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Kathleen Rowan 🌱
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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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#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."
We took in a kitten somebody found motherless and was getting ready to take to a shelter.

He's the most beautiful derp that ever derped, a true himbo, no thoughts only immaculate vibes.

10/10 best cat
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Thought of calling weeks in a fantasy setting a chapter and patted myself on the back. I’m a real writer
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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A typo just turned “a shallow crater scoured into the soil” into ”a shallow crater scoured into the soul,” which would be somewhat more unfortunate, probably.
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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If you see this, post a monster.

Baby Cthulhu. Bow to your yarn overlord. 👑
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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oh, love
the way you knit
my f r a y e d edges
together at last

#poetry
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I was travelling in January 2022 (give or take) when I started the current random creatures sketchbook with this sketch.

I went online one week later thinking if I should post it and stumbled upon my first duck or goose hydra. I was so annoyed that I didn't touch the sketchbook for a year. 😆
March 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Ghost Moth.
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Good thing they're porcelain, or these creatures would take down your Christmas tree!

#art #pottery #Christmas
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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It’s 2026: there are now two moons and poets are cybersecurity threats
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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The little cat steps on the wizard's face, waking him up. He goes to make waffles with passionfruit jelly and put some fish out for the little cat. As he makes tea, the air fills with the smell of raspberry. As he eats breakfast, the wizard debates what move to make next in his interdimensional
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Check it out
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you :3
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Ever since I learned this, I have made a point to preorder books from authors and artists I follow from my local bookstore. Often, they'll order an extra copy or two to stock on the shelves. It's crazy how low the number is to make a tangible difference!
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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“The Caves of the Misty Mountains” (watercolour, 2025)

One of seven new watercolours I created this year for an upcoming book by Legendaria Ediciones. It also fits today’s theme of “Echoes” for #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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The house will grant the girl knowledge, in a manner of speaking.
November 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Saide wearing a ceremonial outfit 🌹

#OCsky #art #artsky
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Me: Where's my phone?
Him: [tapping his lips to invite a kiss]
Him: Right here.

Honestly, what a weirdo.
How'd I get so lucky?
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Hey you
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The witch in duck form entertains herself by flying up to the wizard's shoulder and biting his ear.
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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The weight of grief
Acrylic on canvas
18x24
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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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
October 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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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