Rai

@raiwcole.com

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Multi-tool writer | Aging gamer | Artist (fibers, pixels, paints) | motley Druid Mt Olympus USA | 80s kid | any pronoun

A puppy with short, chestnut fur and pale green eyes falls asleep on the couch. One of his large pointed ears is standing straight up, while the other is half-cocked.
A puppy with short copper fur sleeps on a couch, with a bright pink ball between his feet.
A cement turtle, weathered and covered in moss, sits on a shady rock ledge. Pebbles are stacked on its back, and a patch of twinflowers is growing up the ledge.
A very large, long-haired, gray striped cat sleeps peacefully in an office chair.
in the background, a large gray Maine Coon has claimed a fleecy white dog bed. In the foreground, a Boxer-mutt rests her sweet pouting face in my hand.
In the foreground, a large gray Maine Coon cat sleeps in a fleecy white dog bed. In the background, in an identical bed, a brown and black Boxer-mutt silently endures the worst injustice she has ever experienced.
The top of my ikea bookshelf currently hosts two different Jolteon plushies, a “vintage” Dark Jolteon card, and a newly-arrived Chinese Jolteon TCG gift box.
A thick stand of long, thin grass blades (Xerophyllum tenax), with 12 spires of white flowers beginning to open.
A Lophocampa argentata caterpillar (silver-spotted tiger moth) slowly nibbles the needles of a Douglas fir branch down to nubbins.
Mattie, a Boxer mix, relaxes on the sidewalk in a patch of sun.
A newly-emerged Isabella tiger moth from underneath as it clings to the clear terrarium wall
A small terrarium in the shape of a house with three gables. It contains soil, several twigs, assorted leaves and needles, as well as three cocoons and a stray caterpillar.
Smooth, pale brown mushrooms with thin flat caps crowd a rotting log.
A stand of tall Oplopanax horridus bristling with spikes and crowned with large, flat leaves. A few are beginning to create puffy spires of flowers.
Carefully holding a dried stem bristling with long, very sharp spines.
A Townsend’s chipmunk holds very still on the branch of a vine maple.
A rent insect husk clings to the stem of a shrub.
A screenshot of an act 3 boss fight in Slay the Spire 2.
A red maple with bare branches and several buds of new leaves.
A large gray Maine Coon stands next to the kitchen counter.
Ronin, a nearly full grown Maine Coon cat, sits beside Lily, a small Ragdoll cat. He is easily 3 times her size.
Mattie, my boxer mix, sits and stares up the trunk of a western redcedar, where a fat gray squirrel is eating birdseed.
Looking into a crockpot through its glass lid—a big piece of chuck is going to turn into a beautiful roast butterfly with the help of its carrot and onion friends.
A bare red vine maple stands over a yard filled with red maple leaves.
A white cat with rosy gray ears and face curls up under a crocheted wool blanket.
An illustration of my dad, a very hirsute and surprisingly bald older gentleman with a prodigious mustache. He is dressed and posed like an old boxer, squaring off with an apple tree sapling. The text says “KEN ORCHARDS HARD APPLE CIDER. K.O. IN A BOTTLE”
A spotted towhee emerges from behind a sword fern and a concrete step. He glances at me and hops out of frame.
A text exchange. Me: Who seeded these brackets. This is a bloodbath. Dada: They’re randomly generated. Poor Thunder!
Text: Spokane Valley Fire Department presents MUSTACHE MANIA ‘25. Ken “Hair Only There” Witter VS Thunder “Stormy McWhirlwind” Wellhausen. Image: A man in his 60s with a bald head and thick iron-gray mustache (Ken “Hair Only There” Witter) raises his fists opposite a younger man with a cap and a thin dark mustache who is also ready to brawl.
Styled after the “Zohran for New York City” logo, the phrase “You cannot kill me in a way that matters”
Two large fly agaric mushrooms erupt from thin, roadside soil. They have thick white stalks and round, ruby-red caps dotted with nubby white “warts.”
Two orange mushroom caps in a bed of wet mulch. They are the color of a sunset and dotted with white nubby “warts.”
The view from my room, looking through our sliding doors. Rain pounds the red deck. The cedar is dropping orange branchlets. The lighting gives “4:30 pm” but I took this at noon.
A screenshot of the “AI Racists” blocklist on Bluesky, which includes my account.
A brown dog with floppy ears and a white chest peeks from around the corner of the house.
E: Tf does tht mean Me: Big Bunny is a Latin trap musician Me: in that picture E: It’s Bad Bunny E: That’s y I was confused
A screenshot of a weather app showing an air quality index of 230 - Very Unhealthy
Screenshot of a weather app showing an air quality index of 162 - Unhealthy
A bluesky post reading: 🏆 🎯 🔥 🌟 Shut down the Internet, you win today. Best antifa comment seen. Anti inflammatory for the win!
Ronin, a gray striped Maine Coon cat, lounges on a white striped blanket.
A closeup of the Mona Lisa, but it’s one of those instasnaptok filters where you replace part of the painting with part of your face. In this case, Mona Lisa’s mysterious smile has been replaced with a rakish grin.
A closeup of a fluffy gray striped cat. He is asleep, with his mouth slightly open and a single fang visible.
A large Colombian black-tailed buck rubs its big dumb head and stupid antlers all over my Salix integra 'Flamingo.’ Several branches are shredded and snapped.
A Colombian black-tailed fawn turns its head, and the small swelling of an antler bed is visible above its eye.
A six-point Colombian black-tailed deer stands beside a defoliated Japanese spirea (I’m totally not mad about the spirea, I swear).
Mattie, a brown dog with black ears and square black muzzle, sleeps on a red and black rug. Her weird doggy spine has allowed her to sleep in a squiggly shape.
A small pumpkin vine with a large, ruffled, yellow squash flower sprouts from some cedar mulch.
Two young Colombian black-tailed bucks engage in a slightly clumsy antler combat.
A parody of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo reading “I’m premenstrual and I’ll kill you”
A bluesky post that begins: Bring it DonOld Cuck!
A columbian black-tailed fawn sleeps all floppy and stretched out in the cedar mulch of our front yard.
Mattie, a brown dog with a square black muzzle and floppy black ears, lounges on a red porch and gazes into the distance, thinking her Mattie thoughts.
Ronin, a large gray striped Maine Coon cat, lurks beside our sliding screen door. The door has been patched with duct tape, hopefully preventing a repeat of the time he reached through the door to grab a chipmunk, as though he were some kind of slasher horror villain.
An eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) in the shade of our yard. She is very plump with visible squirrel teats.
Ronin, my large striped cat