MissHalcyon

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Autistic student, writer, mycology nerd, etc! My account is 50% my special interests and 50% Autistic advocacy. Writer for theautisticadult.org Missy | 29 | she/her

It's a banner of a blue sky with occasional clouds. There is a QR code in blue at the top that leads to our "about me" website for the zine. There are colorful bubbles throughout the blue sky. The text says, "Y2(are you o)K" in normal white text, but "ZINE" in bubbly balloon letters. Below that, it says "July 18 deadline."
A hand holds an embroidery hoop made out of plastic. Within the hoop is a bright blue fabric. Embroidered on the fabric is a snowy mountain made up of 4 different colors. In front of it are rolling green hills of 1 dark green color. In the foreground a grass is being embroidered that is many multiples of colors. In the background a keyboard and a monitor are barely visible, as well as many knick knacks underneath the monitor.
It's a picture of a section of a tall immature oak tree. The tree looks swarmed by about a dozen galls. They are light brown in color and round, like a kiwi. They look almost like someone stuck them to the tree.
It's someone holding up a postcard to the camera. The background of the postcard is a Pantone color, "Coral Haze," which is basically some sort of skin tone. Someone has drawn over top of the beige color a handsome cowboy. He's holding up a mushroom, which looks to be some sort of amanita judging by the skirt around the stem and the scales on top. So cool!
It's a close-up portrait picture of a flower, a Fortnight Lilly. There are several of the same flowers that are blurry in the background, and you can see some pavement and dirt visible from the top-down angle of the photo. The flower itself is white with 6 petals, 3 of the petals having yellow and purple accents.
It's a gif flyer, with a zebra fish in the middle in rainbow colors. The background is very frutiger aero, with water splashing and a vibrant blue sky. The flyer describes that submissions open June 18th and end July 16th. The flyer also says that the theme is cyberspace, that there are 2 entries allowable per person (1 writing and 1 visual art), and many different genres are described (e.g. essays, photos, journal entries, comic illustrations, comics... and more!) AI descriptions are also mentioned as being automatically rejected.
A white hand holds up an embroidery hoop in front of a background of various postcards and fake ivy on the wall. In the embroidery hoop there is white fabric with many leaves and flowers embroidered around negative space. The negative space spells out the letter "M."
It's a zoomed-in photo of a sheet of vintage stamps. They each depict 2 whooping cranes with 2 of their babies. The whooping cranes are white while their babies are orange, and the green beneath them is green. It says US postage 3 cents, and at the top they each say wildlife conservation.
It's a picture of a strawberry plant in a blue pot. The light is very intense, so the strawberry looks like it's almost glowing red. The green of its leaves are pretty vibrant too. The blue color of the pot is a calm, dark background.
A white hand holds up a plastic embroidery hoop. In the background you can see a bed with a pink patterned blanket and purple pillows. On the walls you can see several posters and fake ivy pinned up. On the ceiling there is a tapestry hanging. In the hoop that the person is holding is embroidered the words "you're a badass" within a wreath of flowers that look like roses.
Some white fabric has multicolored stitches imitating flowers and leaves on it. The leaves are various shades of green, while there is one white daisy-looking flower and several pink and red petals that look similar to tulips. The guide on the fabric outlines an M, and the flowers surround that shape.
A white hand holds up an embroidery hoop, and within the hoop is a depiction of a landscape with rolling green and teal hills, trees, and mountains in the distance. Birds are seen flying over the center mountain, and a sun and a cloud are visible. Outside of the embroidery, the background is a plant with long glossy green leaves.
A white hand holds an array of decorated postcards. The top two are Pantone postcards, each displaying a different color. The top postcard is called "Sunshine" as Pantone 12-0727, and I have decorated it with various stickers matching its bright yellow color. There is a cat on a pool floatie, a yellow butterfly, kiwis, etc. I am holding the postcards over a USPS postal box. Grass is visible in the lower left corner.
