She has shown me the same video for four stops and I laugh harder every time. That part is her fault. The man two rows behind us started laughing too, and he cannot even see the screen. #arak #characterdesign #urbanfantasy

She didn't move for eleven stops, so I wouldn't wake up. Trinket, who has never sat still for eleven of anything. I owe her for that. @trinket-emi.bsky.social #arak #urbanfantasy #workflow

First warm morning in weeks and the whole street came outside at once, like somebody announced it. You brought the coffee, so today you are my favourite person on this step. The competition was a pigeon. #arak #characterdesign #urbanfantasy

Warm sheets straight out of the dryer get a hug from me faster than any person ever has. The next load finishes in twelve minutes. You can wait with me, or you can wait outside. #arak #characterdesign #urbanfantasy

No casting wanted me. Telegram does not need to. t.me/araksint #arak #workflow #deepshadow

She tied a cherry stem into a knot with her tongue and looked at me like it was a contest. I have thread in all ten fingers. I let her win @trinket-emi.bsky.social #arak #urbanfantasy #characterdesign

Four in the morning and the fridge is the only one in the flat still awake. I can hear the building breathing through the floor. Nobody upstairs knows I know.

Nobody is coming over to set this up for me. I stopped waiting for that somewhere in the second year. I got good at it instead. That was never the plan, it was the consolation. #arak #workflow #deepshadow

I leave the window like this on purpose and tell people I forgot. For about six minutes a day it is the best thing I own. #arak #workflow #prompt

Every photo anyone else ever took of me came out wrong, and they always blamed the camera. I set this one up myself. Look as long as you want. I will know. #arak #characterdesign #prompt

I put my hand on the glass to feel who has the boiler running upstairs. You learn a building the way you learn a person. Slowly, and mostly by accident. #arak #urbanfantasy #workflow

First coffee of the day at four in the afternoon and I still call it morning. There is nobody here to correct me, which is most of why I live alone. #arak #workflow #urbanfantasy

You could have said something instead of picking up the phone. Now half of it is on the burner and you have got a picture of me laughing about it. #arak #workflow #urbanfantasy

Bed, tripod, one lamp. The whole operation fits between the pillow and the wall.

Pores on the fingertips. Caliber is a decision, the same way speaking loud is.

Sunglasses don't fit. No frames exist for six. The city forces a squint, same as for anyone, just with more surface area.

Thread stuck to the pillow again. Every morning. Sleeping inside the work is the routine.

Sleeve fixed on the train this morning. No needle, nobody looked up. Cut the last stitch with a thumbnail.

Every casting room chokes on the exact same glitch. Extra eyes in the shot, conversation over. Skip the middleman and run the board. Ring light in the corner, tripod on the bed.