Blind Date with Death Audio Ep 2 live on Patreon! Spies and spicy romance 🖤 Logan fleeing through a golf course in bloody cargo shorts. Dinner with Dan on the balcony smells like bacon, habaneros and old trauma. Everything is delicious but nothing is quite safe. www.patreon.com/posts/158892...

You can't remove yourself from triggers unless you're self-isolating OR you're exerting abusive control over others.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

New Herpetology of the Apocalypse is up! Homestuck commentary on worldbuilding, isekai vs. portal fantasy, kernels (math and computers), and SPAM BUTTERSCOTCH COOKIES. We haven't made them...yet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0nl...

New ep of Herpetology of the Apocalypse: Under an hour but no less weird for its (sorta) brevity. Casket vs. coffin vs. sarcophagi, taxidermy trivia, and more. We were both a bit fwoomped but the apocalypse stops for nobody.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=-en7...

When you center yourself as the protagonist of your own own story, expect resistance: it will cost you to disentangle yourself from assholes. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

New ep of Blind Date with Death: The chrysanthemum tattoo has long, curling petals that cover most of a juicy thigh...but it's not the only tattoo Dan notices. And Logan waits for the other shoe to drop while Hill's dog sighs at an empty chair... www.patreon.com/posts/155837...

New episode of Herpetology of the Apocalypse! To the Mormons we laughed at on camera: next time don't solicit while we're recording. Also: gaffer tape, Rose's mom, glitches...and more laughter. A lot of it. Come hang out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ0d...

Oh hey, Brigid Collins' second Clockwork Kingdom book escaped to Kickstarter! The first was a delight. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bri...

Finalizing the #n4sa2e Defenestrated Edition.

Being known. Being truly known. If you grew up managing someone else's ego, you may never have found out. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

New Blind Date with Death: Ms. Hill has a confession. Then another. Then one more. And all Logan can do is spin a cork coaster while feeling himself floating over an abyss. Luckily there's also a large dog leaning against his leg and keeping him grounded. Sorta.  www.patreon.com/posts/bdwd-m...

HAPPY HOMESTUCK DAY!!! New Herpetology of the Apocalypse up! We celebrated with cake, booze, Doritos, and a pesterchum handle how-to.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNae...

New Herpetology of the Apocalypse (Homestuck commentary) video up. Wizards (both the Lord of the Rings and the Discworld kind) and the deeply unsettling history of bronzing things, like baby shoes. And kings.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvlL...

When a research crew descends into the abyss to explore the wreck of the long-lost USS Hollander, they awaken more than echoes of the past. blackbirdpublishing.com/spotlight-th...

In “Whispers of the Drowned,” Charles Eugene Anderson gives voice to the ghosts history tries to forget—melding wartime dread and mythic retribution in a story where the sea itself becomes a keeper of memory. blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-wh...

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...