To be clear, I am going to laugh, jeer, celebrate, get drunk, smoke weed (which I rarely due because paranoia), and otherwise experience a spasm of glee nigh onto an orgasm when Trump dies. And I hope it hurts. I fear what will come after will be worse: a fascist who isn't so obvious about it.

My story "Vanya and the Dog Witch" is now free-to-read at www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/vany.... Please check it out! I am highly biased, but I think it's pretty good. (Note: please support BCS by pledging to their Patreon or buying e-books. I want them healthy to buy more stories!)

I have interesting human characters (Zila and Vanya from my story dropping for public free consumption THURSDAY in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social), plus crows. I have an inciting event. I HAVE NOTHING ELSE AND IT IS ANNOYING.

I really want some Pastafarian student at Liberty University to write a reflection paper vaguely referencing their beliefs in response to a completely unrelated prompt, then scream about bias when they get a bad grade. No I don't, because we all know that student would just get an F without fuss.

Story out early!

Hey! My story "Vanya and the Dog Witch" is out today in the early-bird Patreon supporter issue 447 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Please read it! (Not a supporter? It will be up on the @bcsmagazine.bsky.social website on December 11 and I believe for sale in ebook form.)

I'm happy to report that my story "Vanya and the Dog Witch" will appear in issue #447 of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, which is due to drop in early December. This is a free-to-read publication, so there's no reason for you not to read it! (But by all means donate to their patreon.)

Hey @buehlmeister.bsky.social, I just made the library where I wrangle patrons order The Daughters' War.

I love this song. It's like a fantasy novel. "And with this knife of silver, I will release your soul." www.youtube.com/watch?v=UalN...

Hot damn. Thanks YouTube algorithm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DO...

Trump is going to launch every nuke in the arsenal about 90 seconds before he's dragged out by the FBI or the People's Tribunal or whatever. That's obvious, right? If not him, then Vance or Miller or one of the other jackbooters who takes over.

I am really glad I was never one of those boys who couldn't read books by/about girls. Had I been otherwise, I would have missed Sparrow Hill Road by @seananmcguire.bsky.social.

When I was in middle school (aka jr. high for us Xennials), I tried to get people to call me Icewolf. That didn't work.

I have to admit, from a purely technological standpoint, generative AI is pretty cool. It's also very interesting to play with it to try to get it to do what you want it to do. (I am playing with logo design concepts for my business, which I intend to then pass on to a real-life person.)

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

AHHHHHH CHARACTER I NEED A STORY FOR: The kiddo the chosen one boy hero doesn't know his GF back in his home village had after he has sex with her right before traipsing off for his grand adventures.

Lest we forget. This was probably my introduction to fantasy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyMK...

I have a day off a week from tomorrow. I have a day off a week from tomorrow. I have a day off a week from tomorrow. All work and no play makes Walter a dull boy. I have a day off a week from tomorrow.

I just realized how easy it would be to swap lyrics around so that The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" becomes "I Want to Eat Your Ass."

I have rather a vested interest in this magazine succeeding. I have bought ebooks from Amazon and Weightless Books in the past, but I just signed up as a "Vizier" for this Patreon. If your finances and reading inclinations suit this magazine, I ask you to sign up or buy some ebooks.

I never expected that the fact I (forties, male, childless) can't go around soliciting hugs from 12yo girls would cause writing difficulties, but here we are.

Hey! Come say hi at Miscon this weekend! I am on six panels: Informal Author Meet & Greet One Ring to Rule Them All? Villain Redemption? What Makes the "Best" Characters? Writing Without Heroes & Villains What is It About Taverns?

600+ people took a walk together down Main Street in Livingston this afternoon. I was #532 to pass the person with a clicker who was counting. Our population is about 8,000. (Maybe a dozen grumpy sourpusses on the other side of the street. They only yelled at the stragglers on ours.)

A Wizard of Earthsea is a perfect book. I've said it before. I'll say it again.

In light of today's (comparatively minor) news, I'll have it be known that I believe every single Confederate general and politician should have been hung as a traitor, or at least spent the rest of their natural lives in prison. Also, fuck ICE and fuck Trump.

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

I really wish @buehlmeister.bsky.social's word "girleen" was in common English usage, because it would make it a hell of a lot easier to write fantasy concerning unmarried young women without saying "unmarried young woman," or something obnoxious like "maiden."

Ukraine has to have the most creative armed/security forces in the world right now. How about we give them all aid short of war? www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Fashion: Bad. Song: Rockin' www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTd...

Last night I dreamed I ate a pot brownie and got super high. In the dream, I felt chill and fuzzy and happy. That is to say, I felt well-stoned. Then I woke up as per usual, without any aftereffects or the paranoia that explain why I don't actually eat pot brownies. Please more dreams like this.

I do really appreciate that Luke Skywalker and Bill S. Preston, Esq. (@alexwinter.com‬) continue to fight the good fight.

Reminder: This is rock and roll. Listen to Dead Moon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnAQ...

Is avocado toast retroactive? ARE WE GOING TO LOSE OUR HOUSE?

Happy Star Wars Day!

How much of Hegseth's behavior can be explained by getting rejected by Barracks Bunnies?

Hulu just served me an ad promoting Taco Bell value meals. One of them was $9. This is not okay. Taco Bell meals are $4.50. Tops.

Belated Happy Dead Hitler Day to all who celebrate!

I encourage any author considering attending Worldcon to cancel. This is inexcusable.

Starting to find myself digging the crossover thrash. (At age 44, because why not?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=np3F...

Not my country, but I feel qualified to suggest that our northern neighbors avoid the guy who continuously complimented our guy until our guy up and said he was going to conquer said neighbors.

NO SHIT ASSHOLE. ANYONE WITH FUNCTIONING NEURONS KNEW THIS FIVE MINUTES AFTER PUTIN INVADED. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Don't follow this shit goblin. I sent out a lot of awful stories before I started writing any half-decent ones. Seeing my work pilloried in public like this would have killed me.

Hegseth is the obnoxious douchebro cousin everybody says hi to once at family reunions, then ignores. The 14yo boys like him because he is "edgy" and will sneak them beer. The 14yo girls know instinctively to stay away. He looks at them too long across the room anyway.

Me: "Did you see Mortimer the Deerhound?" Jani: "I did not. I was watching videos about making dollhouse miniatures from trash."

The mussels were frozen, but this is still a dinner of champions. (We did start with green salads in a white vinaigrette. We aren't complete heathens.)

Are you looking for a con and also need to be 100% Covid-safe? Flights of Foundry is: - completely online -full of fantastic programming - good for all time zones - run by excellent people

Me: *swats Jani [wife] on booty with empty paper towel roll* "I had to!" Jani: "You really like this kind of pants." Me: "Well they make your butt look good!"

If my dog were an old lady, she would call the cops anytime the neighbor kids got to roughhousing in their own yard. Her: "NoooooOoooo! This activity is unaproopoOOOOOved!"

Ovechkin is besties with Putin and Gretzky is now besties with Trump. Sigh. Are there any hockey heroes who don't live up to being toothless with a mullet?

Today in "My extremely diverse and chaotic musical tastes absolutely wreck the YouTube algorithm:" "Psychic Hearts," by Thurston Moore to "1812 Overture" by Tchaikovsky, with cannons of course.