Finished the beautiful Scarlet Morning by @gingerhaze.bsky.social, an amazing upper middle grade I can only describe as like One Piece crossed with the Southern Reach series. Gorgeous art, an inclusive cast, wild and intriguing worldbuilding. You gotta read this!

The problem with expecting Americans to be intimidated by the threat of being shot is that the possibility we could be randomly gunned down is something we just all already live with all the time.

ICE OUT NOW

I didn't even realize it but the first volume of the Stop! Hibari-Kun English release is already out! peow.studio/products/sto... Early 80s gag manga is one of the last places you'd expect to find such an incredibly affirming and fun trans protagonist, but somehow it happened. A piece of history!

At least you have a smorking room! You can't smork anywhere around here.

Like, fundamentally, putting all matters of gender and sexual identity aside, the entire concept of websites like this is really stupid and we're all idiots for thinking people posting professionally under their own names and anonymous Animal Crossing lewd fan art accounts can mix safely.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Last and First Men is public domain now! A trippy future history, sort of a prelude to Man After Man or All Tomorrows. gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/060... The first bit is basically "Idiocracy but with airplanes" and not that great, but everything else is just WILD.

Last year Navigating with You won a few awards, but Dog Knight from me & got a very different distinction: Last year The Dog Knight got banned. I always suspected books of mine would get banned, but this one hit hard, because it's a book about a nonbinary kid finding their place in the world.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Hey, I got this one. It's weird that this changed meanings so completely. I think it might have just been convergent evolution.

TFW you've been imprisoned by Jigsaw but he just makes you play a bunch of Mario Sunshine.

Awesome new ink! My favorite Trek crew will live forever in my heart and also on my arm. @mikemcmahan.bsky.social

woke, for lack of a better word, is good. woke is right. woke works.

Romcom pitch: she was a busy single gal who used an AI double to handle her weekly phone calls with Mom - until, as her, it announced its engagement! Now she's got one week to find a fiancee and fake a wedding that matches what it generated. And unfortunately, this is no hallucination!

SHARE A GREAT FEMALE VILLAIN If we're allowed to pitch our own, I'm putting forth Malatrice from The Ink Witch! When I saw she took up most of the cover I knew she wouldn't want it any other way.

I tend to forget that feeds other than 'Following' exist, honestly. I have a few others for specific topics but I rarely look at them, and when I do they often have irrelevant stuff dragged in just because a keyword was mentioned.

My favorite thing about Frog and Toad is that it is the story of two men deeply and obviously in love with one another, drawn as a tribute to his lifelong partner by a gay man long before their relationship was socially sanctioned.

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

I used to be annoyed by people who couldn't even use email, but now they're role models. These people were shown some new bullcrap and told "you MUST use this, it's INEVITABLE", and they said, the hell with that, I will make this someone else's problem until the day I die. Inspirational, these days.

Idea for a horror movie marathon: oops all pronouns.

Apparently Anaconda is getting mediocre reviews but don't you believe it, we all practically died laughing here. If you don't want a horror-comedy that's deeply and intentionally silly, I can't help you, but if you do want that it's AMAZING.

Is it illegal to sell sentient vegetables, or did this guy get arrested on Christmas Eve for unrelated reasons?

Little, Brown made a graphic for me with all the honors The Ink Witch got, and it's a bunch! Find it at your local library or bookstore or at bookshop.org/p/books/the-...!

Congrats to JDLA client Steph Cherrywell! @stephcherrywell.com THE INK WITCH just got its 3rd starred review-BOOKLIST: "A spellbinding story that reminds readers of the particular power found in embracing your truest self." It's hilarious. Perfect kid gift! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/steph...

🌈 50 2025 Middle Grade Books Featuring LGBTQIA+ Representation 🌈 popgoesthereader.com/50-2025-midd... #BookSky #MGLit #KidLit

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Apparently they did a holiday horror story about Supergirl's goofy Silver Age robot stand-in and I am HERE FOR THAT.

Another terrific honor for JDLA client Steph Cherrywell! @stephcherrywell.com Her middle-grade THE INK WITCH is listed as a Best Children's Book 2025 by Pen America! pen.org/best-childre...

Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social

Jesse Hamm had the take to end all takes on children's media. "People who disdain writing ‘just for children’ fail to realize that those children will remember what they read, maybe for the rest of their lives. You’re not writing for permanent children; you’re getting an early start on adults.”

TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

Public Domain Day's coming, but it's weird! We get Pluto as a prison guard before he was a friendly dog… Betty Boop as a friendly dog before she was a flapper… Blondie as a flapper named Boopadoop before she was a housewife… Is there a housewife who became a prison guard to complete the circle?

I will go to my grave screaming about how Pennywise being a clown hits completely different for anyone under 40 or 50, because the original intent was that Pennywise LOOKED HARMLESS, because “IT” predates scary clowns, & if the story were modern, Pennywise would manifest as a ninja turtle or Luffy

I've been using Word because I get it free through work and I share docs around so it's easier if I know they're 100% compatible with others. But congrats, Microsoft, today's the day I finally got so sick of figuring out how to scrape Copilot crap out of everything that you drove me to Libreoffice.

Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it

Since fonts are in the news today for incredibly stupid reasons I thought I'd mention What the Font?! A Manga Guide to Western Typeface by Kuniichi Ishiya. Meet a bunch of anthropomorphized fonts! Such a fun way to learn about a fascinating subject.

Wojaks and their ilk were kind of the AI art before AI art, weren't they? There was a similar "hey, now I don't need skill to make images" element to them and the really heavy adopters were the same sort of tiresome internet people. But at least wojaks more or less stayed in their lane.

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

Libro.fm is discounting their credit bundles through Dec 11. It's an awesome gift if you know any audiobook fans! (You can even get my book there: libro.fm/search?q=unb... !) This is my favorite audiobook site - they let you purchase through your favorite independent bookstore.

Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.

Just finished: Drome by @jesselonergan.bsky.social, a gorgeously illustrated story about the early history of a new world. It's a little bit bandes desinees, but with a JH Williams III-like experimentation with panel layouts. It's incredible!

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

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