Good afternoon, Bluesky youtu.be/2i6OaKVw0IY?...

You can email complaints about the premise and set-up of the questionnaire to ISED: [email protected]. You can even tell them they're not acting in accordance with the Directive on the Management of Communications and Federal Identity, as all the jargon makes it inaccessible to the public.

My mother had Pac Man Fever while she was pregnant, which is why every week to stabilize my metabolism I have to eat an entire ghost.

Celebrating 41 Years of Thomas and Friends! When I was a child I was fascinated by Thomas the Tank Engine which started a years long interest in trains and anthropomorphic characters. The lessons and stories that I absorbed will stay with me forever.

Broadly speaking I want to be Taken Elsewhere, to spend time inhabiting someone(s) Not Us. Superheroes are Here+, and I find Fantasy stories grounded in superhero style storytelling are Here+ in cosplay, starring Us in cosplay. Thus, not my personal taste.

For certain readers and authors "Fantasy" seems to mean "Superheroes, re-skinned"; that's fine, but it's really not for me. Though I enjoy Sword & Sorcery as a cloak over other genres, if I'm in the mood for superheroes then that's just what I'll read or watch. I want something else from Fantasy.

The debate.

Oh shit, that's me! I should probably get off Bluesky and read those...

Did you know there's a Clark Ashton Smith conference happening in January? Learn more about the event, and the group behind it, here: www.thesmithcircle.net

Having one of those days.

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Having one of those days.

it's not FOR us

A decent amount of time has passed between some of these Voe story outlines and my writing the prose for them... Still love the story and its ideas, though, which is a good sign. Check out my podcast about writing an ambitious Sword & Sorcery novel here: soimwritinganovel.com

i believe there are about a hundred and fifty million people like me who would pay $17 to watch benicio del toro as sergio st. carlos plan and execute a tight sunday costco run before he has to man the barbecue after his niece's afternoon soccer game (run time: 2 hours 20 minutes)

me and who

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We’re getting rid of leaf blowers by eating 50 leaves a day each. Get out there

Sara and I chatted for a while on her podcast about comics where the guest chooses an issue that means a lot to them, and the return of the comic which first got me into S&S certainly qualifies! bestissueever.podbean.com/e/episode-34...

Surprise, it was fucking amazing...but the two biggest laughs I had came from a guy ten rows behind me who gave a widely spaced pair of just the most well delivered "UH OH"s I've heard in my life.

Very excited to see a new PTA film in the cinema for the first time since 2019. youtu.be/kQUPdVxZNPk?...

Good morning Bluesky youtu.be/EerNlcxBJyU?...

Sara and I chatted for a while on her podcast about comics where the guest chooses an issue that means a lot to them, and the return of the comic which first got me into S&S certainly qualifies! bestissueever.podbean.com/e/episode-34...

give greta thunberg a gundam

About to start the long voyage to Voidcon this weekend, but lemme go ahead and post this episode with the great @obrackenbury.bsky.social who I met through his work on @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social. We're here to talk about - THE CIMMERIAN (you know, Conan)! bestissueever.podbean.com/e/episode-34...

Tonight: Starring Duane Jones, the lead from *Night of the Living Dead*. youtu.be/xVmZ_BrAe9Y?...

For those who missed it, yesterday's AMA with yours truly. Lotta publishing and S&S stuff, as you can imagine. www.youtube.com/live/8jZigg3...

Ah, that thing in fiction where the characters have to be idiots for the plot to work, except I'm listening to a podcast or reading an article and it's "The speaker has to have huge gaps in their critical thinking to get to what they want, which is the rant."

I painted this warrior woman with my non-dominant hand when I had to turn down a fun art job shortly after arm surgery; I needed to prove that I could still paint, albeit way, way slower at that time, and I'm still so proud of her!

Carrie

"Look for the grudge" is a great way to make sense of bloviators whose shit doesn't add up.

Researchers are saying she also loved head scritches.

Explaining medieval class dynamics to my American friend: imagine a burgher.

For those who missed it, yesterday's AMA with yours truly. Lotta publishing and S&S stuff, as you can imagine. www.youtube.com/live/8jZigg3...

Unionized workers with @kickstarterunited.org are poised to strike if the crowdfunding platform's management doesn't approve their new contract. The union has demanded a four-day workweek, minimum living wage salaries, and protections against generative AI encroachment.

Entering the traditional post-crowdfund week of catching up on things displaced by the crowdfund. If you are waiting on me for a Thing, I'm on it! But also I'm working nothing but normal Mon-Fri hours for the rest of the year, dang it. The past four months were INTENSE😬

Normally I don't promote NESS stuff here as much because hey, you can follow that account if you want it. But for reasons I'll get into in the campaign update later, this was like a final boss for everything I've wanted to do up to this point. This was so key. Now? A new era (level?) begins.

That's me, Oliver!

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