I’m B. Zedan and my dayjob is a lot of spreadsheets, then I go home create as much ridiculous content missing from this world as possible. Sometimes that’s making sure the world doesn't miss out on some delightful but obscure research, other times that’s writing a fantasy novel that I wish had existed when I was a lonely, rural, mixed-race kid.
I’ve been shouting into the welcoming void of the internet for a long time now (hello, weirdly still-popular tutorial for making paper from 2005), making everything that comes to mind.
I absolutely love to make things. To be honest, I prefer making things more than thinking of things to make, so I love helping make other folks’ ideas happen. But you know what I really love? The process of making something. And, as much as I love sharing that process in general, some projects aren’t quite ready to share (or will never be ready to share) but that I really want to share. That's what this is for, so I could share things with folks as excited about the stuff I make as I am.
I work in a lot of different disciplines, but sometimes that stuff doesn't get farther than "I made this," because creative endeavours are a fickle damn beast and you'll never know if disassembling an almost life-size plastic skeleton to make a chest plate for what is, let's face it, a niche cosplay (shout out to the Locked Tomb) is going to work out or not (spoiler, it did). And sometimes you just want to create the interstitial strangeness of a phone call but with Twine or make a quiz that tells you what Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index number you are.
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Posted by bzedan on Mar 08, 2026
Image description: A photo of a small plushie of a yellow bird (Kiiroitori), leaning one wing on the edge of a very retro looking keyboard. End ID.I'd been putting off fixing something because I decided I needed that foam air dry clay for it and I kept forgetting to pick it up. Then! I remembered I ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Mar 03, 2026
Posted by bzedan on Mar 02, 2026
Image description: A photo looking down to where a wooden fence meets the sidewalk. A sort of portal? Has been cut out of it so that the swell of a palm tree's trunk can bulge out onto the pavement. End ID.This week I finished up this year's Flash Fiction February--if you're interested, I have a bit... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Feb 24, 2026
Posted by bzedan on Feb 23, 2026
Image description: A photo looking up at a sign for AMOCA Museum, white lettering on deep blue plexi. The vinyl of the lettering has been shrunk and crisped by time and the sun, rendering the letters heavy-metal logo illegible. End ID.This was one of those weeks where I felt like I got NOTHING done ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Feb 16, 2026
Posted by bzedan on Feb 15, 2026
Image description: A photo of an AlphaSmart Dana, a dark green keyboarding device with a LCD big enough to show several lines of text. A soft aqua glow comes from the screen. End ID.The first successful year I did Flash Fiction February I did it on an AlphaSmart 3000 and this year I'm having fun doi... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Feb 10, 2026
Posted by bzedan on Feb 08, 2026
Image description: A close photo of a long, dark lizard lying on a patch of concrete with their tiny arms tucked into their sides and tummy flat on the warm stone. End ID.Would you BELIEVE that making my daily writing goals in addition to daily Flash Fiction February goals is not something I've... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Feb 03, 2026
Image description: A photo of a sheet of paper with a bunch of bare-branched trees painted on it. End ID.I have no cool excuse for why I skipped doing a post yesterday! I was just having a very nice and lazy day and then whoops I have 2x as much evening writing with Flash Fiction February ongoing (I... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 26, 2026
Image description: A photo of a smaller cactus with many arms sprawled over a bush-size space. Its arms are dense with fine needles, which are backlit golden by circle of the sun, which is focused by assorted trees so that is bursts in rays across the mostly-silhouetted image. End ID.Did you know th... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 19, 2026
Posted by bzedan on Jan 19, 2026
Image description: A photo of a sidewalk, mostly bare with shadows of palm leaves at the top of the frame. Just before the shadows is a very small, very long lizard who mimics the curved shape of the leaf. End ID.This week was full of allergies for me, I've got the full super-chapped nose to prove i... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 16, 2026
Image description: An illustration of two orange branches, one in the upper right corner in blossom, one on the left lower down full of oranges. On the bottom right is a western grey squirrel tearing open the peel of an orange. Wrapped around it all is a golden ribbon with text on it that reads: May... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 12, 2026
Image description: A nature print of a white silhouette on dark blue floats in a tray of water on a kitchen counter. The silhouette is of a very finely spiny cactus. End ID. A really fruitful week, to me at least. Also this weekend we went to the gardens and made some sun/nature prints thanks to a ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 05, 2026
Image description: A hand tightly grips a lemon pig, the pressure slightly opening its slit of a mouth, as juice cries from the clove eyes. Scattered clove and a foil tail are visible on a paper towel in the background. End ID.Ah the start of the year. I do love this nothingburger of a week, the scr... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Dec 30, 2025
Image description: A photo of a mansion lit with strings of Christmas lights, softened and blurred by fog. End ID.Ah, the last update of the year! I suppose I could make an accounting of what I've done over the year. I keep track, because I'd forget and then think I did nothing at all but read possi... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Dec 22, 2025
Image description: A photograph of a path through a Mediterranean climate park of scrub and heavily bearded palms. Gold late-afternoon winter light drips through the leaves of one tree that is changing with the seasons. End ID.I'll make this quick because we're all busy, the schedules get weird... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Dec 16, 2025
Image description: A photograph of a pile of bits and bobs of crafting materials scattered over an open notebook, concealing most of the notes on the pages. The mess of things include a case of seed beads, thread, rope, ribbon, embroidery floss, a golden-threaded needle. End ID.Well, I haven't forgo... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Dec 08, 2025
Image description: A picture of email in an inbox. All are blurred except for one, which is also pointed out by a finger (also blurred). The email subject is: 'Zootopia 2' Critters Devour B.O. End ID.I've passed 20k words in my current writing project. This is particularly interesting to me as the l... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Dec 01, 2025
Image description: A stack of mid-century mass-marked paperback books: Tomorrow Times Seven, The Caves of Steel, The Purple Cloud, The Naked Sun, The Shores of Space, The Year's Best SF, Cry Horror!, Quiet Horror. Leaning against the stack is Martian Time-Slip by Phillip K. Dick, the cover showing a... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Nov 24, 2025
Image description: A hand holds a hand-wrapped, squat skein of yarn that is mostly a cool pink with dots of a darker pink and various blues. End of ID.The big thing I got done this week was my story for the Yuletide fic exchange. This is my second year doing it after a lot of years of wanting t... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Nov 16, 2025
Image description: A photo of a tall stand of paddle cactus, backlit by the sun, which glares through the gaps and highlights the spines. End ID.I finished the next newsletter and got that queued and have begun (lightly) the one for January. I would so like to get a bit ahead, just one or two months... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Nov 10, 2025
Image description: A photo of a dinosaur sculpture that has been worn by time to reveal the layers of plaster covering a metal base. The teeth and spines of the ankylosaurus are creatively proportioned, and the dramatic angle of the photo lets you look into the mouth of the dinosaur to better see th... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Nov 03, 2025
Image description: A photo taken from the underside of an orange tree, looking up at a single orange surrounded by shiny green leaves. The bottom of the orange is split, and there is a second, smaller orange growing inside it. End ID.Isn't that orange grody?! We think it's some mutation like with na... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Oct 27, 2025
Image description: A photograph of a hand through a loose reel of pastel speckled yarn, fingers in the middle of unzipping a bunch of double crochet. End ID.This was a real mid of a week for me, "getting things done-wise" or it felt like it anyway. I mean I have another short story up on the blog, I... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Oct 19, 2025
Image description: A cropped-in photo of the upper corner of a loose leaf binder, pages sort of splayed to show there are a goodly amount, and that there are little divider tabs washi-taped on. End ID.Writing continues to go apace. Some nights I only get like 10-15 minutes at it (the cost of having ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Oct 12, 2025
Image description: A photo of a hand holding the cuff of a coat before a sewing machine, a piece of fabric partly pinned to it that has a reinforcing strip of interfacing. End ID.I've been, by the way, reblogging my old monster playlists on Tumblr. The lot have been also duped as YT playlists, if th... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Oct 05, 2025
Image description: A photo of a patch of sidewalk that is absolutely littered with little bits of debris from tree nuts. It's already staining the concrete. In the corner of the image is a foot in a slide with the word "TRIP" on it. End ID.As we moved into October this week the weather got properly ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Sep 28, 2025
Image description: A photograph of a grey-painted, worn concrete wall with various broken chunks and rocks piled at the base. Framed pencil drawings on hotel notepad paper hang on the wall at the top of the image, next to a pair of shoes. A vibrant pink, purple, and black painting of a Snow White-ty... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Sep 22, 2025
Image description: A hand is gently holding a small light grey ribbon rosette, like the kind one wins at a fair. It is small enough to only just be longer than the width of the hand as it rests across the fingers. End ID.A lovely thing about owning a ribbon maker is you can make yourself a ribbon wh... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Sep 15, 2025
Image description: A photograph of a workspace cluttered with cutting tools of various specialities. Letters spelling "Sierra Madre Casino" cut from green craft foam are laid out on a scrap of cardboard. End ID.I'm going to make this one quick as I've got some crafting to do (will the image for this... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Sep 08, 2025
Image description: A close-cropped photo of a makeshift paint palette, frosted clear plastic painted with a building, and the outline of a Pip-Boy mascot standing in a pile of gold. Through the plastic is visible a black and white print out of a snow-globe of Sierra Madre Casino from Fallout: New Ve... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Aug 24, 2025
Image description: A photo of the various things a person is wearing on their arm. From wrist down, they are: an admittance pass wristband for Castle Park, a huge gold Casio calculator watch, a rainbow pony bead bracelet with tiny bells on it, another single pony bead bracelet in sherbet colou... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Aug 18, 2025
Image description: A hand holding open a zine, showing the end of some text, fingers framing a drawing of two birds in the "Flintstones Animal Appliance" style. A parrotsaurus is leaning against its perch, asking the birdasaurus chiselling below it: "You got that?" The birdasaurus replies "Shopping ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Aug 11, 2025
Image description: A hand holding a matte photo print that has patchy-looking ink. It is of a landscape, a rural coastal road curving up a slope to a vanishing point at the cusp, under a grey-white sky. The centre rectangle of the image has been painted over with the same scene, kind of like how Wil... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Aug 04, 2025
Image description: A photograph taken from the ground of a very tall pine (possibly ponderosa or same family) with twisty dark branches. The evening sun is lighting up some bundles of the needles in a rusty green. End ID.Look at that, an update on the day I intend to do these. A public one too becau... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jul 14, 2025
Image description: A photo of a seashell and some beach rocks placed in a way that they look like they're squishing Wile E. Coyote. End ID.This was one of those weeks where I felt I got nothing done although I did. Beyond life things like file and backup management, or finding the perfect box to mai... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Mar 26, 2025
Posted by bzedan on Mar 26, 2025
Image description: A black and white illustration divided into three columns. The outer columns are circle-spot illustration of things like coffee cups, bridges, books. The text in the centre column reads "Flash Fiction February 2025." End ID.Another year down! This is the fourth year I've completed... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Feb 25, 2025
If you also follow me on Bluesky or Tumblr you may have noticed me mentioning editing auto-captions. That's right! I finally added narration to video that follows the process decorating a home-made dice tower. The video that was made in 2021!!We're finishing projects this year!I let YouTube do its a... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 27, 2025
Image description: A calendar page for February. The right hand side is the calendar-calendar, while on the left is a digital illustration showing layered vignettes of things people do in February: staying cozy, eating chocolate, giving valentines. There is also a landscape above the vignettes showi... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 12, 2025
ID: A digital illustration in the style of a medieval book illustration. Garfield is depicted as a blemmye, a creature with its face in its stomach and no head. Red script in the corner reads "December 2024." End ID. Another short one, what can I say, it was a winter of small loops. Sir Jude's cove... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Dec 02, 2024
ID: An edited photo of an old combo TV/DVD player. On the screen is an edit of a scene from The Maxx, but with Garfield and Odie in place of The Maxx and Julie, respectively. They are perched on a tall rock above a sea of tiny Izz. End ID. Lol this is a short one! Well under two hours. That... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Dec 01, 2024
Well, it appears to be the end of November and I suddenly realised I hadn't made a single post here (Patreon or Comradery, wherever your'e reading this).I started the month off with a week off work, which was nice. I always make a small to-do list when I've a lot of PTO, so I can feel like I "got so... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Oct 30, 2024
[ID: What appears to be a badly scanned newspaper clipping, showing a colour photo of three men standing around a giant pumpkin that looks like Garfield’s head. One man is gently resting his hand on it. The caption below the photo reads “October 2024.” The edge of the column next t... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Oct 01, 2024
[ID: A grainy, '90s-cyan-film-look, tight-in photo of several leaves scattered in the dirt, they are in different stages of autumnal hue, from green yellows to reds. Four of the leaves have Garfield drawn on them in black pen. In the bottom right corner of the image is "September 2024" in a digital ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Sep 22, 2024
Image description: A square pattern of orange and yellow suns, moons and stars on a navy background. It is reminiscent of a style of celestial fabric pattern seen in the 1990s. End ID. No I have not made any progress on Short Story September, which makes like the third year in a row for me. Bu... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Sep 02, 2024
[ID: A digital illustration of Garfield's head on a black background. Rather than being solidly coloured in, his head and the background are made up of a pattern of tiny garf heads, like a stamp or screen tone. The test "August 2024" is below the image. End ID.]We watched Civil War early on in the m... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Aug 25, 2024
Posted by bzedan on Aug 04, 2024
[ID: A digital illustration that looks like it was made of construction paper. A grid of eight Garfield head shapes on a background of blue, five of them look like orange paper stuck to the background, the other three are cutouts revealing glimpses of a photograph of leaves and palm trees. "July 202... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jul 29, 2024
Oh my goodness I haven't posted here at all in July have I? It's been a month, but in a more positive way in the end than normally when I say "its been a month!" Here's a quick catchup on what I've been doing:I more or less finished battling the sign up stuff that was plaguing me over on WP and am n... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jun 30, 2024
[ID: A peach-tinted photo of a bunch of ball-point doodles done on notebook paper and coloured in with crayon and highlighter. The doodles are all centring around a big garfield head. To the right is a Garfield with top surgery scars on his chest, wearing blue shorts and listening to green headphone... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jun 02, 2024
[ID: A black and white cartoony version of John Everett Millais' painting of Ophelia, but it's Garfield who is floating in the river. The majority of the image is rendered in thick black line with screentones that are quatrefoil patterns. Garfield is the only pop of colour, in his orange. Across par... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on May 28, 2024
ID: A graphic with a pastel gradient background that reads "Quatrefoil Tones." Below this are thirteen black-outlined squares labeled 1a through 5b that each house variants of quatrefoil tone patterns. Below are two arrow bullet points reading "13 Procreate Brushes" and "6x6"/600ppi tone images," Ne... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on May 21, 2024
Yikes, whoops! I lost a bit of time there. I've been mainlining Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda because a mutual on Tumblr recently re-read it and there is something wonderful about how it can take an hour to read a middle grade book. I've also been doing a lot of Stardew Valley (first playthrough!) wh... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Apr 27, 2024
[ID: A digital illustration of the Vault Boy condition image from the PipBoy 3000, a glowing green outlined figure on a dark screen with health metre indicators for head, body and each limb. Rather than the regular coverall-clothed guy, the figure is an outline of Garfield. All health indicators are... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Apr 07, 2024
If you follow me on Tumblr, then you already know I've been (sort of?) participating in Storytelling Collective’s April Daily Poem challenge. This year StoCo themed their prompts around an upcoming album for an artist I’ve got no connection with, so I went and made a Carly Rae Jepsen son... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Mar 31, 2024
[ID: An digital illustration evocative of the singing flowers in Disney's Alice In Wonderland, with airbrush shaded backgrounds but coloured line cell-shading for the main figure. The flower is a California Poppy with the face of Garfield. In pink tilted letters in the upper left corner is "March" o... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Mar 24, 2024
[ID: Two pamphlet-bound zines, one with a burgundy gradient cover on top, and a teal gradient cover below. There are half-circle cutouts in the covers to show a black and white illustration on the first page, which is of a fuzzy little gremlin thing reading a book. A colour-matching tassel dangles f... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Mar 20, 2024
Posted by bzedan on Mar 03, 2024
[ID: An edit of the Parmigianino painting Cupid Making His Bow, showing a figure from the back, mid-buttcrack up, leaning over, braced against an unfinished bow. They are looking over their shoulder and have the head and tail of Garfield in cartoony contrast to the late Renaissance painting style of... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Mar 01, 2024
Posted by bzedan on Feb 26, 2024
Posted by bzedan on Feb 19, 2024
Posted by bzedan on Feb 12, 2024
Posted by bzedan on Feb 05, 2024
Posted by bzedan on Feb 02, 2024
[Main image description: A redraw of a scene from Bee and Puppycat, with Jon holding up Garfield, a happy look on Jon's face. Garfield's back is to the viewer and he is wearing a teal jacket with a purple collar and big pink shoulder bows. The back of the jacket reads "2024 January" across two ribbo... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 23, 2024
Image description: A sketchbook page of a pencil and watercolour botanical illustration of a tall woody stemmed plant with sparse hands of leaves and two six-petalled orange and yellow flowers with dark stamens. A larger painting of the flower and the leaves take up most of the page. In the top left... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 16, 2024
[Main image description: An illustration in the vibe of the diagrams that show how the seasons are related to how the earth orbits the sun, with four Garfield faces to the top, bottom, left and right of a glowing orb. His face is shadowed or lit starkly depending on its position to the sun.] Movi... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 12, 2024
[Main image description: A photograph of a botanic garden landscape in winter-cold blues and greens. In the far background is a slightly hazy mountain beneath a soft blue sky. The midground is full of spiky chaparal plants all shadowed dark green. In the foreground are the spikes of yucca plants, ca... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 03, 2024
Posted by bzedan on Jan 02, 2024
[Main image description: An image of a christmas tree ornament hanging against pine boughs and pink and purple tinsel. The standard spherical ornament is Garfield's face, distorted by the globular shape. "December 2023" in all caps cartoon caption text is below it.] I started playing Fallout: New... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Dec 02, 2023
[Main image description: An illustrative copy of Duran Duran's Rio album, but edited to read November 2023, with the Patrick Nagel girl replaced by a Garfield done in a similar style.]November was kind of a fucking lot! The middle-ish of this playlist ('Dance Hall Days' to 'Kiss from a Rose') is jus... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Nov 26, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Nov 15, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Nov 02, 2023
For some reason, the image just isn't working for this playlist post (it's tiny and everything but sometimes luck is like that) so please enjoy the image description and just go look at the playlist or Patreon crosspost to see the image. [Main image description: An edited image of Elvira grinning i... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Oct 27, 2023
Sorry for the even less updates than normal! October has been kind of full, which has kept me from the computer. Here are some things done recently I haven't mentioned here! I submitted a query to an agent for The Consoling Divide. Finally! Now that I have the letter all nice I plan to send i... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Oct 07, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Oct 02, 2023
[Main image description: A digital illustration imitating a CRT effect of a pixel-y game image in a limited palette of dark purple and light grey, with one spot of colour. Garfield sits in a chair with his hands folded in his lap, looking out a window where a leaf is falling above the words "Septemb... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Sep 07, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Sep 04, 2023
[Main image description: A digital illustration imitating The Black Eyed Peas' album The End, which is a face sort of "cyber" style, an inverse wireframe that also evokes a disco ball. In this image it is Garfield. Lightning-styled text at the top reads "August 2023".] The turn of the seaso... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Aug 13, 2023
[Main image description: A screencap of a text game. It reads: "The sun's heat is still soaked deep into the rocks, the walls, the world, and it contrasts deliciously with the quickly cooling desert night. It's evening, after dinner. You make your way down the town's one road, to a cabin to a house ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Aug 05, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Aug 02, 2023
[Main image description: A digital illustration sort of in a style of a screenprint or collage, with a navy silhouette of trees and roofs, dark brown shapes of two palm trees, and purple powerlines layered on a warm pink background. The whole thing has a distressed and blurred paper texture and betw... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jul 27, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Jul 22, 2023
[Main image description: A square digital illustration done in a very sketchy painterly style, loosely rendered, of a sunsetting sky behind a dense series of power lines stretching to a pole partly covered by a tree. Walking along one of the lines is a silhouette of a rat.] I'm just finishi... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jul 05, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Jun 27, 2023
[Main image description: A very metal painted illustration of a demon standing behind a sharp, jagged mountain range, whipping a rainbow at a priest in the foreground, floundering in water and wrapped up in more strands of rainbow. The demon has Garfield's face.] It's JUNE! And it actuall... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jun 12, 2023
This June's playlist is a bunch of queer music, and songs that please me to interpret as queer. Although often the playlist cover is the last thing I do, after a playlist has its more or less final form, this time around I had ideas for it and have done a couple already that I can't decide... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jun 06, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Jun 03, 2023
[Main image description: An illustrated version of a memed image from Midsommar, where a person sits buried amidst a pile of flowers, so only their flower-crowned face shows. Rather than the sad human face from the image, in this illustration it is Garfield in a flower crown, looking smug as usual. ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jun 01, 2023
Posted by bzedan on May 02, 2023
[Main image description: An image of a scattered stack of photos with a halftone filter applied to it, effectively lightly blurring the details. The photographs seem to be all of the same person at different ages, including a photo of a toddler playing in the sand, faded photo stickers from a mall p... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Apr 25, 2023
Sorry for the radio silence, I spent last week (my birthday week) in the clutches of a needs-antibiotics kind of sinus infection which, in retrospect, explains why I haven't had a lot of brain energy lately! It was all snot up there. (Un)luckily, I am an old hand at sinus infections and even be... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Apr 12, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Apr 02, 2023
[Main image description: The Rider Waite Smith Ten of Swords, which depicts a man laying face down with ten swords in his back, superimposed over 'The Death of Julius Caesar' by Vincenzo Camuccini, a classical oil painting depicting Roman senators surrounding Julius Caesar, knives raised. The backgr... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Mar 27, 2023
I've got my March Labours illustration pretty close to done, so supporters keep an eye out for that. But what I've also been spending a lot of time on is pixel art. I found a pretty (free!) solid pixel brush pack for Procreate over at Bardot Brush that also comes with some canvases that ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Mar 17, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Mar 13, 2023
[Main image description: A rainbow-filtered image of a tarot card sticker on a furry blue background. The card is of The Fool, but instead of the young man walking toward a cliff's edge, Odie the Dog stands there, a pumpkin covering his head.] So I made this Odie the dog tarot design f... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Mar 08, 2023
[Main image description: The Rider Waite Smith card for Strength, but in place of the maiden and lion is an oversized Woodstock from Peanuts, wearing a flower crown and gently holding Snoopy's face.]So I do have the February Labours almost done (I don't think I've mentioned them on public posts but ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Mar 03, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Mar 02, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Mar 02, 2023
[Main image description: A mid-century style vintage Valentine's card, die cut around a figure wearing a sunhat and holding a shovel that overlaps with a large heart background. Whatever the original figure was, it is now Garfield who is holding the shovel and wearing the sunhat. The white inset hea... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Feb 27, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Feb 20, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Feb 13, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Feb 08, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Feb 07, 2023
[Main image description: A hand holds a small square of paper with a drawing of a weird looking ourobors on it, the words "did you let me die in your arms in the time loop" in the centre. In the background are a pair of scissors and the sheet the square was cut from.] I shared these first ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Feb 05, 2023
[Main image decription: The cover of the soundtrack album for the film Manhunter, edited to replace the yellow-outlined and blue shadowed face of Will Graham with Garfield. The doorway in the middle of the image shows Jon Arbuckle's silhouette. Red, purple-shadowed text in the upper right corner rea... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 18, 2023
Posted by bzedan on Jan 15, 2023
I promised a fun download since there was no card download this year and I plan to deliver! First: the set-up. We send out about 50 cards every year and with about 25 of those we add a little something extra. Some years it is a comic, sometimes it's a cool patch, whatever. This year I made ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 12, 2023
[Main image description: A hand holding lino print smaller than an index card, of the black silhouette of palm trees in front of a sloping mountain range, with three crows flying across the sky. The black is printed on top of a bright and roller-textured gradient of yellow at the top shading down in... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 01, 2023
[Main image description: A 3x3 grid of Garfield faces, the shadows across his face mimicking a grid of phases of the moon.] Yes, yes, I do have a lot of end-of-the-year monthly playlist music stats to share but also! I want to talk about other great media I enjoyed this year. I was tracking everyth... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Dec 28, 2022
[Main image description: A blue Royal Dansk cookie tin, altered so Garfield's face shows where the landscape is on the lid, and in place of "Royal Dansk" it says "December 2022." A red, flared image of the sun from NASA is the background.] December! Wow, I've been doing these playlists for ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Dec 27, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Dec 02, 2022
[Main image description: A modified version of the album cover for Matt Berry's 'Witchazel', of Berry standing in a wood wearing a dark wool coat with a pheasant perched on his arm. In this image, Garfield's face superimposed over Berry's and Odie's face replaces the pheasant.] November! Th... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Dec 01, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Nov 09, 2022
Last weekend (and the week before it) felt fruitful in a calm way - I don't know if anyone else had a weird week, Halloween on a Monday made it feel like a four-day week. Then this weekend was chill and fruitful also - a good pattern! Let's hope to keep it. I haven't been making super sharable stuff... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Nov 01, 2022
[Main image description: An illustration of Garfield fallen back in an office chair in front of a computer desk, still holding onto his keyboard. The text, which originally reads "Yep. It's Monday." has been edited to say "Yep. It's October 2022," and Garfield is wearing his classic pirate costume f... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Oct 31, 2022
