Megan Lavey-Heaton
@savvyliterate.com
Meg • she/her/they • social media/data/podcasts reporter for @pennlive.com • co-creator Namesake and other works with @secondlina.com • fangirl & crafty • owned by 2 cats
Photography: Nikon Z8/Z7II/Z50ii - Ricoh GRIII
Photography: Nikon Z8/Z7II/Z50ii - Ricoh GRIII
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Megan Lavey-Heaton
@savvyliterate.com
· Oct 18
❖ Journalism: pennlive.com/staff/mlavey...
❖ Photography: www.meganlaveyheaton.com
❖ Namesake: namesakecomic.com
❖ Crow Time: crow-time.com
❖ Store: fairyloguepress.com
❖ Patreon: patreon.com/namesake
Co-creator Namesake, editor and keeper of crow plushes for Crow Time (@secondlina.com)
❖ Photography: www.meganlaveyheaton.com
❖ Namesake: namesakecomic.com
❖ Crow Time: crow-time.com
❖ Store: fairyloguepress.com
❖ Patreon: patreon.com/namesake
Co-creator Namesake, editor and keeper of crow plushes for Crow Time (@secondlina.com)
End of KPop Demon Hunters: We don't need couch! Let's go do all the things!
Me: No, no, you had it right with couch.
Me: No, no, you had it right with couch.
a woman in a bathrobe and ear muffs is laying on a couch with the words goodnight behind her
ALT: a woman in a bathrobe and ear muffs is laying on a couch with the words goodnight behind her
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
End of KPop Demon Hunters: We don't need couch! Let's go do all the things!
Me: No, no, you had it right with couch.
Me: No, no, you had it right with couch.
Reposted by Megan Lavey-Heaton
I've been a Crow Time Patreon member for years, and I have zero regrets. The new wallpapers bring me so much joy (the ghosty one is my lockscreen and the leaves one is my homescreen).
Go join the patreon if you love crows and cute creatures and their shenanigans! 💜
Go join the patreon if you love crows and cute creatures and their shenanigans! 💜
I really like making phone items. I'm still delighted i managed to get the fingerprint to be over the knife handle on this Sherlock Crowmes wallpaper (on Android).
I'd love to try an icon set next.
I'd love to try an icon set next.
October 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I've been a Crow Time Patreon member for years, and I have zero regrets. The new wallpapers bring me so much joy (the ghosty one is my lockscreen and the leaves one is my homescreen).
Go join the patreon if you love crows and cute creatures and their shenanigans! 💜
Go join the patreon if you love crows and cute creatures and their shenanigans! 💜
Reposted by Megan Lavey-Heaton
October 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Megan Lavey-Heaton
If we can sell between 5,000 and 10,000 copies of OMENS OF CHAOS, we will debut comfortably on the New York Times Bestseller list, which is a very normal thing for a book to want (and will send a very clear message about what we want as a community). We won't, but a girl can dream.
October 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If we can sell between 5,000 and 10,000 copies of OMENS OF CHAOS, we will debut comfortably on the New York Times Bestseller list, which is a very normal thing for a book to want (and will send a very clear message about what we want as a community). We won't, but a girl can dream.
She boot-scooted her poopy butt across two floors of the house, but she's still pretty dang cute.
October 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
She boot-scooted her poopy butt across two floors of the house, but she's still pretty dang cute.
One of these cameras is not a Nikon.
October 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
One of these cameras is not a Nikon.
Me: Hey folks, don't be a bully toward fan creators.
Rando on Reddit: This is only a valid take if you're not artistic. Now for those of us who ACTUALLY make art ...
Me, who has been a creator since 1995: (walks away laughing)
Rando on Reddit: This is only a valid take if you're not artistic. Now for those of us who ACTUALLY make art ...
Me, who has been a creator since 1995: (walks away laughing)
October 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Me: Hey folks, don't be a bully toward fan creators.
Rando on Reddit: This is only a valid take if you're not artistic. Now for those of us who ACTUALLY make art ...
Me, who has been a creator since 1995: (walks away laughing)
Rando on Reddit: This is only a valid take if you're not artistic. Now for those of us who ACTUALLY make art ...
