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Reed Mingault
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writer of hopeful fantasy ✨
I write, I draw, I mom. She/her.
Work in Worlds of Possibility, GigaNotoSaurus, Tales & Feathers
Lady Astronaut Club! Codex! Futurescapesx2!


https://reedmingault.com
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Uh holy moly -- y'all remember that dragon I did? It won third place at #MileHiCon art show !!!
A watercolor and colored pencil drawing of a red dragon curled around a campfire, listening to a tiny storyteller. The background is trees fading into blue darkness. A hand holding a white winner's ribbon that says "Mile Hi Con 57, 2025, Color Third Place"
November 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Last day of #MileHiCon!

I have a panel at 1pm on Invisible Disabilities & Writing.

In the meantime I'll be around, checking out other panels, & painting wherever there's a flat surface;) I love having a little travel watercolor kit.

The art show is open to 1030 if you want to see my stuff!!
A small watercolor painting in progress of a unicorn on a mountain side, next to a small travel watercolor case and a set of brushes in their own case. A tiny container of water is nearby and all of it is on a light colored wood tabletop.
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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My Art Show display is a little busy but it's all up there at least. This is my first time putting myself out there as an artist as well as an author so I guess we'll see how it goes!
October 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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I'm at #MileHiCon this weekend!

I'm on panels tomorrow(Saturday) and Sunday, and you can also see or purchase my art in the art show starting tonight!
October 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Comet does the same thing when he wants to let you know he's never been petted, ever, in his life.

He streeeetches up a human's leg to reach as high as possible. And while also trimmed, there are often surprise!claw pokes.

But dang it, it's so cute.
Comet, a gray cat with a white bib and a splash of white on his nose, loafs in his favorite tan fleece blanket, which is arranged like a nest.
September 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Post WorldCon, my husband & I took a cruise up to Alaska and back for our 20th anniversary. I did a little painting on the boat:
A mostly grayscale watercolor & gouache painting of a breaching humpback whale in front of snowy mountains and conifer-laden island shores. A watercolor painting of a mature Steller's Sea Eagle perched on a snag and somewhat disheveled due to wind.
August 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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There were also some lovely iridescent beetles (beetles of all kinds really), a plethora of stick bugs, many spiders and tarantulas, and big katydids and related critters, and African millipedes!
August 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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We're in Victoria, BC today and went to the Bug Zoo, so of course I thought of @seananmcguire.bsky.social . This mantis' name is Caitlyn. It's a Hierodula membranacea or a giant Asian mantis. There were a couple others but this one posed the nicest.
August 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Hey #worldcon2025 ! Come join me at my panels today and table talk tomorrow! I have keychains, stickers, and bookmarks to give you :D
A description of Reed's panel times and locations for Saturday and Sunday at WorldCon. On Saturday at noon in room 435, "Fan Fic: Not Just Training Wheels". On Sunday at 130 pm on room 427, Reed is hosting a table talk, formerly known as a kaffeeklatsch.
August 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Hi friends! I'm at WorldCon! Here's my panels, come say hi!!
August 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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I am very tired but a lot of work is about to pay off. Last summer I dug out every last bit of gravel out of the borders of my yard. This year I dug, laid, & arranged a jigsaw puzzle of a flagstone patio.

As soon as I have 2 days without rain, I put in the polymeric sand & it'll be done.
A 12x15 foot red flagstone patio, wet, with dark gray beach pebbles in the larger cracks. A man (my spouse) in a dark T-shirt is off to the right, arms spread indicating the gloriousness of the almost finished patio. Freshly built and filled raised garden beds, on the other side of the sliding door from the new patio, containing baby plants that will hopefully grow well and produce lots of tasty fruits and veggies.
May 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Yay!! My copy of "In Memoriam" from @lyndsie-clark.bsky.social 's Kickstarter arrived! I can't wait to get into it 🤩
May 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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It's on the website now so I guess I can scream about it: my extremely awesome husband was invited to be Science Guest of Honor at COSine next January!!!

I'm so proud of him, and he's thrilled! Get ready for some Very Enthusiastic Science!!

www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Josiah with a life size model of his favorite "dinosaur", the Quetzalcoatlus. Josiah is reaching up to touch the model's keel bone: he is nearly as tall as its shoulders.
April 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Decided on a flame lynx point 🤷 but this nebula kitty is finished
February 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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It's like a Siamese seal point but with tabby stripes instead of solid. There's color variation too, like orange tabbys (flame lynx point), chocolate, lilac, etc.
An example of a lynx point cat - a cream body with gray-brown tabby stripes on the lower legs and face
February 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Ok what color should the cat be, y'all?
I was thinking lynx point? 🤔 What do y'all think?
A colored pencil drawing, same as the one in the post up-thread, but more vibrant with more layers of pencil. There's thin threads of black like nebula or lightning in amongst the pinks and purples and blues of the swirls. The cat is still blank and uncolored.
February 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Today's art WIP. Dunno what color the cat still be but I'm having fun with the swirly space nebula esque background
A colored pencil drawing in progress of a leaping cat batting at a "star" or ball. Nebula swirls emanate from the ball and curl around the cat. The cat is still not colored in, and the rest needs more layers to be intensely colored.
February 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Eagle owls are amazing! I love them. This is Guinevere, who I met in Edinburgh, and Koko, at the Writing Excuses birds & horses retreat!
February 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Comet just had to be in the way of everything.
I'm sitting tailor style on my bed, and the gray cat has wormed his way under my coloring board and between me and the computer on a lap desk. He is looking very smugly at the camera
February 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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I need to cleanse my own brain feed if not help other folks cleanse theirs too. Behold, the rare lap-dwelling Comet.

There should be no sound to this video, if I did it right.
February 4, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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This year was really, really hard. A few good things but mostly a lot of slogging terribleness that just never let up. I'm looking forward to a change, at minimum.

And 2024 - goodbye and good riddance, and may you rest in more peace than you gave any of us.
A night photo of a cast iron pot containing the flaming remains of things I wrote down I wish to not carry into 2025. Things left unsaid, hurts and pain and grief and more. The night is long and dark but the fire reminds that the sun comes again.
January 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Happy holidays!
A close up photo of fake leaves and tea lights in gold glass holders arranged on an orange tablecloth. Festive!
November 28, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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Oh no, I think not. Nuked immediately.
A screenshot of the blue sky notification screen, saying Elon musk has followed me.
November 21, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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I stayed up way too late and once again am taking bad pictures in bad lighting, but I finished this dude. Sketched this afternoon, colored mostly this evening after dinner. Prismacolors on toned tan paper
A small colored pencil illustration of a Stellar's Jay perched on a lichen encrusted branch
November 16, 2024 at 7:05 AM
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Goodness that's a lot of new followers! Did I get on a starter pack or list something?

Anyways, Hi! I'm Reed! I write things. In 🧵

I've been considering a second account for all my not-author things, like art, and SCA stuff (hi! I'm also Regalis dei Falchi of the Outlands: scribe!)

Have a cat.
Two cats, a white one and a gray and white, are loafing with their paws tucked under them, on a red blanket in front of a window with the blinds down. The white one, Pooka, appears to be judging the viewer and is disappointed. The gray one, Comet, clearly has no thoughts in his head.
November 15, 2024 at 2:45 PM