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wonder-seeker.bsky.social
Wonderseeker
@wonder-seeker.bsky.social
She/they. #audhd

Social-working it. Gardening, reading, and art-making the rest of the time.

Current special interests: #neurodivergence, #labormovement, #solarpunk stories, #watercolor techniques, and #decolonizing my own mind. 🍉🍉🍉
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy is a legitimate masterpiece. Set in a wild & unforgiving but also desperately loving Antarctic island, this story weaves climate grief in with family & personal grief. This is the best book I've read this year. It will be working in me for a long time. #booksky
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Finished The Terraformers today, which was a lovely #solarpunk story that I'd recommend w one caveat. I was hopeful that it would be radically inclusive of people of all IQs bc it has a preoccupation with defining personhood and is critical of systems that determine that with intelligence ratings 1/
September 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I cannot recommend these two books enough, and they should be in conversation with one another.
August 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Domesticating #dogs was the single best thing the human species has done. It isn't even close, and we don't even deserve it. We just get to live with these whole-ass people with opinions and proclivities that add up to loving us really well.
July 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Finished Mexican Gothic last night and it is excellent--maybe the scariest book I've ever read. Horror isn't my genre usually but the author nailed the Gothic conventions. CW for pretty upsetting sexual assault scenes, though. #booksky
July 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi was a delightful departure from what was a series of emotionally devastating reads. Super fun: 12th century working mom lady pirate with a queer crew and ambiguously problematic demon ex-husband. #booksky
July 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Finished The Reformatory by Tananarive Due yesterday, which is about a juvenile detention for boys in Jim Crow Florida. There's a ghost story central to the novel, but it is, beyond that, very much about how the United States is haunted by our history of violence and apartheid.
June 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
It is hot. The weeds, despite being in control three weeks ago, are out of control now. I have easily triple the number of cucumbers I wanted and only half the squash. And this is just holy. I can't believe we do anything else than be in relationship with a planet that feeds us & that we feed back.
June 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Tried my hand at #blockprinting today! Not terrible for a first try! None of them has come out phenomenally yet but if you want some cast offs for collage or something, hit me up (locally to the Triangle please). #flokennedy
June 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This book (Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams) is bananas.
June 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Among the things I'm not excellent at but that I am still trying to nurture a practice for are #figuredrawing (from photo references) and swimming (twice a week at 7am). The annoying truth is that practice does actually help you get better at stuff. Rude.
June 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Moon Pie's tenth gotcha-day anniversary is tomorrow and he wanted to do it up right by taking a leisurely mud bath and then giving my recently-cleaned house mud accents. He made sure to stink to the highest of heavens. #bordercollie #bordercollieproblems #tenyearoldbordercollieproblems #gotchaday
May 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Loved this one a lot. It may be the hardest sci-fi I've ever read, but the voice is phenomenal and it is genuinely poignant. This is one to listen to--the audiobook is exceptional. #booksky
May 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Finally mailing this painting to my spiritual nibling, who will only know me on my bullshit.
May 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The peonies have popped, and I feel the reverse of the indignation I've had when life continues on after someone I love has died. It really does feel like everything is falling apart. And I really am scared and sorrowful. But the peonies burst forth anyway and that is a blessing.
May 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I am still doodling around with my "Praise the Rain" illustration project. I recently read Sophie Strand's memoir The Body is a Doorway and while I did not love all of it (I think there are some Problems) I did love most of it. 1/2
April 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I did a few more versions of the fox illustration from yesterday. These are Easter/springtime gifts for my three precious niblings (ages 3 months to 2.5 years). The fourth I will save to scan and maybe make into stationery someday. #watercolor #coloredpencil #mixedmedia #whimsical #illustration
April 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This book will stay with me forever. #booksky
April 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is a draft that I want to do again on a higher-quality paper (and maybe add a moon) but I am very pleased with the wildflowers especially. #Coloredpencil and #watercolor is just a very satisfying combination right now! ##mixedmedia #illustration
April 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I've just been flipping through old sketchbook doodles and adding details with colored pencil. I've been inspired by kid lit illustration and the combo of #watercolor and colored pencil.
March 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
My niece got some hot pink galoshes this weekend. As her Neenee, it was important to capture it for posterity.

In related news, two-and-a-half is a pretty adorable age, laying aside my sister being exhausted these days due to sleep regression and/or her having an inevitable night owl on her hands.
March 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I've been working on a sketchbook project with "Praise the Rain" by Jo Harjo. The sketchbook has been low key enough that I'll finish it, but I have ideas about a next phase for this project. But also, I have a full time job and ADHD. So it might stay just a sketchbook project. #watercolor #poetry
March 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Today is my dad's birthday. I miss him a lot. More and more as I age, I see the lovely things I inherited from him. I wish we'd had more time.
March 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
After enjoying a daily drawing challenge I started halfway through January, I made my own list of drawing prompts for February -- all native plants. I haven't nailed them all, but I'm pleased with this page.
February 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The Serviceberry (112 pages, 2 hours audio) should be on everyone's book club list this year. The wisdom about mutualism and reciprocity is what we need right now (and what we have indeed always needed).

@peterkindfield.bsky.social I assume it is on your radar! You were on my mind as I read it!
February 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM