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I let that take me into neurographic drawing tonight. This isn't the time to end up yelling, "Why can't I just draw a TREE?!"

An abstract neurographic drawing. Black lines on a white background.

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Too many demands, too little time. Rigid structure with no room for deviation. And that stylus glides across the screen, refusing to do what I know I could do with pen and paper. A defiant inspiration of hope.

With everything getting packed for the move, I'm restricted to drawing on my tablet. Not usually how I do it. The sensory experience is an important part of drawing and painting for me. Right now, though, this may be what I need. It all feels chaotic, but there's really too much order.

That was going to be my guess. It's terrible that there are so many it becomes a guessing game.

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I've already considered that Larry might need to be the spotlight of his own story someday.

Mama Lush is also a tarot reader because Larry once picked up the wrong cards, thinking he was buying some TCG cards for his nephew. When he found out the mistake he had made, he decided to learn to read them as a tool in his own recovery.

Larry is a military veteran who wanted to get out of the small homophobic town he grew up in. And then he decided one day that he needed to go home. Mama Lush runs a queer club where only non-alcoholic drinks are served so that it's welcoming and safe for everyone.

Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 27/09/2026

See, I made a BIG mistake... I thought I could write a drag queen as a character with very little story of their own, mostly just there for a small and vital role in the plot. Please stop laughing. The character has already educated me on how wrong I was.

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I feel the need to confess something. Shirley Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (1959) is brilliantly conceived, exceptionally well written, a modern masterpiece of a novel, perfect in its precision, an instant classic. Wouldn't change a word of it. I hate it SO MUCH.

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People say inaccurate stuff all the time and I don't feel the need to correct them. Dinosaurs and saying "I could care less" can get me goin', though.

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"Shoebill stork" isn't an accurate name, but somebody didn't know that when they named the bird. A shoebill is NOT a stork, and birds are dinosaurs. I'm a lot of fun to be around when somebody says, "Crocodiles are basically living dinosaurs." Depending on your definition of "fun".

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Not everything that ends in "saurus" is a dinosaur, and the Tylosaurus was a large marine reptile, but not actually a dinosaur. Then there are days when I'm in a mood and say, "Shoebill". I save that answer for people likely to tell me that's a stork, not a dinosaur.

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There are times when I give the honest answer. Mockingbird. (Birds are dinosaurs.) There are times I give an answer that is honest, but not accurate. But the other person isn't likely to know that and it'll all end quickly. That would be Tylosaurus.

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Sometimes my answer when asked what's my favorite dinosaur is based on which answer will most likely make the person who asked stop talking to me.

I cleared out a lot of pens, markers, and brush markers by testing them all as I was packing them!

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I pictured it different in my mind". When I was a kid, I really wanted to find other kids who loved the things I loved. I didn't want to be "friend, but doesn't watch the right movies", " friend, but Star Trek fan", or " friend, but really into books". Sorry I wished for that.

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I don't do book clubs. I don't do gaming groups. I have written fanfic, but I don't get into fanfic communities. Hell, I've pretty much stopped reading reviews of shows and movies because it seems "meh, not my thing" isn't valid anymore. It must be "acting is shit and writing is horrible because

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wow... I'll be real honest. The drama over the T. Kingfisher BG3 book is why I don't get into fandoms. I don't want to be involved with people who love the same things I love with the same passion because it's going to go like THAT someday. I prefer to keep to myself and love things.

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Left bereft, alone With a single carnation, A clutched memory. #BraveWrite #carnation #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @bravewrite.bsky.social

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TCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I need a break. Packing art supplies is making me cry. I mean, they're going with us! I'll unpack them and use them again! The process is really restricting safe space, space to be myself. I know I'll use the supplies. I also know it probably won't be in the next couple of months.

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Remembering Jim Henson, born on this day, 1936.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is solarpunk art

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Perhaps there is somewhere far away from here that's better. At times I think I can hear it calling out to me— as if the very wind through the trees beckons. Yet the closer I get the further away it seems. And I'm left shivering in the darkness where a promise used to be. #sensewrds 271

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There seems to be a coordinated talking point among the EA folks that the "standard" approach to "AI" on "the Left" is "AI is just stochastic parrots so no need to worry about it". (Sorry for all the scare quotes, but y'know) >>

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement

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LK Nesse @weirdfizz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Since birds are members of the Dinosauria clade, looking at human history with birds makes me think meteors have nowhere near our numbers in that area.

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LK Nesse @weirdfizz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I propose that "chicken strips" be renamed "dinosaur filets".

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LK Nesse @weirdfizz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am so tired. If you're wondering "Is this about (name a thing)?", it probably is. I'm tired in a lot of ways because of a lot of things.

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explore.org @explore.org · 22/09/2026

Ready players? Let's vote 🐻 Round one is open at fatbearweek.org

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LK Nesse @weirdfizz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Baby fig tree WILL be moving with us! It's a good thing I decided to get them started in a pot instead of going right into the ground.

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LK Nesse @weirdfizz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I made sure I took one more picture of the baby fig tree before leaves fall and they go through their first winter.

A baby Chicago Hardy fig tree growing in a large red pot. The tree is a little under three feet tall and has a broad spread of large green leaves.