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Rick Hollon
@mimulus.bsky.social
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Genderqueer SFF writer & poet. They/them. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Words in F&SF, Strange Horizons, Analog, Kaleidotrope, Crow & Cross Keys, ALOCASIA, Trollbreath, Prismatica. Loves dinosaurs, wildflowers, photography, human rights. ACAB.

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Late afternoon saunter in Westchester County yesterday.
Photograph of rocky woodland in winter twilight. Pearlescent sky glows through the shapes of trees. Up-close photograph of tufts of moss on a forest floor. Photograph looking out over a half-frozen lake reflecting winter sky. Hilly woods rise on the far shore. Photograph of a high tension power line tower silhouetted against wintry late afternoon sun.
January 14, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Joshua Tree National Park.
Photograph of my teenager climbing toward Arch Rock, a fin of granite that forms a natural arch. Multiple tourists crowd the rock formation. Photograph of a grove of Joshua trees in front of a granite outcrop. Landscape photograph of a plain dotted with Joshua trees rolling toward a mountain of granite outcrops in the distance. Landscape photograph of a vista point looking down from desert mountains toward the distant valley floor. More mountains rise beyond.
December 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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When I was a teen, the Pacific Crest Trail was one of my special interests. Today, I finally walked my first steps on it, along with @craftyrowan.bsky.social and my teen.
Photograph of a sandy footpath cutting through brushland in the Santa Rosa Mountains of California. The sun filters through the branches of a solitary pine tree on the right. Photograph of bright green lichen growing in puffs on the sinuous branches of a manzanita bush. Photograph of a mountainous landscape. Copses of conifers dot rolling brushland. Large outcrops of rock poke through the brush in the middle distance. Photograph of a prickly pear plant with large spines.
December 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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A California fan palm oasis.
Photograph of my partner R, a short person dressed in dark clothes, walking a wooden boardwalk through a grove of California fan palms. Photograph of a grove of California fan palms, their trunks thickly sheathed in old, unshed leaves. Photograph of a desert view from a small hill, looking across a road curving between hills, with mountains on the horizon. Photograph of palms framing a view of a desert hill in the background.
December 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Santa Monica Pier.
Photograph of the Ferris wheel at Santa Monica Pier lit up with trans pride colors, reflecting in the wet sand on the beach. Photograph of a twilight wave spreading in foam across the sand at Santa Monica Beach. Photograph of my partner R holding out an intact sand dollar at the beach. Photograph of dramatic clouds and peeks of sunset above breaking waves at the beach.
December 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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SoCal Christmas. At Griffith Observatory with @craftyrowan.bsky.social and my teen.
Landscape photograph of metropolitan Los Angeles spreading beneath dramatic afternoon light. Photograph of the distant Hollywood sign on green hills beneath lowering clouds. Photograph of the art deco edifice of Griffith Observatory. Photograph of metropolitan Los Angeles spreading beneath clouds and blue sky.
December 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Managed to get outside and putter around for a bit. POTS still much worse than my baseline, but slowly recovering.
Photograph of chunks of ice floating in the Mohawk River under blue skies. Photograph of my partner R walking a paved footpath beneath a bridge, beside a mostly drained canal. Photograph of the underside of a bridge and its reflection in a river. Winter sunlight reflects from the water to illuminate the underside of the bridge. Photograph of murky water reflecting winter sun at the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers.
December 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Drove a long way to find a place without snow.
1. Railroad cut.
2. Metamorphic swirls.
3. My teenager on the trail.
4. Needle ice.
Photograph of a rail trail following an old railroad cut through gray rock in a gloomy winter forest. Photograph of gray bedrock swirled with paler gray striations. Trees are rooted on the upper lip of the rock. Photograph of a teenager dressed in black looking down the line of a rail trail lined with wintery trees. Photograph of a gloved hand holding a piece of needle ice, vertically aligned crystals of ice that form in soil under certain conditions.
December 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Majestic little man.
Photograph of a tuxedo cat sitting with forelegs draped over my pajama-clad leg. The cat looks into the distance with determination.
December 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The companionable croissant.
Photograph of a mackerel tabby cat curled up to nap on a couch cushion between my pajama legs.
December 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Falls under the Thruway.
Photograph of a creek flowing in the shadow of an arched highway bridge. Photograph of a braided cascade falling down bedrock beneath a highway bridge abutment. Photograph of a paved trail crossing a creek on a converted railroad bridge. Winter-bare woods line the banks of the creek. Photograph of a creek flowing beneath wooded banks. The railroad bridge from the previous photo casts a shadow across tree trunks and the water.
December 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Yesterday in Connecticut.
Photograph of a pond in the woods reflecting bare trees and gray sky. Photograph of field stone walls in the woods. Rounded gray rocks are stacked in lines along the forest floor. Photograph looking up tall oak trunks in winter-bare woods. Photograph of leaves scattered on a dilapidated wooden boardwalk trail through late November woods.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Moss sporophytes in the sun.
