Spey

@serpentscale.bsky.social

(Looks like this snake makes a lot of bad posts online.) (Text to speech is on.) (Seems like the snake hisses, and it translates to these bad posts.) (Seems like most bad posts online, are actually this snake.)

These are a few of the places that inspired the illustration. The hills feel so small and distant in photographs, but that's never how they feel to me, I wanted to depict their presence more closely to my own perception of them.

Photograph of a path running through green fields, with hills on the distant horizonPhotograph of green fields, distant hills and a blue sky with cloudsPhotograph of a path running through dense vegetation in a woodlandPhoto of green fields with woodland and blue skies above

This place is real, but it's also an amalgamation of memories. The way we remember a landscape can be very different from its literal appearance. Some things become larger and clearer, others smaller and fuzzier. 🧵

Illustration of an overgrown path running along the side of a field with an old wonky fence. There are tall blue hills on the horizon, flocks of birds and clouds in the sky.

looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

I'm not sure if I have any Pathfinder 2e or D&D 5e monster designers that follow me, but if you're interested in co-creating a leshy bestiary with me, shoot me a message with some examples of your work. I'd be happy to pay some upfront for the writing, as well as offer 30% to writing and layout.