Lol! A good reminder that there are lots of scammers out there. Unless it's a service you've contracted of your own initiative, money flows TO the writer. Anyone offering you a great opportunity FOR A FEE should be regarded with serious side-eye.

Read as thou wilt! This article in the latest @flaminghydra.com by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social is exactly the analysis I needed right now. Let's revisit the radical, nuanced, and hot sexual politics of @jacquelinecarey.bsky.social's superlative Kushiel novels. flaminghydra.com/issue-562/#r...

For @flaminghydra.com, I wrote about my enduring love of Kushiel's Dart and its sequels, @jacquelinecarey.bsky.social's genius, and how readers figure out our own desires and boundaries through works of fiction. flaminghydra.com/read-as-thou...

A new Secret Sketchbook is live on my Patreon! Revealing the final look of Joscelin & the Archangel Cassiel, with art notes about the struggle to find this character's look. Read on at the full article for more art & process thoughts. www.patreon.com/posts/secret... @jacquelinecarey.bsky.social

CALL TO ACTION: The Pixel Project's Read For Pixels fundraiser has a few bookish treats available from Subterranean Press, Libba Bray, and Angela Slatter for book collectors who support stopping #VAW. For more details and to donate, visit our fundraising page: tinyurl.com/R4PRallyUpIW...

The Trump administration is warehousing pregnant child rape victims in a Texas facility, away from adequate medical care, in a state with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the US, so that these child rape victims won’t be able to get abortions. www.throughline.news/p/the-trump-

Nothing to see here, just the U.S. government perpetrating body horror.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

WIP Wednesday! What are you working on artists, writers, etc? I've decided midway through painting Joscelin from @jacquelinecarey.bsky.social's "Cassiel's Servant" that I'll redo the bottom half of the hero figure of this cover. Setting myself back a few hours, but it'll be worth it! 🥲 Yes indeed.

Oh, puh-leeze. It has nothing to do with falling "out of love with liberalism," and everything to do with Rowling's transphobia. Well, and the antisemitic stereotypes. And the classism.

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

Shades of the "We can't afford to wait for proof in the form of a smoking gun" argument used to mislead about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 🙄

I heard they're working on an app to help decipher your great-grandma's handwritten Depression-era recipes, too.

Reformed January 6th participant (who refused a pardon): “You can't gaslight me. I was there. I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down and hit his head and his back. So don't be telling me it wasn't violent.”

This new war is not only illegal, reckless and deeply corrupt, it is the latest in a series of increasingly desperate distractions from the EPSTEIN Files. #ImpeachAndConvict47NOW

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.

If a news story makes you angry at a group of people with whom you have no direct experience, you're probably being manipulated. Also, you might be dumber and meaner than you knew. 😑

After a long hiatus, I'm finally back to work on my fan cover of "Cassiel's Servant" by @jacquelinecarey.bsky.social 🎉

May your day be merry and bright!

Be the change you wish to see in the world! 🌞🥂

I'm the Queen's Poet, not the Royal Distiller! Wishing you joie! 🌞🥂

What a wonderful thing to do! One of the good guys. ❤️

Brava!

Cartoon villains, I swear.

British Quakers are refusing room bookings from terfs as policy. If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends. Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

Team Orca

Trump's Truth Social posts should be widely disseminated. The average American voter has NO idea how deranged and utterly incoherent he is on that platform. Not sure what the best mechanism is to accomplish that.

What hideous lengths we go to to dehumanize the other. 💔

Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying bank account?

Plans to dismantle the Statue of Liberty and sell her for scrap coming soon.

As a child of the 80s, I'm constitutionally obligated to share any list featuring Ladyhawke, but this is a good one. (Mostly, I'm a hard pass on Woody Allen)

Very interesting, in a terrifying way. 😳

A nugget of history I did not know! Cool thread.

It's worth noting that proposals do allow members to invest in diversified index funds, so it's not like they'd be deprived of opportunity to benefit from the S&P 500 etc. 🙄

Disgusting. Also possibly a symptom of his increasingly hard to conceal dementia.

I lack the energy to decry the extent to which America is becoming a surveillance state with its own secret police, but I would love to slap the word "freedom" out of the mouth of anyone who voted for this.

What the holy hell. It's not even 9am on Monday morning, and I'm already exhausted by this administration's atrocities.

This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe. Share it widely.

Followers of Mammon! Now you can honor the 4th commandment--"Remember the sabbath day, and keep it lucrative"--without all those infernal transaction fees!

For my third installment of philosophy and fantasy, join me for a walk through @jacquelinecarey.bsky.social Kushiel's Avatar and how it relates to Simone Weill and Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.... (Don't believe me? Argue with me in the comments :) ) youtu.be/VNFtumDIWRM?...

I watched a lot of B-grade 1980s post-apocalyptic films in my youth, and based on the level of violent sadism unleashed in this nation, I'd say we're a generation away from Rutger Hauer slamming a dog skull on stake.

Yessss! GenX loves to invoke its scrappy childhood, but there were more Alex P. Keatons than you could shake a stick at.

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

In the wake of Zohran winning Jonathan Greenblatt and the ADL have opened a tipline to report Antisemitism. Everyone should call to report Nick Fuentes, Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and every other right wing group the adl refused to condemn with the same intensity they save for leftists

Now that's an election.