www.youtube.com/watch?v=athA... this is a really nice watch if you like drawing stuff! i think i've learned something

Extremely badass illustration technique

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

Slinging comics n zines n risographs at PORTLAND ZINE SYMPOSIUM!!!! I'm here with @gipki.bsky.social at PSU until 5pm! The weather is so beautiful, so come through!

Thomas Pynchon's appearance on the Simpsons

Sometimes, creators are reluctant to share career advice because they know how much of it can't be replicated. Authors can teach you how to write, artists can teach you how to draw, but no one can teach you how to force a publisher to sign you.

Some of the best advice I ever heard was from @silviamg.bsky.social who said that you shouldn't set goals that require other people to do what you want. You can write a book. That's a goal. You can't control whether anyone buys it. Other people have free will.

The sudden pivot to long johns season.

Happy Frankenstein Day! Felt like winding down with some fan art of @realgdt.bsky.social’s flick, which released today on Netflix but is also still in theaters, which is where I recommend seeing it. Loved this film.

as a writer, you meet two types of hopefuls: people who like to write and people who want to be writers. It's the former who actually succeed – you need to love this, not as a means to an end but for itself entirely.

Victory ✌️🥺✌️

A final update from Quirk Books Union ✊💔 Devastated that, in the three months since we unionized, management never met the union at the bargaining table -- and now the remaining four union members have all been laid off.

OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: “We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”

just got added to this blocklist by some guy having a crash out over the cola vid lol bunch of other artists on there too, so good reminder for y’all to be careful what lists you sub to. personally I unsubbed from most of them except ai mod bc people can’t be trusted/there’s too many troll ones

I've made @thomasha.bsky.social's original novelette "Uncertain Sons" - from his debut collection - available to read for those catching up on year-end reading, for awards eligibility and recommendations. Enjoy! We appreciate your kind consideration. undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons

just learning now that there is a topps baseball card of the swarm of bees that delayed a dodgers/diamondbacks game last season. the ebay listing i grabbed this photo from is selling it for $150

Hey folks. I am blowing out all of my paper prints. 50% off all 53 different prints. There will be no more reorders on stock so once they're gone, they're gone. Shipping in Canada is $25 so buy 2+ Sorry no US orders. I can ship to Europe & Mexico. earthskyart.ca/product-cate...

At the risk of saying a truth nobody wants to hear: it's grandparents rock, which is cool and interesting in a way dad rock usually isn't for young people. Same reason there was a jazz and swing revival in the 90s. All the people calling it cringe dad rock need to look at their birth certificate

Okay a bunch of people just walked in so even though I know I can't be in a Langoliers situation with retail workers & bus drivers still doing their job, I feel a bit reassured.

Sometimes protagonists aren't able to fix the world. Sometimes they're not even able to see the problems with it. Sometimes they're just trying to survive. Sometimes they're even part of the problem. The writer isn't the society and the writer isn't the protagonist.

Feeling a little untethered this morning because, beyond the seasonally early snow, everywhere is unusually empty. The bus had almost no people. The woman who always gets off at the stop I do wasn't there today. I'm the only customer in the Tim Hortons.

Watching @anyaustin.bsky.social 's latest, thinking how it's a pity this sort of thing wasn't around 20 years ago when I was walking around Guild Wars to the farthest corners of the maps for no other reason than to fill folder after folder with screenshots of random places that no one else would see

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

it’s back

RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit

my only webcomic marketing advice is to keep posting the same character over and over until people get annoyed enough to check out whatever they're from and if the character is good then they'll go "fine, you were right"

Keep Trying #art

Huge turnout today for the launch of The Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, stretched from wall to wall to wall @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social @ourmankoto.bsky.social

GOD I love a mustelid

Just an absolute banger of an animal family

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

Been singing this version of Nick Drake's River Man to myself alot

What's funny to me about people like that is "$30 an hour is too much to serve me coffee but 1 trillion dollars to tweet all day is deserving"

VERY impressed by the woman in the tan coat managing to get her feet under her at the bottom, and in heeled boots!

Sailors' Wisdom

indoor product photography is DUMB everyone knows the only way to get a good photo of your wares is to go outside and THROW them in the DIRT anyway, whoever gets the dice with grass stains on them, you’re welcome for the extra authenticity 😂

Gloria Richardson

"The Graveyard Smash" Happy belated Halloween everybody! :)

I have to confess "your browser's AI can be made to steal your banking info via prompt injection because it runs with full privileges and treats all text as equally authoritative sources of instructions, including the text of pages it's summarising" is more surprising to me than it should have been.

lol why put it this way

Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk

Read it and your day will get better. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

Thinking about this one again. Definition of a hidden gem, imo.

women kissing but i really zoomed in