Back in 2020, I made some queer monster playlists (link to old public Patreon post) but there was one I didn't feel was finished at the time so I never shared it. But, it's been done for a while, so I finally made a quick little cover for it and it can join the ranks of the rest! Lesbi... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Oct 13, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Oct 04, 2022
[Main image description: An edit of the Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill album cover with overlapping pensive Garfields in rainbow-halftoned black and white. The text reads "September 2022" and "Jagged Little Pasta."] My low-key obsession with instrumental/bardcore DID taper off in Sept... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Sep 14, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Sep 04, 2022
[Main image description: The blue 'Eyes of TJ Eckleburg' style cover of The Great Gatsby, only instead of feminine shadowed eyes and red lips hovering over the sparkling city it's a soft outline of Garfield's eyes, nose and mouth. Instead of a naked woman, reflected in his eyes is lasagna.] ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Aug 16, 2022
[Main image description: A three-ring binder opened to show several B5 notebooks with colour gradient covers and rounded corners. The notebook shown in full has a beetle sticker on it under a label reading "The Gardener."] It's been pretty dang warm and also humid (WHY?!) so my creative cur... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Aug 09, 2022
[Main image description: Screenshot of a Cable Rom-Com Generator. The headline and link to generate more are in pink, with the generated text in white. This instance reads "Former jester Grannd nervously agrees to help eir friend and tough-guy Ivan for a flower show only to find there is a lot more ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Aug 02, 2022
[Main image description: A semi-vaporwave style image with a faded ocean background with neon gradient palm tree silhouettes over it and a desaturated grid atop that. Over all this are three figures, two are musicians from medieval illuminated manuscripts, the largest playing a stringed instrum... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jul 23, 2022
[Main image description: A cool night-blue toned photo of a dollhouse that looks like an outdoor patio off of a glass-walled solarium. The angled makes it feel as though it is life-sized and the patio with its worn leather chair and plentiful plants looks very cosy. A bright light is on in the solar... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jul 04, 2022
[Main image description: Six binder-clip separated stacks of sketchbook pages are offset to show the neon yellow skinny sticky notes that label each section. The notes easiest to read are: First Icy Icy Story (1), An escape room, bad choices, new friends, and Shars domain, and Skirt gets married.] ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jul 01, 2022
[Main image description: an illustration of three Rider-Waite tarot cards fanned so the top card is the most visible but the two below are still recognisable. They are, from right to left: The Fool, the Five of Cups, and Seven of Pentacles. The cards have been altered so that on The Fool it is Odie ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jun 26, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Jun 13, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Jun 01, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Jun 01, 2022
Yes, I have been gone a bit, sorry! Let's just move past that quickly and to this month's playlist. A couple of songs on here arrived via hearing them on things. Mika was a host on this year's Eurovision and I hadn't heard his work before, though I've since learned that 'Grace Kelly' was a ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on May 09, 2022
Posted by bzedan on May 02, 2022
I just realised that when I first started sharing my monthly playlists Comradery hadn't had supporters only posts yet, and things were weird about Spotify, so my monthly playlists were only getting shared over at Patreon under supporter-lock. But! Not only does Comradery have supporters-only post op... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Apr 23, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Apr 21, 2022
I did it! Even though I used to do kind of time-intensive video editing basically weekly, I've well fallen out of the practice so it takes me time to get around to finishing projects. Trying to get better at it and so here is a video of all of the little Procreate time-lapses for a set of ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Apr 20, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Apr 11, 2022
I have been very behind in several things, honestly mostly thanks to some good TV and lots of Our Flag Means Death brainrot. I took the plunge and joined the Discord, and have made some new mutuals on Tumblr, which is honestly exciting. All of my best and longest friends (other than Chase)... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Mar 29, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Mar 22, 2022
So, I've been watching Our Flag Means Death on HBO Max and I am obsessed, it's just! Well, I guess I cover it in this tumblr post, but the tl;dr is it's fun, it is queer, the costumes are glorious and it's a fanfic trope buffet. Speaking of, the number of works on AO3 for the show have b... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Mar 16, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Mar 07, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Mar 01, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Feb 21, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Feb 14, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Feb 12, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Feb 08, 2022
Hello! Comradery has recently enabled my ability to have supporters-locked posts which is EXCITING because that means I can share secrets but if you are on a donation tier you won't be able to see those posts (there's only one of this writing), so they have also made a post explaining how to upgrade... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Feb 07, 2022
Posted by bzedan on Feb 01, 2022
You know there are some things you just covet? An object of joy that ticks some primal box in your brain? I think pill cases are like that—the little metal ones with a shitty plastic divider inside and something fancy on the lid. They way they snap closed, they’re the kind of object you ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 27, 2022
A big theme among a lot of gifts I and others gave this year was just asking "do you want this thing?" or "what do you want?" My best friend got a daybed and had put some stuffed animals on it, so I asked if I could make them a stuffed animal since she is not someone who collects plushes and had to ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 20, 2022
In the late 2000s, I was into bookbinding. Books are a very satisfying thing to make and it fit well with the various crafts I was doing at the time. I hadn't really made books since, though once or twice I've turned groups of sketchbook pages or favourite magazine pages into perfect bound collectio... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 13, 2022
I've mentioned before that I spent a good bit of my younger life painting murals and landscapes. I love a landscape, it's part of why I love where I live, I can look every day to see a bit of dramatic vista that every day has a different air to it.It's been a long while since I painted a landscape. ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Jan 01, 2022
Whew, sorry for the basically no-post month. It really does bother me when I don't, I dunno "deliver content" but also just feel like I'm upholding my side of our little contract of support. Whatever! Capitalism!! January is going to be some thinking from me RE: Patreon and Comradery and blogging in... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Dec 06, 2021
Sorry for the no-post last week, my employer gives us two days off for a holiday we don't celebrate so it was a long weekend of just resting and working on projects not ready to share. Although I've been sharing older flash fic I don't like recently this week's post is a matched pair, rather than ju... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Nov 22, 2021
In February 2021, Storytelling Collective had a flash fiction prompt month and of course, I didn't hit every day (or really get close) but I did end up with some favourites I want out in the world, even in their unedited form. SpaceWhen Marta was promoted, her rooming was upgraded. Rather than shar... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Nov 15, 2021
In February 2021, Storytelling Collective had a flash fiction prompt month and of course, I didn't hit every day (or really get close) but I did end up with some favourites I want out in the world, even in their unedited form. CreatureYoli slid the dish stacked with bits of meat and cheese next to ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Nov 08, 2021
In February 2021, Storytelling Collective had a flash fiction prompt month and of course, I didn't hit every day (or really get close) but I did end up with some favourites I want out in the world, even in their unedited form. Oath“Swear it.”Margie looked up at the bird, staring down at... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Nov 01, 2021
The third and last part of the Pixelles Writing Portfolio Program assignment was to write item descriptions was a 2-10 minute (later they modified it to 5-10) piece of narrative fiction. I wanted to make something that used an array of values, to create a random feel on replay. I also wanted to... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Oct 25, 2021
The “extra credit” portion in the second Pixelles Writing Portfolio Program assignment was to write item descriptions. I was excited for this one as since I spent the better part of a decade writing fun!copy for things that were often incredibly similar but needed unique copy. ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Oct 18, 2021
The second Pixelles Writing Portfolio Program assignment was to make a cinematic for a cutscene. After struggling with the assignment a bit I realised the problem was all the cinematics or cut scenes I liked were just slide shows with narration. Thanks, Obsidian. Honestly though the 'Dead ... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Oct 10, 2021
Recently, I took the Pixelles Writing Portfolio Program (which is free and great, check it out here). I've played with game writing before, I have a massive unfinished Twine game with documentation in spreadsheets, all that. But I wanted to purposefully attack and learn about it.The first assignment... Continue reading
Posted by bzedan on Oct 01, 2021
[Image description for main post image: A slightly down-angle shot of a messy workspace with a printout of several angles of the deer-like skull head of Nowhere King from Centaurworld taped to the wall, in the foreground is a cleaned-up paper pattern for his head.]As October begins to roll up and I ... Continue reading
