WIL WHEATON dot NET (@wilwheaton.net.web.brid.gy)

seven mary three come back This last weekend, I was in Pensacola, Florida. When I told my friend that, he said “what are you doing in Florida?” I said, “Trying to get out.” But I was actually there for Pensacon. It’s a convention that has invited me year after year, but hasn’t ever fit into...

25.02.2026 22:15 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

i think i leveled up I turned in a story on Friday. It was over a year late. It needed eyes that aren’t mine, it needed another pass from me, it needed a polish. So it isn’t done done, but it’s close enough to done that I feel safe writing about what may turn out...

04.02.2026 23:28 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It’s Storytime – Magnificent Maurice, or the Flowers of Immortality It is Wednesday, my dudes, and that means a new Storytime is waiting for you, wherever you get your podcasts. This week’s story, Magnificent Maurice, or the Flowers of Immortality, was SO MUCH FUN to narrate. Here’s my intro: About ten thousand years ago, some cats in Mesopotamia looked at...

28.01.2026 17:36 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It’s Storytime: Wend-Way-Go It is Wednesday, and that means there’s a new episode of It’s Storytime With Wil Wheaton, waiting for you wherever you get your podcasts. This week’s story is Wend-Way-Go by Tim Pratt. It was originally published in Uncanny Magazine. I made a creative choice for this week that I haven’t...

21.01.2026 19:12 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

the footsteps of a rag doll dance Marlowe and I were out on her morning walk, when we saw one of her friends. “Hi Marlowe!” He said with a huge smile, while I struggled to keep up with her efforts to get her head under his outstretched hand. While they enjoyed scritches, he and I had a...

20.01.2026 21:57 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

i am doing my best to be a helper Mister Rogers says that when terrible things happen, to look for the helpers. Terrible things are happening. I’m upset. And I’m angry. And I’m so sad. While I am looking for the helpers, I am also doing my best to be a helper. I have to be honest: when a...

09.01.2026 01:13 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken. “The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...

15.12.2025 22:13 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

faster than a roller coaster In just a couple days, I’ll get up at are-you-fucking-serious o’clock to get on a who-flies-this-fucking-early plane to go across the country, where I will land at you-just-spent-the-entire-day-on-a-plane o’clock, just in time for rush hour. I know, I make it sound really awesome, and you’re all deeply envious of me....

01.12.2025 22:33 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

i’m sure i’m in here, somewhere I should probably edit this, but if I start down that path, I’ll futz with it until I decide to delete it all. So I’m publishing something that’s a little more rough than usual. I am a slow writer. I write slowly. It takes me hours to settle on 500...

19.11.2025 22:41 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

the cosmic ballet goes on A couple nights ago, my sister sent me a picture of the gorgeous aurora over her house in the upper midwest, so I took a picture in my back yard and sent it to her, to share my own view of the phenomena: We do this every time she can...

14.11.2025 19:50 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

you walk outside, and everything just says “SOON” There is a massive winter storm barreling toward us right now, expected to arrive in the next 18 or so hours. Yesterday, it was unseasonably warm and stupidly beautiful. Today, it’s eerily calm, under grey skies. The air is so still, it carries the train whistles from all the way...

12.11.2025 23:53 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

It’s Storytime – The Odyssey Problem I should have posted the yesterday. My bad! I’m working all week on a narration that I have wanted permission to do for years. YEARS. Every night I go to sleep super excited to get back to work, and every morning I wake up excited that I get to do...

06.11.2025 23:22 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton – The Dark House And we’re back! My podcast, It’s Storytime With Wil Wheaton, returns today with a spooky story to celebrate the spooky season. This week, it’s The Dark House, by AC Wise. A photographer’s obsession with an unsettled subject exposes two friends to a darkness that won’t be contained by frames… It’s...

29.10.2025 17:31 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

It’s Storytime With Wil Wheaton Returns October 29 Good news, everyone! My podcast’s test season earlier this year was received with such enthusiasm, we immediately got to work on building the machinery that would power a full series. It took all summer, as I and my team applied what we learned we could do differently or better going...

25.10.2025 19:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

please, practice kindness. Next Thursday, October 23, I am speaking at the San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center’s 55th Anniversary Gala. We hope to raise some money to help them help our neighbors, and I’m going to share my story, which I hope inspires someone to take the first step on their...

17.10.2025 22:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ain’t it fun Grace Helbig is returning to YouTube. She made a video about it, and said something that resonated with me: we start out doing something because it is fun, and we keep doing it because we enjoy how fun it is. If we’re lucky, the thing we are doing for fun...

14.10.2025 19:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On October 23rd, you can come hear me speak about mental health care and trauma recovery One of the privileges I enjoy in my life is the opportunity to speak openly and honestly about my mental health struggles, challenges, and successes. I get to be the person I need in the world, and I get to pay forward the kindness and support so many people gave...

07.10.2025 17:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

no kings Seriously. Fuck these fascists. Join a No Kings protest on October 18 and stand up for our rights and our democracy.

02.10.2025 19:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

in the mirror hypnotized I’m haunted Yesterday, I mentioned on Bluesky that I’d heard this guy suggest a way to break the doomscrolling Ouroboros we all seem to be stuck in right now: when the urge to resume doomscrolling hits (our brains asking for dopamine), make a choice to be creative instead. Satisfy the brain’s desire...

24.09.2025 19:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

perfectly salted soup In every partnership, a division of labor emerges over time that allows each partner to play to their strengths, stay out of each other’s way, and efficiently get shit done together. In our house, I do most of the cooking, because I genuinely love everything about it … with one...

23.09.2025 20:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“…we are all Angelenos who love our city of angels. Our Metro system is an expression of that love for our communities.” Yesterday, I had the privilege and the honor to emcee the opening of the new Metro A Line light rail extension from Glendora to Pomona. If you’re local, you know what a big deal this is, and how much of a difference it’s going to make in the lives of...

20.09.2025 20:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

that’s what i do; i blink and i type things I am at my desk, staring at the blinking cursor in my text editor for what feels like an hour. If I were in a movie, the camera would do […]

29.08.2025 22:25 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

a clever and interesting title that draws the reader in It’s been one of those days when I do an incredible amount of creative work, but it looked like I spent the whole day just cleaning and unfucking my office […]

28.08.2025 00:31 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Want to watch Stand By Me with Corey, Jerry, and me? Next year, Stand By Me will turn 40. I know. Take all the time you need to absorb and deal with that. It kinda snuck up on me, too. We […]

26.08.2025 17:58 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“The cool kids call it a blog.” August 23 is WWdN’s official birthday. It was 24 years ago last week that I finished building a website from scratch (in notepad, using raw html), after about 6 weeks […]

25.08.2025 18:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

catching halos on the moon I had such a good time with my garden last season. It was the first time I had ever capital-t Tended a garden in my life, and it was a […]

28.06.2025 20:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

in the heat of the summer better call out a plumber Back in the old days, the good old days, when it was generally accepted that Fascism and Nazis were bad, bloggers would write these posts that were sort of recaps […]

20.06.2025 19:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

lift every voice and sing Lift every voice and sing,‘Til earth and heaven ring,Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;Let our rejoicing riseHigh as the listening skies,Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.Sing a song […]

19.06.2025 17:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it picks me up, puts me down I’ve been open and unashamed about my mental health struggles and triumphs, always willing to talk about my CPTSD, always willing to supportively listen when someone chooses to share their […]

19.06.2025 00:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

behind his eyes he says ‘i still exist’ This thing has been happening to me since I built my first blog about 25 years ago, and you’d think that by now it would have stopped, but here we […]

03.06.2025 18:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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