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she/her. AriadneArca in some places. Award organiser @SelkieAwards.org. Art, writing, comics! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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I struggled to get started with attacks on @artfight.net this year, but the 2 pieces I did complete, I got EXTREMELY absorbed in. And I've kept my slightly-over-50% battle ratio! ✌️#sharemyattack2025

OCs: the elegant Geneviéve by docholligay on tumblr & the adorable Subu by @marineteeth.bsky.social
A woman dressed in musketeer-like cothing cleans her rapier of blood with a cloth, expression close to a pout, if pouting were ladylike. She sits on a stool, has a sheet hung up between two trees behind her, and an artfully placed rose with discarded petals by her feet, suggesting she was in the middle of getting her portrait taken. There's spots of blood on her shirt and trousers, and a big splash of it against the sheet backdrop. Just poking out behind the sheet are two boots, with dried blood spattered next to them. A mermaid with a long eel-like fin leans on a jetty eating an icecream from a small tub. She's looking with interest at a seagull, which is perched on one of the jetty posts, examining her in return (and perhaps about to make a play for her icecream).
August 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Stiles are definitely a thing in Scotland and Wales! I love them, I had a poorly referenced and questionably accurate stile in my comic Wellheart from a few years back (pictured)
A young woman runs to a stile over a stone fence, scales it, and looks surprised by what she sees on the other side
June 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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I'm back at the blogging! This time I'm digging into The Power Fantasy by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard, and spending way too many words on gender:

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Masumi of The Power Fantasy looks back at the viewer, confused at the interruption, shortly after painting "Spoilers Below" on a wall
June 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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It's #WebcomicDay!

Feels like an appropriate time to share my blog about abandoned webcomics, and why they're so important: caragaffney.com/posts/2025-0...
A tweet from @AriadneArca reading: 'On this webcomicday I want to shout out the noble art of the abandoned first attempt longform webcomic', accompanied by a meme of a used car salesman saying 'this bad boy can fit so much artistic development/self discovery in it' and slapping a car labelled 'abandoned first webcomic'
May 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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There's been more but this is the first one that always occurs to me........ I love Sayonara Wild Hearts
A screenshot taken from the final level of Sayonara Wild Hearts, from the sequence immediately after the Eye is defeated
May 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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I finished the Outer Wilds base game last week (only six years late)! I've shared my extremely spoilery thoughts on my blog: caragaffney.com/posts/2025-0...
A picture of me in the protagonist's spacesuit, holding a sign saying "spoilers below"
April 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Checking the date on this one like please say first of April please say first of April please say first of April---

www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Phot of Anas Sawar. Text: We can use our ties with Trump to make Scotland greater again The SNP is obsessed with identity politics and treat this country’s economy as an afterthought Anas Sarwar Saturday April 05 2025, 6.00pm, The Sunday Times Few countries share as deep and enduring a bond as Scotland and the United States. From the very founding of [image cuts off]
April 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Further highlights. I have never seen so many robins in one place before, I thought we were going to see a brawl
A coal tit with an identification ring around its leg, perched on a box bird feeder and looking over its shoulder cautiously A great tit perched on the same box birdfeeder, ready to take flight A red squirrel sitting in a branch, its tail curled up its back, its fur a perfect match for the tree it's sitting in A robin perched on a wire tree protector, in front of a set of bee houses.
March 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Look at this ABSOLUTE UNIT that my dad took some photos of this weekend
A very fat-looking chaffinch, looking off to the side, sitting on a lichen-covered branch A very fat-looking chaffinch, looking towards the camera, sitting on a lichen-covered branch
March 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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YESSSSSSS
March 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Friend's Zigzagoon just looked up at me like this, am I about to get my hand munched? #pokemon #johto #pokemonirl #zigzagoon
A fluffy Zigzagoon lies in a sunbeam, looking up at the camera, rolled on its side as if inviting tummy rubs (or baiting a hand within biting distance)
February 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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what if you were the plucky protégé
Rin, an Au Ra from FFXIV, glowering
February 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Favourite weather map of the day so far www.msn.com/en-gb/weathe... #stormeowyn
A wind map of Storm Eowyn. The eye of the storm is fixed over Stornoway, which is represented in calm blue (0-10mph). Directly south, the wind is dark purple over the North Channel (~70-100mph), fading to pink as it hits the Scottish west coast and passes over Glasgow (~50-70mph), yellow as it circles up to Dundee (~40-50mph), and then green as it curves towards Elgin and Inverness (~20-35pmh).
January 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Graffiti and being a public menace
A photo of the character Vinyl from the game Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, wearing skates and grinding a rail.
January 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Spent the last couple of evenings trying to capture the unbelievable atmosphere I experienced while taking the train through the Cairngorms National Park yesterday.....

#art #landscapes #scotland
A wintry scene at sunset. The sun sets behind a hill, silhouetting it in a violent shade of red-pink, a stark contrast against the dark grey of the clouds. A slight mist sits over the darkened, snowy countryside and the bare trees, and a frozen steam gives a pale reflection of the sky above.
January 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Oh I have NOT been keeping to my resolution to post more art...... here's a wee Rin from a while back #art #ffxiv #ffxivaura
Rin, an Au Ra from Final Fantasy 14, sits on the ground, resting an arm on one knee. She's smiling slightly at something off-camera.
December 22, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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Probably the funniest thing I could pull out of my tea-based advent calendar, after forgetting about it all day due to awards nerves
A sachet of Teapigs' "Calm" tea
December 6, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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Absolute blast from the past, this - suddenly wondered, during a very long and boring train ride, if the patterns for the clown toys my Mum knitted for us as kids existed on the internet, and lo and behold: www.jeangreenhowe.com/clowns.html
Photos of five different knitted clowns, from Jean Greenhowe Designs: "Sidney Slapstick", a handyman painter; "Godfrey Gadabout", a tourist; "O. Yummy", a chef; "Mr Fortywinks", wearing pyjamas, and "Bertie Bloomer", a gardener.
December 1, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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Meanwhile, on the Export screen, the first option is "Create Adobe PDF", with additional copy explaining Adobe PDF's Totally Unique Selling Points, such as "preserves original document look and feel" (vs the "Create a PDF option" which only "preserves layout, formatting, fonts and images")
Image showing the Create Adobe PDF option as described above Image showing the Create PDF/XPS option as described above
November 26, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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Oh this is some predatory nonsense, they really are just banking on users' tech illiteracy these days, aren't they?
A screenshot from a Microsoft Word 'File' screen. The option "Save as Adobe PDF" has been selected, which has brought up the following popup alert: "Save this document to convert it to PDF: You can create 1 PDF for free every 30 days on a rolling basis. For unlimited access to create, export, and edit tools, try Acrobat Pro." The options for the popup are "Try Acrobat Pro" and "Save and convert to PDF".
November 26, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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Outfit practice from a few months ago with @inremote.bsky.social's #ffxiv Warrior of Light, Ania!

This was a lot of fun as far as practice goes - definitely need to do more of this...

#art #roegadyn #wol
Roegadyn Warrior of Light Ania Straka, dressed up in a long red jacket, waist-high navy trousers and a pink-and-red striped shirt that is unbuttoned to the waist.
November 25, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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QRP with your fanart! 🌸

#FFXIV and #Pokemon are the things I draw the most for at the moment, but I dabble in other stuff as well.

Oh and I also have a #StevenUniverse webcomic that's slowly getting reposted to my website 👀 caragaffney.com/faultlines/
Zero and Y'shtola from Final Fantasy 14 imitate the famous Utena sword-drawing scene. Y'shtola is draped over Zero's right arm in an apparent swoon. Zero, her left arm extended and cape billowing behind her, is focused on a blinding circle of light glowing above Y'shtola's breast. A Cacnea from Pokemon sits in a red-pink bowl with various succulents. It has happy eyes and a smile, and instead of a crown shape it has a yellow cactus flower on its head. Some of the succulents include haworthia, jade plant, graptoveria, and lithops. A bust of Luna-Terra from Heaven Will Be Mine. Her fringe cases a shadow across her face, and she has a crooked, resigned half-smile on her face. A page from Steven Universe fancomic Fault Lines. Panel 1: The main trio, Kite 4, work on a warp pad as Lazuli and Zircon look on. Narration: But after Rhodonite and Topaz seeded the Warp Pad... Panel 2: Back on Pink Diamond's ship, Lazuli and Zircon use another Warp Pad to leave the ship. Narration: ...and we parted ways with Lazuli and Zircon..." Panel montage: Four panels arranged in a diamond formation, modeled after the Diamond Authority. One (white) shows a white diamond statue, one (blue) shows invasion ships hovering above Earth, one (pink) shows Team Kite 4 looking troubled, and one (yellow) shows kindergarten machines. Narration: Nothing changed. The colonisation continued just as it ever had, and Kindergartens kept getting built. We pushed it from our mind as best we could, but exploring was never the same after that.
November 18, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Trying to catch up on the backlog of art I've not been posting..... Here's a little explorer I drew around this time last year - Rowan Redsquirrel, the character I played for a game of @stoutstoat.co.uk's "Scurry"!

#art #scurry #squirrel
A red squirrel perches on a branch, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. She holds a black dog whistle in hand (it's about half the size of her), wears a cape, and has a large tube on her back that carries her maps.
November 15, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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I finally decided to have a go at another self-portrait for social media icon purposes last night, and lo and behold, I've managed to do one that I actually quite like! #art
November 8, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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yeah, OK
Facebook notification: "It's been a while since you posted. Create a post to help connect with your audience", the kind that a harried award convenor might see upon logging in to finally announce shortlists
October 18, 2024 at 4:12 PM