For the past few weeks I kept thinking about their Balinese lamb aglio é olio. It's so good, they use a special sambal blend for it. I was so happy to eat it again but those steps were steep and kind of scary? I'm not sure I could brave it again. But I've missed their food a lot so maybe?

Since I am very here instead of not being here like I promised, I offer proof of adventuring from yesterday. A scene from a Balinese fusion food cafe I have not visited in years because of accessibility issues.

I mean, look at him. Just look at him.

Did not sell my own book. Did buy other people’s books.

If you're looking for a thick mythic fantasy to read this weekend, here's a handy dandy little graphic I made to help you decide if Watermyth is the book for you! 💙 📚 mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p... #BookSky #mermaids #fantasy #myth #sirens #mythology

Been taking small detours and alternate routes on my commute home from work for the sake of my stupid mental health.

Fancy a read this weekend set in a universe with multiple merkingdoms, loving descriptions of kitchens and communal preparations of food, ornate interiors and overlapping fairytale/mythology retellings? 🧜‍♀️ 🧜‍♂️ 🧜 🏰 ☄️ 🌊 mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p... #Booksky 💙 📚

Sigh, I have to lock up and continue my work at home, so here’s today’s fit.

What if Psyche was a Gen-X Malaysian transplanted from her home because of an otherworldly visitation? What if there were a race of Cupids? Read on to find out more in this mythic fantasy with cozy vibes, found family and dark academia overtones. mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p... 🧜‍♀️ 💙 📚 #BookSky

My Chuck Taylor’s, my ratty socks, and me. Saying hello respectfully to the White Horse of Uffington. No, I did not walk or deface the nice horsey. I just said hello. In 2014 I climbed four hills in the UK. In the beforetimes when I was more ablebodied although still Girl With A Broken Back.

Here’s one of the margin notes that amused me because it was a Gothic Lit book in the fricking Radcliffe Camera. My week of bliss reading rare Gothic Lit monographs at the Bodleian in 2014.

Oldest selfie in my phone. Tintern Abbey, August 2014, during my epic solo roadtrip.

A memory-wiped mermaid-siren rehearsing for her storyteller exams tries to piece together events from the past, present and future while around her wars between merkingdoms are fomenting. 🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♂️ Check out Watermyth! mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...

The City by the Sea (1997-??) This was a rough pencil and ink concept sketch of the Ferahia (in Watermyth), done in 1997 and later I digitally coloured it and added text. I never got around to doing art of the mer-kittings/sea-kittings but here’s a mer-feline gargoyle!

Once You Walk Out That Door… This was a very emotional painting for me and was part of processing trauma as a longterm survivor of abuse + emancipation.

My Hands Are Too Full. A digital portrait of my main character in a MUD I’ve been on for 20 years. I had her switching between the Druid and Bard Houses for a bit before having her go house-less. Easier to maintain!

My Unseen Companions. A self-portrait of sorts from 2010. I had an outfit exactly like the one in the picture, lol. Details in the alt text. This is one of my digital paintings that had prints sold (based on viewer request). #faeries #fairytales #unicorns #dragons

Solve et Coagula, 2010-2011. Another cheeky painting playing with various themes. #mermaid #mermaids

Lilypad Princess, 1996 (watercolour), 2010-2011 (digital version). Basically hikayat-based and the genesis of all my Bunian Empire tales.

Squiggles. They’re all I can do these days. In the in-between times.

All He Wants Is A Bedtime Story, 2010. This cheeky little painting is my visual retelling of one of the tales in 1001 nights.

Where You End, I Will Begin, 2010 (a Bunian Empire-related digital painting)

Going to start sharing some of my art here in a thread. Starting with a watercolour. Postdiluvian Liberation, 2007.

search “concert” and post the oldest pic in your camera roll.

40 plus appreciation post. Repost with a pic if you're the right side of 40! 49 and I'll be 50 next June. Posting two pictures. The one with the flower band was my profile photo from 2021 onwards. The other photo is from this year's profile.

🌊 🧜‍♀️ WATERMYTH: A domestic fantasy merging with an epic retooling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche featuring a storyteller mermaid-siren and lots of food. Check out this postcolonial portal fantasy universe featuring characters from the Global South diaspora! 💙 📚 mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...

Meanwhile, on Mastodon 😂🥹👀 I had to mute my mentions so I could sleep.

I did promise to talk more about Sirens; they appeared early on in not just Watermyth but in my hypertext project that I started in 1997. A great deal of that was caused by these two paintings by John William Waterhouse which highlight the dichotomy in popular perceptions of #sirens. #myth