Briana Huether

I made responsible decisions today and swapped my car to summer wheels, instead of fucking off for a ride on my bike that is low on fork oil and coolant with a fairly worn and slippery back tire.

I hated every second of it because everyone else is out for rides and I can’t 😭 #sadmoto #sv650s

Also, Calgary Public Library, do better. Read an excerpt of some of these before you add them to the collection. Even the excerpts are crap.

How does this shit get published by actual publishers, and people who actually write well can’t get a book accepted for love nor money.

Fuck the old white boys club that is the publishing world. 😑

Like, not just predictable cliche lame romance tropes, the books have to follow the recipe, but actual terrible writing that appears to never have met an editor.

And people writing about industries that they know literally nothing about and have done even less research about.

I’ve been reading a lot of romance novels for the past few months, because, escapism, duh.

And I’ve found a few authors I really like. But wow there are a lot more completely terrible ones. Why is the library getting only 1-2 of the good ones, and 20 of the terrible ones?
Ugh.

I love #Moss and #SciArt

Only 10 days left until my full time summer work starts! Pretty excited to get back to it, I’ve missed my coworkers and the work and also the steady pay cheque haha 😆

Get a motorbike they said. You will save money on gas, they said.

Theoretically, that could be possible. But with my car I drive the 1.5 km to the store and back. On the bike I get to the same store via a 65 km loop out to Gull Lake and back. 😏

#suzuki #sv650 #girlswhoride #bikerchicks

Listened through a few older Bad Omens albums today and when the last one finished Apple autopay took over, and it nailed it. My heads been full of angsty metal all day and I love it.

Radar is 10 today!!

Minecraft village now has a Ramen Cart 🥰
I forgot to take a screenshot, but it’s super cute.

Given the current US/Canada, uhhh, atmosphere, sort of want people be aware that the nominee for Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, is a Project 2025 contributor and Tea Party guy.

#cdnpoli

A layer of very clear ice covers rocks near the edge of a lake. The closeup of one of the rocks shows a cluster of small white bubbles of varying size inside the ice. The bubbles are all clustered together over one rock, they look like tiny little fluffy cotton balls encased in glass.

A layer of ice sits a few inches above a lower ice layer. The sun behind reveals the 1-2 inch space between the layers, highlighting the rounded pillars of super shiny glossy ice holding up the top layer. The low sun glints off everything.

A layer of ice sits a few inches above a lower ice layer. The sun behind reveals the 1-2 inch space between the layers. This slightly different angle, with the sun more to the side, focuses on one small pillar of ice. The light dances off all the different facets, highlighting the brights and shadows and colors in the ice.

Ice is so damn fascinating. #landscapephotography #icescape #icebubbles #exploreterrace #explorebc #kitsumkalumlake #kalumlake

This has all the feels of something that, in normal times, would bring down a government.

YouTube video by Kalliopi Lyviaki Easy Watercolor Misty Ocean ★ Watercolor Tutorial For Beginners

Thank you!
Absolutely, it was this one: youtu.be/Kv_zOi0uxcQ?...
Her piece looks stunning, with a lot more of the mist/fog vibes.

Two watercolor pieces lay side by side on a black a white blanket. Both are simple, dark blue ocean scapes. The left piece isn’t finished because wet into wet watercolor takes a bit to dry well enough to add another layer. The piece on the right was wet onto dry. This is my preferred method. The lines and edges are much sharper, there is more color layering already, but there is still evidence of the magic blending of watercolor in the shading on the waves. Below the paintings lay a cluster of 5 water pens.

I don’t think I’ve painted since I got here? Anyway. Pulled them out tonight. Was watching a tutorial and they described painting waves in a way that finally clicked in my brain. So, had to give it a go. I kind of hate painting wet into wet (left side). #watercolor #waterscape #oceanscaoe

I told myself I would only post photos on bluesky if I write alt text for them. It feels overwhelming sometimes. Just now I looked at the alt text on some other peoples photos. Oh.
Not everyone writes an extensive paragraph. Maybe that’s why it feels like a lot.

An old brindle whippet with a greying face stands on a rocky beach with a dusting of snow. She wears a rainbow collar and a puffy red winter coat with soft Sherpa lining. Behind her is skeena river in Terrace, BC. Over the river is the curving Skeena rail bridge. Immediately behind that is the old Skeena River bridge for vehicles. She looks off to the right, down river, contemplatively. A fe fluffy snowflakes float down around her.

And here’s Radar standing in front of the old Skeena river bridge and train trestle. The river is very very low right now.

Dude on the Repair Shop is a world champion in obstacle racing — with one leg.

Said he spent 14 years not walking as a kid ‘cause of extreme pain, but at 16 insisted on amputation.

Now he’s a world champion.

Huh. Maybe teens can make permanent decisions about their bodies that empower them. 🤷‍♀️

A kid, wearing black hoodie and sweatpants, stands on top of a tire swing, gripping the thick green marine rope it is hung with. They are just past the peak of swinging left and starting to head back to the right. They are looking out through the huge old tree branches over the Douglas Channel in Kitimat, BC.

I followed a bunch of news and political people awhile ago and now I wish I hadn’t. Anyway, please enjoy this much more pleasant photo of a kid standing on top of a tire swing that’s hanging from a giant old tree, swinging and looking out at the Douglas Channel in Kitimat.

A misty scene of a lake through a mess of twigs. There appears to be a graceful long necked dinosaur about to take a sip from the lake just beyond the shrubs. It’s really a tree branch covered in varying clumps of moss.

Two thick tree trunks frame a view of a small pond with an evergreen forest on the other side. A little ways out from the shore the water turns to ice, most of the lake is frozen, in the middle of the photo a rope dangles. Quiet and still. Until summer returns and it gets back to swinging and flinging joyfully squealing people into the refreshing lake.

A small frozen lake with layers of fog and mist. In the foreground is a blurred mossy log with the winter skeletons of small plants. Across the lake is an evergreen forest. Midway across the lake is a small mossy island, barely more than a few inches out of the water, but it is home to optimistic shrubs and a small tree, just waiting for spring so they can burst their leaf buds.

Through a frame of cedar branches hangs a larger tree branch covered generously and gracefully with old man’s beard hanging moss. It hangs in long tendrils reaching towards the lake below. It is delicate and beautiful like long flowing hair or pieces of delicate lace or flowy ethereal fabric.

I am very behind on photos. Wish I could attach more than 4 to a post, but here we are. These are from a tiny little magical puddle called Findlay Lake. #inacessibleviews #exploreBC #northernBC #beautifulbritishcolumbia #exploreterrace

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A tree, long dead, but still upright, that a beaver once tried to take on. The beaver chewed away a significant portion of the trunk near the bottom, but it never finished the job. So now a thick trunk, larger than I can out my arms around, balances on a spindly middle that probably has a circumference of 12-14 inches. Tree 1, Beaver 0.

The trunk of this tall evergreen tree, overlooking a misty pond, isn’t very thick, but the root system is huge and exposed above the ground from years of rain erosion. It stretches out a long way from the base of tree, root fingers stretching every which way to keep itself upright and find nutrients.

Three dogs, a Whippet in a black plaid coat with red collar, a Shih Tzu in a blue sweater, and a naked Lagotto Romagnolo, stand in a single file line on top of a very large decaying fallen tree trunk. Even on the ground the tree trunk is still much taller than any of the dogs. A woman with grey curly hair, wearing a grey coat stands behind the huge log, staring off into the distance.

I don’t know if these all qualify for #ThickTrunkTuesday but I wanted to share them anyway. There’s so many weird and cool trees up here in Northwest BC.

A person in a khaki green sweater with the hood up is sitting on a burnt orange Suzuki motorbike parked inside a garage. They are leaned forward resting their cheek on an arm that is folded on the gas tank. They wear black glasses with pride rainbow stripes and have a look of contentment on their face.

This is going to be a busy spring and summer. I can only hope I can find sometime to ride frequently because holy eff I miss my bike so much 😫

Other interesting things: finally finished editing and published a video from New Year’s Day adventure up an FSR. Been taking lots of photos. Working on a friends website. I start back freelancing for a former client in February, and back to work for the city in April or May.

I’ve been spending waaaay too many hours in there building shit and terraforming, but also, I’m enjoying my last bit of time off before work stuff starts to ramp up for the season.

Yet to come:

bakery (black square, bottom right)
Apartment building
More houses
Market hall
Apiary
Tea shop
Sushi bar
Ramen stall
Dojo
Sake tavern
Comic book shop
Cat cafe
Onsen
Motorbike mechanic
Church (maybe?)

An aerial screenshot of a village in Minecraft at night. There are 4 houses, flower shop, chocolate shop, sauna/spa, Zen garden + tea house, Library + fountain park, witch shop, pet store, horse barn, blacksmith, greenhouse, walled English garden, Axolotl sanctuary, sheep & horse barn, Whiskey bar, cafe, sky observatory, 2 community gardens, lots of benches, bridges, roads, and streetlights. It’s a very cute little village.

So far:
3 houses, 🌼🌹 shop, 🍫 shop, spa, Zen garden, library, fountain, witch shop, pet store, horse barn, blacksmith, greenhouse, English garden, Axolotl sanctuary, sheep barn, Whiskey bar, cafe, sky observatory, community gardens, floating cabin, benches, bridges, roads, and streetlights.

1-2 wks ago my nephew came into my Minecraft world, where all I do is build houses from YouTube tutorials. And he was like “I think you should start building houses on the server again.”

So we went back to the server, he picked a location, and gave me basically free rein to build a village.

Well, at least they read the instructions about the appropriate use environment for their devices, which is more than most of the western world can say.