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Wonderseeker
@wonder-seeker.bsky.social
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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. 🍉🍉🍉
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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
Cover for Charlotte McConaghy's Wild Dark Shore. The title and author text is set against a moody background of intense ocean waves. There is a circular logo indicating that this is a Reese's Book Club pick.
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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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/
Book cover for The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz. It features a pine tree in the foreground with a background with two sides--one with a mountain and river, one with a cityscape.
September 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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I cannot recommend these two books enough, and they should be in conversation with one another.
10th anniversary edition of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. New York Times Bestseller by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anti-communist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
August 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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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.
Two dogs look out a large window. On the left is a brown and white border collie resting on a cushion and on the right is a brindle pitt-hound standing to look over the foliage. They are both good boys.
July 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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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
The audiobook cover for Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. It features a brown-skinned woman in a shoulder less red party dress holding a bouquet of yellow flowers, against an ornate green wallpaper. There is a blurb from Victor Lavalle, author of The Changeling: "Masterful...a gloriously moody adventure, spooky, smart, and wry."
July 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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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
The book cover for The Adventures of Amina Al-sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty. It features a marbled blue and yellow sky behind a pirate ship being attacked by a many-tentacled sea creature.
July 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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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.
The cover of The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. The background is a hazy orange and magenta ombre behind a scene of an old building with clapboard siding with two doors and a windows in between. It is surrounded by vegetation and pine trees. Words on the cover include "American book award-winning author" and two comments: "book of the decade" from Stephen Graham Jones and "Due at her best" from SA Cosby.
June 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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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.
[Image description: on top of a great deal of grass, a white plastic basket is filled with garden vegetables including corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, and jalapeños.]
June 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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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
[Image description: various prints featuring a background of bubbles behind a quote by Flo Kennedy: "Freedom is like taking a bath: you got to keep doing it every day."]
June 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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This book (Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams) is bananas.
A screen grab from Libby. Careless People: a cautionary tale of power greed and lost idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams has a white background with black text. In the center is a rounded square plane with a shark fin and the words "a memoir." Screen grab indicates that the listener has only finished 28% of the book.
June 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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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.
[Image description: various pencil sketches of human figures. In the center of the page is a sketch of two women hugging.]
June 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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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
A brown and white border collie lays in a muddy trench
May 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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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
The book cover for Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. It features an astronaut floating in space, attached to a tether to something out of frame. The backdrop is a yellow planet. There is a circular seal on the book that makes reference to Weir's other bestseller, The Martian.
May 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Finally mailing this painting to my spiritual nibling, who will only know me on my bullshit.
A brown envelope. On it in capital letters are the words "DO NOT BEND" with a parenthetical below that says "honestly, advice for these times, but mainly a message for the USPS re: this envelope"
May 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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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.
[Image description a close-up shot of a bright pink peony.]
May 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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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
[Image description: a watercolor and colored pencil illustration of a vulture picking at the ribcage of carrion. The bones have pink flowers and other vegetation growing around and through them. Beneath the sketch are words in cursive from Joy Harjo's poem: "Praise the eater and the eaten."]
April 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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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
Four different versions of a painting of a fox under a starry dawn sky, standing in a field of wildflowers. The top left has no moon and the top right has a crescent moon. The two on the bottom have full moons.
April 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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This book will stay with me forever. #booksky
The book cover for The Madonna Secret by Sophie Strand. On a dark blue background there is a golden-lined arched window shape around the icon of a woman sitting in the ground wearing a red draping gown. To the right of her knee is a skull. She holds a stargazer lily in one hand and keeps her other near her heart, perhaps to keep her cover secure. She has a halo. The sky is split between dawn and night.
April 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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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
[Image description: a mixed-media painting of a fluffy fox looking up at a dawn sky while walking through a hilly field of wildflowers]
April 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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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.
a painting of an orange cat sitting in front of a flowering bush with red flowers, surrounded by yarrow. There are some stalky leafy plants in the background. The background is blue and purple.
March 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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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.
A watercolor sketch page. Clockwise: In the top left quadrant is an illustration of a toddler standing in a puddle and holding an umbrella. The toddler has on a hot pink bucket hat that matches her hot pink galoshes. She is wearing an orange top with blue striped pants and a yellow rain jacket with green flowers. Adjacent to that sketch is a pair of ankle-high hot pink galoshes. Beneath that is a sketch of a blond child holding a daffodil. She is wearing a red shirt and a denim jumper with a strawberry pocket. She is wearing the pink galoshes as well. Beneath that is a sketch of a blond child floating in a yellow innertube in water. She is wearing a purple bathing suit and looking up. Her feet are positioned front and center. To the left are two more pink galoshes, these calf-height.
March 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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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
Image description: a watercolor and colored pencil Image of a moody blue and purple rainstorm pouring down on a forest. In fineline ink the words "praise the rain, it brings more rain. -Joy Harjo." "Praise" and "Rain" are in open block letters colored in with white to create a translucent effect.
March 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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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.
[Image description: a collage of four photos: 1. A collection of origami cats in an origami box 2. a person in masters graduation regalia flanked by their parents, a white haired woman on the right side, a man in a t-shirt featuring origami cryptids on the left 3. A tattoo of five origami elephants 4. A gold-paper origami elephant of the same design by Fukiami Kawahata.]
March 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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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.
A sketchbook page divided in half. The top is labeled "loblolly pine" and features two side-by-side watercolor & colored pencil sketches, one of the underside of a tree against a dark background, and one simple sketch of three trees against white. The bottom half of the page is labeled "persimmon." It features a heavy-laden persimmon tree. The sketch uses negative painting techniques to create light effects.]
February 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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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!
The cover for The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass. The cover features an illustration of serviceberry branches laden with purple, red, and blue berries, as well as two cedar waxwing birds.
February 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM