin, rural fantasy writer, and shameful libertine

A Wikipedia article in which it lists the ten states that have state firearms (Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Utah, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Texas) while a map shows, marked in red, all those states, plus Mississippi.
A person with dyed hair and an undercut. The undercut is dark brown with a bit of silver sprinkled in, and the dyed hair on top of their head is a gradient of pink at the roots, going through purple, to blue at the ends
A person in a tank top with hair that is wet with dye. The gradient of hair color goes from pink at the scalp, through purple, to blue at the ends.
A concrete median in between empty streets holds a violently knocked over sign, face down but bent enough to be identifiable as a Do Not Enter sign. A portable sign with a crossed out left turn arrow lies sideways near it, and a striped road market stands next to both. These signs were presumably placed to indicate the proper use of the end of the median, which is not designed to in any way match the roads coming off the median street. A mildly brutalist medical building is visible on the other side of the street, behind this scene of metal and plastic carnage.
Pictured here are two orange flags with short wooden handles - the kind held out by workers in construction sites to direct traffic. A more faded flag lies on the ground, while a brighter one has been set into a low stand designed to hold a full size portable sign. As a result, the brighter flag leans over the faded sign, as though in concern.
A sign has been knocked, bent over from the base and sheered from its base. It lies bent on a concrete median. The sign itself turns upwards just enough that one can see it says "Do Not Enter"
A small green cactus in a blue pot with a pale yellow bloom on top. The flower is about a fifth of the size of the whole cactus
A person wearing glasses and smiling that awkward photograph smile has dyed hair that has dried to layered pink, blue, and blond
The back of a person's head, with hair that is messy and wet with hair dye. The dye colors are blond, pink, and some blue. Definitely not seafoam.
A rental scooter lies prone across a whole lane of a two-lane partially protected bike path.
A Goodwill price tag on the corner of a wooden piece of furniture. 99 dollars and 99 cents
A road marker lies on its side in an empty lot, blocked from the viewer by a fence. On the fence hang two "No Trespassing" signs, in English and Spanish. The signs have been tagged with graffiti of stylized letters.
A signpost on a small concrete median has been broken off at the base, and lies flat on the median. The sign has arrows that indicate which side of the median cars should stay on, and which side bikes should stay on. There is also a reflective square with multiple bright orange dots designed to make the signpost more visible at night.
A five piece wooden toy train sits on a white stone countertop. There is a wooden engine, coal car, open-top cargo car, boxcar, and caboose. The open-top car is full of blueberries.
An A-frame movable sign has fallen backwards to lie on the sidewalk in front of a fence, behind which is an old stucco Spanish-style building that looks closed, or has perhaps been turned into a warehouse. The sign is orange and portrays a shape of a human form waving a flag.
An A-frame portable street sign faces a fence, behind which is a parking lot and a stucco, Spanish-style building, which looks closed or perhaps has been turned into a warehouse.
An orange sign with two wavy black arrows leans against a thin tree, in a row of similarly small trees. This scene is set on the rocky patch of ground between a sidewalk and a parking lot. There is tagged graffiti on the sign.
A gravelly area next to a road is lit up by car headlights on a dark night. A brightly reflective sign lies on its side saying "Keep Right" but the arrow is on a swivel which is now pointing up. A traffic cone sits nearby.
A damaged road-closed marker sits haphazardly in the curved curb next to a faded stop sign in front of a large garden center of a big box store
A long shot of a sidewalk with a verge along a road with a bike lane. On the verge are trees, decorative shrubs, and three scattered, assorted road signs, two lying down and one bent and leaning against a tree.
A temporary street sign with a flat base lies partly on the curb, but mostly in the bike lane, right at the crosswalk. The sign depicts a human figure holding out a flag. An actual orange flag is attached to the top of the signpost. A black bag, presumably full of weighted sand, lies in the curb as well.
A young tree is in a very big planter. It kind of looks like a palo verde, but not green. There's something oddly muscular about the many, twisty branches, like its outgrowing its bark or something. The planter rests on the pavement outside a building in afternoon sunlight. Also in that planter is a street marker for Temporary No Parking, resting on its side and hanging half over the edge. It looks like someone just tossed it into the planter when it wasn't needed anymore.
An orange construction sign lies in green grass. Pictured on the sign is a human figure holding out a flag. Attached to the top of the sign are two orange flags. The removable base of the sign lies nearby. A sidewalk is in the background and a concrete curb is in the foreground.
A sign is knocked over at the base and has fallen on the very low barrier between the street and the bike path. The top of the signpost has a rectangular sign indicating which side is for vehicles and which is for bikes. There is a square sign set low on the signpost, with 9 reflective orange dots. Four of those have black x's on them.
A blond man sits behind a half-table of toilet-themed zines, stickers, and drawings. Other booths are in the background. He is wearing a paper mask.
A blond man in a button-down shirt points at a sepia metal print of a photo of a smashed toilet. The wall behind man and art is bright/light green. He's wearing a pendant and a paper mask. Some art behind his head looks like it might be a bit naked, but his head covers the important bits.
A bent and leaning sign on a weathered movable base reads: no passing 15 fines double and School in session. The sign sits on the two solid yellow lines in the middle of a residential street
A sign is lying across a sidewalk, wet from rain. The sidewalk ends not long after the sign, and there is a deep puddle of water. The sign says "Special Event Ahead."
Two pink flowers, one open and one closed, rest in water in a small wine glass on a wood table in bright light
A gear themed, four story tall mural featuring Charlie Chaplin decorates a wall on a European street. Colorful buildings with balconies are on the other side of the street.
