Someone special to me shared this heartrendingly sexy poem by Stephanie Burt. There are occasionally perfect things in the world, and I want to share this one with you. ❤️‍🔥

More tales from the world of Pelagia. This is the start of an ongoing actual-play using the beautiful TTRPG Wickedness. If that sounds interesting to you, I'd be eager to have you along!

The first few installments will be out by the end of the day with more to follow.

For your consideration - a little human interest story teased from between the folds of some giant stories set in my DnD world, with clues to how it is woven into that tapestry. I don't know if I'll expand it much more than this, but I really had fun writing this today and felt like sharing. 😊

I’ve been on the long road back to the States, not making much except new friends, but here’s a cool thing from an old friend I’m staying with in the UK, @orangetronic.bsky.social - a drone motor with magnets and a capacitive grip sensor for inducing harmonics from strings! 😍🫠

Of all the forges I’ve assembled this one has fought me the most for control. Certainly it’s had the most complex set of psychosocial/environmental variables but a forced air brickpile is a hair(dryer)’s brea(d)th from a campfire. 🤷‍♀️ Only took a YEAR to dial it in, just in time to return to the US 🤦‍♀️

Upgraded this music sketch with a music video sketch, and now we get to ponder whether the project is twice or half as sketchy as before.

Doodlin’ a memory of a D.S. Walter painting outside the botanical garden at a cute cafe. A palimpsest. A very sweet server stopped to see what I was doing and they ended up sitting to join for a lovely chat about their own animation work and the reasons we draw. I love queer people so much. 🥰🏳️‍⚧️🌈

Caravan = flipped. This was so much sweaty work, it being summer in FNQ. 😅 You wouldn’t believe how bad it was to start, but let’s just say it was in the jungle and it was free. So glad to have more family out of tent living, and can’t wait to get the longhouse built over it to get som SHADDDDE. 🥵🥵🥵

Some more recording from the basement of the Metal Museum’s artist residence last year. It has the most insane reverb - it felt like singing with the power of a thousand showers.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to make my own music, but this is the first song I’ve ever written and composed. It’s been really challenging to rebuild my relationship with singing since coming out, and having a song of my own has helped to much.

Idk if interior design counts as something I “make” but I love for my living spaces to feel cozy, and these have been some good ones for me:

Guest bedroom; Mt Molloy, QLD, Australia; 2 months, ‘24-‘25

A little XXXmas present. Reclaimed from the town’s logging mill, circa 1900’s. Can’t beat the feel of heritage steel. 😘

Here’s something you won’t see on my Insta - the update on that mosaic I showed us working on that we installed months ago!

In which I attempt to transfer the contents of a cruise ship onto a racing yacht…