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Finished Le Guin's "The Dispossessed"

I like how Le Guin seems to structure her novels like essays, presenting a thesis that's examined over the course of the story to come full circle again at the end with deeper understanding; she leaves the reader thoughtful. Glad I stuck with this one.

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A digital drawing of a collection of cute creatures and flowers scattered on a page. There's also a teapot and a star creature, and they all have eyes and little faces.

A collection of friends!!

#art #illustration

digital drawing of cynder from spyro, crouching down, looking at the viewer

cynder !!

a sketchbook with colour swatches and stars on the left page, and a landscape on the right. you can see a cabin, flowers in the foreground and mountains in the background.

easing back into sketchbooking 🐥 this landscape is inspired by a view on the way up one of my favorite mountains. i can’t wait to get there again!!

#sketchbookartist #gouachepainting

A drawing of a smiling dragon peeking out from a snapdragon flower. The caption reads, "your worth is not determined by how much you get done today"

snapdragon baby ♥

Not yet, but I'm hopeful my library has it so I can check it out on the next library trip.

The cover of Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction novel "The Dispossessed" as illustrated by Muhammad Fatchurofi: two planets—a red and yellow, and a blue and white—orbit each other in a great starry expanse, each planet's magnetic field mapped out in sweeping lines of matching color; and in the center where they meet a figure stands divided, one face toward the people of his home planet and one toward the people of his neighboring planet, faces alternating blue and red, yet within himself he stands small, blue and white like the lefthand planet.

Today's book: "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Not sure why I'm struggling to settle in to this one (after all weekend I'm only at Chapter 3), but it doesn't feel like it deserves to be put aside, and I'm stubborn; I'll get through it.

💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading

A digital drawing of a branch from a strawberry plant agiainst a dark background, with lots of leaves and red and white strawberries hanging from the branches.

Strawberry time!!

#art #illustration

*One* work? I have no idea. Not trying to duck the question, but I’m at a loss to say.

It depends on “when” and “where” and “what genre” I think. 1/4

This week's #SundaySentence brought to you by Character Limits Be Damned, I'm Not Shortening This Quote.

The cover of editor Alice Wong's anthology "Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century" as designed by Angela Carlino of colorful overlapping triangles on a white field.

"There is a persistent belief amongst abled people that a cure is what disabled people should want. To abandon our disabled selves and bodies and assimiliate into a perhaps unachievable abled skin."

—from Liz Moore's "I'm Tired of Chasing a Cure" in Alice Wong's "Disability Visibility"

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A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Green is hanging up laundry, while singing Cherubino's aria from the opera The Wedding of Figaro. Blue peeks from behind a bedsheet, startling Green badly enough to prompt Green to shoot straight up through the ceiling. Blue: You sing when you do laundry by yourself? Green: Iaaah! Taken aback, Blue looks apologetically up to the ceiling. Blue: I didn't mean to startle you. Green: It's okay.

Two wading birds silhouetted by the light and reflected in the water's surface.

The theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay is #StandingInWater.

Gone for a bit of an arty one today. Two waders which I think are probably redshanks; bills a bit short for godwits.

#birds #photography

a fluffy grey tabby asleep with his paws up, in a cardboard box lined with a grey blanket. above him is a whiteboard reading "WRITING ASSISTANT" and an arrow pointing to him

I got a whiteboard at the dollar store the other day and finally put it up

I may not end up actually using it but in the meantime it is useful for mocking the cat

A digital drawing of a bunny character in a red coat standing among lot and lots of flowers and leaves. Some of the flowers are bigger than the bunny.

Bunny!!

#art #illustration #cuteart

Digital illustration of a map, in a playful and colorful style.

I finally finished this map illustration and with that I want to say IF YOU NEED A MAP FOR YOUR PROJECT PLEASE HMU! I loved working on it, I want more map work in 2026!

It’s for a modern romance book series but I can do other styles except maybe sci-fi stuff.

#illustration #art #map #digitalart

Flower painting experiment with gouache, floral art, botanical illustration

Flowers experiment with gouache from yesterday 🌷

#gouache #art #illustration

Lantana camara flowers painted with gouache, an open mixed media sketchbook page, botanical illustration

Some loose flowers I painted today, I'm learning how to paint with orange !

#art #sketchook #bloomscrolling #spring

A photo of four library books stacked on a shelf. The library books from top to bottom are: "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin, "Alien Clay" by Adrian Tchaikovsky, "Our Missing Hearts" by Celeste Ng, and "The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller.

Today was library day! Ran short on time for "The Dispossessed", but thankfully no one had a hold on it.

–Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Dispossessed" (Renewed!)
–Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Alien Clay"
–Celeste Ng's "Our Missing Hearts"
–Madeline Miller's "The Song of Achilles"

💙📚 #BookSky

A drawing of a unicorn looking up at a starry night sky. The caption reads, "the future can be better let's hang in there and see"

.𖥔 ݁ ˖ִ༄˖°.

A digital drawing of a duckling and a ladybug meeting among lots of flowers. It is drawn in a loose and expressive way.

Friends :))))

#art #illustration

A drawing of a snowdrop plant with 2 flowers, surrounded by a halo of 7 moths. The background inside the halo is light blue and dotted with white snowflakes, and the snowdrop leaves and stem are coloured green. The moths are a cream coloured with green markings to echo the inner petals of the flowers. The background of the moth halo itself is coloured night sky blue and sprinkled with stars.

Last week was rough, and I worked both days this weekend, so I'll have to finish off my last #FebruaryFrost26 drawing some other time.

But this drawing from the first prompt is my favourite thing I've drawn for myself for chuffin ages! 😁

Thanks to all the hosts is this challenge 💖

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green wake up next to each other in bed. Blue looks at Green drowsily, while Green yawns. Blue: Good morning. Getting up, Blue is already wide awake as Green still looks groggy. Green: Did we have anything particular planned for today? Blue: I don't think so. Green raises his tail to his chin in thought, as Blue turns to look over his shoulder. Green: How's the weather? Blue: Let's see. Blue returns from checking the weather, completely covered in snow. Blue: It's a lovely day to stay in with board games.

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

-Terry Pratchett

#booksky #skybrarian

Finished Alice Wong's "Disability Visibility"!

This was an anthology of Big Feelings that my alexithymic brain can't translate into the right words. It's one of the most emotional books I've ever read. I love and hate how relatable and relevant it is, and at the same time I wish it weren't.

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It's time to vote for March's #BlueskyBookclub book!

Like any of the posts below to vote for your choice! Feel free to vote for multiple options.

Please repost, let's get as many people on board as we can!

Voting will close on March 5th!

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The cover of Zora Neale Hurston's coming-of-age novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" as designed by Stephen Brayda, with art by Patrick Dougher and photography by OSTILL is Franck Camhi on Shutterstock: an illustration of mixed media and vibrant colors and textures, a black woman stands in profile with upturned face against a gold sun on a jewel-blue background of overlapping, faded newsprint and worn canvas; paint splashes add color to the woman's monochromatic bust, while a frenetic celebration of patterns and hues overlay her blouse and the crown upon her head.

'"Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."'

—Janie Crawford, from Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

💙📚 #BookSky #SundaySentence

A small Northern Pygmy-Owl with bright yellow eyes and spotted brown and white feathers, perched on a mossy tree branch.

A Northern Pygmy-Owl from this morning.

#owls #birds #nature

A digital drawing with a collection of doodles scattered around a page: robin birds, stars, sparkles, a mushroom, flowers, a cat, a star guy and so on.

My final drawing for #FebruaryFrost26 with prompts "robin" and "sparkling". (Pretend I posted this yesterday oops)

#art #illustration

The cover of Amal El-Mohtar's folk fantasy novella "The River Has Roots" as illustrated and designed by Faceout Studio, Spencer Fuller: dahlias flower in shades of rose, coral, violet, and through their sun-dappled leaves and stems twines a river metallic and serpentine cutting through the white field to a view of cloud-speckled sky and wooded hills.

The cover of Zora Neale Hurston's coming-of-age novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" as designed by Stephen Brayda, with art by Patrick Dougher and photography by OSTILL is Franck Camhi on Shutterstock: an illustration of mixed media and vibrant colors and textures, a black woman stands in profile with upturned face against a gold sun on a jewel-blue background of overlapping, faded newsprint and worn canvas; paint splashes add color to the woman's monochromatic bust, while a frenetic celebration of patterns and hues overlay her blouse and the crown upon her head.

Didn't read as much this month, but that's all right: my reading's for fun, not for metrics. February favorites:

–Amal El-Mohtar's "The River Has Roots" (First book of the year to make the get-my-own-copy list!)
–Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

💙📚 #BookSky