the earth watcher 🌏

I continue the battle cry I took up in my 39th year on this plane: EMBRACE SINCERITY CRINGE. CELEBRATE IT. SOAK IN IT. LOVE THINGS. BELIEVE IN THINGS. KILL DETACHED IRONY. SHIT ON CYNICISM. FREE YOUR SPIRIT. LIVE YOUR ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE. CRINGE BOLDLY

Ramadan has started, and the World Central Kitchen has a program to distribute food aid to people in Gaza. Each kit for Ramadan contains nearly 30 pounds of halal—enough for up to 70 meals. If you have spare funds, please consider a donation of $60 to assist the people still struggling in Gaza.

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology" No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

"Your god will kneel to me." The first trilogy of Astartha, sword & sorcery's premier transfeminine protagonist, is waiting for you in New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2, 4 and 6, all available now. newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

This is intentionally choosing to expose Black babies in one of the poorest countries in the world to a very transmissible virus that can cause long term liver damage for no reason, but to appease a cohort of white anti-vaxxers.

I've been getting back into comics while I wait for more info from my concept job, and I thought I'd make a post about something very important to me, which is COMIC PANEL VARIATION and HOW TO THINK ABOUT IT.

I encounter this attitude more often than I'd like and IMO one of the worst things about it is the suggestion of a perfectly straight line of historical progress from bad ideas to good ideas

I need everyone to know that earlier @keezyyoung.bsky.social looked at a flock of Canadian geese and said "look at those ducks"

i included this in my syllabi this year

Writers and artists, do you have specific scents (candles, perfumes etc) that help you get in the zone? I have a couple candle scents so tied to a specific project that I won't burn them otherwise and a fragrance oil that's only for if I'm writing sword & sorcery lol

Near-total pantser (I call it intuitive writing to spare my dignity) and my space is tidy on average as a result of periods of chaos followed by intense decluttering which is, alas, not unlike my writing style. I prefer to have a clean desk while I'm writing slews of nonsense.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

I get asked a lot what I'm giving up for Lent, and this year the answer is nothing. this is what I'm doing instead, and I'll tell you why, and you're invited to join in with me however it fits into your own spiritual or contemplative practices. drive.google.com/file/d/15NhY...

so for a couple years I ran a postcard club where I wrote little epistolary stories as pieces of sci-fi/fantasy ephemera and uhh this one feels more real every day

so for a couple years I ran a postcard club where I wrote little epistolary stories as pieces of sci-fi/fantasy ephemera and uhh this one feels more real every day

Alright y'all. Crunch Time. We have THREE (3) days to help @neonhemlock.bsky.social get the remaining $2.7k to FUND fashionable space opera anthology 'What Elegant Stars'! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav... (Please. Let me illustrate each story and give this little rocket ship a place to live)

J. C. Leyendecker, “Queen Maev” (c. 1911).

”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

It's a genre about power and a genre about fun and therefore it is a genre about power mediated through fun and therefore it is a genre about kink.

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

A gift for @itsthebeanie.bsky.social, one of my incredible discord moderators! They requested something with critters and something spaced themed, so it naturally followed that I had to draw space raccoons ✨

Mammothssss

Today on Every Day Original: "Winter's Champion: Knight of the Harlequin" everydayoriginal.com/product/wint... Watercolor and colored pencil on 140lb Arches hot press. ( @everydayoriginal.bsky.social )

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

This fashion-forward space opera anthology from @neonhemlock.bsky.social is six (6) days & just over $3500 from funding! Please consider: -getting an e-book -treating yourself to Neon Hemlock's entire 2026 catalogue -single-handedly funding one of the stretch goals Or just spreading the word!

Swords Against! is a new sword & sorcery magazine and they're less than $1000 away from funding the first issue:

gotta have strawberry sauce on valentine's day

✨ WHAT ELEGANT STARS is now funding ✨ satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵 Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

just watched Red Sonja for the first time and I'm truly in awe of the subtlety and restraint of the visual storytelling

Slay the Spire, my beloved

75% funded in 24 hours! That's astounding to me. Tell your friends! Tell your family! Force your enemies to back us! Maybe not that last part. Exclusive preview of the final cover inks coming in like 5 minutes... If I can stay focused. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

H is for Home by the Rotting Sea by @claystorks.bsky.social an open wound of a book that for me as a non-binary native person felt like it was birthed from and for my soul. If you only read one of these let it be THIS!

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

GATE OF IVREL (1975) Acrylic and Oil on Canvas Board - 17" x 18" The context for this commission—quite possibly lost in the long arc of our careers—was as C.J. Cherryh’s debut novel. 1/4

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

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this and having my favorite fantasy genre make a huge gay comeback

your moment of calm

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*) The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

And if backing @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social and @swordsagainst.bsky.social has got you in a funding mood, back this smart-dressed anthology too!!!

Hey y’all it’s my birthday 🎂 Would appreciate an art share today

what a wonderful day to be wearing a castle rat shirt and going out to my favorite cafe to write pulp fantasy bullshit while TWO sword and sorcery magazines launch their crowdfunding campaigns. my soul is fed

⚔️THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVE⚔️ Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story... The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues! Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

hello this is the official petition to bring back mass market paperbacks!! mmpbs are good actually and everyone should do them!! i think esp romantasy readers would really love that shit! and you can still spray those edges!!! bring back mass market paperbacks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Coming in November! Black Ink: Pulp Stories from Black Newspapers, 1929-55. Stories of daring rogues, alien encounters, zombies, future technologies, and punching racists. Co-edited by Timothy R. Granger (aka Timaeus Bloom) and Mike Phillips. frombeyondpress.com/books/black-...