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Alexandrea ✶ Modern Hag
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✨ Skill Collector: Crafting, Writing, Making, Venting, Wondering
👁️‍🗨️ https://arcanumalexandrea.carrd.co/

Human Made 🚫 Never AI
Starting a new Substack series: Photobook!

I take so many photos for the joy of it.. & have no idea what to do with them. This is a simple way for me to showcase some of these shots, w/ themes.
🍂
#photography #womenphotographers #photojournal

arcanumalexandrea.substack.com/p/photobook-...
Photobook 01. Northern Autumn
Wisconsin | October 2025
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December 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
My Year-End Muses for 2025:
open.substack.com/pub/arcanuma...

Books, articles, video games, movies -- I consumed a lot of varied media this year!
Year-End Muses | 2025
Listening, Feeling, Thinking
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Earlier this year I started up a #Substack in order to push myself into writing more and sharing more of what I write -- I wrote this a few years back, but I'm still really proud of it.

It's a discussion about #creativity, ego, and identity:
arcanumalexandrea.substack.com/p/things-i-h...
Things I had to let go of to grow as a photographer.
A personal observation on self-doubt, perspective, and getting out of my own way since starting my photography business.
arcanumalexandrea.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Moravian Stars hanging from the bridge in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Went on a short roadtrip with my partner from Wisconsin to North Carolina. I'd never driven that far on my own before, and I've never seen a mountain range in person before!
I took this phone photo in Appalachia. I also took some film photos at this spot and I'm really excited to develop the roll~
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Woah, I forgot about this place!
November 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
AI is the new Dot-Com Bubble. There's no point in every damn service having it, but they'll do it if it tricks a few idiot tech bros into buying their shit.

Anything to avoid paying real people for the art & aesthetics that their products require to thrive. #fuckai #humanmade #noai
May 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Looking at you, musicians who were totally cool with using AI to make your album art. :) Karmic.

Everyone else tho, I'm so sorry. Another disgusting overreach of AI. Fuck you, SoundCloud.

#fuckai #noai #fuckgenai #AIdestroysart #humanmade
May 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
My pitch for the girlies: Guillotine Summer 💀🎀🌞

#girldinner
May 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I love when resource games allow me to name my colony. 💫🖤
April 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
It might not have been a good idea to look at visual size comparisons of the world map to use for my TTRPG worldbuilding at midnight.

My brain hurts.
February 22, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I finally posted a video on YT!

Footage of our New Year's Day blacksmithing session. I'm still learning about videography so sorry about the banding on some shots. 🥲

youtu.be/A75tyFA4OSI?...
First Forging Day of 2025 ⚒️
YouTube video by Mavencraft
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January 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Also, you can have access to an online LGBTQ+ library here:
www.queerliberationlibrary.org/members
Members — Queer Liberation Library
www.queerliberationlibrary.org
January 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Pottery notes are transcribed! Gotta do woodworking notes next~

#commonplacing #skilltree
January 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
We're working on our Skill Trees in this house. 💫
January 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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'Hector' Linocut by UK contemporary artist and printmaker Vanessa Lubach #WomensArt
January 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
My 2025 goal is to embody this character:

*Including the abs... I need the musclesss
January 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
First forging session of 2025! Burned some homegrown sage & poured a shot of whiskey on the anvil in celebration. ⚒️

From rusty nails to simple, handmade hooks!

#blacksmithing #metalwork #forging #craftsman #newyearsday #handmade
January 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Corporations seem to really not get that “cyberpunk” is a literary genre about anti-corporate rebellion in a dystopian wasteland of extreme disparity between the wealthy elites and the common folk, between the empowered and the powerless…

…and not just “when stuff is cool, but in a tech way”
December 31, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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December 31, 2024 at 10:25 AM
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Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
Anyway, AI has already stolen friends’ work, and is going to put other people out of work.

I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.
December 26, 2024 at 8:34 PM
I started outlining a short story for the first time in a looong time! And I've done 5 word sprint practices this month. 😎✒️

#writersky #writingpractice
December 28, 2024 at 5:30 AM
I stumbled on the TT Live of author LaDarrion Williams talking about his book 'Blood At The Root' - He was literally the sweetest person, answering some Qs for us commentors and talking about his experiences as a Black writer.

Had to pick up a signed copy! 💫

#bookrecs #diversereading #blackfantasy
December 21, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Experiments in papermaking. Dried florals pressed in~

#crafting #papermaking #handmade
December 21, 2024 at 2:22 AM
📚 Started reading "She Who Knows" by Nnedi Okorafor today; I'm halfway through and I'm amazed by how much futurist worldbuilding and dark mysticism Okorafor was able to pack into the first 70 pages! ❤️‍🔥

#readinglist #currentlyreading #scifi #fantasy #novella
December 19, 2024 at 2:58 AM