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she/her. Helsing books: STRANGE PRACTICE, DREADFUL COMPANY, GRAVE IMPORTANCE, BITTER WATERS; STRANGE NEW WORLD (2025) Orbit; THE HELIOS SYNDROME (Lethe); short fiction (Uncanny, PseudoPod, The Deadlands); editor; jeweler. Rep: https://x.com/Stephen_Barbara
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yessss just packed another order :) I've seen a million of those Pack An Order With Me videos on the instagram and it just always was sort of faintly satisfying but puzzling why anyone ought to care and now that I'm doing it myself, it is as satisfying as running your fingers through dried orzo.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

what is up with the Santa Fe city trucks actually PLOWING THE ROADS and, like, putting SALT on them, the very same night it snows like a municipality that has ever seen snow before and formulated some sort of response plan other than "panic" this shit is bananas

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

✨SHOP UPDATE✨ 25 new listings just went up! Necklaces and earrings, blue crystal, polished quartz, frosted and opalescent glass. Visit www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... for details. Some examples:

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

that's 84 product shots edited so far today and I still haven't done any damn videos still, pretty pictures are pretty all of this will be going up tomorrow if I can get the listings done

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

sneak peek: some of what's going up in the shop this weekend! Sea-blue briolettes and frosted glass pebbles, opalescent yellow glass teardrops, fringes of clear crystal; there's definitely an oceangoing vibe with this lot. www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

there's this phase in Getting to Know An Artist's Music where you get them stuck in your head without knowing all the lyrics yet and it's both annoying and kind of delightful in other news Chappell Roan fucking slaps, I'm slowly catching up with the rest of the world here

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

shop update! While I finish up and list a TON of new crystal necklaces and earrings (some of these beads are vintage and it shows) go check out the beautiful stuff already on offer at www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...! Some examples:

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

further to last post re. blue crystal, desirability thereof, and old-school Dragonlance: even back then I knew that crystal was a terrible material for anything that would have to withstand impact or stress like a staff (or worse, sword) so, like, Mishakal was serious business structural-magic-wise

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

who else here is a dragonlance fan from waaaaay back and remembers wanting the hell out of Goldmoon's blue crystal staff kinda love blue crystal, in general this may possibly have informed my next jewelry collection (saw the brios in a bead-shop window, bought them, never used them until now)

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

holy SHIT did you know that the eyes of radiotherapy patients can under certain circumstances glow blue due to Cherenkov radiation in the vitreous VISIBLE BLUE LIGHT COMES OUT OF THE GOD DAMN EYE they have VIDEO OF IT (I mean it makes sense, but DUDE) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

I will never not take an opportunity to use Eliot Spencer's ~distinctive~ phrasing, on a space station or anywhere else that comes to mind #amwriting #HARDBARGAIN

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

hey internet want some pretty things at 20% off because EVERYTHING IN MY SHOP IS ON SALE through the 9th of February :D :D :D visit www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... for all your earring, necklace, and pendant needs, and keep in mind I also take commissions!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

NEWS: all my jewelry will be on sale from Feb. 3 through Feb. 9 at 20% off -- check out www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... for all your sparkly Valentine's needs! Glass and gemstone earrings, pendants, and multi-strand necklaces, all handmade in my Santa Fe workroom. p.s. I totally take commissions :D

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

NEW JEWELS! 22 brand-new listings just went up at www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... including 3 ice-blue 3-strand glass necklaces -- these things are straight-up winter with a clasp -- and tons of assorted glass and gemstone earrings! Some are pointy! Go investigate for yourself <3

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

I had fun writing this one (it's an essay about the "'Fan Fiction' Essay" that gets published fairly regularly, but it's also me yelling about why fic is both useful and laudable). :D (you can tell when someone hasn't heard of it because they think it's Fan two words capitalized Fiction)

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

YESSSSS I FOUND IT I finally found this leaf brooch on the internet and I can’t verify that it’s Juliana but I think it’s LIKELY given that I’m pretty sure this other pressed glass piece is authentic

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Hah. 0. I am old, friends & neighbors. <3 <3 <3

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

I'm off to go stay in a dome in the desert and find new ways to avoid writing my book that -don't- involve the internet! also monday's festivities can take place w/out me having to be aware of them, which is a plus any & all jewelry will ship on or after the 21st

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Three new pairs of Venetian glass earrings just went up at www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... -- cerulean and turquoise hollow glass beads, freshwater pearls, iridescent and matte blue daggers, and fire-polished Czech glass rondelles and leaves. Shipping from Jan 21 onward.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

something about the gates of Hell compels people to wander into 'em something about Venetian glass beads compels me to make goddamn earrings out of them, I swear to god 3 new pairs of glass dangles ready to go up, along with a solid handful of quartz drops and points

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

NEW EARRINGS JUST DROPPED or more accurately WERE HUNG ON THINGS & PHOTOGRAPHED I got 7 new pairs of agates, 5 Venetian glass, 2 rutilated quartz, 1 aquamarine, and 3 glass cascades, all waiting for their people at www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... -- go look for yourself or for Valentines!

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment