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Kathleen Rowan 🌱
@rowanauthor.bsky.social
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🔸️writing fantasy & sci-fantasy🔸️living real life adventures🔸️marveling at the mundane & the majestic🔸️breathing courage into your embers

🔸️GentlyRowan on AO3 & Tumblr (HZD)
🔸️photography by me & my husband
🔸️🥔

📷 me on a winter adventure at Bryce Canyon
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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · Apr 10
#PublicLands
A quote from the #NPS Visitor Center at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming (just S of Yellowstone):

"You must search for the loveliness in America; it is not obvious; it is scattered; but when you find it, it touches you and binds you to it like a great secret oath taken in silence."
In a blue ombre dress spangled with tiny white stars, Kathleen Rowan sits on a low, irregular stone wall, gazing past pines and across Jenny Lake to the hazy blue Grand Teton mountains that rise majestically to the left and right with a sharp V between them. Photo by Mr. Rowan
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gusrinaldi.bsky.social
If you see this, post your purple art 💜
Drawing of Anne poking Bluebeard on the back to get his attention while holding a huge axe on her other hand.
September 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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gusrinaldi.bsky.social
qrp with something watery 🌊
Drawing of a purple dragon surfing a giant wave while a crowd watches in the foreground.
September 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
rowanauthor.bsky.social
I just overheard my sister whisper, "It's okay, okay, okay," in the next room, like I do when I'm speaking to my own anxiety, and am relieved to realize she's talking to the cat.
December 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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gardeningdame.bsky.social
Lavender Storm - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #naturetherapy #rain #petrichor #fineartphotography #art
Raindrops on winter branches.
December 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
rowanauthor.bsky.social
Back from my unseasonably warm holiday travel, and not as ready to jump back into work as I thought I was.
Post-vacation fatigue is real.
December 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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djamilaknopf.bsky.social
I painted something new! medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper
a painting of a hand holing acorns lying on the ground, covered in moss and strawberry leaves
December 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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ddbtorres.bsky.social
QRP to reintroduce yourself!

I'm Torres, a freelance fantasy illustrator. I work mostly with graphite and digital color.
I love fairy tales and whimsical vibes in eerie and moody atmosphere 🪾🍂
a land wyrm, otherwise known as a wingless dragon, it's long snake like body disappearing in the distance and its fearsome dark head looking up. toe-thrasher, a rat lord wearing a royal mantle made of white fur, thrashing in the middle of a swamp in its hind legs and holding a black flail. in the swamp, there are numerous yellow eyes close-up of Sleeper, emphasizing her halo and human torso a dryad, her head blooming with twigs and branches in the middle of a dark forest.
December 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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afewfromtheforest.bsky.social
Sunlight slips between snow-covered pines in the PA forest.

#eastcoastkin #classicmono
December 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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aphelion.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy
We’ll follow
The light
Back to
Ourselves.
There’s still
Time.
Take my hand,
Begin again.

#poetry
December 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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caemiel.bsky.social
Happy holidays ✨

[ #caemidraws #dnd #mars ]
Mars in his teal uniform, before Will in fancy white clothes, holding a mote in his hand. In the middle, Mars as a toy soldier in the likings to the nutcracker tale, holding a mote to a gloved hand, a pin in place of a rapier. Behind this, three white mouses running, framing a winter scene with a frozen lake and two figures skating on it.
December 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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patsux.bsky.social
gouache page
A sketchbook page of illustrations painted using gouache. There is an image of a knight on a white horse, a possibly nobleman wielding a blade, a bird perched on a branch of tangerines, and a portrait of a man.
December 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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creativeoutpouring.bsky.social
new fakemon for our world of Augury!

Armordillo!
a fake pokemon that looks like an upright armadillo with sheets of plate armor for its scales. he's holding a large drill-like javelin.
December 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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bookmarkedone.bsky.social
Wishes, like stars, can burn.

Tangle like a spiderweb of constellations, a glittering noose of sharp-edged night.

There are no safe wishes. Hearts are broken. Lives are lost.

But when your calloused hand brushes the scars on mine, I wish, I wish, I wish silent words as if my heart would burst.
talesfeathers.bsky.social Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 7d
On the longest night of the year, no one is asleep. The air is cold but the sky is clear; everyone turns out with quilts, scarves, and hot cider to lie on the snow and watch the stars spin. What secret wish for the coming year do you whisper to your neighbour?

#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
rowanauthor.bsky.social
An excellent selection.
maximumrider217.bsky.social Zach the Autumn Lord @maximumrider217.bsky.social · 5d
The last four (Christmas) movies I watched.
December 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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rowanauthor.bsky.social
Anybody feel like giving ME a present this holiday season?

First of all, aww, shucks, you're so kind!

What I want for Christmas is to see folks helping each other through hard times.

Please start with Jay, who has made my online experience better by being a lovely, thoughtful bsky friend.
Thanks!
December 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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ridingrobots.bsky.social
Until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow But have yourself a merry little Christmas now
December 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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catbake.bsky.social
midwinter quiet
the spaces between branches
full of everything
December 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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fiadh.bsky.social
important
badger eating berries
December 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
rowanauthor.bsky.social
Apologies to everyone following me this week. I don't automatically follow back, and I don't have time to check out your accounts. I'm sure you're very nice.

If you reply to my posts, I'm liable to consider following back if I have time.

Either way, happy holidays! ✴*
December 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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ellohcee.bsky.social
#Artober 3 - eyes
#art #angel
Digital art of an angel wearing a cloak with golden leaf patterns around the shoulders and blue spot patterns further down. They wear golden chains of varying lengths around their neck and hanging from their wing ears. The angel is dark in color, almost entirely black, turning to a rich purple at the ends of the wings. They have many eyes on their face, glowing icy blue with orange/red irises. Above their head is a halo made of stars and connected by short wavy lines in between. The background is dark with a glowing golden circle behind the angel with light radiating out, and faded gold rake patterns through the other areas.
October 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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mmegistus.bsky.social
Gossip Session 🫢🍵

#OC #art #ocsky
An illustration of my original characters, Bhargavi and Aleron. Bhargavi has brown skin, red-orange eyes, and long red hair with orange and golden glows near the ends. She is wearing a somewhat traditional Indian red blouse, cropped, and a blue shawl draped on her left shoulder and dark brown pants. She is looking towards the viewer with a somewhat serious expression on her face. Aleron has fair skin, pointy elven ears, blue eyes, blue hair with glowing cyan ends, and is standing next to her, whispering something into her ear with his hand over his mouth. He is wearing a dark blue hanfu with fluffy white fur over his shoulders, and his hair is in a high ponytail. They both have a matching golden ring on their fingers, Bhargavi has one silver moon earring on her right ear, while Aleron has one sun earring. The background is a simple sandish colour with a golden frame around them.
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
rowanauthor.bsky.social
Gentle reminder that it's okay to go for a little walk, or a nap, and take a break from your family, even though you love them.

It's easy to get overstimulated, or tired out from managing your emotions (and maybe theirs) around differing philosophies that come out when you all get together.

🍵🌱
December 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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bighippoart.bsky.social
On a nice, winter day 🐰 #sciart
A hare running across a field road in a wintery landscape.
December 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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prettyvulgar.bsky.social
we all

just want

a safe place

in which

to exist
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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readvesna.com
Thread of my Loyal Hound Vesna comic:
October 22, 2024 at 10:26 AM