Uh holy moly -- y'all remember that dragon I did? It won third place at #MileHiCon art show !!!

Last day of #MileHiCon!

I have a panel at 1pm on Invisible Disabilities & Writing.

In the meantime I'll be around, checking out other panels, & painting wherever there's a flat surface;) I love having a little travel watercolor kit.

The art show is open to 1030 if you want to see my stuff!!

I'm at #MileHiCon this weekend!

I'm on panels tomorrow(Saturday) and Sunday, and you can also see or purchase my art in the art show starting tonight!

My Art Show display is a little busy but it's all up there at least. This is my first time putting myself out there as an artist as well as an author so I guess we'll see how it goes!

I'm at #MileHiCon this weekend!

I'm on panels tomorrow(Saturday) and Sunday, and you can also see or purchase my art in the art show starting tonight!

Happy birthday!!! 🎂🎁🎁🎁🎂

I would sue if I found out my therapist was using AI during therapy. A total privacy nightmare.

"Suddenly, I was watching him use ChatGPT,” says Declan, 31, who lives in Los Angeles. “He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT, and then summarizing or cherry-picking answers.”

Comet does the same thing when he wants to let you know he's never been petted, ever, in his life.

He streeeetches up a human's leg to reach as high as possible. And while also trimmed, there are often surprise!claw pokes.

But dang it, it's so cute.

Colorado issues orders allowing people to get a COVID vaccination this year without a prescription

I have the memory of a sieve. It's why I volunteered to paint custom badges (on wood with magnet backings!) for one of my local orgs, because only then will I permanently attach a name to a face.

(I am, honestly, v happy to do these for literally anyone who asks. I can put pronouns on them too!)

Post WorldCon, my husband & I took a cruise up to Alaska and back for our 20th anniversary. I did a little painting on the boat:

InkFoundry is a website dedicated to curating short fiction. I highly recommend it as a place to browse for new reads. :) I know the site owner, and she's constantly looking for new ways to improve it. Each piece added to the database is tagged for content: inkfoundry.net

There were also some lovely iridescent beetles (beetles of all kinds really), a plethora of stick bugs, many spiders and tarantulas, and big katydids and related critters, and African millipedes!

We're in Victoria, BC today and went to the Bug Zoo, so of course I thought of @seananmcguire.bsky.social . This mantis' name is Caitlyn. It's a Hierodula membranacea or a giant Asian mantis. There were a couple others but this one posed the nicest.

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Hey #worldcon2025 ! Come join me at my panels today and table talk tomorrow! I have keychains, stickers, and bookmarks to give you :D

Hi friends! I'm at WorldCon! Here's my panels, come say hi!!

I am very tired but a lot of work is about to pay off. Last summer I dug out every last bit of gravel out of the borders of my yard. This year I dug, laid, & arranged a jigsaw puzzle of a flagstone patio.

As soon as I have 2 days without rain, I put in the polymeric sand & it'll be done.

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It's out! I _need_ the red kite pin so bad you guys 🤩

Yay!! My copy of "In Memoriam" from @lyndsie-clark.bsky.social 's Kickstarter arrived! I can't wait to get into it 🤩

It's Friday! For my writers out there -

Yes, the world is a total mess.

Do what you need to do to for yourself & your art.

Turn off the news; turn off the notifications.

Make space in your calendar,
in your mind, in your heart,

and get some words down!

You got this!💖

I'm still a very early career writer, as all things go. My application acceptance to panel at WorldCon did feel like an honor and an accomplishment.

But now all this AI "vetting" has utterly tainted my joy. I'm left wondering if I really earned it at all :/

Yep, as stated in the alt text ;) Josiah is both very tall and the Quetzalcoatlus is his favorite dinosaur*. It was cool to find a life size model!