Alyx, Serotonin Not Included

@celestialgreen

Former musicologist. A little obsessed with games, cats, horror, and witchcraft. Chaotic bisexual. Incredible bibliophile. Disabled, ADHD, two parts wholesome cinnamon roll and two parts macabre little weirdo. She/he/they. (Art by StinaMarie).

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Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· 21d

As a part of my continuing quest to offer palette cleansers to this shit box of a world, everyone look at Apollo! He's the best floof boy to ever exist.

This little long-haired mackerel tabby cat is called Apollo. He's sitting in the lamplight in front of a stack of books (the books I've read this year so far). In front of him is a hand-carved box where I keep my chime candles, and off to his right is a little box with a puzzle inside. His floofy tail is curled off to the side magnificently. He is the sweetest little himbo there ever was.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Jun 11

This one from Carter Wilson (tag him if you know him) has a great descrip of the book, too!

"Jennifer Givhan's The Sleeping Sisters is as brutal as it is beautiful. When teenage girls are found decapitated in Albuquerque, one mother begins to fear the violence haunting her community may be rooted in her own bloodline. What unfolds is part crime novel, part fever dream, part reckoning with inherited trauma and religious hypocrisy. Givhan writes with a raw, lyrical intensity most writers spend a lifetime trying to unlock, turning myth and memory into something sharp, unsettling, and, at times, devastating. This is a bold, haunting novel about generational violence and the women who refuse to stay buried." --Carter Wilson, USA Today bestselling author of Tell Me What You Did

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Jun 11

Another from @lauriedoveauthor.bsky.social

"A gorgeously written mystery that kept me up at night and left me thinking of its characters in the days to come. It's everything I love in a novel -- a wily mystery, blood-stirring Indigenous folklore, and complicated ties to land and family. I devoured this novel; I was swept along pages brimming with suspense, where no one is who they seem. The Sleeping Sisters has a permanent space on my bookshelf!"--Laurie L. Dove, author of Mask of the Deer Woman

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Jun 11

How about this one by @tkingfisher.com

"House of Spirits meets The Wire in this marvelously strange story of murder and motherhood; a gloriously surreal novel in which magical realism meets police procedural. Jenn Givhan twists your brain and leaves you looking at the world differently for a long time afterward. I have no idea how to describe what I just read, but it was really, really cool."--T. Kingfisher, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of What Moves the Dead

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Jun 11

@jenngivhan.bsky.social's THE SLEEPING SISTERS has a shit-ton of blurbs that I can't even fit on this post. But it's struggling, despite being a novel of deep and endless magic. Pre-order today to keep this entrancing folkloric horror alive. (PS: of course I'm sharing the blurbs in the comments!)

Local Author Jenn Givhan is writing a book called The Sleeping Sisters. The blurb on the flyer says that it's "drawing on the unresolved West Mesa Murders, the novel is grounded in Albuquerque with intelligence, specificity, and deep respect for place. A brilliant book!" by Alisa Valdes.

It shows the cover, of a black-haired woman in a bright, high-neck blouse with blue-black hair. Her face has been obscured by blue and pink flowers, and the background is also shades of neon pink and electric blue. (It's beautiful guys, trust me.)

Jenn's picture is there, and it says that this book is having a local launch party in Albuquerque on August 18th at Books on the Bosque. It also gives her website, JenniferGivhan.com.

AVAILABLE WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD!

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· May 2

These are my babies: Luna, Apollo, and Persephone (called Persie.) Read the alt text and I'll tell you all about them!

This is a picture of Luna and me during an impromptu snuggle session several weeks ago. She's a little black cat with one green eye and one gold eye. The large bald spot on her neck is now nearly grown back! She's been suffering from a severe allergy spike for months. Today is her first day without a cone in awhile, and she's so, so happy.

This is a picture of a longhair mackerel tabby (kind of blonde, kind of gray) floofy boy named Apollo. He has a truly magnificent tail, which he's asleep on his bed, hugging it in this picture. He is definitely my wife's cat, but he's nice enough to let me reach over and give him scritchies. He's only three years old now, but he's so handsome. He's the only boy I've ever loved.

This picture is of Persephone, an absolutely gorgeous calico tabby with slightly chimeric features, green eyes, white-sock paws and a white tip on her tail (not pictured). She's lying on a thing we bought to help her eat her treats more slowly -- but the cats all decided it was a bed. She's immensely clever, and sweet, HUNGRY AS HELL and not afraid to cut a bitch if the moment arises (the vet). Persie is absolutely, completely my girl. Lately she's begun snuggling with my wife too, much to her surprise, and nothing gives my heart more joy.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Mar 25

My poor Luna scratched her sutures open, so now she gets to wear a cone AND a onesie. I'm sure she thinks we're punishing her. But even as I write this, she's climbing into my arms, wanting comfort.* *I sent this to my friend, who said "she's the cutest little flashlight!" and this is correct.

A little black cat, Luna, with a cone on her head and a yellow/gray onesie with a high neck. We chose this specially because the vet suspects that she has an autoimmune disease (we find out in a day or so.) She's been scratching off her fur, her skin, and leaving bloody patches everywhere. My poor sweet girl.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Mar 15

It's this sweet girl's sixth birthday today! Her name is Persie.

A beautiful little calico cat is lying on a sweater on a coffee table in front of a picture window. She's looking vaguely disturbed, as if saying "Mom, I'm trying to sleep, stop taking my picture" but she's cute as hell anyway. It's her birthday today, and she remains precious and perfect in every way.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Mar 6

It's hard enough keeping my shit straight with the world being what it is right now, but my precious Luna, y'all. She's been having the world's worst allergy attack, and nothing we do helps. Now the vet is concerned that something entirely different is wrong. My heart can't take this.

A little black cat, Luna, in the days before she scratched her skin raw and bloody. She's snuggling with a little stuffed orange cat plush, with her paw draped over it and a "what?" look at the camera, as if she doesn't realize how beautiful and perfect she is.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Mar 4

I don't have anything useful to say today. But the world is shit and my cats are gorgeous, sweet, and funny. (All the info is in the alt text. Read the alt text.)

The Queen, the GOAT, the allergy-prone beauty, this is Luna when she discovered our new multimedia cabinet for our vinyl. She's a little black cat with a dusting of white on her chest, with one gold eye and one green eye, and she's sitting primly, tucked in a shelf where vinyl records should go. She remains perfect.

This little fluffmuffin is Apollo. He's a good boy, despite the fact that we have only truly confirmed the presence of one brain cell. This is his favorite spot to sit, on my shrine to the Greek god Apollo, his namesake. I'd like to think the god (and the cat) think this behavior is funny and endearing.

He's a little long-haired cat with green eyes, mackerel tabby markings, and a white ruff and paws, with the world's most innocent himbo face. Incidentally, he's sleeping on my feet as I write this.

You want the cute? You can't handle the cute!

This calico beauty is named Persephone, but she only really answers to Persie. She's a shorthair calico tabby with slightly chimeric features on her face and a white tip on her tail (not pictured.) She's lying on a fuzzy blanket on the back of my couch, her eyes dilated because I was bribing her with a toy to look at me for the picture without prying the red holiday ribbon from around her neck.

It didn't last more then two seconds after this was taken, but hey, I got the picture. This girl is known as Precious Perfect Princess Persie, and she earns her name. She's the clever little mischief maker of the trio, but she's easily thwarted by food, because it's her dearest dream to be as chonky as me. She's also the sweetest, gentlest, most patient of them, except when you (eventually) cross her line. Then she will cut a bitch, and I love that for her.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Jan 25

Immigrant Rapid Response Fund, donated for $250. Thanks, Brennan. For everything.

A screenshot of a donation for the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Jan 15

Tonight, to celebrate nothing at all, my wife and I made peanut butter chocolate cookies. The recipe called for less flour and an extra egg yolk, to make the texture gooey, and it really worked. My portions continue to be suspect; I overcorrected and made 19 instead of 15. I'm still having fun.

Twelve chocolate peanut butter cookies on a baking sheet, on top of some parchment paper. Not perfect, but I'm still learning.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Jan 1

New Year's baking experiment: soft pretzels. And y'all, they were incredible. Served with a spicy cheese sauce. Happy 2026, everyone. May we all have the courage not only to persevere, but to try new things, and to find ways to thrive against the odds.

Eight golden brown soft pretzels, fresh out of the oven, hand-made by my wife and me for New Year's Eve. Happy 2026.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Dec 28

For those of you who don't know what goatheads are, they're little thorns created by Satan to puncture feet. They propagate via pain and violence. Just like JKR.

A trio of goatheads, hard little thorn seeds that have spikes on every surface that are as long as the seeds themselves. They hurt like a motherfucker to step on with bare feet, and can puncture THROUGH a thin flip flop.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Dec 27

I came across this in my reading today. I can’t decide if I love it or hate it, but either way — iconic. Thoughts? #horrorsky #booksky

A page from a book. The highlighted section reads: “but when she got to the juniper tree, she peered into a ragged hole beneath it, rimmed with snow like some kind of Middle-Earth margarita.”

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Dec 25

I baked a pumpkin cake from scratch today. My first ever. As you can see, I got distracted when dashing it with cinnamon, and the edible gold dust came out like a goddamn fire hose. Everyone will be shitting glitter until New Year. But anything worth doing is worth doing badly.

A pumpkin cake that, while it will probably taste very good, is topped with very slapdash rows of cinnamon and a metric butt-ton of edible gold dust. It’s made in a 9x13 cake pan, now on a serving plate with cream cheese frosting.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Dec 24

This is HUGE for a girl who's mostly unable to try anything new because of executive dysfunction and burnt-out-gifted-child-bullshit. But I decided to practice what I've been preaching on here: to create something, even if it's bad. Here's how they turned out:

Two trays of chocolate chip cookies, made with semisweet and swirled with dark chocolate patches. They're astonishingly not burnt, well-shaped, and I didn't put too many on the tray so they didn't bulge together. And just for you: they smell (and taste) pretty damn good.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Dec 13

Apollo is such a mama’s boy.

A little long-haired mackerel tabby named Apollo, tucked up against his mommy. Her arm is around him, scritching his ears, and he is the most blissful boy in the world.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Nov 30

40 this year, and feeling more comfortable in my vessel than maybe I ever have. (And I'm definitely the hot one of my sisters.) I am finally myself, finally out of fucks to give about being who I am. And when I, at least, reach my crone years, may the gods have mercy on all our souls.

A woman with skin the color of mayonnaise (Black people get described by food colors, so I figure it's only fair that I'm mayo). She's wearing a black lace dress with spaghetti straps, a necklace that looks like the outline of a round stained glass window. She has glasses, light brown locks in a side shave, and red lipstick, and she's faintly smiling as if she knows something you don't.

It's me.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Sep 1

I literally just introduced my wife to Pixel-Stitch and said "can you do this scene for me?"

A scene from the video game Hollow Knight, with a gazebo in an otherworldly Queen's Garden, with a gramophone and a park bench, with flying creatures on a jewel-green background.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Aug 25

My friend Kat decided they needed something to do with their hands. So they took up whittling. They made this as their first project. Isn't it gorgeous? We need to make things with our hands. We need to be creative, to toss aside AI and just fill the world with who WE are. Be like Kat.

Kat's hand, holding a piece of wood and a beautifully-carved spoon next to it. It's so smooth, with a curved handle that fits perfectly in the palm. Probably not big enough to be useful, but why is it always about "what's in it for me?" sometimes the process is enough.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Aug 25

Persie approves of my copy of Isabel Cañas’ THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DIAZ. (And y’all, she just put her paw reassuringly on my leg. Squeeeeee) #cats #horrorsky

Persephone Sage, a beautiful, somewhat chimeric calico cat, is lying on a book with a woman in a red dress on the cover. She’s snuggling with us on the couch, and there’s nothing more precious than that.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Jul 3

I embroidered this by hand! Someday I'll do it again, and incorporate all the techniques I've learned since the original. (I'd show the project I'm working on right now, but it sort of looks like a vulva atm.)

A hand-embroidered pattern of the Greek goddess, Athena, holding her shield and a spear, with a brushed helmet. Her armor is bronze, her skin is lighter than the thread looked online (I wasn't trying to make her white!) and she has a skirt of gradiant shades of blue that matches the brush of her helmet. The parthenon can be seen in the background, and the scene is encased in a wreath of olive branches done in lazy daisy stitch that didn't hold up to washing very well.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Jun 24

How about a compromise? It's not the hottest picture of @celestialblue.bsky.social but it's got my favorite calico in it, so her hotness is tempered by Persie's cuteness! (Read the alt-text.)

A beautiful woman with a sweet smile and long, light brown hair stands, hunched not because of bad posture but because of the overwhelming presence of a calico cat, Persephone, who has taken up residence on her shoulders like the hunch-cat of Notre Dame.

Bonus points if you know that the woman's shirt is Caduceus from Critical Role's Mighty Nein series.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Jun 21

Oh hey! My little town had its Pride Parade today. My wife helped out and had a great time. I couldn't go (my body hates me today) but they had a great turnout for the parade and festival! And then we have a drag show tonight! So of course, when my wife got home, she adorned Luna in Pride gear.

A lovely black cat named Luna sits on the arm of the couch, decked out in a rainbow Pride lei. She looks a bit nonplussed, but after the picture was sniffing the outside smells on the lei with interest. My wife's boob is also in the foreground, for scale.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Jun 14

“No Kings, Mommy!” —Apollo (My wife then had to chase him all over the living room with the flag in his mouth.)

A little mackerel tabby cat, named Apollo, chews and ravages a plastic American flag that he stole from his mom, who got it when she dropped off supplies at our local protest today. Apparently he’s protesting, too.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Jun 13

I'm kind of between books right now? I have a stack sitting beside me on the couch, and theoretically I'm supposed to choose one today. But The Depression has me and it's hard to take pleasure in things, even reading. Fuck it. I picked up Daisy Pearce's SOMETHING IN THE WALLS. Going for it.

A slightly precarious stack of books on a gray couch. On the top is a hardcover novel adorned with peeling wallpaper. It's entitled, SOMETHING IN THE WALLS, by Daisy Pearce. Beneath it is my to-do list for today, and a number of other books that I'll probably get to sometime in the next five years. Honorable mention to my embroidery forms and package of John James curved beading needles off to the side.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Jun 13

Look at that floof monster!!! THAT TUMMY. I'm reminded of the video (from someone whose name I don't remember, sorry) that said "if you're not huffing your cat, what are you even doing?" Just bury your face in their fur and breathe it in. Here's my floof monster for tax.

The regal, floofy little cat, Apollo, lies on the couch, on his side. Apollo is a mackerel tabby, meaning that he has silver and blonde and white in his fur, with tabby stripes. He is sleeping with his belly slightly exposed, his perfect toe beans on view for the world to see. His little pink nose is incredibly boopable, and his floofy tail is a thing of absolute magnificence.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· Jun 3

I embroidered this handkerchief for a friend, and wove a spell to protect them while they travel. (They love to live minimally and use the savings to travel the world.) Only 14 more hankies to make. #craftsky

Hand embroidered on a white handkerchief is a little ovulation scene of a cherry blossom branch in spring, over a lake and light blue, clear sky. There is a pale yellow sun, and a border around in the same pink as the blossoms.

Alyx, Serotonin Not Included@celestialgreen· May 28

My little black cat, Luna, is just the best kitty. I've been having a terrible day. Five solid minutes of her crooning to her toy mouse as loudly as she can, putting it in her mouth and dropping it at my feet? My heart is melted, and all is right with the world. Thanks, little girl. #cats