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Annalee
@flowerhorne.com
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Writer, Quaker, candlestick maker. Open source technologist and occasional tailor.

Fiction in F&SF, Futurescapes, Fireside, Friends' Journal, and places that don't start with F. They.
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Anyway here's my first sculpt of a stylized metahuman, using the painterly metahuman materials linked above. Still need to make her some hair and some clothes that actually work for the character.

For clothes I'm going to go ahead and learn Marvelous Designer because it's extremely my thing anyway.
Screenshot from the Unreal Editor, showing a headshot of a rendered 3D character with stylized facial geometry and medium brown cartoony skin. They're currently bald and wearing a non-stylized shirt and jacket.
January 19, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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QR codes encode text. They are most often used to encode URLs, but they don't have to. They can just encode plain ol' fashioned text.

And they're decoded locally on your device. There's no need for a server call to decode a QR code.

Try it out: put your phone in airplane mode, then scan this.
A QR Code that encodes the plain text "If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended: that you just scanned a QR code containing nothing but plain text."
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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I was considering trolling the Internet with an unboxing video in which I pretended not to know what I had and unboxed it while pretending to have greasy fingers, but the internet doesn't need more meanness.

Time to sleeve some cards.
A complete new in box set of the Batman: The Animated Series game Shadow of the Bat. This four-box set includes all the Kickstarter rewards and extras. It's out of print and worth $$$ on the collector market.
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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It had better be; this short story still needs an ending and I'm out of things to clean
A fortune cookie fortune that reads "a creative breakthrough is coming close"
December 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Psst. Jewelry-making pals. I've got some market intel you might be able to use.

This is a cane strap. It's a common functional attachment that allows a cane user to drop their cane without it falling to the ground, which is useful for temporary use of that hand, or if they don't have a great grip.
A hand holds up a lovely sparkling indigo cane that color-shifts between purple and blue. Its stylish derby handle and eye catching color attract regular compliments. The cane has two attachments: one is a small wing-shaped pair of hooks for hanging the cane on chairs and tables. It's functional and unassuming. Above that, a black plastic clip buckle attaches the cane to a wide black elastic strap to secure it to the bearer's wrist. The strap is not aesthetically pleasing.
December 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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@evilrooster.bsky.social hello we seem to have attracted some gnomes, any tips
Blue, green, and gold Christmas lights illuminate three long legged, soft-bodied gnomes sitting on top of a garland. They have long striped leggings and warm boots, bushy white beards and tall, slightly crooked caps. Their eyes are obscured by their hats, but they seem watchful.
December 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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A close up photo of a black greyhound tucked into a red plaid blanket lined with white fleece. She has wrapped it completely around herself so only her head is visible. She rests it on one side of the blanket, staring sleepily into the distance.
December 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Hey y'all there's a giant bat on my living room should I be worried
A black greyhound with her ears up in bat mode tucked into a fleece blanket. Her front legs are extended with her back feet tucked under them. She is half asleep and emerging from under the blanket like a snail from a fleece-lined shell.
December 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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A black greyhound in a fleece sweater with an allover pattern of autumn leaves is sitting/lying in a black wire crate. Her right front leg is buried in a grey fleece blanket, and her left front leg is extended with one paw resting on the photographer's shoe in the bottom of the photo. Her ears are halfway up and she's looking very demure and mindful.
December 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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I don't know EXACTLY who needs to hear this but I know it's at least some folks who do daily planners: your planner doesn't need to be fancy! It doesn't need fancy stencils, multicolor artwork, stickers, or washi tape.

All your planner actually needs to do is work for you.
My dot grid journal open to this week's planner spread. Some items are partially blacked out for privacy. The top of the left-hand page is the week section. It has a list of high-level todos for the week: things like "finish gift wrapping" and "draft short story." To the right of that is a plain habit tracker that's just the dates of the week across the top and 3 habits listed on the lines underneath, with Xs marked in the dot grid squares where the dates and habits intersect. Underneath is a "goals" section with the item "log 5x," because I'm trying to regain consistency in my planner use. (It's totally different from the habit tracker because reasons). Below the weekly section is a straight line drawn with the ruler I use as a bookmark, A section labeled "21st," then a list of tasks for yesterday, mostly checked off. Another straight line appears above today's section, marked "22nd," followed by today's tasks. Tasks with an X next to them are done; tasks with a dot aren't done yet. All of this is in my normal handwriting. There's no calligraphy, drawings, or stickers. The layout is neat, but plain. The fancy ruler I got to do cool fancy notebook spreads but which I actually use only as a bookmark and straightedge is sitting across the bottom of the page. On the right-hand blank page is a notebook sleeve with 4 pens (pilot vanishing points) to help hold the notebook open. Each section is in its own color because I have four different pens and I feel like it but you can do the same thing with a single pen or pencil; the colors are the only decorative element.
December 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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A nice thing about strong moderation tooling is that if a bunch of folks are having fun with something you think is aggressively boring, you can just opt out of it
Bluesky's "muted words and tags" interface, in which I've added "Die Hard" and set it to 30 days
December 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Lol speaking of Christie, while I was complaining on here I got an ad for a version of a public domain Christie novel with an AI slop cover. The jacket copy was just the first few paragraphs of the Wikipedia page.

