Shannon Hilson
@shannonhilson.bsky.social
Pro copywriter, blogger, and illustrator. Storyteller. Seamwalker. I like beautiful but meaningful things.
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"Follow the lanterns to find the way out. Follow the bells only if you wish to find him.”
— The Book of Exits: The Bells Are Not for You
Krampusnacht is upon us, guys. Be careful out there.
🔔 Midjourney V7
— The Book of Exits: The Bells Are Not for You
Krampusnacht is upon us, guys. Be careful out there.
🔔 Midjourney V7
December 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"Follow the lanterns to find the way out. Follow the bells only if you wish to find him.”
— The Book of Exits: The Bells Are Not for You
Krampusnacht is upon us, guys. Be careful out there.
🔔 Midjourney V7
— The Book of Exits: The Bells Are Not for You
Krampusnacht is upon us, guys. Be careful out there.
🔔 Midjourney V7
"Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been."
— David Bowie
Some Bowie portraits I did a little while ago and forgot to post, as I do.
⭐ Midjourney V7
— David Bowie
Some Bowie portraits I did a little while ago and forgot to post, as I do.
⭐ Midjourney V7
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been."
— David Bowie
Some Bowie portraits I did a little while ago and forgot to post, as I do.
⭐ Midjourney V7
— David Bowie
Some Bowie portraits I did a little while ago and forgot to post, as I do.
⭐ Midjourney V7
Daily Challenge: Silent Choir
"I am the thing behind the window. Don't come closer unless you mean it."
— The Atlas of False Heavens: The Glass Frontier
🕯️ Midjourney V7
"I am the thing behind the window. Don't come closer unless you mean it."
— The Atlas of False Heavens: The Glass Frontier
🕯️ Midjourney V7
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Daily Challenge: Silent Choir
"I am the thing behind the window. Don't come closer unless you mean it."
— The Atlas of False Heavens: The Glass Frontier
🕯️ Midjourney V7
"I am the thing behind the window. Don't come closer unless you mean it."
— The Atlas of False Heavens: The Glass Frontier
🕯️ Midjourney V7
Quick food-themed experiment from last night. I was trying to get the food to arrange itself in a Fibonacci spiral just to see if I could. Not sure how successful I was, but I did make myself hungry, so there's that.
🥪 Midjourney V7
🥪 Midjourney V7
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Quick food-themed experiment from last night. I was trying to get the food to arrange itself in a Fibonacci spiral just to see if I could. Not sure how successful I was, but I did make myself hungry, so there's that.
🥪 Midjourney V7
🥪 Midjourney V7
"Thirty white horses on a red hill. First they champ, Then they stamp, Then they stand still."
🦷 Midjourney V7
🦷 Midjourney V7
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 AM
"Thirty white horses on a red hill. First they champ, Then they stamp, Then they stand still."
🦷 Midjourney V7
🦷 Midjourney V7
A single star circles the void, giggling every 88 years. Astronomers think it’s a pulsar. Poets know it’s the universe remembering a joke about itself.
- The Atlas of False Heavens: The Orbit of the Laughing Star
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- The Atlas of False Heavens: The Orbit of the Laughing Star
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November 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
A single star circles the void, giggling every 88 years. Astronomers think it’s a pulsar. Poets know it’s the universe remembering a joke about itself.
- The Atlas of False Heavens: The Orbit of the Laughing Star
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- The Atlas of False Heavens: The Orbit of the Laughing Star
🪐 Midjourney V7
"As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world."
- Virginia Woolf
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- Virginia Woolf
📖 Midjourney V7
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world."
- Virginia Woolf
📖 Midjourney V7
- Virginia Woolf
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"If you find a prophet wandering without followers, give him a sandwich and directions to the nearest library."
Manual for the Living Ghost: Coordinates for Lost Prophets
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Manual for the Living Ghost: Coordinates for Lost Prophets
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November 19, 2025 at 6:27 AM
"If you find a prophet wandering without followers, give him a sandwich and directions to the nearest library."
Manual for the Living Ghost: Coordinates for Lost Prophets
👁️ Midjourney V7
Manual for the Living Ghost: Coordinates for Lost Prophets
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"When snow falls where it doesn’t belong, the world feels briefly out of step with itself. It is a quiet insistence that the season has plans you weren’t told about."
- The Book of Storms: Snow Arriving Out of Season
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- The Book of Storms: Snow Arriving Out of Season
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November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"When snow falls where it doesn’t belong, the world feels briefly out of step with itself. It is a quiet insistence that the season has plans you weren’t told about."
- The Book of Storms: Snow Arriving Out of Season
❄️ Midjourney V7
- The Book of Storms: Snow Arriving Out of Season
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"Some wounds require a creature patient enough to eat what is killing you."
- The Hollow Gospels: What Follows You Out of the Valley
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- The Hollow Gospels: What Follows You Out of the Valley
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November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"Some wounds require a creature patient enough to eat what is killing you."
- The Hollow Gospels: What Follows You Out of the Valley
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- The Hollow Gospels: What Follows You Out of the Valley
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"Knock knock."
"Qui c'est ?"
"Fromage."
"Fromage qui ?"
"Cheese to meet you."
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"Qui c'est ?"
"Fromage."
"Fromage qui ?"
"Cheese to meet you."
🧀 Midjourney V7
November 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"Knock knock."
"Qui c'est ?"
"Fromage."
"Fromage qui ?"
"Cheese to meet you."
🧀 Midjourney V7
"Qui c'est ?"
"Fromage."
"Fromage qui ?"
"Cheese to meet you."
🧀 Midjourney V7
"I don't think you're a spider, you're a moth. Quiet, harmless, drawn to shiny things, banging up against a window, and begging to get in."
🕷️ Midjourney V7
🕷️ Midjourney V7
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"I don't think you're a spider, you're a moth. Quiet, harmless, drawn to shiny things, banging up against a window, and begging to get in."
🕷️ Midjourney V7
🕷️ Midjourney V7
Daily Challenge: Silent Orchard
"Do not wake the trees. They are remembering for us."
- The Atlas of False Heavens: The Sleeper’s Garden
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"Do not wake the trees. They are remembering for us."
- The Atlas of False Heavens: The Sleeper’s Garden
🍏 Midjourney V7
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Daily Challenge: Silent Orchard
"Do not wake the trees. They are remembering for us."
- The Atlas of False Heavens: The Sleeper’s Garden
🍏 Midjourney V7
"Do not wake the trees. They are remembering for us."
- The Atlas of False Heavens: The Sleeper’s Garden
🍏 Midjourney V7
"She wears the feast. She is the feast. Every layer red as memory, white as pretense, pink as forgiveness."
- The Hollow Gospels: Communion Garment
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- The Hollow Gospels: Communion Garment
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November 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"She wears the feast. She is the feast. Every layer red as memory, white as pretense, pink as forgiveness."
- The Hollow Gospels: Communion Garment
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- The Hollow Gospels: Communion Garment
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"Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention. Be alone, that is when ideas are born."
- Nikola Tesla
⚡ Midjourney V7
- Nikola Tesla
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November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention. Be alone, that is when ideas are born."
- Nikola Tesla
⚡ Midjourney V7
- Nikola Tesla
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"Sorrow is the slowest note, the hum beneath bones. The universe mourns in octaves. So do we."
- Codex Harmonium: Frequency of Grief
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- Codex Harmonium: Frequency of Grief
🌿 Midjourney V7
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"Sorrow is the slowest note, the hum beneath bones. The universe mourns in octaves. So do we."
- Codex Harmonium: Frequency of Grief
🌿 Midjourney V7
- Codex Harmonium: Frequency of Grief
🌿 Midjourney V7
Cosmic Weather Report: Ordinary with a Chance of Revelation
Expect scattered miracles after midnight. Carry humility. Visibility improves when ego subsides.
Long-term forecast: Infinite.
☁️ Midjourney V7
Expect scattered miracles after midnight. Carry humility. Visibility improves when ego subsides.
Long-term forecast: Infinite.
☁️ Midjourney V7
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Cosmic Weather Report: Ordinary with a Chance of Revelation
Expect scattered miracles after midnight. Carry humility. Visibility improves when ego subsides.
Long-term forecast: Infinite.
☁️ Midjourney V7
Expect scattered miracles after midnight. Carry humility. Visibility improves when ego subsides.
Long-term forecast: Infinite.
☁️ Midjourney V7
"A psychotic drowns where the mystic swims. You're drowning. I'm swimming."
- Mandy (2018)
Mandy-inspired render from earlier, because yes.
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- Mandy (2018)
Mandy-inspired render from earlier, because yes.
✨ Midjourney V7
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
"A psychotic drowns where the mystic swims. You're drowning. I'm swimming."
- Mandy (2018)
Mandy-inspired render from earlier, because yes.
✨ Midjourney V7
- Mandy (2018)
Mandy-inspired render from earlier, because yes.
✨ Midjourney V7
"It is time for enlightenment. And time for pie. PIE!"
Pretty sure I wasn't supposed to walk away from Heretic obsessed with blueberry pie, yet here we are. As it turns out, pie and enlightenment go pretty well together once you omit all the murder and kidnapping.
🫐 Midjourney V7
Pretty sure I wasn't supposed to walk away from Heretic obsessed with blueberry pie, yet here we are. As it turns out, pie and enlightenment go pretty well together once you omit all the murder and kidnapping.
🫐 Midjourney V7
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"It is time for enlightenment. And time for pie. PIE!"
Pretty sure I wasn't supposed to walk away from Heretic obsessed with blueberry pie, yet here we are. As it turns out, pie and enlightenment go pretty well together once you omit all the murder and kidnapping.
🫐 Midjourney V7
Pretty sure I wasn't supposed to walk away from Heretic obsessed with blueberry pie, yet here we are. As it turns out, pie and enlightenment go pretty well together once you omit all the murder and kidnapping.
🫐 Midjourney V7
"Wake up gently. Touch your scars. Whisper, we made all this, then go make breakfast. Divinity likes eggs."
- Manual for the Living Ghost: Ritual for Remembering You Were Gods Once
🍳 Midjourney V7 / MJ Video V1
- Manual for the Living Ghost: Ritual for Remembering You Were Gods Once
🍳 Midjourney V7 / MJ Video V1
November 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"Wake up gently. Touch your scars. Whisper, we made all this, then go make breakfast. Divinity likes eggs."
- Manual for the Living Ghost: Ritual for Remembering You Were Gods Once
🍳 Midjourney V7 / MJ Video V1
- Manual for the Living Ghost: Ritual for Remembering You Were Gods Once
🍳 Midjourney V7 / MJ Video V1
Friday's waxing gibbous moon in Pisces, as seen from our backyard during our Halloween festivities. 🌙
The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.
The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.
November 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Friday's waxing gibbous moon in Pisces, as seen from our backyard during our Halloween festivities. 🌙
The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.
The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.
"To unmake the body is to read the divine script in reverse."
- Codex Reversum: The Flesh as Cipher
Some faux vintage anatomy stuff I did a while ago and then forgot to share (beyond using a couple to illustrate a blog post a while back). Typical.
💀 Midjourney V7
- Codex Reversum: The Flesh as Cipher
Some faux vintage anatomy stuff I did a while ago and then forgot to share (beyond using a couple to illustrate a blog post a while back). Typical.
💀 Midjourney V7
November 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"To unmake the body is to read the divine script in reverse."
- Codex Reversum: The Flesh as Cipher
Some faux vintage anatomy stuff I did a while ago and then forgot to share (beyond using a couple to illustrate a blog post a while back). Typical.
💀 Midjourney V7
- Codex Reversum: The Flesh as Cipher
Some faux vintage anatomy stuff I did a while ago and then forgot to share (beyond using a couple to illustrate a blog post a while back). Typical.
💀 Midjourney V7
"I know your secret! Your dirty little secret."
Finally got around to watching the second It movie last night, so we can properly appreciate Welcome to Derry.
On that note, have some Pennywise renders I did earlier, as well as a very floaty Halloween!
🎈 Midjourney V7 / MJ Video V1
Finally got around to watching the second It movie last night, so we can properly appreciate Welcome to Derry.
On that note, have some Pennywise renders I did earlier, as well as a very floaty Halloween!
🎈 Midjourney V7 / MJ Video V1
October 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"I know your secret! Your dirty little secret."
Finally got around to watching the second It movie last night, so we can properly appreciate Welcome to Derry.
On that note, have some Pennywise renders I did earlier, as well as a very floaty Halloween!
🎈 Midjourney V7 / MJ Video V1
Finally got around to watching the second It movie last night, so we can properly appreciate Welcome to Derry.
On that note, have some Pennywise renders I did earlier, as well as a very floaty Halloween!
🎈 Midjourney V7 / MJ Video V1
Daily Challenge: Tilted Crown
"Look at my king all dressed in red
Iko iko, un-day
I betcha five dollars he'll kill you dead
Jock-a-mo fee na-nay"
- The Belle Stars ("Iko Iko")
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"Look at my king all dressed in red
Iko iko, un-day
I betcha five dollars he'll kill you dead
Jock-a-mo fee na-nay"
- The Belle Stars ("Iko Iko")
🪶 Midjourney V7
October 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Daily Challenge: Tilted Crown
"Look at my king all dressed in red
Iko iko, un-day
I betcha five dollars he'll kill you dead
Jock-a-mo fee na-nay"
- The Belle Stars ("Iko Iko")
🪶 Midjourney V7
"Look at my king all dressed in red
Iko iko, un-day
I betcha five dollars he'll kill you dead
Jock-a-mo fee na-nay"
- The Belle Stars ("Iko Iko")
🪶 Midjourney V7
"I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe."
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
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- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
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October 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
"I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe."
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
🐦⬛ Midjourney V7
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
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