Me: I need to lock in. My brain: Absolutely not. In fact, we're gonna lock out.

I had this very experience not that long ago and I'm pretty mad about it.

I introduced the idea of playing Warhammer to my Tomodachi Life island and now it’s all they talk about.

Okay, okay, grueling work stuff finished. Maaaaaaybe it's time to start my #MoonstoneMay project? As a treat?

Pet peeve: people who are adamantly against GenAI but are willing to look the other way if it’s a game they reeeeeally want to play.

Why yes, I am 44 years old and currently building Miis of all my friends who live in Narnia so I can put us all on the same island in Tomodachi Life.

If any US based Warhammer friends want to plan on swapping Armageddon box halves, I’m looking for someone who doesn’t want their Orks.

Okay, we’re going to do a little experiment. I’m going to make myself a playlist with all the stuff I used to listen to at the studio in art school. We’re going to see if I can trick my brain into recapturing the unbridled joy for the act of creation.

Been a real up and down day over here.

Trigger warning: wild animal death Sad news, nature lovers. It looks like another bird got in while Mama Bluebird was out and the eggs are gone.

If you had told me this was even a possibility, I would have called you a liar. There’s something so unbelievable when someone who is responsible for creating something you love also enjoys something you’ve made. I think this deserves some chocolate to celebrate…

Is it executive dysfunction or is it just the cat screaming unless I’m sitting exactly where she wants me to?

That Beltane full moon is really bringing it, huh?

We have our preliminary schedule of Achewillow book launch events. There's even an online one (which is all but guaranteed to be a little unhinged)!

Here's some good ole landlord fuckery for you. Over the winter, he knocked over my mailbox with the plow. Knowing that it would not be fixed in any timely way because of the snow, I bought a nice freestanding mailbox and the sand to fill it with. It is the best mailbox ever and I love it.

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.

Not being able to turn off Gemini on my work Google profile is going to cause me to throw things.

I think I personally dislike “content” because the word is intended to be solely consumer-facing. It implies it’s like video game loot, there for the taking and of no provenance. A project, a production, or art suggests that somebody applied specific skills to make it, and we can’t have that.

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It's time to build the ballroom It's time to hide the files It's time to cover the crimes of all the pedophiles

Do art. Childhood you remembers. Trust your inner child. Do art.

My sewing machine, full of dust, as I watch videos of people cleaning cell phones.

It’s always darkest.

Chilly day for the marathon.

I guess it’s break time.

Birdhouse update: Mama just laid an egg.

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Me, left behind for not using GenAI

"I'm going to do some hobby today!" My brain:

Brie may be a short haired cat, but she has the undercoat of a husky. Happy Spring!

I’ve decided to fix a quilt top that I had sort of rushed at the end before I quilt it. And sitting ripping out seams, I’d almost rather just start over 😂

It’s the Achewillow Cafe of libraries.

I finished the advanced copy of this book in 2 days. I couldn’t put it down! Fast paced cozy horror that’s a page turner. Small town bakery with a bit of a demon problem. I mean we’ve all been there, right? A Dash of Demon has the secret sauce. @achewillow.bsky.social #booksky #cozy #horror 💙📚🩸📚🪐

Important birdhouse update: After flitting in and out all afternoon, the bluebirds have put some pine needle in the birdhouse.

Dear Games Workshop, More squigs in 40K. Thanks.

I need this.

If anyone needs me, I'll be dissociating in a scalding hot shower.

My partner in crime @jfdubeau.bsky.social and I had a great time talking @achewillow.bsky.social, food, and the weird shit you do at art school. retro-ridoctopus.pinecast.co/episode/0635...

FINALLY back at it tonight with Those Were The Days and more SPORTS! Tonight we’re talking about The Munsters S2 E5 “Herman, Coach of the Year” Chime in! Did you watch it at all? Let us know or come hang and share in the chat tonight 9pm est over at twitch.tv/2dorkstv

Got my Invisalign attachments off this morning and now my teeth are s m o o o o o t h.

Man, I am so sick of the take that all good games are financially successful, and that if a game wasn't successful, it couldn't have been good. That is such an insane take about the video game industry, I don't know where to start. Ppl who say this REALLY need to play more games.

Super Battle Golf is on sale on Steam. I want to get a group together.

brother quail (commission)

My little April Fool is 7 today. Happy birthday, Bubs.

At last year's Adepticon, there was a noticeable uptick in femme presenting attendees. This year, there were more gender nonconforming folks than I've seen before. It's so refreshing that Adepticon is a gaming space where people other than cis het white men feel comfortable being.

This has @julialepetit.bsky.social written all over it.

“I have dispatched my finest Eddie” is going to live rent free in my head.

Lounge chairs facing the window where you can watch the airplanes? Don’t mind if I do.

Heard an ad on a podcast yesterday that said “Ask a math teacher how many times zero goes into one dollar, and they’ll say ‘A lot!’”

In these times of slop and misery, allow me to share with you this glorious and weird shit that I have loved for decades made entirely by humans. youtu.be/ETyOwymflXc?...