"I don't think a moral compass will let you ban books about..." STOP. Stop right there. What the books are "about" is neither here nor there. Censorship is wrong, period. And differentiating between books based on what they're "about" is just the thin end of the wedge.

At the start of Natura 1: Cuts is 29 Diana is 23 Charles is 36 Artyom is 27 Jackie is 20 I wanted the main gang to all be adults with some worldly experience. The only two ages I want to highlight are Charles' and Jackie's. Charles spent 10 years in prison, is trying to atone for his past 1/3

Jokes on me, I guess. Now we're in the final final stretch!

Hanna Barbera animator Davis Doi once gifted Lupin III creator Kazuhiko Katō (aka Monkey Punch) this picture of Barney Rubble being startled by Lupin coming out of a Fred Flintstone costume.

Some advice on writing: 1. Read a lot, write a lot 2. Finish now, edit later 3. Always use a good quality chalk for the demonic ritual 4. Keep a notepad handy to jot down ideas when you get them

I am so dead tired today. I've gotten like 3-4 hours of sleep the past couple of nights. It's a real struggle out here

How the hell is this the first piece of media I find that mentions the pandemic?

FREAKED (1993)

It's official. I finally (technically) have a manuscript that broke 300 pages.

Those who don't know their history, repeat it.

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Natura was always intended to be a playground where I can tell all kinds of stories. For example the Raven Guild saga I'm currently working on is a planned series of five novels. My first novel Love and Steel turned into the center part of a trilogy when I was writing and thinking of the backstory

I finished the fourth and final Janissaries novel. The series was really good I'd say. Without spoiling, the fourth novel ended quite clearly setting up another one to possibly be the finale. I don't know if it'll materialize with original author Jerry Pournelle no longer with us.

It's the week of my birthday. One final stretch before I'm safe from the 27 club.

Drop some SNAKES🐍

Full Throttle (1995)

This is it, but people are too gullible and mindless to realize it.

Not the first to observe it but it bears repeating: If artists didn’t matter so much, they wouldn’t come after us first. Stay safe as best you can. Keep working.

Natura 3 in all likelihood won't be done by my birthday. Kinda stinks but whatever. I'm very much in the endgame with probably six or so chapters to go. The manuscript's currently at 290 pages, I'm estimating it's gonna land somewhere around 350. Here's hoping!

I just snagged Sabaton tickets for under a hundred bucks! LFG

Been thinking about the way gAI is being sold to us is as the universal tool, a kind of Swiss Army Knife—especially in higher ed. What might have a use in Compsci doesn’t have a use/is harmful in the humanities and arts, and there is something coercive about how it’s being forced on us regardless.

"Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors." — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, delivering the unanimous decision of the court in NRA v. Vullo

it turns out making art is spiritually and emotionally fulfilling. has anyone looked into this

"If we boycott all this stuff, how do we live our lives?" I don't know, man. Play with the toys you already got. Go out to the library and read a book. Play a board game. Do a Dungeons and Dragons. Go shopping around. There's a lot of stuff out there. Like a lot a lot. You'll be fine.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

I used to be all-or-nothing, but extreme thinking gets you stuck. If you can’t write 1k words, it’s better to write one sentence. If you don’t feel like an hour at the gym, it’s better to walk 10 minutes. Progress is in the small steps & lives in the gray, not in black & white. #AuthorSky #LifeSky

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

RIP to Robert Redford, whose performance as Death in The Twilight Zone led to one of the show's most beautiful endings.

I wrote like 9ish pages and I got to write one of the most important scenes for this story. I even started to tear up a little doing it because it was very emotional.

Looking for freelance illustration work. Hire me to draw something cool for you!

Now is a great time to support your creative friends and their original stories ✨

all this for a guy whose highest achievement was having a podcast

I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do next after Natura 3. There's still two Natura stories after this and since I'm this deep already I might keep going. On the other hand, I've been writing for three years with very little that is presentable so I might do some editing.

"Why should I care about a comedian getting cancelled?" Because it's not just a comedian, it's silencing political criticism. It's a totalitarian tactic that is a precursor to much worse actions to silence dissent. What we allow now will choose our future outcome. They want us to not care.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom reacts to ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ being pulled off air: “Buying and controlling media platforms. Firing commentators. Canceling shows. These aren’t coincidences. It’s coordinated […] The @GOP does not believe in free speech. They are censoring you in real time.”

Exactly this

These pictures have convinced me, I'm cutting off my hair again 🤩 Geeky D&D inspired button ups available in unisex and women's sizes XXS to 5XL ✨ paolaspixels.com/collections/...

Looking forward to when this is no longer perennial...

This is fascism. This is what fascists do. But once again, when future generations look back and wonder how fascism ever came to America, they will point right to all the fascist’s enablers. They will point to you @WaltDisneyCo, and you @Disney, and you @ABC, and you @ABCNetwork.

I hadn't planned for Cuts and Artyom to slowly fall in love over the Natura saga but they are. I'm all for it it as it shows both Cuts opening up her heart to other people and Artyom overcoming the loss of Ash, his last partner who mysteriously vanished.

If Su-Metal started doing covers of Phil Collins songs, would she have to change her name to Su-Ssudio?

Papa Nihil's birth name revealed!

𝐒𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟓½𝐭𝐡 "executioner" #sword #history #drawing #art

I'm rescinding what I said about the Australian Pink Floyd Show. I got in contact with one of the band members who also animated the "Welcome to the Machine" video. He assured me it was all handmade, it's just meant to look like it's AI generated to criticize the tech. They don't use or condone AI