Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

@jaredgoring.com

I write, and more. No AI here. Many labels apply, including but not limited to: Canadian Ukrainian nonbinary bi/pansexual polyamorous anticapitalist autistic etcetera... Possible content:📖📷🐈🐕💩😂🏛⚧️🆒️🛠🔞 etc. DMs open, all feedback welcome! <3

Certain romantic gestures hit differently when you work manual labour… "Hey babe, happy birthday! I wore this all day as a surprise for you…" *peels off my shirt to reveal the sweatiest lace negligée you've ever seen, which has rolled completely up under my armpits*

it really is all the same fight at the end of the day because as much as sport bans are about barring trans people from public life, so too are they about denying the bodily autonomy inherent to someone training. "it's illegal for you to throw a ball around with your friends". No it isn't. Fuck you.

If my artist keeps turning out stuff like this I may not survive to see final publication. Seriously. I know Bluesky is gonna compress the hell out of this but just imagine the detail that's there past the compression XD

A crisp lineart drawing of a Faekyn woman getting out of a carriage; she has a flat, slitted nose and curly hair, and is wearing a smug expression, and her wings are currently folded behind herself and hidden. She's wearing luxurious robes trimmed with fur. Her carriage is pulled by Griffins, which look back with disdain from the left side of the picture. A gathered crowd of humans watches with a mixture of intrigue, distaste, anger, and suspicion, including AL, the POV character of the book, wearing dirty coveralls and a thick wool shirt from their work in the boiler room. In the background, arches and walls and buildings of the city can be seen.

Partial detail from an inline illustration for Flight of the Fates, book one, Fight or Flight, by me, Jared Goring. Art by AngryRob.

The question is: on my deathbed, will I wish I had spent another hour - or ten - on the hustle and grind? ...or sitting beside another's, their hand in mine shaking, would I give anything for one more minute with them? To me, the answer is pretty clear.

Okay I'm gonna gear up and go, and honestly I don't know whether the livestream will work but I'm gonna try it anyway! Let's find out together, life is an adventure.

Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦@jaredgoring.com · 2w ago

Anybody wanna go on a motorcycle ride with me? Thinking of doing a #livestream of one in about an hour. Why? I dunno. Thought it might be interesting? Beautiful day and we've got some gorgeous roads nearby, figured I'd try to share it…

Safety briefing at my work: "Hey folks, don't ever do [Thing], okay? It's not safe, it can't be done safely, it's dangerous, it's never necessary. Just don't do it." Me: "Okay." Safety briefing: "…and like, if you have to do it, just do it safely. 'Kay thanks bye." Me: "…okay…?"

Thought: Social Media is a modern form of pillorying. You trot out your screenshot or quote post, slap it in the stocks, and invite the audience to throw their rotten fruit and veg (insults), and I'm unsure of whether this is more an indictment of Social Media or a defence of pillorying…

Google*: "Fourth of July! Look at this animated homepage for the Fourth of July!" Me: "It is July third at 3am and I'm not in the US, piss off." *(Google used in workplace, because work policies are set by executives rather than experts)

#WritingCommunity Synonym your WIP: Fight or Flight -> Strike or Soar (from the series: Flight of the Fates -> Transience of Prescients) A Night to Remember -> Umbral Recollections (thaaat makes it feel like a very different genre XD)

🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜@jimthevampire.bsky.social · last mo.

Got a game if anyone is bored enough: synonym your #WIP Sadly I only got a boring one: For #StatuesErode, I'm going for 'Monuments Rot' Don't get any in your mouth. Also bonus points* if you can give me a better one. 😁 *Points does not indicate prizes. Participating is its own prize. Awww.😊

This bird has such a strong punk aesthetic and I love it. I want character designs based off of this bird!

CassWArt 🌴@casswart.bsky.social · last mo.

Buffy Helmetcrest hummingbird! Was watching one of @coreyartusimagery.com streams, and got to looking up hummingbirds. This one stood out with its short bill, v-neck green and blue/purple beard, black and buff head, and fluffy crest. #BirdArt #ornithology #SciArt #NatureArt #WildlifeArt

Digital Sketch study of a Buffy Helmetcrest Hummingbird, Male.
They are described as a large, short-billed hummingbird found only at extremely high elevations in Colombia’s central Andes. Adult male’s green and blue beard, black and buff head pattern, and shaggy crest make him easily recognizable within his tiny world range.

I'm too scared to do "Happy Whatever Day" for really any holiday because I'm terrified someone will come up like "Well International Pancakes Without Blueberries Day was yesterday and you didn't make a post about that huh huh huh?"