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Rhiannon Archer
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Just a crazy queer pagan witch. ND AF. Married. She/her. I'm a writer and I also make jewelry. Eventually I'll have jewelry for sale but I'm not there yet.

My wordpress site has all the info about my writing!

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I never used the 8" disks but I remember the 5.25" disks well. My favorite video game was held on a 5.25" disk. Alice in Wonderland.

This gem, except I played it on my father's Apple IIE which had a monochromatic (green on black) monitor.
Screen shot of an opening title page for the Alice video game in question that is a charmingly but also horrifically pixelated shot of I believe Alice's living room, with what appears to be a fireplace in the middle and mirror above, with bookcases and potted plants on either side of the fireplace. Alice is on the left between that case and the central fireplace, facing left, and her little rough paper cutout looking body is solid white, while the room has rudimentary coloring in a couple of shades of brown, the plant leaves are green, and the main background body is black with a sort of asterisk like pattern in yellow making it look like wallpaper. There's a black and yellow header banner up top which reads Alice in Wonderland, and below that a smaller banner says Lewis Carroll. Below the reddish brownish floor of the living room that also has an asterisk type pixel pattern for interest is a solid black chunk of screen where game play text messages and instructions will appear throughout, right now saying in white: Copyright 1985, Windham Classics, all rights reserved.
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Two panel comic strip style cartoon. In the top panel a presumably deceased ancient Egyptian person is on his knees solemnly presenting his heart to Anubis, and the caption above reads "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart," and then in the bottom panel Anubis now has the heart on the scale, weighing it against the feather, and the heart is indeed heavier than the feather. Anubis is looking at the scale, fist on chin in a sort of contemplative way, while the deceased person has nervous sweat beads on his forehead and is looking behind himself to the eager crocodile face of Ammit that has appeared in the bottom left, as she eyes the heart excitedly. Caption above reads "But the very next day, you gave it a weigh..." Spelled like weighing it, so it's word play.
December 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Well...
The cover for the tingler ebook "Slammed In The Butthole By My Concept Of Linear Time" by Chuck Tingle. The cover art features a frantically busy business man in a black vest over blue dress shirt and tie, sitting at a desk, and he has six arms in a non-literal artistic way meant to illustrate just how overwhelmingly busy he is, two extra arms just appearing behind his proper body on either side, and he's holding a phone receiver and a book and a pen and a cup of coffee and is also slamming a fist down on his desk while pulling his hair out in frustration. Standing behind him is the shirtless swol glistening body of a weight-lifting hunk, with an old timey face of a clock in beige tones and with Roman numerals superimposed over the sexy man's face. The background behind both men is just a blue sky with white clouds, with the title of the book taking up the top portion of the image.
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Two split frames of a scene from Who Framed Roger Rabbit where Eddie Valiant is fighting Judge Doom and opens an Acme crate to grab a "singing" sword. In the top image he has just barely grabbed the cartoon sword, that despite clearly being anthropomorphic with a human-like face is straight like a proper sword in Eddie's grasp and appears to be asleep, closed eyes on its face that is facing downward while Eddie wields the sword with an expression of vengeance aimed at the off-screen villain. That expression is quickly replaced by a look that can only be described as "as shit what the hell?" in the bottom image, as the sword has woken up and is no longer straight but all curved and squiggly in Eddie's grasp, the top portion with the face (that is accentuated by a blue hairline just below where it tapers up into the tip) now curving upward so that the face is the correct orientation for a human-like being, despite being only a face on the end of a twisting snake-like sword still being held by Eddie Valiant. Oh and much closer to the hilt is also a blue bow tie, implying nearly the entire length of the sword is a neck. The sword's face, with dreamy blue eyes and mouth open as it sings, bears a carnival caricature resemblance to Frank Sinatra, who is also the voice of the sword as it begins singing Witchcraft.
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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May I offer you alternative lyrics?
Closeup of the underside of a white kitty paw with pink toe beans, and in the bottom left corner is a superimposed image of Dolly Parton in a gold outfight, looking straight ahead at the viewer, and her left hand is gesturing towards the (compared to her) massive kitty paw. Seriously, each toe bean is about the same size as Dolly's head. Also added, and covering over the big pad below the beans, is a comic book style speech bubble as if Dolly is singing, and to the tune of Jolene the words in the speech bubble are "TOE BEANS, TOE BEANS, TOE BEANS, TOE BEEEEAAANNS!!"
