Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m going full midlife crisis mode—I dyed my hair purple (and put glitter extensions in it), I’m applying for MFA programs, I think I’m gonna re-pierce my nose… I also actually feel incredibly hopeful about all of this? We’re all gonna die and our bodies are decaying so do whatever you want!! 0170
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My college is giving all faculty and students voting day off from classes, and that's incredible. I wish all work places would follow suit. 0110
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Romantic texts with my husband while he is away on a work trip. 1235
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My daughter only recently started becoming truly aware of her surroundings. Now that the days are getting shorter, I realize that she didn’t know that it gets dark outside at night. She kept pointing to the sky and saying, “UH OH!! UH OH!!!!” 1362
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I've become a professional meme maker. Making marketing art for Angry Birds 3 is one of the wackiest gigs I've had, but I'm having a blast! 1261
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm so tired of news stories about Sydney Sweeney's boobs. They're nice. Good for her. Glad she's making money with the resources she has. Her politics probably suck. Aren't there more important things to talk about? 3150
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I am usually a person who shows up to the airport 2 hours before any flight. Unless it's a red eye, in which case for some reason, I always show up like 5 hours early. 090
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Anyone who has access to serious wealth should look to Dolly Parton as an example. Thinking specifically of another extremely successful blonde pop artist who is in the billionaire level of wealth and claims to be doing feminist work 👀 0240
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I prepped my lunch last night so I could save time today, which I am now spending scrolling. Time management, babyyy. 080
Reposted by Betsy BauerBree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 25/08/2026In honor of Dolly, get your annual COVID booster if you can. You can save lives too. 0670323
Reposted by Betsy BauerAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.comimaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 45121565980
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I continually hear that sci-fi is a difficult genre to sell in the graphic novel space, which makes me so sad. Sci-fi is definitely my favorite genre, and I wonder if there are more girls/women/nbs out there who enjoy that genre than mainstream publishing are willing to give credit to? 2161
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 16/08/2026My toxic trait as an instructor is that I think grades are very dumb (and unfortunately necessary for most accrediation). I want every former and future student to know that I wish I didn't have to grade anything -- they are arbitrary and don't necessarily indicate anything about your future! 2251
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Extremely obsessed with whatever Paul W Downs and Meg Stalter are doing 020
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 16/08/2026A very LA-specific gripe: There should be a train that goes to Palm Springs. (Maybe this will happen when that train to Vegas finally happens???) 4160
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Is anybody having a genuinely good time right now? It seems like almost everyone I know is really going through it in one way or another. 2140
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Constantly organizing my files in such a labyrinthian way that I can’t figure out how I did anything either. 151
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 06/08/2026My husband and I are each traveling for work 2 weeks out of August this month (offset by a week so we get to solo parent a lot 🤡), and I look forward to my brain feeling like it's been run through a washing machine. 030
Reposted by Betsy Bauerjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I've never touched google gemini or whatever, but this was turned on. myactivity.google.com/product/gemini turn that shit off 2727451928
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Hey Google, seriously, I don’t want your crappy AI generated response to be the default when I try to respond to an email. Get this garbage feature outta here. 1150
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I slept 10 uninterrupted hours last night and I feel like a super human. The world wouldn’t know what was coming if this was possible every single night—I might be TOO powerful. 0160
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Trying to solve all of the issues in the US are like when Iet my 18-month-old do whatever she wants with Luigi in Mario Kart 140
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Grief is wild. Sitting here weeping while chopping a kale salad because I used to feed the ribs of the leaves to my dog. 🥲 0250
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Avatar Aang was beautiful and deserved a *national* theatrical release because, FWIW, it’s the first movie I’ve dragged myself out to see in theaters in 2+ years! 0140
Reposted by Betsy BauerAnimation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 27/07/2026She was Hayao Miyazaki's "right-hand" collaborator from the '70s onward. Her name was Michiyo Yasuda -- the best color designer in animation. Yasuda's eye for color gave Ghibli's work a totally different look. We explore her methods: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist... 72937945
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Also I rarely talk about my professorship but I got promoted starting this fall and I am ENORMOUSLY grateful for this! Starting my SEVENTH (!!) year teaching in the next month, now at the rank of *Associate* Professor! 6430
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I think I'm just going to start adding "start a new gig" to my creative process because I never feel like I want to make ANYTHING until I suddenly start a new gig! (I started a new small job doing some marketing art for a new animated movie this week and I am grateful!) 0170
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Do I have any picture-book-y mutuals looking to get into teaching? I may have an opportunity for you. DM me! 040
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 16/07/2026It's lame to sad post, but I am sad. I go his cremains back today, I just miss my dog. 9280
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Personally thriving in this poop-virus era where salads are unsafe with this creamy spinach mushroom pappardelle (eggs in the noods, but vegan otherwise!) 0140
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Got a new little gig and my physical therapist told me he does not recommend back surgery right now (which has been on the table for the past 6 weeks), so I’m going to take these small wins and celebrate a little tonight 1200
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I am realizing that my small dog may not actually be properly potty trained…? She’s a 5-6 y/o rescue chihuahua mix and I’ve had her for 3+ years, but any time I would let her out it was when my big dog asked. Now that he’s gone I don’t think she knows to ask to go out, so we keep finding puddles 🫠 070
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 11/07/2026This summer has been incredibly hard for me both physically and emotionally but I have to say I feel so supported by my friends and community, and for that, I am grateful. 2201
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Husband is on a work trip, baby is at daycare, small dog is at the groomer. The house feels so incredibly empty without my big pup. 070
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Brought my toddler into bed last night because she’s been sick and fussy. Woke up to her at 5:45am begging to watch Godzilla (“Mo-mo Za za!!” In toddler speak) 180
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Truly grossed out by all is the Taylor/Travis stuff, sorry stans. (For the record, I am married to one) 060
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I said goodbye to my best friend this morning. I know we are lucky and got 15 years together and a peaceful end at home in the backyard among the flowers, but this grief is still one of the hardest things I’ve ever dealt with. I’ll love you forever, Kobie 11860
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Anyway I’m sorry for being a beacon for sadness, but I have been in the pit of despair for most of the summer so far and I’m still in a mindset of wallowing. 190
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I lost my childhood cat when she was about 16, and I had my (now 15+ year) dog to cope. Now I have a human toddler. Every “pet” feels like an evolution in a way, and I can’t help but feel sad that they aren’t around to experience one another for longer. 1270
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 29/06/2026My pet is not gone just yet but it’s coming (probably this week) and I am in full cope mode. Who does great pet memorial tattoos in LA? 190
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 29/06/2026My 18-month-old loves Godzilla and calls him “Zaza”. 1221
Reposted by Betsy BauerBree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 25/06/2026It’s so frustrating to see every creative industry in shambles right now because it’s not for lack of shows, movies, games, books, comics, etc making money. People are hungry for human made art! The greed of others is killing our creative careers. 11319487
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I am really struggling to make things this summer. I think everything I’m going through merits a slow down in creativity — major back injury (probably requiring surgery), likely end of life of my 15+ year canine companion, toddler under 2 y/o… yet I still feel frustrated that I haven’t made more. 170
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I don’t know how to explain it but driving through coastal Long Beach feels like being in a city from Pokemon 060
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Did you know green crayons can melt in Mac & cheese? Anyway, happy Father’s Day! 081
Reposted by Betsy BauerVictoria Ying @victoriaying.com · 18/06/2026Piggybacking off of this: If you are looking to create more community and trying to find clubs or things like that to join, another option is to be the host! Reach out and be consistent, encourage your friends to invite their friends! 110120
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 18/06/2026If anyone is having trouble finding/strengthening friendships as an adult, joining monthly meet ups is the answer. These make up almost the entirety of my social calendar now! I have a dinner club, a book club, a figure drawing club. It’s the best. If you’re lonely, join a club!! 316630
Reposted by Betsy BauerTiffany Turrill @tiffanyturrill.bsky.social · 18/06/2026these are all AI but Guelta d'Archei in Chad is a real oasis where camels congregate year-round. a special species of crocodile lives in there, too. it's a neat place i recommend looking at real photos of it 69716
Betsy Bauer @bauerpower.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I don’t know why it took me so long to realize that laying in bed watching a movie on my iPad with earbuds in is the superior way to watch a movie for my exhausted evening ADD brain. 1160