Crowdusk

I don't know what to tell you. You can't sit at a piano for the first time ever and play a sonata. You can't pick up a tennis racket for the first time and serve a 110MPH Ace.

You have to fuck up.

You have to be able to handle failing.

You have to love it enough to not get it right and keep on.

Two kittens sleeping in a dim room, one on a cat scratcher platform, one on her back between a person's denim clad leg and pillows. Both kittens are orange and white.

Two kittens on a sofa curled up next to a human's legs and hands. One kitten is pale orange and white, the other is more white but has deep orange patches

Fri. Jan. 30 edition: I'm Coreo. I can't work full-time anymore, and I need help paying down my revolving debt. Can you share these kittens and share my GFM link at the same time? Thank you! gofund.me/4903591f2

Hey folks!

Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.

Two orange and white kittens lounge, one on top of the other, next to a human laying down on a futon. One of the kittens has a paw on the other's shoulder.

Two orange and white kittens lounge with their bodies pointed in opposite directions on a scratching pad, but their faces are both turned toward the camera, and they're both looking alertly and adorably at the camera.

I'm Coreo. I can't work full-time anymore, and I need help paying down my revolving debt. Can you share this to people who might want to see some kittens? (1 more pic in my latest update on the GFM page!) gofund.me/4903591f2

Donate to Help Coreo Pay Down Debt While They Heal, organized by Coreo Jones Hi, I'm Coreo, Coreopsismajor in various fandom spaces, and Digitalemur back in t… Coreo Jones needs your support for Help Coreo Pay Down Debt While They Heal

Hi, I'm Coreo, and since 2023 I've been healing from severe burnout and PTSD. I can't work full-time anymore, and I cannot afford my roughly $275 monthly credit card payment, on the debt from insurance copays, cat food, car insurance, etc. Can you help me pay down this debt? gofund.me/4903591f2

I enjoyed those books. Fascinating worldbuilding

Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir Dead at 78 “He transitioned peacefully, surrounded by loved ones,” a statement read

American legend. Rest in peace, Bob.

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Donate to Keep Eli, Hazel, and Ianto in Their Home, organized by Kate Montgomery Eli, a disabled queer person of color, and their grandmother Hazel, with whom… Kate Montgomery needs your support for Keep Eli, Hazel, and Ianto in Their Home

Today’s goal for Eli’s property taxes fundraiser is to get from $2,142 to $2,250

Can you donate or boost? Tiny amounts help! Signal boosting is huge.

Eli is a dear friend who’s had a run of terrible luck and I really want to start their 2026 off with secure housing.

A Short-eared Owl twists mid-air, wings flared and eyes fixed upward, as a dark Crow swoops overhead. The pale owl’s feathers catch the light while the crow’s shadow cuts across the sky, a dramatic clash light and dark in the fading light.

No tricks, just talons this Halloween #FlyDay! 🎃👻

📷 Ron Macdonald

I loved those books. Loved them

A digital illustration of a cityscape set in a cozy fall evening. We see girl in a bicycle with her corgi puppy. The city is surrounded by fall trees and is lit by the building windows. We see a distant mountain and gothic architecture in the background

Autumn Wind 🍂🧣 #art

a painting of a giant blue ox carrying a city on its horns.

Steady - watercolour and acryla gouache on paper

💙One day left to get prints on saIe!💙

A BABY DEER, aka, a fawn, stands dominating the frame, mostly just head and body (back) with its little precious baby deer dots/spots and its ears at full attention. The deer is chewing some plant it is eating from our yard. Probably something I don't want it to eat. We plant plants that are deer-resistant and they just eat them anyway because deer are dicks, but they're pretty, so we let 'em do their thing. I do want to draw your attention to the very dramatic... eyelashes? That are coming off the fawn's left brow? They can't be eyelashes but I also don't know if they're eyebrows? Eye whiskers? I do not know, but they're extraordinary and I expect them to be a fashion trend in our coming dystopia, so get on that. Oh, also: The deer is deer-colored. Which is to say a kind of nutty orangey brown. Its nose is black. Its eyes are dark. It's a deer, it looks like a deer. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

Anyway things are a bummer so here's a baby deer on our front lawn smoking some kind of YARD CIGARETTE, the silly rebel

photo by me

a child looking down at a golden retriever named Samaria resting in their lap. the child pets the dog's face.

a person holding a child on their hip crouches down on the sidewalk to pet a golden retriever on the head.

a child wearing all gray sits on a yellow curb. a golden retriever lays on the sidewalk next to them, and rests their head in the child's lap.

A group of 6 LCC K9 comfort dogs arrived in Minneapolis yesterday in the wake of the latest mass shooting. The organization deploys comfort dogs following tragic events. The dogs wore their "please pet me vests," offering love and comfort to those processing this heartbreaking tragedy. 15/10 for all

a dragon --chaos 10 --ar 5:7 --sref 4091340943 --stylize 240

A dragon cubism :)
#DragonTuesday #Midjourney #synthart

A photo of my grey Siberian cat, sitting politely near the door of my office, looking towards me with pleading blue eyes

The haystack demands attention

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

Wizard of Earthsea: Where it starts vs where it ends

#art

happy birthday to me 🎉🎉🎉 it would be extremely cool if you reposted my art <3

Close-up of a ginger cat's face. He has green eyes and a pink nose.

Anyone need emergency boops? 😺

#BeKind #KindnessMatters

I love Nightjars

Cookiebutton (grey and white cat size large) posing on table with Pandora (tabby) when she was a kitten. He was her adoptive Dad. She could do no wrong. He looks so proud.

The news is awful and depressing.

So cats it is.

I turned over, but I could still feel the unblinking eyes of Cat waiting for me to tend to her needs.

Waiting.

When at last I awoke, I saw that she had food and water. She just wanted me awake. At 2am.

2am is the darkest of night. I slept in deep dreams when I was awoken by the thundering paws of some creature running across my pillow, just past my head.

I opened my eyes and beheld upon the nightstand a cat, mere inches away, staring.

Staring.

I saw movement when I began to wash my hands. It was a spider in the sink.

"Hey," I said, "why don't you go find some of the ants? I'll bet they are DELICIOUS."

If the spider heard me, it showed no sign. But perhaps I gave it something to think about.

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I haven't posted here yet. Maybe I should. Maybe? Just a little something to smash a bottle of cheap champagne over the bow of social media.