today's travel PSA is due to the fact that the foil wrapping on expensive chocolate bars is radiopaque I was selected for Extra Screening because they saw a big blank rectangle in my carry-on which could have been Suspicious, and in fact had to open the foil and reveal the Lindt within for scrutiny

SHOP UPDATE So @byzantienne.bsky.social and I are spending several weeks in NYC this summer, and I don't feel like shutting down the shop for that long, so it's coming with us <3 Shipping will be slower than usual until mid-August, but I'll be open starting July 15 (and making new pieces!)

was this individual trying to turn into a Bit from the original 1982 Tron or was that just how you max(x) your look(s) regardless, nailed the Darwin, no notes

REMINDER -- everything on Bleeding Hart Studio is 25% off through Friday! Get your earrings, your single-strands, your three-strands, and your MASSIVE STATEMENT PENDANTS while they're on sale! www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... I want some of this rock to go to other people, I have too much of it 🖤

Fellow authors: without context, what's the first line of your current WIP? 1: On the deeds it was called Wincanton's Bargain. 2: From the nearest station it took two standard weeks of travel to reach the Valaros system: four individual jumps, and full sublight acceleration between jump points.

hey, who remembers rear-projection TVs and how they were supposed to be the shit but were, in fact, shit recently I learned that the largest consumer CRT tv was only 43 inches so Weird Al had it DOWN with Frank's magnificent groundbreaking model <3 imagine the electron gun for that one

25% off SHOP-WIDE SALE at BLEEDING HART STUDIO! So we're moving to New York this fall and I want to move some of the shop inventory! I'll be running several moving sales over the summer, so keep an eye out! 25% off the ENTIRE STORE this week through Friday 10 June ❤️ www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

in other news we just saw a (probably AI) video of a giant boat consuming a smaller boat via a sort of hatchway in its side me: omg look my wife: CANNIBOAT me: *dissolves in mirth* marry a writer, y'all

anyone out there know why tf Santa Fe air quality has gone comprehensively to shit over the course of the day? White haze nearly blocking out the mountains completely. Some kind of fallout from Colorado fire? Second Coming? Mystery Smog?

y'all excommunicated like he said y'all would be god, it's so sweet to actually witness consequences <3 <3 <3

the only view on modern catholicism I'm familiar with is Alice Thomas Ellis which is to say I have a peculiar set of things I know and do not know about current schismatic activity <3 but two popes USED to mean twice the stunning eccesiastical art and architecture, not like that's true today

me: doop dee dooo, looking at blue-green-teal gem options since I don't want to pay for Montana sapphire for a ring internet: hey did you know YAG comes in paraiba and it's cheap bc lab, here's a huge trillion that just sold me: HOLY SHIT, I SEE THE LIGHT

FINALLY! All my stock of new glass bead necklaces is up on Bleeding Hart Studio -- if you didn't get a chance to snag one at 4th Street Fantasy, now's your opportunity. Czech glass in all kinds of colors and finishes. The best thing? They're stackable <3 www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

oh, shoes. every now and then I get motivated to write about shoes, because they're slightly holy, and they matter, and that they came with you on your various journeys also matters. I wrote a story for my MFA thesis that was just about shoes. perhaps it is time to do it again, years later. <3

that moment when you actually turn a corner in Trying to Play Your Damn Guitar from "how is this so impossible" to "hey, this hurts less than it did last time I tried, plus my fingers can remember wtf they're supposed to be doing even if they can't do it" is kinda cool

this is stunning, I've never seen linocut used for this sort of image

I think the only reasonable option is a portable AC with the hose sticking out the window, given what we have to work with I swear when I was a kid 80+ degree temperatures were rare and exciting in summer, it meant you could not freeze on the beach

hello, expat brit here the UK doesn't have window units because THE WINDOWS AREN'T THE RIGHT SODDING SHAPE TO PUT THEM IN majority of suburban windows are side-hinged and don't open all that far, there is no way you can stick an AC in there also we never needed them before you're welcome

Current situation: have ordered laptop, should arrive tomorrow. Now pushing hard on July rent so I am not living on pure stress. Postal changes mean I may need to rejig prices but am holding off for now. oishiny.etsy.com Heatwave kicking my arse, but on we go! #Handmade #ShopSmall

To do this I would need about 2 sales per day. Which feels like an impossible ask, but I am pushing on. I will have a couple more netted labradorite pendants for you tomorrow. In the meantime, I have a great many spirals listed!

2 new labradorite showstoppers up, wrapped and ready to glow! oishiny.etsy.com #HandmadeJewelry #ShopSmall

the annoying thing about having made a huge giant vat of AMAZING sauce and then freezing it in two-person portions is that if you want that sauce for a single portion the very next night you have to fucking make it all over again otoh I'm pretty good at sauces so WHOLE FOODS AHOY

god I love using parmesan rinds in long-simmering sauce it's like HA, past me, keeping that WAS a good idea, screw you and your tidying-up instincts also the version of this sauce I make is somewhat heavy on the basil and the house smells INCREDIBLE right now

tomorrow it is Resin All the Things day, sigh but at least we will have nice fresh bread and I will make pomodoro and pesto out of the farmshare, and these don't need MUCH resin, gonna do it right by the open window, shouldn't take long then it's into the indesign mines for con programs <3

a moment of hilarious nostalgia: I came across a picture of a thrift-store find, a "Computer Cake Pan" circa 1984 shaped sort of like a TeleVideo 910 terminal, and you could sort of picture some kid being overjoyed at seeing a birthday cake thus shaped and decorated --

hell yes New York <3 WELL DONE :D :D :D

Who wants to be my first order of the month? Things have been silent and I've lost another week I can't afford to medical nonsense. But on we go! (Big goal is to hit John Lewis sale and replace dying laptop, but rent comes first.)

