A moody and expressive sky painting to match the mood of the changing seasons here in Edmonton.
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@britt@mstdn.games
mastodon 4.6.9Admin for mstdn.games. 🇨🇦
I’m loud about what I love! ✦ #Autistic / #ADHD ✦ Wife to @craftykraken@mstdn.games 🏳️🌈 in #Canada ✦ Mental Health, #Disability & Neurodiversity Advocate ✦ Cat Mom ✦ She/Her | Level 39
I make custom fidgets: —> BrittBuilds3D.Etsy.com
Old Millennial back at University. 📚
I am learning to make art again. 🖼️
U.S. born, Canadian by choice. 🇨🇦
Now playing: #FFXIV & various indies.
Please, always, be kind. 💜
Please do not offer me unsolicited medical advice. 🏥
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Joined December 01, 2022
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I decided to snag a XTEINK x4 Pro… I reallllly missed having a dedicated e-reader in my life, and this little one is super small and compact - truly pocketable.
It’s running CrossInk and it’s amazing! The OS is open source and has a lot of great features. I easily loaded it up with over 250 DRM-free epubs. 🤘🏼
I even 3D printed a sleek little charging station for it. My wife @craftykraken@mstdn.games made this cheeky little sleep screen graphic for me. 🫶
It’s snowing.
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Today is Botox for migraine day… finally, after a few cancellations.
I’m scared but also too tired to be scared at the same time.
Edit: that was CRUNCHY lol
My language learning / multi lingual friends:
Am I absolutely out of my mind for considering taking Latin instead of French for my Uni language requirement?
I’m taking recommendations for witchy books for this time of year!
I’ll consider almost any genre but some of my favorites are historical fiction, dark academia, and fantasy. 📚
I’m out on dystopian stories right now because *looks at our timeline*
#Bookstodon #Books #Reading #library #audiobooks
I almost gave up on this painting but I stuck with it and I’m so happy I did!
I love it. ⛰️
#art #MastoArt #watercolor
Etsy is at it again, deleting my listings for random, vague reasons (thanks, AI), with zero ability to appeal. (Edit to add: they’re deleting my Pride/rainbow listings one by one…)
This hurts. A lot. This shop is my main source of income. I need your help transferring my shop from Etsy to a site I can fully control. I've been trying to set something up myself (Tried WordPress & Shopify), but over and over again, it ends up being too overwhelming, and I give up.
I live with multiple disabilities that mostly affect my ability to work for long periods of time and sustain deep focus/looking at screens. Any help, from anyone, would be immensely appreciated.
#BrittBuilds3D
(To add: I'm an ethical seller and provide detailed listing descriptions for each item to ensure buyers know exactly what they're getting. The Etsy bots occasionally crawl my site and delete listings for not following 'shop policy,’ but they provide ZERO reason for removing/deleting my listings. It's disgusting and unfair. Using keywords that accurately describe what I'm selling shouldn't lead to rogue removals of listings for items that put food on our table. I'm so angry.)
Iggy is my new bestie! 🦎
I’ll have him + some new dinosaur buddies available this month!
#BrittBuilds3D
Smol sunset practice today. ☀️
Snagged a new set of paints today and painted this :) I think this is going to go well. 🎨
5 weeks into watercolour… I’m so proud of myself for trying to find my creativity again! #art #watercolor #painting #learning
I call this one ‘Accidental Mordor’ 🌋😆
I threw some colour on this piece of paper in my sketchbook with zero idea what it was going to be... it turned into an accidental Mordor! I'll take it!
I had fun inking on it afterwards... nothing fancy, not taking myself too seriously, just having fun!
#art #watercolor
Just pulled this new colour combo for the magnetic cassette tape fidgets off the 3D printer!
Soft pastel rainbow 🌈
I’m. In. Love.
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
#BrittBuilds3D
I applied to the University of Alberta last October, the week that transfer applications opened.
I just got accepted TODAY- two weeks before classes begin. WTF.
I was accepted into their Bachelor of Arts (Honours) program in Sociology. It’s competitive.
FFS - would have been really nice to know this before I already registered and applied for a student loan at my *current* University.
Upside: at least I know I’m able to get into UofA and UVic. :ACNH_Love:
I set out on a mission to create a 90’s throwback retro arcade vibe with this one…
Did I succeed?
#BrittBuilds3D
Anyone else ever had akathisia as a side effect of an IV infusion?
I’m looking for someone, anyone, who understands what I’m going through.
If you or someone you know would be interested in chatting with me about your experience, it would help me out a lot. Thank you ☺️
I got some new paints and tried my first sunset painting from a photo of one of my favourite spots back on Vancouver Island… it’s not perfect but I like the attempt! 🌅
#painting #art #watercolor
I printed some lil burger 🍔 clickers for fun yesterday… a cat, a bunny, a capybara and a regular bun!
These are adorable - I can’t even! 😆
#BrittBuilds3D
Hey, I’m reaching out to the #blind community here on Mastodon. I need your help in assisting a customer on my website who is blind.
They’ve reached out to me via messages on Etsy, asking how tactile my fidgets are. They want to know if my fidgets (2 in particular, I can link you) are detailed enough for a visually impaired person to enjoy. I feel unqualified to answer this question without consulting others with lived experience. Further, I’m dyslexic and autistic, and worry that I might describe something inaccurately.
They’ve requested I send them a highly detailed written description of what features can be tactically felt on the fidgets they want. I really want to help, but I’m unsure the best way to do this. Your help would be immensely appreciated.
Thanks. 😊
#Accessibility
If today is a difficult day for you,
I see you.
I feel it.
You’re not alone. 🫶🏻💕
B, how is peri going?
Me: “honey, where are my emergency pokey sticks? I like to have one around when I start a new medication.”
Wifey: …”ummm… your EpiPen?”
LMAO YES MY EPIPEN. 😆
(Edit: my spelling error was HILARIOUS but I corrected it)
Today marks 3 weeks of learning how to paint with watercolours. 
I’m noticing I like layering paint and inking over my work.
It’s a forgiving medium for someone with rheumatoid arthritis + bilateral carpal tunnel. My neck though? Yeah, it’s not too happy about this new hobby. 😆
But yeah - It’s been great for my mental health. Yay!
This painting is inspired by the Alberta Badlands. There are sweeping landscapes down there full of the world's best preserved dinosaur fossils. The landscape features gorgeous wind exposed erosion on the hills with layers of sediment ranging from yellows golds, to browns and reds.
I tried to reproduce those striations in this painting. 
Hope you enjoy!! #watercolor #art #painting #alberta
I’m noticing I like layering paint and inking over my work.
It’s a forgiving medium for someone with rheumatoid arthritis + bilateral carpal tunnel. My neck though? Yeah, it’s not too happy about this new hobby. 😆
But yeah - It’s been great for my mental health. Yay!
This painting is inspired by the Alberta Badlands. There are sweeping landscapes down there full of the world's best preserved dinosaur fossils. The landscape features gorgeous wind exposed erosion on the hills with layers of sediment ranging from yellows golds, to browns and reds.
I tried to reproduce those striations in this painting.
Hope you enjoy!! #watercolor #art #painting #albertaI have zero orders in queue at the shop. First time since the post Christmas lull.
This is going to be my new norm with all of the U.S. tariff uncertainty and trade changes happening in the UK and EU.
Trade is unbelievable difficult right now. Well, if you want to do it legally… and I do.
Sad panda noises. :blobheartraccoon:
#BrittBuilds3D
Really love the custom fidget clickers this customer picked as part of their order. 😍
Left: 3 shelf gothic bookshelf clicker with charcoal case.
Top right: sleepy dragon enchanted book stack clicker.
Bottom right: dragon stained glass clicker with galaxy black case.
#BrittBuilds3D
The range of podcasts in my library is wild.
W I L D 👀
I’ll leave it there just for the suspense….
A few test silly text stickers… 😆
Happy Mother’s Day to:
>> My fellow eldest parentified daughters.
>> To the ones who are still healing decades later.
>> To the ones who say, “I’m breaking the cycle of generational trauma. It ends with me.”
To my motherless daughters.
I see you. I stand beside you.
You are my heroes. My kin.
🫶🏻🤘🏻💕☺️
After days of screaming into the Etsy void, I may have found a workaround for shipping stickers through the fidget shop! Giving customers OPTIONS for letter mail (untracked), partial tracking (origination scan), or full parcel tracking (my usual). This would only apply to orders with stickers ONLY - other orders with fidgets would default to the parcel rates.
This could work. I hope. Maybe.
Now we just need to improve our sticker design flow process. haha.
Any sticker suggestions?! I'll get workin'!
I painted a tornado and now we’re on tornado watch.
Why am I like this 😆😆😆
As I’m testing new fidgets for the shop, it's never lost on me how absolutely ironic it is that I have rheumatoid arthritis that primarily affects my hands/thumbs/wrist... yet I make fidget toys for a living.
Oh, the irony. It doesn't escape me.
I guess my ADHD/Autism is stronger than the RA. 
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO!!!
https://ottawa.citynews.ca/2026/05/13/judge-quashes-alberta-separation/
My triptan has started taking me *OUT OF THIS GALAXY* lately and I’m not even mad. lol
I take one and I better be prepared to sleep for at least an hour or two, and be flat AF for the rest of the day.
This post has found you from bed rest. 🤘🏻
Heads up if you’re looking to place an order on my Etsy shop! Get your orders in before Monday!!! ‼️
The shop will be in vacation mode starting August 3rd, for at least a week.
I’m having a medical procedure on my dominant hand and will be unable to make any fidgets while I’m recovering. ❤️🩹
https://brittbuilds3d.etsy.com 🫶
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@mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca thank you for this. If you don’t mind me asking, how would you recommend I manage a response? I want to help, but I worry they would only be disappointed because I may not describe something properly.
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@mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca appreciate this! I’m going to move this practice to tomorrow, I’m pretty bagged after a long day and my cognitive brain fog is settled in. Time to rest and recoop and I’ll give it a go tomorrow :)
Thrifty Business held my attention on the Steam Deck for a solid 2 hours the first time I played it.
Do recommend.
Number go up game. 10/10 
Number go up game. 10/10 I get a lot of requests for links to audio showing what my clickers and magnetic fidgets sound like.
I’d like to accommodate links to videos with sound, but I’m unsure of the best place to have private videos hosted - you can only see them if you have the link - which I’d add into all of my listing descriptions or share in messages.
Etsy silences every video on their platform to prevent bad actors but this really has a negative effect on a shop like mine.
Any creative ideas are welcome! Thanks!
My wife and I have been working on a sticker design to sell that will help support folks affected by this years devastating 🇨🇦 Canadian wildfires. I’ll likely add a section to my existing Etsy shop rather than create something new.
My question to you:
Besides the Canadian Red Cross, what are some charities we could donate proceeds to? Particularly to help affected Indigenous communities?
Please boost 
for visibility!! Thank you! 😊
#Canada #wildfires
for visibility!! Thank you! 😊
#Canada #wildfiresReplying to
@macmanx@social.lol wow!! That’s a huge compliment, thank you. 😊 I’m so happy you like it - it’s one of my best sellers, so I think you’re in very good company with it being your fav! 💕
I made that whole line to feel nostalgic, a love letter to the early 2000 iMacs. I am so so happy you love it. Truly. 🫶🏻
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@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party This reminds me of the time someone on Masto decided to go stalk me to find my personal email address (which is not public!!) and message me directly via email about something they wanted.
Yeah no.
Fastest way to get personally blocked and banned from my entire instance.
Absolutely not.
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@BaronessWinter@beige.party these can be purchased with a Walkman-like case … but I haven’t made a literal Walkman.
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@senanthic/116999489497441305
If you still have a #Shopify store, this is your signal to maybe reconsider that…
Their CEO recently said wealthy people should have more influential voting power.
Get out. All the way out, bro.
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hey, you're saying the quiet part out loud agai—
fuck it, they don't give a damn who knows anymore
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@aerobender@mas.to zero pressure at all, but if you’d like anything from the shop, just drop me a DM here and we can chat about it. I also mark everything down 20% for Mastodon folks :)
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@aerobender@mas.to not through Etsy at this time, but I do private orders for folks outside the US and Canada. 😊