Me, who has been a creator since 1995: (walks away laughing)
My problem isn’t you holding a place in line so your son can join you with a full cart in the 10-item-or-less queue. My problem is that the son doesn’t bother to say “excuse me” when he shoves the cart past me.
The further I venture into my aged crone era, the less tolerance I have for this stuff.
The further I venture into my aged crone era, the less tolerance I have for this stuff.
October 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
My problem isn’t you holding a place in line so your son can join you with a full cart in the 10-item-or-less queue. My problem is that the son doesn’t bother to say “excuse me” when he shoves the cart past me.
The further I venture into my aged crone era, the less tolerance I have for this stuff.
The further I venture into my aged crone era, the less tolerance I have for this stuff.
Me: (chooses the way home that is five minutes longer and a lot less traffic)
Waze: Nah, I'm sending you this way (reroutes me through downtown Baltimore without my consent)
And this is why I fucking hate navigation apps.
Waze: Nah, I'm sending you this way (reroutes me through downtown Baltimore without my consent)
And this is why I fucking hate navigation apps.
October 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Me: (chooses the way home that is five minutes longer and a lot less traffic)
Waze: Nah, I'm sending you this way (reroutes me through downtown Baltimore without my consent)
And this is why I fucking hate navigation apps.
Waze: Nah, I'm sending you this way (reroutes me through downtown Baltimore without my consent)
And this is why I fucking hate navigation apps.
Reposted by Megan Lavey-Heaton
Look who’s trying to make a comeback at NYCC after getting forced out of DragonCon…
October 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Look who’s trying to make a comeback at NYCC after getting forced out of DragonCon…
Update: I just stated going through every site on the UK list until I found one that took it for £5 per return. Reader, I'll take it!
Maybe if I scream into the void, someone will know the answer.
I am a small business in the US trying to file and pay a UK VAT return. I have my VAT number, I am registered. I think it's absolutely ridiculous to pay over $100 a month just to file a form that needs to be done every 3 months.
I am a small business in the US trying to file and pay a UK VAT return. I have my VAT number, I am registered. I think it's absolutely ridiculous to pay over $100 a month just to file a form that needs to be done every 3 months.
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Update: I just stated going through every site on the UK list until I found one that took it for £5 per return. Reader, I'll take it!
Maybe if I scream into the void, someone will know the answer.
I am a small business in the US trying to file and pay a UK VAT return. I have my VAT number, I am registered. I think it's absolutely ridiculous to pay over $100 a month just to file a form that needs to be done every 3 months.
I am a small business in the US trying to file and pay a UK VAT return. I have my VAT number, I am registered. I think it's absolutely ridiculous to pay over $100 a month just to file a form that needs to be done every 3 months.
September 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Maybe if I scream into the void, someone will know the answer.
I am a small business in the US trying to file and pay a UK VAT return. I have my VAT number, I am registered. I think it's absolutely ridiculous to pay over $100 a month just to file a form that needs to be done every 3 months.
I am a small business in the US trying to file and pay a UK VAT return. I have my VAT number, I am registered. I think it's absolutely ridiculous to pay over $100 a month just to file a form that needs to be done every 3 months.
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Petting an animal. Cats mostly, but there are some very good doggos.
2. The first bite of a really good apple.
3. The breeze on a crisp, sunny fall day
4. Wearing a favorite piece of jewelry
5. A nap with a cat curled on top of you.
1. Petting an animal. Cats mostly, but there are some very good doggos.
2. The first bite of a really good apple.
3. The breeze on a crisp, sunny fall day
4. Wearing a favorite piece of jewelry
5. A nap with a cat curled on top of you.
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats
1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats
September 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Petting an animal. Cats mostly, but there are some very good doggos.
2. The first bite of a really good apple.
3. The breeze on a crisp, sunny fall day
4. Wearing a favorite piece of jewelry
5. A nap with a cat curled on top of you.
1. Petting an animal. Cats mostly, but there are some very good doggos.
2. The first bite of a really good apple.
3. The breeze on a crisp, sunny fall day
4. Wearing a favorite piece of jewelry
5. A nap with a cat curled on top of you.
Trust me, if I thought this snake oil would stop my middle-of-the-night leg cramps, I'd bathe in it.
Social media influencers claim that using lotion with magnesium promotes sleep. But there's little evidence magnesium taken in this way is effective.
Is it the magnesium or the massage? The facts about magnesium lotion for sleep
Social media influencers claim that using lotion with magnesium promotes sleep. But there's little evidence magnesium taken in this way is effective.
n.pr
September 16, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Trust me, if I thought this snake oil would stop my middle-of-the-night leg cramps, I'd bathe in it.
September 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Artists considering tabling at Santa Fe Comic Con, beware they are not only pro-AI but are being horrible and combative in the comments toward anyone that challenges them.
If this keeps up, its going to encourage more slop peddlers to show up and get booths/tables...
September 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Artists considering tabling at Santa Fe Comic Con, beware they are not only pro-AI but are being horrible and combative in the comments toward anyone that challenges them.
Me at 15, going through puberty: I am so tired of being a hormonal mess.
Me at 45, going through perimenopause: I am so tired of being a hormonal mess.
Me at 45, going through perimenopause: I am so tired of being a hormonal mess.
September 9, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Me at 15, going through puberty: I am so tired of being a hormonal mess.
Me at 45, going through perimenopause: I am so tired of being a hormonal mess.
Me at 45, going through perimenopause: I am so tired of being a hormonal mess.
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Maru, first famous internet cat who pulled me through so many late nights in college, has passed :(
He lived to a ripe old age of 18 but I was hoping he'd crack the secrets of immortality and live forever :(((
sisinmaru.com/2025/09/06/%...
He lived to a ripe old age of 18 but I was hoping he'd crack the secrets of immortality and live forever :(((
sisinmaru.com/2025/09/06/%...
September 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Maru, first famous internet cat who pulled me through so many late nights in college, has passed :(
He lived to a ripe old age of 18 but I was hoping he'd crack the secrets of immortality and live forever :(((
sisinmaru.com/2025/09/06/%...
He lived to a ripe old age of 18 but I was hoping he'd crack the secrets of immortality and live forever :(((
sisinmaru.com/2025/09/06/%...
Behold. My household Miku.
September 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Behold. My household Miku.
The stages of my cat forgiving me after being gone for 9 days:
1. Staaaaare
2. Ignore
3. Shove her butt into the webcam while on a work call
4. Yell at me
5. Acceptance
1. Staaaaare
2. Ignore
3. Shove her butt into the webcam while on a work call
4. Yell at me
5. Acceptance
September 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The stages of my cat forgiving me after being gone for 9 days:
1. Staaaaare
2. Ignore
3. Shove her butt into the webcam while on a work call
4. Yell at me
5. Acceptance
1. Staaaaare
2. Ignore
3. Shove her butt into the webcam while on a work call
4. Yell at me
5. Acceptance
I made it home safely from Dragon Con. I have a cuddly spouse, a cuddly orange boy who wants me to feed him, and a tortie who wants nothing to do with me until I earn my way back into her good graces.
September 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I made it home safely from Dragon Con. I have a cuddly spouse, a cuddly orange boy who wants me to feed him, and a tortie who wants nothing to do with me until I earn my way back into her good graces.
We found the owner and I’m mailing the package back to them later this week!
Hey #dragoncon folks! Some wonderful person bought all of this merch from the Crow Time table and then accidentally left it at a booth near us. It was turned into Lost and Found then over to me. If you are missing your swag and can verify the purchase, please DM me so I can mail it back to you!
September 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
We found the owner and I’m mailing the package back to them later this week!
Hey #dragoncon folks! Some wonderful person bought all of this merch from the Crow Time table and then accidentally left it at a booth near us. It was turned into Lost and Found then over to me. If you are missing your swag and can verify the purchase, please DM me so I can mail it back to you!
September 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Hey #dragoncon folks! Some wonderful person bought all of this merch from the Crow Time table and then accidentally left it at a booth near us. It was turned into Lost and Found then over to me. If you are missing your swag and can verify the purchase, please DM me so I can mail it back to you!
Reposted by Megan Lavey-Heaton
Huh! This is pretty interesting... www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
A city under the sand: The Lost City of Cecil B DeMille
Remnants of one of the silent film era's most epic productions lay buried along the California coast – until a small group of curious adventure-seekers decided to start digging.
www.bbc.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Huh! This is pretty interesting... www.bbc.com/travel/artic...