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⚢ she/her ☆ About / Carrd

[starlitrise]

Hi, I'm Rise! I'm an artist and writer, and this is my personal blog.

✦ My main project is The Constellation of Us (TCOU), envisioned as a sapphic fantasy book trilogy with magic, swords, shapeshifters, and messy politics. Currently working on first draft 📝

♥ My side project is an android/human sci-fi romance novella. Now complete!

I post art here under #mine sometimes. I also have a Bluesky account!

art blog: @1amrise

[1amrise]

yune

[heartlessqueen]

do you ever think about this quote by mary lambert because i think about it all the time

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

natalie wee, our bodies & other fine machines

[sweatermuppet]

sam sax, hydrophobia

[jumping-jackalope]

ocean vuong, on earth we’re briefly gorgeous

[thewingedchild]

v.e. schwab, the invisible life of addie larue

[heartlessqueen]

i exist i exist i exist, flatsound

[chromaticabrasions]

john cameron mitchell, hedwig and the angry inch

[aworsening]

Car Seat Headrest, I Want You To Know That I’m Awake​/​I Hope That You’re Asleep

[urbanf0rager]

Fence Cats, 2024

Taken with Fujifilm Finepix S9250.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Nina LaCour via letsbelonelytogetherr

[nemfrog]

Astronomy vignettes. Our Wide, Wide World. 1932. 

[nomorechoirs]

fr. “Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself” by Charlotte Eriksson⁣

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

The Clarifier would like to make just one more comment

[kitkatpancakestack]

WE HAVE GOT TO START LOVING THE PROCESS MORE THAN THE PRODUCT AGAIN

[starlitrise]

June 2026 Roundup

Happy July! 🍁

Now... let's see. This month felt both unproductive and productive somehow. I started it by going to Pride with my friends & partner, and was visiting for the first two weeks. Socializing 🌈

I did my convocation ceremony! It was my first time, because when I finished my degree it was just in time for the pandemic.

I applied to a handful of jobs - and, to my surprise - one actually got back to me! I did a survey and phone screening last week. And it's a web developer position so it's actually in my field of interest! Yay! (Though, trying not to get my hopes up, as I'm not even sure I'm moving forward or not... but it's nice to actually hear back)

📝 Writing - My edited novella was returned to me! And subsequently combed over! And now, finally, I can call it complete. It's not getting published quite yet, but it's all ready for it. This is also very exciting. :) I'll receive the proof, soon. And send it out to some advanced readers this weekend.

💻 Coding - Website is officially deployed! I learned a bit of stuff through that, and through handling domain stuff. And that there are so many bots that scour the web.

💭 Misc - I am being intentionally vague on the novella/site for now, I suppose I will reveal it at some point...? Not that I think I have that much interest here anyway haha (I am SO bad at shilling my work wow)

[unalivejournal]

Nobody knows if writing a story is possible

[ruderubicante]

A Love for Ignorance

[rainyydoves]

i beat myself up for not knowing enough about my special interests a lot but then i remember the average person off the street has no idea what the carboniferous is and i feel better

[rainyydoves]

are you really bad at it or are you in "good at it" spaces

[bigbigtruck]

"are you really bad at it or are you in 'good at it' spaces" has derailed so much self-hate since I read it

this is a load bearing sentence in my psyche and I can't believe it's only 2 months old

[fallout-lou-begas]

something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think

[wildestlovers]

embarrassment is the cost of entry.

if you aren't willing to look like a foolish beginner, you'll never become a graceful master.

[grendel-menz]

life is very personal

[maple-salad]

op says we can repost