Lineth
@busylin.bsky.social
She/her, knitter, dancer, tarot reader, barefoot hippie
Having emotions and arting about it
Also cats
https://youtube.com/@PolycephalicTarot?
https://tinyurl.com/ColorTonic
Having emotions and arting about it
Also cats
https://youtube.com/@PolycephalicTarot?
https://tinyurl.com/ColorTonic
Sketched a character I'm putting together for a game next month. Visually based, in part, on an absolutely terrifying piano professor at my U. She is STILL teaching there and now I wonder if she is a vampire?
November 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Sketched a character I'm putting together for a game next month. Visually based, in part, on an absolutely terrifying piano professor at my U. She is STILL teaching there and now I wonder if she is a vampire?
I know everyone is (rightfully!) up in arms about health care costs on the ACA marketplace but it's more than that. We have workplace insurance and were just informed that next year we'll be paying $376.14 every two weeks, for coverage that doesn't kick in until we have spent $15,000 out of pocket.
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I know everyone is (rightfully!) up in arms about health care costs on the ACA marketplace but it's more than that. We have workplace insurance and were just informed that next year we'll be paying $376.14 every two weeks, for coverage that doesn't kick in until we have spent $15,000 out of pocket.
Friend's kid, leaving the room: "Love you!"
Friend replies, "Love you!"
...pause...
Kid: "Busylin, you have to say it back!"
Me: "Oh! Love you!"
My heart! Honestly when my bonus kids, other people's children, call me in like that? Is when I feel like I have achieved peak parenthood.
Friend replies, "Love you!"
...pause...
Kid: "Busylin, you have to say it back!"
Me: "Oh! Love you!"
My heart! Honestly when my bonus kids, other people's children, call me in like that? Is when I feel like I have achieved peak parenthood.
November 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Friend's kid, leaving the room: "Love you!"
Friend replies, "Love you!"
...pause...
Kid: "Busylin, you have to say it back!"
Me: "Oh! Love you!"
My heart! Honestly when my bonus kids, other people's children, call me in like that? Is when I feel like I have achieved peak parenthood.
Friend replies, "Love you!"
...pause...
Kid: "Busylin, you have to say it back!"
Me: "Oh! Love you!"
My heart! Honestly when my bonus kids, other people's children, call me in like that? Is when I feel like I have achieved peak parenthood.
Visible to the naked eye even from my suburban driveway with neighborhood lights!
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Visible to the naked eye even from my suburban driveway with neighborhood lights!
Preschool Thing 3 had a park friend whose dad we thought looked like Ronald Reagan.
Thing 3 is now a jr in high school and today we went to their show, where that kid had a role.
DH: (friend)'s dad doesn't look like Reagan anymore!
Me: not like Young Reagan, now he looks like Old Reagan.
...Dang it
Thing 3 is now a jr in high school and today we went to their show, where that kid had a role.
DH: (friend)'s dad doesn't look like Reagan anymore!
Me: not like Young Reagan, now he looks like Old Reagan.
...Dang it
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Preschool Thing 3 had a park friend whose dad we thought looked like Ronald Reagan.
Thing 3 is now a jr in high school and today we went to their show, where that kid had a role.
DH: (friend)'s dad doesn't look like Reagan anymore!
Me: not like Young Reagan, now he looks like Old Reagan.
...Dang it
Thing 3 is now a jr in high school and today we went to their show, where that kid had a role.
DH: (friend)'s dad doesn't look like Reagan anymore!
Me: not like Young Reagan, now he looks like Old Reagan.
...Dang it
Art date with friends today. We drew a tarot card for inspiration and got the 2 of swords, which fit nicely into this prompt - if I don't like the choices at my crossroads, maybe the solution is to consult a map to a place that doesn't exist. Yet. A destination unknown.
Same pic, different lighting.
Same pic, different lighting.
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Art date with friends today. We drew a tarot card for inspiration and got the 2 of swords, which fit nicely into this prompt - if I don't like the choices at my crossroads, maybe the solution is to consult a map to a place that doesn't exist. Yet. A destination unknown.
Same pic, different lighting.
Same pic, different lighting.
A bountiful crop of beans
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
A bountiful crop of beans
Only voter #106 in my precinct so far - up and at 'em, neighbors!
#jocovotes
#jocovotes
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Only voter #106 in my precinct so far - up and at 'em, neighbors!
#jocovotes
#jocovotes
(cue Tom Jones)🎵 It's not unusual to run choreography in the bathroom at 4 am! 🎶
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No? Just me? (sad trombone)
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No? Just me? (sad trombone)
October 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
(cue Tom Jones)🎵 It's not unusual to run choreography in the bathroom at 4 am! 🎶
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No? Just me? (sad trombone)
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No? Just me? (sad trombone)
Stop! ✋🏻 Mandatory wallpaper check!
October 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Stop! ✋🏻 Mandatory wallpaper check!
A friend and I were people-watching downtown on a Halloween weekend and a lady paused in weaving past to ask if we were dating, and then announced, slurring, "When you get married, you oughtta have a POTLUCK!" We agreed and managed to keep a straight face until she was out of earshot.
do you ever have things that someone has said to you that live forever in your head (non-serious edition)? some older boomer hippie guy said “hahmmus gives you fahts” to me 26 years ago at a free fridge and i think of it every fucking single time i buy hummus to this day.
October 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
A friend and I were people-watching downtown on a Halloween weekend and a lady paused in weaving past to ask if we were dating, and then announced, slurring, "When you get married, you oughtta have a POTLUCK!" We agreed and managed to keep a straight face until she was out of earshot.