November 8, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Definitely sunflowers! Because lookit! A few of the sprouts still have their husk attached!
I have gently partially dug down around the shoots on one side, so we can see where the sprouts fade from green to a yellowish white, and it's just a massive cluster of sprouts looking like angel hair or something as it disappears into the dirt. A couple of the cotyledons, or seed leaves, on the tips of a couple of the younger sprouts actually have the hard black sunflower seed husks still attached.
October 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Already got a visual update! Because they are growing *fast*. This was from this morning. It's no longer just groups of two leaves on the end of each stem, 'cause new pairs are growing out of the middle at 90 degrees! So there's now four leaves per stem, or two cotyledons and two 'true' leaves.
As stated, new baby leaves are starting to grow out in the center of at least some of the existing pairs of leaves, pointed at 90 degrees from the first pairs so that when all four leaves are out they'll be oriented like compass points. Also, all the sprouts are noticeably taller than in the first pic with a couple of especially lanky ones off on the right with trailing stems lying on the ground that are a few inches long before the leaves on the very end.
October 31, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Does anybody who knows plants know what this is? It just started randomly growing in a strip of dirt near the house after a heavy rain. Google-searching the pic says purslane but I do *not* think it is purslane (but maybe a different sort of portulaca?) The leaves are rubbery and succulent-like.
A low to the ground newly growing cluster of some sort of succulent type leafy plant that has burst forth from the earth. It has spindly green stems unlike purslane's red stems, and instead of larger clusters of four or so leaves at the end of each stem it only has two leaves on the tip of each stem, opposite each other so that if you manually closed them you could pretend it was chomping. The leaves themselves are very similar to purslane in appearance though, elongated smooth ovals.
October 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Unless they are ~heavy duty~ coasters. These are the two on my nightstand:
Two clay tile pottery type coasters I'm gonna guess without measuring are roughly 4" squared, though the one on the left is slightly smaller. That one is reddish tan clay color with an intentional roughness to the edges and cracks on the surface to make it look old, and slightly carved into the surface and also colored in black it says "When it doubt add more wine." The one on the right that's slightly bigger is a flat white ceramic EFFIN BIRDS coaster, slightly chipped this time from actual use and otherwise a cleaner square shape, the surface also slightly discolored from use as its intended purpose, so it has a faded tan cup ring on it. The image is a black and white illustration of I believe a starling, above the words "I am a goddamned delight."
October 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Woo-hoo!
The Hero
October 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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I mean
Freeze frame from the TNG episode Transfigurations, where the amnesic alien guy with the power to heal with a touch starts having energy attacks where his chest and then whole body glows bright yellow during a spasm, until he eventually turns into a flameless glowstick version of the Human Torch and then just a ball of energy. In this scene he's in sickbay flanked by Dr. Crusher and a nurse (not Ogawa, I would recognize her) and he's standing facing the camera and also arching his back a bit, caught mid gasp of pain as bright yellow energy bursts forth from his chest. He's dressed in a white form fitting spandex one-piece bodysuit and the way he's arching his back (and thus also thrusting his hips out towards us) reveals that he was not given anything to wear underneath the spandex to help limit the presence of a certain part of his anatomy. If anything he's got a codpiece on under there.
September 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Here, have a meme.
White letters on dark blue background that says: "Soup is witchcraft. We put plants, spices, and dead animals into a cauldron and follow instructions from a book written by old people." Text followed by a female wizard emoji, a male wizard emoji, a crystal ball emoji, and the hot springs emoji, in this case representing the hot liquid of the soup.
September 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Reskeet with your mental state.
That gut-wrenching scene from The Neverending Story where Atreyu is desperately trying to tug his horse Artax forward, out of the Swamp of Sadness, pulling taught on Artax's reins while the horse is buried up to his chest. With white meme text Artax is labeled "me" while Atreyu is labeled "somehow still also me"
September 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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I also have one of these in my folder:
Classic two image Picard telling a dad joke and Riker face palms meme, taken from the episode A Matter of Perspective where Picard and Riker are sitting next to each other at a desk, watching a holodeck recreation of witness testimony. Added meme text makes it appear as if Picard is telling a dad joke to Riker who face palms at the punchline. In this one, in the top panel Picard says, "Did you know that Mortal Kombat is actually based on an old Scandinavian church song?" and Riker asks "Wait, really?" In the bottom panel Picard says, "Yes, a Finnish hymn." Riker face palms.
