Me, lying in bed, at 3 am:

Life Size (2000) has more adult jokes than I realized 😂

first snack tray of the year, featuring a French onion cheddar

One of the great films of all time:

Wolf Moon 🌕

a small weapon set I designed for fun #art

'How much does the aurora borealis weigh?" It's pretty light.

Writer hack: If you stand completely still when someone asks "how's that book you're writing coming along?" they can still see you, but they'll be so put off, they'll leave you alone.

mods are asleep post lutes

Figure study from last year ✍️ #art #drawing #charcoal #darkart

Sharing an apple with my dog is an unrivaled joyful life experience.

First art of 2026

I'm beginning to worry less about where my life is going, and focus more on what I'm growing in it.

The most important trait someone can have to me is the ability to be honest with themselves, identify flaws, admit mistakes, and take responsibility. It’s fundamental to growth and change, as well as investing in others and forming functional, healthy relationships. It’s the same with countries.

Thank you @jamesbemmett.bsky.social for bringing me on! 'Something is wrong in the deep forests of Broke Tree Valley. Scientists come to the small city of Kasbro to investigate a bizarre series of seismic activities in a heavily forested valley...'

Beautiful work! Love how the orange sun matches the lights of the windows, and how the windows seem to parallel the cosmic, curious eyes.

Had my favorite language barrier mistake ever just now. Ordered 15 donut holes. She heard 50. We have a lot of donut holes.

“oh, i wish there were some kind of punctuation to chain these two sentences together” the humble semicolon:

the way you treat your kids when they’re grieving will affect how/whether they’ll grieve you later.

muppet labs 🧪

while my mom was pregnant with me, she was delivering chinese food on bike in new orleans. i like to think that the music she heard in the streets made me the way i am now. happy new year everyone!

not me long-distance realizing that when your narcissistic abuser becomes a pastor, they will absolutely tell stories about you in sermons and make you out to be the prodigal son and themself as knowing what it’s like to be God

“Ed Wynn was great. I remember filming certain scenes with him and talking with him on the set. At the end of the shoot, he gave me a big box of really neat, beautifully decorated lollipops from Holland.” — Dana Dillaway (Maggie), “One For The Angels” #TwilightZoneMarathon

Give yourself something to look forward to next year. Something less substantial than a resolution which can carry regret if you can't stick to it. Think of a book you want to read, a genre of music you'd like to learn more about, a curiosity to chase no matter how trivial. Keep your spark lit.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

May something good happen this year.

Wouldst thou like the taste of butter?

It's going to happen in 2026, my friends. I feel it. I believe it.

Happy new year, sinners and saints. May the next year bring down the tyranny of the state and cruelty of mammon, and may we all be given rest from the horrors.

OTHERSIDE has been open for 20 minutes and we’re already reading submissions! Thank you to everyone who decided to ring in the new year by sending us your work—we can’t wait to read it all! othersidespec.com/guidelines/

here’s hoping 2026 is just one year

Always worth a post

I told family that I’ve been grieving a sudden death of a friend, helping something in his memory, helping support another friend getting married, had two interviews only for something to turn out to use AI, survived a car accident and flat tire, helped my roommate with car trouble at the same time—

late night thought last night: wow so it’s not a metaphor, the heart really physically hurts when you cry enough

I will say, thanks to a friend framing it as Gothic Winter, I am enjoying winter quite a lot more actually.

never thought I’d have an existential crisis about whether friends would come to my wedding; I’m aroace and don’t even want to get married.

1-page comic

Corpse Bride reads to me like a caedsexual romantic story. 🥀

If fairies were that tiny, they would absolutely interact with insects more and also be part of decomposition

“FIND. HIM. SOMEBODY TO LOVE.” -slamming fists on the table while watching/reading Frankenstein

JÓLAKÖTTUR the Yule Cat | 🌙 "His hair sharp as needles His back was high and bulgy And claws on his hairy paw Were not a pretty sight!" Merry Yule and Happy Winter Solstice to you all! ❄️ #darkart #folklore

“Please provide a reason for unavailability” wishing I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade

Nobody fears nothing, so choosing to work through a character's fear is choosing to understand, for example, the role of need in fear. The role of desire. The role of pain. Horror makes you imagine how a person can fear, and how a person confronts fear. Horror exercises the empathy muscle.

Horror readers are among the most empathetic of readers. What's more intimate than imagining why a character feels fear in any given situation? What's more evocative than choosing to experience that character's dread? Someone's going to point out that I'm suggesting that people can want fear.

For goodness’s sake, a personal aroace narrative is NOT the same as purity culture nor slutshaming, PLEASE stop commenting this kind of hate on aro/ace books just because *gasp* yes there is more than one aro/ace character. BC THERE IS MORE THAN ONE OF US IN REAL LIFE and we deserve to know that

Not me getting stressed over how to fit watching the Stranger Things episodes in time for the theatrical finale on New Year’s into my schedule full of other urgencies

What doesn’t kill you makes you: a) stronger b) deal with chronic and inexplicable fatigue and pain through the rest of your life, forcing you to make critical decisions around where and how you spend your energy forevermore

火車らーめん #illustration #yokai

Flirting by becoming a forest god and bestowing dread magic upon a dagger wielding traveler