Whimsy

Saw a possum for the first time irl today, so I guess now anything is possumble

Put “genre isn’t a boundary, it’s a description of what a story is doing” on my tombstone (but put “doing” in italics so the emphasis is clear)

A painting of a knight with a sun spear riding a dark horse

. . . happy 2026!! . . .

🐈📦

A Portrait of Dev Patel as Gawain in The Green Knight Movie, he looks concerned at the sword he is holding.

Can't get the Green Knight off my mind and wanted to do some portrait drawing practice, hence.

There is something to be said about how horror appears in thematic waves alongside the ever shifting cultural fears that inspire them.

So much horror I've been seeing around lately has been body and mind control horror

If your minds, our bodies, are experiences are not our own, what is left?

figuring out that putting soapy water in my blender and just blending that a few times does clean the thing has been a game changer

black splatter on white background, two rows of loose teeth surround the phrase "Give Your Art TEETH"

It’s actually fascinating how different this movie has felt each time I’ve watched it. It felt almost optimistic on this year’s rewatch.

That writing struggle when your scared to reread your draft (what if it’s bad) but you have to to keep writing (and ultimately revise)

digital art of 2 segments of a lemon on a blue background. text is in the corner that reads "Lemon a color study"

Lemon :)

Doing my annual holiday rewatch of the green knight. Nothing says solstice festivities like grim Arthurian dramas

Sometimes the time comes in a writers WIP where the google doc for the story you’re writing is so long you have to put a heading that says “Bottom Text” on it to get to the part where you’re writing

Depends how invested I am in the book tbh. At my most invested its fully a movie and I can't see the individual words anymore. If I'm not very invested, i see no visuals, words only.

The new Benoit Blanc movie is very good, especially if you have a friend live messaging you on the liturgical reference info about it.

Unfortunately I have absolutely not been keeping track of how many or which books I've read this year.

But also my "read two books a month goal" has been sort of blown out of proportion by my reading 2 books a week for the last month and a half reality

Finding and reading a story I wrote when I was a teenager that I was proud of at the time has taught me that a) I’ve learned a lot about writing in the last 16 years. And b) if I did want to edit it I could and it’s cool that I know how to do that now.

they weren't lying windy dog meme with the text edited to read "y'all weren't lying, that lit mag submission can make you check your email constantly"

Someone You Can Build a Nest In is such a fun book. The shapeshifting body horror romance of my dreams. 10/10

I'm obsessed with the murderbot show already, it has absolutely captured the feeling of what I loved with the novellas

A cropped photo of my friend Tee pointing his finger to the camera. You can't see his face as the photo is cropped just below his neck. He's wearing an army green t-shirt that says Stop Using tiny text in games. The words tiny text is much smaller than the other words and is hard to see against the larger text.

I was watching the first 30 minutes of the @iii-initiative.bsky.social and I kept seeing trailer after trailer after trailer with extremely tiny or unreadable text sizes in most of the games shown!

STOP.
USING.
tiny text
IN GAMES!!!

📸: @theteemonster.bsky.social

One of the coolest things you can do right now is commission a real artist.

As an artist, I am at my most powerful when I’m doodling warm up drawings of dragons in silly little hats

Every now and again I listen to a song that plagues me with visions until I draw a lyric comic about it

Saw the game at day of the devs and it looked so cool. Can’t wait until it’s eventual release

Usually shiny things that dangle, like antique keys and crystals on chains and silk tassels and wind chimes

Close up illustration of a moray eel in murky water, it's mouth is open towards the viewer revealing rows of sharp teeth.

It's A-Moray

Or: What if I drew a scary looking eel

Drawing of a little black cat running in the snow in a city neighborhood lined with cars and streetlights

Another drawing of mine of a lil creature in the snow

A drawing of two hares fighting in a dark blue snow covered landscape with a few stark silhouettes of trees

Bit of art color practice

A 🧵👇

Designers at The Forge had a practice of asking themselves "The Big Three" questions about a new #ttrpg they wanted to make:

1. What is the game about?
2. What do the characters do?
3. What do the players do?

It's interesting to see these three from @cutestpatoot.itch.io and how...