working on a new line of necklaces to debut shortly -- if you're attending @4thstreetfantasy.bsky.social these, including uranium glass, will be available for sale! (yes I'll have the UV light and Geiger counter) meanwhile visit www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... to see what's currently available 💙

tfw your arms STILL hurt the day after you had to drive 90-something miles through a ridiculous dust/windstorm that was trying to push you right off the highway I will not miss the wind out here, that's for sure

this is your periodic reminder to brine your cheap chicken breasts before roasting them you will get insanely juicy tender meat that will slice easily for sandwiches or showing off for your in-laws (bonus points for astonishing everyone by steaming broccoli in the microwave)

Amber, get your amber! Last of my stash! Etsy has some tricky rules around amber so I've just put them on Ko-Fi. Amber and onyx, 5 to choose from: ko-fi.com/s/b55912dbf9 #Handmade #ShopSmall

Thank you to everyone who's taken the plunge and bought a necklace. Only a few hours left! I think -- I'm not sure how Etsy handles the cutoff -- that my necklaces are still 20% off until the very end of the day, EST. If I'm wrong I'm happy to eat the cost if someone buys thinking it's on sale.

love reading through my old disasterblogs and wondering if there's any scope for turning those essays into something real but mostly: NECKLACE SALE ENDS TODAY AT BLEEDING HART STUDIO GET YOUR PRETTY THINGS AT 20% OFF WHILE THEY'RE STILL SPARKLY www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

REMINDER: all necklaces are 20% off through TOMORROW, 5/26, on Bleeding Hart Studio! Also available: forbidden icecream uranium glass earrings and God knows what else, there's a ton of stuff up right now <3 www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

just ordered me a shrimp shirt!

POV: you cannot stop making earrings, even when you already have a backlog of pieces to photograph and list it's a compulsion in other news, one pair of cobalt drop earrings has found a home, and so has one of the forbidden icecreams ☢️ get em while they're hot! www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

REMINDER 💙 ALL NECKLACES on Bleeding Hart Studio are 20% off through Tuesday the 26th! Crystal drops, massive heavy multi-strands, you name it, get it while it's on sale -- and also check out my uranium glass restock! More is on the way ☢️ www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

you know how an unexpectedly good brain-weather day can kind of feel like a delicious surprise? it's not that I have constantly terrible brain weather, just that when it's legitimately GOOD it feels like a wonderful little gift from the universe <3

RESTOCK IS LIVE ☢️☢️☢️ 3 new pairs of uranium glass Forbidden Icecream in all three colorways, plus eight brand-new blue and blue-adjacent sets of earrings! Cobalt drops, champagne briolettes, baroque pearls, faceted crystal, go check it out at www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... 💙

coming soon, ☢️ RADIOACTIVE RESTOCK ☢️ -- tons more forbidden icecream earrings, plus I am totally back on my Shades of Blue bullshit 💙 the 20% off necklaces sale runs through the 26th of May, so if you've been wanting a piece, now is a great time to pick one up! www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

cambrian, ordovician, silurian, devonian, carboniferous, permian

☢️ STILL AVAILABLE: two pairs of radioactive earrings! ☢️ I'm waiting on a bunch of shipments for new uranium glass, but I do still have some of these little super-bright round guys, so expect to see more Forbidden Icecream earrings going up soon. www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

Also I saw the new Riviera colorway today in the oval Le Creuset bread oven and…the color is stunning, but I think I prefer baking bread in my smaller round dutch oven? low key desirous of something in Riviera though, even if half my LC is Caribbean

some nights you just gotta blast some Bowie on your kitchen boombox and roast a chicken breast stuffed with duxelles, I don't make the rules (finally bought myself a decent goddamn saute pan, had to christen it)

sigh, I am continuing to try to source more uranium beads and like 6 out of 25 I just received are mildly UV-reactive, pale straw yellow rather than the greenish-yellow I need, but I cannot fault the seller who listed them as "jonquil" (it's just that "jonquil" is the color associated with uranium)

studying RBMK control rod design details and packing orders just another tuesday night chez VS (you guys are spectacular, that's over half the collection snapped up in one day, clearly I am going to have to make a lot more uranium pieces)

☢️ RADIOACTIVE EARRINGS ☢️ ARE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE! (why is that emoji not either green or black-and-yellow) 11 pairs of uranium glass earrings are live on Bleeding Hart Studio for your green-glowing pleasure: www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

COMING SOON RADIOACTIVE EARRINGS ☢️ ☢️ ☢️ this is a little 11-piece micro-collection going up on Bleeding Hart Studio shortly! The Spring Necklace Sale is ongoing through the 26th, but I'm gonna slide these online tomorrow if I can get the pictures done. www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

HA, guess who found a tiny stash of uranium glass at the bottom of a bead crate :D time to watch Chernobyl and make radioactive earrings

4 new spirals added today! I need to find homes for all of these over the next week, so fingers crossed for them wandering Bluesky tonight.