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picture book writer with too many hobbies

kidlit / horror / ecocrit / japanese lit

nor / eng / 🇯🇵 OK

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ibi

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For alle har ikke den samme hjelpen tilgjengelig. Hva er Verdensdagen for psykisk helse verdt hvis den ikke setter mer søkelys på akkurat det?

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A poem by Ingvild Boberg

It’s been a good day. It’s

Forty minutes past midnight in your hotel bed and you turn the thought over in your head. The hotel stairs. The stairs, and then

The rooftop door.

The wide-eyed view

Of the town at night. Quiet

But the far-away rush

Of cars

The close-inside rush

Of blood

The wind.

If you took the stairs

One quiet step at a time

With a podcast

Murmuring relationship advice

Into your ear

You could do it. You could stand

At that concrete edge

And then lean over.

You could even do it here

From the third floor.

Your hotel room

With its wall-square window

Like a television screen.

Part of it opens

And the ground is a good

Distance down, the ground

Hard with young frost, paved

With asphalt.

But it’s a French balcony. Just the part that opens.

Somehow climbing over the railing feels a step too far.

Too silly. So

You just turn it over in your head.

The idea of it. The taste.

This is not like sadness.

It’s a rubber band stretching, growing

White hair,

Weak at the corners.

A rubber house of cards.

You can’t stand up like that. It comes apart

October 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM

ibi

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Behold: モナリス

Digital wip drawing in the style of Mona Lisa, but as a squirrel. At the bottom are the words MONA RISU in katakana. Yes hi that's Mona Squirrel

October 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM

ibi

@ibikenibi.bsky.social

I struggle learning onomatopoeia, and Japanese has a lot of them, so I'm putting together some illustrated zines to practice. First up is 擬声語, starting with animal sounds! Anyway, please look at this frog.

#japanese #onomatopoeia #frog

A drawing of a brown and white frog. Underneath is the japanese kanji and reading for "frog" - 蛙 (かえる). In a speech bubble, the frog says ケロケロ, or croak; ribbit

August 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM

ibi

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Working on a hollow book to put some gin in for a friend's fairly far away birthday. I'm so fascinated by old-school (and new-school) smuggling methods - books are luckily not TOO complicated, but the prohibition really made people get creative in some interesting ways.

Holding a FAT book so the "pages" show. The covers are dark green, and it has a golden yellow bookmark-band. The pages are really a box made from greyboard and covered in white paper.

The top of the textblock is a lid that opens by pulling the gold bookmark. The inside is covered in dark, slightly metallic paper with a high gsm. Inside the book is a large space for hiding alcohol, as well as a basic divider on one side (this is where the prohibition era drink recipies will go!).

The cover with the title THE BACCHAE basic bitch-embossed with gold foil. On either side is a drawing of a greek woman with a musical instrument. They are traced from an illustration in the version of the Bacchae found on Gutenberg.

July 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM

ibi

@ibikenibi.bsky.social

Er ting vanskelige? Ja. Men kan ting bli litt bedre av å lage bursdagskort med hundekaptein på? Forskere sier: VELDIG ja!

Akrylmaling på kort: brun hundekaptein med blå frakk og hatt + pipe i munnen. Han ser fremover gjennom en kikkert og peker framover i samme retning. Under står det "med kurs mot et nytt år".

March 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM

ibi

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Ble nysgjerrig nok til å slå opp dette, og det viser seg at det varierer! Så "kjempe" ser ut som et adjektiv i en adjektiv+substantiv-sammensetning her, mens "gruppe" er i en substantiv+substantiv-sammensetning.