"Things I might draw poorly"
Hongdian M2 fountain pen with Diamine Forever ink in Skyline, and watercolors. Everything but the pen is an experiment in continuous line drawing, which I always think looks amazing but had not tried yet. Clearly there is a trick to this and I need to try again.
Hongdian M2 fountain pen with Diamine Forever ink in Skyline, and watercolors. Everything but the pen is an experiment in continuous line drawing, which I always think looks amazing but had not tried yet. Clearly there is a trick to this and I need to try again.
October 27, 2025 at 6:52 AM
"Things I might draw poorly"
Hongdian M2 fountain pen with Diamine Forever ink in Skyline, and watercolors. Everything but the pen is an experiment in continuous line drawing, which I always think looks amazing but had not tried yet. Clearly there is a trick to this and I need to try again.
Hongdian M2 fountain pen with Diamine Forever ink in Skyline, and watercolors. Everything but the pen is an experiment in continuous line drawing, which I always think looks amazing but had not tried yet. Clearly there is a trick to this and I need to try again.
PSA: if you are hoping somebody will want to get close to you, nekkid, you should consider a daily shower. Brush your teeth. And wear clean underpants. Ones where the elastic still works are even better, but clean-not-stained will do. Skid marks do not give Pants Feelings, FFS.
October 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
PSA: if you are hoping somebody will want to get close to you, nekkid, you should consider a daily shower. Brush your teeth. And wear clean underpants. Ones where the elastic still works are even better, but clean-not-stained will do. Skid marks do not give Pants Feelings, FFS.
#tarotember
"I think so, Brain, but what if the hippopotamus won't wear the beach thong?"
The path out of overthinking, or being so stuck in your path you try the same thing over and over again, might be through left field. It certainly can't hurt at this point.
"I think so, Brain, but what if the hippopotamus won't wear the beach thong?"
The path out of overthinking, or being so stuck in your path you try the same thing over and over again, might be through left field. It certainly can't hurt at this point.
October 20, 2025 at 6:10 AM
#tarotember
"I think so, Brain, but what if the hippopotamus won't wear the beach thong?"
The path out of overthinking, or being so stuck in your path you try the same thing over and over again, might be through left field. It certainly can't hurt at this point.
"I think so, Brain, but what if the hippopotamus won't wear the beach thong?"
The path out of overthinking, or being so stuck in your path you try the same thing over and over again, might be through left field. It certainly can't hurt at this point.
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That's. Wow, okay, so this makes me feel some kind of way about how many years I spent teaching my husband to use a fuckin calendar. And the system that gets the dishes done. And how I still hide things by putting them in an opaque bag even though it's been a family joke for 30 years.
Something I think about a lot: One of the reasons people used to think boys “outgrew” ADHD is because in adulthood men tend to offload their executive function (managing calendars, remembering birthdays, cleaning, grocery shopping) to wives and secretaries so it masked their symptoms.
October 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
That's. Wow, okay, so this makes me feel some kind of way about how many years I spent teaching my husband to use a fuckin calendar. And the system that gets the dishes done. And how I still hide things by putting them in an opaque bag even though it's been a family joke for 30 years.
"I have a profession?!?!"
Editor: “We loved it but…”
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"I have a profession?!?!"
I remember when Thing 1 was an infant and I worked out that there could only be one stop per day that involved getting in and out of the car seat and lo, two more kids and over 25 years later, I still am on a one-stop schedule: do you suppose it's the autism?
i have three things scheduled tomorrow and i dont think i am meant for a three thing a day lifestyle anymore
October 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I remember when Thing 1 was an infant and I worked out that there could only be one stop per day that involved getting in and out of the car seat and lo, two more kids and over 25 years later, I still am on a one-stop schedule: do you suppose it's the autism?
FB: "One year ago you were in Istanbul making friends with cats on every corner!"
Miss Dorothy: "We have cats at home!"
Miss Dorothy: "We have cats at home!"
October 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
FB: "One year ago you were in Istanbul making friends with cats on every corner!"
Miss Dorothy: "We have cats at home!"
Miss Dorothy: "We have cats at home!"
Last day of #tarotember! Prompt: dealer's choice (Knight of Cups) I made a lot of progress with these prompts, I am now 41 cards in (well, 43, but there are 3 Strengths) to my eventual all-hippos deck.
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Last day of #tarotember! Prompt: dealer's choice (Knight of Cups) I made a lot of progress with these prompts, I am now 41 cards in (well, 43, but there are 3 Strengths) to my eventual all-hippos deck.
#tarotember day 29 prompt: card that brings you joy. This is another cheat, a sketch from Tarotember 2022. I cobbled this together out of several family photos, where the smushing together into one chair is the common factor. Still makes me smile every time it appears 🙂
September 30, 2025 at 6:50 AM
#tarotember day 29 prompt: card that brings you joy. This is another cheat, a sketch from Tarotember 2022. I cobbled this together out of several family photos, where the smushing together into one chair is the common factor. Still makes me smile every time it appears 🙂
Made myself a new tarot notebook, that will fit A6 journals instead of only 3.5x5.5 - I want to be able to use a fountain pen and my options seemed limited!
September 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Made myself a new tarot notebook, that will fit A6 journals instead of only 3.5x5.5 - I want to be able to use a fountain pen and my options seemed limited!
#tarotember day 27 prompt: card that makes you sad (5 of wands)
I had an art date with Thing 3 and she kept insisting I add more hippos, lol
I had an art date with Thing 3 and she kept insisting I add more hippos, lol
September 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
#tarotember day 27 prompt: card that makes you sad (5 of wands)
I had an art date with Thing 3 and she kept insisting I add more hippos, lol
I had an art date with Thing 3 and she kept insisting I add more hippos, lol