I finally had enough down time to photograph “ghost forest”, my big sculpture from my October firing. The results were just spectacular!

Hello Bluesky! Let’s give this a go. I make sculptures. Mostly ceramic monsters with worrying teeth.

Anyone who says “be normal” betrays that they have an implicit value system of who is considered normal and who is not, and when you have that, you will always value some people and traits over another. They will always replicate hierarchies of power in the long run.

I recently read @tkingfisher.com 's Thorn Hedge, and it was my kind of story. Love a fairy tale that's got enough creepy bits to remind you not to mess with the fae, but it's not nightmare inducing. Do you all have any recs like this? Keep in mind that I'm a lightweight with scary stuff.

Anyway is this the story I had published this year that made the most people claim to have leaked their precious vital essences out of their eyes? MAYBE. Am I thinking about the end of the world a lot? (A lot a lot a lot?) YES. psychopomp.com/everyone-kee...

I'm co-organizing a toy drive. If you can donate, thank you. If you can share with others, thank you. Toy Drive list: bit.ly/48pJUrK Teen Gift list: amzn.to/4rDn7BG

I'm crying, and I can't even articulate why, but it's a painful and beautiful and hopeful feeling, and I think I needed it far more than I realised. Thank you. 💗

If you wish to pass beneath Peewee's tree, first you must answer his questions three. (1. Do you have any grapes? 2. Where do grapes come from? 3. Can you give me $50 and call me an Uber?)

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Rolf Harder, Design Collaborative Montreal Ltd. Quebec Association of Architects Christmas Card c. 1969 Museum of Modern Art

Seriously… We always connect after all, eventually. By design. It’s the monsters who struggle eternally to stop us.

This hit me straight in the feels

If you are in a position of power and you're telling me in good faith that you are *actually* this incompetent? That's an easy problem to solve. You are relieved of your duties effective immediately. We no longer require your service. Thanks.

This shit is too blatant for anyone to still be saying "oh I didn't realize". Get the fuck outta here.

So we can say "wow, they didn't really investigate her background". True. "That shows incompetence." Also true. "And so I'm prepared to believe they didn't do any of this knowingly". That part. That's where we go off the rails.

(1/2) This court is a problem that won't go away. They'll block everything the next Dem president does. Got to start talking about "court reform" now. "Republicans in robes", "corruption". Not "packing" or "expanding". Start framing the discussion now. We know that...

This is unbearable.

please enjoy this lamp made by quinnie pearl quinnie.world

Peeps! Brains up! Need recs! (this is for someone else) Post T.H. White Arthuriana novels (literary and genre), films, tv series, games, comics, etc. Anything in the King Arthur storyworld. Hoping for a blend of new and older material. Thanks!

Look what I have. If it's not yet in stores or available online, it should be shortly-you can preorder it. What could be more fun for a stocking stuffer?

There’s plenty. Some of us need to learn to share. I mean c’mon. It should be an indescribable joy to be able to help people, children …people.

Oblivious and above. 👆 please may I never be that 👆 please may no one ever be that again

Hire an artist and win from the process and outcome. Illustration by @kjkillackey.bsky.social of the Late Formative center of Khonkho Wankane (and book cover for Scott Smith’s terrific book on the site )

Hire an illustrator and think of ancient object with fresh insights. @kjkillackey.bsky.social early draft of my current fave artifact - a Middle Formative trumpet from Pucara Peru

A recently published illustration by @kjkillackey.bsky.social . screw AI, hire an artist.

Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family

These French babies arguing 🤣

If you're buying gifts for spirited 12 year olds who have read most of the middle grade graphic novel canon, can I recommend my book The Legend of Auntie Po? It's multi-awarded, and well reviewed, but hasn't entirely found its commercial footing. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...

I'm mostly a journalist but my not-so-secret dream is to be a real fiction writer. So when @annaleen.bsky.social asked me to write something for a collection full of some of my all time heroes I was shocked and so, SO honored. You can now get that book (ideally from your local indie bookstore)!!!

oh no wait, there IS a live Cheetah Cub Cam with brand new fuzzballs (that link must be a previous batch of fuzzballs) They must all be outside right now, but these little floofs are NEW new:

I wonder how normal daily conversations went in pre Hitler Germany, or in the early days of the Reich. Things not mentioned…

The name is Greens. Seeping Greens.

“They will fear her,” Tenar whispered.

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

a dispatch from the woodshop, where everything is tiny these days. it is not too late to pre-order our process art book and support our film! www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

I’m trying to decide if he looks vacant or uncharacteristically introspective

Just punch the Nazi.

20 women, why not, in sff Connie Willis Martha Wells Jo Walton Claire North Emma Newman Linda Nagata Patricia McKillip Tanith Lee Anne Leckie Ursula Le Guin N.K. Jemisin Kameron Hurley Robin Hobb Alix Harrow Barbara Hambly C.J. Cherryh Becky Chambers Octavia Butler Lois McMaster Bujold Kage Baker

Hi. Any particularly good news?

Fear of death Just spitballing

One of my favorite walks

Eyes on the table https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19146

Mathematician Suzan Rose Benedict was born OTD in 1873. She was the first woman awarded a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. Her 1914 thesis, “A Comparative Study of the Early Treatises Introducing into Europe the Hindu Art of Reckoning,” is fascinating. A 🧵

I haven’t heard much about AI and the legal profession. Curious.

Do monsters only evolve towards worse? (shrieking)

All the people they’ve killed or kidnapped or detained or deported are that some one person to some one. Sometimes a child.

It’s very painful when you want to talk something over with some one — and only that particular person will do… …and then you remember again that exact person is gone.

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