My #YearOfKindness was more about publicly trying than about finding or offering answers, the final essay in the series is done but my engagement isn't - leanring and writing will continue for a long time as this integrates into my life . www.laurenjanek.com/post/shadow-...

attn @vicmmic.bsky.social

Vampire by Edvard Munch, 1895 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137470

We need to stop saying shit like "IP" and "content" when we mean art. Don't let them strip the walls in your own brain, man.

Implements.

We're alive to love things, learn things, and make things. That's it. That's our whole task in our short bright flash of life. Love, learn, and create. The more love, learning, and making stuff you put in the world - the love, harmony, beauty, justice, compassion and mercy of existence - the better.

Life during and after a call-out for sexual harm as a partner with CPTSD - my #YearOfKindness is an ongoing plea for better ways to cope, heal, and grow into accountability

You absolutely must read the alt text.

Rope .

I am going to read Every One of these books.

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It's the new year in Halifax, and so it is also my birthday. I turn 52 this year and what is time anyway, that seems both entirely unreasonable and absolutely correct. 2025 set up a lot of change that 2026 is going to bring to action and I am ready and excited for it. Enjoy the night, friends.

Convalescent hot chocolates ( Camp Enzo coffee and chocolate, thanks to @somachocolatemaker.bsky.social ) with my love @laurenjane.bsky.social

Working a post-screening Q&A at TIFF years ago, backstage with @realgdt.bsky.social waiting for him to be introduced. We were standing quietly by the door to the stage & as the intro was wrapping up GdT laughed, clapped me on the shoulder and said "What a life, hey?" just before he walked on stage.

'Anonymous Nude Photos' is on sale for a few more days from smashwords . A classic BDSM romance grounded in consent, love and discovery . www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... . 📚🌶️, 📚💙 #booksky #kink #bdsm #romance #writersky

𝐌𝐎𝐁𝐘 𝐆𝐎𝐓 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊 I like white whales and I cannot lie You other sailors can't deny When a fish rolls in as a pale and eerie sight Spermacetti is your right You get sprung Wanna throw stuff well Til you know that the whale's in hell Oh, Moby I wanna stop goonin' And get harpoonin' My whalers tried to w

Eight Gray by Gerhard Richter, 2002 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137643

I'm watching Jaws with @jprobichaud.bsky.social and every time I watch Jaws I'm obligated to post this observation: Martin Brody is a final girl

More people need to, for fuck's sakes, wear less cologne.

Who stands in the desert all smashed and alone? OZ-Y MAN-DIAS Vast trunkless legs sunk in sands level and lone OZ-Y MAN-DIAS If King-of-Kings hubris be something you care OZ-Y MAN-DIAS Just look on his Works all ye Mighty: despair OZ-Y MAN-DIAS

The robot doesn't also double over in pain, it's actually laughing it's Asimov

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

It's Capricorn Season.

Clicking on a link from me is such a wild ride - is it a harrowing essay about trauma recovery and restorative justice or a weird art porn photo set? Who knows?

Merry Krampus

Do this even if you're not engaged in a writing process. Do this because sometimes stepping out of the world and just being with yourself is an incredible feeling. Do this as a gift to your self. Also Very Important: Support the people you care about making this choice for THEMselves when they can!

Made festive cheeseburgers for dinner and am now watching DIE HARD as the holiday requires.

@vicmmic.bsky.social another contribution, from Toronto's Little Portugal

Hey @vicmmic.bsky.social is this cheating?

Sharp .

I agree, Lucy Liu.

Excellent either way.

It's Capricorn Season.

The shorteste daye The longest nighte Welcome, sun Welcome, lighte

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

Untitled (Gray and Mauve) https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4936

So it seems as though invoking her in conversation with my Love last night has reminded my cat Coco of where she used to live ( when she was living or maybe just had a body ) because since then I've been seeing her out of the corner of my eye, silently exploring all of her old spaces.

I'm not going to market myself as The Tabletop Therapist or anything like that. But it would be as foolish of me to dismiss what my years of life as a gamer have given me as it would be to dismiss what my years in live theatre gave me, or my years living in kink. It's all resonant. It all resonates.

Is my body a historical artifact Is my body a miracle If I thought I would be dead by now .

"Why is there a watermelon there?" "I'll tell you later." I love this movie.

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

hello #booksky may I entice you with a little BDSM romance, currently on sale?

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

Last year, this year, every year. Sex work is work. Sex worker rights are human rights. Support your local (and remote) Sex Workers! #IDEVASW

There's a moment of epiphany that can happen in therapy, as result of that unique kind of conversational flow, that results in a sudden eye-widening stomach drop of "oh so THAT'S where all this fear was coming from" and that then leaves you with a bit of "okay so what do I do with this NOW?"

My book 'Anonymous Nude Photos' is on sale for the holiday season at smashwords with @storyperfectbooks.bsky.social . Check out a little art, a little romance and a whole lot of BDSM . www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

oh you like Heated Rivalry? haha yeah that's cool, so... have you heard of Interview With the Vampire? No?? I mean it's not Canadian, but we've got Hannah Moscovitch on staff and the boys fuck nasty ep 1 sooooOOooo they're basically the same thing

(most of) the books i (mostly) read in 2025, the first year I ever kept track (so my brother & I can trade lists on NYE). It was an excellent, weird and powerful year of reading, and this post was a great way to remember some favourites <3 . laurenjanek.com/post/the-year-in-books

A lot of very cool news lately!! My local queer sex boutique and bookstore, Venus Envy, ordered copies of my book. dropping off a few copies of "Anonymous Nude Photos" next week! . If you're in Halifax, check out Venus Envy & buy a copy of my book 🖤 . 📚💙, 📚🌶️, #indieauthor #smallpress #halifax