The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Perhaps you thought I was joking about the sharks.

I have entered my shark period.

JFC—the updated headline isn't exactly an improvement, either. And contrary to popular belief, it is not actually necessary to give a platform to every asshole opinion under the guise of balanced reporting. Do better.

So… what platforms are people using to share #art these days? I’ve really been enjoying #drawing again, and I’d like to keep it going without constantly spamming a Bsky audience that mostly followed me for music and/or fiber arts stuff rather than silly little drawings. Is Tumblr still a thing?

Today, I am playing the game “Is it perimenopause, or am I just fucking tired of everyone’s bullshit.”

Why yes, I did marry a lunatic. Why do you ask?

I had plans to be productive this afternoon, but my body is giving me very clear signals that I need to sit on my ass, so I’m calling an audible on today—this entire week off, really—and will continue sitting on my ass. After all, this drawing isn’t going to draw itself.

Even our little town had a good turnout this morning (genuinely brought tears to my eyes), but *this* is my fucking city. ❤️❤️❤️

I made this for the first No Kings rally So now is a good a time as any to post it again. If you're in America, show up to make a statement.

I have so much recording I’m supposed to be doing, but last weekend I was an emotional wreck and couldn’t sing without crying, and this weekend I apparently have vertigo? Wtf. Day 2 of dizziness and perma-nausea, and I am so over it. Halp.

I’m trying this one! It’s not too intimidating, which is exactly what I need. 😅 Two days done so far, and I’m reasonably happy with what I’ve done—but I’m going to post my drawings weekly. In the meantime, I wanted to share this, both to keep myself honest and in case anyone else wants to join.

Case-sensitive searches will be the death of me.

I don’t know of any better demonstration of just how deeply out of it I’ve been recently than the fact that I am just now, in September, clearing holiday cards off the shelves. Clearly I am doing great at keeping up with everything. (PS. One of the cards was actually from August 2024. 💀)

Amazon over here in my e-mails hinting that they don’t like the age of my Kindle by offering me a discount on a new one, under the guise of it being my “Kindle Anniversary” (really). Um, no thanks, Bezos. Wanna gift me a Kobo instead? 😂

I'm not a real data analyst—just kinda trying to weasel my way into it as part of my existing role—so for all I know, this is just what the job looks like half the time. But it both cracks me up and kills me when I get a question that can only be answered by running searches on my company's website.

Sometimes you just want to vibe with the King of Red Lions for a while. youtu.be/6S0gImW0QEM

Just saw all your comments from last night’s post and someone shared a pic, Orlando showed up and used chalk to bring the rainbow crosswalk back! We love this so much!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Right there with ya, Bev.

Holy moly. We, as a country, have completely lost our collective minds.

Really proud of my performance on this one! Plus, the delightful Ian Martyn arranged it, so you know it’s gonna be good.

Go ahead and read the whole newsletter, because Heather Cox Richardson is excellent and the context makes these ending paragraphs particularly chilling, but… fuck this. Coding error my ass. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-6-2...

I’m on this x3(!): twice credited directly, and once as part of Celtic Tiger. Go give it a listen on this very fine Bandcamp Friday!

Me, talking to myself about my current sewing project: "Okay. I'll do the pressing next, since that's the most... pressing need. *hurr hurr*"

POV: You’re just humming along to yourself planting your greenhouse, and casually look over to see your housecarl doing… whatever this is.

I guess it's that random time where I randomly drop YouTube uploads of my @dwellingofduels.bsky.social tracks again. Shoutout to @an-drom-eda.bsky.social and @evilsonic.bsky.social for being awesome collaborators on this cover of "You Were There" from "Ico" on the PS2.

I guess you all liked this one or something, because it got 6th in DoD and 1st(!) in Pixel Mixers this month. NieR music is just goated, though. youtu.be/hbOJuORg8VE

Some art inspired by recent feedback. I call this masterpiece "Andromatone".

Finally got some decent sleep. Groomed the dog. Did a little cleaning and decluttering. Worked on a long-delayed sewing project while bopping along to some classic rock. Not a bad Sunday so far.

Almost forgot to post this one here! This was where my creative musical energy went last month. youtu.be/sM1Hzae82g8

endlessrepeat is much better at piano than I am, but lucky for me, he needed a singer and was willing to let me record vocals for this arrangement. Such a lovely song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Xi...

I feel this so very much and also simultaneously feel like one way we're going to get through all of this is to have artists and writers and musicians chucking in to create space for others to experience joy and rest for a moment before going out to fight again in the world. Creation is resistance.

Oh hey, I actually managed to finish a thing. This is an arrangement I wrote combining several tracks from The Journeyman Project, an early/mid-90s PC game (OST by Geno Andrews). This song feels cheesy to me in the best way; I hope you enjoy it! youtu.be/Y5Zo2UGstVM

This is high art

Had some breakfast. Did some knitting. It’s been a rough week on a variety of fronts—making it all the more important to take a deep breath and enjoy the quiet moments.

A thread very much worth reading.

I got a bonus at work, so I treated myself to a Steam Deck, and it’s still wild to me how much I can do with this thing. In the past week, I’ve played Dredge, The Last Campfire, Mass Effect, Skyrim, Stardew Valley, MK Double Dash, Tetris, Pinball, Balloon Fight, even streamed PS5 games on the Deck…

Today is Chrono Trigger's 30th birthday, and Ian Martyn is VGM's a cappella hero, so everyone should go listen to this now. Also, I'm on it—but let's be honest, Ian's skill at a cappella arrangement is the real draw here.

Alone in a hardware store for ~20 min getting stuff to replace our busted mailbox, I got asked if I needed help over half a dozen times. Not that I don’t appreciate the hospitality, but no, I’m not helpless just because I’m a woman. (Bet it’d blow their minds that I’m the one who installed it, too.)

In honor of the GMRA submissions I am preparing today, which will inevitably not get nominated, I present last year's rejected sub. Still really proud of this track—both the vocal performance, and the original lyrics I wrote. (The mix could use some work, but hey.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3EQ...

ME: *bends over backward to generate bespoke dataset using multiple SQL queries and Excel trickery, despite having no formal training in this stuff and this not being a formal part of my role, saving coworker tens of hours* COWORKER: *can't be bothered to type "thanks"* ME: Yeah, that's about right.

In the spirit of creating more, here’s my first finished object of 2025. The next pair will be more colorful, but this yarn is part of a bird-themed series from West Yorkshire Spinners. (Specifically, the owl colorway.🦉) They’re super cozy, and I’m wearing them today. Wool socks forever.

It's becoming increasingly clear that if I'm going to survive the next 4 weeks, never mind the next 4(+?) years, I need to find a way to spend less time consuming, and more time creating—or else at the end of <gestures at everything>, I'm just going to be a puddle of emptiness on the floor.

I made this little headphone case last week using reclaimed hardware and fabric scraps from other projects, and it was so useful for travel. I simultaneously love it to death and never want to sew anything this small and fiddly ever again. 😂

I've been feeling increasingly invisible recently, which I understand to be an extremely common middle-aged woman experience... but man, has it been especially pointed lately.

Aaaaah, *finally* it’s here! ❤️ Remind me the next time I order from Etsy on a deadline to make sure the shop isn’t located in Spain. (Looking forward to receiving my backup order from Corporate Monstrosity tomorrow, if the incoming storm doesn’t postpone that one even further. 🤦)

That feeling when your 50% off jeans become 100% off jeans because your in-store exchange of an online order was accidentally processed as a return, and you don't find out until the credit alert 3 days later, at which point, 🤷.

Gave my favorite sewing machine a well-deserved (and overdue) spa treatment during my lunch break today. What an absolute babe.

Happy holidays.