Wren (they/them)

@literarywizard

Storytelling Enthusiast. They/them. 'I have no idea what they do here, but they're great in conversation.' A Coworker

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Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Jul 8

Look at this beautiful art!

Three final fantasy 14 characters sit together, their backs to the viewer, as they gaze out at the sunrise and horizon while they talk to each other.

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Jul 8

It's always a treat getting to commission any art from Shannon. Comms might be closing soon (maybe?) but it's worth keeping an eye out for more flash comms (or full comms! Those are also absolutely worth it!) I mean, just look at my FF14 character they did an update on! Captured them perfectly!

A femme final fantasy 14 character looks at the camera with a somewhat tired, sad looking smile with bags under their eyes. Their expression is still friendly and approachable, just softened by the cost of living.

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Apr 7

I hate fucking everything today, but I especially hate google that pushes down actual useful results to searches (on work computers, so I have no other IT approved options for my browser other than Edge or whatever the fuck it's called now) for this shit:

This is a screencapture of an AI summary provided by google that says "Cataloging" (one 'i') is the preferred spelling in American English, while "cataloguing" (two 'i's) is standard in British English, Canadian, and Australian English with a red box around ""cataloguing" (two 'i's)" to highlight the fact that there is only one 'i' in both words and the so-called AI hallucinated some new bullshit.

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Mar 30

Love to live in the good ol' US of A. Nothing but the best unfettered and careless capitalism for us! Definitely not like this is a safety issue or that anything bad could from from working in a warehouse/manufacturing facility/trendy office setup with no cell service.

This is a screenshot of a line of text that reads "Due to the T-Mobile but of US Cellular, our in-building repeater system must be powered down on 3/31."

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Feb 3

If headshots aren't your thing, Shannon has other stuff in their etsy shop, like the wooden standees of Dragon Age love-interests, a large collection of which are shown below in my collection of little guys.

A large collection of adorable wooden standees of Dragon Age love interests, including Lelliana, Merrill, Josephine, Bellara, Harding, Davrin, Neve, Lucanis, Taash, and Emmrich (plus Varrick because I'm sure we all wish it were possible at least a little bit), stand on the top of a glass-fronted shelf amidst a collection of Legend of Zelda and Fire Emblem amiibo, next to and on top of a wireless router and a reciever for a sound system.

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Feb 3

I mean, c'mon! Look at these! They're great! And I am only a little biased because they're some of my favorite characters of my own creation.

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Jan 22

Another for my growing collected of Dragon Age love interests! This time, it's Merrill DragonAge2! @shannonmanorart.bsky.social does amazing work! You, too, could receive a lovely little standee to delight you every time your gaze happens across it on your shelf for an incredibly reasonable price!

A thumb and finger hold a brightly painted wooden standee of the character Merrill from the video game Dragon Age 2, who is holding a staff and smiling somewhat shyly. In the background, out of the camera's focus, a figure with blue hair, grey skin, and tufted furry ears appears to be emerging from a kitchen countertop in a way that suggests it is headed towards the camera.

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Dec 26

I got great gifts from the other members of my Dragon Age Book Club but the one that absolutely takes the cake is the Leliana standee from @shannonmanorart.bsky.social's shop. I'd bought the other members their DAO love interests from Shannon's shop already, so my friend perfectly closed the loop.

The character Leliana from Dragon Age: Origins, bow in hand and arrows worn over her chantry robes, painted onto a short wooden standee with a base designed to match the Active Character marker from the same game. Partially hidden behind one of Leliana's boots is a cute little nug (a creature halfway between a pig and a rabbit) wearing a ribbon around its neck.

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Dec 12

I love the story developments here and there's so much good art in this whole comic, but this tiny little bit here, from panel 3, is absolutely perfect.

A screenshot of two characters barely peaking up below the bottom of a comic panel, each them drawn incredibly small because of the large word bubbles not shown in this image. One, a blue-and-black-haired woman has her arms raised, fingers splayed, eyes shut tight, and mouth opened in a yell to show just how upset she is with what she believes is a ludacris proposal. Opposite her, a white-haired woman in a black hat with three peacock feathers affixed to it by a white puffball has her eyes half-lidded as she calmly rebuffs the exclamations of the first woman.

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Oct 30

I played this game as a child and it taught me a lot about grief and death and healing that it would take me almost two decades to fully understand. Even now, I'm not sure I've found a better text on what ot means to heal after loss than Majora's Mask...

A screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

Link stands in front of a collapsed Zora warrior as the Zora warrior says "Soom, I'll be just another wave in the ocean... destined to disappear."

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Sep 16

This number is both much lower and a bit higher than I thought it would be. First it seemed too low, but then I remembered how things were when it started out (and how long I had to wait to finally get an invite) and then it felt a little too high. Those were truly the days....

A celebration note from Bluesky showing that I was user 280,137 with a blue "First 10%" stamp beneath it. Which feels a little broad since this number clearly means I was in the first 3%.

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Jul 28

Hand held up in polite refusal: "none for me, thanks."

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Jun 24

Love an article that starts talking about how a company whose negligience has killed people would cause suffering to all its customers if it was, say, to be held accountable for its literal crimes or actually held to the safety standards it has been avoiding all this time. Good reporting. Yup.

Several dinosaurs in an open field watch a falling meteor as a t-rex says "Oh shit! The economy!!"

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Mar 30

I love the work @punklenix.bsky.social did for me! I haven't decided what to do with them yet, but just the thought of putting them on my desk at work is giving me life.

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Mar 27

I've never wanted to crash into a parked car as much as I do right now.

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Mar 8

It takes a lot of practice but I marvel at how much progress I've made every time I catch myself starting to spiral and can stop it. But also thank YOU for sharing this! Art is a lot of work and I really want to emphasize how much I appreciate you doing that work and putting it out there.

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Feb 1

How I'm doing today:

Prince Adam from the He-Man cartoon stands in front of a diamond-patterned orange and yellow background in a ready pose. Below this image is the title of a youtube video that reads "HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA Full 10 Hours" with a progress bar showing it is about two thirds of the way to completion.

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Jan 12

We've gotten so much snow in Wisconsin this week already and more's coming down today. Who knows how much we'll wind up with since it already looks like it's two feet deep!

A person stands calf-deep in snow, barefoot, only visible from the knees downward as most of the picture depicts a mostly blank expanse of fresh snow.

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Aug 31

Marceline the Vampire Queen, of the tv show Adventure Time, sits on a throne of ice, eyebrows raised, while wearing a small, puffy-cheeked smile that shows off her fangs, as if to suggest that the person she is looking at should do something they're hesitating to do.

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Aug 18

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I'd like to recommend that any new Bisky users give @lepas.bsky.social a follow so you can read her excellent comic, Wilde Life. Why? Because this panel was in it and I'm still thinking about it almost a year and a half later.

A bearded and bespectacled man in his late twenties sits on the head of a giant, one-eyed frog as she moves through a forest and into a dark body of water. The man asks the giant frog "does your scar hurt?" She replies "Sometimes. But the memory hurts more."

Wren (they/them)@literarywizard· Aug 17

Quote with a meme that lets us all get to know you a little better.