gluin' stuff on other stuff. is it heavy? yes. will it probably give me a headache? almost certainly. will I wear it anyway? YUP.

CAKE O'CLOCK IF YOU LIKE CHOCOLATE, SPRINKLES, BOOKS, GIRAFFES, INCLUSIVE SPACES AND/OR FRIENDSHIPPPP #picturebooks #kidlit #strictlynoelephants #petclubseries

(drops this here, because publication daaaay)

Q&A with Lisa Mantchev about her new children's picture book, THE TROUBLE WITH GIRAFFES. tinyurl.com/y4598s88 @lisamantchev.bsky.social

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY

(checks calendar) (checks watch) OUT IN A WEEK. Have you preordered your copy yet? <3 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Tr...

recording author-y things is an exercise in trying to keep four rescue dogs quiet while I forget I have old-school clocks that are gonna bing-bong 11 times but not until 11:15 because old clocks and also I hate the sound of my own voice and wtf is up with the faces I'm pulling, plus curse words

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

go ahead and crown yourself The Grand Poobah de Doink of All of This and That this morning, no one can stop you

Get ready for Skullduggery, Launching today at 10am! B&G’s first original 5E urban fantasy campaign companion. Kickstarter launches on Tuesday. Aug. 26th at 10am. Check it out now! shorturl.at/elHQa

I love how art can be a ticket to time-travel. <3

i cannot draw, so please to imagine me hunkered over a small but colorful collection of words, trying to arrange them in a pleasing order while holding the rest of the world back like a shield so you will have something to read that isn't the fuck-awful news

me to whatever poor bastards get stuck talking to me today

what i need: to do a thing what i need to do the thing: a modicum of quiet what i have instead: rampaging animal clown shoes

to reiterate: be more like Sir Terry in every possible way <3

Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky “Tomorrow, your job is to change the world into a better place. Today, my job is to see that everyone gets there.”

(steps over those vines and into the picture)

the insomnia ain't fun but I'm enjoying the sleep-deprived muses of my brain deciding the absolute best career option open to us right now is to build a tiny hut and sell sugar waffles to children

the urge to make something shiny whilst trapped in the nonstop barrage of shite sliding downhill, atop of, and right over the average creative right now is making my right eyeball twitch

(heavy breathing)

...I don't wanna talk about what it took to get IV and V, but I'm happy to see them join the horde

the amount of potatoes I just shoveled into the air fryer can only be described as "inadvisable" but also "to be expected"

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

“A Story For the Queen” 🐻📕 - A new original painting up on jameshance.com this afternoon ☺️ ✨🎨(Gesso / Acrylic Gouache on Canvas Panel)

FINALLYYYYYYYYY #daggerheart #criticalrole #darringtonpress #TTRPG

We're elated to welcome @lisamantchev.bsky.social to the Bigfoot Kids' Book Festival! Lisa will be sharing her latest book The Trouble with Giraffes with us. You can join us at the Bigfoot Kids' Book Festival on Sat, Oct 11th from 10am-4pm at the Redmond & Senior Community Center!

Answering interview questions while the dog farts under my desk may not be Peak "Living The Dream" but sure, it's close.

"stop choosing violence, damn it" (me, to the dog who is being a spicy meatball this morning)

a little luck for your day, if you need some

THE FIRST REVIEW IS IN (and they didn't hate it thank goodness, a memoir) "A kid-friendly look at the multifaceted work that underpins true inclusivity."

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

my squishy little sorcerer just saying "f*ck it" and wading out into a battlefield full of warriors and demons last night

... and it's a book-shaped thing!

there is a 4.5" stuffed giraffe in my foyer, and no, that's not a euphemism, that's a legit business purchase, okay?

Happy Terry Pratchett Day, on what would have been his 77th birthday.

new 3D printer, who dis?

We interrupt your doomscrolling to bring you glad tidings from the clubhouse! Cover is up, you can scroll the interior artwork, and preorder buttons ARE LIVE. There is also apparently going to be a two-book box set (WHAAAAT) and all of this will be in time for the tiny elephant's 10th anniversary.

it's finally Thursday and my sorcerer is headed into the Runewaste... #dungeonsanddragons

Me, peering into the innards of the 3D print of the pepperbox while Angel explains how it's all going to come together: It's like all our hobbies have finally merged into One. Giant. SUPERHOBBY. (mad scientist laugh before I stomped off like Stitch leveling San Francisco, for dramatic purposes)

soooo who is the best Vox Machina character, and why is it No Mercy Percy?

Nothing says "the holidays are coming and family might be visiting" like the urge to chuck everything you own onto the lawn in an effort to clean the place up and make it seem like you're not six weasels with a hoarding problem all crammed in the same pair of yoga pants.