New Blind Date with Death. Marina's job is to keep Dan distracted until ten. Instead they pass a panic attack back and forth like the world's worst party favor. Spy thriller where the most dangerous thing is two people who know exactly where each other's buttons are. www.patreon.com/posts/154655...

New Herpetology of the Apocalypse! We lived through the SBAHJening & are back to Homestuck. Old novels, Doctor Who tangents, more sylladex chaos. Also Nyan Cat turned 15 on the day we recorded this. Which is uhhhh...just slightly unnerving. As you do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye-v...

In “Above Us, Hell,” Alicia Cay plunges readers beneath the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, where greed, ghosts, and the wreckage of war rise together from the deep. Check out the interview with Alicia! blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-ab...

Asshole Mitigation Plan: Know Thyself. Two brothers, one cake. The older one cuts...but the younger one picks, because "fair" looks different when the same brother who cuts also picks first. Objectivity is just an idea. Sweating over that cake? Is not. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

In “Final Walkthrough,” Lou Berger brings the ghosts home—a dark inheritance steeped in Southern soil, where love poisons as easily as it redeems. Check out the interview with Lou! 👻 blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-fi...

You're in a hallway. The lighting is off. Nothing is wrong. And yet. On writing liminal spaces in fiction. The uncomfortable process of creating uncomfortable spaces. wonderlandpress.com/liminal-spac...

New Herpetology of the Apocalypse/Homestuck commentary ep! We finally finished the SBaHJ side comics and had to talk about anti-memes, Poe's Cask of Amontillado, and the DARE program to get there. It's a long one. We regret nothing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=21z1...

Blind Date with Death Ep 10. Marina feeds Dan distracting octopus while his phone buzzes a warning. Logan rolls a coaster across a cozy kitchen counter as an old boss confesses she helped him hide a murder--and he never knew. The urge to trust, embedded in lies. www.patreon.com/posts/bdwd-m...

New Herpetology of the Apocalypse! Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, part 1. Turns out there's a lot of deep thought structuring the nonsense, and nonsense structuring the deep thought. Everything from Borges to the Panasonic Blu-Ray song (99 dolllars). www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SZN...

When an intelligence officer and her crew recover a mysterious artifact, they awaken something older and far more dangerous than the war around them. blackbirdpublishing.com/spotlight-wh...

When bone witch Nariah Boyd is called to a half-drowned parking lot at the city’s edge, she uncovers something ancient and furious: a crocodile spirit who built her own altar from bones and grief. blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-th...

Once, Dideacea ruled a sacred spring, revered by warriors and poets alike. Now she walks unseen through a world that no longer remembers her name. blackbirdpublishing.com/spotlight-a-...

Using a Star Trek GIF, post where you're at right now. 🖖🏻

NEW EP! Herpetology of the Apocalypse Ep 13: Cthulhu, germs, and quantum foam theory. We also wade deep into headcanon territory and commit crimes against comedy. youtu.be/pU1jpqOvnR4

An interview with Kari Kilgore about her story "Saving Unquiet Creek," a tale where land and lineage speak with voices that ripple like water. blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-sa...

New episode of Blind Date with Death: Logan bleeds through borrowed clothes in his old boss's kitchen. Marina feeds Dan off her fingertips to buy Logan time. Who do you trust when you don't trust yourself? www.patreon.com/posts/bdwd-m...

New episode of Herpetology! Act 2 shenanigans continue. How (un)reliable is everything we know about Sburb right now? VERY. And yet the type of unreliability may tell us something bigger is afoot. I think so anyway; Ray just keeps smirking. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4U9...

New Blind Date with Death! Ep 8: Logan flees thru a golf course in bloody cargo shorts. Dan checks his phone mid-flirtation like an idiot. Chef Tom setting plates on fire. A dog named Judge who just wants everyone to calm down. www.patreon.com/posts/bdwd-m...

Back to Homestuck! Grimoires, dinosaurs, write-aurs, and more. Plus links to an itch.io bundle to raise $ for Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, Hobbes's Leviathan (the creepy king-made-of-subjects one), and a Clive Barker story that's same but worse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZSK...

Overwhelmed? The usual advice SUCKS and hides invisible costs. Here's an approach that takes into account systems designed to make you give up. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

When the sea goes still and the sails hang limp, only one woman in Weird Water Harbour can sell you a wind—and she’ll take more than your coin in return. An interview with Steve Vernon, author of "The Wind Witch of Weird Water Harbour." 🌬️ blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-th...

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Your outdated musical references should set the world on fire. Or not.

Your outdated musical references should blame it on the bossa nova.

New Blind Date with Death, ep 7. Dinner on the balcony goes from icy to scorching—and not just because of Chef Tom's chilled habanero soup. Old wounds, raw nerves, and drawing a line. Free on Patreon: patreon.com/posts/151337211

New Herpetology of the Apocalypse! Problem Sleuth is BACK — we only got through Episode 2 this time, so it's a short episo--I lied, it's another long one. Oops. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loic...

I wrote a song for this - a sea shanty!

New blog post: how to market yourself by building an author persona that's trustworthy, evocative, and doesn't make you want to crawl under your desk. wonderlandpress.com/how-to-marke...

Blind Date with Death ep 6! Logan, a.k.a. the Goob, on a nighttime run past some multi-million-dollar homes on a cool August night in the Colorado Rockies, with backstory flitting through the shadows. www.patreon.com/posts/150732...

New episode of the Homestuck/Herpetology of the Apocalypse channel. This week: Freud, Lovecraft, & recipe games. Come hang out with us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=01fD...

Asshole Mitigation Plan, part 11: Punishment changes behavior, often on a level we're not fully aware of. Accountability is conscious measurement. Guess which one assholes favor. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

Black and white thinking: it looks like it's about good and bad, right and wrong, us and them...but it's really about "asshole wins" versus "you lose." wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

Who is NOT an asshole? People with a conscience--and apex predators, people with no morals but who take care of their own. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

Witches and captains and boats stuck at harbour... Eerie tales of oceans and other bodies of water. HAUNTED WATERS, edited by Jamie Ferguson. Feature story by Steve Vernon. blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli...

ASSHOLE MITIGATION PLAN. Why assholes? Why do they even exist? wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

ASSHOLE MITIGATION PLAN, Part 7: What IS an Asshole? A fucking bootlicker, that's what. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

Asshole Mitigation Plan, p6: Micromanagement. Manipulation starts small. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

New BDwD section is live. Luxury hotels, sharp tongues, expensive food, and two so-called terrible people circling each other...and who don't know the difference between flirting and old trauma. www.patreon.com/posts/148892...

Asshole Mitigation Plan, P5. Fuck ICE. "Doing Enough" and Despair. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

Asshole Mitigation Plan P4. Cheap and Easy Fixes. Why don't we do 'em? wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

The Asshole Mitigation Plan: how to disenfuck your life from assholes. Not perfectly. But the parts you can observe, influence, and control. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

I have a story in this! With a sea shanty. Cursed artifacts. Haunted submarines. A lake that never gives back what it takes. Water remembers what the world forgets. Haunted Waters: fifteen tales that take you beneath the surface. books2read.com/h3-haunted-w...

I've got three of these up so I guess it's more than a brief experiment. THE ASSHOLE MITIGATION PLAN. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

New chamber larp published on my website! -- The Anatomy Lesson. "The year is 1632: the place, Amsterdam. Aris Kindt, a desperate violent criminal, mugs a passer-by in an attempt to steal their valuable cloak. Kindt is arrested, tried, and swiftly executed by hanging..." holkar.net

This is an incredible cookbook. I've given three copies as gifts, and one family called it "nearly transformative" for its ability to widen the range of foods their autistic child would eat, and for opening paths of consideration for *what* things their child found objectionable. Buy it.

Episode 4 of Blind Date with Death is live. Luxury-hotel glamour on the surface, claustrophobic service hallway paranoia behind the scenes. Spies, romance, and "I'll do anything as long as it isn't line dancing" vibes. www.patreon.com/posts/148329...

Episode 6 of Herpetology of the Apocalypse is up: The Great British Bakeoff Episode?!? Sorta. Pie-ing, Sumerian and Greek mythology, dead tech, Touch Detective, and BARRY HUGHART. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2syW...

Generally: any area that you can filter (including social media) will be notionally 4x better by removing assholes.

Blind Date with Death — Ep 3 is up. Five days. One hotel. No emergency exits. Morticians + tech geeks under chandeliers, and that “one small favor” keeps getting bigger. (18+; still free.) Read here: www.patreon.com/collection/1...