Scales on face

V. 37. Lesbian/Queer. Jewish. She/Her/Hers. Editor. You like spaghetti, George? I like spaghetti. I like board games. I like grabbing a trifecta with that long shot on top... that ozone smell you get...

Special FX Makeup by CMS Student, Miyo Nakamura

Syrena was a mysterious mermaid who resided in Whitecap Bay. This beautiful, alluring, and enigmatic mermaid swims against the tide of her more lethally-minded sisters of the sea. Mystery surrounds this mermaid, even down to her true name, for "Syrena" was what she's called by missionary Philip Swift during her captivity by Blackbeard. Fate had brought Philip and Syrena together, but their connection goes much deeper. After her fellow mermaids led an attack on Blackbeard's crew, Syrena and…

I am approximately halfway into the scale shirt. let me catch you up on what has happened: six months ago, I bought 6000 bright brass scales and 12000 stainless steel split rings. I put them into a bucket and washed them, and began dipping them into asphaltum and placing them in rows of ten on small copper "branches". after the asphaltum dried, I took the scales off the branches and stacked them in tens. I scratched my first designs into the shiny black coat to reveal the brass that would be…

There is such an overwhelming volume of feelings and confusion. I don’t care how old I get or what I’m witness to, I will NEVER be ok with this. I am genuinely distraught and worried about my fellow humans. I will never understand how we’ve gotten to a place of cruelty, hate, intolerance and ignorance on the grand scale we are at and the weight of this result is crushing me. This is not something we will recover from as a country any time soon. We’ve already spent the last 4 years trying to…