After multiple months of nonstop chaos, August has come and I am ready to use all of it to rest*. * In this case “rest” means volunteering, learning how to papermaché, making chainmail, worldbuilding, scrapbooking, networking, drawing…
Abby
@eloquent-edits.bsky.social
Technical writer by trade, scientist in soul. | remote nature lover, nonbinary paleo nerd, bisexual DnD enthusiast, proud AI hater, chronic yearner đźš« AI, NO GEN AI
I have aphantasia so I have a question for the folks with vivid imaginations: In long, descriptive expositions that don’t actually have much going on, do you absorb all of the words and actually make that image or skim the descriptions and fill in the blanks? #booksky #imagination #aphantasia
I’m going to sound like a nerd for this, but I LOVE books that describe the journey of having a problem/mystery and figuring it out by traveling the world, meeting strange people, and collaborating with unlikely characters. If they’re based in real science, it’s *chef’s kiss*
I’m really happy that my friends are getting to travel across the world and adventure, but we’ve been on a DnD hiatus since MAY WHEN WILL THE SUFFERING RETURN #dnd
I’m doing the summer reading bingo challenge from @sciam.bsky.social and I want to hit three bingos for fun. I just need a nonfiction graphic novel for that. Any recommendations? War/political graphic novels aren’t super appealing, but everything else is fair game. #booksky #bookrecs #booktok
“Can you explain this gap on your resume?” Yes I was being a merry fellow
Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan
Their goal is to create so much chaos and so many crises that it starts to feel like nothing you do makes a difference. Don’t believe it. Every action matters. Keep showing up and remember the resistance will prevail!
Here are the concept designs that I did of the pliosaur Brachauchenius and the indeterminate nodosaur for last week’s episode of Surviving Earth #paleoart #sciart #SurvivingEarth
Last week I discovered the “Frutiger Aero” aesthetic that popped up in 2023. My brain automatically revised it to “fruity aero”. I will not be taking questions
Hey all, I’m Abby 👋 Here you’ll find a deluge of random thoughts as I reinvent my writing career and try to enter the sciences again! Expect fun facts. Expect eloquence and mumbo-jumbo. Expect a website link at some point. Maybe even an Excel sheet. (Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.)