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Jo Brience
@jobrience.bsky.social
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SFF writer, artist, dicemaker, cosplayer, mythological creature, social justice viking. WIP. Queer. She/her. Hope is like the sun.
Dice and/or whatever are available at cosmictidestudios.etsy.com
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There's just nothing quite like making dice with Terry Pratchett quotes in them.
A set of polyhedral dice for tabletop games. The d20 is in foreground. They have soft shades of purple and blue, cut through with veins of darker purple, and contain small burned slips of paper with printed words on them. They are inked in gold.
July 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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It only took this clever bean about five tries and 45 minutes to realize that lying down on the front of the kayak was much stabler than trying to stand on it #dogsky #kayak
A 60-pound border collie mix in a yellow life jacket rests with her elbows propped on the deck of a purple kayak. The dog is looking off over the water at something out of frame. The same medium-large dog now looks back at the camera, alert and happy. The shot is taken from the cockpit of the kayak.
July 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I just demolded this silicone mermaid top today
A silicone mermaid top of sculpted scales in a gradient of red to black, with golden fins at the sides and a row of golden plate scales down the center of the chest
July 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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I was today years old when I realized this button cuts the thread. I've had this machine for five years #sewing
A picture of the side of a sewing machine. An arrow points to a button with a picture of scissors on it
June 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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At some point I decided that magic, unadulterated, is blue. #writesky
A screenshot of a word processor. The visible text reads as follows: "But the man who rounded the van and came at her wasn’t capable of disarming. As he growled “k chertu, suka,” she saw the brilliant blue light creeping up behind his teeth. She would never know what need triggered his burnout. He didn’t bother with guns, lunging for her as magic poured out around him, sending ribbons of light rippling along the street. He got to her gun before she had a chance to fire, twisting it into a useless mass of metal and polymer and flinging it aside. Then he raised a hand to strike her."
May 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Vadim is a good egg #WritingPrompt #WritingCommunity
A screenshot of a word processor. The visible text reads as follows: A mile into the undercity, Vadim pulled through a pair of broken bay doors into an empty warehouse and stopped the car. She started to get out, but he set a hand on her shoulder, stopping her. “Nezhinka,” he said. “Volchonika. How are you? Really?” The nickname sent a chord of hurt ringing through her, but she tightened her jaw. “I'm fine,” she said. “And I'll be better when she's dead.” “You're lying,” he said. “Knights are trained to see deception.” She sat back, slowly. “What do you want me to say, Vadim?” she asked. “The truth,” he said. “Your father was not a liar. The Wolf King knew that—” “Don't tell me who my father was.” “I am telling you that your father knew feeling was not a weakness,” he said. “And that he would have hated for you to believe it is.”
May 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
A screenshot of a word processor. The text on the screen reads: "The world went red. It poured out of her, flooding the clinic. I watched the Intelligence forget about me and round on her, and I almost cried out as they opened fire. But nothing happened. Their guns were useless in this maelstrom. I watched them melt away, dissolving in the flames. There was only a moment of fear before the officers started to burn away, too. The magic spiraled over them, testing, tasting, and then it devoured them, leaving their helmets and body armor empty and clattering to the floor around us. Then that, too, fed its frenzy."
May 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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I made these d10s just for fun, but I'm really digging them. Gonna do more colorways like this
A set of elongated 10-sided dice, made of clear resin with swirls and clouds of colorshifting mica in shades of blue-violet, gold-green, and holographic black. A closeup of the same set of elongated 10-sided dice, made of clear resin with swirls and clouds of colorshifting mica in shades of blue-violet, gold-green, and holographic black.
April 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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I make a lot of references to snow in this book, but it's only in dreams and lies until winter arrives on page 352.
A screenshot from a word processor. The text reads as follows: "She was almost as white as the snow that clung to her clothes and hair—except for her hands. Her fingers were scorched black. Her jacket was stiff with ice, the tide lapping at her hips, and one darkened hand was wound around a cleat in the concrete, all that had kept her from being washed away. My knees gave, and I went down next to her. My insides were loaded with stones, and I was sinking."
April 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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I had to step away from the Horrors this morning, so now I'm spending my afternoon Mixing Plaids
Two lengths of plaid flannel fabric overlap. One is a bold tartan in olive green, black, and cream; the other is washed out, in muted primary colors.
March 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Dice blanks! I've never had a lot of success with petri pours because of the type of resin I use, so I've been experimenting with different techniques for it. I'm enjoying these ones a lot.
A set of polyhedral dice blanks--numberless cores that will be inserted into numbered shells later. They are made using a "petri" technique, in which alcohol ink is allowed to form tendrils in the resin. This set is in shades of green, with gold leaf gilding the sides of the polyhedrons where the ink has pooled. The same set of polyhedral dice blanks, from a different angle. Prior text: A set of polyhedral dice blanks--numberless cores that will be inserted into numbered shells later. They are made using a "petri" technique, in which alcohol ink is allowed to form tendrils in the resin. This set is in shades of green, with gold leaf gilding the sides of the polyhedrons where the ink has pooled.
March 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Look at this beautiful monochrome lad #catsky
A medium-small orange and white tabby cat looks at the camera. His eyes are the same shade of golden-orange as the stripey patches of his coat
February 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Every morning I let her lick the dregs out of my coffee cup. She's a helper
A brindle border collie mix lounges on a bed with a stainless steel coffee mug between her front paws. She has a pleased expression and her tongue is partially out.
January 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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A screenshot of a word processor. The text on the screen reads as follows: Time dilated. She watched as the lightning bolt danced through the air, changing—blue, then violet, then crimson. As it kissed her chest, the wild chorus reached a crescendo, its harmonies shaking her bones. Her breath billowed in steaming clouds around her as magic rushed through her. The rain peeled away, sloughing out of her clothes and back into the sky. She stood in the eye of the storm—no. She was the eye of the storm.
January 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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oh hey video
January 20, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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"something believably human" is certainly a way to describe someone who will absolutely wreck you
A screenshot of a word processor window. The visible text reads: "The elevator peeled open, and white light flooded the kitchen. Half-blinded, I watched as the Koroleva unfolded from inside. A long hand like a white spider wrapped around the edge of the door, and she emerged, her ocean-black hair flowing around her in a mockery of a halo and hundreds of golden eyes piercing through the light to surround us. The world bent, and as my fear drove me backwards, everything resolved again. The light drew back to a corona of spikes dancing around the Koroleva as she moved forward, resolving into something believably human—until she wrapped a hand around Nesh’s throat and lifted her into the air."
December 8, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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There is simply no fruit or vegetable more beautiful than a peeled beet
A hand holds a peeled beet in a ray of sunshine. The beet glistens, garnet-red, with the striations of the root structure visible as irregular rings. The hand is stained red with beet juice.
November 28, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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She's very neglected, you know. She had to insert her nap into my writing session to get ANY attention
A brindle dog squeezes her head in between a laptop and a pillow, a sleepy look on her squished face
November 28, 2024 at 5:16 AM
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This is a terrible picture of a really lovely set of dice
A set of polyhedral dice sits on a paper towel. They are transparent purple with flakes of silver foil, cut with a dark metallic navy-violet colorshift. They are inked in bright bronze.
November 25, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Hey, you got any snacks in there?
A Haflinger mare with a wide blaze leans her head toward the photographer through an open car door. Her nose is right in the photographer's lap, inches from the camera.
November 21, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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He has the best role model anybody could ask for
A brindle border Collie mix lies on the floor, and a white and orange striped cat lies nearby in the same physical position. They both look into the camera, alert
November 18, 2024 at 1:57 AM
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he's just a little guy! So peaceful. Such discipline in one so young. (These are lies, he is a tiny but powerful goblin lad) #catsky
An orange and white striped kitten naps peacefully on a purple sweater
November 16, 2024 at 3:03 AM
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these look like cursed emeralds or something, idk
A set of polyhedral dice for Dungeons and Dragons or similar games, made in black and deep metallic green, with the numbers inked in bright bronze
November 8, 2024 at 6:05 AM
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I'm slowly working my way through dice inspired by our favorite cast of maladaptive pixels (which is to say, the cast of BG3). Here's my Shadowheart chonk!
a giant d20 with black and silvery swirls, flakes of gold foil, and a slip of scorched paper that reads "You can't cast a shadow without some light." a giant d20 with black and silvery swirls, flakes of gold foil, and a slip of scorched paper that reads "You can't cast a shadow without some light." a giant d20 with black and silvery swirls, flakes of gold foil, and a slip of scorched paper that reads "You can't cast a shadow without some light." a giant d20 with black and silvery swirls, flakes of gold foil, and a slip of scorched paper that reads "You can't cast a shadow without some light."
December 5, 2023 at 8:07 PM
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raw set inspired by Drolta Tzuentes. I have some for Olrox too, and today I'm going to pour an Erzsebet set.
a set of polyhedral dice in a cupped hand. The dice have swirls of inky black, blue-lavender-pink color shift, and flakes of bright pink foil.
October 11, 2023 at 4:16 PM