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Caitlin Serviss

@xotheforest.bsky.social

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She/Her. 1992. AuDHD. “The void leans in, eager to speak. Hell shows its teeth once a week.” Check my linktree for my ongoing story on AO3. https://linktr.ee/xotheforest

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · Jul 7

— Magic Mirror, Disney's Halloween Treat (1982)

"You know, I've been hanging around here for centuries. And what I've seen has given me plenty for reflection. Being a mirror, I see things from the other side. And there's something that's been wrangling me for ages. Frankly, it's the way you —🧵

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 1d

My sleep schedule is fucked up but hey, I won 3,500 points for 7-Eleven by doing those surveys now and then.

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 1d

Chapter 104—I've got a good outline for the next 8-ish chapters now so I can finish off this arc coherently, and better than the random half-assed timeskip I was originally planning.

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#writing #hellaverse #hazbinhotel #helluvaboss #ocs #oc

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe no new chapter this Friday—I'm getting used to a medication I was supposed to be taking every day.

Instead I'm trying to get back into the habit of art. Have a messy sketch from a little comic I'm working on with Poppy and Ekho interacting.

#art #hellaverse #hazbinhotel #helluvaboss #ocs #oc

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 7d

Without trying to dox myself, I wanted to share this. My town had to put out a notice on "if you're technically a part of the city based on where you are"

They turned off comments to the post because what in the gerrymandered fuck is this? Saw at least 5 crying laughing reacts.

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 8d

Finally finished this art of Ekho, and gave him a make-up/face paint look. I'm so much more proud of this horn design than the previous ideas. I can actually imagine drawing him again.

#art #hellaverse #hazbinhotel #helluvaboss #oc #ocs

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 8d

Songs on the radio today with lyrics I just heard in this order:

"I'll kill myself to save my soul"

And then when that ended:

"Wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend."

Guys can we not???

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 8d

Stepped on the bathroom floor & it caved in. Sat in a chair & pushed it through a wall—someone had covered a hole with painted cardboard. Landlord wants $200 per issue if I want her to fix them. Ma’am, this is why the last tenants stuffed a mop head down the toilet.

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 9d

Sometimes I write stuff & take a step back to wonder if it's at all realistic.

Then I remember a few weeks ago how the cashier of my local 7-Eleven wanted to fight some dude with earbuds in & a backpack on at midnight.

I just wanted the pumpkin Peelerz. I'm still not over that.

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 10d

Surprise wrap-up chapter before Ekho takes Naomi/Johnathan back to Hell. There’s more before we hit a chapter based on what I wrote 4 yrs ago for Charlie/Vaggie.

Updated the warning for Chapter 98.

#writing #hellaverse #hazbinhotel #helluvaboss #ocs

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve been questioned about my autism diagnosis online more times than I can count, and I’ve only had it for about six months. (Autism, of course, is lifelong.) [2/2]

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 10d

Watch this video I made in December 2023, then tell me the person who got completely derailed by a random noise for an hour—while trying to learn how to make glass bottles into drinking glasses—isn’t autistic. [1/2]

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 11d

Working so hard to make some progress on this art of Ekho's demon form. The sai file is a year and a half old so I'm redrawing the braids and everything now that I'm set on a horn design.

#art #hellaverse #hazbinhotel #helluvaboss #oc

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 11d

Internalized echolalia of the day: Transcendental Cha Cha Cha by Tom Cardy

Specifically the part that goes like this: "Now it's a dog, now it's a cat, it's everything and nothing it's a baseball bat."

That part of the song on repeat in my head for days.

Tom Cardy//Transcendental Cha Cha Cha - Official Music Video

It's 5 o'clock somewhere/everywhere/all at once Video by the incomparable Shoocharu, check their channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGA9-VO0z4eELmVtsJEgyQQ Gee whiz it's album time! I usually have everything already released, so this is real exciting to have so many new songs and videos to s

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 12d

Chapter 102! Warning! This will appear to go downhill fast for Johnathan being forced into things against his will, but I promise it doesn't go too far.

I haven't decided on music for this chapter yet.

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#writing #hellaverse #hazbinhotel #helluvaboss #ocs

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 13d

I didn't make the original, the first image. But I needed to make the next three for some reason and I spent way too long on this. #tadc #theamazingdigitalcircus #digitalcircus

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 13d

You've been warned about spoilers 🫡

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 13d

Watched "Color Out Of Space" with Brandon & I wanted to compile some movies into a list and share them/what I think. I think this review is funny—

Blackout for spoilers, will post the full one later if I can 👍

All of them are just "Nicolas Cage" as a positive 😂

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 14d

My song of the day: "We Are Fucking Fucked" by Muse.

Muse - We Are Fucking Fucked

Listen to We Are Fucking Fucked on TIDAL

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 14d

Pattern recognition has helped me identify the "ChatGPT voice" while using it for various things. It doesn't follow my rules all the time to avoid these things, and I have a heavy hand in revision passes to my writing. But having this as a reference helps me understand it.

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 16d

$64.

The food: bread/mayo for me. The milk, ketchup/mustard are shared. The pizza is for my husband.

Wishing until now I hadn't gotten used to things like sandwiches & milk as a kid if they're luxuries because I'm mostly gluten, lightly lactose & somewhat egg intolerant.

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 16d

I support using AI to explore wild ideas or solve problems, or even to laugh at, use for inspiration—like seeing someone’s terrible old art & wanting to redraw it.

I don’t support people slopping out a Monster, Marlboros & a lighter instead of just… Going to the gas station.

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 16d

The idea of NFTs always crack me up—people mad over screenshots 🙄

Give me 20 minutes and I'll have a copy. Even just OBS can help, and that's free.

Early 2000s "anti-right click" coding has trained me decently in the art of workarounds and brings out my inner pirate 🏴‍☠️🦜

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 17d

Decided to draw Johnathan for the first time, in a LONG time, inspired by this meme.

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 18d

Not the Flo app accurately predicting my period better than anything ever has, telling me it happens in 5 days—so I'm not here questioning as much why I'm crying in the shower because I love my mom, and dad, sisters, niece, husband, friends, and I remembered swans can be gay 😭

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 18d

Tried drawing myself an updated persona that doesn't look sickly and this is what I've got. I love it very much 💕