A metal sculpture of a fork rises out of rippling water. In the distance there in another shore with buildings among the trees, and cloud-capped mountains behind that.
A sign that says "No Train Horn" is bent entirely over from the base of its post. The angle and direction of its current leaned-over condition blocks the sidewalk and the curb cut just outside the entrance to a parking lot.
A black and white photo of two women lying on a blanket in the grass. One has flowers in her hair and is wearing an embroidered blouse and a silver bracelet. She is laughing with her hands on her face. Her head is resting on the chest of the other woman. This second woman is wearing a suit with a flower pinned to the lapel and a pocket square in her pocket. Her hand rests casually over the upper chest of the woman with flowers in her hair. She is also laughing, eyes closed and mouth wide open. There is what looks like a Ukelele next to her.
A few road signs lie piled up on a sandy curb. On the bottom lies a face-down sign with two metal legs. Atop that, two do-not-turn signs with metal bases. Two nested traffic cones rest against one of the do-not-turn signs. It is daytime.
Three street signs are knocked over on the sidewalk. Two have flat bases, one of which faces away from the viewer and the other of which is a no-turn arrow that is tagged with graffiti. The third sign is a street closed sign with no flat base. It is leaned against a tree trunk growing through a hole in a metal grate on the sidewalk. It is daytime.
A tortoiseshell cat sulks in a plastic crate on top of a shelf. Her ears are attentive, but disapproving.
A painting of a common grackle, in shades of dark blue and purple with bright green highlights. Also, a card with a birthday note, surrounded by stickers of little bird paintings. Looks like a cardinal, a goldfinch, a common grackle, and some adorable round snowbird I don't know the name of.
A median marker sign with an extra, reflective section has been absolutely smashed and laid out on a narrow median between two lanes of a road. Poor thing.
Three signs are fallen over. Two are No Left Turn signs lying next to each other. The other is a large road marker with two orange lights on top (one is dangling off a bit), and a sign has been attached to it. That sign is facing the ground, showing the plain metal back with a sticker covered in text - SES and some text that's too small for me to read. These signs are lying on a sidewalk with two trees surrounded by metap gratings.
A DIP sign with two orange flags and an orange light on top is leaning heavily against a couple road markers. Various road markets and barriers are lying about as well, on a gravelly corner on the edge of a driveway. A wide city street is i the background.
An aloe plant and its aloe progeny inhabit a large blue planter in the back seat of a car. A person with peach hair and black-frame glasses sits next to it, solemnly considering the time they have spent with this bigass aloe plant.
A "No Tresspassing, Violators Will Be Prosecuted" sign has been entirely uprooted. It rests upside down, leaning against a fence by railroad tracks. Some warehouse buildings in a southwest architectural style are in the background.
A fallen over sign is photographed upside down. It is askew from the a-frame reflective structure holding it. The sign shows an abstract person walking, with an arrow underneath. The shadow of a person and the handlebar of a bike are positioned such that the arrow points to the shadow.
A very clearly marked bike lane sign, with a big reflective section and everything, lies broken in the gravel by the curb, next to a small undamaged tree.
A Road Work Ahead sign is upside down and askew next to a small flowering tree growing out of gravel next to a sidewalk. The tree is surrounded by a creeping ground-cover plant. In the background is an old building with some broken windows.
A sidewalk is covered by that kind of scaffolding that allows pedestrians to go underneath, allowing them to pass by a construction site safe from falling things. There are two signs attached to the entrance on each side, both pointing inward and saying "Enter Here". The signs have been tagged with small bits of graffiti. A partially built apartment building is next to the scaffolding on one side, and a large red truck is parked on the street-side. The sky suggests it's a bit late in the day, but still fairly bright.
A Fire Lane sign has lost its top bolt and flipped upside down. An apartment complex with first floor patios, upper floor balconies, and a row of trees between two buildings is in the background, behind a fence.
A bike lane is obstructed by two fallen over "no left turn" signs, while a "road closed" sign is fallen over nearby on a metal grating on the sidewalk.
A Surface model laptop is folded closed and covered in stickers. A hand holds a sticker of a rocket ship with a worried face looking out. That sticker fits very well in the last little spot that was unoccupied by a sticker. The other stickers are plentiful, and the general theme suggests that the owner likes queer, cozy cryptids, science fiction, voting, and local art in Arizona.
A street before sunrise, lit by artificial light, in which a bike lane sign is knocked over, lying flat on the raised median between the street and the bike path
Two striped road markers and a two-arrow directional sign are all fallen over in different directions, as though knocked outward from a central force.
A temporary road barrier, orange and white banded, a bit worn, set out in the woods for unknown reasons. There is no evidence of any obstruction that it is marking.
A scuffed and faded, but sturdily built, "no left turn" sign has fallen into a street
One of those foldingmetal and plastic road markers, which appears to have gotten caught on a plastic barrier fence while trying to jump over it.
A pair of collapsed road markers, one of which says sidewalk closed, the other of which has a stylized walking person and graffiti that says the word pasley. Both are lying on bare dirt ground.
One of those scaffolding pathways has been built to protect pedestrians from construction, and a sign that has clearly been hit by cars a few times guides the way toward it
Really good key lime pie. The crust is sweet and crumbly, the pie filling creamy and tart, and the whipped cream fluffy and not too much of it
A suspicious pumpkin, who glows in an alarmed way while looking off to the side.