First Monday back to work after the holiday break ☠️ RIP

Happy New Year! 🎉

Spending new year's eve curled up on the couch with a good book while the cats go full chaos mode thanks to the catnip I gave them. Obviously the best way to spend the night 🥂

✨New growth✨ Just look at that little string of pearls. You wouldn't know it but a year ago she was a quarter of that size, a mere few inches of a strand that I hadn't yet managed to kill. Now not only surviving but thriving 🌿 #PlantSky 🪴

Discovered last night that I have a mouse in the house. Already looking into preventatives for future issues but in the meantime... I never wish to see an animal suffer, but this mouse just entered a home with 5 cats including one VERY experienced hunter... this isn't likely to end well...

That feeling when your heart says yes, but your knees doth protest too much

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A little house plant love for an otherwise dreary Monday 🪴 Despite the winter weather outside, they're surviving and thriving! Lots of little plants to pot in the spring 💜

The pipeline of intrigue to disgust when I notice an ad for something that appears genuinely interesting only to scroll and see it uses genAI 🙃

Writing while half asleep is great for shutting down the inner critic but she's gonna have a field day with this scene tomorrow 🙃 #amwriting

First snow prints of the season!

Saying "Good morning, Charlie" to my cat like I'm one of the Angels and she's about to send me on a top secret mission to impersonate an office worker 🕵️

There's something about the first real snow expected at the beginning of December that is deeply satisfying ❄️

Just a little critter 🥹 Was out in the yard yesterday taking advantage of the last warm day before a week of barely-above-freezing temps when I found this tiny salamander. Almost got swept up with the leaves I was raking!

Nothing like hearing a crash in the house and playing the game of who broke it with the cats 🤦‍♀️ (Or the secret other option, something old gave out in the house and I can't find it...)

Just found a note in my Obsidian vault for this project titled "IDK" and honestly same, past!Me. Same. #amwriting

What other people see VS what I get when they're gone 😂 Happy #Caturday!

Pleeeaasseeee I need the sequel to this book ASAP. Still feeling a major hangover after reading ASUNDER over the summer 🔥 Y'all want this book in your life, promise!

Don't mind me, just screaming my way through the rest of the week

My wonky furnace has been turning off at random times all week (including the middle of the night which is REAL fun to wake up to) but today it made it through the night!! (But I still have someone coming to look at it tomorrow because this will soon be more of a Problem™️ than an Annoyance 😬)

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That feeling when you only have one more meeting for the day and your brain is certain that it's happening in a few minutes only for you to realize you still have an hour to wait 🙃

It's hard not to feel a little witchy when 2 crows follow you on your walk ✨

Back on my mask nonsense with my heavily Gothic horromance inspired Wild Hunt novel and it's absolutely not because I watched Frankenstein and Crimson Peak recently. Completely unrelated. Couldn't be further from the thing. Maybe I should re-watch Van Helsing next.... #amwriting

Finally had the chance to watch the new Frankenstein movie and goddamn del Toro created a masterpiece. The actors alone sold it but with the costuming? The cinematography? *chef's kiss* 12/10, no notes. Might even top Crimson Peak as my new fave Gothic.

New novel already has a graveyard ☠️ Starting strong! #AmWriting

After an unexpectedly busy October, hoping November proves more productive for words so giving the new thirty30k.com challenge a go! Anyone else participating? #AmWriting

Being an adult means making crescent rolls drizzled with honey in the middle of the day because you can 🥐

Oh, to be a cat whose human has been trying to work through a sticky plot point for the last 2 hours #amwriting

Walked the dog. Dinner prepped and ready. Garbage put out for pickup. Might actually have the evening free to do fun things! *sees mountain of dishes to be washed*

I started Sarah Rees Brennan's LONG LIVE EVIL last month as a buddy read with @dhstrange.bsky.social then proceeded to have like 3 weeks of no reading time 😅 But I finally finished it and it was fun! Lots of excellent foreshadowing and breadcrumb trails to follow. Can't wait for the sequel!! 💙📚

Woolly bear sighting while walking the dog today. Seen a few with a similar pattern. When I was little, I used to gather them up in a small bucket to see what kind of winter we were having 🐛

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

The Mondaying is starting strong with no power. Guess I don't have to go to work!

When I start hearing noises upstairs: "Is it a ghost or did the cat lock herself in the bedroom again?"

Chillin' like a villain on this #caturday 😈 Stayed up way too late finishing LONG LIVE EVIL by Sarah Rees Brennan last night (very villain coded 😉). Started it over a month ago and just haven't had much time for reading. But all done and ready for the sequel next year!

Spending my Friday night finally catching up on my current reads. Maybe I'll even finish a book for the first time in... ...on second thought, let's not do the math 😅

Looks like I need to start developing a love of black walnuts 😂

There is something deeply satisfying about watching a plant grow 🌿🪴

Alright bluesky, I have a 10 gal bucket quickly filling up with black walnuts and more to come from my tree. Started collecting them so I wouldn't hit them with the mower but would love to use them. Any suggestions/ideas/fave recipes to share? #gardening #food #foraging

The final #gardening haul for this year. After an exceptionally late start getting my seedlings planted (the ones still alive at that point...) I'm thrilled I got this much! But, alas, the frosts are coming more regularly so harvested what I could to ripen indoors. Next year, I shall plant sooner 😅

Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩 Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Missed a few days there but it's a new week! Had some breakthroughs on one of my novel WIPs so aiming to get those integrated, and want to get rolling on my new botanical horror short. #LGBTQWriteAThon #QueerWriters

First frost yesterday. Took the AC unit out of the window tonight. We are officially in FALL WEATHER LET'S GOOO 🍂

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

I'm currently working on both a folk horror and an adventure fantasy currently (and a handful of other projects in either the horror and/or fantasy space, some crossover between on a couple) #LGBTQWriteAThon #QueerWriters

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Woke up at 6am (could have done without that) and, in my sleepy haze, wrote a little 150 word drabble to edit down for a submission later. Maybe that's the trick to getting my brain to write shorter fiction 😅 make sure it's too tired to question things. #AmWriting

My horror WIP is my only project set in our world, and in modern day (no exact year and it doesn't really matter to the story). The rest of my projects are all second world fantasies inspired by the 1800s-early 1900s #LGBTQWriteAThon #QueerWriters