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Kes Beacon, science fiction and fantasy author, artist, crafter, creative. early thirties. All my links, inc. newsletter signup: kesbeacon.carrd.co

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'Which lake?! WHICH LAKE, MOTHERFUCKER?!'

09.03.2026 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dyke knights wip! βš”οΈ

07.03.2026 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2050    πŸ” 657    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 7
A pile of finches (4 society finches and 1 zebra finch), simply referred to as The Stack

A pile of finches (4 society finches and 1 zebra finch), simply referred to as The Stack

LOOK AT THESE DUMBASSES

Thank you to @hafrun.bsky.social for drawing my boys as the dorky blobs they love to be

07.03.2026 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
"Spotted at last week’s Sirplus sample sale: Michael Gove. He bought jumpers (but did stop to consider the posh boxers) and was left slightly red-faced when the cashier asked him for his name, and then β€œhow to spell Gove”."

"Spotted at last week’s Sirplus sample sale: Michael Gove. He bought jumpers (but did stop to consider the posh boxers) and was left slightly red-faced when the cashier asked him for his name, and then β€œhow to spell Gove”."

from today's popbitch, a lesson in how to politely remove any dignity from any of these asshats you might encounter. love this. imagine the joy of "and how do you spell Cameron?" and still getting it wrong. no managers can tell you off, is the joy of it

05.03.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 193    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Why is it that every time I work on my novel nature calls

05.03.2026 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A purple haired elf knight wails on her guitar,, I hope you’re ready to be destroyed 🎸🎸🎸
Prepare yourself for more of my bard warriors πŸ˜πŸ’•

A purple haired elf knight wails on her guitar,, I hope you’re ready to be destroyed 🎸🎸🎸 Prepare yourself for more of my bard warriors πŸ˜πŸ’•

Bard Knight 01 πŸ›‘οΈ
Dost thou shred? 🎸

03.03.2026 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9733    πŸ” 3071    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 19
Watercolor artwork depicting wormbo going down a slide.

Watercolor artwork depicting wormbo going down a slide.

Worm Slide
[ #art #oc #watercolor ]

02.03.2026 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1415    πŸ” 448    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, like for Meat in the Machine, I feel like I constantly have to invent torment nexii as setting background and I'm sitting here like. I hope nobody invents *my* torment nexus.

01.03.2026 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have tried to write this scene like 7 times and at least 4 are because I know some combination of characters have to get arrested, there are three candidates, and apparently I need to try every single combination before I get there.

01.03.2026 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It is with great joy that i can say Project Hanuman is shortlisted for best novel
In the BSFA awards @bsfa.bsky.social @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

i also have a story in the short listed anthology, Creative Futures

If you’ve not yet read either now is the time!

Congrats to all the finalists.

28.02.2026 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 2

I hate knitting crown decreases more than 90% of other knitting tasks

28.02.2026 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not that you give a fuck but here He Is

27.02.2026 06:14 β€” πŸ‘ 9104    πŸ” 2642    πŸ’¬ 188    πŸ“Œ 125

YouTube captions have gotten so bad lol

27.02.2026 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To be absolutely clear: this is the lowest percentage of the vote in a by-election for the Conservatives or Tories since the party was founded at the time of the Glorious Revolution in 1689.

27.02.2026 11:42 β€” πŸ‘ 337    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

anyways we need more trans stories, more trans love, more trans knights, elves, heroes, villains, scoundrels, and damsels. more trans art now! πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

27.02.2026 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 315    πŸ” 132    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5
The screenshot of the release notes reads:

A new version of TeX Live Utility is available!
TeX Live Utility 1.55 is now available-you have 1.54. Would you like to download it now?
Release Notes:
Changes Since 1.54
β€’ Fix bug 137, homepage link in Help Book.
β€’ First release in a long time, since I don't use TeX anymore and resent the very idea of paying Apple annually for the privilege of giving away free and open-source software. Also, I'm really lazy. Please accept my apologies for all the annoying issues you've encountered in this mission-critical software.
β€’ Updated mirror list, which was three years out of date.
β€’ Added missing legacy mirrors, which was even more out of date.
β€’ Added an alert on startup when user tries Homebrew's lobotomized MacTex, because those lunatics left timgr but removed its database.
Thanks for nothing, guys. Bug 142 and 144.
β€’ Use a custom user-agent to work around the Anubis bot trap on texlive.info. Can't wait to see what else breaks because of this, thanks to the profusion of degenerate Artificial Insemination fetishists scraping websites to feed their models.
β€’ Lists of countries in Repository/Continent are now sorted. No idea how you people let me get away with that one for the last fifteen years.

The screenshot of the release notes reads: A new version of TeX Live Utility is available! TeX Live Utility 1.55 is now available-you have 1.54. Would you like to download it now? Release Notes: Changes Since 1.54 β€’ Fix bug 137, homepage link in Help Book. β€’ First release in a long time, since I don't use TeX anymore and resent the very idea of paying Apple annually for the privilege of giving away free and open-source software. Also, I'm really lazy. Please accept my apologies for all the annoying issues you've encountered in this mission-critical software. β€’ Updated mirror list, which was three years out of date. β€’ Added missing legacy mirrors, which was even more out of date. β€’ Added an alert on startup when user tries Homebrew's lobotomized MacTex, because those lunatics left timgr but removed its database. Thanks for nothing, guys. Bug 142 and 144. β€’ Use a custom user-agent to work around the Anubis bot trap on texlive.info. Can't wait to see what else breaks because of this, thanks to the profusion of degenerate Artificial Insemination fetishists scraping websites to feed their models. β€’ Lists of countries in Repository/Continent are now sorted. No idea how you people let me get away with that one for the last fifteen years.

There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.

26.02.2026 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1338    πŸ” 330    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 16

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

26.02.2026 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9824    πŸ” 3492    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 89
Toad making intense eye contact

Toad making intense eye contact

How does an animal the size of a tangerine have so much swagger

26.02.2026 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If I've developed an intolerance to a staple part of my diet I'm going to file a very pointed letter of complaint to Someone

26.02.2026 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Two black and white illustrations of Empty Beasts, drawn by SfΓ©.

Two black and white illustrations of Empty Beasts, drawn by SfΓ©.

Some more empty beasts that i drew. Pulled out from the original set of 12.

#sfedrawing

24.02.2026 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 350    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

shotgun not me but think there's scope here for a proper, lengthy, meaty feature looking at every single policy area in Britain that's currently fucked specifically because of a decision George Osborne took, reckon you could make it an actual mag cover, his fingerprints are everywhere

26.02.2026 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1138    πŸ” 281    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 32
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⚑️Bass 🎸⚑️

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26.02.2026 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 419    πŸ” 157    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That sound you heard was @margueritekenner.bsky.social adding this arrow to her quiver.

24.02.2026 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Pied Kingfisher

Pied Kingfisher

#BirdsOfTheWorld image from an amazing chance I had to watch and photograph this beautiful Pied Kingfisher hunting in Vietnam #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

24.02.2026 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 136    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
A blackwater photo of Chtenopteryx squid. It has translucent skin, but it is covered in brilliant orange chromatophores, which completely cover the mantle, most of the head, the upper arms and lower fins. Its arms and tentacles are neatly spread out. Its fins have fin ribs at regular intervals, making it look like a comb or a ruffle chip.

A blackwater photo of Chtenopteryx squid. It has translucent skin, but it is covered in brilliant orange chromatophores, which completely cover the mantle, most of the head, the upper arms and lower fins. Its arms and tentacles are neatly spread out. Its fins have fin ribs at regular intervals, making it look like a comb or a ruffle chip.

I will never get over how beautiful the ribbed fins of Chtenopteryx are.

Truly, they are nature's perfect ruffle chips.

πŸ¦‘πŸ“·Steven Kovacs

21.02.2026 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 321    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
A bunch of deep sea fishes including a gulper eel and some angler fish.

A bunch of deep sea fishes including a gulper eel and some angler fish.

Creatures from the deepest sea

20.02.2026 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2783    πŸ” 872    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 11
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Recent Commissions!
Weird round dinosaurs inspired by cattle painting :3

03.11.2024 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 916    πŸ” 321    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 19

This is a gorgeous thread, particularly if you are of the confidence-game inclined.

18.02.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 172    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

I know a lot of people think Microsoft Excel is a dreadful piece of software, but I would rate it October 10th.

18.02.2026 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 638    πŸ” 114    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0