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Rebecca Wilcox
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SFF illustrator/writer, SAHP. Coffee, cats, & fountain pens. Brown Ajah. RevPit 2020, HiveMentor 2022. SLF Diverse Writers/Worlds finalist 2024. She/her. Hard of hearing. Not straight. No AI, ever. Never ever. https://linktr.ee/rebeccawilcox
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Someday, I will figure out what this note meant.
A screenshot of a note from my phone’s notes app which is titled, “Sentient bread mold monster thingie.” The note was made on June 26, 2023 at 3:07 A.M. In the space where the notes should be, there is only the word “How.”
October 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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My writing career summed up in one image:
A screenshot from the video game Final Fantasy 14 showing a close up of the great serpent of Ronka. The great serpent is a very small, very round greenish yellow snake with bile brown stripes encircling it. It has tiny black eyes and a round mouth with four fangs. A dialogue box reads, “Scree!”
October 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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The Great Serpent of Ronka demands coffee and snacks, but it’s almost bedtime, and the Great Serpent of Ronka must be up early in the morning.
A photo of a Final Fantasy 14 Great Serpent of Ronka plushie. He is an extremely round yellow and beige- striped oracular snake with a tiny stubby tail. He is wearing a mining helmet with a metallic fabric light on it. He has two beady black eyes and a round open mouth with four fangs. He is ridiculously cute and squishy.
September 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Baby’s first misprint did not take long!
A zoomed in photo of a 3D printer attempting to print a pair of doll shoe soles out of gray PLA filament. The sole on the left appears to be proceeding perfectly. The sole on the right has stringy jagged bits sticking out of the side. It is still on its first few passes.
August 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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My sister dropped off a present just before I went on vacation. I have, of course, completely forgotten everything she told me about how to use it in the last few weeks.

I suppose it’s time to misprint some horrors!
A photo of an Elegoo Neptune 4 3D printer on a white printer shelf with a brick wall behind it. The bottom sections of a John William Waterhouse mermaid poster and a Final Fantasy 8 wall scroll that are hanging on the walls are partially visible.
August 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Taffy is frequently loud.
A photo of a short-haired calico cat with a white belly curled backward on the top of a gray cat tree. Her spine is bent in a way that looks broken and her back toes are curled together. She is clawing at a cloth drawer on a shelf behind her with her front paws while looking over her shoulder with her head upside-down. She is yowling at the top of her lungs.
June 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Here’s a video of her dragging a shoe around while singing the song of her people, which is how I’ll always remember her.
April 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Megan’s favorite spot has always been on my left side, smashed up against my thigh while I read stories to my younger daughter at bedtime. My hearing disability means I can’t hear purring, but 9 yo said she would purr loudly while I was reading.
A gray cat lies smashed in-between my thigh and the arm of the reading chair beside my daughter's bed, her head up as she listens alertly.
April 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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She had a few bites of breakfast, drank some water, and cuddled up to my foot. We had a good morning. I took some photos because she was being sweet.
A gray cat lies in a sunbeam with her paws on my toes and her head pillowed on my black cat flip flop, which has little ears she liked to smoosh her head against.
April 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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But when Megan would nap in the hallway during the day, she’d still dump some shoes on the floor and sleep near the shoe rack. Not on the shoes, never on them—that was Robin's spot. But always right there next to them.
A dark gray cat lies on beige hallway rug surrounded by four different shoes without actually being on top of any of them.
April 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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On the day he died, Robin still wanted nothing more than to cuddle our shoes. He passed in my arms at the vet, so Megan didn't get to see him go.
A skinny, elderly orange and white tabby cat cuddles up against me and my Spouse's feet as we're preparing to take him to the vet.
April 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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And the wandering stopped. The night-time yowling stopped. Robin still laid on his shoes, but Megan cuddled up next to him and he gave her baths instead. Megan didn't care about the shoes, but she cared about him. They bonded as tightly as a pair of cats can.
A dark gray and an orange and white tabby cat rest on a pile of quilts and afghans on a round puff chair with their butts smashed up against each other so they can both fit.
April 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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The first time Megan saw Robin, she pranced up to him and started gnawing on the top of his skull. He bent an ear down and gave me a look that said, "This isn't what I had in mind." But Megan was smitten.
A photo of a four month old dark gray kitten with bright yellow eyes looking like a goblin laying on a windowsill across from a full grown orange and white tabby. The tabby's expression is one of long-suffering tolerance while the gray kitten is clearing thinking about biting him.
April 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Robin loved shoes so much that he once fell asleep with his head inside one of my rollerblades, and I thought he was dead. Shoes were his drug of choice, and he indulged every single day.
A photo of an orange tabby cat with a white face and belly curled up on top of a pile of about ten shoes of all different kinds. He is hugging one of the shoes and sleeping blissfully with his head pillowed on a different shoe.
April 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Remembering that time when Estinien attacked me, specifically.
A screenshot of the Final Fantasy 14 character Estinien, a tall, pale man with heavy armor, pointed ears, and long white hair. His dialogue box reads, “For one so bright, you can be remarkably dim at times. There is such a thing as overthinking, you know.” He definitely looks disappointed in you, but not surprised.
February 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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A complete baby, no brain cells for anything but cuddles.
A photo of my cat Taffy. She is a short-haired calico cat with a white underside, and she’s cuddled in my lap squishing her face into my hand for cheek scratches. Her fur is very sleek and silky.
February 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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An ancient dragon sitting atop her hoard.
A photo of my elderly cat Megan. She’s a short-haired gray cat with yellow eyes, and she’s cuddled up to a pile of cat toys that’s as big as she is. Her front paws are wrapped around the pile with her claws digging in.
February 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
A screenshot of the character Erenville from Final Fantasy 14. He’s a shetona with ebony black rabbit ears, hair, and skin. He has golden eyes and is wearing an enormous backpack. The dialogue text shows him heaving a weary sigh and saying, “Unbelievable.”
December 18, 2024 at 5:30 AM
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I have once again figured out how to mix Payne’s Gray from six different colors. 😅
A photo of a block of watercolor paper painted with a dark sky using a mixture of blues, purples, greens, and reds. They somehow combine to create Payne’s Gray wherever they meet, a pigment I could have used straight from the palette.
December 17, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Today’s mood in one photo.
A photo of a smiling mint green plush dumpster fire with a brown plush marshmallow peep sitting in the dumpster’s compartment. The fire is extra fuzzy and cheerful. There are a bunch of writing journals on the bookshelf around them.
November 22, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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We have a tiny ceiling friend! The cats are losing their minds.
A photo of a tiny brown anole lizard on a textured white ceiling. It is about the size of my pinky finger, including the tail.
October 23, 2024 at 12:36 AM
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Taffy is all leg, zero brain cell.
A photograph of a short haired calico cat with a white underside and legs. She is stretched way out to full length on top of a gray plush cat tree with one very long foreleg hanging over the side. She is looking up like she’s never seen the ceiling before.
October 16, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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Me, watching all the media I love being steadily removed from everywhere before I crumble into dust.
A screenshot of the antagonist Emet-Selch from the video game Final Fantasy 14 saying, "Remember...that we once lived," moments before he collapses into glowing sparkles and drifts away. He is a white man with angular features, pale yellow eyes, and a small silver orb embedded in the middle of his forehead. His hair is mostly a dark reddish brown parted a little too neatly on one side with a white streak in front.
October 4, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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Waiting to hear about a thing, so I’m listening to my publishing theme song again.
A screenshot of a music app’s scrolling lyrics for the song Milk by Garbage. The lyrics read: I’m waiting I’m waiting For you I’m waiting I’m waiting
September 28, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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Wow, that’s a lower number than I thought it would be.
An image of Bluesky’s “celebrating 10 million users” graphic showing that I was user number 131,328, and I joined on June 16, 2023.
September 16, 2024 at 10:45 PM