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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.
downloading a new stockpile of .EPUBs from AO3 to get me through long internetless December nights
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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
a strong cup of coffee at 10:30am on a Saturday
September 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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
autumn autumn autumn
September 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
sorry goths, black lipstick actually belongs to Māori wahine with their moko kauae 🖤
July 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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
June 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
solstice sunset on Skye at 10:30pm
June 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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
sea loch therapy
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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June 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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protect trans kids! dragon stomp the fascists and transphobes! fuck the supreme court!
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
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
cats just fundamentally get the on your period binging doomed old man yaoi vibe (we’re rewatching Interview with the Vampire)
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
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
May 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
goatherd? I hardly know her
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
I’ll miss you daffodils but cuckoo calls and Beltane fire say summer is here
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