I met @ryannorth.ca at @sdccblog.com this year at last! Talking writing and dogs was great, saw & signed my trilogy here. I got to wear my blue blazer for some @fantasticfourfan.bsky.social energy. Ryan we were both paneling @seattlein2025.org but I couldn’t get to you, I hope you had a great con!

A sparkle of fire, vaguely transmitting a happy face.

Head in the clouds?

A view leaving Kansas City.

Mt. Rainier & the islands of the Salish Sea from the air.

This mountain is wearing a green shirt; and, some marks in public.

It’s the little things: a little UFO cloud, and a flamboyantly traditional peony.

Happy Summer Solstice! Some recent skylewks.

Pencil mustache on cloud…

It looked like an aurora night - but is that really, really, really Victoria from the west and Vancouver to the north?

A developed sunset in Friday Harbor.

Pre-dawn gold.

This was actually on a full moon night, through my phoenix gossamer skylight.

Eye in the sky, reminding me of being a little fish making eye contact with a passing leviathan.

I’m still posting pictures of the sky on Bluesky, because this is one of my genres.

Somewhere leaving Scotland.

A blood moon in Amsterdam.

Flying over the River Thames.

Sun streaming through the clouds over the river Clyde from my room in the Crowne Plaza during Glasgow WorldCon.

Swans with growing cygnets gliding down the river Clyde in Glasgow, before WorldCon.

Low key Cool Norm

Cloud looking like a South Pacific sailboat…

Today! Sunday, May 19, noon to 3 pm, BIPOC book fair at the Douglass-Truth branch of the Seattle Public Library, 2300 E. Yesler, Seattle, Washington. Be there! Free book for every kid and teen, their choice! Extra exclamation marks, no charge!

A magenta-hued cloud dragon.

And ceilings.

Caryatids of Philadelphia, while in town for Galactic Diversity & Inclusion Convention.

Rainier over the city from a private 76th floor view.

The opening tulips on the city campus.

Here is a picture of a blue sky, with a tree cloud taking up half the sky that evokes Yggdrasil, the world tree.

Bus station double rainbow day!

A metro rail sunset from #awesomecon in DC. Thanks, I had a lovely time!

Cherry blossom dimension.

Was visited by this valiant flower hero, while I was carrying this little box around!

I have that space suit coat; I had that Gandalf hat. These are intense. I do like being under the moon. My waves are more like this in my natural hair.

Art; maven; maturity within culture; creative leadership; springtime aesthetic; poppies.

Only rarely special night gothy, but I’m equipped. I got: Wednesday Sharpshooter; power wielder; zombie survivor; final girl.

These also look Dalaran/Aquarian. Magical knight, royal, freelancer / hired gun, rogue wizrrd. Yes these are still based on me. I’ve had deep Lumerian meditations. I’m a purple-hair right now, in fact. The closest I’ve come to being a warlock may be geneticist, no offense, but it was also druidic?

I saw the mountain in the clouds.

Half-orc self? Half-orcs might have different emotional sensibilities, I was thinking on a D&D note. On a hapa-hapa note, I’ve tried to explore all of my heritage.

As orc: free orcs of WoW had some familiar cultural elements in their aesthetic. The demonized ethnicity. Got vulpine, kiyoot, she-hulk, and morning determination.

A touch of magenta rose.

Dragon woman + Fire fae. Dragonstaff spinner, fire dancer, the female faun; teen Brigid pledge, Imbolc baby. Sacred firekeeper of the creative flame as writer, pen as flaming sword, torch bearer, lighting other torches, fire tender, starts fires in snow. Demonized? Natural. /BlueScry

Initiating BlueScry. Compartmentalizing my social media inclinations according to wordplay, as with (Mycelial) Threads(/Duds). It’s like I miss the introspective essay days of MySpace, when as a writer I wasn’t focusing on production and semi-ephemeral platforms were sufficiently rewarding.

It was a full moon night on the way to the open mic.

Heading out to swoop to OryCon, it was regatta day out in the straits.

I could literally post sky pictures on BlueSky… it’s already a category of photos I take. I could start my BlueSky theme with sky pictures (which used to go mostly XTwitter). This might evolve. This is a view to the trees of Atlanta from a DragonCon hotel.

Here I am, on Bluesky. I wonder if this format will yield a different tone of expression. I remember my MySpace self, with long extended bloglike rambles; my Facebook creating short to medium photo-driven accounts; Instagram less focused, with pure added visual flavor; Twitter once for philosophy.