A screenshot from Duolingos Latin lessons. The word is ”ignis” meaning fire, a common voice line from Baldurs Gate 3

Even with the sound off, I heard this

the seagulls are back!!!

sorry to everyone who uses the same bank as me, I was going to do my bookkeeping just now and unplugged The Whole Thing

”hey rowan did you get work done this week” no but I did write a 11k+ summary of a mash fic i’ve been noodling with

Four years ago I woke up at 5 am from distant explosions. I asked my boyfriend if he heard them too, he said he didn’t and I should go back to sleep. I tried to calm myself down, went on the internet, it was silent, no news or explanations.

The past six months or so I've kind of re-started my career from scratch for reasons better left to a blog post and everything is taking *so long* but I think it'll actually be good??

hate to vague post but also maybe it's good that y'all know I'm not dead lol

A screenshot of a note from one of my video scripts. It reads "Add post-mortem script when mortem is post"

I've been trying to not resort to "I'm working a lot actually you just can't see it" because that kind of thing can be real demoralising but I *am* working a lot and sooner or later you *will* see it

here's a sneak preview of a thing I'm working on!

a digital collage with a pink, purple, green, yellow, and teal gradient overlaid on all the images. the images include a horse carrying a bucket, a cluster of mushrooms, a grub, a birds talon, a cicada, five spiders, two flower buds, a hand with an eye over the back of it, and a microscope slide of atoms. there is white text that reads "get weirder or die miserable." the background is black and there is a slightly grainy texture

get weirder 🫵

this has honestly been me every portfolio day. it’s so clear what your up against and the post volume is so loud

This is exactly what I'm working on for my own site.

I miss exploring galleries, I miss looking at websites that aren't just White Sleek Helvetica, I want to read your 20K deep dive into your OC!!

Workflowy! You can set items as checklists, or just a bullet that you can't accidentally mark as complete! Free to use, with paid options you don't need unless you do hundreds of tasks every month.

Rowan, weakly I make comics, I post comics. Once a week? Many times a week? I'll never tell~

It's a new year and I've already worked on three projects, all of them stupid.

www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ro...

A portrait illustration of a person with short auburn hair, leather armour and a blue cloak. The person is crying stoically.

Commission for letterofmarque.bsky.social from my 15-15-15 commission drive (now closed!)

I've missed doing private commissions something fierce and this was an absolute joy to work on. 💗

Keeping you in my thoughts 💛

My guy @iaoth.se and I have been watching Star Trek: TNG and oh boy unexpected favourite character right here let me tell you. Q knows what's up.

(also if your partner sees your gender joy and makes a gif out of it the very next day, oh boy oh wow so lucky)

It's been two years since I changed my last name, the pain in the ass that keeps on giving.

I had to switch website providers partially bc I don't want to worry US laws will fuck me over bc my host is american, but also because my US website host can't understand umlauts so I couldn't update my debit card. 🙃

a crown embroidered in yellow, with red text underneath: Carpe Instrumenta Productionis

update

📈 @lilyisthatyou.bsky.social is blowing up, go listen to her now to get in on the ground floor so you can say you were there when she made it big

a photo of a wip embroidery of a yellow crown, referenced from a 1905 newspaper.

sometimes you gotta do something that makes sense

"hey rowan you haven't been online much lately, what are you up to"

oh nothing much, just freehand embroidering a graphic from a newspaper from 1905.

Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

if you call and they hang up on you, call back and immediately say you want to escalate to a supervisor because you were just hung up on. you don't even need to say any other details, just that you were hung up on and need to escalate

A new petition spearheaded by prominent German journalists and game developers has gathered over a thousand signatures in the first day. Like other emerging protests, it aims at payment processors to take the pressure from store fronts selling adult games.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

worth reading article; wrapup at the end also includes actions to take to push back on this blatant anti-queer censorship. not to downplay the importance of having platforms for NSFW (a hugely broad category) but SFW queer and trans works have been hit by this (anything marked with "adult themes").

A photograph of the Nobel Prize Museum at Stortorget, Old Town, Stockholm.

A photo of The Obelisk outside the Royal Castle, Old Town, Stockholm

A photo of Riddarholmskyrkan, Riddarholmen, Stockholm

A photo of Old Town, from Riddarholmen, Stockholm

it was Hot and Windy and I've never felt more alive

I went to Stockholm (my home, my love, hopefully my grave) for the first time in two and a half years yesterday, (undiagnosed) autistic burnout is a hell of a thing