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Caitlin Serviss

@xotheforest.bsky.social

She/Her. 1992. AuDHD. “The void leans in, eager to speak. Hell shows its teeth once a week.” Check my linktree for my ongoing story on AO3. https://linktr.ee/xotheforest

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Latest posts by xotheforest.bsky.social on Bluesky

I will have a new chapter done this weekend. Hopefully tomorrow. It's done actually—I'm just letting the bulk of it settle in my brain before I commit to the submit button.

30.10.2025 10:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Programs that have vanished from my computer in the last 6 months without me touching them:

Audacity
Blender
OBS
ImageGlass
Revo Uninstaller
Bluestacks
Git
WFDownloader App

29.10.2025 00:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I had to stop drawing this today bc I was getting super lazy with the bun braid lineart to the point it was looking messy.

I do need to figure out how to draw his braids quicker, so that I may draw my boi more often. But this is gonna be his debut part of the comic I'm making.

27.10.2025 11:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As an adult I get why I landed in intensive math for one year in highschool. That teacher could prove I was at the right level. I wasn’t dumb — my regular math teacher just couldn’t explain it in a way an autistic girl could understand, even when I stayed after school for help.

26.10.2025 20:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Being an adult with pattern recognition & a mild understanding of psychology & trying to understand fae myths/lore is seeing that people have always been autistic/ADHD but it scared people who didn't know how to manage grief, loss, and other emotions either. Tough on both sides.

26.10.2025 18:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just learned what homoflexible means, and I feel it fits Ekho very well. Bisexual/pansexual didn't feel right.

He's 90% gay. Biologically male, no matter how they present.

The 10% left over explains the occasional straying into the territory of relations with the other genders.

26.10.2025 02:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I haven't not written in the last week but I haven't been focused on it or posting a new chapter. Have a WIP of Ekho!! I find drawing millions of hearts to get the braids drawn quickly, and on a smaller scale, is somehow the method to this madness. #art #wip #hellaverse

25.10.2025 15:13 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Still reeling from this today. It's taken me 5 months to write chapter 74-104. 53,000+ words. I finally got my husband, who writes for Catoblepas (who wasn't involved in this arc at all), to read it all so he's caught up.

It took him 1 DAY.

Fuck he's fast at reading.

24.10.2025 12:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I know I desperately need to do research into the Bible to contrast the lore I've been coming up with for Hell, but I'm 33 yrs into life & I don't know if I want to be enlightened to how it's supposed to be understood & realize how misconstrued it has been by people I've known 😩

23.10.2025 23:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Had to stop watching the 3rd Terrifier movie and look at something else for a while. I'll watch the rest of it but I did not need to see Victoria doing what she did with that mirror shard. I don't think I'm even an hour into the movie lol

23.10.2025 17:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Losing my blender file of Ekho's horns wrecked my world for a full week. I spent 8+ hours making it again. Back-ups to my email, husband's & mom's email. GDrive, discord to my husband and 2 friends. Might even burn it to fuckin' disc. I am not losing this shit again lol

23.10.2025 06:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can someone explain with windows updates how programs uninstall themselves? Files are removed?

I don't uninstall Blender/OBS in the off chance I want to make/record something.

Both programs are missing, and all my files related to the programs.

Gonna check system restore ffs

18.10.2025 02:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I KNOW how to make bread. I don't WANT to. I don't get PAID for making my own bread. I don't feel BETTER making my own bread. It's another CHORE.

I know I'm paying for convenience but I literally cannot have gluten. It is not a trend. Still costs twice as much for half the buns.

17.10.2025 00:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Been house-hunting in Florida since 2014. Cheapest one I’ve found in 2025 is $5k trailer in a 55+ park. I’m 33, so only 22 more years till I qualify for affordable housing!

And even then, it’s $700/month for lot rent even if you “own” it. What a joke. Florida is such a joke lmao

16.10.2025 00:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My sleep schedule is fucked up but hey, I won 3,500 points for 7-Eleven by doing those surveys now and then.

13.10.2025 22:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chapter 104—I've got a good outline for the next 8-ish chapters now so I can finish off this arc coherently, and better than the random half-assed timeskip I was originally planning.

archiveofourown.org/...

#writing #hellaverse #hazbinhotel #helluvaboss #ocs #oc

13.10.2025 21:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Maybe no new chapter this Friday—I'm getting used to a medication I was supposed to be taking every day.

Instead I'm trying to get back into the habit of art. Have a messy sketch from a little comic I'm working on with Poppy and Ekho interacting.

#art #hellaverse #hazbinhotel #helluvaboss #ocs #oc

08.10.2025 02:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Without trying to dox myself, I wanted to share this. My town had to put out a notice on "if you're technically a part of the city based on where you are"

They turned off comments to the post because what in the gerrymandered fuck is this? Saw at least 5 crying laughing reacts.

07.10.2025 20:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Finally finished this art of Ekho, and gave him a make-up/face paint look. I'm so much more proud of this horn design than the previous ideas. I can actually imagine drawing him again.

#art #hellaverse #hazbinhotel #helluvaboss #oc #ocs

07.10.2025 05:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Songs on the radio today with lyrics I just heard in this order:

"I'll kill myself to save my soul"

And then when that ended:

"Wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend."

Guys can we not???

06.10.2025 21:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stepped on the bathroom floor & it caved in. Sat in a chair & pushed it through a wall—someone had covered a hole with painted cardboard. Landlord wants $200 per issue if I want her to fix them. Ma’am, this is why the last tenants stuffed a mop head down the toilet.

06.10.2025 20:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sometimes I write stuff & take a step back to wonder if it's at all realistic.

Then I remember a few weeks ago how the cashier of my local 7-Eleven wanted to fight some dude with earbuds in & a backpack on at midnight.

I just wanted the pumpkin Peelerz. I'm still not over that.

06.10.2025 02:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Surprise wrap-up chapter before Ekho takes Naomi/Johnathan back to Hell. There’s more before we hit a chapter based on what I wrote 4 yrs ago for Charlie/Vaggie.

Updated the warning for Chapter 98.

#writing #hellaverse #hazbinhotel #helluvaboss #ocs

archiveofourown.org/...

05.10.2025 02:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve been questioned about my autism diagnosis online more times than I can count, and I’ve only had it for about six months. (Autism, of course, is lifelong.) [2/2]

04.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Watch this video I made in December 2023, then tell me the person who got completely derailed by a random noise for an hour—while trying to learn how to make glass bottles into drinking glasses—isn’t autistic. [1/2]

04.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Working so hard to make some progress on this art of Ekho's demon form. The sai file is a year and a half old so I'm redrawing the braids and everything now that I'm set on a horn design.

#art #hellaverse #hazbinhotel #helluvaboss #oc

04.10.2025 14:17 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Tom Cardy//Transcendental Cha Cha Cha - Official Music Video
It's 5 o'clock somewhere/everywhere/all at once Video by the incomparable Shoocharu, check their channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGA9-VO0z4eELmVtsJEgyQQ Gee whiz it's album time! I usually have everything already released, so this is real exciting to have so many new songs and videos to s Tom Cardy//Transcendental Cha Cha Cha - Official Music Video

Internalized echolalia of the day: Transcendental Cha Cha Cha by Tom Cardy

Specifically the part that goes like this: "Now it's a dog, now it's a cat, it's everything and nothing it's a baseball bat."

That part of the song on repeat in my head for days.

03.10.2025 20:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chapter 102! Warning! This will appear to go downhill fast for Johnathan being forced into things against his will, but I promise it doesn't go too far.

I haven't decided on music for this chapter yet.

archiveofourown.org/...

#writing #hellaverse #hazbinhotel #helluvaboss #ocs

03.10.2025 13:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I didn't make the original, the first image. But I needed to make the next three for some reason and I spent way too long on this. #tadc #theamazingdigitalcircus #digitalcircus

02.10.2025 06:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You've been warned about spoilers 🫡

02.10.2025 05:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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