Minerva Cerridwen

@minervacerridwen

Xe/xem/xyr or she/her. Genderfluid aro ace. Author of novella 'The Dragon of Ynys'. 🐉 Profile picture hand-drawn and human-made by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social.

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Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Jun 30

My friend Clara Ward's new novella DREAM THE DEEP is out with @atthisarts.com today! 🥳 🐡 atthisarts.com/product/drea... 🐡 To celebrate, I made this crocheted pufferfish square. Pattern by RepeatCrafterMe. 🐡 #blowfish #pufferfish #crochet #undertheseacal #dreamthedeep #claraward #releaseday

A crocheted bright blue granny square with a textured pufferfish in orange, red, and grey on it.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Mar 29

Happy #spring! 🌸 Our beautiful Japanese garden inspired me for the latest #Paranatellonta video: "Holding the Sun". Watch it now on YouTube: youtu.be/Qp7RDkBc5YM 🌷 #japanesegarden #photography #flashfiction #blossoms #cherryblossoms

Photo of a magnolia tree by the water, with bare trees in the background.

Photo of cherry blossoms with water in the background.

Close-up on a magnolia tree with water in the background.

Photo of a small waterfall with grass and moss growing to its sides.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Feb 5

🤩🤩🤩TOMORROW!🤩🤩🤩 Join us for this LIVE group author reading featuring #womenauthors and #nonbinaryauthors of #sciencefiction #fantasy and #horror via Zoom. There's still time to register! #SWSWQR www.eventbrite.com/e/first-frid...

Strong Women, Strange Worlds presents First Friday QuickReads of Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror by Gita Ralleigh, Lisa Morton, Minerva Cerridwen, Melissa Widmaier, Rachel Handley, and Victoria Goddard.
February 6, 12 noon EST, Free on Zoom.
Preregister now at StrongWomenStrangeWorlds.weebly.com

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 25

Spending time with the adorable dragons of #Flamecraft sure is a good way to spend a holiday. 🥰🐉

Photo of the setup of the game Flamecraft in top of a red tablecloth.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 25

So... After day 12, the Advent calendar repeated itself entirely, in the same order even. That kinda sucks, because I'd been comparing it with the more expensive version, but didn't buy that because it said there were only 13 types of tea inside. This one spoke of "unique teas and infusions".

Side of a green box with the text "Advent Calendar Teas & Infusions. 25 surprise cards! Savour a unique tea or infusion every day, as you discover captivating anecdotes from the world of tea and our vibrant community."

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 21

Day 12 of #NervDrinksTea: 😴😴😴💤... Huh? Oh, perhaps I shouldn't take this one literally. Tea number 12 is called Seasonal Siesta! With lemongrass, cinnamon, ginger, garcinia, hibiscus, lemon peel, lemon flavour, ginger flavour.

Day 12 of the English Tea Shop Organic Advent Calendar: a khaki card with a bright blue bag of tea named "Seasonal Siesta".

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 20

Day 11 of #NervDrinksTea: Peachy Keen. Hibiscus, rosehip, lemon, lemongrass, cinnamon, apple, peach flavour, passion fruit flavour. Where I was missing balance in the previous hibiscus tea, this one is a success! An ideal iced tea in the summer - luckily I was doing some sweaty chores today. 😜 4/5 ⭐

Day 11 of the English Tea Shop Organic Advent Calendar: a yellow card with an orange teabag containing "Peachy Keen".

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 18

Day 10 of #NervDrinksTea: Coffee Cocoa. Black tea, coffee, cocoa, cinnamon, vanilla flavour, coconut flavour, safflower. Typing this, the two added flavours explain a lot about the slightly synthetic sweetness. I keep asking myself if certain additions were really necessary in this calendar.

Day 10 of the English Tea Shop Organic Advent Calendar: a green card with a brown tea bag saying "Coffee cocoa" under an illustration of a tea pot with flowers and a snowflake.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 17

Day 9 of #NervDrinksTea: Apparently Super Goodness is a series - my apologies! This one is Mighty Matcha: green tea, roasted rice, cocoa, cinnamon, matcha, coconut. Sounds good to me!

Day 9 of the English Tea Shop Organic Advent Calendar: a yellow card and a green teabag with "Super goodness: Mighty Matcha".

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 16

My wonderful friend @edebell.com has a book of short stories out this month, titled "Sexy Garlic". The title is as inspiring as the stories, so this was my birthday card for em.😄 🧄 You can find the book with @atthisarts.com! 🧄 #garlic #watercolor #illustration #shortstories #fiction #booksky

Watercolour painting of a garlic bulb leaning on its green sprout arms and winking at the viewer, with a green eye, red lips, and a purple bra. The background is painted in shades of pink and purple.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 15

Day 8 of #NervDrinksTea: Rejoice! A blend without mint! 🎉 "Super Goodness" contains cinnamon, moringa, and ginger. There's a lot of cinnamon (yay!) and enough kick from the ginger (yay!). I'm still not sure I know what moringa tastes like, from these teas. 4/5 ⭐🥳

Day 8 of the English Tea Shop Organic Advent Calendar: a hot pink card and a yellow tea bag with "Super Goodness" containing cinnamon, moringa, and ginger.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 13

Day 7 of #NervDrinksTea, cont.: This was a tea where balance would have been key - but alas, it's very sour due to the hibiscus, and the sweetness of the berries doesn't mix well with the mint, in my opinion. 1.5/5 ⭐ You know what, here's what my face does every time I take a sip.

Photo of a person with glasses sitting in a black chair in front of a wooden bookcase. The person is frowning with a sour expression, lips pressed together.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 13

Day 7 of #NervDrinksTea: Super Berries! Hibiscus, rooibos, beetroot, spearmint (again! why??), strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. I'm getting a bit bored by how present mint flavours are in this calendar. Surely we don't need that in a berry tea?

Day 7 of the English Tea Shop Organic Advent Calendar: a green card and a red teabag with the text "Super Berries" under an illustration of a teapot with flowers.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 12

Day 6 of #NervDrinksTea with another funny name: "Energise me". Well, I could use it! Spearmint, peppermint, blackberry leaves, rooibos, nettle, ginger, lemongrass, cinnamon, elderflower, and ginseng.

Day 6 of the English Tea Shop Organic Advent Calendar: a green card and a light blue teabag with the text "energise me" under an illustration of a teapot with a bee and a butterfly.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 10

Day 5 of #NervDrinksTea brings the very intriguing name "Revive Me". It's white tea with moringa, cinnamon, rosehip, and ginseng (and also lemongrass, spearmint, and nettle in the ingredient list). I didn't know moringa, so this calendar keeps delivering things to learn! ✨

Day 5 of the English Tea Shop Organic Advent Calendar: a purple card and a pale green tea bag with the text "Revive Me".

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 7

Day 4 of #NervDrinksTea: mint black tea. Pretty much what it says on the tin! 3.5/5 ⭐️

Day 4 of the English Tea Shop Organic Advent Calendar: a pink card and a green tea bag with mint black tea under an illustration of a tea pot with flowers.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 5

Day 3 of #NervDrinksTea is a white tea with tropical fruit. That feels pretty soon after day 1's passionfruit! Once again it contains licorice, which I don't notice in this one, and soursop, which was a new fruit for me to discover. New discoveries are always a plus.

A green card with a green tea bag containing white tea with tropical fruits.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 4

Day 2 of #NervDrinksTea! It's a rooibos with cocoa and vanilla. I'm thinking the combination of rooibos and cocoa could be very nice, so I'm excited! #tea #tasting

Day 2 of the English Tea Shop Organic Advent Calendar: an orange card and a brown tea bag with rooibos, cocoa, and vanilla under an illustration of a tea pot with flowers.

Photo of a dark-coloured mug with a flying dragon at the front, with a teabag seeping in water inside it and a brown tea bag label with an illustration of a teapot near the handle.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 3

Day 1 is a white tea with coconut and passion fruit. An exotic start, so I'm excited! I've never had #tea from this brand before, so I have no idea what quality to expect.

Day 1's tea, with a purple card and yellow wrapping of the tea bag: white tea, coconut, and passion fruit.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Dec 3

Remember when a few years ago, I had the #NervDrinksTea tag on the tweety site? Well, I got a tea advent calendar again... Let's go! 🤩✨️ #tea #tasting

Photo of a small green box, decorated with plants, baubles, a tea pot, and robins. It contains the English Tea Shop organic Advent Tea Calendar.

Top view of the English Tea Shop organic Advent Tea Calendar, with colourful cards numbered from 1 to 25 sticking out of a green box.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Sep 30

"Our Future Is Death", for #AugurMicros2025 @augursociety.bsky.social CW: death. #writing #microfiction

“Our future is death,” claimed the huge banner on the space station’s only mansion.
The warmest welcome they could have thought of, surely.
A stark contrast with the waiting lounge inside: carpets, flowers, comfort-scented candles. A client gave me a friendly nod. Here for refreshment, going by the pallor of her skin. Deceased in her late twenties, but the necromancy process had gained her some wrinkles.
It only worked when you got to this mortuary in time, but it worked.
As I stepped into the airtight pod for my application interview, all I could think of was that banner.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Sep 15

Today, my book The Dragon of Ynys has been out with @atthisarts.com for 5 years! 🥳 I'm so proud that it's still being discovered and read by new people. 🐉💜 www.atthisarts.com/product/the-...

Cover of "The Dragon of Ynys" by Minerva Cerridwen. A dark purple dragon silhouette is followed by two human silhouettes on a background of purple mountains, a pink sky, and a yellow sun.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· May 15

New profile pic! 🤩 Hand-drawn and human-made by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social - I feel so seen by this piece, it really is a depiction of my true form! 🥰🐉 Commission your own portrait via bydhiyanah.carrd.co And thank you again to @atthisarts.com - check out their new novella WISHING WELL, WISHING WELL! ✨

Handdrawn portrait of a smiling white person with horns in the colours of the ace flag, glasses with purple tentacle details, long brown braided hair, a green t-shirt, rainbow scaled dragon wings, a couple of purple tentacles, and lots of purple flowers all around. Stars are scattered over the atmospheric green background.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Apr 12

Happy Rainbow Day! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ This fairy doodle prompt had me finally picking up a project with magazine cut-outs that I started months ago. Making art is the best way to celebrate art! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 #JubileeCho 🎂

Illustration of two fairies with flowery dresses cut out of magazine pages. A pastel rainbow is painted over them in watercolour, and overlaid is the handlettered text "wishing you rainbows, love, and joy".

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Mar 5

A happy first book birthday to BE THE SEA by Clara Ward @atthisarts.com! 🤩 My hardcover copy arrived just in time to celebrate, after being stuck in customs for quite a while - and the sea dragon can't stop admiring it. Also, look at how glorious my Sea Creature postcards came out! 🥳

A smiling person with rectangular glasses and a purple shirt is sitting in front of a bookcase displaying the hardcover edition of "Be the Sea", with a crocheted green dragon leaning into the book on the left.

Close-up on the silver foil stamping on the hardcover's dark blue cloth cover.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Oct 20

Throwback to this small crow I made for #AceWeek 2022!

Illustration of a crow drawn with black fineliner, with a black head, grey chest, white wings, and purple bottom.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Sep 20

Best coming-of-age activity for this hobbit 🥰

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Sep 15

Hastbullar! Aka Swedish scones with figs and sugar pearls. #baking #homemade #bakedgoods #food #junipersbaking

Photo of a round metal tray filled with golden-brown scones that have sugar pearls sticking out here and there.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Aug 29

LAST DAYS to vote for your favourite Sea Creature! You can do so at the bottom of this page: minervacerridwen.com/illustration... 🐠🐡🐬 #seacreatureoftheday #bethesea #postcards #sealife #oceanfriends #seacreatures @atthisarts.com

Photo of the Sea Creatures from the BE THE SEA campaign, including crocheted animals, pages with drawings and paintings, and origami animals.

Minerva Cerridwen@minervacerridwen· Aug 1

The #WorldCon programme has been announced! 🤩 Here's the schedule of panels (and a stroll) I'm on. Find them in the Programme Guide via this link: guide.glasgow2024.org/people/05455... #glasgow2024 #worldcon2024 #writerslife #booksky