Cara 🏳️‍🌈

@caragaffney.com

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she/her. AriadneArca in some places. Award organiser @SelkieAwards.org. Art, writing, comics! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Comments from the app: Aster chose Lileep - 1 minute ago Crinoids have always fascinated me- when i was young i had a fossil of a crinoid stem that i would carry around for good luck :] it may not be the "most" in categories people typically look for in pokemon, but itll always be #1 in my heart Cz chose Absol - 1 minute ago Its seen as a bad guy but still tries its best to help out Ian chose Houndoom - 1 minute ago good devil dog. friend to all.
A screenshot of the seven unclaimed Pokémon. I'm so bad at IDing Pokémon now that I can only guess half of these, but these are the numbers: #525, #734, #846, #913, #919, #951, #986
The same photo as in the quoted post, except this time a box has been edited around the rooster with the label "Live Rooster Reaction"
Two brides hold hands and gaze at one another in front of a farmhouse with festoon lighting. We've just seen each other for the first time in our wedding dresses and are having some emotions about it. We're holding crochet bouquets in trans colours. A rooster standing on a bench nearby glances over his shoulder at us judgementally.
A rose-ringed parakeet (a beautiful bright green bird) perching on a branch
Despite wider declining trends, comics and graphic novels have remained unusually buoyant in popularity with print reading of comics dipping only slightly since 2017 (32.2% vs 29.2% in 2025); the shallowest decline of any reading material monitored. Their translation to digital form has proven successful with readers too; while most other forms of reading on screen have stagnated or fallen, comics have bucked the trend with digital reading rates increasing over the last seven years (13.8% in 2017/18 to 14.3% in 2025).
A photo of a closed hardback book, spine down, pages up. A hand holds the pages of the first 1/3rd of the book together between thumb and forefinger.
A Place Further than the Universe screenshot: Kimari holds out a laptop to Shirase
A woman dressed in musketeer-like cothing cleans her rapier of blood with a cloth, expression close to a pout, if pouting were ladylike. She sits on a stool, has a sheet hung up between two trees behind her, and an artfully placed rose with discarded petals by her feet, suggesting she was in the middle of getting her portrait taken. There's spots of blood on her shirt and trousers, and a big splash of it against the sheet backdrop. Just poking out behind the sheet are two boots, with dried blood spattered next to them.
A young woman runs to a stile over a stone fence, scales it, and looks surprised by what she sees on the other side
Masumi of The Power Fantasy looks back at the viewer, confused at the interruption, shortly after painting "Spoilers Below" on a wall
A tweet from @AriadneArca reading: 'On this webcomicday I want to shout out the noble art of the abandoned first attempt longform webcomic', accompanied by a meme of a used car salesman saying 'this bad boy can fit so much artistic development/self discovery in it' and slapping a car labelled 'abandoned first webcomic'
A screenshot taken from the final level of Sayonara Wild Hearts, from the sequence immediately after the Eye is defeated
A picture of me in the protagonist's spacesuit, holding a sign saying "spoilers below"
Phot of Anas Sawar. Text: We can use our ties with Trump to make Scotland greater again The SNP is obsessed with identity politics and treat this country’s economy as an afterthought Anas Sarwar Saturday April 05 2025, 6.00pm, The Sunday Times Few countries share as deep and enduring a bond as Scotland and the United States. From the very founding of [image cuts off]
A coal tit with an identification ring around its leg, perched on a box bird feeder and looking over its shoulder cautiously
A very fat-looking chaffinch, looking off to the side, sitting on a lichen-covered branch
A fluffy Zigzagoon lies in a sunbeam, looking up at the camera, rolled on its side as if inviting tummy rubs (or baiting a hand within biting distance)
Rin, an Au Ra from FFXIV, glowering
A wind map of Storm Eowyn. The eye of the storm is fixed over Stornoway, which is represented in calm blue (0-10mph). Directly south, the wind is dark purple over the North Channel (~70-100mph), fading to pink as it hits the Scottish west coast and passes over Glasgow (~50-70mph), yellow as it circles up to Dundee (~40-50mph), and then green as it curves towards Elgin and Inverness (~20-35pmh).
A photo of the character Vinyl from the game Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, wearing skates and grinding a rail.
A wintry scene at sunset. The sun sets behind a hill, silhouetting it in a violent shade of red-pink, a stark contrast against the dark grey of the clouds. A slight mist sits over the darkened, snowy countryside and the bare trees, and a frozen steam gives a pale reflection of the sky above.
Rin, an Au Ra from Final Fantasy 14, sits on the ground, resting an arm on one knee. She's smiling slightly at something off-camera.
A sachet of Teapigs' "Calm" tea
Photos of five different knitted clowns, from Jean Greenhowe Designs: "Sidney Slapstick", a handyman painter; "Godfrey Gadabout", a tourist; "O. Yummy", a chef; "Mr Fortywinks", wearing pyjamas, and "Bertie Bloomer", a gardener.
Image showing the Create Adobe PDF option as described above
A screenshot from a Microsoft Word 'File' screen. The option "Save as Adobe PDF" has been selected, which has brought up the following popup alert: "Save this document to convert it to PDF: You can create 1 PDF for free every 30 days on a rolling basis. For unlimited access to create, export, and edit tools, try Acrobat Pro." The options for the popup are "Try Acrobat Pro" and "Save and convert to PDF".
Roegadyn Warrior of Light Ania Straka, dressed up in a long red jacket, waist-high navy trousers and a pink-and-red striped shirt that is unbuttoned to the waist.
Zero and Y'shtola from Final Fantasy 14 imitate the famous Utena sword-drawing scene. Y'shtola is draped over Zero's right arm in an apparent swoon. Zero, her left arm extended and cape billowing behind her, is focused on a blinding circle of light glowing above Y'shtola's breast.
A red squirrel perches on a branch, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. She holds a black dog whistle in hand (it's about half the size of her), wears a cape, and has a large tube on her back that carries her maps.
Facebook notification: "It's been a while since you posted. Create a post to help connect with your audience", the kind that a harried award convenor might see upon logging in to finally announce shortlists
A screenshot of Mega Mawile and my trainer avatar from Pokémon Go
A list of birds spotted in Wales: Great Spotted Woodpecker, Gray Wagtail, Canada Goose, White-throated Dipper, European Stonechat, Red Kite, Ring-necked Pheasant
A screenshot from Merlin app featuring a photo of a rose-ringed parakeet. Text: "Observation saved! You've seen this bird 3 times." The location is given as "Home" and the date is 5 October 2024.
A life list from the Merlin birding app, including: Common Redshank, Great Black-backed Gull, Hooded Crow, Common Merganser, Black-headed Gull, Eurasian Oystercatcher
Text: I spent ££££ on a new PC for Endwalker and then SMASHED MY PHONE AGAIN Image: A smashed mobile phone Text: And my washing machine broke~! Image: A semi translucent image of the artist setting money on fire and weeping
TEXT: In Lilac and Silver by Cara Gaffney IMAGE: A middle aged woman sits with her eyes closed and arms crossed, overlaid by a transparent image of her as an old woman in the same position.
A Roegadyn gunbreaker stands in the woods of Holminster Switch, gunblade out, her foot resting atop the Forgiven Folly she has just slain. She's holding its severed stinger in her hand. She looks up at the canopy, light coming through the trees, stray feathers drifting down from somewhere above.
A screenshot from Pokemon Go, showing a glitched Pokedex entry. Its 3D model shows a fused shiny Espurr and Meowstic. Below that is listed the 10 Furfrou trim styles. The number and name is given as 025 CHARIZARD, with Charizard's stats cut off at the bottom of the screenshot.
Ania Straka, a Roegadyn woman, and Rin Khatayin, an Au Ra, lean into one another in an embrace. Ania's arms encircle Rin, who has both her arms wrapped around Ania's right.
Two FFXIV Ancients stand back-to-back on an indistinct, purplish background, their masks attached to the front of their robes. One is Emet Selch, looking up at the camera with an unimpressed expression, arms folded. The second, Azem, stands with her back to him, looking up at the camera with a slight, knowing smile. Her face is similar to his, and she shares his golden eyes, but she has short, curly, dark purple hair instead of white. Her mask is black, with a dark mauve shine to it, trimmed in gold.
Four comic thumbnails for the comic "In Lilac and Silver". The characters are very simplified and there are few background details, but the figures and speech bubbles are very clear. One section uses a coloured pen to further pick out linked panels.
A Pokemon Go postcard with a sticker of a Delibird, featuring a photo of a golden cow statue. Text: Publika Golden Cow, Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
A Pokemon Go postcard with a sticker of a Phantump attached, featuring a photo of the abandoned Glasgow Botanics station. Text: "Botanic Gardens Station, Scotland, United Kingdom"
Photo of me at my comics stall, with copies of Wellheart, Fault Lines and Tilt: Six Tales on the table
A shiny Phantump, with silver wood, blue eyes, and red-orange leaves, looks around as if startled. Behind it, in black and white, is a grave that a tree has grown over, its trunk overlapping with and cracking the gravestone.
A bust of Luna-Terra from Heaven Will Be Mine. Her fringe cases a shadow across her face, and she has a crooked, resigned half-smile on her face.
Zero and Y'shtola from Final Fantasy 14 imitate the famous Utena sword-drawing scene. Y'shtola is draped over Zero's right arm in an apparent swoon. Zero, her left arm extended and cape billowing behind her, is focused on a blinding circle of light glowing above Y'shtola's breast.
A woman in a trenchant, with curly black hair and a long nose. She has her left hand out, lightly curled in a fist. Smoke, or mist, emanates from the fist, and resolves into a cloud of moths, who flutter around her shoulders.
A Cacnea from Pokemon sits in a red-pink bowl with various succulents. It has happy eyes and a smile, and instead of a crown shape it has a yellow cactus flower on its head. Some of the succulents include haworthia, jade plant, graptoveria, and lithops.