Cactus Garden

To anyone interested in xenofiction, I wholeheartedly recommend:

“Hunters Unlucky”

and all of its sequel books

(written by Abigail Hilton).

This series is one of my absolute favorites, I make a point to make time to re-read it at least twice a year. It is one of the best Xenofiction series I have ever read, with elegant world building, relevant character growth, and a steady pacing that makes it so easy to fly through. Also LGBTQ+ representation!!!!

What's in a Name?, 2026 Illustration for @ashanimus

Moashi and Halvery teaches Flyleap the cub to read. Saxifrage the ferryshaft belong to @bookshelfpassageway and the other cub to @olimnia.

This was the grand prize my book review contest, which is over now, but if you're looking for a summer read, why not try one of @alhilton's novels?

What's that behind the bush??

ALMOST REAL: A Speculative Biology Zine returns with the ALL-NEW VOLUME 6 and a remastered collection of VOLUMES 1-5!

Back in the mid 2010s, illustrator and Runaway to the Stars creator Jay Eaton incepted the idea of hosting a speculative biology anthology: a small magazine collecting uniquely-made entries from pool of fellow artists and authors who loved all the possibility and creativity that the world of spec bio had to offer. Together with Hye Mardikian, their idea and collaboration brought forth ALMOST REAL: A SPECULATIVE BIOLOGY ZINE's first volume all the way back in 2017. 

In 2018, we took to the skies with our second volume FLIGHT. Volume 3 took you under the waves with AQUATICS, Volume 4 introduced all sorts of inventions from BIOTECHNOLOGY, and legends came to life in from Volume 5's MYTHOLOGY.

Now, in 2026, we RETURN: featuring our sixth volume with 12 new entries all about POP CULTURE and a remastered omnibus of BOOK 1 that collects all 5 of our previous, some out-of-print issues, and we need YOUR HELP to print these books and pay our artists!

Sign up now to be notified the moment we drop!

What's in a Name?, 2026 Illustration for @ashanimus

Moashi and Halvery teaches Flyleap the cub to read. Saxifrage the ferryshaft belong to @bookshelfpassageway and the other cub to @olimnia.

This was the grand prize my book review contest, which is over now, but if you're looking for a summer read, why not try one of @alhilton's novels?

What's that behind the bush??

NEW ART TELEPHONE GAME

^header art by @blossompigeon

PART 2: TEAM SORCERY

starter image by @ibenkrutt again, team sorcery: @bowelfly @crtastrophe @gachimushi @chalkrub @biomechanicalmash @iinfinitejester @tetrameryxx @iguanodont @proteesiukkonen @deadlydaemondraws @whip-o-will @leona-florianova @skelleste @mawchops @skelizardarts @palossssssand @barabones @kororobus @maria-ruta

How dare you gaze upon her girlfriend

The millennia and ushas curbs are back!

Nothing bad will ever happen to them..

I also really like the unshaded colors

Extremely rough sketch of Tollee from hunters unlucky! Always thought she was described as looking particularly interesting and I decided early on she had large rounded ears in my mind (kind of like an African wild dog. I tried to give her a slim, more sighthound or deer shaped face.

evil intimidating yuri scene from memory haha

and that’s because (1) the purpose of this website is to share things that bring us joy and (2) likes don’t share things or ensure something is seen by more people, not like they do on other sites. so, when so many people decide to only like a post and not share it (i.e. not reblog it), that tells the creator that those people didn’t think their hard work was worth sharing with others. that’s discouraging. 

and the creator isn’t the only one that gets something out of that. you get something, too. you get the joy of sharing something you like; that’s a meaningful experience for both you and for the creator. and that experience—that interaction—encourages the creator to create more, and so there’s more joy to be had for both you and the creator.