Up-close photograph of green moss growing on a fallen log in the woods. Upright reddish threads elevate the moss’s spore-producing bodies, or sporophytes. Up-close photograph of green moss growing on a fallen log in the woods. Upright reddish threads elevate the moss’s spore-producing bodies, or sporophytes. Up-close photograph of green moss growing on a fallen log in the woods. Upright reddish threads elevate the moss’s spore-producing bodies, or sporophytes. Up-close photograph of green moss growing on a fallen log in the woods. Upright reddish threads elevate the moss’s spore-producing bodies, or sporophytes.
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Brisk morning in the woods with @craftyrowan.bsky.social.
1. Pond.
2. Eye on a beech.
3. Witch hazel flower.
4. Chilliest snake I’ve ever seen.
Photograph of a pond reflecting a partly cloudy sky and the woods along its shore. Photograph of a natural eye shape on beech bark, formed when an early branch fell off sometime during the tree’s growth. Photograph of a cluster of witch hazel flowers. Yellow, scraggly petals extend from each center. Photograph of a small garter snake slipping through oak leaves on the forest floor.
November 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Time Travel Is Easy is officially out in the world! Dinosaurs and Deep Time are thematic links to queer embodiment, childhood trauma, and life in the late Anthropocene. Cover art by the amazing Helen Whistberry. (Non-Amazon options coming very soon!) www.amazon.com/dp/B0G344X8L7
Cover art for my book Time Travel Is Easy. It depicts the skeleton of an Archaeopteryx against an abstract tree design, with a dragonfly and feathers around it.
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Walked around Gillette Castle with @craftyrowan.bsky.social this morning.
1. Connecticut River view.
2. Gillette Castle.
3. R enters a tunnel.
4. Oak clings to autumn.
Photograph looking out from a fenced footpath beneath a tree toward the Connecticut River and its far bank. Photograph of Gillette Castle, a medieval-imitating manse constructed of mortared stone. Photograph of my partner R, wearing blue, heading into a tunnel constructed for a miniature railroad on the castle’s grounds. Wide-angle photograph looking up a big oak tree growing beside a cliff face. An old road climbs a wooded hill beside the cliff and tree.
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Snuggle buds.
Photograph of two cats sleeping next to a person’s leg. The mackerel tabby has her arm around the tuxedo cat.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Fall fades to winter.
1. Creek.
2. Moss.
3. Beech leaves.
4. Winter firefly.
Photograph of a creek flowing through woodland. Most of the leaves have fallen. Gray sky is reflected in the water. Photograph of tufts of moss growing on a standing tree trunk. Photograph looking up at fall-brown beech leaves against an overcast sky. Up-close photograph of a beetle (called winter firefly) crawling on a lichen-spotted tree trunk.
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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I wish I could sleep this good.
Photograph of a mackerel tabby cat sound asleep on a green couch. Her arm is extended over her face in a cartoonish sleep posture.
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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First snow of the season blankets a late aster.
Photograph of a low-growing aster still in flower, dusted with snow in the artificial light outside our front door.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Walked around Vassar Farm with @craftyrowan.bsky.social on a weirdly warm day.
Landscape photograph of a pond reflecting winter-bare forest and blue sky. Photograph of a bright yellow maple leaf, with more leaves in the wooded background. Photograph of my partner R walking a trail through woods. Photograph of a community seed library, a wooden box with a lovely painting of a corn maiden growing from a planted field.
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Post you from a different era.

Also an archaeologist, 2007.
Photograph of a much younger me recumbent on the dirt, posed above a square survey excavation at an archaeological site.
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Following the turn of the year along the upper Hudson River.
1-2. Sunlight on the Hudson.
3. Colors in the forest.
4. Puffball mushrooms.
Photograph of sunlight playing across the rocky surface of the upper Hudson River. Forested hills rise in autumn colors beneath blue sky. Photograph of sunlight playing across the rocky surface of the upper Hudson River. Forested hills rise in autumn colors beneath blue sky. Wide-angle photograph looking toward a mixed forest canopy. A white pine rises in the center. Bright yellow and orange beech trees catch the sunlight on either side. Up-close photograph of a cluster of small puffball mushrooms growing on an old tree stump.
October 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Cold, rainy morning in the heart of the Adirondacks.
1-2. Views of Henderson Lake.
3. Falls on the Hudson.
4. Maple leaf.
Landscape photograph of a lake reflecting gray sky and mist-shrouded hills. Photograph of the same lake from a different spot. The hills show vestiges of autumn color. Photograph of a small river (the Hudson, near its origin) cascading through dark rocks. Boreal forest rises in the background. Photograph of my hand holding up a vivid red maple leaf. A wide, rocky trail splits the forest, out of focus in the background.
October 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Colors and mushrooms in the woods this morning.
1. Autumn color over the creek.
2. Some kind of gilled mushroom.
3. Fly agaric.
4. The healthiest beech leaves I’ve seen in a while.
Photograph of a creek flowing through a deciduous forest in full autumn color. A dead trunk hangs horizontally across the water. Photograph looking up at the hills of mushrooms growing from a dead log in the forest. Photograph of two fly agaric mushrooms growing in leaf litter on the forest floor. Photograph looking up at beech leaves catching the sunlight. The leaves are yellow, with some traces of green along the veins.
October 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM