Rebecca Wilcox

@rebeccawilcox

SFFH illustrator/writer, SAHP. Coffee, cats, & fountain pens. Brown Ajah. RevPit 2020, HiveMentor 2022. SLF Diverse Writers/Worlds finalist 2024. She/her. Hard of hearing. Not straight. No AI, ever. Never ever.

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Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· 13d

Filed under “things my brain believes are important at 1:00 a.m.”

A screenshot from the notes app on my phone. It is titled “insults.” A single bullet point is listed underneath it reading, “Go piss on a lightning sprite.” It was written on January 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· 14d

If I can’t think of something I want to sketch, I just draw Taffy. She’s always doing something weird.

A graphite sketch of a calico cat with a white underside lying on a stripe-textured blanket. She is on her back and curled into a c shape. Her toes are curled with one back leg sticking out, and her head is upside down and squished against the blanket.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Jul 4

LRP - Reposting with the full ALT text, because it’s just too good.

A New National Anthem
BY ADA LIMÓN

The truth is, I've never cared for the National Anthem. If you think about it, it's not a good song. Too high for most of us with "the rockets red glare" and then there are the bombs.
(Always, always, there is war and bombs.)
Once, I sang it at homecoming and threw even the tenacious high school band off key.
But the song didn't mean anything, just a call to the field, something to get through before the pummeling of youth. And what of the stanzas we never sing, the third that mentions "no refuge could save the hireling and the slave"? Perhaps, the truth is, every song of this country has an unsung third stanza, something brutal snaking underneath us as we blindly sing the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands hoping our team wins. Don't get me wrong, I do like the flag, how it undulates in the wind like water, elemental, and best when it's humbled, brought to its knees, clung to by someone who has lost everything, when its not a weapon, when it flickers, when it folds up so perfectly you can keep it until it's needed, until you can love it again, until the song in your mouth feels like sustenance, a song where the notes are sung by even the ageless woods, the short-grass plains, the Red River Gorge, the fistful of land left unpoisoned, that song that's our birthright, that's sung in silence when it's too hard to go on, that sounds like someones rough fingers weaving into another's, that sounds like a match being lit in an endless cave, the song that says my bones are your bones, and your bones are my bones, and isn't that enough?

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· May 26

Taffy says hello!

A short-haired calico cat with a white underside sleeps in a chair with a pale pink and giraffe print baby quilt over the back. She is sleeping with her head upright and smashed against the quilt with her back toes curled and her front paws folded. Her tail is making a swoosh shape over her feet.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Apr 5

“Why don’t you post on Threads, Rebecca?” Well, while it does seem to be a rolling series of dumpster fires fed by a gooey sludge of bots, ragebait, and a rotating selection of Disk Horse’s greatest hits, mostly it just never seems to work on my phone.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Apr 3

On the plus side, Spouse got me a wonderful anniversary gift this year. This is a heavy pen, and I think I prefer it for drawing over writing. I still can’t beat my beloved stub nib TWSBI Eco/Go and Faber Castell Grip for my writing.

A photo of a clear demonstrator fountain pen with a rainbow-finish titanium nib, grip, and trim laying on ridden Tomoe River paper. It is inked with glittery dark brown ink that’s visible in the barrel. Cursive text above the pen reads, “Asvine V200 broad nib with Diamine Nostalgia.” There are some doodles of an eye, some cross hatching, and loopy lines. A rainbow scale textured pencil bag is visible in the upper area of the photo.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Mar 29

I don’t about this potato, y’all…

A photo of a raw potato. Blemishes on the skin make it look like it has a face with a straight line for a mouth and circles with a line that look like glasses. It kind of resembles the Muppet character Professor Bunsen Honeydew, but squished.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Mar 3

Well, this could play out in a few different ways…

A photo of the paper fortune from a fortune cookie laid on top of a beige marble table. The fortune reads, “You will show what you are capable of.”

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Feb 12

I printed a 1/3 scale ball-jointed doll hand. It’s a mediocre print and I assembled it badly, but it’s still ridiculously fun to play with, so it lives on my desk now.

A photo of a black plastic 3D printed ball-jointed doll hand. The disembodied hand is arranged to look like it’s grasping my index finger. The joints are not aligned well and a bit of elastic nylon string is hanging out of the wrist joint.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Dec 2

Spouse gave me my holiday gift early. I don’t have enough pens for this. 😂

A photo of the front box cover of the 2025 Diamine Inkvent Calendar. The graphic is mostly a dark teal blue sky framed by two leafless silver foil trees above a narrow strip of snowscape. Two snowmen and more silver foil trees and snowflakes decorate the scene. The numbers on the perforated compartments are gold foil, and the title is silver. The fonts and graphics are in a whimsical style with playful flourishes.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Nov 21

I have tried to delete too much at once, probably too quickly. 🫠

A cropped screenshot of the gmail webpage saying that my account is temporarily unavailable due to a temporary error.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Oct 27

Someday, I will figure out what this note meant.

A screenshot of a note from my phone’s notes app which is titled, “Sentient bread mold monster thingie.” The note was made on June 26, 2023 at 3:07 A.M. In the space where the notes should be, there is only the word “How.”

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Oct 2

My writing career summed up in one image:

A screenshot from the video game Final Fantasy 14 showing a close up of the great serpent of Ronka. The great serpent is a very small, very round greenish yellow snake with bile brown stripes encircling it. It has tiny black eyes and a round mouth with four fangs. A dialogue box reads, “Scree!”

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Sep 15

The Great Serpent of Ronka demands coffee and snacks, but it’s almost bedtime, and the Great Serpent of Ronka must be up early in the morning.

A photo of a Final Fantasy 14 Great Serpent of Ronka plushie. He is an extremely round yellow and beige- striped oracular snake with a tiny stubby tail. He is wearing a mining helmet with a metallic fabric light on it. He has two beady black eyes and a round open mouth with four fangs. He is ridiculously cute and squishy.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Aug 15

Baby’s first misprint did not take long!

A zoomed in photo of a 3D printer attempting to print a pair of doll shoe soles out of gray PLA filament. The sole on the left appears to be proceeding perfectly. The sole on the right has stringy jagged bits sticking out of the side. It is still on its first few passes.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Aug 15

My sister dropped off a present just before I went on vacation. I have, of course, completely forgotten everything she told me about how to use it in the last few weeks. I suppose it’s time to misprint some horrors!

A photo of an Elegoo Neptune 4 3D printer on a white printer shelf with a brick wall behind it. The bottom sections of a John William Waterhouse mermaid poster and a Final Fantasy 8 wall scroll that are hanging on the walls are partially visible.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Jun 3

Taffy is frequently loud.

A photo of a short-haired calico cat with a white belly curled backward on the top of a gray cat tree. Her spine is bent in a way that looks broken and her back toes are curled together. She is clawing at a cloth drawer on a shelf behind her with her front paws while looking over her shoulder with her head upside-down. She is yowling at the top of her lungs.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Apr 20

Here’s a video of her dragging a shoe around while singing the song of her people, which is how I’ll always remember her.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Apr 20

Megan’s favorite spot has always been on my left side, smashed up against my thigh while I read stories to my younger daughter at bedtime. My hearing disability means I can’t hear purring, but 9 yo said she would purr loudly while I was reading.

A gray cat lies smashed in-between my thigh and the arm of the reading chair beside my daughter's bed, her head up as she listens alertly.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Apr 20

She had a few bites of breakfast, drank some water, and cuddled up to my foot. We had a good morning. I took some photos because she was being sweet.

A gray cat lies in a sunbeam with her paws on my toes and her head pillowed on my black cat flip flop, which has little ears she liked to smoosh her head against.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Apr 20

But when Megan would nap in the hallway during the day, she’d still dump some shoes on the floor and sleep near the shoe rack. Not on the shoes, never on them—that was Robin's spot. But always right there next to them.

A dark gray cat lies on beige hallway rug surrounded by four different shoes without actually being on top of any of them.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Apr 20

On the day he died, Robin still wanted nothing more than to cuddle our shoes. He passed in my arms at the vet, so Megan didn't get to see him go.

A skinny, elderly orange and white tabby cat cuddles up against me and my Spouse's feet as we're preparing to take him to the vet.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Apr 20

And the wandering stopped. The night-time yowling stopped. Robin still laid on his shoes, but Megan cuddled up next to him and he gave her baths instead. Megan didn't care about the shoes, but she cared about him. They bonded as tightly as a pair of cats can.

A dark gray and an orange and white tabby cat rest on a pile of quilts and afghans on a round puff chair with their butts smashed up against each other so they can both fit.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Apr 20

The first time Megan saw Robin, she pranced up to him and started gnawing on the top of his skull. He bent an ear down and gave me a look that said, "This isn't what I had in mind." But Megan was smitten.

A photo of a four month old dark gray kitten with bright yellow eyes looking like a goblin laying on a windowsill across from a full grown orange and white tabby. The tabby's expression is one of long-suffering tolerance while the gray kitten is clearing thinking about biting him.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Apr 20

Robin loved shoes so much that he once fell asleep with his head inside one of my rollerblades, and I thought he was dead. Shoes were his drug of choice, and he indulged every single day.

A photo of an orange tabby cat with a white face and belly curled up on top of a pile of about ten shoes of all different kinds. He is hugging one of the shoes and sleeping blissfully with his head pillowed on a different shoe.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Feb 11

Remembering that time when Estinien attacked me, specifically.

A screenshot of the Final Fantasy 14 character Estinien, a tall, pale man with heavy armor, pointed ears, and long white hair. His dialogue box reads, “For one so bright, you can be remarkably dim at times. There is such a thing as overthinking, you know.” He definitely looks disappointed in you, but not surprised.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Feb 4

A complete baby, no brain cells for anything but cuddles.

A photo of my cat Taffy. She is a short-haired calico cat with a white underside, and she’s cuddled in my lap squishing her face into my hand for cheek scratches. Her fur is very sleek and silky.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Feb 4

An ancient dragon sitting atop her hoard.

A photo of my elderly cat Megan. She’s a short-haired gray cat with yellow eyes, and she’s cuddled up to a pile of cat toys that’s as big as she is. Her front paws are wrapped around the pile with her claws digging in.

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Dec 18

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

A screenshot of the character Erenville from Final Fantasy 14. He’s a shetona with ebony black rabbit ears, hair, and skin. He has golden eyes and is wearing an enormous backpack. The dialogue text shows him heaving a weary sigh and saying, “Unbelievable.”

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox· Dec 17

I have once again figured out how to mix Payne’s Gray from six different colors. 😅