Bronwyn

@bron.bsky.social

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Linguist, reader, knitter, video gamer, Canadian (in no particular order). Thinks a lot about auxiliaries and pronouns, Stardew Valley, and books with magic and/or spaceships and/or kissing in them. Experimenting with context collapse. (she/her)

View of a pier overlooking a bay with several boats moored, with a person in black baggy clothing leaning on the rail looking into the distance, beneath a blue sky with scattered clouds. Forested land and islands visible in the background, with mountains on the horizon.
A partly-knit dark green shirt with lace detail in a v in the front, lying at an angle across a light wood table.
Three images showing stages in completing a purl stitch, with wooden needles and dark green yarn. The photos are numbered 1 (top left) 2 (top right) 3 (bottom left). In photo 1 the working yarn is tensioned by the left index finger below the needles while the right needle is inserted into the front of the first stitch on the left needle. In photo 2 the working yarn comes up to catch the right needle. In photo 3 the finger tensioning the working yarn comes back down below the needles as the right needle pulls the new stitch through.
Overhead photo of an open circular tin with assorted contents described in the attached post.
A yellow mitre box on top of a hand saw, in a plastic bin with some cut end pieces of wood and some sawdust.
An l-shaped wooden frame on a wooden countertop, joints held together with glue.
A glass baking dish with stuffing (aka dressing) on a stovetop, with one scoop taken out with a spoon.
A bowl of cubed bread next to a blue lid with more cubed bread, both on a wooden countertop. Someone's feet are visible at the bottom of the frame.
A dining room table covered in piles of various papers, with several large three-ring binders and two empty cardboard magazine files.
Several pairs of hand-knit socks on a wood table. At the left is a single blue sock, then going clockwise are wine-red variegated socks, green-and-brown multicolour socks, white-and-beige socks, blue lace socks, and in the centre are two grey lace socks.
A beret-style hat draped on a white teapot (only the teapot base and spout are visible), with a partial view of matching mittens in the foreground. The hat and mittens all have a cream foreground, with a multicoloured vareigated background.
A hand-knit grey and teal striped cowl draped over a white teapot.
Two hand-knit mittens on a wood table. The mittens have a black pattern of interlocking spirals against a grey ombre background, fading from dark grey at the wrists to very light grey at the fingertips.
A table covered in piles of yarn and plastic bags. In the foreground are two chairs, one with a small bin of yarn and the other with a crumpled very large plastic storage bag.
A black ink cartoon drawing of an eye, with a curved line of circles underneath it.
A coffee cup with a stylized black-yellow-blue-white coastal scene, on a wood table with a blurry coffee shop interior in the background.
Photo out the window of a vessel, showing calm blue water and a clear blue sky. In the distance are mountains, a bridge, and industrial machinery.
A rectangular cake with white icing on a blue tablecloth; above it to the left are some paper plates, above to the right are wooden forks. The cake is edged in red, yellow, and blue icing, with piped text that reads in blue "Bravo! Félicitations" then in red "[kŋ̩.græ.d͡ʒə.leɪ.ʃn̩z]".
A photo of gently waving tartan fabric. Tartan has a blue background, with wide green bands and narrow yellow, orange, red, and black stripes.
A sample image of a tartan fabric; primary colours are red (background) with blue plaid; middle third of the blue has a green in foreground, with a narrow yellow on top of that. A narrow white stripe cuts the red bars.
A vintage colour photo of two men carrying a haggis on a litter over their shoulders. The men ar wearing blazers in a blue-green-white tartan, and the litter is draped with fabric in the same tartan.
A poster for WisCon. Background is blue with various objects drawn in a cartoon style in a pink-and-purple palette decorating the edges. Text: WisCon a feminist sci-fi and fantasy convention May 23-25 2025 visit https://wiscon2025.sched.com $25 (or pay what you can) Guests of honor: Andrea Hairston, Naomi Kritzer. Want to get involved? Email personnel@sf3.org
Selfie of me, a white woman with short asymmetric curly hair, smiling at the camera and wearing a black scarf and black rain jacket, in front of a dock, some ocean water, with trees and islands and a cloudy sky in the background.
A view looking down a dirt road through a forest, with cedar trees and ferns on either side of the road. Dappled sunlight shines down through the trees.
Foreground: an 8 foot circle of ash with a small flame near the centre, in the middle of a small grassy lawn. Behind the flame is an orange wheelbarrow. Around the grass are shrubs and trees, in the background is a cliff edge above the ocean with islands/mountains visible in the distance.
A hand-drawn illustration of the Canadian Shift on a whiteboard. From top to bottom: the vowels ɪ and ɛ both have two arrows marked with question marks, one going back (to the right) and one going down. The vowel æ has one arrow pointing down/back.
Purple and orange crocuses pushing up through muddy grass at the foot of a mossy tree trunk.
A closeup of blue-purple-yellowish-white swirl ice cream.
An enamel pin on a wooden surface. Pin is a green dumpster with yellow, orange, and red flames coming out the top. The front of the dumpster has a small happy face :) on it.
A maple tree with bright red leaves and black branches, silhouetted against a blue sky.
Several packages on a cutting board on a wood counter: Stove Top turkey stuffing, Betty Crocker instant mashed potatoes, McCormick roast gravy for poultry, and honey garlic turkey sausages.
Photo of a small sheet of stickers on a page of a journal (2 rows of 3 square stickers, approx 1cm x 1cm). The sheet is titled "glistening Series / 6 colors". Top left: purple background containing a white cat with black stripes facing left, labelled "22 CAT"; top centre: light olive green bg, icon is three circles in a triangle with lines between them, labelled "24 GLUON"; top right: dark green bg, icon is two panes with white lines emerging, one wavy line connects the two panes, labelled "26 BRANE". Bottom left: dark blue background, icon is a monkey looking out of a one-person submarine, labeled "48 Ham #65"; bottom centre: red bg, a tuxedo cat in some sort of contraption facing the viewer through a porthole, labelled "50 Félicette"; bottom right: purple bg, possibly a satellite, labelled "54 Hayabusa".
A triptych of paintings in an abstract style, mostly greyscale. Painting at left is a stylized SNES, middle is an original PlayStation, right is an Xbox 360.
Screenshot from a phone of recent orders from Rakuten Kobo, showing A Sorceress Comes to Call
Comic style line-art on a box, featuring a woman with long wavy hair wearing a mask, pointing at the viewer, with a text box saying "THANK YOU!"
A Lego kit for mini cherry blossom branches. Box art shows one with white+pink flowers and one with pink+darker pink flowers.
A checkmark that starts with an extra leg, so that it looks like an italic capital N with a really long final bar.
A board game cover featuring a photo of Donald Trump from the 80s on a black background. In gold text it reads "it's not whether you win or lose, it's whether you win" then "TRUMP: THE GAME".
Two 750g Toblerone bars stacked on a table covered with a white tablecloth.
The beginning of a stranded knitting project on DPNs, with black spirals on a light grey background.
A very sad solo grey and black split mitten, with a swirly pattern in black on a grey background.
A pale blue book titled "The Bad Bitch Adult Colouring Book" by Cy Villyard, featuring an illustration of a uterus with one ovary shown as a hand raising its middle finger, wreathed with pink roses on pale green thorned vines, and two disembodied open mouths.
An HDMI cable with a cable ring attaching adapters for other common computer video output formats to it.
A brown and tan plastic pouch that reads "WHITE COOKING WINE/VIN BLANC DE CUISINE 4 tbsp/4 c. à table (60 mL)"
Handwritten list reading: get up, put on comfy clothes, laundry?, watch thing, read article?
A screenshot from Treasure Mountain. An adventurer at the right is standing in front of a wood porch labelled "clubhouse". Behind them to the left is a small elf skipping towards four blue mushrooms. The menu at the bottom shows clue words ("one" and "triangle"), coins, nets, and treasures.
An old iMac desktop/screen combo on a table, with me reflected on the screen shrugging as I take the photo.
Box of Lemsip MAX cold & flu, blackcurrant flavour, held by a white person's hand in front of a white duvet.
A COVID rapid test with a faint positive line.
A bottle of whisky, number 69 of 316. Full label reads: "celebrating 100 years. The Fasnacloich. Distilled by the Blair Athol distillery for the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society. Aged 10 years highland single malt scotch whisky. Single cask. Natural colour non-chill filtered. Bottle number 69 of 316. 46%vol 70cl e"
Me wearing a white floral top in front of a white stucco wall, holding a purple frame reading #DanceScottish Do You Dance Scottish?
Me (a white woman with short brown hair wearing green pants, a white shirt, a grey sweater and sunglasses) leaning back on my hands while sitting on a high rocky surface, looking away from the camera out at a sweeping vista of pointy black rock formations against green hills and a partly cloudy sky.
Thistles in the foreground. Background is grass in front of a tall black cliff, with clouds behind.
Photo of one corner of a kitchen, wood-topped island in foreground, stove and metal hood in background. Back wall is beige, but right wall is peeling away to show older blue paint.