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Kathleen Rowan 🌱
@rowanauthor.bsky.social
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🔸️writing fantasy & sci-fantasy🔸️living real life adventures🔸️marveling at the mundane & the majestic🔸️breathing courage into your embers

🔸️GentlyRowan on AO3 & Tumblr (HZD)
🔸️photography by me & my husband
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📷 me on an autumnal adventure in northern GA
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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · Apr 10
#PublicLands
A quote from the #NPS Visitor Center at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming (just S of Yellowstone):

"You must search for the loveliness in America; it is not obvious; it is scattered; but when you find it, it touches you and binds you to it like a great secret oath taken in silence."
In a blue ombre dress spangled with tiny white stars, Kathleen Rowan sits on a low, irregular stone wall, gazing past pines and across Jenny Lake to the hazy blue Grand Teton mountains that rise majestically to the left and right with a sharp V between them. Photo by Mr. Rowan
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ethanmaldridge.bsky.social
Hey you
A white stoat wearing an elegant tweed suit with a red vest. He holds a lantern out, autumn leaves swirling at his ankles, while an banner flutters over his head that reads "Unclench your jaw."
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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2probablynever.bsky.social
The witch in duck form entertains herself by flying up to the wizard's shoulder and biting his ear.
towerwizard.bsky.social a wizard @towerwizard.bsky.social · 20h
The wizard is walking to town. He stops at the lake to rest his knee and feed peas to the ducks.
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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riverrunsdry.bsky.social
The weight of grief
Acrylic on canvas
18x24
An abstract expressionist painting titled "The Weight of Grief," dominated by high contrast and dynamic fluid textures. The bottom two-thirds features intense, chaotic swirls of cobalt blue, teal, magenta, and white, suggesting turbulent water or a volatile atmosphere. The top third is composed of heavy, dense masses of black and metallic gold, which appear to be storm clouds, floating structures, or a heavy canopy. The overall mood is dramatic and elemental, with the darkness and gold pressing down on the vibrant, struggling light below.
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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aowna.bsky.social
Another commission #repostober because I'm really happy with how all of these came out, and I want to give them a little spotlight again!

#art #VGenComm
Commissioned illustration of a mage. The character depicted is a woman with tan skin, dark brown curly hair, yellow eyes, and a fantasy outfit with red, black, white, and gold colors. A fireball floats above her hand. Commissioned fullbody illustration of a very happy looking demonic elk with spikes coming out of his joints and two sets of bloody antlers. Instead of hooves he has wolf-like claws. His long tail swishes out behind him. Commissioned fullbody illustration of a mage. He is a man with white skin, blond hair, and blue eyes. He wears a fancy suit, coat, and cape. Most of his outfit is bright blue. There's a magic bouquet of bluebells hovering over his hand. Commissioned fullbody illustration of a wizard. He is an older man, with amber eyes, a long white beard, and a bald head. He's dressed entirely in red, holding a wooden staff with various carvings (scales, eyes, leaves, moons...). The top of the staff looks like a snake with its mouth wide open, holding an orange gem.
October 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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jenmsft.bsky.social
I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can schedule teams messages and outlook messages so that they arrive on Monday if someone is out for thanksgiving week and it's not urgent
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
rowanauthor.bsky.social
Watching the loveliness of this game lull my (hardworking and legitimately tired) husband to sleep at this very moment.

Atsu is standing in a snowy rock overlooking gently lapping, lightly frothy water, and my spouse's head is slowly listing to one side while his breathing slows.

He needed this.
rowanauthor.bsky.social Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 2d
The spouse has finally finished his Ghost of Tsushima replay and has begun Ghost of Yotei. Another game of absolutely gorgeous atmospheres. 🍃
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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lespreuh.bsky.social
Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you! 🪶
Dessin noir et blanc d'une corneille empêtré dans un fil, derrière elle des engrenages et des branches d'arbres montant vers le haut du dessin
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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stoutheartstudio.com
Awww. Raven kitten literally just leaned against my calf and wrapped her tail AROUND my ankle. I feel very loved.
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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hbcompass.bsky.social
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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sango-blep.bsky.social
Atsu, Oyuki and their big fur babies

#myart #Ghostofyotei
Colored drawing of Oyukie and Atsu from the game Ghost of Yotei. Oyuki is on the left on her horse and Atsu on the right on her horse. The horses are puttingi their noses together for a sniff or boop.
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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jeffhamilton.bsky.social
i feel like maybe he will ask me a riddle
my cat Clark curled up on top of a wooden box
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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vignettes.bsky.social
she knits by lamplight /
each yarn loop a quiet tale /
warmth woven in words

#haikufeels
#yarn
#haiku
#prompt
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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poorlycatdraw.bsky.social
accidentally smudged this drawing but i feel like it actually works better this way!! some mistakes turn out for the better
doodle of a kitty looking in the mirror
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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rowanauthor.bsky.social
It's a really great year to support artists by giving prints or books or art swag as gifts to all your loved ones.

Artists are facing extra difficult and demoralizing times, but keep making such amazing things!
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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anaithnidd.bsky.social
Old Wounds 💧

#faurox #art
illustration of a scarred man holding their left arm which is bandaged and shows diamond shaped blue wounds. The stigmata like wound on his hand bleeds a powder blue color.
June 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
rowanauthor.bsky.social
The spouse has finally finished his Ghost of Tsushima replay and has begun Ghost of Yotei. Another game of absolutely gorgeous atmospheres. 🍃
November 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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gusrinaldi.bsky.social
🚗🐉

#illustration #BRArt #kidlitart #fantasyart
Drawing of a dragon looking annoyedly at a car that is parked on their head. The driver of the car is also looking down at the dragon as if trying to understand the situation.
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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sifu.tweety.fish
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
sifu.tweety.fish tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 2d
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
awest.uk Andrew West @awest.uk · 3d
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.

I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.

www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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alisabokulich.bsky.social
Ripples on a sandy beach, looking out over a deep blue sea with a blue sky above.
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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fishfeast.bsky.social
My D&D character, Seb - a sad boi shadow elf sorcerer and his pet cat-beast-thingie, Eclipse. Drawn by @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social
A pale shadow elf dressed in all black with a black eye patch. Behind him are Gothic looking houses. By his feet is a small black cat with green antenna on its head.
November 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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weedlejuice.bsky.social
Quickly scurrying through the tunnels to get some energy out before I burrow into my bedding for the night
November 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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rachelburch.bsky.social
Oaks in Burrator woods this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #landscape
Mossy oaks in a wildwood
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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vampirepyramid.bsky.social
A sneak peak at my finished art for @thevelvetcompote.bsky.social Blood and Brocade zine/artbook.
I don’t often do fanart but I jumped at the chance to illustrate both versions of my darling Claudia in a variety of vintage fashions.

Preorders are open now until 12/10!
#iwtv #charityzine #vampires
Cropped illustration of Claudia putting on some eyeshadow in a mirror while sitting on a couch. Behind her are bits of handwritten text from a diary entry. Cropped illustration of Claudia writing in her journal on a couch surrounded by pillows.
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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ryanraeharbuck.bsky.social
Brave enough to write a book.
Brave enough to revise your book.
Brave enough to get beta readers.
Brave enough to query your book.
Brave enough to sub your book.
Brave enough to publish your book.

There are so many moments where writers are tested. Be proud of where you are.
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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biobabbler.bsky.social
Urban art peekaboo, Seattle, WA.
A building has a huge mural of an otter's face. In the background is the Puget Sound, and gulls are flying about on a grey day.
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM