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Anna Landin
@annalandin.bsky.social
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(she/her) Artist/storyteller/ttrpg designer. Eat the rich.
✨ Patreon http://patreon.com/annalandin
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✨ Email: anna.m.landin@gmail.com

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Yes. Well. Only always.

I like to consider Moses the one in charge of reminding me I need to take breaks.
A charcoal grey, longhaired cat wedged into someone's lap, between them and the table at which they happen to be working. A charcoal grey, long-haired cat blocking the view of a drawing tablet. A charcoal grey, longhaired cat sprawled out, deeply asleep, in front of a keyboard and computer monitor.
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Last #FeedingOfMonsters for the year! Food is cooked, completely normal human men are fed, a good time is had by all.

You can read the #comic archive on #Patreon! www.patreon.com/collection/6...

I'll be going on a few months hiatus as I plan the next set of episodes. 💜 #art
Comic page 1 of 4. Panel 1: a door with a fancy art deco window in it swings open. Panel 2: the interior of the kitchen, with the door in the background. Noah stands at the counter and turns back to speak to Raith, who carries the grocery bags. Noah says "Thanks for helping out! It must have been heavy." Panel 3: close-up of Raith, looking confused, saying "No?". Panel 4: Noah looking at all of the unpacked groceries, smiling and saying "There we go! This will last us for ages." Then quieter, in another speech bubble, "Or, you know, a few days". In a third speech bubble, louder again; "Anyway, time to make dinner!". Panel 5: Raith peering curiously over Noah's shoulder, asking "Potato?". Noah replies "Uh huh". Panel 6: Noah lifting a potato, and Raith leaning to one side to get a better look, seeming excited. Noah says "How does fried potatoes sound? With chicken?" and Raith says "Yes". Comic page 2 of 4. Panel 1: Noah and Raith side by side at the sink. Noah is cleaning the potatoes, and Raith is poking at them with a sharp-nailed finger. Noah says "It's easier to make if you've got leftover potatoes, but we can start from scratch." Panel 2: Raith scraping a nail across a potato he's picked up, peeling it as he does. Panel 3: Raith holding the partly peeled potato up to his nose and sniffing at it, clearly confused. Panel 4: Peeled potatoes falling into a pot filled with water. The narration reads "Peel and slice them into chunks and set them to boil." Panel 5: Noah slicing the chicken into smaller pieces with a knife and a cutting board. He says "While we wait, dice some grilled chicken. Which was on sale today, lucky us!" Panel 6: Noah looking over at Raith, who is drooling and staring fixedly at the food being prepared. Noah says "I'm cutting some corners, but uh, I think that's fine this time." Comic page 3 of 4. Panel 1: some boiled potatoes in smaller pieces, a salt shaker, some herbs and a satchet of powdered spices. The narration reads "Once the potatoes are parboiled, dice them and throw them in the frying pan with some salt and whatever spices you like". Panel 2: drawn overlapping the neighbouring panels, a frying pan filled with sizzling potato cubes. Panel 3: Noah pouring tomato sauce into the pan, saying "Let's use up the tomato sauce we've got, too." Panel 4: Raith looming over Noah's shoulders, his long dark cloak unravelling into spooky shadows. He says "THEN we eat?" with his teeth bared. Noah smiles and says "Uh, no. It's got to finish cooking first." Panel 5: Noah scraping the diced chicken into the pan with a kitchen knife, saying "The chicken is already cooked, so wait to add it until the end." Panel 6: a close-up on the pan with tomato sauce, potatoes and chicken, and Noah's hand holding an open jar, shaking it over the pan. He says "Let's throw in some deep fried onions, too." Comic page 4 of 4. Panel 1: A bowl of the finished this. The narration reads "And there it is: fried potatoes with chicken in tomato sauce (improvised)". Panel 2: Noah handing an eager Raith a bowl, while holding one of his own. Noah says "Enjoy!". Panel 3: Raith eating the food without a fork or spoon. He just buries his face in the bowl, chowing down as it spatters on his face. Panel 4: Noah looking vaguely horrified. Panel 5: Noah, turning away and taking a sip from a mug, and saying "DEFINITELY an axe murderer" to himself. Raith wipes his face with his hand and looks confused.
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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You like #TTRPG s? #comics? #art books? I've got all of those in spades, and most of them are dirt cheap all year round!

Hop on over to annalandin.itch.io and pick up some shiny new things ✨
Cover of the tabletop roleplaying game Liturgy of a Lesser God, by Anna Landin. It looks like the cover of an old book, with gold-embossed letters and decorations on red leather. Cover of the tabletop roleplaying game Dust of the Traveled Road, by Anna Landin. It shows a trio of fantasy characters painted in warm, yellow, orange and red tones against an indigo blue background. Fantastical landscapes can be seen in the folds of their streaming cloaks. A collage of character portraits, all taken from an artbook called Hallow, A Weird West Story, by Anna Landin. The line-up features a Latina woman in a cowboy outfit, scowling at the reader, a black woman with scars across one eye, a pale and translucent white man who is clearly a ghost, a sneering railroad baron and a smiling, ash-pale man whose eyes glow like embers. Cover illustration for the first collected issue of the webcomic The Care and Feeding of Monsters, by Anna Landin. It shows the two main characters - a shorter, white-haired man in a cardigan and apron, and a tall, black-haired man with sharp teeth and an unsettling smile - surrounded by a swirl of delicious-looking food.
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Decided to hop on to this sweet little drawing trend with my own Frieren looking up

a bit of wonk happening when you try to do something really difficult is admirable, because it meant you were brave enough to try. #art #Frieren
Drawing of Frieren, from the anime of the same name, looking up at the sky.
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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New month! New plans! #Patreon plans, even!

Getting by as an artist is only getting harder by the day in this era of generated garbage and global economic wobbling. Adopt an artist today and do your part for the cultural eco system. #art #comics

www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...
A summarising comic where the artist presents her plans for November. These plans include a new episode of the webcomic The Care and Feeding of Monsters, a bonus recipe comic, traditional art in the form of paintings and sculpture, and work put into her two ongoing tabletop roleplaying game projects, Blackbirds, and Stave and Octant.
November 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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New #FeedingOfMonsters episode! A wild Raith appears - and my personal potato agenda strikes again (I love potatoes: they're the best staple food).

You can read the archive on #Patreon: www.patreon.com/collection/6...

#art #comics
Comic page 1 of 4. Panel 1: Noah steps out of the grocery store. A cat watches from atop a crate of asparagus. Panel 2: Noah carries his bags up a hill out of town. Panel 3: Noah looks through the rusted iron gates and up an uneven path into the darkened woods. Panel 4: Noah looks exhausted. Panel 5: Noah begins to walk into the dark woods, slumped over and clearly tired before he's even begun. Comic page 2 of 4. Panel 1: Noah steps over a fallen log, looking tired and uncertain. Panel 2: Noah holds up one aching hand and says "Oof, that hurts!". Panel 3: A voice in a black and jagged speech bubble speaks to Noah from off-panel, scaring him. Panel 4: A terrified Noah looks over his shoulder. Panel 5: Raith emerges from the dark of the forest, his clothing ragged and shadows cast over most of his body. Comic page 3 of 4. Panel 1: Noah says "Oh, it's only you" and no longer looks scared. Raith steps out of the woods, and says "Hurt?". Panel 2: Noah holds up his aching hand and explains. "My hands. The bags are pretty heavy." Panel 3: Close up of Raith looking a bit unimpressed. Most of his sharp teeth are showing, and says "Heavy", repeating a part of what Noah just told him. Panel 4: Noah, looking at his raised hands, now suddenly empty. Panel 5: Noah turns and looks at Raith, who is now carrying the bags and vanishing off to one side of the panel. He says "Uh, I can at least carry one of them." Raith replies "No. Heavy." Panel 6: Noah catching up to Raith, who asks "What kind of food is it?". Noah says "Oh, lots of stuff. The heaviest stuff is the potatoes, I think." Panel 7: Close up of Raith's face. He looks very confused. Comic page 4 of 4. Panel 1: Noah looking a little confused, gesturing as he explains. "You know, potatoes? You dig them up and eat them?" Raith leans into the panel, eyebrows raised, asking "Are they tasty?". Panel 2: Noah, a little shocked, gesturing with one hand. "Of course they're tasty! They're potatoes!" Panel 3: Large panel covering more than half the page, showing Noah and Raith coming out of the woods and approaching the house they live in. The porch is a dark shape in the foreground. Noah says "You seriously haven't had potatoes before now? They're a staple!" Raith asks "Stapler?". Noah replies "No, a STAPLE. Like a basic food!" Raith says "I want to eat a stapled potato."
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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One more for the Delightfully Silly Names files:
Two panels from the manga Recruited By The Strongest Knights In Another World. Panel 1: a man and a woman are speaking to each other. The man asks "Do you know my name?" and the woman answers "Of course not." Panel 2: close-up on the shocked woman's face as the man introduces himself as "Arkrestav Albarse Kanova".
October 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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October goals for my #Patreon! TTRPGs, comics and traditional art plans! And y'know. Maybe some other stuff.

More details on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/octobe... #art #comics #ttrpgs
A comic summarising the artist's goals for October. These goals include more development logs for the tabletop roleplaying games Stave and Octant, and Blackbirds; cover illustrations, thumbnail scripts and concept art for comics, and traditional art. The latter includes painting practise and a sculpture. In the panels the artist herself is in, she can be seen making protest signs about a library closure.
October 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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if this guy looks familiar to you, you 1. have encountered my art elsewhere, 2. are remembering my 2021 #goblinweek series.

The sculpture is a simplified version of him. #art
An illustration of small, rotund fish-like figure wearing a navy uniform and wielding a tiny harpoon. He looks pleased with himself.
September 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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There he is - my lil' fish-goblin guy! ✨

Sculpey clay on a wire and styrofoam armature (+a wooden stick for the tiny harpoon), painted with acrylics with a glossy varnish.

More pictures and step by step WIP on my #Patreon! #art #sculpture www.patreon.com/posts/134787...
A small, rotund fish-like figure wearing a navy uniform and wielding a tiny harpoon. The sculpture is photographed standing in front of a wooden scale model of a sailing ship. A small, rotund fish-like figure wearing a navy uniform and wielding a tiny harpoon. The sculpture is turned to show off its left side. You can see a tiny anchor symbol painted on his sleeve. A small, rotund fish-like figure wearing a navy uniform and wielding a tiny harpoon. The sculpture is turned to show its back. A small, rotund fish-like figure wearing a navy uniform and wielding a tiny harpoon. The sculpture is approximately 8 centimeters tall, and is photographed standing on the artist's palm.
September 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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y'know, one of the things I find most fascinating about these various remasters of older 3D videogames is the way that the remasters seem to entirely ignore the colour design+lighting choices of the old games.

Look at this.
Comparison between the original Deus Ex video game, and the new remastered version. It shows a black man wearing a long grey coat and a shirt or piece of chest armour with buckles on it. The lighting is entirely different in each shot.
September 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Artists and writers, quote with your queer characters!

gosh, which one of them *isn't*, really.
A black and white drawing of a young man with white hair, on a bright yellow background. He's wearing an apron, and is eating cake batter right from the bowl with a spoon. In the corner is the title of the web comic The Care and Feeding of Monsters. Several coloured drawings of a brown-skinned man wearing a face-mask and a collection of scarves, capes, cloth belts and bits of scrap. In one drawing, he's carrying a heavy backpack, and levitating pebbles float around his raised hand. Various drawn portraits of a Latina woman with long black hair and a scar across her lip. She is dressed in the fashion of the Old West, in shades of grey and tan. Her broad-brimmed hat has a small bundle of forget-me-nots tucked into the hat band. Illustration of a white-haired man with short, curling horns. He's dressed in a long coat and leather armour, most of which is covered in soot. He stands on a town wall, with a raging inferno burning behind him. Heavy black clouds roil over the edge of the flames.
September 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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you mean filmjölk?

works great with cereal, even better with ginger biscuits broken into pieces and scattered over it
A glass of filmjölk, a fermented milk product popular in Scandinavia
September 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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the tattoos glow in the dark, which I didn't get to use in-game as much as I maybe should have. #ttrpg #art
Two portraits of the same woman, drawn in bright, neon-like colours. In one, it is daytime and you can see the magenta tattoo on her pale skin. In the other, it is night, and the same tattoos glow a bright, candy-red neon, and her eyes are glowing teal.
September 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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and that's our Metro:Otherscape campaign finished! 🎉

happy (temporary?) retirement, Yaga the street thug and your highly-opinionated ancient sword and thank you for the good cut-everything-that-moves times

Wrapping on a finale full of giant mechs, hover cars and electric demons felt great #ttrpg
Various coloured sketches of a white woman with a side-cut hairstyle, magenta-coloured hair, and a bunch of intricate magenta tattoos. She's wearing cyberpunk fashion, with a long white coat with a stylised horned skull painted on the back, and she carries a long sword with an ornate hilt.
September 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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New #FeedingOfMonsters episode! High-octane grocery shopping!

If you want to read episodes ahead of time, hop on over to #Patreon and get in on that! www.patreon.com/collection/6...

#art #comics
Comic page 1 of 4. A page without dialogue or narrative text. Panel 1: Noah walks up a hill, looking around at the buildings lining the street. A store window in the background reads "Hain's Gunpowder and Paper". Panel 2: Noah checks a handwritten note for directions. Panel 3: Noah consults an old lady. He is pointing one way, she is pointing in the opposite direction. Panel 4: A bird's eye view of Noah walking through down. Panel 5: Noah asks a small black boy for directions: this time, they are both pointing in the same direction. Panel 6: Noah walks down a hill, past the wall enclosing a park. He passes a couple who are arguing with each other. Comic page 2 of 4. Panel 1: Noah turns a corner and spots a cat lying on a stack of crates. It meows at him, and he says "Oh hey there!". Panel 2: The cat leaps down from the crates. Panel 3: Noah kneels down and pets the cat, saying "Nice to meet you, little guy! Do you know where the grocery -". Panel 4: View of Noah and the cat from behind as the perspective turns around to show the grocery store just ahead of him. The logo in the window reads "Castle's Groceries". Panel 5: a closeup of the cat, meowing. Comic page 3 of 4. Panel 1: Noah steps in through the door, saying "Hello? Are you open?". Panel 2: An old lady looks up from behind the counter, where she sits knitting, and says "Sure are, son! Come right on in. How can I help ya?" Panel 3: Wide panel, showing the interior of the grocery store as well as Noah and the old lady. Noah says "Oh thank god. I just realised we ran out of food, and I've still got to make dinner". Panel 4: The old lady, smiling. She says "Sounds like you've got a big eater at home, huh?". Panel 5: Noah, hand on his neck and smiling crookedly, says "Do I ever. Every cupboard is empty!" Comic page 4 of 4. Panel 1: The old lady turns away from the counter for a moment, and says "You're in the right place, then! Let me know if ya need anything." Panel 2: Noah, still smiling, says "Will do!". Panel 3: Noah looks around the grocery store while the old lady goes back to her knitting. Panel 4: Noah inspects a shelf with cereal boxes, bags of snacks and bottles on it. Panel 5: Noah kneels down to compare two bottles on the bottom shelf. Panel 6: Noah puts his basket of groceries on the counter and speaks to the old lady. "I think that's all I need!" She replies "Let me ring ya up, then!"
September 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score

Priest has a rock solid 16% score, but it also has catholic ninja priest Paul Bettany fist fighting a vampiric Karl Urban on top of a speeding train in a post-apocalyptic desert, AND an animated intro, so your argument is invalid, actually
Paul Bettany, dressed in black priest's robes, standing in a desert landscape. He is surrounded by the burned remnants of wheels and metal scrap. Behind him, a fire is still burning. Karl Urban, dressed in an Old West style leather coat and cat, looking over his shoulder at the audience. He's wearing coloured contacts that turn his eyes yellow. A blood-stained Paul Bettany dressed in black priest's robes, walking through a church, surrounded by a stunned congregation. A screenshot of an animated sequence. It shows countless armoured men on horses, each holding a lance with a pennant streaming in the wind.
September 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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oh, and this one! I live by this one, as much as I possibly can.

on good days, I get at least halfway there.
A tumblr text post. How to draw good. - fill 14 sketch book - bad stuff is good stuff because you made stuff - do you like sparkle? draw sparkle - draw what makes your heart do the smiley emote - remember to drink lots of agua or else bad time - don't stress friend all is well - your art is hot like potato crisps - don't let anyone piss on your good mood amigo - and if they do - you - eat - them
September 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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And this lesser known cousin of the mushroom post. You know the one.
A tumblr text post by user hyperactive hedgehog. They write: I'm studying biotech and every time someone brings up mushrooms our current professor will look either excited or pained and go "Listen... mushrooms are neither plants nor animals nor something in between. They elude all attempts to categorize them. We do not know what they are. Some are immortal. Some produce life-saving substances. Some are so closely related to humans that eating them may cause an allergic reaction against your own body. I cannot teach you about the mushrooms."
September 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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I've got some that make me chuckle and have made parts of themselves permanent features of my vocabulary.
A tumblr post. The first user writes: Every shounen character: I'm 11 and don't care if I die. Second user replies: I mean have you ever met an 11 year old Third user says: 11 year olds have the self-preservation of someone who has met god and wasn't impressed. A tumblr text post. First user writes: bard is a combat class which is true because I've never met anyone in marching band that didn't want to throw down Second user writes: Playing tuba in marching band means you can power walk 2 miles backwards on your toes in 16 minutes without bending your knees while carrying a 35 pound blunt metal object with your arms held at right angles and blasting every extra gulp of oxygen you can spare without asphyxiating to make sounds loud enough to deafen the dead in an act of pure unchristian violence, your bard is the party member who will teach you how to kill god by example A tumblr text post. User archosaur-automaton writes: Crabs amaze me. They're the perfect life form, a tank made of legs and living hate-armour. It's not just about their physicality, though; it's the soul of the crab. See, no crab in the bottomless history of the sea has ever questioned itself, doubted itself, worried, or been afraid. A crab is pure motion. A crab is pure id and unrelenting forward force. Crabs invented the word violence and they will scuttle on the surface of the world while the red giant of SOl creeps closer to devour everywhere we've ever known. They will look into the sky and clack their claws and there will be no fear. A tumblr text post. User robot mango writes: It's ninety-nine degrees outside, four fuck-thousand percent humidity, and my husband was like "I'm gonna go for a bike ride." And I was like "Why. No. Why. Don't put us on the news like that. Local fool collapses on unnecessary journey. DOn't do it." So he says he doesn't want to "hide in the house" because the sun is shining. Bruh. Honey bruh. "The sun is shining" does not cover it. It's hot outside. It's motherfucking hot as fuck outside. Our outdoor plants have been crying into their hands all week. Whole cars are melting into the sewer. Our fucking patio umbrella developed sentience to ask me for lemonade this morning.
September 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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oh, how much time have you got? I have a whole folder of these.

my go-to favourite is probably the one about cricket.
Screencap of a tumblr post. Part 1 of 3. If people haven't been exposed to cricket before, here is the experience. The person who likes cricket turns on a radio with an air of happy expextation. "We'll just catch up with the cricket," they say. An elderly British man with an accent - you can picture exactly what he looks like and what he is wearing, somehow, and you know that he will explain the important concept of Yorkshire to you at length if you make eye contact - is saying "And with four snickets to wicket, Umbleby dives under the covers and romps home for a sticky bicket." There is a deep and satisfied silence. Weather happens over the radio. This lasts for three minutes. A gentle young gentleman with an Indian accent, whose perfect and beautiful clear voice makes him sound like a poet sipping from a honeyed drink always, says mildly "Of course we cannot forget that when Pakistan last had the biscuit under the covers, they were thrown out of bed. In 1957, I believe." You mouth "what the fucking fuck." A morally ambiguous villain from a super hero movie says off-microphone, "Crumbs everywhere." Apparently continuing a previous conversation, the villain asks "Do seagulls eat tacos?" "I'm sure someone will tell us eventually," the poet says. His voice is so beautiful it should be familiar; he should be the only announcer on the radio, the only reader of audiobooks. Part 2 of 3. The villain says with sudden interest, "Oh, a leg over straight and under the covers, Peterson and Singh are rumping along with a straight fine leg and good pumping action. Thanks to his powerful thighs, Peterson is an excellent legspinner, apart from being rude on Twitter." The man from Yorkshire roars potently, like a bull seeing another bull. There might be words in his roar, but otherwise it is primal and sizzling. "That isn't straight," the poet says. "It's silly." "What the fucking fuck," you say out loud at this point. "Shh," says the person who likes cricket. They listen, tensely. Something in the distance makes a very small "thwack," like a baby dropping an egg. "Was that a doosra or a googly?" the villain asks. "It's a wrong one," roars the Yorkshireman in his wrath. A powerful insult has been offered. They begin to scuffle. "With that double doozy, Crumpet is baffled for three turns, Agarwal is deep in the biscuit tin and Padgett has gone to the shops undercover," the power says quickly, to cover the action while his companions are busy. The villain is being throttled, in a friendly companionable way. An intern apparently brings a message scrawled on a scrap of paper like a courier sprinting across a battlefield. "Reddy has rolled a nat 20," the poet says with barely contained excitement. "Australia is both a continent and an island. But we're running out of time!" "Is that true?" you ask suddenly. "Shh!" says the person who likes cricket. "It's a test match." "About Australia." "We won't know that until the third day." Part 3 of 3. A distant "pock" noise. The sound of thirty people saying "tsk," sorrowfully. "And the baby's dropped the egg. Four legs over or we're done for, as long as it doesn't rain." The villain might be dead? You begin to find yourself emotionally invested. There are mild distant cheers. "Oh, and with twelve sticky wickets t' over and the segull's exploded," the man from the North says as if all of his dreams have come true. "What a beautiful day." Your person who likes cricket relaxes. It is tea break. The villain, apparenlty alive, describes the best at in the audience as "Like a funnel made of dove-coloured net, but backwards, with flies trapped in it." This is every bit as good as that time in Australia in 1975, they all agree, drinking their tea and eating home-made cakes sent in by the fans. The poet comments favourably on the icing and sugar-preserved violets. The Yorkshire man discourses on the nature of sponge. The villain clatters his cup too hard on his saucer. To cover his embarrassment, the poet begins scrolling through Twitter on his phone, reading aloud the best memes in his enchanting milky voice. Then, with joy, he reads an @ from an ornithologist at the University of Reading: seagulls do eat tacos! A reference is cited; the poet reads it aloud. Everyone cheers. You are honestly - against your will - kind of into it! But also: weirdly enraged. "Was that... it?" you ask, deeming it safe to interrupt. "No," says the person who likes cricket. "This is the second tea break on the first day. We won't know where we really are until lunch tomorrow." And - because you cannot stop them - you have to accept this; if cricket teaches you anything, it is this gentle and radical acceptance.
September 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Having a bit of a stressful time (RIP my phone and my peace of mind) but work goes on! Here are my September #Patreon plans! #art #comics

More detail here: www.patreon.com/posts/septem...
A comic explaining the artist's creative plans for September. Panel 1: the artist holds up an upside-down piggy bank and a single coin bounces out. She says "Sigh. Hey, all. I'ts been an expensive time this past month". Panel 2: head in her hands, the artist points to her own speech bubble, and says "But the grind goes on, so let's talk plans. Panel 3: a summary of the creative plans. These include a new episode of the Care and Feeding of Monsters webcomic, finishing a sculpture, and working on tabletop roleplaying game design. Panel 4: the tired-looking artist looking at the reader. She says "If you like what I do, I would really appreciate the support as I get to work on all of that, and try not to stress-cry."
September 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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still having a squirrelly enough brain to want to avoid the social medias as much as I can, but at least I'm getting a bunch of reading done

picked up The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden and read the whole thing in one sitting. Turns out WW1 frontline medicine and fiddling devils reel me in
Cover of Katherine Arden's novel named The Warm Hands of Ghosts
August 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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I wish I'd taken more pictures than I did, but I was too distracted by looking at neat plants to remember I should.

You'll also note I forgot to take pictures of most of these with the identifying name plates.
A hand held up next to a pipevine leaf, showing just how huge the bright green leaf is. A plant with finger-like leaves clustered around a brown base. It grows at the very end of a tree branch. A passion flower with pale green petals and a lavender and dark purple center. Its shape looks almost cartoonish. The large, angular stem of an elephant's foot yam.
August 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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speaking of cool stuff happening - I spent the other day at the Bergius Botanic Garden, and it was a lovely time.

Plants are cool, actually.
A twisted dwarf beech tree with dense green foliage. A japanese style garden with a pond and a bridge. Gorgeous flowers with dense, tiny purple blossoms clustered in the center and larger white blossoms surrounding them. A pond inside a greenhouse, filled with giant waterlily pads. A small, pale blue waterlily can be seen in the foreground.
August 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM