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Not-Shiny :-)

@matt-finish.bsky.social

It's unfortunately difficult to find places to donate used good in many localities. But, please don't support Salvation Army by donating stuff for them to sell in their stores, either.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 3d

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

The Salvation Army is not a charity. They are an evangelical church that uses donated money to actively oppress gay rights. They've been especially cruel to trans people.

December 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

Today is Small Business Saturday, please consider small businesses, local artists, and creatives for your gifting needs. I'm one of those. #Smallbusinesssaturday

www.redbubble.com/people/ArtsN...
drifasleap.com/shop/ArtsNat...
A place where you can custom order!

Hand crafted art with purple, gold and white on black paper, including Wonder Woman shield and white lettering.

Two men in white blousy shirts suitable for SCA, larping, renaissance fairs.

November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

If you are shopping this weekend and in the next couple of weeks, please consider small businesses, local artists, and creatives for your gifting needs.

I’m one of those artists.

www.redbubble.com/people/ArtsN...

drifasleap.com/shop/ArtsNat...
A place where you can custom order!

November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

Latest piece of art presented this last weekend. (SCA) AoA scroll as part of auction prize to a friend in Trimaris. Gold, Purple and white goauche on black paper. One of my favorite pieces.

November 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

“They were careless people,” Fitzgerald wrote, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” The Great Gatsby.

November 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

Starting a new website with my artwork and my progress at artsnataliia5.wordpress.com. My first official post is about my portrait for Remy artsnataliia5.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/l....

Laurel for Remy, portraiture exploration – September 2025

I was asked to do a laurel scroll for Remy (aka and for formalities sake: Maréchal Remy Delamontagne de Gascogne) for an event in September. I was delighted to do this as Remy is a close friend of …

artsnataliia5.wordpress.com

November 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

You've seen my artwork here, now you can get some of your own original artwork. I'm offering custom artwork for scrolls (SCA) or other art on my shop on Drifas Leap.

www.drifasleap.com/shop/ArtsNat...

www.drifasleap.com

October 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

(SCA) Scroll for friend Lilias at the Coronation event. White, red and gold goauche, and gold ink on black paper. I'm really happy with this one.

October 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

This is so me.

October 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

(SCA) Golden Rapier scroll for Quintin

September 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

(SCA) Black hours scroll for Katerina on her Maunche.

September 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

(SCA) Seems I am running behind posting some of my work.
Here is the Laurel Scroll for Remy. Based on a renaissance portrait.

September 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM

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Writers Guild of America West

@wgawest.bsky.social

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM

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Alys Mackyntoich

@alysmac.bsky.social

A nice little thread about how to do the work to take pronouncing people's names seriously.

Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · Sep 6

At Dragoncon, I was absolutely delighted that @robertpicardo.bsky.social was the MC for the Dragon Awards. He was funny and charming, and took great care with the pronunciation of everyone's names.

And he had this really neat trick for when he didn't know how to pronounce a name

September 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

Ireland. We toured Doolin Cave and the amazing stalactite. Nothing grandiose but simple it its theatrical look. (This is my artwork, please do not take without permission.)

White variegated stalactite in Doolin Cave against blackness of the cave.

July 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

More Ireland artistic photos. I call this one Solitary thought. I loved the juxtaposition of the horse in the foreground against the almost shadowy horses in the background. (This is my artwork, please do not take without permission.)

Single brown horse with white back fetlock and cannon on the rear legs, and light brown mane on a grown field with yellow flower in the foreground. Line of dark horses on the horizon line contrasting to the light horse in the foreground, and a grey sky beyond the horizon, with some small white striated clouds.

July 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

Still working on my reflections of my Ireland artists retreat. I captured the beauty of the land with my camera and pushed myself on artistic choices and color. Ocean dreams is what I call this one. (This is my artwork, please do not take without permission.)

Shoreline with green grass and pink and white flowers leading up to a brown cliff. There is water, waves and pools in several different shades of blue washing up on the rocks jutting out into the ocean of Ireland.

July 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

Painting in Ireland. The first is a photo I took on the Cliffs of Moher. We found butterflies and snails galore! The second photo was my painting of it. I call it Ireland wildlife.

Red and black butterfly on rocks on Cliff of Moher, Ireland.

Artistic rendering of black and white butterfly and brown and white snail on rocks on Cliff of Moher, Ireland.

June 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

Photography by Nataliia.

Snail on leaves on the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland.

Help me name this art photograph that I made!

Pale brownish red snail on green leaves with flecks of yellow and white. Small flowers and shoots in pale red lazily laying sideways on leaves.

June 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

More Ireland photos, the formations were calling to me as an artist.

In Ireland, large rock on a field full of stone and grass and bushes, under a blue sky with clouds.

Poulnabrone Dolmen, archeological monument in Burren, County Claire, Ireland. It is two limestone walls, and a limestone roof open to the air, on green pasture below a blue sky.

June 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM

Nataliia Hurd

@nataliiah.bsky.social

To follow up yesterday's post of Ireland artadventure, Writing the land with artists and writers, I was coached through using Photoshop by Martin Bridge to help pick a palette for my proposed painting of the tree. The collaboration of the artists and wonderful supportive environment was magnificent.