god this guy rules

THRONE OF BLOOD probably, but I am a sucker for Luhrmann's ROMEO & JULIET.

Have some fantasy fiction. Originally appearing in my short story collection NO CASTLES, here's "The Candlemaker Key" -

Well I'm probably gonna miss some work in the coming months between now and August so it'd be a great time to sign up for my Patreon, help me afford coffee and rent and cat food and get previews of stuff as well as early/exclusive essays & fiction -

New Quicksand let’s goooo youtu.be/dOK23abIcU0

Protestants really are the most annoying Christians. (They're all annoying. Protestants are just more annoying. Fuckin' strip-mall ass religious group.)

The plain language Reed speaks in really lays bare how furious we should probably be about this (and the general cultural malaise towards Actual Consequences For Pedophiles)

Have some fantasy fiction. Originally appearing in my short story collection NO CASTLES, here's "The Candlemaker Key" -

The carousel thing for images is fucking ass.

It's publication day for my book!!! I'm going to be a little cringe and share the playlist I made while I finished up working on it: open.spotify.com/playlist/4G0...

Oh man this is a great movie, I’m due for a rewatch

The real failure to look in the mirror is academics falling back on comfortable “we’re partly responsible because we enforced left wing orthodoxy“ thinking rather than the less comfortable truth that Trump/MAGA are bad faith actors who will only be satisfied with resegregated MAGA academies

Texas's "10 Commandments in the Classroom" thing is a good reminder to let folks know that the contentious 10 Commandments granite monuments in US courthouses were created as a marketing gimmick for the 1956 Charlton Heston movie (a fact I learned in a book about bookplates, of all things)

I'm not 100% sure if the "put my phone in the pool to cool it down" is real, but then again, these guys do seem really stupid.

BUT you can buy one of those books, THE WARDEN, book 1 of THE WARDEN SERIES for $2.99 right now on the ebook platform of your choice! Here's a Kobo link. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Deleted a bunch of posts about submitting/hearing back from pubs because honestly, it's not really something to share. Buy me a drink sometime I'll tell you in-person, or if we're cool, in DMs.

Call us back when you're ready to federally ban gerrymandering. Until then, enjoy a taste of your own medicine

Republicans in red states have gerrymandered to shit and back, often illegally, and when voters have passed initiatives to ban the practice, they have (even more illegally) ignored and undercut them. It is a little late to clutch your pearls and weep about the sanctity of democracy now

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

Update #8867 from SBIRS GEO-5 (L CLEARANCE) 1. Ogygian Busy Signals 2. Nuclear Karma

I have drank beers and smoked cigarettes with each of these guys in various bars throughout Philly and Nee Jersey.

Just a few weeks out from D. Boon’s death.

The Marines came to my high school to investigate a bomb threat.

My go-to is "The honey industry and the US government stockpile honey in unused nuclear missile silos to control the market and manipulate the prices". Another one I saw somewhere is "lost $$ from the US military budget that's never accounted for is used for money laundering."

Help me stay away from Meta. Come by and sign up to be notified when the campaign for My Gifts Are Hungry (that being my new book and a great place to start with Hazeland as setting/series) goes live. No obligation past that. Two more and we hit 45 followers. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hig...

I would definitely love to do something in the world of Masamune Shirow’s BLACK MAGIC (his first manga ever)

April 21 is #FogDay! grab a digital copy of my zine exploring The Fog+Greenwitch+Enys Men & celebrate spooky spring. (print copies are around, if you know where to look 👀) greenstreetpress.itch.io/lost-coast

This is so stupid.

I read this as “chatbots are actively trying to kill your parents”

My brain feels like it's been replaced by TV static, I just cannot focus today.

I refuse to engage in discourse about showing up to the airport early enough, what the fuck. "Not valuing your time", get the fuck outta here. Go eat a carrot, nerd, Jesus wept.

Hell yeah baby, gimme gimme

I am not interested in being a person on Instagram, doing collaborative posts with people or filming myself talking to the camera. I want to be a person who fucks off away from the noise and works hard and writes better and better books for the rest of his life and then dies. Why is that not ok?

It just feels like defeatism to think ‘humans are cruel’ to me

Haven't done this in ages: Everyone go get a free PDF of anything I've ever published, magazine issue or book. Use code FREEPDF to zero out your bill @ checkout. Choose any PDF at StanchionZine.com/shop (scroll waaaay down to see all the PDFs. I'm so curious what you'll pick.

Nobody ever sees the very first original form of it, it’s meant to start sucky. Literal vomit from the brain, raw proto-material. So just breathe and put something down, it can only go up from there.

God Bless Baseball

If you make me exit to main menu before I can exit to desktop I am going to push you off a bridge

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

Impossible to tell from this picture what a complete food goblin this guy is.

MASINT #0883 from GPS III-SV05 (L CLEARANCE) 1. Lemurian Silence Data Center 2. Noise Launch Pads 3. Forgotten Wormholes

On top of reasons of role deconstruction and bodily autonomy, this is one reason why it's so important to many people in power to eradicate trans folk. If you're secure with yourself, feeling good BEING yourself, they can't tell you you're broken and then sell you a "fix"

Watching that awful QUEEN OF THE DAMNED movie and I forgot just how early-aught's goth this was. On the plus side, Claudia Black does show up as one of the vampires.

K-Ci & JoJo, "All My Life"

Anyway worked on some teacher stuff, a short story, caught up on emails and cleaning and now off to do some errands and maybe reward myself with a sunny beautiful day outside getting lunch in the park or outside at the pub.

Welp saw something the wild and immediately went;

The Spiritual Dimension of ‘Ghost in the Shell’, Decoded by a Scholar of Religion “Beyond science fiction, Mamoru Oshii’s work captivates through its philosophical depth and underlying Japanese spirituality.” pen-online.com/culture/the-...

"Swann’s fantasies spoke to the feminist, gay-rights, and environmental movements. His intense focus on 'civilization' processed the growing sense of cultural malaise." Sean Guynes on Thomas Burnett Swann: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thomas-burnett-swann-fantasy-sf-queer-romance-wolfwinter/

“Daggertongue” is a two-part sci-fi short story up on my Patreon about space, war, and linguistic drift;

AND YOU SHOULD BE DUMPSTER-DIVING FOR HAM SCRAPS YOU SIX-PIECE CHICKEN MCNOBODY