Tess · Also known online as Buttons
I make things, care deeply, and notice the connective tissue.
I’m a Baton Rouge-based pet sitter, photographer, writer, worldbuilder, and narrative consultant. My work looks varied from the outside, but it all begins with attention: to animals, people, stories, systems, and the life someone is trying to build.
The through-line
Different work. The same kind of care.
With pets, I learn the routine and what makes them feel secure. With photography, I look for the frame where someone feels most like themselves. With worldbuilding, I listen for the rules, history, and emotional logic underneath the idea.
I am AuDHD, and I do not believe clarity requires becoming less expansive. I build structures that can hold complexity while still helping people know where to begin.
Creative practice
Stories are rarely only words.
My background includes branching dialogue, Easter eggs and hidden discoveries, large TTRPG campaigns, worldbuilding systems, candid photography, audio production, interactive web experiences, and community-led creative work.
That multidisciplinary practice is most visible in XYZTHIANS and TIGIDB: evolving projects that combine story, choices, systems, visual language, music, and digital exploration.
Explore projects →A life-first future
Work should leave room for a life.
I founded On The Fly Network because neurodivergent, disabled, and chronically ill creatives should not have to choose between their health, their pay, and their ambitions.
The long-term vision is a portable, flexible creative production network where people can be paid fairly, contribute through their strengths, rest when capacity changes, travel, and help build one another’s projects.
Visit On The Fly Network →What I am building toward
Creative work that supports a full life, instead of requiring people to disappear inside the work.Tess Devillier
Three connected homes
One person, three clear doors.
This site is where you hire me. That’s Soo Buttons is where the personal creative universe gets to be strange and expansive. OTF Network is the structure I am building so ambitious creative work does not have to remain solo or unpaid.