Playing a Fallout doctor(?) in an Underdark pirate game over on twitch.tv/themdave! #ttrpg #actualplay #fantasy

New podcast episode w/ @cleolinda.bsky.social ! We discuss Florence + the Machine's latest album, "Everybody Scream," including the major life events that influenced the writing of the album, Florence Welch's style, and the finer points of art appreciation/intepretation. youtu.be/jSU1piMZCi0?...

SILENT HILL Transmission on February 12 at 4:00 PM PT. "We’ll share the latest news on SILENT HILL: Townfall. The streaming link is coming soon so stay tuned! "

Hey, you, you're finally awake - #darkart #digitalart #illustration #horrorart

Not @diane.dianeduane.com 's background brain just casually coming up with my ideal romance novel

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

Alright, where are my gifted kids at? You were smart and you never had to study and then you went to college and suddenly had to learn a new skillset overnight, that everybody else had years to learn, or flame out spectacularly? That’s what talent is like.

Best. Concept. Art. EVAR. :)

Today, I’m gonna teach you how to dance to Breaking Benjamin! Share this to your friend who wants to learn how to dance to Breaking Benjamin!

Playing #Headliners over on twitch.tv/apickledcucumber! Come hang out!

His name is George Clinton, and with his 39 degrees, he would know

Smite this pun in particular

TONIGHT AT 7PM ET ON twitch.tv/idoherty451: We're back at it with #SilentHill4! Join me as we explore the Building and Apartment Worlds and see more of Silent Hill's nightmare filtered through the mind of Walter Sullivan...

Sharing this in case it helps someone--something I'm trying out: The past few days, I've been actively repeating the phrase "radical self-love" to myself. Here's how that's manifesting for me as a neurodivergent ADHDer who struggles with shame, self-love, and self-motivation:

Thread. Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.

Impromptu #BluePrince stream at 7:30PM ET! twitch.tv/idoherty451

I've updated the Events page on my website for February! Check it out and see what's going on in my world this month--music, streaming, podcasting, and more...

There’s also the flip side of this where people don’t understand the tropes that define a genre and think one story is “copying” another because they both adhere to pillars of the genre.

Just saw Iron Lung. Markiplier, you made me feel something, in a very positive way. Bravo!

ME: I need to go grocery shopping. ADHD BRAIN: ORRRR you could work on learning that sheet music that's sitting on your piano. ME (already at the piano): This isn't the priority, I need food-- ADHD BRAIN: But you haven't tried to sight read in ages, and look how well you're doing! ME: 🤩 OK WHY NOT--

You know what, I had a talk recently at work about how general public doesn't know any female artists from the past and my own 20 paintings thread was all men, so for my own education I'm starting a thread for female painters and illustrators.

MERGE CONFLICT drops in 25 minutes! Watch the YouTube premiere live and chat along with your fellow Pod People, or listen wherever you find podcasts.

4 bros chilling in the celestial bathhouse...

Fellow writers: I am deeply saddened to share that if we want the rewards of having written, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of writing

I want this quote on a t-shirt, a sign, a tattoo, and every grassroots organizing manual from here forward.

Ew, the uncanny valley of it all 😬

Every single person writing a book right now: This one, this is the one

Dressed up for a job fair, threw on my peacoat, and suddenly I feel like I'm an antagonist in a federal supernatural conspiracy story like FRINGE or CONTROL. Or X-Files, of course.

Neil Young gives complete musical catalogue to Greenland for free - while removing all his music from Amazon www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/neil-y...

This is on another level

Silent Hill 4: The Room is $6.99 on GOG (Preservation Program) buff.ly/uQdqU2c

It breaks my heart that this is one of the most beautiful evolutions of the "Promise (Reprise)" theme, & it isn't even in the movie. (It even uses the cello part Jeff Danna threw on it in the 2006 movie! & there's a part that feels like it's a riff on "After Daddy" from the remake! What HAPPENED?!)

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Reflecting on THE atlantic article. It’s a searing, enraging, heartbreaking piece but more than that - it should be comforting to good people, and scary for bad guys. I believe that we can protect our neighbors when the violence comes, and I know there are more of us than there are of them

This could have been written this morning. How exact and how applicable every word is. "Stealing the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in." No better description exists of the blasphemous, murderous, corrupt America of Trump and of ICE.

Status report, “Sudden Urge” dep’t: Busy with writing & French toast again. But for some reason this post came up in a search earlier, and a back-of-brain voice whispered, “Maybe somebody needs to hear this today?” So. https://www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2014/07/13/about-self-esteem-in-writing/

Things you Google at 1:25AM when you're writing fiction: "Does tranquilizer have a smell?" #amwriting

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Who needs a few seconds of peace? Here's a burrowing owlet watching the sun go down with me. 🪶

Nah you're good

This isn't even trolling. I saw it with my own eyes. (Although tbf, I had NO FUCKING CLUE what was going on in the scene where the cult "eats her.")

My kid wanted to know why the other guys in The Thing weren’t all talking about how beautiful Kurt Russell is

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” -James Baldwin

Watching some Looney Tunes with my kid and it dawns on me that the moral of almost every Bugs Bunny or Road Runner cartoon is “if you chase after someone who’s just minding their own business, you deserve whatever happens to you.”

I'm still in disbelief. I didn't think it was possible for him to misunderstand the crux of the game's story to this degree. Baffling choices... And I'm seeing it again tomorrow 🙃

It was not a good time 😞

The weirdest thing about #SilentHill4 isn't the monsters. It's what James Sunderland's dad keeps in a box in his room(?!).

I just hit 100 subscribers on YouTube! Thanks to everyone who's come along for the ride so far!