I have generally been struggling to do art for the past few years, which sucks, but for some reason Art Fight always cuts through all that and I have genuine fun drawing again and it feels SO NICE

last day of the sale 😇 you can meet my awesome freaks for less than the price of most things

🦭 The Selkie Awards are back for 2026! 🦭 If you're based in Scotland and finished a comic in the past year, we want to hear from you! Our applications are now open until 31 July. Check out the details here: selkieawards.org/2026 #scottishcomics #scottishcomicbookday #smallpress

INCREDIBLE petrichor rn

Is there a creature that has been so repeatedly and undeservedly subjected to AI renditions as the humble highland cow?

News! The Selkie Awards @selkieawards.org Are Looking for Volunteer Deputy Organisers – Can You Help with this Annual Celebration of Scottish Indie Comics? www.brokenfrontier.com/selkie-award...

The Scottish comic scene is strong, but the people who put on indie-focused events are more often than not doing it for FREE!! After money and time, your voice is your powerful way to help your community. If you want the Selkies to flourish, be loud about it! Send Cara some words!

Anyone? 😅

If anyone's got some nice things to say about how the Selkies have been going so far (that they'd be willing to go on the record for), I'd be very grateful! You can contact me here, or via email: cara.gaffney[at]selkieawards.org

The list of characters I would lose my mind about if they were a woman has extended from being one item long (Emet Selch Finalfantasy) to two (Qifrey Witchhatatelier)

Since I haven't had the wherewithal to push the advert this fortnight, I'm extending the deadline until the end of June. Please do apply! Obviously I'm biased, but I think having an award like this is valuable & I don't want its continuation to be dependent on one person: selkieawards.org/volunteer

Typical gynaecological experience: - Have a Really Extraordinarily Bad Time - All the patient advice sites tell you It's Fine & downplay or simply refuse to acknowledge that it could be Less Than Ideal - Find forums and subreddits full of people commiserating about the Extraordinary Badness

🦭 New volunteering opportunity: Deputy Organiser 🦭 As we approach our third year, the Selkie Awards are looking to recruit one or more volunteer Deputy Organisers to contribute to our long-term success. If you're interested, please check out our website for more info: selkieawards.org/volunteer

If you hated Flamingoland you're gonna hate this too. OBJECT!! NOW!! 📣

I've decided that this is the week I force all my loved ones who have read the third Locked Tomb book to read An Unwelcome Guest, the short play from the ebook of Nona the Ninth

The quote RTs here are giving the only workable suggestion for this advice that I've yet seen for people like me, who struggle with shortform works, which is: do a "pilot episode" or chapter 0 of your big story idea as a trial run Still, I'm tapping the sign again caragaffney.com/posts/2025-0...

This has gotten a sudden boost in reposts/likes which I'm very much enjoying, and is also reminding me that that reread is LONG overdue. Play Heaven Will Be Mine! pillowfight.itch.io/heaven-will-...

Immediately went to look at the last unclaimed Pokémon... genuinely wasn't expecting to see a starter line here somehow??

Update: Sandyford have extended the date where they ask those who have not heard from them to get in touch from 1st June 2026 to 15th June 2026. For more information about this exercise, see the full post below and our website here: www.scottishtrans.org/sandyford-va...

Back at my desk now so can ruin the brilliant work of our photographer Rhiannon Neale (rhiannoneale.com) with silly memes

LOVE IS REAL @caragaffney.com

I got married!!!! Love you @inremote.bsky.social, I'm so happy I finally get to call you my wife ❤️❤️❤️

Applications for ShortBox Comics Fair 2027, our all digital, online-only independent comics show, are now open- full details at the link: www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/apply

BIRTHDAY! 🎉🎉🎉

Man, I really do not like how many people try to claim that the SNP are hard-done-by through the additional member system, esp when they cite the 2016 results. The SNP got 46.5% of the constituency votes then, 41.7% of the regional votes, and got 48.8% of the total seats. How is that not fair?

Scottish Greens manifesto is out, compare and contrast

I know passionate supporters of LGBTQ+ equality in Labour who have felt increasingly marginalised in the party and unable to support the leadership's view. But to see the manifesto include anti-trans policies rejected by their own party conference must surely be the last straw for many.

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

At a hustings today and boy do I looooove listening to people who never intend to make positive changes explaining that it's just Not Financially Realistic to make positive changes, even when told the positive changes might actually save money

I finally got around to playing (& completing) Unpacking over the long weekend and now all I want to play is more of Unpacking :(

It's amazing how few of my posts are me being an angry feminist considering how much time I spend being angry about misogyny in all its forms

Trans Day of Act Now to Stop Labour's Section 28! Tell all your cis friends and colleagues. They have until 20 April.

I don't know if there are many more satisfying things in life than taking your dad to the park you've been bigging up as a great birdwatching site for parakeets and dippers, and him successfully bagging both AND ALSO A NUTHATCH

Told our local Labour candidate that I can't possibly vote for Labour thanks to how they've treated trans people and immigrants, now to get all that anxious energy out by stress cleaning

Seeing the last flat I rented back on the rental market for nearly twice the amount of the last rent rise they asked me for (& therefore nearly twice my monthly mortgage) sure is making me feel some kind of way

Stock dove: cutest Scottish wild pigeon/dove? Discuss

It's payday, the sun is shining, I'm getting married in 2 months and the Greens won in Gordon & Denton

This feels very relevant to Scottish comic creators selling internationally - a survey to explore the possibility of setting up a Cultural Export Service scotland.britishcouncil.org/Cultural-Exp...

This feels very relevant to Scottish comic creators selling internationally - a survey to explore the possibility of setting up a Cultural Export Service scotland.britishcouncil.org/Cultural-Exp...

Read that transformerai blog going around. I'm still searching for the explanation of what genAI can do that humans can't, but - controversial take - I do actually agree that a lot of lefties are completely wasting an opportunity with AI, hoping that the bubble will explode and take the tech with it

I *need* to start putting it in my diary to check in on the National Literacy Trust’s Annual Literacy Survey. Just catching up on the Future of Literacy project, the first paper of which includes a section dedicated to comics, with some encouraging takeaways: literacytrust.org.uk/information/...

New post: LABOUR'S SECTION 28 IS HERE - ACT NOW. I explain how the Labour government's proposed revisions to the guidance on "keeping children in education" are designed to erase trans children in England. But it's not a done deal - there is plenty we can do to oppose this.

puts my head in my hands. I finally learned what Pivot Tables do yesterday.

Got my hair cut into a short bob for the first time in nearly a decade and WHY did I leave it so long (in both senses of the word), omg

Sam is doing really cool work on Scottish trans history. This will be well worth popping along to if you're in Edinburgh on 27 February!

LRP: I LOVE VINTAGE STORY

As of today, Vintage Story is 10 years old. To commemorate, we're doing a 200 game key giveaway. Thank you for sticking with us! www.vintagestory.at/blog.html/ne... #vintagestory #sandbox #survivalgames #anniversary #giveawaycontest

HAPPY IMBOLC. THE LIGHT IS COMING BACK BAYBEEEEEE

Hourly Comics Day has MOVED! It's the 20th anniversary and we're taking a stand alongside our Black cartoonist members and friends to demand a change to honor Black History Month- draw your comics on the 8th, not the 1st! hourlycomicsday.com #hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicday #hcd