Roystus

@roystus.bsky.social

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New Dad and husband to a writer. I teach social studies at my alma mater in Anchorage, AK. All opinions here are strictly my own.

A 3yo child is facing away from the camera, wearing a burlap sack with head and arm holes. He is in a bedroom in front of a closet door.
Poster for Prison on Fire by Ringo Lam. Two men in prison uniforms are squatting in the foreground. One is smoking a cigarette, the other is looking into the distance. In the background, in black and white, there is an image of a double row of prisoners, with guards walking, sticks out, along the lines.
Poster for Ringo Lam’s film City on Fire.
Restoration of extinct myotragus goat, with forward-facing eyes. It looks nonplussed.
A cake with a chocolate mirror glaze, some of it spilled on the kitchen counter.
A sticker advertising Last Frontier Active Club, a fascist organization. The sticker shows a moose in crosshairs with the text around the edge. The Big Dipper is shown on the moose’s neck, but Polaris is off the correct line down under its chin.
A wooden cross with Edmund 2025 written up the side, which has been decorated with a sharpie; a tiny plastic rabbit, maybe 1/20th the height of the cross, faces away from the edge of the entertainment center ledge it is on; a large wooden Kendama toy, slightly taller than the cross.
A raven is dipping its beak in a ranch dipping container at a fast food dumpster.
A page from the Twits by Roald Dahl. “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it.” A series of 4 drawings of the same person get meaner looking, the hair more unkempt, the face with more spots. “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” Another drawing of a person fitting the above description with a smile who looks kind.
A family of three—woman, toddler, man— stands in front of a vehicle holding protest signs. The woman’s reads VINDICATE the weak and DO JUSTICE to the poor and the afflicted. RESCUE the weak and the needy DELIVER them out of the hand of the OPPRESSOR. The child’s reads LOVE ONE ANOTHER. The man’s reads MAKE BILLIONAIRES MILLIONAIRES AGAIN.
Sign on glass front wall of a business: pure and pressed juice company Nut Mylks
Film credits for Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch that feature one called “hangin-out guy” Nemo Labrizzi
An illustration of Miles O’Brien, Kira and Rom from DS9 seated at a bar. O’Brien is gesturing, and text above and below them reads “The boss needs you, you don’t need them! Labor is entitled to all it creates.”
A small child stands by a split wood fence next to a man carrying a bag. They are looking over the fence at unseen alpacas
A toddler sits with his hands behind his head with a picture book on his lap and his feet out in front of him.
The back of a blonde child’s head in the foreground and a tv showing a large muppet and madeleine kahn in the background.