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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Survived my first ever book signing at NYCC, and this weird little* book is one step closer to being unleashed on the world *(not actually little)

Nibs, a desk woman with black cat-eye glasses, smiles at the camera with her chin propped on her fist. She’s wearing a maroon shirt with a smoochy lip pattern, and a copy of her upcoming Critical Role novel, Children of Empire, sits on the table next to her.

Copies of Children of Empire sit stacked on a white table

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And finally getting confident enough about heat control to try more complex things like flowers

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Prepping for spooky season over at the torch

Two small beads made of white glass, shaped like stubby bedsheet ghosts with black button eyes

Two dark, dark orange (so dark it’s nearly black) glass pumpkin beads, with a little green leafy flourish atop each

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

May we all find something we love as much as my cat loves being little spoon’d on his favorite baguette pillow

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

After so so many failed attempts…I’m so happy with how this lampwork blooming bead turned out. Still need to work on getting all the petals rounded at the tops, but this is the first one I would unreservedly call a success.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am reorganizing my rocks …it is possible I have too many rocks

A series of plastic bins sit on a wooden floor, filled with an array of cabochons in multiple shapes, sizes and colors. Some of the stones represented are listed in the following skeets.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Anyway this is my son Morty, aka Old Man Baby Cat, he is very small and soft and sweet and stupid and I love him more than life itself

Morty, an old grey cat, lies on his back in Nibs’ lap with his front paw held in front of him like a little otter

Morty, an old grey cat, snoozes contentedly duct into the crook of Nibs’ arm

Morty, an old grey cat, lays fast asleep sprawled across Nibs’ chest with his little head snuggled up against her cheek

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Okay I got a little bit of the back and forth on video, please enjoy CONFUSION and CONCERN. (And ignore the crashing noise, that was me accidentally knocking the pet hair roller with my foot.)

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don’t know how I’ve never done this before in the six years we’ve lived here, but today I went up to the window in the living room and looked through it at the cat where he sat at the window in the office. And you guys. He was SHOOKETH.

A slightly hazy picture taken through two layers of window glass of a cat sitting on a windowsill, looking back at the photographer. His eyes are huge with shock and disbelief.

Same as the previous picture, but zoomed in on the cat’s enormous round eyes.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So today @ninocipri.bsky.social and I absolutely blew our cat’s tiny mind. He likes to sit in this window in our home office. Which, as you can see, is literally around the corner from another window in the living room

On the left: a gray cat sitting in a window, next to a desk, with a glimpse of brick wall outside. On the right, an open doorway into a cozy living room, showing a sliver of a second window set at a 90 degree angle to the first.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And MUCH closer to a successful encased flower bead!

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Well, I haven’t forgotten everything i ever knew, but this was still a day full of more failures than successes! I am getting ever so slightly closer to pulling off an implosion mushroom, though

Close up of a blobby glass pendant on a mandrel. Inside it is an orange and white mushroom

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Back on the torch after forever! No, not that torch. Other torch. Glass melty not metal melty.

A steel table with a lit oxy-propane torch

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

April: soldered a piece of wire together for the first time August: this ADHD! It has its uses!

A copper wire ring laying on a jeweler’s bench

A variety of sterling silver rings in various shapes and sizes, set with opals, garnets, amber, and peridot

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Garnet is my birthstone, red is one of my favorite colors, my wedding ring is garnet… So when I started buying gems, I uh. Quickly went a little overboard on garnets. I have like three boxes of them now to work through 😅

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Very proud of this bonkers amber piece 🥰

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

2.5 months until this gorgeous purple creature is released into the world! You can preorder it anywhere books are sold, but may I recommend Astoria Bookshop, the wonderful local queer-owned indie that my spouse @ninocipri.bsky.social works at? www.astoriabookshop.com/item/p5lAnqx...

The book cover for "The Mighty Nein: Children of Empire", by Nibedita Sen. It shows Caleb Widogast and Beauregard Lionett against a swirling purple background.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

the creature thanks you for funding his expensive old man food!

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Shiny alert! Big drop of my stuff coming at 1pm on the shop! (They say 'out of stock' at the moment, but will populate at 1pm.) www.peculiarityshop.com/nibs-corner

A resplendent pair of large golden teardrop earrings, strung with a giant iridescent pink glass bead at the top and multiple smaller iridescent purple-pink teardrop beads below.

a pair of earrings consisting of multiple flat lustrous golden pearls strung in a loose bunch.

A gothic as-fuck black rose choker, with black teardrops and flowers strung from slender black wires.

A pair of golden hoop earrings, strung with brass charms and iridescent yellow-red rhinestones.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The hoard is growiiiiing (a couple of these are WIPs, so I haven’t pushed down the bezels or finished polishing them yet)

Ten sterling silver rings, with a variety of stones ranging from opals to amber and tanzanite

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Finally invested in a bench vise so I can hammer set thicker bezels, and friends…it is possible I did not read the dimensions on the listing closely enough

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I bought @ninocipri.bsky.social a mozzarella and burrata making class for their birthday. Here they are being a proud dad with our delicious cheese children.

Nino, a white non-binary person with glasses, cradles four Saran-wrapped lumps of mozzarella and burrata. They’re wearing a yellow apron and a proud paternal beam.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

And @filigreemchana.bsky.social THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THESE 😭😭😭 the noise i made when i opened the box and saw them! Can’t wait to get EDUCATED

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Adventures in self-taught silversmithing continue

Two fingers, with six rings loosely placed on them. The rings are all sterling silver, and look like: a round garnet set within a heart shaped frame, a round piece of amber surrounded by filigree, a flower with a tiny opal in the center, a black opal oval, a greenish yellow oval opal, and a bypass ring with a silver leaf and trillion peridot

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Psst. If you ever wanted to feel like fae royalty... there's a bunch of my macrame necklaces up in the shop right now 👀 www.peculiarityshop.com/nibs-corner?

An intricate black macrame pendant with an amber yellow fused glass cabochon

An intricate maroon macrame pendant with a silvery black obsidian cabochon

An intricate black macrame choker with a small green malachite cabochon

An intricate black macrame choker with a purple stitichite cabochon

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I did! Still experimenting, but I hope to make some fun stuff down the line

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I still have 3 sterling rings available! help me buy the raw materials to make more! (sterling be pricey, y'all 😭) Reminder: I made these to be mega-resizeable. The numbers on the listings are a baseline -- they can go +/- 2 sizes up or down from those! www.peculiarityshop.com/nibs-corner

An oval sterling silver ring, with a gorgeous ethiopian opal full of green, blue and red fire. The ring has one border of braided wire and another of small round beads.

An teardrop shaped sterling silver ring set with a gorgeous ethiopian opal. The ring has a border of small round beads.

A round sterling silver ring with a small purple mojave copper turquoise cab. The ring has a border of small round beads.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

There absolutely will, including some black opals I’m working on right now!

A small rough chunk of blue-black opal with red, yellow and green pinfire rests on Nibs’ fingertip. In the background is a box of more chunks of rough black opal.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Fun fact: i designed that makers mark to look somewhat like the first letters of my name and surname the way they’re written in Bengali

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Baby man has recently had an inhaler added to his daily med routine. He is being the very goodest boy about its, but communicating his displeasure via what I’ve started calling his squanch face.

Morty, an old grey cat, sits on Nibs’s lap with an aerokat inhaler pressed to his face. Said face is scrunched in displeasure

Morty, an old grey cat, sits on Nibs’s lap with an aerokat inhaler pressed to his face. He is giving extremely scrunchy side eye.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Cat behaviorists, explain to me why my furry son wags his tail like a dog when he’s happy? Like he’s blissed out purring and making biscuits on my shoulder here, but the tail is lashing all the while!

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

When you make a pun that has your partner looking like this and you know you won at wifing today 🥰😘

Nino, a white non binary person, rests their forehead against their hand, looking aggrieved

Nino, a white non binary person, rests their forehead against their hand and looks at camera with comically exasperated expression

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Self-taught silversmithing adventures continue. Basket setting: achieved! Bezel setting: complexified (yes that’s a real word, trust me, I’m a writer)

Nibs’ finger, showing an empty sterling silver ring setting consisting of a stepped teardrop bezel and two smaller round bezels

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Took a little break from silversmithing to play with some brass and copper

A copper pendant, consisting of a round empty bezel set shaker a flat semicircular backing, surrounded by brass embellishments of leaves and mushrooms

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I’m so proud of these. I cut the flower out of sheet metal myself. And I cut the rough opal myself. And they’re all adjustable. That was something I really wanted to do to make sure they’re accessible to as many people as possible, even though making a fixed size band is actually much simpler.

Two fingers with four silver rings. One is round with a purple and gold stone, one is oval with a green stone and small silver leaves, one is shaped like a five petaled flower with a small round opal in the center, and one has a rough cut opal.

The back side of the four rings, showing the bands are adjustable.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Uh oh I think I like doing this (Larimar, Mojave turquoise, moss agate, opal. All 925 sterling silver with adjustable bands that can go from size 5-10-ish)

A hand with five silver rings. One is teardrop shaped with a blue stone, one is round with a purple and gold stone, one is oval with a free stone and small silver leaves, one is shaped like a five petaled flower with a small round opal in the center, and one has a rough cut opal.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Happy sidewalk foraging month to all who celebrate 🙌🏽✨ the mulberry and juneberry gods have been bounteous in our neighborhood this year, and Nino is making JAM

Nibs’s juice stained fingers making a victory sign over a large red bowl full of juneberries and mulberries

Macerated juneberries and mulberries boiling in a saucepan

Nino, a white non-binary human with glasses, stands at the stove stirring a saucepan

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Oh yeah, and because I’m insane, I decided to just go ahead and become a lapidary*** while I was at it. YOLO! *not really **only doing opals for now

Nibs’ hand, holding a wet chunk of raw Ethiopian opal

Nibs’ hand, holding a wet chunk of raw Ethiopian opal that has now been carved into rough oval shape

Nibs’ hand, holding a wet partially polished oval Ethiopian opal on a dop stick

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

That’s what opals do! It’s insane!

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

So remember that metalsmithing class @peculiarityshop.bsky.social shop paid for me to take? I just made my first ring. Still needs a good polish with the buffing wheels, and the bezel is janky, but it’s a RING. Ethiopian opal and 925 sterling.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

THE FRUMPKIN IS OUT OF THE BAG! I wrote a @criticalrole.bsky.social book, you guys!! It has fistfights and smooching and disaster gays and dark academia and spooky archeology and political intrigue, and I am terrified and excited for you all to read it!! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760755...

The cover of a Critical Role novel titled "Children of Empire", with the author's name, Nibedita Sen, below the title. The cover shows post-campaign 2 Caleb and Beauregard against a purple background.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

the next themed drop at @peculiarityshop.bsky.social is "Midnight Masquerade," so naturally I had to make a whole line of miniature mask pendants

A photo of four mixed-media (polymer clay, paint, resin) pendants shaped like elaborate masks placed on blank faces. One mask is white and gold, with rabbit-like ears, and placed on a black face. One is white, with a wreath of blue flowers and blue porcelain patterns, and placed on a black face. One is made of shimmery black feathers, and placed on a white face. One is shaped like a red heart with ruffles around the edges, and placed on a white face.

A photo of four mixed-media (polymer clay, paint, resin) pendants shaped like elaborate masks placed on blank faces. One mask is pure black with raised filigree embellishment, and placed on a white face. One is gold, with metal butterfly, chain and flower embellishments, and placed on a white face. One is green and leafy, with vine-wrapped curving horns, and placed on a white face. One is shaped like a black cat skull with purple flower and gold embellishments, and golden teeth, and placed on a white face.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The macrame will continue until morale improves (cc: @peculiarityshop.bsky.social )

An elaborate black macrame necklace wrapped around a large yellowish orange glass cabochon

A black macrame choker with gold beads and a round malachite cabochon

An intricate black macrame necklace wrapped around a purple Stichitite cabochon

An intricate red macrame necklace wrapped around a silver sheen obsidian cabochon

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I am not very good yet! But I’m working on getting better. Unfortunately the learning curve on this particular craft is steep—no shortcuts, just gotta practice practice practice until you instinctively memorize heat control, flow, angle