NEW BOOK ALERT! Coming in May, BABYLON COVE by me and @plasticfarm.bsky.social from @madcavestudios.com This is such a fun mashup of horror and romance. Can’t wait for y’all to check this one out!

If you ever wondered what would happen if Stephen King were allowed to write one of those Hallmark holiday movies…Welcome to BABYLON COVE. By me, @supajoe.bsky.social, @marissadraws.bsky.social, and Crank! May 2026, from Mad Cave

I can't really say I'll never watch a movie again, I often get a wild hair. Poor Pretty Eddie & Je Tu Il Elle & Gate of Flesh have been on my mind a lot lately. But they are movies I can't comfortably recommend to another person. I think they are each very special though.

Hope & Fury go hand in hand

A week ago I found out that the grant I was confident would fund our spring mural will not, bc we're 2 blocks too deep into Kensington. This STINKS. This project rocks bc it's community driven, biodiversity-focused (& more! read on!) We're raising money to make it happen givebutter.com/KenzoMural

If you're even in Philadelphia take the Black Metropolis 1838 tour. It's worth paying for, but it is free. Tip your guide!

This is a really exceptionally good explainer about what is going on with moltbook. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYfg...

last thing before I log off (hopefully log off for a week or forever). What the fuck are we doing here? 5 stars? $799? No one has purchased this hideous thing for that money. The internet is just 100% lies now.

Learning to enjoy the process. Small spaces. No extra shit, if something doesn't have a place, do you really need it? (Sometimes yes!) Also, super important: My home is not a museum. It needs to be clean enough to be pleasant, not perfect. FLY Lady has a good chart for maintenance.

At the event this weekend I was next to a person selling candles that were scented based on fantasy books; when I went to talk to her I said i mostly read sci-fi and she said that there weren’t really any pleasant smelling sci-fi books?!

"Roses are Red... Blood is Too" Written by Callie C. Miller (that's me!) Pencils and Inks by @lisasterle.bsky.social Colors by @marissadraws.bsky.social Letters by JAME Edited by Sabrina Futch www.dc.com/comics/dc-ho...

🔴 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗘 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗦 • 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗦 • 𝟮.𝟭𝟭.𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 🔴 🙌 HAPPY NEW COMIC BOOK DAY! 👁️‍🗨️ Check out our STAFF PICKS OF THE WEEK for some new comic recommendations! @ignitionpress.bsky.social @elrevel.bsky.social @marissadraws.bsky.social

Have a clementine. They are beautiful this year.

This also feels structural. There is no agreed opposition party leader or shadow cabinet as in parliamentary government. Only governors & ultra-tactically-focused House & Senate caucus leaders. Jeffries & Schumer are unfit for purpose now but that’s endogenous to the system. Juan Linz was right etc.

Our next Essential Read is Just Brutal #1 from @ignitionpress.bsky.social by Dennis Hopeless @elrevel.bsky.social and @marissadraws.bsky.social - A wild fusion of family drama and full‑tilt fantasy mayhem ^KB wp.me/p8WCuG-3SM

This is awesome and I'm proud of it!

Like, yeah, we’re gonna win and whatever but holy shit everything is so bad.

You don't have to obey anyone's framing. Calling them British Petroleum. Call it a chatbot instead of "artificial intelligence". Use real emissions, not adjusted for offsets or certificates. It's all allowed!!!

I promise I'll go back to not posting, but I have some thoughts boiling in my head I can't make sense of. Last night I was at a lecture about Salvadore Dali's illustrations of Don Quixote. They were all really beautiful until the final illustration: The Death of Don Quixote.

But anyway, what do I know. I'm just some ding dong. Also, it is an extremely bad day to log on! What a terrible mistake I've made.

Just logging in to say: I've been thinking about this. I think b/c we are all so unmoored from time, place & other people, instances of other people online become mushy avatars of a type. All opinions you disagree w/ can be ascribed to this type & any no faced goofball online can be the avatar.

it does kind of feel like a lot of bluesky users spent four days around their extended family and immediately got on here to be like "the pizza you ate as a child sucks. the twin cities are overrated. what else. pencils should be illegal" you all are disregulated and you need to settle down!!

I had a lot of fun with my friends this week. I logged on to Bsky for some reason and you all are irony fighting about whether or not fast food should be grey cubes/fighting who can celebrate B Bardos death the most. Is this really something I want to subject myself to? Why am I here?

12/24-1/2 the risk of me just deleting every single email in a fury is very high.

I was talking with my friend last night about writing and he mentioned drama comes from conflict, conflict comes from *difficult* choices and a choice between doing good and doing evil is no choice.

flipside of the slop tsunami: companies like Google aren't just flooding our digital existence with AI gruel, they're actively, intentionally destroying real human-created content too, because they know that we largely still value real content and that ultimately the slop can't compete

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My absolutely not aesthetic tea set up.

Everyone working with Justin Sun, including the sons of the President, have access to this public balance information and so presumably find the behavior that looks like insolvency to be acceptable for their business partners

If you use Microsoft 365 they are asking for feedback about copilot right now. It's a great opportunity to tell them it's trash and it sucks! I'm sure it will be used for targeted marketing to address concerns about how it's trash and it sucks, but you can still complain.

I found a very bracing youtube channel I enjoy: These professional builders go through and fix DIYs. Let me tell you, people really trust nothing bad will happen. They approach house wiring with a boldness and confidence I will never have in anything.

Happy Holidays, everyone!! I'll take the opportunity to share this starter pack full of my amazing fellow colorists!

“Cast,” with art by @aaronlosty.bsky.social, coloring by Aaron and @marissadraws.bsky.social, and lettering by @illusclaire.bsky.social

Hehehe. Paul loves me. He loves to take me out for little treats.

My toxic trait is I think if I buy it, it should last at least 15-25 years.

This is the last thing then I'll shut up: Hopepunk fundamentally misunderstands existentialism, modernism and post modernism. It has no interest in correcting those misunderstandings, because it's in service of marketing and coziness. Hopepunk is where cozy Ghibli comes from.

I've written a big piece for the Observer about the Big C. Would be lovely if you find time to read it sometime and feel free to share. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Huh... You'd think I'd be exactly the target market for hopepunk. But I hate it! I should figure out why I hate it. It kind of feels like the warmed over corpse of the ideas I actually like. What's the difference?

The two ideas that always resonate with me in media are: -You need other people -You will survive If it's earnest, it just does it for me every time.

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

I preordered WORST MAN with my local indie bookshop and if you're a sucker for romcoms with gorgeous art and impeccable acting, you should too! I've been blessed with peeks at this OGN over the last couple years and each was better than the last because Ro, Ted, and Frank are simply the BEST.

I recently rewatched 8 1/2. I first saw it when I was 15 and that probably alienated me from most of the population. Except that one other nerd in our two person film club. I'm glad in the years since I've more or less learned how to talk to people in ways that don't judge or condescend about taste

Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction.

Hey Marissa how is learning CSP going?

Want to feel old? The dinosaurs from Jurassic Park are now 65,000,032 years old!

Olive grove by olive grove, sheep pasture by sheep pasture, village by village — over the past two years, Israeli settlers, often with Israeli military support, have escalated their unrelenting campaign to seize land and erase its Palestinian presence. Paywall free: nytimes.com/interactive/...

Happy Holidays to all of those who celebrate and best wishes to you all ✨❤️ Thank you for your support in 2025, it means more than I can express!🙏✨

Saw ‘snow rollers’ for the first time.

Ehehehe

“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”