Honourable Mentions: Portal, Hatoful Boyfriend Left4Dead has some excellent memories with friends*, which is why it made the list, and Fallout 4 was the first Fallout game I played. * The tank bodychecked me off the hospital roof the first time I played. I still don't know how that happened.

I was in shop in San Francisco's chinatown and the salesperson asked where I was from. (Canada) then asked if I knew her cousin's son. I didn't... only because I had opted to go to a magnet high school while the cousin's son went to the one I was supposed to attend. He lived like 10 mins away.

don't we all #art #cuteart #comic #cat

wip

you will be no help to yourself or others if your brain turns to liquid from witnessing one horror after another. it's ok to step away from the internet temporarily. it's okay to focus on small-scale community building and support irl.

Happy book birthday to Vesper Doom! www.narratess.com/books/book-s...

Some borbs to offset the horrors

like to charge, repost to cast

age 8: forensics scientist. (this was pre-CSI, Exhibit A for the real ones) age 38: famously reclusive author bristling with daggers and malice

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ Moon Magic, book 2 of my fantasy trilogy 🥰 Eva returns to the world of witches to learn magic and restore her House, gaining new allies and facing old enemies. Plus, moving in with her crush?! ARC sign-ups open: forms.gle/PSqGSKGNautW... Shares very much appreciated!

this is *GORGEOUS*

Sound on! A moment of sweetness for your day. ❤️

BE THE ELDRITCH POWER YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD

welp, that's that I guess.

And ooh, look at this gorgeous paperback that arrived today from the wonderful @adiehartauthor.bsky.social ! It was an honor to blurb this collection of fabulous cozy romantasy novellas (one m/f and one f/f), and I SO strongly recommend it. #romancelandia

Fantasy Day Drinking

FYI. Have a documented Canadian ancestor? You can get citizenship.

Moss ball bug It was itching my brain, I had to! A green fluffball crawling out of the bushes. I'd love to see other artists take on this critter 👀🌿

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

It was a frosty, overcast morning when I was out driving back roads and found this beautiful Snowy Owl on a frost-covered power pole. It's not the background and setting one hopes for when photographing owls, but I'm always happy to find one regardless. #wildlife #owls #birds

Barred owl naps in the spring forest #serenity #birdoftheday #owls #photography #nature #wildlife #PNW

It doesn't take much of an excuse for me to share owl photos. A great horned owl on a live oak branch, completely surrounded by Spanish moss. #birds

Edinburgh after dark

I needed a banner so I figured I might as well draw all of my favorite things ☁️🏠✨

Bird knows she's people. Try to tell her different.

Surprise!!!!!! Party of Two is OUT NOW in paperback and ebook! www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

Need a mood boost? Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl

Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.

oh my god those colourssssss Also having learned a teeny tiny bit of how to bead, the effort and time put in to get this good is phenomenal

I gotta write. But how write when doomscroll never stop

My Writing Breakdown: why yes! I break down quite often. Cozy: 🌙🌙🌑🌑🌑 Thrills: 🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙 Mystery: 🌙🌙🌙🌑🌑 Angst: 🌙🌙🌙🌑🌑 Sex/Spice: 🌑🌑🌑🌑🌑 Violence: 🌙🌙🌙🌙🌑 Horror: 🌙🌙🌙🌑🌑 Gore: 🌙🌙🌙🌑🌑 Comedy: 🌙🌙🌙🌑🌑 Cringe: 🌙🌑🌑🌑🌑 Representation: 🌙🌙🌙🌑🌑 Genres: fantasy+, thriller, speculative horror, adventure

so don't get too comfortable. #art

Now accepting book launch proposals! Got a new book? Celebrate with us at TriCon! We will be scheduling launch parties all weekend in the WFNS atrium, with a variety of refreshment options. Read, sign books, & mingle with friends new and old. Email [email protected] with details!

Need less ‘the call to heroism has inspired me to be who i was always meant to be!” narratives and more “this fucking sucks and I don’t want to be here but someone has to do it and goddamnit it looks like that’s me” narratives imo.

"It was a wonderful mix of adventure and horror with an extensive lore that made the world expand around you while reading." Nothing makes a morning warmer than reading about how my little book connects with the people who find it <3 Thank you

I’ve seen several posts of folks sharing the transcript from someone’s Substack. That is a platform that financially supports Nazis. So here is a link to the transcript from a source that isn’t a Nazi bar. It’s a major speech worth reading, unlike any speech from the orange guy

I was having an awful, AWFUL day with work and fibro and how much work hated that I wasn't letting them fire me for having fibro, and I stepped out into the spring drizzle for a 'don't punch anyone walk' and lo, there was a PUPPY. His owner saw my teary face and she asked if I wanted to pet him.

COW TOOLS

🌟 Sunday Spotlight 🌟 A Dress to Kill For by @tessahastjarjanto.com - a short gothic horror with dreadful vibes 🖤 📚💙

these are important

I have ordered all the business cards, and other marginalia needed for selling in person and all it took was getting poked in the eye by my cat repeatedly. shoutout to @ardenpowell.bsky.social for the gorgeous artwork <3 <3 <3

The dead deserve an afterlife, with a real necromancer for a grave warden, but they're stuck with Ivigh and eternal unrest. Then cheerful Mudlark blackmails Ivigh into hunting the witch who damned the dead, or risk exposing the truth behind the hole in his beatless heart. #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #TR #OV

it's that day where I want to hire all the amazing artists and my bank account shoots me death glares

everyday during work: Okay after my rest I'll do x, y, z this evening. what I actually have been doing: melting like a slug into the couch and going to sleep early.

antagonists are certainly my weak point tbh. I tend to write more about the protagonist than a specific 'Villain'. That said, Fred sucks. Fred sucks all kinds of ways. We meet in No Land for Heroes while he's shitfaced and causing problems for everyone else.

Hey locals, check it out! An indie book market just for us! also how cute is that bunny?? nextdoorottawa.ca/events-list/...

As we get into the routine of a new year, I'm curious: what is your weird heart-project? It can be a book, webcomic, art, home reno. Mine is a series of novels about fungi-vampires inspired by Bloodborne.

As we get into the routine of a new year, I'm curious: what is your weird heart-project? It can be a book, webcomic, art, home reno. Mine is a series of novels about fungi-vampires inspired by Bloodborne.

Let 2026 be the year you draw your weird cringe sci-fi/fantasy webcomic, don't let that shit die with you having never left your head.