It's a close-up of a half-finished embroidery hoop. It shows a scene of grey mountains, a yellow sun, and a blue cloud in the background, and trees in the foreground. The trees are the French knot stitch, and everything else is the satin stitch-- except for the beginnings of a pond in the very foreground, which is the long-and-short stitch in teal.
A semi-stormy sky is visible outside of a window. A fir tree is visible peaking up over a rooftop. The entire scene is very grey and bleak, except for some sunlight playing on some of the clouds, making them a nice welcoming white. There's lots of texture among the clouds.
A white hand holds up an embroidery hoop. Embroidered on the white/beige fabric within the hoop is a wreath of strawberries, pink buds, and white flowers, along with varying shades of green leaves. In the background, the scene is chaotic: a messy bed, several posters and items hung up on the walls.
It's the cover and first page of our digital zine. On the left, it has the title, a brief description, several blingees, and lots of imagery of this era. The imagery includes two old computers and a CD player. There is a banner that says "SUMMER 2001" along with sparkles. The title says "y2(are you o)k" and below that it says "a 1900s and 2000s zine: the y2k zeitgeist." On the right page it is EXTREMELY hard to read with teal text on a blue background. It has a graphic that says "wow" at the top. It says "y2(are you o)k issue #1" and below that information about the editors, such as Missy being the editor-in-chief, Sleepy being the Creative Director and an Editor, and Jem being the Circulation Director and an Editor. There are also credits to other websites where their resources were used.
A white hand holds up a copy of "The Backyard Bird Chronicles" by Amy Tan over a few lily plants. The background is green leaves. The cover of the book has 4 drawings of birds on it.
It's a picture of a hand holding an embroidery hoop of Starry Night in front of a tapestry of Starry Night. The tapestry is on the ceiling, so the photographer is laying on a bed below it, holding up the hoop. In the background there are fake ivy strands along the walls and ceiling. There are also indistinguishable art postcards along the wall here and there.
It's a pale green solid-color background, over the top it says "Autistic Traits I assumed I didn't experience as I Interpreted them Literally."
Growing on a bed of vibrant green grass is a somewhat old-looking (due to the wavy shape of the cap) brown mushroom. The gills are visible and they are looking slightly old and damaged as well. The stem is a lighter shade of beige, and the mushroom has thin edges to its cap.
A small grey mushroom (about the size of a thumb) grows on a bed of moss, surrounded by fallen leaves. The leaves are brown and the moss is a vibrant shade of green. The mushroom itself looks almost blanched-- it's a very sickly shade of grey.
It's a picture of an embroidery hoop. Inside, "starry night" by Vincent Van Gogh is painted with thread. You can see the little town in the bottom right, the column of black to the left, and many stars at the top. There is a blank space in the middle where the hoop has yet to be completed.
A white woman with large, rectangular black glasses, short brown hair, and brown eyes smiles into the camera. She is holding the phone with one hand and making a peace sign with the other. She is wearing a green sweatshirt and a blue beanie.
It's a picture of some fir trees at dusk, with a light blue sky behind. The sun is making the fir branches appear a bright orange-red color in the light, and there are contrasting dark shadows of branches behind.
A black kitty with a short tail and a collar sits in the bottom left corner, as if observing the beautiful sunlight playing on leaves in the rightside of the image. There is a bed of English Ivy on the ground next to the kitty, and there is a concrete pathway next to them that leads to several fenced-off houses.
The background is a bed of mess, grass, fallen leaves, and dirt. In front of this a white hand with sparkly pink nail polish holds an upside down mushroom. Its pure white stem is visible, as well as its white gills and pale pink color of the cap.
In a creek with muddy, brown water surrounded on both sides by yellowing underbrush, there stands a Great Egret. its body is slender and practically glowing white, and its beak is also thin and a pale yellow color.
On a bed of grass and fallen leaves, you can spot a tiny white round shape that indicates a mushroom cap.
It's a full sheet of Russian mushroom stamps on a blue deskmat background. The corners of the stamp sheet are decorated with Amanaita Muscaria in the bottom right, and with autumn leaves in the top left. There are 5 stamps, each depicting a different species.
A white hand with grey nail polish on the thumb holds up a Kobo e-reader that is also white. On the screen is displayed "Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures" by Merlin Sheldrake. In the background is a walking path surrounded by tree canopies. The ground is covered with dead leaves and yellowed dead grass.
It's an embroidery hoop on a desk mat that has a watery effect to it. The hoop is a similar color of teal and navy blue. There are many white flowers and green leaves embroidered on the hoop, along with two blue birds.
It's a picture of a first page of the "Backyard Bird Chronicles" book. The page says the title on top, and below that is a signature that says "Amy Tan."
An embroidery hoop sits on a desk mat. A white hand at the bottom left is touching the embroidery hoop-- all of the fingers have painted nails except for the pointer finger. The desk mat is printed to mimic the surface of water. The embroidery hoop is dark blue and light blue, increasing in lightness from left to right. There are white flowers stitched, as well as several green leaves, and two birds sitting on a branch are halfway done. The embroidery hoop seems to be overall about halfway done too.
A white hand holds up an embroidery hoop. The fabric depicts two birds sitting on a branch surrounded by white flowers. Only some of it is sewn in. In the background we can see miscellaneous desk objects-- a keyboard, a bunch of pens, a ceramic cat sitting on a mushroom, etc.
A white hand holds up many sheets of stamps like someone holding a hand of cards. They're feathered out so you can see the stamps and titles on as many of them as possible. In the background you can see fake ivy climbing around the windowsill, Van Gogh's Starry Nights on the ceiling, a Van Gogh exhibition poster, several paint-by-numbers tacked on the wall, and various other knick-knacks in this white-walled room.
It's a screenshot of the Y2(are you o)k website. There's a black starry background, and in front of that are several Blinkees. The top one is a comet next to the words "submissions open!" The second says "submissions open!" too but in a pixelated rainbow color. The third says "submissions open" as well, but over a teal background next to a rubber duck.
It's a pink and orange rose on a vibrant green stem, and its leaves are touched with dew. It's very pretty! In the background we can see a beige wall and dirt.
A white woman smiles at the camera. She's making a peace sign with her hand. She's wearing a bright yellow cardigan, a blue dress with daises on it, and a sword necklace. She's wearing generic black glasses that are rectangular-ish. Her hair is dark brown. She appears to be in a standard office setting.
A picture of a white hand with powder-blue painted nails. The background is very chaotic-- we can see an open window surrounded by fake ivy vines. We can see a Van Gogh poster. We can see a big pile of postcards, and a mug that says "Life is Relentless" with a crab smoking a cigarette. We can see various posters and postcards pinned on the wall. We can also see a plastic mushroom container holding paint-by-number paints.
It's an irregularly shaped mushroom cap views from the side. The mushroom is a very light shade of brown, and very cracked. In the background another mushroom is visible, but mostly just many green grass leaves.
It's a website made to look like an early 90s website. It says "For Gen X and Millennials, the Y2K zeitgeist was ours. They were the days of youth and splendor, and it's been a while now -- how are you doing? Are you y2(o)k? Texts were 10¢ a pop. We squeezed our eyes shut and wrote entire novels in T9. Lady Di's revenge dress shook our world. We saw the cancellation of the 1994 World Series. Disney was in the midst of its Renaissance. We had hoardish collections of cassettes, CDs, VHS tapes, DVDs. Hours and days were spent perfecting our countless Internet profiles. Sleepless nights were spent on AIM, Yahoo!, and MSN messengers. We approached the massive omelet... ... and managed to take a slice!!! We read books not for self-fulfillment, but for Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas. We jammed our Trapper Keepers into our Jansport backpacks. Our JNCOs slogged when it rained and we never mastered our Heelys. We lived, loved, and drove by the Thomas Guide. Every sleepover necessitated a trip to Blockbuster (or Hollywood Video -- we won't judge). We played Nintendo, removed ladders from swimming pools, sent amusement park guests to their doom, and took excellent care (yes?) of our Neopets and Tamagotchis. We asked Jeeves, then Google. We haunted Internet forums and messaging boards. The dial-up's canticle promised the world at our fingertips. Then the world ended on January 1, 2000.​​​"
It's a picture of a corner of an apartment's living room. In the foreground there is a beige or grey couch, and on the couch is a kitty. The cat is peering over the arm of the couch at the photographer. He is sitting on a blanket patterned with green. In the background there are posters, a lamp, and several cat toys. A sliver of the window is visible.
It's a screenshot of a Windows XP desktop made into a flyer. There is the classic "Bliss" photo in the background, and in front of that a black website. On the website it has "y2areyouok.wixsite.com/how-r-u" listed as the destination. It says "Zine seeking submissions!!" with many exclamation marks. Beneath that it says "y2(are you o)k" and "We are a y2k zine. We are open for submissions. Send us writing. Send us art. No submission limit wow!!!! :)" There are two QR codes, one for the website and one for the submission form. It also says that submissions close July 28th. There are several nostalgic graphics as well, that are reminiscent of the 90's and 00's.
A picture taken on a wooden bridge. We can see several trees, one of them a willow, and pieces of blue sky between their branches. There is a dry creekbed covered with plants and grass. Everything is a soft, dark green or an electric lime green in the sunlight.
This is a selfie of a white woman. She's dressed in hiking gear-- a t-shirt, a backpack, a dad hat, earphones-- and she's making a peace sign at the camera with her right hand. She's smiling at the camera. The background appears to be very nature-y.
A mosaic of 4 different sheets of stamps. The one on the left are the "Goodnight Moon" stamps, in the middle are "Native American Powwow" stamps, and to the right are animals in a very blocky style stamps and "thank you" in gold foil stamps.
A white hand holds up an orange mushroom. The gills on the underside are exposed, and you can see some white spores near the gills. The gills appear to be either broadly attached to the stem, or running down the stem. In the background there are various plants over dead leaves.
A circular white patch in the green grass is all that gives this mushroom away as being a mushroom.
A screenshot of the "Merlin: Cornell Birding" app. On the screen there is a recorder at the top, and beneath that are several birds already listed. They include: Oak Titmouse, American Crow, Violet-Green Swallow, Song Sparrow, and Brown-Headed Cowbird.
It's a question on the GRE. It says "Quantity A" and a to b power, to the c power. Then it says Quanity B and a to the c power, to the b power. Then the answer choices are: quantity A is bigger, quantity b is bigger, they're equal, the relationship cannot be determined from the relationship given.
It's a screenshot of the Punctum Books website, where we can see "Teaching Myself to See" is up for sale for $20 print, or free for a pdf. The description describes "Tito's struggle to participate in a world full of visual details."
It's a segment of a spreadsheet in a screenshot. The first column has a name, "Missy." The second column has helpful motivational reminders. The third column has 5 tasks to help Missy get her GRE studying done. The fourth column has percentage of each task completed. Further to the right, there are more columns for each day going forward and whether or not Missy completed the tasks.
A white hand holds up a postcard-size canvas that is semi-transparent. On the front, there are several pink-capped mushrooms drawn over an orange background. The stems are white. On the backside of the postcard you can faintly see writing and stamps. In the background of the postcard are fake ivy plants growing around a window. A bright blue sky is visible beyond them. You can also see a cat statue sitting on the windowsill. At the very top left, there is a sign that says "Attract what you expect."
On a desk mat that's colored to look like the surface of water, a kobo e-reader is laid flat so you can see the screen. The screen is on page 6 of a book. At the top it says "introduction." Underneath that it says: "Over a million different types of organisms exist in a world as large as ours. While man is fully aware of a few of these organisms, many remain undisocvered in the wild. However, due to the progression of science, man has been able to narrow down the list of undiscovered organisms in the ecosystem. Therefore, it's only a matter of time before we become fully acquainted with the environment. A major organism that has truly caused a ruckus over the past centuries is the fungi mushroom."
In the foreground there is a blooming white rosebush. There are about half a dozen roses, some in the shade and some in the light. They look heavenly. In the flurry background we can see more rosebushes, one pink and another white. Everything is surrounded by dirt, and to the right we can see the edge of a building.