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ruth e. hale @airanddarkness.bsky.social · Jan 26
favorite recent journal miscellany! forcing myself off digital art for a couple years to focus on writing and illustration back-to-basics feels like lying in the dirt and covering my body in rocks so that I can stand up and run and feel like I’m flying later.
Two-page watercolors spread showing different eras of Marvel Cinematic Universe Loki. Colorful watercolors illustration of Norse mythology Loki with all six of his specified children from the eddas. Pen and ink illustration in the style of a vintage Simplicity sewing pattern made into fem Crowley fanart (Good Omens). Two-page comic pen liner spread showing fanart of Victorian era Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson having a cozy morning with tea.
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downloading a new stockpile of .EPUBs from AO3 to get me through long internetless December nights
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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A photo of a peaceful white and black cat perched on top of a person’s thigh as they crouch in a snow field with a hoe.
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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new blog post about the Cailleach and my young cronehood 🫶
Cailleach Creatrix
Skirt hitched and gathered, the Old Woman treads the North Atlantic like a wading pool. Yes, Her calves are all gooseflesh. Yes, the wind is tangling Her grey hair and tightening the itchy scarf ro…
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November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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a strong cup of coffee at 10:30am on a Saturday
September 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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officially read 41 new books this year before my autumn brain started begging for the familiar. have now reread Good Omens, The Hobbit, and started into the LOTR once again. we had a good run, gang.
September 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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autumn autumn autumn
A selfie of me sitting outside with a cat on my lap.
September 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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sorry goths, black lipstick actually belongs to Māori wahine with their moko kauae 🖤
July 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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before #PrideMonth is over I need y’all to see this drawing my fandom friend did of me with my #nonbinary imaginary friends gang 💛🤍💜🖤

#Merlin #Loki #GoodOmens #art
A greywash comic lineart drawing of four figures walking and each bearing a nonbinary pride flag. They are the characters Merlin from the BBC TV show, Loki from the MCU, Crowley from Good Omens, and the user.
June 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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solstice sunset on Skye at 10:30pm
A photo of a soft purple sky with a bright shock of red where the sun is setting over a grassy moorland.
June 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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you know, now that I’ve read The Vampire Lestat I wonder if AMC will release some music videos ahead of S3. that’s how it happens in the book — Lestat drops his book and blows up on MTV way before his first concert appearance 👀 @annerice.amc.com #IWTV #InterviewWithTheVampire
June 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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sea loch therapy
A photo of a person smiling submerged in dark water with sea kelp.
June 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Mānawatia a Matariki mā Puanga! Ngā mihi o te tau hou! Hail, Matariki and Puanga! Happy Māori New Year!

To celebrate the new lunar year I created this piece of Te Whānau o Matariki and Puanga, who both form part of the great constellation, Te Waka o Rangi.

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An artwork in gold and silver on a black background. The image shows an ornately carved Māori waka (canoe) with two sails. Attached to the stern of the waka is a silver feather streamer. Above the waka are a collection of stars in various sizes, and the moon in a waning crescent, all done in typical Māori art styles. The border around the artwork has two types of borders. On the top and bottom are small Xs in gold and silver representing stars (in te reo Māori this pattern is called purapura whetū, meaning “star seeds”). On the bottom are stepped zigzags alternating in gold, silver, and black (this pattern is called poutama, or “stairway to heaven”)
June 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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protect trans kids! dragon stomp the fascists and transphobes! fuck the supreme court!
a medieval manuscript-style digital drawing. there’s a stripey white and gold border around the outside filled with pink and blue plants, flowers, and scrollwork. in the center, a snarling blue and pink dragon gripping a red, white, and blue snake in its claws makes up the initial “P” for text in a pink gothic script reading “Protect trans kids.” there are two crossed swords next to the word “protect.” at the bottom, there’s a group of friendly trans kids: a Black boy with an afro, a white girl with two red braids, a brown boy with short wavy hair, a Black girl with locs, a brown girl wearing a pink hijab, and a white nonbinary person with curly brown hair, glasses, and a nonbinary flag colored flower crown.
June 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine
May 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Proud of you 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
June 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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RIP to my Merrell Moab mid-height waterproof hiking boots, 2020-2025. they got me to the top of Mt Hood, across the West Highland Way, through three NZ Great Walks, and on countless shorter tramps and rambles.

just bought a nearly identical pair to be christened on 80km/50mi in Iceland! aahh!
May 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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cats just fundamentally get the on your period binging doomed old man yaoi vibe (we’re rewatching Interview with the Vampire)
A photo of a cat cuddled up under a person’s arm in bed with a laptop playing TV.
May 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Library of Congress staff just showed what resistance looks like. After Trump abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the respected Librarian of Congress, he tried to install Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General, as acting librarian. Staff weren’t having it.
May 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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lived long enough to become my parents’ worst nightmare from the ‘90s (queer occult aunt reclaiming her pre-Christian ancestry and teaching other people’s children about the moon) #pagansky #witchsky
A photo of a table spread with a homemade moon phase chart and other educational materials. A left hand is outstretched showing two silver rings with a triskellion and a mushroom skull design.
May 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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goatherd? I hardly know her
A selfie of a person smiling in a sunny pasture with goats grazing.
May 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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giving myself a gold star for this
May 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I’ll miss you daffodils but cuckoo calls and Beltane fire say summer is here
A selfie of a person smiling and holding three distinctive daffodils.
May 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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I feel like workers’ rights and folklore sharing the May Day space really should involve at least one billionaire being put into a wicker man.
May 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM