ace tilton ratcliff
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mortuaryreport.bsky.social
ace tilton ratcliff
@mortuaryreport.bsky.social
genderqueer disabled metalsmith, multidisciplinary artist, and writer. former mortician. hEhlers-danlos et al. living in florida. i post pics of spiders

https://linktr.ee/mortuaryreport
carefully controlled studio chaos
November 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
can anyone help me ID this guy? we are in south florida and he was abandoned in a yard. trying to figure out proper husbandry and lifespan to see if i can take care of him or if he needs to be homed with someone else
November 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
4ish hours later, five bags done out of 25 total, one frog found
November 8, 2025 at 6:10 AM
GO DODGERS!!!!! (me typing furiously to my friends who can’t watch live and scaring the fuck out of my dogs)
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
SO this lady who lives miles away from me in a different neighborhood filed a complaint w/the city that’s now potentially going to get my little free library & little free pantry shut down unless we can amend code to specifically protect site amenities as such pls sign my petition

c.org/DRrMJb6Czq
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 AM
i got to go to the north carolina mountains for a week long metalworking retreat on a scholarship! finished two pendants while i was there—montana agate, jade, rutilated quartz, sapphires, & champagne diamonds set in 22k gold and continuum silver #SWBKart
October 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
studio this week. bones from a dead iguana that i found & water macerated plus butterfly wings found in the garden #SWBKart
September 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
i just wanted to post silly cookies and now i’m getting unwarranted baking advice i’m almost 40 pls just let me be with my cookie croutons
September 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
o no
September 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
i looked cute yesterday so of course it poured all day and getting a nice photo was next to impossible
August 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
lucky for me this one will be easier to photograph
August 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
here have a big fat juicy stinky carrion cactus flower. mf’er bloomed sideways, super weird this year
August 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
my favorite stray from the clowder, hideaway. he finally invited me to pet him for the first time a couple of weeks ago. only took a year of earning his trust!
August 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
i don’t know how to handle the stress & anxiety of the news that a fascist dictator is strong arming control of a blue-voting, 42% black city & knowing that so many people are going to have their lives hideously disrupted or ended

so here is july, one of the neutered strays, giving me attitude
August 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
here’s a necklace i made earlier this year. bronze and enamel. lmk if you’re interested in a version for yourself. always fun to represent *checks notes* a dead art when out existing in the real world
August 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
a new very suspicious cat has tentatively joined the feral clowder. he does not know that the same rules apply at my house as do with the fae: you should never eat food offered in my land, because in exchange i will take something valuable. in this case, his balls are mine
August 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
here, have some eastern lubber grasshoppers fuckin’ in the everglades last week. colloquially they’re also known as graveyard grasshoppers or cheval-diable (devil’s horse.) they can really fuck up some crops. these are the locusts your old testament warned you about
August 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
tbh i shoulda just stayed in bed after that nap but instead i got up and worked on a commission which was the right call but also i’m tired now #art #WIP #chronicpain
July 31, 2025 at 7:04 AM
here, the hoya decipulae is blooming right now too, have something pretty AND weird
July 30, 2025 at 5:17 AM
cleaned out the bone buckets today. everybody say hi to whimsy, the best cat in the universe. glad his skull gets to join his sister’s skull back in the house soon
July 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
we’ve had like ten+ successful molts this month PLUS the hoya multiflora put out a giant bloom, dioone edule gave me a SECOND leaf this year, and the monkey tail cactus gave me its first ever bloom. what is going on?! lots of growth energy at spiderbell hollow this time of year!
July 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
my hapalopus formosus molted tonight too! made a tiny little cave for the molt
mat. the molt is discarded on the left and his legs are still so soft and delicate from the molt. it is SUCH a vulnerable time for them
July 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
it took a whole frickin year but my grammastola pulchra FINALLY MOLTED y’all that booty has been in premolt for weeeeeksss see this is why i’m a night owl with night owl pets
July 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
this is apocalyptic as fuck. affirm pay later plans for fucking eye exams. fuck this version of america’s
July 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
one of my favorites parts of the day is feeding the clowder of feral cats who have (almost all) been neutered by our hand. i’m glad when they show up alive. i’m going to get that last’s one’s balls. it’s nice to just sit with them while they eat. feel the sun warmed bricks. let my mind quiet.
July 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM