Vin Kiva 🏳️‍⚧️

@vinkiva.itch.io

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they/he · artist & educator · AuDHD & disabled I teach people about compassion, discernment, & relational skills via zine, video, art, and occasionally blog free resources AND ways to support me: bloomwithvin.com/links

A white background with black bees reads: FUNDRAISER ALERT!!! Help Becky & Phyllis afford housing by August 1
Text surrounds an illustrated peach, such that it says "get your [peach] checked"
The Bright Ages by Matthew Gabriele & David M Perry. It has a pretty medieval floral blue design
An orange cat snoozes on teal blankets
A wiggly outline surrounds the words: 100% human made/free from gen-ai plague
An illustrated pale person facing toward the left has their eyes closed. Their long red hair waves lightly in a breeze, as do the tassels on their blue scarf.
A black outline of a suit of armor covered in ivy against a grey background.
On top of two teal pillows sit: Magical Character Rabbit by Kinoko Evans, a thin purple book with a happy white rabbit in a witch's costume A Song to You & I by K O'Neill, showing a tan character with long black hair standing in a meadow on the spine The Moth Keeper by K O'Neill, with a blond character in a large scarf on the spine The Well by Jake Wyatt & Choo, with a maroon and navy spine Princess Princess Ever After by K O'Neill, with a buttery yellow spine
A mottled, honey-mustard colored background behind cover pages for various itch projects. Many are text based, but the bottom two have a woman welcoming passengers onto a train, and a hand with claws reaching into the distance
A giant garbage pile made of scribbles is on fire. There is a very tiny human for scale.
A small white booklet reads "what if I'm one of the people I know? A brief exploratory introspection by Vin Kiva" - it rests on a wooden table
An orange cat lounges happily on coral sheets. He spans from shoulder to upper thigh of his 6' tall human, under a grey blanket next to him, barely in frame
Two copies each of: Coven's Grasp: a white hand with claws reaches into the distance. There is a vignette effect with jagged polygons around the edge of the page. The Train Job: a woman in a swing dress with pointed shoulders, leggings, boots, and a massive beehive hairdo directs passengers onto a train
A white person with huge yellow glasses, a red flannel, and smiley daisy earrings
The Menu DVD case rests on a light blue striped blanket
The words "color for a cause" in front of a very colorful roof illustration
A large block of "text" comprised of dots and dashes.
A small lightbulb painted green with white and yellow flowers hangs from a white cord in front of a palm.
"Happy Baba Marta" in Bulgarian, in white font with white flowers against a red background.
Rosa from Brooklyn 99 holding Sherma from Silksong looking menacing
Text reads: this is an act of great love and optimism. "great love" and "optimism" are patterned as an American flag. There's an inverted American flag in the corner.
A green blackberry sits at the center of a cluster of white blackberry flowers
A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang; Moonbound by Robin Sloan; Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies by Misha Popp; and Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer sit in a stack on a teal cotton blanket
Text against a collaged background of paper and flowers that form a rainbow around white paper. Text reads: I honestly dread June every year. I'm tired of a month that's supposed to be for collective grief and joy instead being a time of infighting & mimicking bigotry. I'm tired of how acceptable it is in this community to say, "I can't celebrate near someone who doesn't present the way I think they should." It is so deeply an inside problem if you base the validity of your own queerness on how others experience theirs. It's an inside problem if you think your discomfort at someone else's sexuality is the same as their hurt when you discriminate against them. Mind your own house. Focus on the month you want to have, not the month you want to control for everyone else.
A black and white cartoon drawing of a white person with a wolf cut, large glasses, and facial piercings in front of a wavy rainbow background
A small brown bottle leans against a tree in the grass. It is painted with a blue crescent moon, purple clouds, and white stars
A close-up of a budding blackberry flower surrounded by rainy leaves
A black outline on a white background of a white person with thick frame aviator glasses, a wolf cut, several piercings, and a neckerchief
"compassion makes the world colorful" in a bold handwritten font against a wavy grid background. Smaller text reads "a coloring book about kindness to yourself + others by vin kiva"
A large orange cat lays on top of a cooler bag with a bundle of blankets in it, which are keeping a pot of yogurt warm.
Person one says "May the Fourth be auth you." Person two replies "spaaaace" referencing portal. I reply with a gif of two Lower Decks characters doing the Vulcan live-long-and-prosper salute.
Four eggs are in a glass bowl. Two are yellow and two are a deeper gold.
A Gravedigger toy (A black monster hearse with graveyard themed art and an acid green undercarriage) sits on a grey dashboard.
The kombucha girl meme, with her disapproving of "the literal pin cushion 10 inches away from me" and approving of "sleeve, blanket, couch, pant leg, teeth"
Rainbow letter bracelets read: loud and proud, hope matters, optimism is radical, and joy is important. They rest on a floral background.
Rainbow letter beads read: loud and proud, hope matters, optimism is radical, and joy is important. They rest on a floral background.
A bracelet with wooden beads reading "hope matters" rests against a floral background
A bracelet with wooden blocks that spell out "peace is powerful" rests against a floral background
A crocheted blue and purple crescent moon pillow, and purple and green star pillow, on a maroon couch with a dark teal blanket
a small plant pot with tall garlic greens on a windowsill
Black text in a typewriter font on a tan paper background reads: "The first line of defense was to come together as a group" -Barbara Ehrenreich discussing early humans in Dancing in the Streets
No Bad Parts by Dr Richard C Schwartz rests on a dark teal fuzzy blanket. It has an abstract single-line drawing of a face and hands over colorful blobs
A light grey plant pot. The bottom is filled with broken blue ceramic and red blown glass.
A garland with colorful paper stars rests against a dark teal blanket
Odo from Deep Space Nine says, "well I'm going to go scream into my bucket"
A very large orange cat snuggles on/crushes the chest of a white human in a maroon hoodie who is just visible in the background. For what it's worth he's purring like an engine right now.
The top of a light wood shelf has framed covers of The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan and Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown, as well as a cyanotype of a city street, two crystal cubes, a floral tin, and a brown bottle with dried flowers and a turkey feather
A view of the inside of a tatami slipper with a loop of ribbon sticking out of the seam
A purple text message on a light blue background reads "I hear tell that x contains gay dynasty warriors origins fanart will you be my them on the inside 👀"
Plants, left to right Front row: jade plant, 2 cacti, snake plant, Christmas cactus, Majesty palm Back row: cylindrical snake plant/dragons fingers, spider plant, monstera, another dragons fingers, aloe The sun is streaming through the windows and you can see snow on the ground outside
Dark grey text reading "keep calm and carry on" has been crossed out in black and surrounded by black text reading "act like this isn't normal." Sideways in the margin text reads "vol 1? by Vin Kiva"
Page 8: A blue box reads, "4ish questions for self-empowerment when you feel like you can't impact the world." Text on the page reads: "What is one thing I can do for... myself? my family? my community? someone I don't know? And... would any one action cover more than one of these?"
Page 6-7: An easel displays a simple landscape and the words "It's time to get creative" and text continues on the page, "+ fight fire not with more fire, but with water. We only move forward when we act out of love for our fellow human beings. The radical thing is not to fill the world with ever more burning hatred, but to douse it with JOY* even though it's really hard." There are collaged raindrops, one of which is about to land on a red flower. *The word "joy" is filled with much smaller text reading "Love care devotion emotion compassion togetherness" in the J, "Integrity thoughtfulness courage vision integrity wonder" in the O, and "creation passion hope ideas in action" in the Y.
Page 4-5: Text in an ornate bubble reads "Cuz burying your head in the sand" and continues on the page, "feels like relief while leaving you vulnerable. You have to know what the dangers are to stay safe. But, this does not mean that you must give up + resign yourself to doom + gloom..." And there is a drawn ostrich burying its head in collaged sand
Page 2-3: Text reads "This is not fine. Trust your gut. Believe your eyes." There are collaged images of someone searching with their hand shading their eyes, a painted closeup of an eye, and fire along the bottom of the page. On the page there are various doodles with black pen.
Cover: A "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster has been crossed out, with the words "Act like this isn't normal" written around it. Sideways in the margin are the words "Vol 1? by Vin Kiva"
A page spread from Mere Christianity with various lines highlighted and underlined. A teal bookmark with light pink moon phases rests in the middle. There's a pink pen below the book, and both are resting on a black and white floral blanket
An iPad showing the cover of Speak Truth to Power rests on a deep teal fuzzy blanket
Page 56 of Speak Truth to Power. The final sentence has been highlighted in orange. Text reads: It takes faith for an individual to live this way-faith in the "impossible" ideal of a world community. We can expect some to scoff at this kind of personal commitment, on the grounds that it has no practical, political relevance to the world of today. We respond to this skepticism by recalling the history of Thomas Garrett, a Delaware Quaker who dared to practice brotherhood in a world of slavery. Haled into court and so heavily fined for his activity in the underground railway that he was left financially ruined, Garrett stood before the Court and uttered these words, "Judge, thou hast left me not a dollar, but I wish to say to thee and to all in this courtroom that if any one knows a fugitive who wants a shelter and a friend, send him to Thomas Garrett and he will befriend him."
A piece of printer paper divided into 8 sections. The first section has a "keep calm and carry on" poster with the words crossed out, and the words "act like this isn't normal" are written around the poster