I just walked into an art gallery & discovered a seascape that literally brought me to tears. There are no online images of it, afaict, bc it doesn't reproduce well & the artist asks people not to take pictures. And tbf, it's at least 8 feet across, so online lacks the impact anyway. But Jesus.

oh hell yeah

Splendid thread to uplift your timeline and for mental refreshment amid the ongoing everything.

Although I maintain Farscape missed exactly one opportunity in its entire run to twist the knife with the literal final line of the show, *for* a show that had been cancelled & had to wrap up its entire last season in 4 hours instead of 22, they really, *really* stuck the landing.

oh those are rather disturbing and good :D

I still want these. And to write books with those titles. WHY AM I LIKE THIS! payhip.com/b/ky0Ix

THE TAGLINES ON THESE PREMADE COVERS OMG payhip.com/b/RPqu9

WIKTORY!!!! 😍😍😍😍

did i just start crying over a movie trailer

I got 1800 words done today, which is great for the first day back at work in the new year, and also entirely acceptable for a day in which I spent a great deal of time on trains and buses. I'll take it, so I shall.

Stress Break, the zen edition

is throwing a hard plastic water bottle at somebody's head considered assault if they're listening to their phone without headphones on public transit

Sneachta! Not going anywhere this morning! #speirgorm

I posted this yesterday: the complete first adventure of Terran Omega, free to read!

Modestly idyllic #Sligo sunrise #speirgorm #sneachta

my thinks to do for january is entirely out of control and it's only the 4th

😁😁😁😁 OWL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS is available now! :D www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWCXL6Y...

We're four days into the new year and it has been full-on "I can stay informed or I can stay sane" territory, and because I need to stay sane to do my job, I think I have to retreat into my own notifications and not read my main timelines for a while. I don't know how else to cope.

THIS IS COLORED PENCIL, FOR GOD'S SAKE I think this may be my favorite Aivazovsky. Maybe not. But it might be.

This is an impossible ask, but in the moment I'll go with Guys & Dolls

What you have seen him do, and heard him speak, Beating your officers, cursing yourselves, Opposing laws with strokes, and here defying Those whose great power must try him—

Wikipedia uploaded the whole film to watch as soon as it entered the public domain: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:An...

dang it, I legit could've had this one in 2 if I'd been brave enough to go for it! Wordle 1,659 3/6 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Hey, so it's my birthday🎂 (I'm 44!!)🎉 and instead of asking to repost my illustrations, I'll ask you to let everyone know that Side Quested Book1 is in preorder, to be launched in March! Everyone deserves to enjoy some chaotic fantasy comedy! ❤️🎶 And it's *still* free to read online! 🌟

Anyone wishing to participate in Mishell's birthday festivities-- either through messages, letters, or virtual meet-ups--can reach out to me.

very minor thing, but trying to find some cute pdf colouring pages/books (for myself) and am willing to pay, even. but a lot of the options seem to be AI slop. trying to wade through them is difficult so i end up going to scans of vintage books :|

I have this fic I was writing for other people* but stopped working on it & when I went back I knew I'd had a plan to go on from where I'd left off but I couldn't remember what the plan was and it has just now, some six years later, occurred to me that I could...just revise it & do something else...

That would work.

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway, just because: 10 copies of Edges (Inverted Frontier Book 1) by @lindanagata.bsky.social, which I *have* but *haven't read*. I've heard only very good things about it, so it's there on the TBR, but the TBR is over 1600 books now...

My kingdom for a re-opened Western railroad line. #speirgorm

To elaborate, with an example: I took up watercolors back in March. I've steadily improved all year. Any dipshit can slop-prompt "purple irises in a watercolor style." But then I'm denied the UTTER THRILL of developing a new skill! Of spending many happy hours connecting brain to brush!

SOMEBODY was told she isn't allowed to drink the dirty paint water. #GinnyStaresAtMe

I have finally been able to give @arookbird.bsky.social her solstice gift, so I can finally post it!

Absolutely no one, anywhere, will miss billionaires when they're gone. The best time in US history for non-rich classes of people* was when we taxed the shit out of the wealthy. *the benefits weren't evenly spread, breaking down across racial/ethnic lines, but everyone benefited somewhat

oh...I backed up my own journal there a long long time ago but IDK if I did the one I briefly kept for my son, so I need to do that tomorrow and am leaving this as a note for myself to do so.

Thinking today about all the trauma, hysterical laughter, and people drop-kicking 2025 into the bin because hahaha that fucking SUCKED. And the last several years informing how we look ahead. And also thinking of Queen, Freddie, The Show Must Go On, and *slams vodka* “I’ll fucking do it, darling.”

i'm about to embark on a 6 week crash course in Italian bc that's a very normal thing to do at the start of a year, right

CORRECTED POST: :) MPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE: If you are trans at a convention I am at and someone gives you shit about it, let me know and I will come throw a fucking chair at them. This service is complimentary. Also, I have to start proofreading my posts!

Sligo New Year's sunset

Happy New Year #SFFChat! I'm KB Wagers, author of queer space operas the Hail Bristol trilogies and the #NeoG Adventures. Last year I wrote four short stories for my Patreon crew which was a whole new project for me. It was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to doing it again in 2026.

Please enjoy once again this all-time classic to lift up your New Year's Day and start the year right

First laugh of the new year.

Me, in theatrical but also slightly real panic, to a friend: CE Murphy, Murphy Lawless, Catie Murphy, Cate Malone, Zoe Chant HAVE I MISSED ANY NAMES I MIGHT BE WRITING UNDER IN 2026 AS FAR AS WE CURRENTLY KNOW????

so you can guess what i'm doing today

me, as always, before i've eaten anything: i shall improve my diet this year! me, also as always: improving my diet is so difficult i have not made a decision about what to have for breakfast and i am very hungry so shall default to my usual thing that is not great for me!

brb moving to iceland

This is the clean art (acrylics on cold-pressed watercolour block). I decided that in an age of AI slop there's no point in someone like me painting a slick 'photomontage' cover and I love the slightly "off brand" gothic Death Star in Berkey's art so I consciously pushed in that direction. #StarWars

Going in to 2026 like: