Ash

@ashrowan

he/they 💜🌱 Artist-poet, Unitarian Universalist pantheist, neighbor to Fred Rogers (and you!) ashrowan.design #art • #poems • 🚫a.i. Icon alt text: stylized monochrome drawing of Ash—white bespectacled guy in a collared, layered shirt.

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Ash@ashrowan· 20d

The Birdcage (1996)

It’s actually a screenshot from the Steven Universe episode where Connie’s parents meet his very non-traditional family, after Connie told them that Steven had nuclear parents.

Ash@ashrowan· 21d

Threads post from justflintisfine: “Transmascs only want one thing and it's to be Robin Williams in The Birdcage.” A picture of mustachioed Robin in a backwards baseball cap and a collared shirt, loosely buttoned to reveal an assortment of necklaces.

Ash@ashrowan· 22d

two more for #ArtFight (go #TeamComedy!) :] characters belong to @feather-dancer.bsky.social (Nasuka) and Lamb_does_art (Milo) #art

digital, semi-realistic drawing of a red-crowned crane in flight, seen from above. her back and neck are criss-crossed with a red tasseled cloth/ribbon.

digital simple-style drawing of a cartoon yellow cat with red-orange mouth and pawprint. he is drawn like a sticker with a cast shadow beneath it, and doodles of stars around him; hand letters say “Milo!” at the bottom. the swirls in the lowercase I and the bottom of the exclamation point match the swirls of blush on his face.

Ash@ashrowan· 22d

my kids are re-watching Steven Universe, and I always love listening to the end credits song as if it's in conversation with this one 😌

It's You I Like

Written by Fred Rogers | © 1971, Fred M. Rogers

It's you I like,
It's not the things you wear,
It's not the way you do your hair
But it's you I like
The way you are right now,
The way down deep inside you
Not the things that hide you,
Not your toys
They're just beside you.

But it's you I like
Every part of you.
Your skin, your eyes, your feelings
Whether old or new.
I hope that you'll remember
Even when you're feeling blue
That it's you I like,
It's you yourself
It's you.
It's you I like.

"Love Like You"
(from "Steven Universe Soundtrack: Volume 1" soundtrack)

If I could begin to be
Half of what you think of me
I could do about anything
I could even learn how to love

When I see the way you act
Wondering when I'm coming back
I could do about anything
I could even learn how to love like you
(Love like you)

I always thought I might be bad
Now I'm sure that it's true
'Cause I think you're so good
And I'm nothing like you

Look at you go
I just adore you
I wish that I knew
What makes you think I'm so special

If I could begin to do
Something that does right by you
I would do about anything
I would even learn how to love

When I see the way you look
Shaken by how long it took
I could do about anything
I could even learn how to love like you

Love like you
Love me like you

Ash@ashrowan· 24d

adding a new channel to my projects category on discord, while ignoring all of the other channels I added before:

Ash@ashrowan· 24d

definitely relate to doing the thing grumpily x)

claymation penguin doing crafts, grumpily. the crafts are good for them still, probably.

Ash@ashrowan· 25d

reminds me of my man Calvin:

calvin and hobbes strip, where calvin and susie are in class.
calvin: “what grade did you get?”
susie: “I got an A.”
calvin: “really? boy, I’d hate to be you. I got a C.”
susie: “Why on earth would you rather get a C than an A?!”
calvin: “I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone’s expectations.”

Ash@ashrowan· 26d

wait I found an even better picture of it!

screenshot from Lupita’s instagram. Up close of her dark blue nails matching the blues of the book, which has felted/embroidered textures?!

Ash@ashrowan· 26d

first round of Art Fight attack/revenges! characters belong to Acha (Kirbee), @sundooisagoose.bsky.social (Neuro), and Charmspeakk (Imaan) #TeamComedy #ArtFight #art

Digital drawing of a Black woman, with pointed ears, yellow eyes, and hair half-up. She’s wearing a yellow sleeveless dress, a knitted golden-orange shawl made up of hexagons, and a hexagon earring.

a robotic dog with a screen/visor mask for its face, and electronic/cable/light elements. It’s drawn in somewhat of a chibi style, next to an uncolored loose sketch of their bust.

A digital drawing of an olive-skinned woman with loose curl/wavy shoulder-length hair and tired, hooded eyes. She’s wearing large golden crescent earrings, golden bands around her neck and waist, and light cloth draped down over her shoulders, and a peek of light blue fabric.

Ash@ashrowan· 26d

I love this look sooo much

Lupita Nyong’o in a full length, shoulder-less, metallic gold-filigree dress, with a matching gold and pearl choker. She’s also holding an Odyssey book clutch.

Lupita again, cropped in a little closer. She has one hand on her hip and is gazing off to one side, so you can see the architectural shape of her hair—it’s reminiscent of Nefertiti’s sculpted bust.

detail shot of the Odyssey book clutch—blue and gold illustrated elements.

Ash@ashrowan· Jul 12

lots to ponder on here!! “fix your body, never the world,” the grifting paradigm says. when actually: “your account of your own body [is] the starting point, rather than the thing to be corrected.”

The essay is not indicting restriction. It's indicting control and domination — eating as a way to impose order on a world you've decided is chaotic, to perform dominance over other people, to grift the insecure, and to shame everyone whose body works differently.
"No excuses." "You should have hit the gym, too, bro." Fix your body, never the world.

Ash@ashrowan· Jul 10

:> !!!!

two sandhill cranes in a field! they have very rusty-orange coloring, grayish necks and red crowns.

another shot of the cranes. one is stooping forward/downward into the grass.

lone majestic shot of one of the cranes, standing more upright.

Ash@ashrowan· Jul 6

kinda funny that my kid’s therapist pulled me aside and was like… so do *you* have enough support….? haha. girl don’t you even worry about that. 😌 but probably not!!!!

janet from the good place smiling and thumbs up-ing while saying “nope!”

Ash@ashrowan· Jun 28

summer of middle-aged divorce albums

Muse: “The Wow! Signal” cover art. A 3D rendering of the eponymous signal as a spaceship, beneath the illuminated arc of a planet.

Death Cab For Cutie: “I Built You A Tower” cover art. A lone silhouetted figure sits inside a starkly empty white orb within an orange background.

Ash@ashrowan· Jun 25

it’s still #MakeATerribleComicDay where I’m at!

two panels drawn digitally. the first is a cartoon portrait of Ash, white guy with short brown hair, glasses, and a light blue shirt. he looks amazed. a text box with an arrow pointing to him says “has just read an Alison Bechdel book.” speech bubbles read, “wow… I love comics. I hope I draw one someday.”

panel two is Ash hunched over a drawing tablet with a small smile, and a heart above his head.

Ash@ashrowan· Jun 24

💜 Quote with your purple art! 💜 Some from the archives (2013)

a young white man sitting in front of a watercolor-style wash background in deep shades of purple, his eyes closed and head tucked in, as he’s pulling his knees up toward himself.

a digital painting of a marbled purple-pink-magenta planet, with a large tree sprouting from the top of it. loose wispy clouds encircle in a haze, light halos softly around it, and the brilliantly starry cosmos expands behind it all, out to where a shadowed purple moon orbits.

Ash@ashrowan· Jun 23

Ten of Roots (Coins) - an abundance of feathered and flying things, is the first thing I notice 😄 A reminder of the connectedness of it all—and the place where dualities meet. “The Earth is not only alive, but hungry.”

Linocut tarot card, Ten of Roots, labeled “Wealth.” Mayan and Aztec iconography as well as hummingbirds and a quetzal surround the kapok tree, its roots in the underworld, flowering with a human heart.

Ash@ashrowan· Jun 23

Four of Horns (Cups) - perhaps lacking in energy, or unaware of/untrusting of new possibilities. but grounding and stabilizing can open new paths, within and without. “For the time being, the only way to move forward is to stand still.”

linocut card, the Four of Horns, labeled “Apathy.” A musk ox lies alone next to a lake, where birds are trying to tip water onto him or get him to notice the three cups of water before him, but he remains placid.

Ash@ashrowan· Jun 23

In light (hehe) of the solstice, I’m temporarily pulling cards from the Brady Tarot! Comment or DM with a question, or let me know if you just want a vibe check from the Universe.