Lady Noctivim
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Lady Noctivim
@noctarchstudios.bsky.social
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AuDHD | Demi | Agender

Noctarch Studios is my collective name for all my efforts and crafts. Building self-sufficiency brick by brick to build community self-sufficiency. Chainmail Society. Feed a man, teach a man, give him means.
First time making soup from real produce and I saved the seeds. Realized after this was kind of practice for the kind of processing I want to do to save seeds and distribute them. Seed cup seeds aren't even all germinating and I'm struggling to keep up and not damp off precious sprouts.
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I made my first meal in a crockpot, intended as chili and morphed into like, a beef and potato stew typa deal. All by myself. And it's good. I'm kind of emotional over breakfast. Checkpoint save, achievement get. In a trough doing peak shit 💪 (even forgot the beans a whole day after rinsing them)
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I started a jar of vanilla extract. It's so pretty... I'll make the beans into paste once they're finished "extracting" and we'll see how many times I have to do it again before my vines get big enough to flower. Even vacuum sealed, they smelled heavenly. Did a fire cider, too.
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The first eggs are ready to go. I had the afterthought to include a recipe for 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies on the backs of the notes. A whole 4-dozen to kick off. First freeze hitting the 20's tonight but my seed cups look AMAZING.
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Trying to find the energy reserves to be active again. Over 80 seeds set in soil to germinate. Putting eggs in free pantries tomorrow and will continue indefinitely. Harvesting cassava and sugar cane tomorrow ahead of our first temp dip- right into the friggin 20's.
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
My first bug got moldy. My first sourdough is... having troubles. Lol I made a fresh bug (Shuckle), a new sourdough starter (Leeloo), and fed the original starter after 1am. I'm also on Day 4 of my very first "Amish Friendship Bread" starter. Little by little, "life" is finding it's way back in.
July 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I feel like that one fluorescent light bulb that won't come on until 30min after you flip the switch. Happy to finally see some "movement", even if it is painfully slow.
July 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
!!! I started both a ginger bug and a sourdough starter less than 36hrs ago and they're both aliiivveeee omg
July 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
A lot has changed. New orb weavers have popped up in the yard, some stuff is surviving, some stuff is dead. My beans look like kudzu, this is insane. I live somewhere else entirely now, the Studio will unfold wildly differently, but toward the same ends. I'm still acclimating.
July 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
May 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I'm taking the transition out of the Studio incredibly poorly. I had a meltdown. I always thought I'd break my hand for my first broken bone, wouldn't'cha know, it's my toe. 🫠 I don't know yet how Noctarch Studios plans will pan out. My only rudder intact is Survive Fascism. Grow food. Survive.
April 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I may have to vacate the studio as Spring gets settled, cooling is proving vastly more difficult than heating. I'm grieving.
My chayote are sprouting, though. I can probably plant them now. I hope out of everything I kill, something bulk survives, like these or my Crazy Beans. All zucchini>all candy
April 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Starting some orange seeds from a tree that came down in my cousin's yard, got a little fresh juice and brought in a dozen eggs for someone to fight over. Lol Trying to be motivated and do something before the darkness sets in in an hour. Mosquitos are already out.
April 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
By the very next morning, what was a small dig only deep enough to bleed a little was swollen, red, sore, and warm to the touch. I rinsed the scratch and medicated it, but even still. Never think something small can't have a large impact. Even just a chicken. Lol Antibiotics are setting it right.
April 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Flax the chickens planted, in full bloom. Can't wait to harvest all this, I'll actually get to practice processing linen this year. 🥰 Dorian got me in the hand today, turd. Thoroughly exhausted and not feeling great. Still trying to find time to get videos started and energy to put words on medias.
April 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Turns out what I thought was milo was actually a TON of oats!
March 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
One of the people receiving the excess eggs made me some really beautiful dishes in thanks. Apparently my hens are getting high praise. Lol I don't even know what to do with these yet. I kinda want to make a money bowl from the more decorative one. I love those layers of meaning and significance.
March 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Put teaberry/wintergreen in to chill with American beautyberry. Ordered taro, pepper, and chestnut replacements, fresh pawpaw, and new cork oak. This really pretty eucalyptus variety (moon lagoon), jicama, and some flowers for the Pretty. Trying to get things ironed out for an update video
March 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Woke up to this gorgeous thing inside somehow. Need that one to go outside before the jumpers get to it. I feel like I was visited by royalty.
March 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Gonna be wheat.
March 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I have a broken filling 😭
I'm excited to be off work tomorrow, there's a whole bunch starting to germinate, and the grapes are waking up. I'm hovering over the Concord, it survived in-store neglect so I'm praying if overwintered ok. It's so small, tho.
Dorian is in Roo-berty. No spurs yet THANK GOD
March 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I've put more than 100 different things in soil so far. I was gifted Ylang Ylang, Dragon Tree, and Black Pearls, and I have never been so blindly excited for seedlings to show. I'll have to house the Ylang Ylang with my Vanilla. Today I'm hoping for an order with Roselles and Hickory Cane corn.
March 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Yesterday I baked my very first bread ever and this morning, made breakfast with it and fresh eggs. Should have proofed longer. The chaos gardening has begun. A LOT more than I thought survived overwintering, and I've put easily more than 50 things in soil or to cold stratify. Trying something new.
March 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I'm finally beginning to not only have the energy to even think about doing things, but also feel almost stir-crazy from inaction. I actually actively *want* to do yardwork and have a hint of overwhelm from all things the I really want to do, basically concurrently. Cold is coming but, the garden..
February 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Lol This lichen could have grown this way or been blown on by Helene, but it looks fun either way
February 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM