Three of my illustrated zines are now up on itch for free. If you enjoy them, please consider joining my patreon. Each month I mail postcards, zines, stories, games or stickers to your hungry mailbox. abetterjulie.itch.io

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I'm pleased to announce that my solarpunk/climate fiction collection, Different Kinds of Defiance, has a new cover art by Hugo finalist @dntlz.bsky.social! I can't express how happy I am with the final result. You can find the new edition in the usual places. 🔆

SQUEEE!!! My wee squid babies!!

Breaking: ICE is now reportedly following white people on grocery runs in Minnesota, suspecting they're delivering food to neighbors too afraid to leave their homes. Neighborhood instructions: Don't put the address in your phone. Don't use GPS. Write it on paper. And if you get stopped, eat it.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Finally playing #Road96, and it's intense and riveting. Political narrative where your choices can mean life or death, not just for you but for the teens who come after you. Can you get your teen runaways to the border and freedom? Can you change the world? Highly recommend. #videogames

Today's #art practice. I'm learning the chalk brush. The reference was the Golden Oriole from a Smithsonian collection.

While remaining on her head, the witch's pointy hat turns inside out. Like a nail burrowed into her skull—she is empty, a black velvet cup, catching the oaths that fall from the late bleak sky

Games submitted to this jam will be turned into a charity bundle to benefit Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. #GameJam #FightFacism itch.io/jam/no-ice-i...

When she smiles, her expressive feathers flip to their iridescent side, and her face becomes a bowl of molten colors, rippling blue and gold

I have repaired the worm. I have repaired the worm in the kintsugi style. There is gold between its dismantled selves—gold flesh, as soft as the moist soil-sprites. It lives again, and it is whole

Swooping back this very fine MLK Day with our first unthemed issue of 2026! Behold! Get yours! Tell a friend! fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

He lost consciousness and they didn't even bother to get him medical treatment. He remains in custody. gofund.me/c1721a0d2

Brutalist doves have evolved to blend in with the cold concrete archways. To watch them launch from the overpass is mystical: it appears the bridge is crumbling upwards

Anyone who’s ever lived in or visited NYC will feel the benefits of this. Which is a lot of people.

The one I personally use is this. makerworld.com/en/models/11... I tried to upload my print profile but I have so many on my plate that it’s throwing an error lol

A Goals Update. Birds! Goblins! www.patreon.com/posts/goals-...

A Goals Update. Birds! Goblins! www.patreon.com/posts/goals-...

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

36 people have died at ICE's hands in the past year may of these deaths did not happen on camera, but it does not make them any less horrifying and unacceptable this is a list of their names, where they lived before being abducted, and a link to crowdfunding if i can find it

this was over in east williamsburg at the corner of woodpoint road and jackson street, keep your head on a swivel

Just had a client drop out of January, so I have space for a full developmental edit or assessment edit (less detailed, less expensive) if you have the need . . . .

Makes me proud every time! Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!

blergh, I HATE having to ask coz I know it’s super hard for everyone especially around this time of year… but I’m also about to hit negative balances and I don’t get paid til next Friday :/ been a real f’ing hard eight months tbh and I’m sorry everything is so awful ko-fi.com/mercwolfmoor

Julie Reeser also has a great previous story in BCS, “Between Gasp and Ground, I See” in BCS #387, about creepy giant insects and family pressure and addiction. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/betw...

Worked on my journal prompts for 2026. A review of 2025 and an organized look forward to the new year. I'm ready! The big goal will be finishing the novella draft by July. The second big goal will be growing my Patreon. I am the mycelium of mail, you should sign up! www.patreon.com/abetterjulie

OMG, @abetterjulie.bsky.social! I love this month’s postcard. My boy Eeyore looks almost happy! 😍 Folks, if you want fun postcards like this, sign up for Julie’s Patreon.

What's the plan? #blog #newsletter www.patreon.com/posts/look-b...

Please Pass the Potatoes is up for donate/free on itch! This #game is great to teach the social script of passing food around a table at meals. There are also optional coloring pages! I hope this brightens up a holiday meal for you & your loved ones. abetterjulie.itch.io/pass-the-pot...

Took two walks today in the silent cold, bopped my ass off to great music on the drive, and saw a dog playing tag with a raven. It's been a great day here.

FYI, your library has movies you can check out for the holiday weekend. They may have toys, board games, or activity kits to check out for the kids and grandkids. The library is awesome and you should check it out.

I stayed up late last night to finish reading Weavingshaw, and I will be pre-ordering the sequel. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

At Interstellar Flight Mag, Julie Reeser interviews Vanessa Fogg, author of THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS, a stellar new short story collection from IFP! magazine.interstella...

My interview with Vanessa Fogg about her debut, The House of Illusionists, is up! "Speculative fiction allows me the distance, the disguise of the metaphorical [...] to write about things that would otherwise be too personal, too vulnerable, for me to write about." medium.com/interstellar...

I feel like run-on, pressured writing like this is great in very tiny doses. It's like caviar. You slip a spoonful in to give some salt and verve. This is like someone handed me a sloppy gutted fish. archive.is/h55cm

hi! 😃 i couldn't help but notice that scrolling is sapping your will to live! may i offer u a video essay in these trying times? youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI

Stroking bodega cat is the new kiss a baby. 😅

Hi, guys. If you haven't seen it, I'm letting you know now. I started a GoFundMe. Man, the system we live under HAS to change. Here's the link. Any help you can do by donating, or sharing the info, is greatly appreciated. Thanks. gofund.me/e22ed8038

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - SEPTEMBER 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up over a dozen stories by @remedy.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @ecastroianni.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @bogiperson.bsky.social @abetterjulie.bsky.social @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social & MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

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I'm conducting an interview for Interstellar Flight Press again. This year it's for a gorgeously immersive short story collection. Setting up the questions next week, and then it'll go live the first week of November. Stay tuned!

Another post of book quotes is up for everyone. Doom and Bloom: The Case for Creativity in a World Hooked on Panic by struthless. If you aren't already signed up as a free member, today's a great day to go for it! www.patreon.com/posts/doom-a...

Stunning story with gorgeous prose by Julie Reeser @abetterjulie.bsky.social 🖤

2026 calendars are up for preorder till the end of October! Calendars ship in November! They're saddle-stitched with a hanging hole, 9 x 24 inches large! gdbee.store/products/vib...

#Silksong ✅ Possibly the most satisfying $20 I've spent on a political statement. I want every AAA studio exec who hurts devs & drives up prices to feel lousy today. I want them to rethink their life choices & make changes. I want to live in the world TeamCherry shows is possible. #EternalOptimist

It's me! My story is out! Writing this story almost broke me, and I'm so happy everyone will get a chance to read it!

I did it! The back issues of The Magpie are up! These are fantasy magazines for the modern hedgewitch I made for my patrons--now available for you. :) Each issue has an editorial, a review, an essay, an advice column, plant lore, help wanted ads, & a lost & found column. #zine abetterjulie.itch.io

BCS #440 ebook is out early today at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by Jonathan @jonolfert.bsky.social and Julie Reeser @abetterjulie.bsky.social, cover art by Jereme Peabody. weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

Come, let me read you my short form essay on an emerging subgenre of horror gaming. Available to free and paid members, so sign up! www.patreon.com/posts/new-zo...