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freshly pressed dino tealights

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Oh Ianthe...

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If you like frogs. Or possums. Or cool builds. Or happiness. This is the video for you.

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cmon child safety lid you know it's me

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the squees

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the pain when you start working on an old wip and the new bits are looking good but you zoom out and they don’t. I’m sorry it’s so painful. and they don’t look like the rest of the project 😔😔😔

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Collection | Inspired by Pyrex and vintage dishware

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SURPRISE!!! I WROTE A BOOK & IT'S COMING OUT VERY SOON!

isn't that crazy??? isn't that nuts??? lol. i wrote something and they paid me for it, that's coco bananas, honestly.

that being said, you can now preorder WE HEXED THE MOON, which is a book about four best friends who fuck around with The Moon and then very quickly Find Out about The Moon. it is also about:

how we cope with living at what feels like the end of the world

how our families are all so Messy

how being a girl is impossible no matter what Way you are a girl - and the myriad Ways there are

how ferociously you can love your friends

how badly you can fuck up with them anyway

how you probably shouldn't fuck with The Moon because, lowkey? she's kind of a bitch.

so how do you get this book??? WELL.

it's a little funny because the novella version is coming out in the UK first (it was shortlisted! for a prize can u believe?) and is available for preorder there now. an expanded, full-novel version is coming out in the US in early 2026. you can pre-order the novella here. you can register your interest in the 2026 expanded U.S. edition here.

i don't actually have a real official release date for the U.S. edition so you'll just have to be patient. but i promise not to email you about anything else til there's a (pre-)order link!

ok that's it. i really can't wait for you guys to read it. i think it's good! i do actually think it's really good.

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holy shit y’all should watch this one, what an admirable person

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100% of my jockey knowledge comes from reading Dick Francis books, have you read any/do you have any Thoughts on them?

TBH despite knowing nothing about horse racing I love his writing and plots, they are my comfort read! I especially enjoy how all his protagonists are Stoic Deceptively Intelligent men with high pain tolerance who fall in love with the female love interest at first sight... Original self insert Mary Sue lol

I thought, this is extremely funny, I will write you a funny little pastiche to show my stylish skills in mimicry and make you laugh!

I did actually feel pain, and I didn't think I liked being shot, but it didn't seem to matter much. In the past two years since the racing injury that had destroyed my hand in an unbelievably horrific way, I had only been able to listlessly pick up the rudiments of the most useless things: a master's degree in forensic pathology, unrivalled proficiency in one-handed lockpicking, an entire secret identity as a hard-hitting financial investigator, a deeply informed background in turf maintenance, international one-handed chess-playing fame, a one-handed pilot's license not relevant to the narrative, a full career arc as a noir private detective, one-handed photography skills, a stint as an undercover basketweaving instructor and a working knowledge of ancient Etruscan.

None of them mattered, because they didn't have horse racing in. Nobody wanted me, because I didn't either.

I didn't have any horse racing at all in me any more.

But then I was up all night with the toddler, and pastiche comes really fast for me, and it stopped being a Bit and started being A Lot. Maybe too much.

So I also became, apparently, the first person to use this tag on ao3:

And wrote you this:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62461696

Which is of course a full parody of the whole 1965 Dick Francis thriller, “Odds Against,” and which I mostly wrote because the accordion joke struck me as shatteringly funny.

DOES THIS ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, I HOPE IT DOES.

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preview of the card i worked on for the @novaandmali star-crossed: a queer tarot! you can find the kickstarter here if you’d like to back this project and own a deck!

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Snow labyrinth by apulkkan

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Claude Monet