Keira Perkins

@thatkeira

Scientist by day. Sometimes i write things at night.

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Keira Perkins@thatkeira· 24d

Strangers often say things like, “oooh, I love your tattoo!” …which is always a delightful way to remember I have a tattoo of my cat, Nox, as an astronaut taking up most of my upper arm.

A tattoo of a black cat in an astronaut helmet on my arm. She, the cat, is framed by stars and planets and nebular clouds

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· 26d

Allllllli, look what just showed up in my inbox

Screenshot from Inkwood Books to me

Text reads:

Your shipment is on its way!

Dear Keira,

We wanted to let you know that your package will ship on 07/20/26 via Media Mail. You can track your package at any time using the link below.

Please allow up to 24 hours for the tracking link to update.

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· 28d

A friend started an art club & she taught us how to make cyanotypes. She even had a PP deck with history, technique and talked about the absolute baddie botanist, Anna Atkins This is one of mine. If you think you see spiders, yes you do. My friend found some dead little guys & set them aside for me

4x6 paper - blue background with white images of clover leaves and other ground cover. Yes, there are spiders.

The background of the picture is mostly grass and stray white lady limbs

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Jul 2

Do reviews from your husband & another friend who is basically brother still count as glowing? Check it out and decide for yourself kaleidotrope.net/summer-2026/...

A screenshot from the comment section.

The header reads:
2 thoughts on “a minotaur encounters banshees at a summer concert” by Keira Perkins

Comment 1, from Kyle (the husband)
I love this. So proud of you.

Comment 2, from the basically a brother, Dill
Amazing

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Jun 29

I am trying and failing to write on theme for Apex. This happy dappled girl in a sunbeam is not what’s meant by a sun dog

A dog with traditional pit bull features is grinning so big at the viewer that her eyes are squinched shut. She’s mostly browns, in a pattern known as red merle. There’s a white flame on her chest, a white streak between her eyes, a few white toes, and a white tail tip.

She’s loving the sun and is resting her chest against the warm weathered wood.

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Jun 26

I need you all to look at this happy little dweeb. Belugas get picked last in gym class. They cannot do a Free Willy over a wall.

One of the belugas being transferred from China to an Iceland sanctuary. She looks delighted to be “flying” in her carrier

A diagram of an average beluga next to a human.

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Jun 19

I’ve got a heterochromatic baby too

Red merle pitbull-ish dog with a white chest looking intently at the viewer. She has one light brown eye and one blue one.

Red merle pitbull-ish dog with a white chest and pink harness. She looks like she’s laughing. She has one light brown eye and one blue one.

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Jun 5

Fuck yeah, Indianapolis

It’s a metal community food box, framed in old wood. On the side, someone has written in black Sharpie: THIS FOOD BOX FIGHTS FACISM. KEEP IT FULL OF _SNACKS_.

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Jun 4

What do you all do at therapy? I color. A lot.

Simple multi-colored flowers in a coloring notebook. (I used colored pencils) The text over the flowers reads, “I’m not angry this is just my face”

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· May 26

My father-in-law was teasing me that my outfit for the Indy 500 made me look like a girl from Waynetown. And good. I am a girl from Waynetown.

Me, in black and white checked bibs. My hair is braided in pigtails. I’m wearing a red hat from Shell and a black t-shirt Smirnoff. Both were free. The bibs were not free.

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· May 14

Had another spot on my skin biopsied (and cauterized) so I got boba tea from a little shop that has chosen chaos and maximalism and aggressive bubble-gum pink femininity. It’s all about balance

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Apr 28

If I wait just 10 minutes we’ll be out of the red. I’m so tired 😭

Screenshot of weather radar. Central Indiana is getting clobbered.

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Apr 26

Psst, guess what?? @joanofdarkknits.bsky.social and I are making a video podcast (vodcast? Vlog?) of us making the “Project Hail Mary” sweater. Come knit with us #projecthailmary #knitting

A still from the movie, “Project Hail Mary”
Ryan Gosling, aka Grace, is wearing mostly light-colored denim. His arms are spread open. Over the denim shirt, he’s wearing a cream-colored, knit cardigan that features giant fox heads.

It has pockets! And a zipper!

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Apr 20

LOOK AT MY SWEATER. I MADE IT. I wore it to my mammogram because surely if I have the tenacity to finish this, I can also handle being uncomfortable and awkward for a few minutes. It’s called a transferable skill.

It’s me. I have pink hair in a pony tail and I’m wearing jeans. But the FOCUS should be on the oversized sweater that I made with my own two hands.

It’s mostly heathered teal with yellow, light blue, and brick colorwork

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Apr 20

Kids. What are they? Another species? And if so, are they the ones constantly hiding my keys? (I was re-assured I picked right size for my nearly 10 year old niece. Strawberry açaí lemonades aren’t super caffeinated)

Text reads:

On my way! I misplaced my keys so i’ll be closer to 1045

I’m getting you grandes, not because I’m cheap, but because i dont know how much caffeine is safe for kids

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Apr 18

Did you know that Taylor Swift writes speculative poetry?

Watercolor background hinting at sunset and clouds. Ink overlay of a UFO abducting a stick figure. Taylor Swift lyrics from Down Bad read, “I loved your hostile takeovers/encounters closers and closer”

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Apr 12

Little rabbit in spaaaaaaace

A brown and gray-ish rabbit sitting on some stuff that’s green and rocky. There are flowers in the foreground and a space in the background

The colors are more muted than I intended and her arm/shoulder isn’t quite right.

But still

It’s definitely a rabbit on a little planet admiring a foreign sky

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Apr 4

Happy Easter, ya filthy animals

Black and white cocker spaniel facing the camera, mostly resigned to her fate. She’s being held in place by a giant Easter Bunny, or perhaps an eldritch horror.

Are you worried about it? Maybe just don’t worry about it.

The backdrop is a pastel pink.

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Apr 2

I think one of the great gifts of life is having relationships with people who have known and loved you for decades. For real reasons that are serious and for trivial, random things like wtf is that song???

Text message screenshot.

The text reads:

This is really random but I have a snippet of a song lyric stuck in my head and it’s making me crazy because I can’t remember the rest of it

There’s a band we used to listen to a lot in when we lived in Florida.

And they were kind of weird and had a heavy bass and the singer had a deeper voice - and I THINK the snippet in my head is “we are prophets of doom”

Do you remember that??

The response to the text is an Apple music link to the band Clutch. The song is Profits of Doom

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Mar 30

Last Monday a friend sent me this and said, “It’s you” Maybe Mondays just have that energy, you know?

A toy bunny in a floral dress in front of Lisa Frank background of dolphins leaping in front of a rainbow

She’s holding a bat and a bottle of Malibu rum. The text reads, “Today’s Affirmation: Swing on ‘em”

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Mar 29

I bought this really fun book from @silvaniart.bsky.social today at C2E2 (it’s definitely meant for kids but it’s perfect for me) And now I have my very own Mongo from Dungeon Crawler Carl

A yellow book titled Draw-a-saurus. On top of the book is a small watercolor sketch/painting of a blue and pink velociraptor with the words “Mongo is appalled”

Mongo is watercolor pencils and black ink

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Mar 13

My husband is prettier and cooler than me.

White guy in the foreground with impressive facial hair. He’s wearing his ball cap backwards and looking at the camera with a Mona Lisa smile.

A woman, me, wearing a green sweatshirt is slightly behind him. She is not as cool or pretty as the man.

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Mar 10

I’m getting healthier, which includes proper nutrition, exercising and yes, losing weight on purpose. That said I literally LOLed in the locker room when i spotted my belly button. Baby girl is frowning & jowly like a Persian cat

It’s Princess Donut from the Dungeon Crawler Carl. She’s a tortoiseshell Persian cat wearing sunglasses and a tiara. Her eyes are glowing purple. It’s best not to ask what keeps her glasses on.

She appears mildly outraged. There is judgement in those glowing eyes. She would be appalled to know she’s been compared to my belly button.

Link to artwork: https://dungeon-crawler-carl.fandom.com/wiki/Donut

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Mar 9

I have stickers. Sometimes those stickers are adhered to gas pumps. It’s a mystery how they get there.

Close up of a weathered black gas pump. There is small black sticker with black text on a white background. The sticker reads TRUMP IS A RACIST

Handful of tiny stickers in the palm of a hand. The text and color varies, but they all read one of the following:
TRUMP IS A RAPIST
TRUMP IS A PEDO
BELIEVE WOMAN

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Mar 3

Labubu. Pazuzu.

Sketch with watercolor pencils and ink. Three pink Labubu monsters walking in front of flames. One is missing an ear. One is holding their eyes in their hands, like the Pan’s Labyrinth monster. The third has a stitched shut mouth.

You can see parts of the words: HEAR, SEE, and SPEAK poking out from behind them

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Feb 28

This is the card I pulled. Maybe it’ll happen today. How’s that for a new beginning?

Death on a pale horse, etc.

It’s the traditional Rider-Waite card. A king lies dead under the horses feet. Fuck that guy.
The maiden, the child, and bishop still live. For now.

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Feb 28

I’ve realized that fucking around with watercolors is a lot like stories I can tell immediately what’s wrong with it. (Her tail) Husband sees it & calls it amazing. He doesn’t see the tail in the wrong place. I think it’s the same with stories. The flaws are harder to spot if you don’t write too

Ink sketch and simple watercolor if a tortoiseshell Persian cat, wearing a purple tiara and standing grass. The text in the sketch reads MONGO IS APPALLED

Yes. It’s Princess Donut.

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Feb 26

Punch it out, babies

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Feb 21

Husband was snooping in my sketchbook and asked me to make him a Saproling Magic card with my watercolors And yes, of course. But I was teaching myself to draw little guys from @corygodbey.bsky.social’s artwork, who is an actual Magic artist. I barely know what a Saproling is…

A pencil sketch of a happy little guy. What if a flat-faced toad was furry and fuzzy like a bear but also like lichen and moss and had a plant growing out of his head??

Keira Perkins@thatkeira· Feb 18

Like, I am mad at The Church but I am not angry with Mary and I like talking to her, okay?? But that’s not a work conversation.