bzedan

@bzedan.bsky.social

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Optimistic existentialist. Latine. They/them. Old enough to be your auntie. Far more active on Tumblr. Would you like to know more? https://links.bzedan.com/ I have #newsletter, serialised an old book at #tagtag and also am bad at using this tagging.

A quote under a digital illustration of a knife: Emily felt stupid spending sixty dollars on convenience store food. Even with the inflated prices of ‘convenience,’ it was still what felt like a very silly amount of snacks. She started unloading the bags onto the kitchen island. “I hope you feel like chips and dip. Also, weird candy.”
A screencap of the DaVinci Resolve video editing media bay, with a still of a mostly-assembled owlbear puppet on it's back in a work area. Various thumbnails with views of the puppet construction are lined up below.
Image of title for The Consoling Divide, and "divide" is split down the middle.
A photo of a 6” or so fan clipped to a cabinet door, B’s hand is held up for scale.
A quote next to a digital illustration of a to-go container: “Now, I don’t know if you really believe in magic. But I’m pretty certain you probably don’t. I didn’t.”
A wobbly marker drawing of a lizard with no tail and a blue patch on its chin. The image is headed, in shaky writing: "Laundry Room Lizard (beloved)." It is notated with arrows: stump (pointing to lack of tail), Alert! (pointing to head, sitting up posture), assuming but I've never seen their chin (pointing to blue patch at chin).
Image of title for The Consoling Divide, and "divide" is split down the middle.
A quote next to a digital illustration of a pile of postcards: ... she thought about the genius of her aunt and the others hiding in a suburban trailer park. Nobody gave a second thought about what happened behind the enclosing trees... That was fine. It gave them an island of peace in a world of nosy neighbours and judgemental PTAs.
An edit of the "Temba his arms wide" scene from the Next Generation episode Darmok to say "Exit, pursued by bear."
A photo of a sort of Dragon Quest Slime shaped cake in a glossy blue. It looks: so stupid. To the side is a mimic cake with a glossy red tongue.
A cake of Peppermint Butler from Adventure Time, with banana guards (banana dipped in chocolate) int terror around. There's a frosting base and little spears made of skewers and tape.
A photo of a rather amateur cake shaped like a severed unicorn head, sitting, slightly melted, in a freezer.
Image of title for The Consoling Divide, and "divide" is split down the middle.
A quote next to a digital illustration of a plate with leftovers: “You know what I’m saying. It’s creepy here. Everyone is growing up and moving on... going through the motions feels too much like what the Folk do.”
A screencap of a pixel art-ish game (with screentone textures also) of a dim purple room with one window and one door. A text box at the bottom reads "It's nice outside. I should go on a walk."
Image of title for The Consoling Divide, and "divide" is split down the middle.
A screencap of B's written stuff on Itchio, with a scribbled "WHOA 50% off" over it.
A comic in pencil, unevenly lit. A lizard on a wall espies a shadowed creepy shape, then looks strong and determined. Narrator: "Confronted by a towering nightmare, our hero has the perfect defense. BEHOLD!" The lizard is then shown to be doing little push ups. Narrator: "SHOW the eldritch giant you fear NOTHING! They will *never* take your perfect basking spot." The final, open panel shows an un-intimidating looking person holding a garbage in front of a large bin by a wall, where the lizard is doing pushups. The person says: "Heh, push ups, at me? I'm flattered."
A quote next to a digital illustration of a rainbow mug: "I love you, Amelia Anderson. Even though you have weird friends that you live with in a deserted trailer park. I love you even though you disappear sometimes, have insomnia and kicking, screaming, nightmares. That’s all part of you, it’s all bits of who you are. I want to know you more, to share the bad things you keep bottled up.”
A hand holds a card that has a circle cut in the middle of it up to the sky, a gradient of blues shading around it. Through the hole in the center, the sky and the moon is visible.
Image of title for The Consoling Divide, and "divide" is split down the middle.
A screencap of six thumbnails in a Procreate stack titled Neo Twiny 2026. They are in a pastel 16 color palette and show simple views of sidewalks and the adjoining street, the view out a window, or inside a room.
A mildly fuzzy photo of chrome shapes, the white slatted ceiling and reflective metal of looking up into the gap next to an escalator turned on its side to the abstract.
Edit of gopher from Disneys Winnie The Pooh, in Lancelot’s helm. The text below says “I’m not in the book but I’m at your service.”
A backlit, nearly silhouetted photo of a soft lovely vine that has grown up the centre of a signpost to spill over the top and out various holes along its height. The sky behind is still dusky blue, fading to blown-out yellow at the bottom of the image with the setting sun.
A BJD head and body in their Daiso packaging, body is about 5” and the simple body and big head are similar to the Hujoo Nano style.
A quote under a digital illustration of a knife: The hare dismissed his assistants and closed the door. “I have a confession to make.” He lifted his nose up, whiskers twitching. “I am unfulfilled as a scientist.”
A quote under a digital illustration of a knife: “Your life has been super lucky... But then, you had to find me.” Emily gave a crooked smile. “Some of my bad luck must have rubbed off—to balance out all the good luck of having you.”
A photo of a columnar cactus at night, a black silhouette against a muddy light-polluted cloudy deep grey sky. There are a handful of night-blooming flowers visible in the lines of the cactus.
The cover for The Consoling Divide. Shadowy layered trees circle the edges, and a light brown arm holding a sword thrusts up from the bottom of the image, slicing the word "Divide" in half. Next to it is the text "You've done quests before, this will go fine." The words "go fine" are crossed out and "suck" is written below.
A person with their long hair pulled back in a scrunchie looks up at a sculpture hanging from the ceiling. The installation is made from small venetian blinds, and is filled with a gradient of white light from flourescents on the ceiling.
The cover for The Consoling Divide lies on its side, stabbed through with ten swords, like the ten of swords tarot card. This is funny because the cover shows a hand grasping a sword that cuts through the title. The swords are labeled like a trope map: trailer park, magic, quests, ex-chosen one, bunny, wlw, aarne-thompson, swords, portal fantasy, ow.
A closeup of an impressionistic painting of the side of a clapboard house, a fence in the foreground, where three small bipedal dinosaurs are scampering from the corner of the building.
A screencap of texts, showing a photo above a digital painting. Both are of an aquarium environment that has a magnifying glass through which one can see an eel. In the photo it is blurry and not obvious, in the painting it is brighter and more clear.
A brushy and expressive digital painting of a tropical aquarium environment. An oversized magnifying glass built into the front of the tank enlarges the face of a splendid garden eel.
A screenshot of a spreadsheet that, on further inspection, is about categorising and sorting tumblr tags. 69% of the tags are managed, sub categories include "meta" and "animals" and action issues include "fix capitalisation." Scattered notes in cells remind the user to look for uses of "lol" and "ides" and the control vocabulary for things like "the x-files."
A screenshot from the show Dinosaurs, where Roy (a T-rex) is saying "Hey, Earl! Forget the recession, get a load of these new shows."
A photo of a paddle cactus with a genuinely huge bite taken from one of the paddles. The bite looks fresh and is a deeper half-circle than the average human mouth would make but otherwise looks very similar.
A black and white illustration of a frog mascot head with a too-small baseball cap. Behind the head, kind of like on a knights standard, is an oar.
A screencap of the top of PostyBirb, showing 46 scheduled submissions.
The cover for The Consoling Divide. Shadowy layered trees circle the edges, and a light brown arm holding a sword thrusts up from the bottom of the image, slicing the word "Divide" in half.
Picture of Ian Malcom from Jurassic Park, captioned over it is: Your kids were so preoccupied with whether or not they could smuggle nerf darts, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
A picture of a black slide latch lock on a white door. Written in smudged pen below it is "LOCK...." and then an arrow pointing right, where the lock engages.
A black and white illustration of a paper coffee cup in front of a Mobius strip, flying birds in the distance to the left and a pigeon walking on the strip on the right.
A photo of a concrete curb, the dark of the street to the left and dirt to the right. At the top of the image is a very, very tiny opossum, walking along the gutter. 
A black and white illustration of a cat running wheel, floating through it is an illustrative depiction of a whale's digestive system, tip to tail.
A page of digital drawings of a rainbow coffee mug, a 1970s patterned Corelle plate, a small pile of postcards, a box of leftovers in a pushed-down plastic bag. All have overblown highlights and are brushily rendered.
A black and white illustration of, from left to right: Three cups, one spilled, a bow, and a scroll that is partly unscrolled.
A photo of a fantasy calendar page for April, where a blue grey real creeper of a cutie goblin is menacing a woman in a bikini.
A black and white illustration of partly open window blinds, revealing a bird on a branch, distorted by a thin halftone filter.
A few thin blades of grass, one of which is seeding, grow from a narrow crack in the safety tile by a lightrail.
A washed out flash photo of a truly scruggly looking opossum on a cinderblock wall, they're dipping their head over the opposite side, uncaring of the flash.
A hand holding a ticket stub for Bride!, with a very hectic movie theatre carpet in the background.
A photo of a small plushie of a yellow bird (Kiiroitori), leaning one wing on the edge of a very retro looking keyboard.
Nine game covers: Tetris, original LEGO Batman, GTA Vice City, Saints Row The Third, Fallout: New Vegas, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Spelunx, Portal 2, Medievil.
A screencap of a promotional image for a Mister Rogers' Neighborhood binge pass (seven day pass) at Hoopla. The promotional text reads: Celebrate Mister Rogers's birthday—also known as Won't You Be My Neighbor Day—on March 20 with the new Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood BingePass! Get seven days of unlimited access to select episodes from Seasons 21 through 33, all for just one borrow.
A picture of a Unmanned Drone, a sculpture of Stonewall Jackson that has been cut up and reassembled into a roiling mass of defeated forms. This shot focuses on the horse’s nose pushing out from the torn coat, and lets you see down Jackson’s neck hole (?), which is filled with spikes.
A photo looking down to where a wooden fence meets the sidewalk. A sort of portal? Has been cut out of it so that the swell of a palm tree's trunk can bulge out onto the pavement.
The paper is torn to pieces, loosely and with little care.
The thirteenth time Jude tried to leave she told herself a bunch of positive lies in an attempt to amp herself up