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I have absolutely no idea. I don’t think so because it’s not inside the church we’re all of the cameras are for live streaming — but outside on the labyrinth.

Please consider turning up for my friends at the Animal Instinct Showcase. A packed night with some amazing talent.

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Eventually… print, then audiobook and digital. But for the first pressing I always like to premiere with a physical artefact

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This Saturday, Oct 3rd at 2pm—I’ll be performing the Wolf of Gubbio. Pets and other animals are very welcome. Those brought will be blessed in a simple, gentle liturgy celebrating the life and teachings of Saint Francis of Assisi, and giving thanks for the whole of creation—not only the human parts.

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We tipped over the halfway mark. Preorders for packcoming, my #therian and medical #transformation #novel is halfway to getting printed! ko-fi.com/s/c697131e35

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I love that there is a @skilletdaily.social.pcpulse.us here and they found me.

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In my cabin in the woods I have no plates (just a bowl and a spoon) and only a fork stolen… ahem… “borrowed:” from church. But I have dragged electricity to the cabin and I have a skillet. And Tortillas. With coffee as well… this is good stuff.

Close-up of a breakfast wrap being assembled by hand. A soft flour tortilla holds fried egg and a strip of crisp bacon, with another piece of egg partly visible underneath. In the background, more bacon and fried egg are cooking in a rectangular frying pan, with a carton of brown eggs visible at the lower right.

Overhead view of a rectangular frying pan containing three sunny-side-up eggs and several strips of bacon at different stages of browning. A stack of flour tortillas rests along the upper-right edge of the pan, ready for assembling breakfast wraps.

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Ps wanna be an editor - lol

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Yes, thanks for the heads up. I grabbed an older artwork where a typo had been introduced. It was fixed before it went to print but I didn’t delete that old PDF so it made it onto this progress chart. Not in the book.

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The plan is that after we reach this launch goal, sales of Godbeast and Packcoming will be funnelled directly into production of the sequels Homing and the Long Pull without needing a kickstart.

Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In just a month, we’ve achieved almost halfway to the goal towards getting the initial print run of PACKCOMING funded and delivered. Let’s get all the way. Pre-orders are on sale. ko-fi.com/s/c697131e35

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I so love the fact that packs read my works together as packs — that is one of the most beautiful things I’ve come across in our creaturely communities. Just get some tissues ready.

Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For about a month. That’s how long the first pressing of a book takes to be printed, approved and shipped to me

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes, I made a huge loss shipping Godbeadt to the EU and Australia and the UK, from America is insanely expensive, and I am trying to find a local order fulfilment in the EU in order to make this easier. If anyone can show me how to ship a book for less, I’m all ears

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You won’t have read a human-to-animal transformation novel quite like this. PACKCOMING is about love, faith & desire—an older woman willingly relinquishing her humanity to become the wolf she always was. Now available to preorder #LiteraryFiction #QueerBooks #Transformation ko-fi.com/s/c697131e35

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PACKCOMING - (Paperback) A novel about a woman becoming a wolf - Shimi & Critter's Ko-fi Shop

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today is the Feast of “Hildegard of Bingen, Mystic and Scholar, 1179.” The collect for today’s early morning Service and Eucharist was lit by the most beautiful orange morning light. I first discovered her music sung in church when I was a child. www.episcopalchurch.org/wp-content/u...

Screenshot of a music player showing the album Hildegard von Bingen: Vespers from her Abbey by the Benedictine Nuns of the Abbey of St. Hildegard. The cover art depicts Hildegard in a golden veil and dark habit, seated and writing at a lectern amid richly colored medieval-style architectural details. The track playing is “Deus in Auditorium.”

Hildegard of Bingen, born in 1098 in the Rhineland Valley, was a mystic, poet, composer, dramatist, doctor, and scientist. Her parents' tenth child, she was tithed to the church and raised by the anchoress Jutta in a cottage near the Benedictine monastery of Disibodenberg. Drawn by their life of silence and prayer, other women joined them, finding the freedom, rare outside of women's religious communities, to develop their intellectual gifts. They organized as a convent under the authority of the abbot of Disibodenberg, with Jutta as abbess. When Jutta died, Hildegard, then 38, became abbess. Later she founded independent convents at Bingen (1150) and Eibingen (1165), with the Archbishop of Mainz as her only superior.

From childhood, Hildegard experienced dazzling spiritual visions. When she was 43, a voice commanded her to tell what she saw. Thus began an outpouring of extraordinarily original writings, illustrated by unusual and wondrous illuminations. These works abound with feminine imagery for God and God's creative activity. In 1147, Bernard of Clairvaux recommended her first book of visions, Scivias, to Pope Eugenius III, leading to papal authentication at the Synod of Trier.

Hildegard quickly became famous, and was eagerly sought for counsel, becoming a correspondent of kings and queens,
abbots and abbesses, archbishops and popes. She carried out four preaching missions in northern Europe, which was an unprecedented activity for a woman. She also practiced medicine, focusing on women's needs; published treatises on natural science and philosophy; and wrote a liturgical drama, The Play of the Virtues, in which the personified virtues sing their parts and the devil, condemned to live without music, can only speak. For Hildegard, music was essential to worship. Her liturgical compositions, unusual in structure and tonality, were described by her contemporaries as "chant of surpassing sweet melody" and "strange and unheard-of music." Hildegard lived in a world accustomed to male governance. Yet within her convents, and to a surprising extent outside of them, she exercised a commanding spiritual authority based on confidence in her visions and considerable political astuteness. When she died in 1179 at the age of 81, she left a rich legacy which speaks eloquently across the ages.

The Collect in the Lesser Feasts and Fasts for today reads:

God of all times and seasons: Give us grace that we, after the example of your servant Hildegard, may both know and make known the joy and jubilation of being part of your creation, and show forth your glory in the world; through Jesus Christ our Saviour, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever
and ever. Amen.

Lessons and Psalm

Ecclesiasticus 43:1-12
Psalm 8
Colossians 3:14-17
John 3:16-21

Preface of the Epiphany

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Preorders open for PACKCOMING my new novel about an older woman transforming into a wolf through a new transformation drug, Therionyl; falling in love with her ex, now a coyote and what it is given up in order to gain creaturehood. ko-fi.com/s/c697131e35 #QueerFiction #LiteraryFiction #IndieBooks

A paperback copy of Packcoming by Shimi & Critter lies across a church bulletin in warm, dim light. Its cover shows a wolf’s forelegs, a WLF-7 identification band, and red and blue communication pads. A dark-furred dog rests in the background beside a green toy.

Preorder Packcoming: https://ko-fi.com/s/c697131e35

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Music for fitting out a tiny home in the forest.

Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We are a third of the way to fully funding this pre-issue. Please spread the word.

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Awrff thank you. We are one quarter of the way to making the first print run paid for… In one day

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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PACKCOMING - (Paperback) A novel about a woman becoming a wolf - Shimi & Critter's Ko-fi Shop

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The point I decided to go it alone was being offered 2c a word for someone else to credit my words. HIre human writers. I’ve been a writer, editor and journalist since 1980. Emotionless GenAI text is not what you want to be represented by.

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One tool I forgot to mention that genuinely relit the existing composition is Luminar Neo — the Light Depth tool creates a depth map of all the elements (impasto light blips) to give it something for the shader to bite into. Then it was upscaled.

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It started life as a photo collage placeholder which became an impasto-style painting using Rebelle and Topaz Impasto II. Photoshop for vignetting/grading and extra oil texturizing it had to be upscaled to 300dpi 4096px. Affinity Publisher 2 for layout. It was never originally intended to be a cover

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It’s a wrap. Packcoming is my next book, a novel about love, faith, desire, theology, philosophy, the willing loss of humanity — and an old wolf woman rekindling feelings for an ex girlfriend, a coyote.

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Just in time for my next novel to be printed. 🐾💜

Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The 8AM and 9AM readings aren’t livestreamed, but I found another reading: Paul’s Epistle to the Romans 10:5–15, connecting Jew and Greek. A bold claim, argued from Scripture itself, Paul effectively says: ‘Gentiles, you have an in; you too are part of God’s people.’ www.youtube.com/live/XVjwzoM...

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The Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost | August 9, 2026 | Saint Mark's, Seattle

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Leather jacket and hoodie to proclaim In, raar!

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I once said, “I think St. Paul is a bit of a windbag.” Of course the Spirit has a wicked sense of humour, and I’ve found myself entrusted with Paul’s Epistles to the Romans for much of this quarter and the last. He remains “a bit of a windbag,” but an effective one. www.youtube.com/live/SyGWk7r...

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The Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost | August 30, 2026 | Saint Mark's, Seattle

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Last week my Ministry was given the honour of reading Exodus, the story of the finding of Moses—a story of women undermining kings, laws & empire. The liberation of the Hebrew people from under the yoke of oppression began before Moses in acts of defiance & mercy. www.youtube.com/live/65EzYdr...

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The Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost | August 23, 2026 | Saint Mark's, Seattle

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Mother, Lykaeon introduces the story after the Blind Wolf’s opening Salvo. 📷 @netsui-prime.bsky.social

Mother Lykaeon, portrayed by Shimi wearing a grey and white wolf mask and pale, flowing robes, stands barefoot beneath the Ravenna Park bridge at night, introducing the story after the Blind Wolf’s opening invocation. Bathed in warm amber light against deep violet architectural lighting, she leans lightly on a wooden staff, her posture calm, poised, and maternal. A semicircle of glowing LED candles marks the performance space, while audience members sit quietly in the background, watching in silence. At the edge of the stage, a confidence monitor displays the script for the performer. The dramatic backlighting silhouettes the figure, creating the impression of an ancient storyteller stepping into the light to begin the tale, with the immense concrete bridge rising behind her like the walls of a vast natural cathedral.

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HOG HEAVEN @uniboar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

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I very deliberately didn’t try to even out the material differences with your reshape of her. She is what she is and she is beautiful.

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Oh and Grading in Adobe Camera Raw as the final overall grader — specifically the Camera Raw Filter inside Photoshop. I want to try DaVinci resolve at some point but this was a fun little thing to do over a few weeks.

Grateful to @artofmaquenda.bsky.social, one of my favourite artists to allow me to photo-composite their statuette with a campsite photo from Terror in The Woods — where Tenebrae was premiered... I went down a rabbit-hole of Lightroom, Photoshop, Texturizer, Capture One, DxO PhotoLab, Affinity Free.

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Shimi @shimi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New Angel Hare art on my wall.

Framed black-and-white ink drawing of four woodland animals: two winged hares depicted as angels, accompanied by a fox and badger. Radiating lines and a pale circular halo give the central figures a sacred, icon-like quality.

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They are super comfy and calming too. I get sleepy whenever I put mine on (so many people think its only an aggression thing) and @mymuzzle.bsky.social has elegantly solved the nosebridge problem.