Working for a government agency that is constantly yelling at us about "meeting the moment" during a period where every day there are fresh new hells to deal with has been weighing on me extra hard lately. I am so exhausted.
It is a new week, and why not punch the Monday Blues in the dang face by devoting your heart and mind to my extremely queer trans-centric Portland magical girl novels? There is so much fun monster fighting and lesbian happenings and big emotions contained within these pages. magicariot.com/buy
For the evening crowd - why not check out my new story up at Nightmare Magazine? It’s got monsters, civil servants, and dogs.
I have figured out the plot twist to this book as of three chapters ago, and now I'm just finishing it because I'm already so close to the ending.
Maybe I just need to re-read The Ritual? I don't know what kind of horror my brain is craving, but I must find it.
I've written up a brief script for anyone who wants to call or write your representatives regarding this bill (yes, even the ones you think won't care). PLEASE DO THIS IF YOU ARE ABLE. This bill *cannot* pass.
You can find your representatives here: www.congress.gov/members/find...
This was prompted by a haunted house book, but it's so applicable to so many books I read haha.
Burn it down.
Thought I'd start off my profile with a little #meettheartist graphic! I hope y'all like it! It features stuff that's coming out real soon. 🥰
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I swear, so many plots to horror books could be solved by people just lighting things on fire and yet THEY NEVER DO. Haunted house? Light it on fire. Source of power for a witch? Light it on fire.
This is one thing I very much respect about Supernatural haha.
To bloom after the gloom
Photo by JOB on Pexels.com We've reached the part of the year where the sun is slowly starting to stay out longer every day. Where our Southern California weather starts to feel like what the movies always depict it as, and very confused flowers start to bloom in earnest…
Night crowd! Our Gothic Good News:
Hello humans and/or book hoarders of various creaturehood. Might I entice you to buy my books. They are:
- AI free
- Legible
- Not part of a balanced breakfast
- Very queer
- AI free
- Throwable (in physical format)
- Emotion causing
- A thing I'd like to do for a living
and
- AI free
Book Review: Roll for Danger – The Cursed Catacombs by Nick Eliopulos
Adventure awaits in this middle-grade fantasy series that invites young readers to step into the shoes of of the story’s hero! Combining elements of table-top roleplaying and pick-your-poison storytelling, a roll of the dice…
It's New Comics Book Day! What are you reading?
These are your new Image Comics 2.18.2026
I'm not done yet but I'm pretty sure I'm headed that way too!
“It was the voice of a preacher, a voice of the past, a voice for cathedrals, a voice from a time before microphones. It was a voice that denounced witches and flogged sinners. It was a voice that sang Latin while women burned at the stake and men were crushed beneath stones.” - Horrorstör
2026 HWA Summer Scares locusmag.com/2026/02...
OMG NO that's terrifying hahaha. As if being in a quiet basement all alone isn't bad enough.
Listening to the audio version of Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix while being the only one in the office may have been a terrible choice. I am so unsettled right now. 😅
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Bookish people of BlueSky, I am pondering getting a Kobo. Specifically one I can annotate on. Do you own one? Do you like it? Where do you source books?
Thank you in advance for your time! 💙📚
Post from Art Director Bill Robinson on LinkedIn saying: Welp, it finally happened. I was hired to work on a MAJOR live action Hollywood film (and I mean it’s one of the biggest anticipated films of the year). They needed a small animated sequence and wanted a character designer. I was handed a ChatGPT image and told “make it different”. I did - I spent hours finessing the design into something better and more specific for the character in the film. Waited a week for notes - then was told they got clearance from legal to use the original AI image instead. No need for any further work. This is what the director wanted. What are we doing as a society? What’s the endgame here? Replace every human until we are all homeless? I just don’t get it. If a major Hollywood film with a huge budget doesn’t see the need to work with real artists, is there any hope left?
Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.
Bookish people of BlueSky, I am pondering getting a Kobo. Specifically one I can annotate on. Do you own one? Do you like it? Where do you source books?
Thank you in advance for your time! 💙📚
Handmade miniature clay by Yeppenny Doodles of 5 round mice facing in a circle, surrounded by plants
Handmade miniature clay by Yeppenny Doodles of brown wears holding a giant autumn leaf umbrella and wearing tiny leaves on their heads
Handmade miniature clay by Yeppenny Doodles of PB&J, Peas in a Pod, and Milk and Cookies
little buddies i’ve made recently 🐭🐻🍪 #clay #crafting
Today is the kind of day where I just need to go home and bury my face in my dog's neck while hugging her, because ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
I am so very happy this was your reality today! I'll cross my fingers that some rubs off on me haha.
Digital art of three sleeping foxes with fawn fur pattern
fox fawn