September 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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See also:
Deanna Troi sitting at her desk at her little laptop computer looking console in her quarters, and she's gesturing with her hand and saying something that I think was actually asking the computer to make her a real chocolate ice cream sundae, if I'm remembering the scene correctly, but instead white meme text has been added so that she's asking: "Computer, why are men?"
September 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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I don't know who hurt you so adjust as needed but:
Still from the TNG episode Schisms with Riker in uniform floating horizontally in his quarters and he's disappearing feet first into an interdimensional subspace portal. White meme text has been added to the image and at the top it says: "Whole man disposal services?" then at the bottom it says: "Yes, the entire man."
September 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Just the word "yikes" but it's written all fancy in Medieval Manuscript style where the Y is much larger and white, while the rest of the word is smaller in black, and the white Y has a fancy pattern of green leaves over a turquoise background behind it that's also in a darker blue frame, and it also has a little red dragon existing in the bowl part formed by the top of the Y. The rest of the word also has some blue manuscript margin style doodling underneath it.
September 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I'm off to a great start this morning catching up on my feed...
Screen shot of two posts in my bluesky following feed, dated 17 hours ago because I had scrolled down to where I left off yesterday. The bottom one, and so the first one because I am scrolling up, is a news post by Sue Stone aka knittingknots stating: "CVS: COVID vaccines not available in 16 states following new RFK Jr. limits" and then includes a link to the article. The post above this one is an Effin' Birds post with a painting of a bird that I believe is a purple swamphen, next to the exclaimation: "What the shit?"
August 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Turns into an old MAN. Stupid lack of edit button, lol.

Anyway I looked it up and the title is Scientific Method, and here's a picture of Janeway checking up on Old Man Chakotay, who I guess the writers decided would lose ALL his hair, or maybe the DNA tweak was also said to make it all fall out.
Chakotay is in sickbay, lying on a bio bed though that's cropped out of the image as we only see him from about the chest up, as he struggles to sit up a bit while Janeway is standing by his side, and we see her from only around the waist up. Chakotay is wearing a full face and head prosthetic old man makeup that really accentuates his cheekbones and fades out his tribal tattoo, and he is as bald as Mr. Clean. Balder, because Mr. Clean at least still has eyebrows. (Chakotay does not have eyebrows.) Janeway is looking down at him in concern but also looks slightly pained and unkempt, a scant few loose strands in her pulled-up bun hairdo revealing that she's not quite been feeling like herself, either, almost as if she's suffering from a horrible nonstop migraine headache.
August 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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One of my favorite Swear Treks, lol.
August 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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As an aside, I took to the googles to verify that Eddie Valiant quote and now have probably one of the BEST examples of why the AI cannot be trusted. If you've got an AI diehard in your family show 'em this:
Screen shot of Google, and in the search bar is only the quote "You need a heart before you can have an attack." The AI Overview reads as follows: The line "You need a heart before you can have an attack" is a famous quote from the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit, specifically spoken by the character Eddie Valiant. It's a witty, sarcastic retort to R.K. Maroon, who accuses Eddie of trying to give him a heart attack. The line highlights the absurdity of the situation, as Maroon is a cartoon character who doesn't have a literal human heart, thus cannot physically experience a heart attack.
July 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Just replying instead of quote-skeeting because I gotta put a nudity tag on it, lol.
Photograph of a real oil painting of a nude white woman from the waist up, and it has an old world kind of feel to it. Her blonde hair is up in a bouffant with bangs and an additional bun visible in the back, and a wispy bit of hair hanging down and touching her left shoulder. Her torso is facing the viewer almost straight on and is turned only slightly towards her right, with her bare breasts proudly on full display, nipples small and pink. Her face is in only very slight profile as she's facing towards her left, and she has very dark smokey eyeshadow but no lipstick and her lips, along with all her skin, is very creamy pale. Her left arm is straight down at her side and we only see it from the elbow up, while her right arm is bent at the elbow and from elbow to hand her right arm is posed held up sideways across her body. Draped loosely around her arms and being held ever so delicately in her right hand is a very ethereal, see-through wispy white fabric. The background color of the painting is a very pale blue.
July 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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I totally get it. My first cover compared to my last one:
Cover art for my ebook entitled "Love at First Bite" and the main body of the cover is pink doing a gradient progression from light pink at the top towards an almost rose pink at the bottom, and the top half of the cover has the title written in large fancy calligraphy script font in red, with "Love at" being one line and "First Bite" being aligned center below it on a second line. Below the title, the image on the cover is a very clip art looking (because it is clip art) red Valentine's style heart with some white sheen so it's not totally flat, and coming up from behind the right-hand bump of the heart is a cartoon wax lips looking dark red vampire mouth with pulled back upper lip and teeth and fangs bared that's clamped down onto the heart, but there's no blood. Along the bottom of the cover in just one line, in the same fancy font but smaller and white, it says By Rhiannon Archer. Cover for my book Silver Dawn: A Fang for a Fang, and this time we have a full cover image of a forest that is faded out in a grayscale appearance except it's a slightly turquoise blue instead of gray. We see trees in the background and at the top there's also closer tree foliage hanging down. Towards the top left of the image it's all washed out in a blinding light with streaks, indicating that sunshine is coming down from that direction. Towards the bottom we have the forest floor. The main title Silver Dawn is written in a thick hand-written style font colored in with white and gray gradient to mimic a metallic sheen, with a turquoise shadow effect also added to the letters, and the word Silver is nearly centered to the page but is slightly offset to the left to actually be placed centered within the white sunlight burst, and then the word Dawn is below it offset even more to the left to again be centered within the white sunburst in between tree branches. Below that, in a smaller and different almost Times looking font but slightly nicer and italic, in black, it has the subtitle A Fang for a Fang aligned center with the page. All this is around the top one third of the cover and then taking up approximately the bottom two thirds is a digitally designed (but NOT AI) Fabio looking man with shoulder length blond hair, a poofy black pirate shirt with large v neck exposing his chest, and tight black leather looking pants his shirt is tucked into, and he's twisting at the waist so that his bottom half is facing viewer right and he's turning towards his right to look directly at the viewer, his right hand extended beckoningly. He has been faded out and made blueish but there is still some flesh tone to him. Standing behind him to the right is a large black woof who is also standing facing towards viewer's right, with its face slightly turned towards the viewer so it's a partial profile. Discreetly in the bottom right corner in plain white text it says Rhiannon Archer.
July 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Our yorkie Bentley needed a calmer-downer to go to the groomers and I've got a picture of him in my car post-groom still absolutely stoned out of his mind, lol.
A shorn Yorkshire terrier sitting on his haunches on the passenger seat of my car (vehicle has dark gray interior) and he's sort of facing in my direction except not really because he's staring off into space not looking directly at me. His eyes are very squinty and his expression can only be described as empty head, no thoughts. Little dude is trippin' balls, lol.
July 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Yeah. It's east-facing but we're in the desert and so during the summer at least, even only getting sun until around noonish the poor tomato plant is starting to fry. It's extra hot with the reflective heat from against the side of the house, too.

But I finished the shade structure this morning!
Wide view of nearly the whole east side of the house. A strip of barren desert dirt ending at an eight-foot panel of cream vinyl fence in the background rests in shade while the side of the house taking up the majority of the top left of the image has stucco nearly the same shade of tan/beige as the dirt that is illuminated by the off-camera morning sun. A single living room window visible on the far end of the house has a bare lattice covered trellis structure sitting a couple feet in front of it that is as tall as the window and would be a good place to grow some sort of climbing vine. In the foreground of the picture, the main focal point is a structure of sorts comprised of four wooden posts attached to concrete bases, with blue sunshade fabric attached to the top of the four posts, holding it taut over a handmade wooden bench sitting below it. Extra fabric also drapes in the back, so that there is a top canopy roof of blue fabric and also a back wall of blue fabric creating an alcove of sorts for the potted tomato plant that is sitting upon the wooden bench underneath the canopy. Presently only the top of the tomato plant is beginning to be illuminated by the still low early morning sun. Closeup of the wood bench and tomato plant upon it, which is in the nursery pot that has the built-in tomato cage. The plant is barely taller than the top edge of the cage, and the tip top of the plant is now in shade while the majority of the plant is in full sun, this picture taken a couple hours later so the sun is higher in the sky.
July 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM