New sculpture! Steel with copper chain, wire, & jump rings plus garnet beads. 3D Design class assignment. Requirements: -steel -abstract -subject: food -kinetic I picked a pomegranate (because I have been eating, sleeping, and breathing Hadestown for weeks) and designed it so that when you (cont)

The Tucson Festival of Books is almost here! I'll be in the Indie Author Adult Fiction & Nonfiction Pavilion on Sunday, March 15 from 1:30-4:30 pm! I'll have paperbacks, stickers, & a panicked deer-in-headlights look that's sure to be entertaining. See you there!

The incomparable @bengman.bsky.social has said that Buffy is one of the most fanficcable pieces of media in existence. For many creators, those what-ifs start with individual episodes. What's your favorite episode to visit for rewrites? Find our features here: linktr.ee/elysianfieldsarchive

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2

it is *so exhausting* to continuously be told complete and obvious lies about local and global events. Governmental gaslighting is incredibly tiring.

Please share this. More importantly, please *do* some of these things. There isn't anybody but us, you understand. There won't be some better person coming along to lead you. It's *you*. You reading this. It has to be you.

This! Here! A list!

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

This is one of my oldest friends. We've known each other for thirty years. Yesterday she had to help stop a kidnapping of her neighbor and then helped a fellow observer recover from federal assault. She says if you want to help Minneapolis right this minute, donate ice crampons and yaktrax.

Cinematography 2 final project, set to Pablo Neruda's Ode to Broken Things read by me. Content warning: spider & other insects. youtu.be/mVxr82HniC8

Mandatory Christmas film share! <3 Happy holidays to all of you! youtu.be/1qf4Y8OqeOM

I will be dropping films I made this semester over the winter break (some as I complete further edits) and here's the first! White Balance exercise - read video description for assignment details. (Disclaimer: I am 53, broken, and cannot actually dance.) youtu.be/sFOUlLVrEvM

Forced perspective project starring Maddie and Mark. youtu.be/mgLmGJUgANg?...

Today's the day! Monster Brides Monster Fans is holding a party to celebrate the spookiest of months, and there's a whole bunch of FREE monster romances to fill your pumpkin bucket! Join us today from 5-midnight Eastern for fun activities and author fun! Interested? More info & link in comments!

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

Looking for some August reads? I may not have a new book releasing this month, but that doesn't mean I can't help you find something new! This month I'm participating in a sales promo with a bunch of other monster and paranormal romance authors, and there's a lot of fantastic-looking books... (1/2)

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

If we can reach 75% funded tonight, I WILL PAINT A SPACE UNICORN! Please note, I am not very good at art! 😁🦄

Realized the other day that I hadn't posted these family pictures from our LA trip! Yes, Mark is very tall (I am 5'8"ish for comparison) and we are all very cute.

CW: Mentions of suicide & CSA Addison Beck, using the name Maddison Devlin, wrote a book marketed as “M/M romance with an unconventional HEA.” Both protagonists die by suicide. One is a CSA survivor; his rapist was protagonist of a previous book and got an ACTUAL HEA. Revolting on so many levels.

When the Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter reach 575 Backers, we will publish an exclusive mini-interview with solicited essayist Hana Lee! buff.ly/LDWcD7n

JUST FOUR MORE BACKERS!!!!!

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Update thread #2. Hemlock One thing we worked on is a different tool to complement Nightshade. We discovered a new attack on diffusion models that is more generalizable than Nightshade. It targets an entirely different part of AI training pipeline, basically making AI models poison themselves.

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What a stellar human, LOVE IS REAL 🖤🖤🖤

I hadn't realized that AI companies were pushing this stuff on us at a loss. It really makes them sound like coke dealers trying to get people hooked. But like, with a version of cocaine that sucks and is no fun

In this week's newsletter, we go behind the scenes for a truly epic commission, Deathwing for Blizzard Entertainment: theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/deathwing-...

Out for coffee with my friend Sioux at the coffeeshop that I wrote into Monsoon as Café Legend - the perfect place to announce that the paperback is now available on Amazon! Thanks to @hollyda.bsky.social for the beautiful layout! ❤️ Cover and interior art Procreate/Photoshop. tinyurl.com/MonsoonEB

It's release day, and the Tucson weather is on board with Rai's arrival! Monsoon is now available for purchase on Kindle Select and to read for FREE on Kindle Unlimited! And since I'm making ALL the rookie mistakes, I'm running a contest!

First rain of the monsoon! I have so much to do but it's good to take a minute to sit on my porch in the cool damp and listen to the rain mixed with the sounds of downtown. It's a lovely balm to the stress of the day before release!

Sometimes the meme just fits... One week to release day! EllenBAuthor.com/Monsoon

Still working on final edits for Monsoon, and then the special art for the limited edition book boxes, but I've also started my next* book. It was coming along vaguely until this idea settled, and now I have a plot and a title!

Just one day left to sign up for a free e-book of Monsoon prior to its release July 3rd! I'm so excited to share Rai and Poppy's story with the world. TAKE MY BOOK, PLEASE! Tinyurl.com/MonsoonARC

Monsoon is for people who communicate in TV & movie quotes, secretly think beer helmets are kinda hot, interpret the lyrics to Working in the Coal Mine the filthiest possible way, & always wanted to see the Underpants Gnomes business plan applied to romance. (He'll figure out Step Two eventually...)

Chapter header and scene break graphics for Monsoon. These are black and white transparent PNGs so you can read the ebook in dark or light mode and see the art either way. Done in Procreate! ARCs still available at tinyurl.com/MonsoonARC

Hey, this week's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is about Air Traffic Control, and I'm briefly in it. youtu.be/YeABJbvcJ_k?...

June's Monster Brides book is from Grace Mirchandani with a cover by Kit Fox, and it looks amazing! Amazon release date is June 15 - it will also be available on KU, so you know what I'll be reading this month! (This no-homework thing is pretty sweet, but I have so much reading to catch up on...)

Totally a kissing book. Also an open-door four-chili-pepper spice book. You have been warned. (Or tempted, as the case may be.) ARC signups still in progress! Info in my bio ❤️

I haven’t been keeping up on the Unbound thing, but anybody involved with crushing authors, not just defrauding them, ought to be required to stay at least thirty yards from a book for the rest of their lives. Any book. I don’t even want them getting near the dictionary. Books are ashamed of them.

Happy June! It's a new Monster Brides Release! www.amazon.com/One-Hell-Dea...

Hello #pretendpanel ! I have SO MANY future projects planned! -4 more Elements of Faerie books for the remaining 4 gogyo elements (Monsoon=1/5) -Late Bloomer trilogy that spawned Monsoon -4 Monster Brides romances for 2025/26 -2 contemporaries in progress -Only the Good "angel" romance series

I can’t understand, after the last 30 years of it happening EVERY TIME, how people think AI is going to stay free Once everyone’s reliant, it’ll cost a fortune we just “have” to pay Its energy needs will cost us the only world we have All so someone doesn’t have to write their own Reddit shitpost

Yes, it's a kissing book. (But don't read it to your grandkids when they're sick. Please.) ARC info in bio.

Last year I needed a book idea, so I went to a site that randomized tropes to see what sparked. If you didn't know, I love tropes! I am Ms. Tropey McTropester. They're fun to read, fun to use...and even more fun to subvert. "Caught in the Rain" is what lit me up.

Rust update! I did some stuff with vinegar, salt & hydrogen peroxide - look how pretty the rust is getting! Probably will do 1 more round before clearcoat. I'm taking the class again this fall! It'll be so fun to play with the CNC plasma cutter again... and hopefully develop actual welding skill!

Three days! Please come! We're going to spend all day talking monsters and mythology and worldbuilding and ROMANCE! www.facebook.com/groups/63131...