Hi, friends. My name is Stephen Bobbett. I’m a brand and marketing director. On nights and weekends, I’m an illustrator, writer, and animator. I like geeking out about media, culture, art, and communications. I’m currently based in New England.
I post a new blog here and on Ko-Fi at least every Saturday, and I stream on Twitch on various night and weekends. If you’d like to support my creative work:
Streaming
I stream on Twitch as FancySchmancy, an eldritch undersea gentleman on a scholarly quest to draw every creature in the multiverse. Join me Saturdays to suggest what creatures I draw, and Sundays for crosswords and chitchat.
Recent Posts
The FancySchmancy Creature Feature: Parasites
As with the previous week, this past week's theme of Parasites was inspired in no small part by the general state of affairs on planet Earth. Here are what species …
The FancySchmancy Creature Feature: Garbage
For no reason in particular, I've felt like the world's been a bit trash lately. I don't know, something about a dull cadre of third-generation nepo-babies tanking the economy for …
The Fancyrithm: March 7, 2025
Like you, I'm getting tired of bad algorithmic recommendations. So I've devised my own: the Fancyrithm. This algorithm exists only in my brain, and it has only two filters: 1) …
Hope, Horror, Heartache: A Review of Outer Wilds
There's a part of me that doesn't want you to read this review of Outer Wilds. It's not because I didn't enjoy the game—in fact, it's one of the best …
The FancySchmancy Creature Feature: Frigid
It's March in New England, which means winter has yet to wane. I spent a few icy days in Boston for a trade show a couple of weeks ago, so …
The FancySchmancy Creature Feature: Angler Fish
A couple of weeks ago I finished playing the game Outer Wilds, in which angler fish play an outsized and terrifying role. Simultaneously, a black seadevil captivated the world by …
The Gatekeepers Are Not On Our Side
(1,101 words, 6 min read time) Sometimes I encounter a photograph from American history that burns itself into my brain, like the floaters you get from glimpsing at the sun …
Gulper Eel
Rudolph the Red-Butt Wriggler is here just in time for the Christmas season.
A Defense—or an Elegy—for the Em Dash
My favorite punctuation mark is now a harbinger of generative AI. That won't stop me from using it—or writing anything in general.
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