⚠️ Mood whiplash warning ⚠️
This is a truly random mix of whatever caught my eye.
I post my own poetry (and sometimes art) when real life allows.
Crack, fandom, shitposts - all day every day.
I don't use generative AI for my creative works, so they take time. But saving time isn't the point of art.
If you liked my original works: reblogs appreciated, reposts on other sites OK with me if you give credit. I have no clout for you to steal.
30+, UK; should probably be doing something useful right now, but I'm here anyway.
I write when I get the chance. Between fairly intensive family responsibilities and the general crappiness that is CFS/ME, chances aren’t in as plentiful supply as I’d like, but they do crop up sometimes.
I like to post my original poetry as text art style posts, mostly, because of a (possibly futile) hope that AI and misguided people won’t pass my work off as their own.
Links are below - if a title has not been linked yet, it will be eventually once the related work has been prepared and posted.
Rhyming pieces marked with *
Masterlist
Original poetry
I suffocate in silence
Fall, but quietly.*
NPC
Silicone Joneses*
Long distance communications
Sum of parts
Forever Home
mental break*
Eldest daughter
The Exchange
Lived-in*
No one warned me how rocky the high road would be.
Damnatio Memoriae
Reflections on a teaspoon
This title is a placeholder until the author is feeling more inspired.*
Scale of Importance
Child: Formerly gifted [contrapuntal]
be. my Valentine.
Modern Monsters (illustrated series)
Modern Monsters 1: Dullahan* (& series intro)
Modern Monsters 2: Kelpie*
Modern Monsters 3: Kuchisake-onna
Modern Monsters 4: Cuca*
Modern Monsters 5: Vampire*
Modern Monsters 6: Dr Frankenstein*
Modern Monsters 7: Frankenstein’s Monster*
Modern Monsters 8: The Scissorman*
Modern Monsters 9: Lesser Dragon (Dragonet)*
Inspired by Tumblr/memes etc
Buggy pug*
Escaping Hell
Toddler with your umbrella
Thoughts of a cat captured by Google Earth in 2015, forever eager to welcome its young owner home*
Your parents named you IRON?
The Birds’ Gala (Crow in a Bow)*
stages of death
Other stories
Explaining “to adorn” and “to don” (writing tips that wanted to be a story)
The Springer Spaniel by the river (illustrated, badly)
Animation I made as a tribute to Louis Wain, both to his art and him as a person, I hope my animations convey how comforting I find his art.
Each cat is drawn on paper❤️
“I am happy because everyone loves me”
I don’t think we ought to normalize or justify bullying as a means to keep people from being annoying — a sentiment that in and of itself could make for a whole article’s worth of conversation — but I do think we should make a habit of politely but directly telling people “hey I didn’t like that”, “that wasn’t funny”, “you are mistaken”, and the like if it’s called for, and more importantly, you should be able to take a “that wasn’t funny” for instance without taking it personally, because protecting a polite harmony where no one can criticize each other, not even politely, is also really, really bad.
one time in college i was in a creative writing class and this guy was holding up the critique with what i can only describe as like cinemasins dinging another student's writing. and at some point the professor said "the plot is the fork and the prose is the meal. you are critiquing the taste of the fork"
i tried explaining to this girl at a party once how i could be gay and asexual at the same time and it basically boils down to never being into anyone but like once a year i’ll find a man attractive. and she was like “so what am i if i only like girls, and i’ve never found any of my boyfriends attractive and and i just wanna do cocaine all the time?” i was like “you’re a lesbian with a coke addiction?” and she was like “woooooah”. she broke up with her boyfriend that night and had a threesome with two girls in the bathtub. rebecca if you’re out there, i hope you’re going places. well, not far, since you’re electronically tagged. but spiritually.
i wish there was a way to say "you're right, but this is really ineffective and even counterproductive messaging to anyone who doesn't already agree with you" without sounding like an asshole
I feel like my crocodile mom can protect my wife and girlfriend and my friend and that random old woman from the other crocodile while I rescue the money.
#i like to think data took him all the way to the brig tossed him in and left#and then came back 60 seconds later and was like ‘i believe i have successfully played a ‘practical joke’ on you :)’#riker loses it & claps him on the back like ‘wow. good job u rly had me going. dont ever fucking do that again’
Perfect.
Actually it’s 73 seconds. Data, knowing something of how human minds work, estimates that Riker will give him 60 seconds to come back (because humans prefer “round numbers”, however arbitrary the units). After 60 seconds it will take 4 seconds for Riker to fully process the conclusion that Data is, in fact, not coming back after all, and an additional 9 seconds to build to the optimum level of anxiety.
