Em Fleming 🍁

@emilyflemily.bsky.social

217 Followers 144 Following

Poet, Victorianist, cries easily at movies, general-purpose nerd. Montréalaise. She/her/elle

A person with brown skin in profile, wearing a purple headwrap with gold and pink tiara-shaped embellishment. Emerging from the headwrap are a zillion thin braids in straw-gold, magenta, cyan, and purple. The whole effect is joyous.
I, _____ in the presence of these my mentors and my peers in my CALLING, pledge on my HONOUR and COLD IRON, that to the best of my knowledge and power, I will not tolerate or pass, or participate in the passing of, BAD WORKMANSHIP or FAULTY MATERIAL in all that concerns my works as an ENGINEER, or in my dealings with my own conscience, before the WORLD. My TIME I will offer freely; my THOUGHT I will openly share; my CARE I will fully apply, towards the honour, use, stability and perfection of any works to which I may be called to set my hand. My fair WAGES for that work I will openly take. My REPUTATION in my CALLING I will honourably guard; but I will not attempt to manipulate, obscure judgement or seek personal gain from anyone with whom I may deal. And further, I will diligently strive against professional jealousy or the belittling of my working colleagues, in any field of their labour. For my assured failures and derelictions, I ask pardon beforehand of my mentors and my peers in my CALLING here assembled; believing that in the hour of my temptations, weakness and weariness, the memory of this, my OBLIGATION, and of the company before whom it was declared, may return to me to aid, comfort and restrain.
A beaming woman drenched in sunshine h9lds up a cup of sorbet
Selfie of a smiling woman in front of a restaurant window, through which the Switzerland/Colombia game is juuujst visible
Image courtesy of Wikipedia showing a cross-section of a circuitous cave system with names like "Superman's Crawl" that frankly undersell the sheer level of nope.
A selfie of a white woman with green hair and a similar-looking older man. The backdrop is a giant Ivory Coast flag and the Toronto World Cup stadium, filled to capacity on a glorious summer day.
A cooper's hawk
A parking lot with a grocery store in the distance. A space is painted Sabres blue and lettered "reservé aux fans de Buffalo".
Woman hiding face behind a blanket
A big square of white paper about two and a half feet by two and a half feet, with "Happy birthday Auntie Em" painted on it. In the top right corner is a symphony of colourful squiggles and smears of paint. In the middle below the lettering is a very precise rainbow. There are also a lot of stickers.
Extremely skillful and perfect rendition of a rocketship in duplo form
A duplo rocketship, with a red nose cone and mismatched fuel tanks. It sits on top of a slender pink pillar that in turn is attached to an irregular blob of bricks.
Two white men in approximately their thirties in a sports stadium crowd. They are both standing and wearing Canadian Mountie costumes from the "Sexy Halloween Mountie" collection - knee-high red socks, glittery black hot pants showing an expanse of pale thigh, and red coats made of sequins rather than the famous serge. The hats are uniform standard, and they are wearing aviator sunglasses. A Tim Hortons cup (equally bedazzled) hangs where usually a mountie would have a holster. One of them is looking offscreen, mid-disco move. The other is looking straight at the camera with a "what are you going to do" smile on his face.
A galvaude poutine on a blue placemat. Savoury sauce is dripping down over the chicken and peas onto dark golden fries and fresh cheese curds. In the background, the Olympic curling is on the tv.
A pot full of golden liquid, full of chunks of potato, chicken, carrots, and onion, speckled with green herbs. It looks yummy.
A red square with the name Barb, captioned with "pilot" and "I thought I was innocent, but I always mix up innocents and criminals".
A pie in a glass pie dish on a stovetop. The crust is golden and shiny, and you can see chunks of apple through the slits in the top.
A decorated Christmas tree in front of a window that looks over snowy rooftops below a blue sky. There are wrapped presents underneath it.
Screenshot of a text conversation. Christ, Em - it looks like the device that caused the untimely death of King Edward II ! I know! Isn't it great
A red metal device with several sharp blades, a long screw with spikes on thr end, and a handle!
An arch-shaped gift wrapped in holly-themed wrapping paper.
A detail from an orange-y clay bottle, showing a guinea fowl with a dopey expression.
Five men, aged 27 to 80, with a variety of body shapes, mid striptease. They are wearing security guard hats, black pants, spray tans, and triumphant expressions.
A view of a red maple with scarlet leaves contrasting against a blue sky.
A chrome door inside an elevator, upon which some optimistic soul has taped a handwritten sign reading "please stop hot-boxing in the elevator." Below this text, others have inscribed "nah," "fuck," and a scribbled cartoon of a hand with its middle finger raised.
A front view of a carved wooden statue of a female saint, prettily painted and gilded. She has a badass semicircular headdress in the same colours as her very fancy dress and is reading a book.
A map showing that the current antipode of the Yucatan peninsula is in the Indian ocean south of Sri Lanka at the approximate latitude of Madagascar.
Dr. Jane Goodall at the Fauna Foundation in Chambly, QC, from behind, meeting with a chimpanzee in a huge, leafy enclosure with lots of interesting things in it.
A living room wall featuring a tall bookcase and three Kallax units, one of which is empty and clearly recently installed. The bookshelves fit into the space as though the room had been built with them in mind.
A bowl containing very old whipped cream, covered in swirls of an indigo mould or bacterium.
Text: The main part of Christianity is accepting Jesus as your Savior and Lord. You can do this by placing faith in Him. This means you believe that He died for your sins, was buried, and rose again (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). If you believe this, you are given forgiveness of sins, salvation, and eternal life. It is important to note here that salvation isn't achieved by anything you do.
A white lady of a certain age wearing glasses and a raincoat, standing in a barn. Her arms are outstretched like the letter T. There is a very content-looking chicken on each arm, and another atop her head. She is smiling.
A middle-aged white couple standing on a welcome mat in front of a front door on a brick house. On the door is a big sign coloured with wax crayons reading "welcome home Mum and Dad". They are making proud faces at the camera and giving a thumbs-up.
A selfie of a smiling white woman wkth long brown hair and glasses in a plasma donation setup.
A selfie of a smiling white woman with dark hair and glasses, wearing a hockey sweater. In the background is the ice rink and stands of Montreal's Centre Bell, above which hang banners honouring past great players and championships. On the Jumbotron above centre ice is the crest of the Montreal Victoire hockey team.
A screenshot of an image search showing the photograph of Zelensky used in 2022 on a variety of newspaper websites and Encyclopedia Britannica.
A picture of a sliding door with snowdrifts outside. The snow is drifting such that one pane of the door only has a small triangle clear.
A selfie of a smiling woman in a blood donation recliner. There is a sticker on her shirt with the number 3 on it.
A black and white image of a mangled, but intact, picture book titled "Rhyme with me".
A screenshot from the Canadian Kobo app showing that THE CALCULATING STARS by Mary Robinette Kowal is on sale for $2.99 Canadian.
Screenshot of the Bluesky image upload screen.
A slightly askew view of a set dinner table. In front of a red bowl of salad is a homemade cheese and onion quiche. It looks frankly delicious.
A child's painting on a square canvas. The central figure is a brown humanoid shape with extra brown dots highlighting the shoulders and elbows because those are important. The gingerbread man has two ochre buttons, two black eyes, a purple nose, and a red dot for a mouth. The surrounding canvas is a symphony of dots, streaks, handprints, and the letter F in a variety of colours, but mostly purple, hot p9nk, and vivid turquoise.
A cut glass bowl containing British style trifle - layers of orange jelly, custard, and whipped cream, with a colourful pattern of red and green glace cherries on top.
A view from the uppermost balcony of a concert hall. On the stage is a symphony orchestra warming up. Behind them the huge pipes of an organ take up the top half of the back wall, obscured somewhat by catwalks and lighting. The hall itself is all lined in smooth amber wood that almost glows with warmth. It's like being inside an enormous instrument.
A smiling white woman with long brown hair, with a Hema-Quebec sticker on her shirt. The sticker has the number 2 flanked by two red hearts.
Two blue plastic bowls sitting on a carpeted interior staircase. One is full of gummy candies and the other is full of chocolate bars.
A screenshot of the opening page of SPACE ODDITY by Catherynne M. Valente
A view from a fourth-floor balcony looking west toward a sunset. The sky shades from bright orange to pale blue, with dramatic dark grey clouds edged in fiery pink.
A screenshot from discord reading: Can also confirm, for anyone on the fence, that Em's games are fun, friendly, and very accessible to those with limited or no RPG experience. It's a great low stress way to try it out and see what the fuss is about.
A black and white image of a mother and small boy. She is wearing a long black coat and he has short pants, a short coat, and a boater hat. The picture is captioned "Uncle Stuart with Gran, 1919"
A bowl of delicious butter chicken, with an artful swirl of cream. In the background, a little out of focus, a plate full of naan.
A selfie of beaming white woman in her forties, wearing a dark green dress and seated in an auditorium. She is wearing a really cool hair doodad with dangling charms.
Spraypainted graffiti on a grey wall. In black paint, someone has written 'Love you.' Blue paint in a different handwriting extends the message to read 'Love your city without Nazis.'
A selfie of a white woman with dark hair and glassws in the Long Room at Trinity College's library. The walls are lined with bays of shelves in a dark wood, with white marble busts of various notables between each bay. A six-metre-wide art installation of the Earth hangs in the empty space in the middle of the room.
A view from an old stone bridge over a very calm brown river. On the left bank of the river is a bright yellow building with a roind wooden sign declaring it to be Purty Nelly's Pub, est. 1620s. Behind the pub is a bailey castle flying the Irish flag.
A view of the top of a hill composed of yellow-orange rubble, all jagged rocks and drifts of small stone. There are occasional scrappy shrubs of heather. At the top of the hill is a stumpy stone tower with its top missing.