Not today, Satan. I rebuke thee, for Project Gutenberg shall reward my faith
Screenshot of a book cover for Agatha Christie's THE SECRET ADVERSARY from "publisher" Seven Books. It has a boring layout, and features an AI slop image that has nothing to do with the book. It depicts a man in a 3-piece suit in front of a fancy magical library. He's looking pretty stern, which is fair, because he's got at least a dozen fingers on his clasped hands and they're all passing through each other. That's gotta hurt.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Sean Dunn should never have to buy his own lunch in this city again.
A version of the DC flag in which the two red bars make up the top and bottom bun of a footlong sub. The three stars hover above it like a baffoonish cartoon character who's just been beaned with a sandwich and is about to claim that the fully intact sandwich "exploded."
November 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Now for my next trick: getting two more waistcoats off the workbench and into my closet.

Todo: stitch down the sides of the pocket welts, line the buttonholes on the lining side, and assemble
Front panels for two waistcoats made of heathered charcoal wool with dove grey silk linings sit on a green cutting mat. Two strips of hair canvas interfacing that will reinforce the center front (and the buttonholes) are stacked on top of the front pieces, along with a pile of small rectangles of the lining fabric that will be used to line the button holes on the lining side.
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Quakers don't bow to kings
My SIL and me on a sidewalk. I'm wearing Quaker plain dress and sitting in a lawn chair, holding my cane in my right hand, and holding an 18x20" sign with my left hand/lap. It’s white with large black lettering and says "cursed is ANYONE who withholds JUSTICE from IMMIGRANTS - Deut 27:19. Behind me, my SIL, standing, is holding a sign in the same style that says "the good Samaritan was an IMMIGRANT (that's the point).” She's wearing a pride shirt.
October 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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And Remember: spreading fascist bullshit around to dunk on it is still spreading fascist bullshit around.
A comic book panel in which Batman is breaking a shotgun in half. The shotgun is labeled "quote dunks," and Batman is saying "THIS is the weapon of the ENEMY. We do not NEED it. We will not USE it."
October 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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A moment of rest.
October 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Her delight is not really clear now that she has it on and is just lounging in it, but she tried it on last night and when Boy Wonder offered it to her earlier this evening she was very enthusiastic to put it back on.

This dog likes being cozy.
A black greyhound lying on a light colored carpet with her head up, looking off to the right of the frame. She's wearing a hand knit teal snood, which is halfway over her ears. It keeps sliding off her ears but she likes having it up.
September 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Literally the table in front of me when I read your post

(And yes okay I'm going to log off and finish, just a sec)
A yellow dot grid Leuchtterm1917 sits open on a wooden table. It's on its final pages, and another blue one sits closed under its right-hand side. The blue notebook has metallic sticker of a redheaded woman with an earring that says "ñ," and the words "PyLadies en Español." A fat red horizon ruler with many built-in stencils that I'm very definitely going to use at some point and don't just use as a straightedge (like you've never bought a $25 aspirational art tool? Shut up) obscures the writing already on the open page of the yellow notebook. On top of it sits a carbon fiber Pilot Vanishing Point fountain pen with the tip retracted. Further back on the table, a black pen sleeve holds three more Vanishing Points. A small stack of index cards is crammed into the sleeve and I'll have you know I DO use those; they're an integral part of my editing process.
September 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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A golf course is a great place for a good old fashioned smiting
Dramatic nighttime picture of six lightning strikes off the shore of an orange and yellow skyline. The lightning bolts fork dramatically down from a purple sky to strike the indigo blue water. The photo is captioned "fuck these six fish in particular"
August 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Maybe it's because people sometimes share lunch with their unhoused neighbors and the feds think sandwich distribution is basically terrorism
A vector graphic depicting a version of the DC flag where the two red bars form the bun of a footlong sub. A few lines in between the bars suggest sandwich ingredients. Three red stars appear above the sub. On the bottom bun are written the words "Sic Semper Tyrannis," which is roughly "ever thus to tyrants." The font is josephin sans--the closest free approximation I could find to Neutra Text, which is the headline font in the city style guide (a free approximation being about as much commitment to the bit as this joke warranted). Artist: Annalee Flower Horne
August 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Here's the real flag:
The DC flag: two red horizontal bars with three red stars above them on a white field
August 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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In other news I have to redraft this sleeve cap and frankly this is queerphobic
A close up of a muslin (mockup from inexpensive cotton broadcloth) sleeve cap from a dress shirt. The sleeve cap is too high, which makes the sleeve too narrow and restricts movement. It is looking awfully smug about itself. The little shit.
August 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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*Sub semper tyrannis
A vector graphic depicting a version of the DC flag where the two red bars form the bun of a footlong sub. A few lines in between the bars suggest sandwich ingredients. Three red stars appear above the sub. On the bottom bun are written the words "Sic Semper Tyrannis," which is roughly "ever thus to tyrants." The font is josephin sans--the closest free approximation I could find to Neutra Text, which is the headline font in the city style guide (a free approximation being about as much commitment to the bit as this joke warranted).
August 17, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Happy Friday to the Maryland State flag
The Maryland flag consists of four quadrants depicting the Calvert and Crossland family crests in yellow, black, red, and white. A bold monument to maximalism. Chivalrous in its devotion to heraldic tradition. Is it beautiful? It loves itself, and that's beautiful. It doesn't need your approval—but it wants you to know that it sees you trying your best and it's proud of you.
August 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM