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Natasha G❄️dwin
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Making sense of change. Essays, stories, comics, mathematics. Probably outside.
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Had fun at Matt Madden’s workshop on “Tritina comics” @comicsworkshop.bsky.social last Friday. It brought together all of my interests: writing, mathematics, art. Love it when that happens 💫

Got a first draft done in-session and then redrew it yesterday.
A slide from Matt Madden’s workshop “How to Build a Labyrinth”, which defines what a Tritina comic is: three words, illustrated across nine panels, with the sequence ABC, CAB, BCA. A sketchy, nine-panel Tritina comic drawn by Natasha Godwin on 11/21/2025 in pencil and black marker: 1. A woman walking away during sundown, with only her sneakers in view. 2. Long shadows of trees. 3. The sun shining. 4. The sun receding. 5. A woman walking along a bridge during sundown. 6. The sun shining through trees. 7. The sun going down behind a tree. 8. A pitch-black sky over a field. 9. Two feet standing on leaves, against a pitch-black sky. A nine-panel Tritina comic drawn by Natasha Godwin on 11/23/2025 in blue ink and blue, yellow, and orange pencil: 1. Someone walking away, with only the soles of their sneakers in view. 2. The sun going down behind trees, forming long, diagonal shadows. 3. A hand holding a compass. 4. The sun going down behind railing. 5. A woman walking along a bridge during sundown. 6. A closeup of someone checking their watch. 7. A clock-compass resting against a sign. 8. A crosswalk at night. 9. A person standing in the middle of a crosswalk, with city lights shining in the distance.
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Time to relax 😌 #PairedTexts
Two books side-by-side on a cozy, gray, weighted blanket: Benjamin Wood’s “Seascraper” and Giulio Boccaletti’s “Water: A Biography”
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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It was satisfying to, once again, find the right book at the right time, in physical space, and flip it open to what I needed in the moment. Read both of these twice. Ah, they’re so good 🪷
The first page of Elsa Sjunneson’s personal essay “How To Make A Paper Crane from Rage”: Imagine a piece of flat, perfect origami paper. White on one side, vibrantly purple on the other. This is the representation of my emotions before Life happened. I remember the first time that I was ever truly, rightfully, angry.My father was dying. He was dying from a disease riddled with social stigma. When the doctors told us we had less than a year left with him, I perfectly articulated my feelings at seven years of age: "Fuck AIDS." Fold the paper in half by taking the top corner and folding it to the bottom corner, as you learn what it feels like to be angry, as you learn that the world isn't just, because there is no cure for the thing that will kill your father. The first page of Ellen Samuels’ personal essay “Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time”: When disabled folks talk about crip time, sometimes we just mean that were late all the time-maybe because we need more sleep than nondisabled people, maybe because the accessible gate in the train station was locked. But other times, when we talk about crip time, we mean something more beautiful and forgiving. We mean, as my friend Margaret Price explains in her book Mad at School, we live our lives with a "Hexible approach to normative time frames" like work schedules, deadlines, or even just waking and sleeping. Alison Kafer, author of Feminist, Queer, Crip, says that "rather than bend disabled bodies and minds to meet the clock, crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds." I have embraced this beautiful notion for many years, living within the embrace of a crip time that lets me define my own "normal." And yet recently I have found myself thinking about the less appealing aspects of crip time, aspects that are harder to see as libera-tory, more challenging to find a way to celebrate. Now in my forties, as
November 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Light + Park #WinterSolsticeSketchdown

Didn’t want to draw a finished piece and decided to “just doodle” instead. Ended up drawing five finished pieces 🙃
Five sketches for the combined prompt “light” and “park”. Moving clockwise: 1) A light switch to “turn on” day or night 2) A park floating above a city 3) A woman reading a book surrounded by tall floor lights that resemble trees 4) A lamp with a tree pattern on it, drawn in a geometric style 5) A stained glass panel showing a flower with a tree-like pattern on each petal. Drawn by Natasha Godwin on November 12, 2025. No, you may not use this to train AI systems of any kind.
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Good things 🧡
A copy of “The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures”, edited by Joey Eschrich and Clark A Miller and directed by Ruth Wylie and Ed Finn, laying on a gray blanket, with rays of sunlight hitting the cover. Photographed by Natasha Godwin. A photo of two, tiny feet, sporting pink blush Hoka sneakers, standing on clumps of orange, brown, and red leaves. Photographed by Natasha Godwin. A maple in full autumn mode, with gorgeous golden leaves, backlit by a bright, blue sky. Photographed by Natasha Godwin. A photo of the inner part of a tree, with branches twisting and interleaving, shooting up toward the sky. Photographed by Natasha Godwin.
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Night + Walk #WinterSolsticeSketchdown
A sketch of a walk at night. We see someone walking from behind, with their left foot stepping forward and their right lifting off the ground. The moon shines over the hills and trees. Drawn by Natasha Godwin on November 10, 2025. Blue ink and colored pencil on an index card.
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Tree x Café #WinterSolsticeSketchdown

