I blog my annual income sources to help give other writers an idea what works and what doesn't. These posts often get discussed on writers' forums. Folks who don't make money argue endlessly about what I do, claim I'm lying, etc. Except this year. I suspect it's the PS. 🤣 mwl.io/archives/24519

So in original fic I came up tday with some settings and some basic new characters--whether these scribbles with names and basic ideas "come alive" or not remains to be seen. (Sometimes they never do, and I cut them.) Also added a bit to the magic system. Still no stories, but I know I want two...

hmmm. kissable

We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.

I wanted to add a little to the Hiveworks discussion, as a non HW guy It's frustratingly common for a bad manager to divide and conquer artists by keeping them separate. this works especially well with creatives, because our bosses are often also creatives and why would another creative do that?

After I said this, I saw there's literally a moment where one of the composers, Sam Haft, says he tries to communicate with sound even before a lyric is sung. He's talking about the Vs' part of the first song of S2, but I imagine it applies everywhere. youtu.be/msyLJNOjjqw

🚨BREAKING: Any candidate for federal office may challenge election laws governing their election, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision Wednesday, potentially triggering a deluge of litigation over the counting and certifying of results. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I feel like if you detain a Native American as part of your immigration raids, you should be immediately stripped of your citizenship and deported to the nearest land mass that has no sovereign territorial claims.

Festival of the Ass, baby!

Writer here. I'm good at very Charactery characters. Think Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden, or Lois McMaster Bujold Miles Vorkosigan. Or Kevin Hearne's Atticus. But I can also twist it and do something similar for paternal/maternal characters. Rizz + Smarts + Theatrics + Confidence + Vulnerability

So, I've noticed there's one hell of a lot of foreshadowing in the songs in this show. The lyrics are chosen VERY carefully. I was listening to VOX DEI. ...is this song foreshadowing Vox becoming the Speaker of God in a later season? Or has that arc ended with S2? #hazbinhotel #vox

In other news, in between Hazbin Hotel theorycrafting, I've been worldbuilding with my Godmother Organization story. I just realized a side character isn't my main character's ex-girlfriend...she's his grade school best friend. And she's a cute little lamb fairy. Just the cutest.

If you cannot make “these people are leaving BABIES in CARS in WINTER and then returning them to their carekeepers with BRUISES” into popular sentiment as a politician, you’re either inept or you want this to keep happening.

So I was musing on my thought that in HH Alastor is The Devil (out of the Unholy Trinity of Lucifer, Satan, and The Devil). And I looked up The Devil tarot card. And, wow...a lot of meanings associated with The Devil in tarot seem to apply to Alastor's personality and arc. #alastor #hazbinhotel

Status report, “Today’s Hospital Visit”: “We need more imaging.” 🤣 …YES OF COURSE WE DO. And once more I get to pay. (eyeroll) Anybody want in on this action? https://ko-fi.com/dianeduane

#Booksky 1/2 Real talk: the Press and several of our authors are based in Minneapolis, which is experiencing a significant government-fueled assault on our people, our communities and our local economy. And I have a LOT of bills to pay this month. queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...

This is Minneapolis elementary school pick up: The alert also recommends: "Bring your whistle & wear your hat. If you have a respirator or goggles bring them in a small backpack. We don't want to show up looking alarming for the kids but chemical weapons are being used widely in the area." 2/2

It's Jobs Time. If you've wanted to try your hand at editing comic books (or crowdfunding them) at the best publisher ever, I suggest you apply. DO NOT SELF REJECT etc etc etc (reposting with actual correct link) www.linkedin.com/posts/vault-...

Besties off the set. Why do I kinda wanna write a fic for this idea...? I've got 5 others to deal with first! (Can't find the original poster, but I don't claim 'em. Don't @ me bout it.) #HazbinHotel #BestFriends #HazbinHotelFanwork

Finished up some hazbin tattoo flash so here’s one page of alastor and lucililith #hazbinhotel #hazbinhotelalastor #alastor #alastorhazbinhotel #hazbinhotelart #hazbinhotelfanart #lucifermorningstar #lilith

Posting boardwalks? Alright. One boreal bog boardwalk coming right up!

For all those who have been calling for a General Strike. How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

Hello! I paint space pottery with glaze. Everything from pleasant spacewalks to the horrors of the unknown (and the known). Restock announcement soon, join my mailing list to stay in the know: Amyraehill.com #PortfolioDay

Hey y’all! REMINDER: I am LEGALLY OBLIGATED to award at least one scholarship to a Louisiana woman. And no Louisiana women have applied. This happens every year where we have to beg women in my own state to apply and Idk why. We’re in our 6th cycle! Come get this money! ThurmanPerryFoundation.org

im sure those liquids arent all mb's............. #themurderbotdiaries #murderbot

They're targeting Renee Good's widow because they don't want her talking. If they can manufacture charges, most defense attorneys will tell her not to speak with media even if she did nothing wrong

horse year 🐎

This is my friend Will. He is an army veteran and Purple Heart recipient. He was abducted by ICE during this same assault on his neighborhood.

#PortfolioDay hi, I'm Patsu and I'm a fantasy character illustrator! 📧: [email protected] or direct message me for commission inquiries!

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

If you were going to teach a course of modern YA authors, who would you teach, and why? I would do a 52 week lecture on Discworld to start, but they'd probably want other commentary. Naomi Novik 's A Deadly Education series and how to play with reversal of tropes. Rowling as a CAUTIONARY TALE

hey #portfolioday! i'm otava, a visual artist from finland who specializes in comics, and i'm currently open for illustration jobs to bring to life your weird, hot, melancholic and dramatic projects. let me illustrate your album cover or magazine spread: www.otavaheikkila.net

"The baby was released to her family. Her grandmother says she had a bruised cheek, but is otherwise OK." A 1 yo with a bruised cheek is NOT ok. Not because she's incapable of giving herself that bruise, but because she was alone with amoral strangers and has no way of communicating her experience.

hi #portfolioday! i'm Charlie Bryant, a storyboard artist/animator with over a decade of experience on stuff like The Owl House, Adventure Time: Sidequests, Centaurworld, JaidenAnimations +more! need to work 150 union hours by May to keep my insurance! portfolio : getvent.me ✉️ [email protected]

#WindowsOnWednesday Caledonian Estate, Islington

#WallsOnWednesday with the Street Signs of Islington

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

"All we're doing is causing psychosis, creating deepfake nudes and committing the largest case of intellectual property theft in history, while also creating a bubble in the financial markets, why are people so mean to us?"

...well that gives even more support to my suspicion that Lilith is asexual like Alastor and Lucifer created Charlie with magic and made her tall b/c he's short. I'll laugh my butt off if an asexual but very romantic Lilith/Alastor arc arrives in S3. Would explain Al's dad-posturing in HGD.

A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present. He was bundled into the van & taken away. Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?” I don’t know how America comes back from all this.

They're using cellphone geolocation data

Hey, seriously, Newsom can get fucked

When you’re starting out, the last thing you should be worried about is ‘finding your style.’ It’s already there, because your style is simply how you see the world. It comes naturally as you learn to interpret the things around you into your work. Learn anatomy, study other artists, and have fun

What if Alastor IS redeemed...but just as soon as he pops up in Heaven, he orchestrates his own Fall, and then becomes a fallen angel in Hell? I mean, he's very resourceful and persistent getting what he wants... Would a redeemed Overlord still have Overlord power in Heaven? #Hazbinhotel

🥹🥹 good job little guy you are very invisible now 🥹🥹

Sometimes the secret to writing a good ending is writing an ending that is way too long and then cutting the last 70% of it.

a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.

A neighbor was taken to a care facility, and her little tortoiseshell kitty was left behind. I can't take her in but I've been feeding her and giving her water every day. No one in the neighbor's family can take her in. Is there anyone in the Inland Empire area that could foster or adopt her?

I had another Hazbin Hotel thought. Charlie looks almost entirely like her dad, but she's tall. If Lilith ends up being ace... Do you think Lucifer created Charlie out of nothing? Like, no pregnancy? And he just made her taller because he's short and didn't want her to deal with that?