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Emily C Taylor
@pentapod.bsky.social
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Game designer in Edmonton, formerly EverQuest2 “Domino”, formerly BioWare, now Spry Fox. Mostly I share cat photos, Edmonton stuff, food, pottery, covid info, & other nerdy randomness including reading, SciFi, mycology. Also found at @[email protected].
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Happy #Caturday from Pansy, who is enjoying her full-body-sized heated cat bed while the servant class (aka humans) have to get up and shovel snow.
A short-haired dark tortoiseshell cat lying in a blue plush cat bed with her front paws hanging over the front edge; the tip of her left paw is fully white. Her head is lifted up and facing the camera although her eyes are closed. A tiny pink tongue tip is sticking out of her mouth.
December 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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The fact these two unrelated posts ended up adjacent in my feed is truly a beautiful thing. 🤣 #swords
A BlueSky post of a comic strip with a man holding many swords in panel 1 and then in panel 2 sitting up in bed holding his head in his hands. The caption reads: Me, absolutely twisted, coming home with a load of swords. Me waking up the next day with a room full of swords. The post below this one is a comment from @Jeleynai.bsky.social saying: Painting hands is still my favourite c: …with a painting attached showing 7 hands all holding swords in various poses.
December 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Happy festive #Caturday!
A torbie cat wearing a costume that looks like a green sequinned Christmas tree with blue, yellow, and red “light bulbs” hanging off it in a festive manner. The cat is standing on a tan sofa, with her front paws up on the arm. and sniffing at an actual Christmas tree. Same torbie cat and same costume as last picture, now with her back to the Christmas tree facing towards the camera, licking her nose and looking slightly grumpy.
December 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Fort Edmonton Christmas Market last night was beautiful in the snow. Gorgeous old trolley train running loops. Delicious pulled pork bao from FlipSide food truck. Pro tip: skip the line at the hot chocolate stand and get the delicious Mexican hot chocolate from the churro stand! #YEG #YEGxmasmkt
A photo of an old streetcar in the snow, lit up from inside against a dark sky. The trolley is painted dark red with brass door and window frames. There’s an evergreen wreath on the front lit up by the trolley’s front “headlight”, and evergreen garlands with white point lights draped down the side. Inside the open door a conductor in a red cloak and black gold-trimmed hat can be seen looking out. An arched tunnel of tiny lights in bands of blue, green, red, and cyan extends into the distance with snow underfoot. Photo of a light skinned woman with black rimmed glasses and shoulder-length brown hair smiling and squinting slightly (due to blowing wood smoke) at the canera. She is wearing a brown fur-rimmed hat and a black winter parka zipped up tight under her chin. In the background can be seen strings of brightly lit pennant flags and lights strung between high poles, and below them, a red-roofed building covered in white snow, and a fenced walkway covered with arches of warm white lights forming a lighted tunnel. Photo of a gloved hand holding a cardboard bowl lined with a black and white checkered paper on which are two bao buns (one white and one festively red) full of pulled pork and related garnish. In the background an open wood fire provides warmth against the snow.
December 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Two boobs on females from cat races. Seriously what?? Either go none, or six. Only GW2 seems sane here. The character artists at Bless may need to go have a cold shower. 🤔
screenshots of female cat-people from 5 MMOs that have them as playable races. From left to right: Khajiit - Elder Scrolls Online Firran - ArcheAge Pantera - Bless Charr - Guild Wars 2 Vah Shir - EverQuest Of the five, only the Charr have flat chests and look anything like a feline animal. The other four look like sexy humans with fur and cat ears, and two huge boobs. The Pantera in particular is a screenshot from character create showing the very curvy avatar in a tiny sexy bikini and provocative pose.
December 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I was slightly boggled to discover someone has made a musical out of the #VinylCafe stories - and, judging from the song list in the program, specifically the “Dave Cooks the Turkey” episode - but yes they have, and we are about to find out how this has turned out… 😃
photo of a stage set resembling a row of brick housefronts, one of which has a sign over the door that reads “Vinyl Cafe” inside a red neon rectangle. SONGS/MUSICIANS ACT ONE 1. At The Vinyl Cafe Dave 2. A Very Mary Christmas Mary and Company 3. I Am A Train Morley 4. The Beast Inside Sam 5. Scare Me Away Stephanie and Tommy 6. Couldn't Care Less Dave and Mary 7. You Really Shouldn't Have Company 8. Stay in this Moment Company ACT TWO 9. Cold Turkey Dave and Butch 10. Along Comes Life Morley 11. At Your Service Hotel Staff 12. Scare Me Away (Reprise) Tommy 13. Cold Turkey (Reprise) Dave 14. Hot In Here Company 15. Finale Company
November 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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My #CarnivorousPlant army is still hard at work: these little sundews (Drosera capensis) are currently working overtime destroying all the annoying little gnats that came along for the ride when we brought some herbs indoors for the winter! Truly the heroes we need.
Two small pots each holding a sundew plant, the first one in focus but the back one blurry. The plant in focus consists of about half a dozen thin stalk-like leaves that end in fine bristles, each with a sticky liquid droplet on the end. The tips of most of the stalks are curled or in the process of curling around one or more small black gnats.
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Dear Loblaws,
$17.99+tax for a 150g chocolate bar is “LOW PRICE”? 💸
I do not think that means what you think that means. 🧐
#WTF #EatTheRich
A photo of a cardboard supermarket stand covered with the Lindt logo and filled with 150g Lindt brand “Dubai Style” chocolate bars packaged in an attractive green and gold wrapping. A large label is stuck on the stand, reading “LOW PRICE” in yellow text on black, and below that, “17.99” in larger black text on yellow.
November 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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A player-placed sign I found in-game in #SpiritCrossing on #WorldKindnessDay ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Feels like a cozy multiplayer game meets Kind Words?

(Download the alpha at www.playSpiritCrossing.com and sign in with your Netflix account if you wanna see us in development!)
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Enjoying quite the light show in Edmonton tonight! #YEG #NorthernLights
Silhouette of a woman standing leaning against a metal railing in front of a small lake at night. On the horizon line a line of lit buildings can be seen; in the sky above, bright streaks of green and red mingle in the night sky. on the right side of the horizon line, the lit skyline of downtown Edmonton can be seen; above, a dramatic patch of red light is smeared across the left side of the night sky.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Grabbed a screenshot of the new in-game title sequence as I ride a fluffalo past some sky whales while bringing a weird blobby spirit thing to safety... this turned out so pretty! 🤩 #SpiritCrossing #CozyGames #gameDev
Screenshot from the game Spirit Crossing, with the game's name in large fancy white text across the bottom right. Front and center is the player character, wearing blue jeans, a maroon sweatshirt and matching sneakers, with brown curly hair hair (tied back) and glasses. This character is riding a fluffalo, which looks something like a cross between a llama and a sheep with white wool and a brown face; it is floating in the sky. In the distance, a train of 5 other fluffalo riders flies away into the distance. A mostly spherical black/purple blobby creature with a single eye follows the main character. Behind them all, enormous whales fly through a distant sky, in front of silhouettes of tall mountain peaks and an odd tower with round glowing markings. Below can be seen the grassy green tops of some lower mountain peaks, some of which also have some smaller buildings and trees on them. The graphic style is somewhat reminiscent of Studio Ghibli animated movies.
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Morning cat chaos: Roger (who we are catsitting) staring at Harmony. Harmony (who was drinking) staring at Roger. Pansy (who is blind) staring at the vacuum cleaner. Amazingly, nobody hissed. #Cats
Photo shows a bathroom interior and part of the hall outside. A fluffy black cat is sitting on the closed toilet lid looking down at a chonky short-haired torbie on the floor below, who is looking back at him. A third cat, a short-haired dark tortoiseshell, is sitting in the hall just outside the bathroom staring at a small Dyson handheld vacuum. Closer shot of the long-haired black cat sitting on the toilet seat and the short-haired torbie on the floor below staring at each other.
November 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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If you see this, quote post with your favourite Pokémon. (Wrong answers only)
Black and white painting of a frog by Itō Jakuchū
October 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Finally had time to pick up my preorder of my friend and former co-worker @mizdoomcookie.bsky.social ‘s new #romance novel! Can’t wait to start reading it 🥰 Also can’t believe it’s been over 15 years since we started working together on a little game called #EQ2. 😮 #books
A light skinned woman with glasses and curly shoulder-length brown hair holding a novel in front of the red brick building of Audreys Books in downtown Edmonton. The cover reads “A Spell for Midwinter’s Heart”, by Morgan Lockhart.
October 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Further post-surgery Harmony pics while Windows updates… onesies seem kinder than the Cone of Shame and also 100x more entertaining. #cats
A torbie cat standing on a wooden floor with an unimpressed expression on her face. She is wearing a light green onesie with dark green dinosaurs on it. A torbie cat curled asleep in a green blanket. She is wearing a bright orange onesie with a jack-o’lantern face on the back. A damp-looking torbie cat lying on an olive bath mat with her front paws extended towards the camera. She is wearing a yellow onesie with frills over the armholes.
September 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Happy #ToebeanTuesday from Pansy! Her tummy fur never really did grow back after the last ultrasound, but she appears unbothered. #cats
A short haired dark tortoiseshell cat curled up in a blue plush cat bed against a olive green throw in the background. She is curled up with her two rear feet facing the camera, revealing some pink toebeans, a mostly-bald pink tummy also facing the camera, and her head tucked into the edge of the cat bed so that only one eye and one ear show over the edge. She is fast asleep.
September 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Any day is #Caturday when there’s a cat-in-ghost-costume update: this will never not be funny 🤣
September 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I did not have “wandering around stores at 8pm Sunday night trying to find a baby onesie or a small pet costume”, and yet... 🤔 Superstore had some decent human options and HomeSense yielded this gem! (Harmony had surgery and a onesie seems more compatible with eating and drinking than a cone…) #cats
A torbie cat lying on a colourful carpet drinking out of an orange and blue bowl. She is wearing a high collared white knitted sweater that says “BOO” on the back of her next in cursive letters made of black sequins. On her back is a black smiley with pink blush dots. The bottom of the sweater is ruffled, making her look as if she is in a ghost costume.
September 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Anyway here is a photo of Pansy, who is very glad I’m back and has only stopped purring when actually asleep. Happy #Caturday.
A short-haired dark tortoiseshell cat lying in a blue plush cat bed, facing the camera, eyes closed. A light-skinned human hand is stroking her head.
August 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Remaining grateful that I am short enough to stand up in airplane seats without having to hunch over.

NOT grateful for the current state of the US airline network, which means a Vermont -> YEG trip has thus far involved landing in South Dakota, a night in Denver, and seeing the Grand Canyon. 😫
Photo taken out of a airplane window showing a portion of the engine, around which can be seen the reddish rock and deep crevasses of the Grand Canyon under a distant blue sky and white horizon.
August 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Proud to have just purchased the very first copy of Boomtown Snap sold in Edmonton! The author, my friend Jay Martin, will be doing a signing this Wednesday at Audreys Books - audreys.ca/events/32266... #bookSky #nowReading #YEGdt
Close-up photo of piles of the book “Boomtown Snap” by Jay Martin, stacked neatly by the cash register at Audreys Books, Edmonton.
August 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Rose update: both are thriving, though neither are as true orange or as strongly scented as I’d hoped. The Olds College rose has a particularly bad powdery mildew at the moment due to a cool damp July, but it should recover.
An “Olds College” rose bush, planted in wood mulch. Three large orangey-pink blooms are fully open and angled towards the camera, while three other blooms face away towards the back of the bush. A powdery white coating is visible on several of the leaves. A “Morden Sunrise” rose bush planted in wood mulch. The bush is still quite small but has over half a dozen flowers blooming on it, all yellow with some orange edges.
August 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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What rose breeds did you go with? I also uprooted some random juniper shrubs and replaced them with hardy roses (Olds College and Morden Sunrise), but sadly mine are not heavily scented. (This just means I need to plant a third bush and make sure it DOES have a strong scent!)
A small rose bush (“Olds College”) with three fully open roses and some smaller rosebuds, a mix of pink and orange in colour. A small rose bush (“Morden Sunrise”) with five open flowers. Three are yellow with orange edges, and two are pure yellow.
July 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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it is perhaps not the most attractive border marker monument thing. 😄But it is very tall. www.lloydminster.ca/recreation-c...
Lloydminster border marker: a cement base with Alberta and Saskatchewan coats of arms on either side of the border line, and two enormous 100ft tall red metal pillars rising up into the sky above.
July 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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There be goats here.

Some of them appear unimpressed by this fact.
#BorderCityGoatShow
A small grey goat with white patches raising her head as her breeder checks her leg placement. Her ears are back and her eye looks wild.
July 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM