actually i've made the funniest soap of all time

Love this so much. 💜

Desecrated Grounds Acrylic on panel (original sold)

As always, extremely well done and informative content from Alanah. Please watch this *and* take a stroll through her channel, you'll learn a ton.

Forgive the poor picture quality but I wanted to share this good omen with everyone. There have not been ring-necked pheasants near this property for many years. Our rewilding is working. Good things are happening. You just need to put in slow, steady, good-intentioned effort.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Low key, this is why I think you should send fan mail to the niche people you love and not huge people. Bts is gonna get thousands of letters, but that soundcloud rapper may go there entire career getting nothing. Tell your niche favs you love them in a way that is not weird!!

I strongly recommend everyone do research sometimes 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯. Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism

okay I agree. November doesn't start til Monday

hey guys I thought I was gonna get destroyed by reading my editor's comments but actually I feel like I could literally do anything Is this. Actual constructive criticism helping you towards your goal? It's more likely than you think.

Illustration for the Castlevania Piano Collection vinyl

just as a tiny reminder, you can dislike something without phrasing things in a way that’s condescending and hurtful to people who do like that thing. subtly shaming people for liking something you don’t isn’t the move and isn’t the way to build yourself up

It’s been too gloomy for proper photos, but I am SO happy with this week’s glaze firing & had to take some quick shots yesterday despite the bad lighting!!

petals [ #art ]

Up at 5am ( #5amwritersclub , #amediting ) writing a fourth email to my editor about the absolute shitshow of scattered edits I have planned for this manuscript. Can't ever keep them all in one place, even when I try to (collected from phone notes, three notebooks, and a doc [and my brain]).

A poem I wrote after reading Megan Falley's poem about grief after losing Andrea Gibson. It is moving, and resonated with me deeply. The grief from losing a spouse, or child or parent, is not the same as the grief of losing physical ability, but the words still rang true to me.

The trick is learning how to tie another length of rope to it every time you get to the "end" of your rope.

I say this as a diehard Mets fan - I need the Blue Jays to win America's Game™️ this year. Let's go Jays!!!

Time moves in layers - 2023

Any #booksky or #writingcommunity recommendations for new/recent tradpub and indie LOW and/or GRITTY FANTASY? I love involved world building, character-driven narratives, and interesting magic systems ("magic with a cost", especially). (Authors please use this post to self-promo!)

i want you to take the words that come to you like a bolt of lightning and write them down. i am so serious. it does not matter when and what they are. let them out. novels and poetry start as single lines.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Snippet from my WIP that I was reminded of after seeing this tumblr post.

Obsessed. The fuel I need to draft & edit my "two stupid fools playing stupid ol' games". #writingcommunity

September 26, 2025 #rollandpaint Moonrise Ridge Paint: Nicosia Raw Umber, plus blue-green & red-violet Colour Scheme: Triad #watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #gravity #wetOnWet #triad #landscape #landscapePainting #moon

Hate to do this but I only had two orders this month and I'm overdrawn so if you could boost or check out my shop that'd be a great help! thanks anaisfae.art/shop/

I don't do much Captura (might do one or two for this), and I'm a terrible artist, but I'm going to use these as writing prompts! There was a Naberus contest a few years ago for microfiction - going to take inspo from that, because I LOVED writing for it. #tennotober #writingprompts #warframe

...And done. Once again colored pencils on black paper, this time also with some silver and gold ink. A3, probably around 20-25 hours. #art #fantasyart #space #leopard #traditionalart #drawing

"What character changed your brain chemistry?" and it's my own OCs

I have been so turned off of two of my favorite ASMRtists lately. One proudly uses AI for art and music (unfollowed) and one is so into consumerism I just have a hard time watching...

Don’t support big company. Big company don’t like you. Support small artist. Or just save your money.

You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown: 🧵

"I don’t read, and I am sucked in" - A friend who has only recently started reading/writing fantasy and is beta reading for me help i don't know what to do with my hands

I guess if anything, more than ever, just block the content you don't want to see. You don't have to agree or be okay with it. Just block it, move on. Let other artists/writers/creatives/insert other synonyms here be as long as they're not hurting anyone else. Censorship bad.

May 31st 2021

Dragon Commission

Internalizing that not everything is about you. Or for you. Or made with you in mind. Or directed at you. Or supposed to include you. Or require your opinion. Or your approval. In fact most things are not. Being online is quite easy when you don't try to be the protagonist of everyone else's lives.

excerpts from my editing notes to myself: "add disdain for military jacket symbolism - (they lead droves to slaughter while wearing accolades proclaiming to avoid death. The gilded promise glory while shredding life away...)" but also: "I FORGOT VALERIA'S FUCKING SNAKE TATTOOS??? add those in"

Going to use #swordtember to finally write the short story I scribbled an outline for months ago. A knight awakens on the same black-sand shore every morning, armed only with her sword - tempered by tears and fated to kill the mage that enchanted it.

Inner Landscape Inspired by a tumblr mutual's post #poetry

When you are promised Divinity, why would you say no? When your own mother sheds a tear in hope - When fiery souls feed the hunger - When your lover asks for the world in exchange for giving you the cosmos - It is your duty to Respond. To Become. #amwriting #ttrpg

"On reinvention" Blackout Poetry August 30 2025 alt text for transcription #poetry

yo this guy is cooking

this image has become pivotal inspiration for my newest short work #amwriting

love finding out that the person who mistreated me at the pharmacy was THE OWNER time to find a new pharmacy...

Last leg of the road trip was incredible. Sedona and I40 in New Mexico.

For all the writers who've felt this way over the past months:

Karting and F1 X in Vegas. TONS of fun.