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Comic & TTRPG writer (Mad Cave, Modiphius). Sensitivity reader. Actual Play performer. Librarian. AuDHD. Queer. Definitely human. Lowen on @tumblethrupod.bsky.social 🚫AI/NFT. 📩: hello@peculiarplanets.com 🌐:

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Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· 29d

Yesterday I received the final result of my commission of my PC Devahna (right) and their partner, Dagon (left, @tanfighter.bsky.social's NPC) and AAA 🥺 The details are so good, down to Devahna not making direct eye contact (they're autistic). Thank you @karaverna.bsky.social!! I love it ❤️

Devahna is a femme presenting plus-size half-orc with light green skin and long curly white hair, copper eyes and freckles, wearing a red and blue long sleeved top. Dagon is a male fallen aasimar with dark grey skin, white hair reaching to his jaw, a slight stubbled goatee and piercing gold eyes, wearing a breastplate and a thick leather jacket.

Devahna and Dagon rest their foreheads against each other, Dagon's eyes fixated on Devahna, his lips slightly parted. Devahna's gaze doesn't quite meet Dagon's, but they're comfortable being in his space. Behind them is a looming smoke-filled sky from the city that is on fire near them, and it casts a red glow over them. They know a dangerous battle lies ahead, so they want to take a moment to be close.

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· 29d

Yesterday I was informed that Google’s AI uses the wrong pronouns for me. My email signature lists my pronouns but it just saw my name and made an assumption. Also, it went through the pdf file I sent, as it (wrongly) listed the deadline for signing in the summary. I hate AI so much y’all 🫠

Redacted screenshot of an AI overview that summarises an email I sent and uses the wrong pronoun for me.

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Jul 10

A bit of trans joy for today 🥺💖🏳️‍⚧️ First time seeing myself wear something tight post top surgery

A mirror selfie where I’m wearing a light blue tank top. My hair is wet from showering and I hold my hand up to my mouth in disbelief, tears in my eyes.

Same mirror selfie, but now my hand is on my cheek and there’s a smile on my face, tears in my eyes still. I’m very happy!

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Jul 7

Honestly this is just me whenever I want to make anything. I always have to remind myself that for every second I doubt myself, there is a man out there with too big of an ego making mediocre things and acting like he’s a genius. Always make the thing!! (And also your videos are great <3)

Screenshot of Markus’s post but I have crossed bits out so now it just says “If you ever think I want to make videos but I don’t think I’m good enough, just remember that the current scene is a lot of dudes”

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Jul 3

Commissioned @totoroki.bsky.social to redo a photo of myself fantasy style, and they came through!! Tysm Toto, I love it 💖

An image of me where half of it is an actual photo and the other half is drawn by Toto. In the drawn half I have a blue tiefling horn and an elf ear

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Jun 1

Wore this to a concert recently! The pride aspect is that this will be one of the last selfies of mine before my top surgery next month 👀 I’m looking forward to recreate this afterwards

I’m a white nonbinary person with a half blonde half brown mullet, wearing a green crop top with a mesh top underneath, blue jeans with a pentagram belt, and black sleeves that stop just past my elbows. I have tattooed lines on my left arm and am posing by showing off my muscles

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· May 22

Live now! We once again play Dark Waters and we are still like 1000s of years (??) in the past and trying to find our way home. Watch here: www.twitch.tv/pantslesstab... @pantslesstables.bsky.social

A photo of the dark waters stream on twitch

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· May 17

I commissioned my friend Joep (who has no socials) to draw my PC Devahna after getting inspired by this Undertale style “then vs now” post. He did such a wonderful job but also 😭😭 my poor baby. They’re truly going through it. Genuinely my most tragic character.

Artwork of a plus-size feminine presenting half-orc with green skin and long wavy white hair. They wear a simple blue blouse and a half-sun necklace. They have copper eyes and freckles and look into a mirror with a calm expression.

Underneath that, there’s a dialogue box from Undertale that reads “It’s you!”

The same half-orc but this time they wear armour and a wine red long sleeved shirt underneath. They have a black eyepatch and there are dark circles under their other eye. Their expression is tired and worn down. The position in the mirror is the same, but the mirror’s background is now dark red.

Underneath that, there’s an Undertale dialog box that says “Despite everything, it’s still you.”

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· May 17

Finally got my copies in the mail! It was a joy to write a story for this. Thanks @lukewhenderson.bsky.social for asking me and thank you @garou-art.bsky.social for bringing the story to life with your amazing artwork <3

A couple of issues of Letters from the Void spread across a yellow carpet. The comic has a very dark vibe to it.

My hand has opened the comic to show one of the pages of the comic I wrote. It’s all in greyscale.

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Apr 30

Last year I wrote a poem. Yesterday I made some art for it. I couldn’t pick between black or white but I think they both look cool 👀

A black background with white text and a very simple scratchy drawing of a dog head with sharp teeth. The text reads: the hounds do not answer.
They only smell blood.

A white background with black text and a very simple scratchy drawing of a dog head with sharp teeth. The text reads: the hounds do not answer.
They only smell blood.

HOUNDS.
i was born with my heart in my hands. that is no way to live, the doctors said, so they stitched it onto my chest. when it pumps, blood trickles down my arm and it alerts the hounds. they bark don't bite but their barks bite still. i wear it on my sleeve, i fear. the cologne they like. i walk the earth with my heart exposed and yet i am called weak. i feel and feel and my tears taste of metal and salt but it does not shape into armour. why am i not brave? i wear no breastplate, do you not see the wounds i healed from? is that not strength, to be hurt but trust that love will fix you? how will radiance reach my beating heart if it is kept in the dark of my ribcage?

the hounds do not answer. they only smell blood.

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Apr 20

I love it when friends show me a piece of media that they love, and recently @tanfighter.bsky.social offered to show me all of LOTR in one sitting (since I hadn’t seen all of them yet). Yesterday that day had arrived and I had a blast. Thank you Tan for your enthusiasm and trivia <3

My laptop screen which has discord on it. Me and some friends are on a video call watching LOTR. Tan is in the middle of explaining something

My laptop screen which has discord on it. Me and some friends are on a video call watching LOTR. Tan is in the middle of explaining something again.

My laptop screen which has discord on it. Me and some friends are on a video call watching LOTR. Tan yells along to a battle cry.

Screenshot of the discord call overview and time. There’s a few people in the call, which has been going for nearly 14 hours. This is when we were finished watching.

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Apr 2

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Heading: Positive changes I've seen after talking about my autism

Body text: People came to realise they might be autistic after hearing me talk about it, and got later got diagnosed.
Fellow autistic people felt less alone in a group setting after I mentioned being autistic.

Heading: So why do I talk about my autism so much?

Body text: Because after 20+ years, I still encounter the same kind of prejudice I did when I was a child.

Because misinformation harms me and other autistics.

Because I want to change people's perspective on autism, so there's more understanding and acceptance.

This slide has another image of me as a child. I'm wearing a red sweater, have my hair in pigtails and smile widely at the camera.

Heading: But mostly, I do it for her.

Body text: So other autistics don't have to feel as lonely and ashamed as she did growing up. So they don't have to feel like they have no autonomy. Like there's no one who understands them. I do it to be the safe haven she needed. Because she deserved better. All of us do.

Heading: Disclaimers.
Body text: I do not claim to speak for all autistics. I'm sharing personal experiences and encourage people to listen to the voices of other autistics too, especially those who are multiple marginalised.
I've oversimplified certain things for the sake of ease.
I use they/it pronouns. I refer to my younger self by the pronouns used back then.

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Apr 2

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Heading: Autism is called a spectrum for a reason

Body text: I also tell them that if you know one autistic person, you know one autistic person. There's no single representative for all of us, and the kind of support we need is different for each individual. But there are two things we would all benefit from: a willingness for people to educate themselves, and to listen to autistic voices across the entire spectrum.

Heading: A different way of looking at autism

Body text: If you look at how autism is described in the DSM-5, most of what you'll see makes it sound like there's something wrong with us. I disagree. Autism means the brain processes information differently. This can be social, verbal or sensory information. It's not wrong, it's different. Understanding this helps people understand us.

Heading: "you are more than your autism, you know?"

Body text: Is usually what people say when they've heard me give this talk a few times, and I hate it. My autism is a core part of who I am. My brain processes information differently, meaning my perception of the world, the people in it, and how I interact with those things are shaped by my autism. As such, I am my autism. It's just not all that I am. That's where the difference lies.

Heading: Positive changes I've seen after talking about my autism

Body text: People treated me with more respect and understanding.
People have told me they understood an autistic loved one better.
People admitted they were misinformed and are now looking at autism differently.

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Apr 2

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Heading: How people behave around me when misinformed.
Body text: Speak to me as if I'm a child.
Question my ability to understand my own wants and needs.
Ignore my requests for help because they don't understand how my autism disables me.
Misinterpret my communication and behaviour, leading to conflict.

Heading: Autism is called a spectrum for a reason

Body text: The examples I just mentioned are specific to my experiences. I'm an autistic person who can function independently with low support, was diagnosed young and has a supportive environment. I'm able to speak, I have no intellectual disabilities, and I'm white. Despite all the ways in which my autism disables me, the ableism I experience can be called mild.

Heading: Autism is called a spectrum for a reason

Body text: Autistic people with higher support needs, autistic people of colour, autistic people with intellectual disabilities, and those who are non-speaking (among other things) are affected even more so by the ableism that comes from stereotypes, misinformation and lack of understanding. And that pisses me off.

Heading: Autism is called a spectrum for a reason

Body text: In order for people to understand autism and face their own prejudice, they need to understand what the autism spectrum is actually like. I personally show people this image to give them a rough idea.

Image: an infograpgic by autism_sketches, showcasing how the autism spectrum is not a linear spectrum, but more like a pie chart where everyone's traits vary in intensity.

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Apr 2

April is Autism Acceptance Month, and April 2nd is Autism Acceptance Day. So I wanted to post something personal. I was 10 when I first held a presentation about autism, and over time autism education became something very important to me. This thread makes an attempt at explaining why. (1/4)

Start of an informative slide with text. All of them have an analog photo with a plant and a sun flare as a background, on top of which is a light green square. Here the heading reads “Autism Acceptance Day/Month”, and the subheading reads “and why I talk about my autism so much”. There’s a photo of me as a 4 year old child, where I have long blonde hair, a blue sweater and am looking at the camera with my mouth slightly open.

Heading: When I was five I got diagnosed with autism.
Body text: And I have been talking about it ever since. Not because I think it's particularly interesting, but because from a very young age I understood that people had the wrong idea about what it means to be autistic.

And so I took it upon myself to do something about that.

Heading: "but why do you care what others think?"
Body text: Because misconceptions about autism harms autistic people. It prevents us from getting the help we need, from people spotting when a child is autistic (causing late diagnosis), and from people taking us seriously.

I care because I have both seen and felt the damage misconceptions do.

Heading: Things that have been said to me
Body text: “You don't look autistic” - what does this even mean? What does autism look like to you?

“You're so social for an autistic person!” - why do you think I can't be?

“You live independently? That's impressive!” - why is it impressive?

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Mar 31

One way I try and increase trans visibility in the TTRPG space is by making different kind of trans/nonbinary characters. #TDOV Recent examples are: 1. Lowen (he/they) - intersex + nonbinary 2. Devahna (they/she) - demigender 3. Kiki (she/they/any) - genderfluid 4. Cyanna (she/they) - transfeminine

Lowen is a masculine presenting blue skinned hellspawn with long white hair, horns that curl backwards, pointed ears, black eyes, several piercings, and scales on the back of their arms. They wear a white button up with black suspenders.

Devahna is a femme presenting half-orc with light green skin, long wavy white hair, golden eyes, freckles, pointed ears, and tusks coming through a soft smile. They wear a simple blue top.

Kiki is a changeling with white skin and a green bob. They wear very colourful patchwork clothes and have a jester aesthetic going on. In one hand she's casting a spell while the other makes a peace sign near her face.

Cyanna is a femme presenting lizardfolk with blue-green scales and pastel pink and green attire. She has specks of white across her face and arms and holds a few cards.

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Mar 31

Happy trans day of visibility! Trans people across the world are getting their rights and freedom taken away. I hope that we can count on allies to join us in the fight for our right to exist, because we’re fucking exhausted. For me being visible is an act of resistance. So here I am, visible.

I’m a white nonbinary person with a half blonde half brown mullet and large square glasses. I’m wearing a light purple button up with dark green trousers and a purple, pink and green floral waistcoat.

Mirror selfie where I’m wearing a green patterned blouse and open brown waistcoat. The sides of my mullet are shaven.

Another mirror selfie, I’m wearing a light blue button up, light green trousers and a red, blue and yellow spencer vest.

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Mar 26

Yesterday’s session was very emotional and chaotic in different ways but the thing I still cannot get over is this. Imagine seeing your mother again for the first time in 16 years and THIS is how your boyfriend introduces himself to her 😂 @tanfighter.bsky.social @pantslesstables.bsky.social

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Mar 17

I ended up listening to twenty one pilots last night and suddenly got an idea for an art piece, so I immediately started making it. Within an hour this was the result. It’s a reminder how my issues are permanent but the lows are not. There will be highs too. I just gotta wait for it to get better.

A piece of paper with a lot black streaks rising up from the bottom, covering about half of the paper. The other half is stained black or otherwise grey because of black smudges. At the bottom there’s a bit of red magazine paper, also stained black. Across the paper there’s the same sentence over and over again in red: “it never goes away”, but in between those red lines of text there are two different sentences in white: “it always gets worse” and “it always gets better”

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Mar 13

Today’s fit (ft a very dusty mirror)

I’m a white non-binary person wearing light green trousers, a light blue button up with a blue, yellow and red striped sweater vest, one yellow and one red converse shoe. I’m taking a mirror selfie here.

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Feb 14

When you and your brainwashed sister are on opposite sides of a world-destroying war… I love roleplaying with @tanfighter.bsky.social 🩵 (Also shortly after this, my PC’s mother showed up after 16 years. And now she and my PC will have to fight both sister and dad 😭) @pantslesstables.bsky.social

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Feb 8

Obsessed with this icon doing a figure skating routines to the Jaws theme

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Jan 19

This is kind of what I was able to see with my eyes, which is WILD

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Jan 19

Well this was a pleasant surprise. Especially since I could actually see the green with my own eyes 👀

Very bright aurora borealis above my neighbourhood!

More of the aurora borealis, this time with pink mixed in

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Jan 13

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Anna Everts, a freelance writer and sensitivity reader. I mainly write comics and TTRPG content, and have done so for names like Mad Cave Studios and Modiphius, among many others. You can find more info (full portfolio, testimonials etc) on my website: peculiarplanets.com

Page from Tales from Nottingham #2.
Panel 1: Gisborne asks the hunting party he's with why they've stopped. "What's the matter?" he asks. "See for yourself" a man says.
Panel 2: A bleeding and dismembered deer.
Panel 3: The Sheriff says "Looks like the work of a poacher." Gisborne: "A poacher?" Sheriff: "Unless one of your friends here got ahead of themselves last night"
Panel 4: Gisborne: "You mean to say it's recent?" Sheriff: "Looks it. It's not decomposing yet."
Panel 5: Sheriff to his Gisborne and his men: "Does anyone know anything about this?" Gisborne: "They were all out with me for a drink last night. I would have known if someone was unaccounted for."
Panel 6: The Sheriff looks serious. "Then you have a poacher" he says.

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Monk subclass: way of the gravedigger.
Graveyards are meant to be a final resting place, but all
too often, undead blaspheme against the natural order. As
a Gravedigger, you are devoted to keeping the dead in the
ground where they belong. You have learned to master the
elements of earth and spirit and bend them to your will. You
are motivated by your connection to death and undeath.
Perhaps you worked as a graveyard keeper, witnessed a
loved one become undead, or put people into an early
grave by your own hands, something you wish to atone for.
Whatever the reason may be, you believe necromancy is a
vile kind of magic that disrupts the peace of the departed,
and have spent years of your life learning how to fight back
against it.

The Cohors Cthulhu Germania book which I wrote an adventure for. It shows someone riding on some kind of horror creature.

Page 2 of The Space Between The Gaps. The main character worries about the good memories they might lose and the bad memories remaining

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Dec 25

Christmas outfit

I’m white nonbinary person with a blonde and brown mullet, wearing large square glasses, a blue turtleneck, a yellow spencer, a long black skirt, checkered blue, yellow, and green trousers, chunky white sneakers, a blue waist belt and a blue, yellow, green and red scarf. I’m taking a mirror selfie

Closeup from the waist up. You can now also see that I have a nose ring, and am wearing rings and a glasses chain

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Dec 22

Got new trousers.

I’m a white nonbinary person with a brown and blonde mullet, square glasses, wearing a brown, green and yellow sweater with a lighter and warmer brown pair of trousers, and black chunky boots. I’m taking a mirror selfie.

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Dec 15

We hadden ziek goede plekken ook

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Dec 15

Studio 100 Singalong was iconisch

Anna Everts (aka Riley) | they/it@peculiarplanets· Dec 9

After having the Afternight (anagram of @tanfighter.bsky.social) triplets, @smarticot.bsky.social and I return with a new naming scheme (With some input from our other triplet @theagentp.bsky.social! Miss u!!)