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bzedan
@bzedan.bsky.social
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Optimistic existentialist. Latine. They/them. Old enough to be your auntie. Far more active on Tumblr.
Would you like to know more? https://links.bzedan.com/
I have #newsletter, serialised an old book at #tagtag and also am bad at using this tagging.
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Public weekly update at the usual places. Please enjoy this creature from the highlight of my week, what a smile.
✨ https://comradery.co/bzedan/posts/november-02-2025
✨ https://www.patreon.com/posts/143230569
A photo of a dinosaur sculpture that has been worn by time to reveal the layers of plaster covering a metal base. The teeth and spines of the ankylosaurus are creatively proportioned, and the dramatic angle of the photo lets you look into the mouth of the dinosaur to better see the peg-like teeth.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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I have given up trying to find what fairy tale adaptation of Thousandfurs/Allerleirauh/All-Fur this magic soup piano was from, but here's a blog post about it: bzedan.com/blog/all-fur...
A sketchy digital drawing, navy on beige, of a woman triumphantly depressing a large key in a sort of curved control board with unclear runes on each wedge of key. Notes with arrows surround the sketch: Key final scene? Triumphant/defiant (pointing at woman). Soup keyboard made sounds, maybe it put magic in the soup? (pointing at keyboard). A bracket encompasses the image at the side and is labelled: Actually, she may have been poisoning the witch here?
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Public weekly update post at the regular places. Lots done this week, hooray. Please also look at this orange with another orange growing inside.
✨ https://comradery.co/bzedan/posts/november-01-2025
✨ https://www.patreon.com/posts/142700406
A photo taken from the underside of an orange tree, looking up at a single orange surrounded by shiny green leaves. The bottom of the orange is split, and there is a second, smaller orange growing inside it.
November 3, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Rolling up to the casual costume meet like
A person wearing a costume that consists of a papier mâché deer skull with oversize globby black antlers, body covered by a long black drape. Their hands are bare and up in a goofy pose.
October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Apparently there's a Halloween sale happening at Itch, so I thew my stuff in there. Get literally all the writing I've got up for sale for an even $5. (that's six short story collections and a half-dozen collected newsletter zines with additional content).
itch.io/s/164655/hal...
A graphic advertising "Halloween Sale! Get it all: $5" with a background of a giant boulder on a hill that has been painted to look like a jack o' lantern. Layered over the photo are images of the collections on Itchio.
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Public weekly update post at the usual places. It is *amazing* how having to undo half your work on something can overshadow the stuff that went right.
✨ https://comradery.co/bzedan/posts/october-04-2025
✨ https://www.patreon.com/posts/142138377
A photograph of a hand through a loose reel of pastel speckled yarn, fingers in the middle of unzipping a bunch of double crochet.
October 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Public weekly update post up and it's mostly links to blog posts but that's what it's like when you're in the middle of writing something. Proof of writing: this binder of notes.
✨ https://comradery.co/bzedan/posts/october-03-2025
✨ https://www.patreon.com/posts/141595757
A cropped-in photo of the upper corner of a loose leaf binder, pages sort of splayed to show there are a goodly amount, and that there are little divider tabs washi-taped on.
October 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I didn’t take really any pictures at the nighttime garden event because I was enjoying looking at plants and animals so much (shout out to the young ambassador owl who hear homecoming fireworks and was just like 👀⁉️), but here is an out of focus turtle.
A picture of a turtle with a pile of dirt on its head from digging around a bit. The aura is offended. The background of leaves is more sharp than the turtle.
October 18, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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I am a number memorising outlier though, I suck so bad at numbers I had one of these from tween on:
An image of one of those retro phone number directories where you zipped a slider down the alphabet then punch a button and it opens to that letter.
October 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Public weekly update at the usual places! Also, I'm mending and reinforcing the cuffs of the coat I made in late 2016. Trying to get it ready for a new winter, some 9 years from its first. 
✨ https://comradery.co/bzedan/posts/october-02-2025
✨ https://www.patreon.com/posts/141059993
A photo of a hand holding the cuff of a coat before a sewing machine, a piece of fabric partly pinned to it that has a reinforcing strip of interfacing.
October 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Weekly public update post at the usual places. Please also enjoy the spitty detritus that squirrels drop beneath what I think is a pecan tree. A photo cannot convey the carpet of half-chewed mess.  
✨ https://comradery.co/bzedan/posts/october-01-2025
✨ https://www.patreon.com/posts/140531370
A photo of a patch of sidewalk that is absolutely littered with little bits of debris from tree nuts. It's already staining the concrete. In the corner of the image is a foot in a slide with the word "TRIP" on it.
October 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Public weekly update post on a mild but satisfying week. Also, please enjoy a view of part of the Helen's Costume booth at OPAF. Such a fun space to show in.
✨ https://comradery.co/bzedan/posts/september-04-2025
✨ https://www.patreon.com/posts/139950280
A photograph of a grey-painted, worn concrete wall with various broken chunks and rocks piled at the base. Framed pencil drawings on hotel notepad paper hang on the wall at the top of the image, next to a pair of shoes. A vibrant pink, purple, and black painting of a Snow White-type witch is stuck to the wall just above the highest point of the piled rocks.
September 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Public weekly update post up at the usual places. Also, did u kno that if you have a ribbon maker you can make yourself a ribbon for anything whenever? Vital importance.
✨ https://comradery.co/bzedan/posts/september-03-2025
✨ https://www.patreon.com/posts/139442460
A hand is gently holding a small light grey ribbon rosette, like the kind one wins at a fair. It is small enough to only just be longer than the width of the hand as it rests across the fingers.
September 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Even if it’s not what I end up using, I feel very smart for needing a map for something and playing Carcassone about it (we forgot the river mini expansion was in there, lol, whoops).
A kind of fucked game of carcassonne, laid out on the floor. The river tiles are mixed in and several go nowhere. A rough map drawing in procreate that is based on the same game, with some of the river and roads filled out.
September 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Let’s see if I’m allowed to post images today, even though this is my least favourite social media I am proud of what I made and do want to show it off.
A photo of a snow globe on a stack of beat-up old books. The snow globe is labelled "Sierra Madre Casino" on the base and has a pip boy standing in a pile of coins in front of a big hotel. It looks a lot like the asset from Dead Money.
September 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Sure. If this is blank as well then aren't you glad I use alt text.
A screencap of the post this is replying to, showing the image is a black box, but there is an ALT text available, wtf lol.
September 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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I tried to reply to this with a still image (I think it's pulling the gif that's in the post as the image) and it was just a blank box???? Is the image too big for you what is the problem. Anyway, I will try once more but if it fails I guess you will have to go to my blog to see, suck it.
A photo of a snow globe on a stack of beat-up old books. The snow globe is labelled "Sierra Madre Casino" on the base and has a pip boy standing in a pile of coins in front of a big hotel. It looks a lot like the asset from Dead Money.
September 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Public weekly update at the usual places. I also had to defeat my foes (clear lettering and delicate cutting) 2x today because I glued something upside down. Nonetheless!
✨ https://comradery.co/bzedan/posts/september-02-2025
✨ https://www.patreon.com/posts/138917070
A photograph of a workspace cluttered with cutting tools of various specialities. Letters spelling "Sierra Madre Casino" cut from green craft foam are laid out on a scrap of cardboard.
September 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Free weekly update post at the usual places, the tl;dr is I'm writing but can't share yet. Plus, also please look at the craft I am doing, it is so indulgent.  
✨ https://comradery.co/bzedan/posts/september-01-2025
✨ https://www.patreon.com/posts/138398563
A close-cropped photo of a makeshift paint palette, frosted clear plastic painted with a building, and the outline of a Pip-Boy mascot standing in a pile of gold. Through the plastic is visible a black and white print out of a snow-globe of Sierra Madre Casino from Fallout: New Vegas.
September 8, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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your last saved pic is your moral philosophy
A battered pair of slides with “Don’t Trip” in blackletter type, one word on each strap of each slide.
September 7, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Two of my favourites:
A two panel comic showing “RED” as a “magic word that covers everything”, with the second panel showing a “red” banner stretching to cover things like “fighting shop steward,” and “anybody who opposes piece work.” A single panel comic of a scarecrow wearing overalls labelled “company union” holding a sign that says “I love the boss,” while a person in overalls marked “real unions” looks disgustedly at it. It is captioned “Phony unions are given equal rights with real unions.”
September 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Update post at the usual places for supporters ($1+). Patreon does let me keep part of it unlocked (I'm just sub-locking an early story concept). Anyway: here's also the moon.
✨ https://comradery.co/bzedan/posts/august-05-2025
✨ https://www.patreon.com/posts/137803742
A kind of night-grainy photo of late sunset, the sky terracotta at where it touches the silhouette of trees and houses, shifting to a deep slate blue at the top of the image. The moon is somehow clear, despite it all, and is a perfect skinny crescent.
August 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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To be fair, this is a good guess of what to watch next based on my viewing history.
A screenshot from Hoopla: We you enjoyed watching "Terrifier" up next "Ken Burns: The Congress."
August 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Public weekly update post at the usual places. Your link-accompanying image this week is my top-tier accessorising in the form of Castle Park pass and previously mentioned jingle bracelet.
✨ https://comradery.co/bzedan/posts/august-04-2025
✨ https://www.patreon.com/posts/137262378
A photo of the various things a person is wearing on their arm. From wrist down, they are: an admittance pass wristband for Castle Park, a huge gold Casio calculator watch, a rainbow pony bead bracelet with tiny bells on it, another single pony bead bracelet in sherbet colours.
August 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Spike please give me keywords so I can learn more about the unification clowns. I can be normal about clown history.
A picture of a passage from the first chapter of The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, describing Italian underground fair performers doing political satire. A sentence is highlighted. Notes written on the side of the page mention LeGuin’s carrier bag theory of fiction.
August 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM