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a photo of a martini block printing on a green bag

same print different angle

i should block print more often, it's so fun and rewarding

at least the peppers are loving this heat

Ideally, a country should be led by a person that understands that other people are real.

that's what having a personal account is for: forgetting all about it until suddenly remembering and going, "oh no"

i never got around to editing my photos from our sw roadtrip last year, because the friend i was most excited to share them with died. now that i'm digging around in my folders for photos, have a few of my unedited favs.

& here are some more cherry blossoms 🌸

we used to go to the cherry blossoms every year on a weekday at dawn, but stopped during the pandemic. this was the first year we went again, right at the beginning of peak bloom, and it was beautiful!

this is... exactly what we did today.

My thought process when the weather turns nice:

"I haven't been exercising, so I should go for a long walk and get healthy again!"
"The weather is so nice and I just walked for an hour, I should have drinks outside!"
"I don't want to get drunk. I should order snackies"

Repeat every day for a week

Wait the crazy religion they made up for Conclave is actually real???

a photo of a back yard with lights over a patio table and strung along a back fence

did a bunch of projects this weekend around the house but one thing i'm super happy with is FINALLY getting our 2nd strand of lights up in our back yard along the new fence. makes the space look so much more inviting!

a line drawing of an alligator with a variety of patterns on it

a line drawing of a betta fish with a variety of patterns on it

here are a couple other desk doodles from my working-at-a-desk-instead-of-my-couch era. i had half a mind to make these a series but didn't have the follow-through
#drawing #alligator #bettafish

a line drawing of an eel with a variety of patterns on its body, like cross-hatching, dots, or checks

ngl i do miss the days where i sat at a desk all day and doodled while waiting for accounting stuff to happen. this guy is my favorite desk drawing from that time:
#drawing #eel

a selfie of a smiling couple on a balcony overlooking a marina

the same photo, but the person on the right is now kissing the other person on the side of the head

happy valentine's day (and almost-engagement-anniversary) to my favorite spur of the moment road trip partner, couch nap buddy, cider-tasting date, and best friend, @theschrat.bsky.social. it's been amazing growing alongside you these past 13 years and i can't wait to get married to you in the fall!

A cream, white wheel-thrown ceramic jar with a cork lid done with blue underglaze details. There are two of my Running Snake motifs that mirror each other, head to head with gold luster accent details throughout the piece. There is also a floral border at the top and bottom of the piece.

Another Year of the Snake memory jar! This one was done with blue underglaze on white featuring mirrored snake motifs 🐍✨🐍✨

#art #pottery

hilariously, the organic eggs at our small local organic store were less expensive than the regular eggs at our larger box store

NO! that's so rude, absolutely not

thank you!!

if you see this, and you're in the mood for this kind of thing, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.

a photo of a thai red curry soup

a photo of a plate of shakshuka. the egg is cracked into a portobello cap.

a photo of a plate with chicken, broccoli, and egg noodles.

a photo of a cheesy pasta with mushrooms topped with parsley.

one thing that keeps me sane is cooking. here are some recent meals we've made: red curry soup, portobello shakshuka, ginger chicken, and our favorite goat cheese & mushroom pasta

today i had to go to 4 different printing centers to get something simple printed. absolutely wild to me—does no one print anything anymore? are people doing it all online? do you not want to test print it to make sure it's right???

The hardcover version of The Resistant: Desert Sun is ready to ship! Isn’t it gorgeous? We’ve also reached number 48 on Amazon’s list of LGBTQ+ science fiction books!

Get your copy! I promise it’ll be as fun to look at on your bookshelf as it is to read.

a.co/d/gEtlTld

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

same! i also want something that explains WHY things are done the way they are, which is vital for me in learning languages. if i know the roots, the whys/hows, i'm way more likely to remember things than just trying to rote-memorize a structure i don't understand

ugh oh NO that's so frustrating. imo, i'm not sure i'm really making much progress, but sometimes it feels nice to just... do something, to keep up a little routine

A ceramic catfish with legs. Its barbels are made out of wire. Its eyes are big and peering, the body is olive in colour with the very top half of its body and head black, and a pale white belly and legs. The skeleton like lateral line on its body is a rusty brown.

The catfish facing in the opposite direction.

To the left, a ceramic zebra danio with legs; a slender blue and yellow striped fish. To the right, a ceramic yellow perch with legs; a green fish with darker barring on its body, the green fading to a warm yellow by its belly, and orange by its legs.

To the left, a ceramic and fictitious spiky finned and compact fish with legs. A black body contrasts a white underside. White spots dapple its body and its eyes a red-orange. To the right, a ceramic barred knifejaw with legs; a vertically striped black and white fish with hints of yellow against its cheeks and tail.

dogfish pack from summer of last year! 🐟

A painting of an old, used, dehydrated lemon sits on the griddle of a gas stove top covered in the filthy remnants of past meals cooked.

Same as previous but a close up crop on the lemon

Study of a Lemon on the Stove

a screenshot from duolingo celebrating completing 75 friends quests in a row

it's not about the regular duolingo streak for me, it's about that friends quest streak, babey~

i think i need to get really into a tv show with approximately a million seasons, just a whole backlog. unfortunately i have already re- and re-re-watched x-files in this calendar year, so it's gotta be something else. maybe star trek. all of the star treks.

the constant pressure changes every day this week have me living in headache land