Cyrus Amelia Fisher

Okay but it's actually wild how drawing from life so quickly rewires your brain to think about light and shapes so differently. Really helping me understand the balance of defined lines vs soft ones, texture, light... and one day perhaps I will actually be able to execute that understanding lmao

Turns out doing something difficult with the option of constantly complaining to someone else about how difficult it is makes it so much better!!

It needed a certain je ne sais bwak

And while I'm here, here's the OTHER drawing I did with @augustw.net in my very own backyard! Does it count as a speed paint if it took me a long time

I appreciate our little doodle dates so much!! They really surprise me with what I'm capable of when I push past the "ugh this sucks and I'm bad at it" stage that with most of my other hobbies I have plenty of experience soldiering through

Always so interesting how the second you post something publicly your third eye opens and you immediately understand all the things you could do to improve it. I don't even mean this in a self-deprecating way it's actually super helpful 😂

And here's my contribution! Digital painting is... hard....

The Muddy Goose Guide to the Weird Northwest: A Playable Adventure|Paperback ROLL THE DICE, CHASE THE GOOSE, FACE DEATH, & UNLOCK THE WEIRD NORTHWEST!From the Neskowin Ghost Forest to Desolation Peak, the Northwest is bigger - and far stranger - than you know! Join 24 Oregon a...

THE GOOSE IS LOOSE! I'm in this thing! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-muddy-...

GOOD

Thanks for the clarification!

Fear the Old Blood 🩸🧠👁️

Does anyone know if @augursociety.bsky.social is open to international trans writers right now? The guidelines seem to suggest they're open through the 15th but there's only a portal open for Canadian writers.

Today is the day authors are learning how many of their publishers straight up blew off registering copyright and I feel like that deserves a class action suit of its own if it costs everyone their settlement money from the Anthropic suit... 😒🤬

And for my fellow fans of corporate body horror, I just read "The Day Fair For Guys Becoming Middle Managers" by Rachel K Jones and can't recommend it enough www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-7...

God sometimes outlining is the fastest easiest most fun thing in the world, and then sometimes it's like every word is written on one of my molars and I have to extract them one by one

Also related (or maybe the same): Suspense is not generated by the reader not knowing what happens next. It's generated by the reader CARING what happens next.

Day 2 of morning bathroom chicken

This wasn't how I thought I'd start my morning but I'm not mad about it

PseudoPod 962: Hemorrhage It’s a dumb fight to pick, but I only learn that later. By the time they drag me out the back door of the bar, my face feels the way a Picasso painting looks. All rearranged, and probably the wrong…

FFer Read (Listen?) of the Day: "Hemorrhage" by @cyrusafisher.bsky.social on @pseudopod.org

pseudopod.org/2025/02/14/p...

Doing a pronoun circle with all the other people stuck with me in the Saw trap

2025 feels like being awake during surgery

I always seek guidance and hope when things are difficult, and I try to share it. Right now all I can think is: show up for your community.

In small and large ways, whenever you can, today and tomorrow and always, take care of each other. Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. 🏳️‍⚧️

Yes indeed by the time I got around to posting about this we're already on Saw VI

BUTTMEAT PORTCULLIS REAL???

people cope in different ways. Saw marathon

The Medicaid changes won’t go into effect until after midterms in 2027, which kinda says to me that this administration doesn’t want people to remember who did this to them.

@conquerorworm.bsky.social 👀

It's here! @conquerorworm.bsky.social and I are doing this crazy thing!

I hate birds. This eagle was so close to the naked eye and to my phone camera it's a dust mote. This sort of nonsense is going to drive me to a state of frothing madness (buying an actual camera)