COYOTE // Molly Mendoza
Sumi ink, gouache, gel pen on 7x10” Arches
For solo show at Nucleus House 1/10/25
About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.
It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.
So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.
So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.
Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.
The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.
... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.
Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.
Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.
And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.
Drew some fish tins a long time ago.
Reference was from Pinterest.
I love him and his little garden soso much
This is Bazz the Beekeeper. A black lab who is specially trained to sniff out disease in bee hives. In Australia the bees do not stay inside and it isn’t safe for Bazz to go in sniffing without protection. So his owner created a custom beekeeper suit to keep him safe. And it is kinda adorable.
stop reblogging butch and femme Matthew Lillard
european mustelids
going all-in | print
sketch
Deep ocean creatures
STILL STUDIES WRAPPED (KO-FI♡)
| JULY ‘24
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"
Who I once was
Do you always have to be alone
Enjoy more fanart of The Adjuster
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fuck it, welcome back BBC Merlin (2008)
☆phinktober day 10!!!☆
sister Daniel & father Philip
i couldnt resist and ended up drawing this just after the last one, and clearly i just didn't listen to my brain and ended up rendering it lol wanted to do them justice so how could i not u.u