Holy cow the job market is dismal right now. It's barely 8 and I'm already crushed and exhausted. ☕☕☕

Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider

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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

I love novels. I will always love novels. But the recent storytelling innovation in games has awoken something in me that I'll need 8 vats of coffee and a substack to emotionally process.

Goddamn. Blue Prince has tapped into every universal pleasure integral to my being. I am overwhelmed. I am inspired. I need more experiences like this, please, dear God.

It's been a brutal week for me creatively and emotionally. Brutal. But the news tonight is the salve I needed. Keep fighting. ❤️🤍💙

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

did u know that it's really hard to write a book when ur constantly being brutalized by the overwhelming sense of impending doom

Sharing the third and last card I made for @saharian.bsky.social Briardark! It has been a really fun project to work on🖤 #art #illustration #commission #darkfantasy #book

Revising a draft that I first dictated and came across the part where I caught movement out of the corner of my eye...

Cool I have my receipts $5.33 for posterboard and $17.99 for markers anyone got the Soros link to submit expenses? Hmm?

Sharing the second card I made for @saharian.bsky.social Briardark! More info about the books in their profile 🖤🌱 #art #illustration #darkfantasy #bookcover #novel

7 million people today and no serious political violence. I love this country.

somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism

All of these first posts from US government accounts give "hey baby miss me" abusive ex boyfriend vibes

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

Hey Americans it's my birthday tomorrow and if you please for my birthday I request that on Saturday you: 1. Make a sign 2. Exit your place of living 3. Fight for democracy tyvm

So happy to share one of the three cards I made for @saharian.bsky.social Briardark! For more info about the books please visit their profile 🌱 #art #illustration #darkfantasy #book

-Alien -The Descent -Sinners -Late Night with the Devil

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

@yulkradness.bsky.social is open for commissions!

It's #PortfolioDay ! I'm Julien, a freelance italian artist who works on illustrations, concepts and book covers with an intense love for dark fantasy themes! 🖤 Open for work at: ✉️ [email protected] COMMS: yulkradnesscommissions.carrd.co Vgen: vgen.co/yulkradness #art

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

As someone who has lived here for over a decade, @wyden.senate.gov 's B-roll in this video is the Portland I see on a daily basis. We have our rough edges like any city, but the clips & claims of endless dog parks, weirdos, and farmer's markets you see that counters the propaganda is not hyperbole.

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook. MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops! ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

I am so fucking proud of the place I lived for ten years. This is the best of the city, this is the heart and the goodness of it and I'm so glad

Despite my crippling imposter syndrome and constant struggle to promote my work, Briardark hit 15,000 sold this year, which to my knowledge is more than any of my traditionally published books, and I'm currently fulfilling the 5-figure Kickstarter I ran in July. And damn, that's just really cool. 🧵

Love this one!

Am I an idiot or is the Until Dawn movie just every Supermassive game smashed together into one nonsensical plot

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

Everyone loves Tolkien so let's remember: there were 6 hobbits in the Lord of the Rings. 2 of them stayed home, where they did smaller useful things (for ex Fatty Bolger distracting Black Riders) that made a difference. Every little bit helps indeed.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

This is A+ comedy gold. I hope dog killer Barbie enjoyed her photo op.

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Portland... and somewhere down there a human in a frog suit doing heroic work.

Needed this.

if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live

It's my favorite month of the year, it's raining, I'm breaking out the fall wardrobe and finishing a draft of Broodmother today.

Hey you. Log off and go read a book.

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Also frankly I think I would have been better off if I’d gotten raptured.

Just reposted various bits of dire news, but we all must sleep well to fight the good fight tomorrow and tomorrow, so here's something else that happened today. Variations occur everyday, in fact. The weather never stays home.

Let's get that same kind of effort galvanized behind Black women who lost their jobs this year! NOTE: Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period. white men gained 365,000

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel

War ravaged Portland