Lunar Hine

There has been sun. | Lunar Hine Get more from Lunar Hine on Patreon

What happens when the sun comes out, thoughts on moving away and friendship, yoga with a dog, good times with my girls, and bonus Rancid.
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Here’s to good news!

Summer office | Lunar Hine Get more from Lunar Hine on Patreon

My summer office and some unwelcome life news...which will maybe turn out to be fine if I can just hold my nerve...
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Art piece of a digital painting of a brown rabbit hiding among stylized grass with white snowdrop-like bunches of blooms. The words "first they must catch you" are written in white around the rabbit's brown eye.

I didn't really get serious about learning to art for a long time because I would look at artists I admired and think, I can never do that. And I was right, I still can't do that, but along the way, I learned to do my own thing, and that is actually even more satisfying. Lean into being you 💜

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 3556: Most worlds don’t start with a map. They start with the view from your front door. By all means include maps if the spirit moves you, but your world is not going to come alive from there, but from what your characters see and know and experience for themselves.

Until I owned a herding dog, I didn't realize how much of young children's fashion is based around fuzzy coats with animal ears on the hoods.

Bluebells in sunshine

Bluebells at a tree trunk

Anyway - Here are some f****** flowers

A nice fluffy bee who has just stepped out of a salon and is feeling good but also very thirsty.

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business. Nature is us.

It's a moment, isn't it? Exciting, but with an end-of-an-era nostalgia too. Wishing you a great new notebook.

When the world feels so crazy you figure you must surely be viewing it wrong:

You won an extra day! Days are good; they're all we have...apart from nights.

Mail Order Magic March comes to you with Sunday Morning Transport stories by Stephanie Burgis, Eric Smith, Sarena Ulibarri, and Leah Cypess.

Today I'm really crashing with the M.E./CFS, which is no fun. However, it doesgive me the perfect excuse to remind everyone that I have a new cozy fantasy short story out! It involves M.E./CFS but also griffins and just a touch of sapphic romance. ;) www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/mail-order...

I LOVE your work, and the world it creates all together. Very happy to have found you here. Thanks for the follow.

Defiant Joy | Lunar Hine Get more from Lunar Hine on Patreon

More art. This time the powerful act of resistance that is deep joy in the face of all that would drag us down. Click through to read for free. It's not behind a paywall. Wishing you all huge joy.
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#art #joy #resistance #happiness #power #love

This is incredible! Are you using white ink, or scratching into colour? Or do you just use magic?

Art print of the ocean and a Hafiz poem, propped up on a sleepy jack russell.

Now available on greetings cards, by customer request. The link takes you to Patreon, but it's a free post to read.
Thanks to Yoshi for modelling this so beautifully. I have now forgiven you for stealing 9yo's breakfast.
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I noticed a while ago that you had crossed the Atlantic and were with a mutual friend of ours who was in the chaos of bereavement. You are a good human being, and that is why we love you.

ALSO, if you have a library card, you can read paywall articles for free with the Libby app.

I am working out of a public library and there are a good number of people who seem to be on hard times using the facilities for various reasons like job searching, entertainment, charging peripherals, using the bathroom, etc., and I am struck by how important it is that libraries continue to exist

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation The legislation hasn't yet passed everywhere, but all 50 states introducing some form of right to repair legislation is a "tipping point” for the right to repair movement.

The Right to Repair movement has reached all 50 US states. Six states have already passed laws requiring companies to sell repair parts, share manuals, and remove software locks that restrict repairs, and 20 more are actively considering bills. buff.ly/BIzrTtt
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Make the last item: 'Cross one thing off this list.'

I am a Barbie nine jobs.

A rural Inari shrine at Shiroyama Inari Shrine in Shimane Prefecture, showing two stone fox statues and several dozen smaller statues between them, in a wooded area.

Kitsune are the servants of Inari, kami of things that grow. Thus in many farms a fox in your field is not necessarily a bad thing, as it may reveal the boons of Inari's blessings: at many rural shrines in Japan, statues of kitsune represent this divine connection. #FolkyFriday

A log is covered in layers of turkey tail fungi, frost, and moss. Red pine needles are scattered between the rosettes and shelves of mushrooms. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Happy International Women’s Day. There’s a long, powerful history of feminist activism that has achieved, in the face of relentless violent opposition, more change than anyone thought possible. That energy still exists. Solidarity matters.

Four Emperor penguins, side by side, walk purposefully toward the camera.

Reservoir Penguins.

There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.