Found myself getting a little too precious about this one and limited the time to 15 minutes. Have decided to focus on expression and ideation for now; keeping a list of techniques to work on for later.
A hand-drawn sketch of five people sitting at a table, with coffee mugs in hand and paper spread around the table. Soaring trees loom behind them; and mossy grass sits below. Drawn by Natasha Godwin on 11/7/2025.
November 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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“Night” x “Interior” #WinterSolsticeSketchdown
A sketch of a woman sleeping. Drawn on an index card in blue ink. Natasha Godwin, 11/6/2025
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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To celebrate the changing season and practice drawing, I’ve created a list of prompts for the next 45 days. Personally prefer a non-linear order, with the option to combine prompts and take days off, so I’ve turned the list into a grid, collection, and picker wheel (pickerwheel.com?id=f9f2z) too.
Prompts for Natasha Godwin's Winter Solstice Sketchdown: 1. Shadow 2. Tree 3. Café 4. Night 5. Walk 6. Light 7. Park 8. Sky 9. Shop 10. Window 11. Woods 12. Evening 13. Leaves 14. Roots 15. Moon 16. Shelter 17. Blanket 18. Stars 19. Mountains 20. Home 21. Fire 22. Ice 23. Rest 24. Wood 25. Rocks 26. Water 27. Sweater 28. Scarf 29. Gloves 30. Cozy 31. Cold 32. Warm 33. Meal 34. Inn 35. Holidays 36. Hibernation 37. Snow 38. Clock 39. Calendar 40. Year 41. Interior 42. Yard 43. Din(n)er 44. Solstice 45. Winter Prompts for Natasha Godwin's Winter Solstice Sketchdown, displayed here as a grid. 1. Shadow 2. Tree 3. Café 4. Night 5. Walk 6. Light 7. Park 8. Sky 9. Shop 10. Window 11. Woods 12. Evening 13. Leaves 14. Roots 15. Moon 16. Shelter 17. Blanket 18. Stars 19. Mountains 20. Home Winter Solstice Sketchdown Natasha Godwin / @natashagogo 21. Fire 22. Ice 23. Rest 24. Wood 25. Rocks 26. Water 27. Sweater 28. Scarf 29. Gloves 30. Cozy 31. Cold 32. Warm 33. Meal 34. Inn 35. Holidays 36. Hibernation 37. Snow 38. Clock 39. Calendar 40. Year 41. Interior 42. Yard 43. Din(n)er 44. Solstice 45. Winter Prompts for Natasha Godwin's Winter Solstice Sketchdown, displayed as a collection of groups, including Time (day, evening, night, clock, calendar, year, winter, solstice); Parts and Wholes (trees, leaves, roots, mountains, rocks, woods, wood); States (water, ice, snow, cold, warm, cozy, holidays, hibernation); Places (shelter, sky, inn, home, woods, yard, park, shop); and Objects (meal, sweater, blanket, gloves, scarf, moon).
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Ah, what a magical afternoon 😌
Soaring trees, still green despite autumn, against a crisp blue sky. Photo taken by Natasha Godwin in October 2025. A tree tilting about 45 degrees toward a lake, bathed in sunlight. Photo taken by Natasha Godwin in October 2025. A turtle swims across the reflections of trees on a lake, barely visible. Photo taken by Natasha Godwin in October 2025. A turtle rests on a branch that’s immersed in a lake. The water is unmoving, with sharp reflections of the tree and clouds in the water. Photo taken by Natasha Godwin in October 2025.
October 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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The lake below seems to be a haven for parent turtles and their babies, too. I love watching them swim 😘🐢
October 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Ran into a Phoebe today while climbing a tree. Say hello to my little friend 🌿
October 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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“Truck” #Peachtober2025
A tiny truck stocked with pumpkins parked in front of two large pumpkin houses. Drawn by Natasha Godwin on October 22, 2025 for the Peachtober 2025 challenge. The prompt was “truck”.
October 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Had so much fun at @davidlasky.bsky.social’s Haiku Comics workshop at @comicsworkshop.bsky.social tonight! Have spent this year exploring creative disciplines outside my own to carry my work to a clean finish; and this session brought all of them together❣️
A four-panel comic illustrating the following haiku: Red, orange, yellow The season has just changed. A leaf falls in place. The first panel is an intense close-up of a leaf colored in bold reds, oranges, and yellows. The second is the same leaf from a slight distance, showing its edges. The third is blue fading to brown and orange. And the fourth is a leaf falling on curved yellow, red, and orange stripes. Written and drawn by hand by Natasha Godwin on October 17, 2025. No, you don’t have permission to use it to train AI models.
October 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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There's nothing quite like finding a tree with the perfect toehold after a long search. Here's my twenty-minute attempt to capture the experience. #Peachtober2025 #Comics

(Highly recommend Kevin Lucbert's work, btw. Learned a lot about capturing light from him: www.kevinlucbert.com/index.php?/m...)
A three-panel comic drawn in ink. 1. A forest floor, with patches of light hitting the ground. 2. A toe finds the perfect position on a tree for a climb. 3. A woman climbs up the tree. Sketched by Natasha Godwin on October 12, 2025 for the Peachtober 2025 challenge.
October 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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An Aesop's fable for our time. What a line: "What is sport to you is death to us."
An Aesop's fable called "The Boys and The Frogs": "Some mischievous Boys were playing on the edge of a pond, and, catching sight of some Frogs swimming about in the shallow water, they began to amuse themselves by pelting them with stones, and they killed several of them. At last one of the Frogs put his head out of the water and said, "Oh, stop! stop! I beg of you: what is sport to you is death to us.""
October 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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“Leaf” 🍁 #Peachtober2025

Still hate colored pencils, but experimentation’s worth it 🧚🏻‍♀️
A colored pencil sketch of five types of leaves, including Japanese maple, maple, and magnolia, changing colors during autumn. Drawn by Natasha Godwin on October 8, 2025. A colored pencil sketch of a woman sitting on a bench, surrounded by falling leaves, and staring at her phone. A telephone booth is beside her, covered in autumn leaves. Drawn by Natasha Godwin on October 8, 2025.
October 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Omg, this is amazing!!! I've wanted to learn how to dive since finding this National Geographic issue in a tiny library and listening to the companion podcast in 2022. Had a lot of medical to get through first, but I hope to get in the water before year's end or next spring!
A hand holding the March 2023 issue of National Geographic, with Tara Roberts on the cover, waiting in the water under the title "Into The Depths: Searching For Shipwrecks From Slavery's Hidden Past To Help Heal The Present".
October 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Had some time to doodle tonight. #Peachtober2025
Line drawings by Natasha Godwin, inspired by the word “ring”: tree rings, rings on fingers, a phone ringing in an apartment, ringlets of hair on a woman reading a book, years pictured as interlocking rings.
October 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Peachtober promots from @furrylittlepeach 1. Acorn 2. Kite 3. Slug 4. Gingham 5. Poppy 6. Ring 7. Strawberry 8. Leaf 9. Rope 10. Critter 11. Seagull 12. Bark 13. Marble 14. Brush 15. Aquarium 16. Hatch 17. Whistle 18. Toad 19. Melon 20. Truck 21. Snowflake 22. Web 23. Paper 24. Spots 25. Stripes 26. Bear 27. Axe 28. Button 29. Sour 30. Whisker 31. Ghost
October 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Joined #Peachtober2025 yesterday. No plans to do it everyday: weekends are enough. Our prompt was “gingham”.
A three-panel comic by Natasha Godwin. 1. Light shines across trees during sundown. 2. Leaves fall toward an orange gingham blanket, where a coffee cup waits to be held. 3. A woman, wrapped in a gingham blanket, reaches for her coffee while gazing at a lake. Her back is facing the viewer.
October 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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A new month, a new book, a new rock 😌🍂.
A four-sided, charcoal-colored rock that curves into a long triangle at the top and short one on the bottom, making for a perfect fit in one’s hand. It’s sitting next to a copy of Eliot Stein’s “Custodians of Wonder” (2024). Both are placed on a table, with soft, autumn light illuminating them.
October 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Have been frustrated by claims that we'll beat fascism when we embrace reason. It's more complicated than that.
Attempted to show and explain why here: organized.ghost.io/getting-to-f...
A diagram that defines a fascist as someone who values pragmatism, activism, conformity, reductionism, determinism, elitism, accelerationism, technocracy, realism, and empiricism. The term fascist is display in red in the center, with the other terms surrounding it like houses on a city block. Created by Natasha Godwin on September 30, 2025 as a first draft.
September 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Visited my favorite library today and got some reference materials.
A hand holding various types of leaves turning brown, red, and golden yellow.
September 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Feel like Sailor Moon fans have a competitive advantage when it comes to surviving techno-fascism because we know evil is fundamentally about stealing energy at scale. Once you understand that principle, you can avoid getting distracted by details — what, how, why — and focus on winning.
Six panels from Sailor Moon, Vol 1 (1998). An evil demon has possessed Molly’s mother, so it can use a diamond sale to steal people’s energy. Kind of like capitalism. Three panels from Sailor Moon, Vol 1 (1998). Queen Beryl’s obsession with obtaining the Silver Imperium Crystal grows. “The Imperium Crystal is the source of all energy…a stone with endless power! The one who controls it will rule the Universe!” she says. Sounds like Peter Thiel founding Palantir. A panel from Sailor Moon, Vol 1. A warrior for the Dark Kingdom shouts, “Give me more energy! I’ll give it back to you in spades!” Sounds like a pitch for AI.
September 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM