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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Took me longer than I thought it would (as hand sewing always does)(blanket stitch, my nemesis!) but I finished the Dodecaowl!

A stuffed toy owl made up of two fabric dodecahedrons sewn together, one for the body and the other for the head. The face is white with two orange eyes with large black pupils blanket stitched on, and a yellow felt beak

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Post Harry Potter art, I'm blocking you without hesitation. I don't care what the excuse is, don't support monsters.

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bishop Beartongue from @tkingfisher.com’s Temple of the White Rat, start her in local politics then watch as she slowly gains power & (hopefully) fixes the world

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The scene in Pee Wee's Big Adventure with the clown in the parking lot after his bike is stolen. I didn't have an issue with any other part of the movie, not even Large Marge, but I had to leave the room during that scene every time I watched it

The face of a scary looking clown mannequin from the movie Pee Wee's Big Adventure

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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rowan finn 🐚 @bigoldeels.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

anyway tis the season

watercolor painting of a grinning pumpkin with human-ish eyeballs and teeth inside its carved face. text reads "Happy Hallowe-en".

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One annoying thing about crafting (or really any multi-step projects) with a mathematician brain is once I get everything set up and know how I'm going to complete it my mind just decides "ok, all done now - you've proved it *can* be done, no need to make it a *constructive* proof"

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My cousin just had a baby, and as is my tradition for my nibblings (bio and honorary) I’m self drafting and making a stuffed animal for them The theme of the nursery is woodland animals, so I was thinking I’d make an owl

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A Fistful of Sky by Nina Kiriki Hoffman is one of my go-to comfort reads and has been for decades

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 15/09/2026

Behold! Yet another book available for preorder! This one has an aroace protagonist, many oddities, and a Very Good Goat. Also kind of my tribute to McKinley’s Spindle’s End, which you should read while you’re waiting.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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Smoking Hot Satan @darthmarmalade.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Smol snek fren! Also,

A photo of a snake, with black and yellow and red bands of color. Meme text reads, “My milk snake brings all the boys to the yard, and I’m, oh fuck no that’s a coral snake shit shit shit!”.

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I made a bracelet at the #PAX community crafting corner, inspired by @tkingfisher.com’s newest book. <3 Large Francis

A bracelet made of letter and pony beads, which reads “I do not eat human meat :)”

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

IT'S HERE! 📣 "Rainforest Radiance" is LIVE 19 brand-new bird designs have just landed! 🎁 Special early-bird freebie for the first 48 hours ❤️ Returning-backers get bonuses 🦅 Every pledge helps support our wildlife rescue & rehabilitation work Come meet the new flock! 👇 tinyurl.com/v5sry3m8

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oooh, I was wondering if @tkingfisher.com was gonna break out *that* hyena fact at this year's Hugo awards (though if that was for best novella I'm scared which fact will be for introducing best novel)

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Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My favorite Dolly Parton meme.

A twitter interaction where someone posted a photo of Dolly Parton looking hot as hell in black and red lingerie. Someone else replies to the photo with "Well then wha the hell did Jolene look like???"

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/08/2026

Hummingbirds.

A four panel comic. In panel 1, a rufous hummingbird flies down toward a large hummingbird feeder with as many as 6 holes on top. He thinks "The humans put up a new feeder!" In panel 2, he lands on the feeder and gazes down at it. He thinks "It's huge. Many of us could feed here at once." In panel 3, we see a close up view of the hummingbird, and he's thinking "This could end the ancient rivalries. Usher in an era of peace. Interesting." In panel 4, an Anna's hummingbird hovers over the feeder and says "Hey, can I have some necta-" and the rufous hummingbird says "No."

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Forever the most handsome man, Sev! 🪶

Yellow-headed vulture perched, looking down at something below him

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Swordheart is one of my all time favourite books, and this sequel does not disappoint. I loved Large Francis so much! Edmund and The Dervish are so cute together!

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Complete the sentence, I own a ridiculous amount of: dice board games enamel pins books origami paper

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

@tkingfisher.com I have a potato question for you, oh queen of the spuds! Do you happen to know if any particular cultivars are especially good for growing in OR, specifically in the Portland area?

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 16/08/2026

If you’re in Oregon, they are FILBERTS not hazelnuts. That was a marketing rebrand and I shall curse it until I die.

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We have great newts to share! Twenty tiny Mazama newts have hatched in our lab — the very first babies of their kind ever in human care.

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Not quite creative feedback, but my mathematics PhD advisor told me I'd do better pursuing a career as an artist rather than going into teaching like I'd wanted to (ngl it kinda broke me, haven't taught since I graduated)

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

New to me #bug in the yard just now: a white-tailed horntail, which looks like a huge-ass wasp but is actually not dangerous unless you’re a dead or dying conifer tree. This little lady (and I used the term “little” loosely) was well over an inch long

A large wasp-looking insect with black body and wings, black and white striped legs, and white antennae. What looks like a huge stinger but is actually just a large ovipositor for drilling into wood to lay her eggs sticks out the back of her butt

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 24/06/2026

Get in losers, we’re goin’ whale exploding!

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

2 of my DnD group are getting married this weekend - the bride plays an ocean-themed dwarf Druid with a familiar named Rawn the Prawn, who has a tiny prawn-sized grappling hook; the groom plays a fairy Warlock with a corgi named Comet as a mount. Painted this as a card for them

An acrylic painting of a large prawn riding a saddled corgi who is leaping through the air. The prawn is holding a very tiny grappling hook gun in one of his front legs

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 11/06/2026

When I speak, toads fall from my mouth. There was a fairy dressed as some kind of fucking royalty. I got cursed for insufficient deference. As far as I can tell, my toads are not any of the 500-ish known species. If you have a degree in biology and want to cowrite a paper on new toads, hit me up.

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Reply with ☠️ and I'll give you a letter to list your 4 fav characters I got K (since I can't quote-post it, from @seanendcrafter.bsky.social)

Kravitz from The Adventure Zone podcast (image from the graphic novel adaptation)

Kakyoin Noriaki from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Has anyone else noticed that there's like no pride merch out in regular stores this year? I was out running errands yesterday and went to 3 places (BiMart, Dollar Tree, and Safeway) and didn't see a single bit of rainbow in any of them, just tons and tons of patriotic crap for the 250 thing in July

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Relaxation tips: - picture a quiet forest - picture yourself wandering in the gloom - picture finding a mossy little cottage in a clearing - picture moving into that cottage and becoming the reason it's considered haunted

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Two new fuzzy dinosaur lumps have just hatched!

A just hatched blonde baby emu sitting up

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 27/05/2026

Female birds with confusing names.

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, Marco, and Ax

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Then I guess it's not a financially sustainable organization. They'll have to close some locations or shorten their hours. Alternatively, we could end the public navy and let private navies provide this service.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I love this.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 09/05/2026

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

@pushinguproses.bsky.social Managed to catch an episode of Murder, She Wrote while visiting my mum recently, seemed to have the sort of silly shenanigans (possible ghosts! a killer leaving messages in blood! Grady!) you might enjoy? S3E19 No Accounting for Murder

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

There’s something odd about the rhubarb today… Computer, enhance!

A slightly zoomed in photo of that same rhubarb plant, centered on the interior leaves and stems of the plant

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 24/04/2026

Y’know, Oregon has a particular way of dealing with things that have beached themselves and died…

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The most epic comic about a very lost wombat reluctantly going on a quest to mercy kill a dead god you'll ever read! IT'S SO GOOD Y'ALL!

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

How about a #bloomscroll, been a hot second since I did one of those? First up one of my deciduous azaleas has started blooming! Just a few flowers so far, but lots of buds all over the plant. One of the first plants I put in when we moved to the new house - love these guys, they smell so good!

Two yellow deciduous azalea flowers at the top of an otherwise bare branch

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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 12/04/2026

A new generation of poets rises, inspired by the same springtime that roused Dickinson and Shakespeare. A torch, passed.

A child’s handwriting in pink chalk on the sidewalk: “FLOWERS ARE LOWKEY Kinda FIRE”

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Dr Vinca, PhD @vincaminor42.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Finished @tkingfisher.com's latest horror novel, Wolf Worm, and as always she knocked in out of the park Also I'm wondering if my squeamish-meter is broken, cause while there was plenty of gross stuff (positive) I wasn't as grossed out by it as all the other reactions I've been seeing

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