What I hate most about gen Ai is how it takes away the effort. When I saw art before, I knew that even if it shitty and bad, i could tell that there was someone who worked hard to make it happen. It’s why shit like The Room got popular, because you could see the earnest effort on display.

An example of non-toxic male friendships.

they keep coming up with newer, more esoteric ways to miscredit the work of Jack Kirby

Feeling boss, won't delete later. (Going for an event at a venue with chilly air conditioning later, so I have an excuse to use my fierce jacket today.)

#portfolioday I'm a writer who's worked in comics, prose, and even an online text-based game. I've written a narrative podcast that's released twice a month for the past six years. I'm currently looking for work in North American comics.

A good many days in our household start with us dancing while making coffee. I am always grateful that @nadiadaeng.bsky.social and I both appreciate how much being silly helps with our sanity.

I (half-)joked with everyone who asked me over the last year how my novel was going that I was on the fourth round of my first ten thousand words. Well, I've finally made it past that first ten thousand words today.

god, so much this

Retailers, WORK-LIFE BALANCE—the award-winning prose/comics hybrid by myself and @charsiewspace.bsky.social—is available internationally again! To order copies (or more copies, if you're already supporting us), speak with your Ingram or Consortium sales rep now. An Edelweiss listing is coming soon.

Wishing a Happy Batman '66 Day to those who celebrate, like @munira.bsky.social.

By the indisputable Daniel Warren Johnson

Being kind to myself helps my writing. Why did none of you tell me this earlier?! (I'm kidding. You all told me this and I was too busy being unkind to myself to listen.)

Singapore’s BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 #booksky Get your copy now delivered anywhere in the world!

Easing back into social media. I don't think I'll log into Instagram for a while, but I'm definitely back on Bluesky, at least via my desktop.

Accurate.

I have just the one console (a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive Mini), so STREETS OF RAGE 2 and SONIC THE HEDGEHOG are my main comfort games. (If I had a working Playstation One, I'd replay TONY HAWK PRO SKATER 2 and SPIDER-MAN over and over again too.)

Retailers, WORK-LIFE BALANCE—the award-winning prose/comics hybrid by myself and @charsiewspace.bsky.social—is available internationally again! To order copies (or more copies, if you're already supporting us), speak with your Ingram or Consortium sales rep now. An Edelweiss listing is coming soon.

Popping back in real quick to share that I'm featured in @comicsbeat.bsky.social's 2025 - 2026 Creator Survey, talking about HOW ARE YOU FEELING? as well as my contribution to DELAY: A COMICS ANTHOLOGY with @eyesongoh.bsky.social and @nadiadaeng.bsky.social

I'm a couple of days late, but tradition's tradition! See you in mid-January, folks.

Time for my year-end social media break. I'll largely be offline till mid-January, but I'll pop in every now and then to check my DMs (and repost Jamie's Christmas joke). Our publisher's deal with their new distributor begins in January, so if you wanted to get WORK-LIFE BALANCE, please do so then.

Deleting Bluesky off my phone first, before logging out of social media tomorrow. Once again, please get WORK-LIFE BALANCE in January, when we have a new distributor who (hopefully) won't use copies of our books to get them out of their shitty financial situation, instead of paying us our residuals.

Mild spoilers for WELCOME TO DERRY: So, wait. If the creature takes on the form of what it thinks attracts children, does that mean that it might've eventually come back as a MINECRAFT character?

Not sure about this new Fahrenheit 451 remake. Rather than burning books, they've banned sick burns. It's a disstopia.

Just a reminder --

You will be visited by three spirits

After this Friday, I'm taking a social media break till mid-January. In 2026, however, WORK-LIFE BALANCE will once again be available internationally, through a distributor that will actually pay Ben and I our due residuals. So, when the New Year hits, please head to my website and order your copy.

I'm listening to the JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS soundtrack for the first time in ages and, my god, does it hold up.

It's interesting watching the ACTORS ON ACTORS episode with Brendan Fraser and Dwayne Johnson. Both have probably had media training, but while Fraser has figured out how to make that training work for him as a person, Johnson seems almost trapped by it.

This is Kaia. She takes road safety very seriously. Encourages you to do the same. 13/10 please buckle pup (TW: lyss121 & leleleems)

Oh, easy. Ben Reilly—and not just as Chasm, because there's a particular part of his history I want to explore. I'd love to work with Mark Bagley or Luke Ross. Someone who's an excellent storyteller, but who also worked with J.M. DeMatteis in the nineties.

This is probably meant as a joke but is 100% true.

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When They Burned the Butterfly, by @wenyilee.bsky.social (pub by @torbooks.bsky.social), is a great love letter to Singapore, a historical inspired fantasy that you will enjoy if you like sapphic romance, street gangs and grey characters. Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/when... 💙📚

I genuinely love that these are the kinda jokes that fill my timeline here.

Wee3

I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30

El vell Popeye

I've still got a fireside chat with C.B. Cebulski this coming Friday, and Luca has a vet appointment the week after, but I'm slowly winding down for the year. That is to say, I'm probably finally cracking open that first Marvel vs DC omnibus this week.

Next on my reading list is a book I picked up two years ago—and it's not even the oldest purchase on the list. (Five years, I think, is the current oldest.)

It took me a little over a decade from getting Ed Brubaker's autograph to getting Sean Phillips's. Their partnership has been an inspiration for the type of collaborations I want to have. I chatted and joked with Ed. Sean was warm and cordial. Two different personalities, but both just as lovely.

I just saw something called Ogilvy Consulting's 2025 Fandom Report, and it not only reaffirms my decision to get off social media after my chat with C.B. Cebulski next Friday, but it makes me wanna do so a whole lot sooner. Like, now.

If you're not racist, homophobic, transphobic, or xenophobic, you can go ahead and tell folks you were on my best-of list.

Me, speaking with an Irish producer: "Do you think Ireland would be open to Southeast Asian horror?" Irish producer: "We did invent Halloween." Me: "... Yeah, I walked right into that one."

Are You There, God? God? God, You're On Mute. You're On Mute. God, You're, OK, Yep, We Can Hear You Now God, No, I Know, You'd Think We'd All Be Used To It By Now, Haha, Okay, So, It's Me, Margaret

This is the real face of Singapore: a country that values profits over people to the point where we allowed fucking awful shit like this to happen.

Stress a hell of a lot less.

Every time I wonder if I will ever fall in love, I remember there are people trapped in terrible relationships and at least I am going through this challenging period of my life without a terrible partner or the stress of kids.

I was explaining the concept of myth to a group of kids a while back and I came SO close to giving the example, "You know, like Santa" and thank god my brain got ahead of my mouth on that one.

Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW