Savage Dragon can do things like have ICE acting like ICE and being horrible because it's not owned by something working closely with the CIA, the FBI, or the Army. Or, Warner Bros and Disney. A lot of indie comics could, really, but props to Erik Larsen for doing it.

Heartfelt hurts, like stretching your arm a bit too long to reach something important. Or finding that thing is gone. #vss365 #heartfelt

When the table revealed how wonky it was, emptiness was already throbbing. Your cup slid toward the floor, but this time, the cup's magnetized strip held. You sip coffee and remind yourself inter-dimensional termites come from hollower dimensions. #writemap #horrorprompt #vss365 #wonky

You stand before warm lights in windows by the perfect stoop. You know a mimic when you see one. Steps will be teeth, or turn into a cement wave leading to a concrete current. In a window, a Napoleon, tall or short, will emerge soon to see you. You'll let 'em and wander on. #inkmine #vss365 #stoop

Another in a string of cold winter nights. No heat, but there's four walls, a cover, other layers too. Mind turns behind the bit of cover you keep raised to breathe better. Lots of things not great but mostly you think of slapdashing more warmth tomorrow. #vss365 #slapdash

There was less people on Blue Sky when I originally posted this. You're welcome. Art by @catatune.bsky.social #scifi #specfic #books #art

Bitten but zoetic enough to be kooky about it. That's a hard one to watch. Gentle processing of the futility of an in-process change that will mean practically dead. 'Won't that be fun?' Sometimes the dead do seem kooky, try to go through the wall next to a door. #horrorprompt #vss365 #kooky

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us" J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings

In light of recent tragic events, we're taking the night off both in solidarity/recognition and also to take time for reflection and processing. Let's all be with our loved ones and hold them close tonight. We'll get through this together.

It was always illuminating listening to him ramble on and the levels of hypocrisy were #unmissable when he threatened to intervene if foreign protests were subject to authoritarian violence, when his own henchmen cracked down on them at home. #Vss365

For their pods, they took all the sorrowful people with the greatest care. #inkmine #scifaikusaturday #haiku

You, Schrodinger's cat of lost - perpetually lost and found at the same time, until one of the two states becomes unmissable. But the height of these states can surge like a flare. Or like joy & pain. High enough to see the world. Sad enough to see the world. #writemap #satsplat #vss365 #unmissable

“Silence is learned by the many misfortunes of life.” (Seneca) 🎨 Nataliya Bagatskaya   #wintersky

Do you hear moaning? That's ghosts in competition - who has the most things? #phantomfridays #haiku

Someone who loves you - truly loves you - is firmly elsewhere now, in a place you'll never reach. But they've sent a delivery that will take a millennia to get to you. So do you figure out how to keep living for a thousand years, or is 'in transit' enough? #scififri #vss365 #delivery

They came adorned with a mask of good sense. Were that it was sooner they dropped the pretense. You could walk the other way faster, find the ones who know hell was built by someone who elevated them just enough to want to look down on you with eyes yanked out but, 'hey not puffed.' #vss365 #adorn

A Fish Tale Mitchell P #art

The music band-aid or predestined beats you want to keep being in flow with when there's a symphony & it requires being outside the box, outside the ring. Most victories are bittersweet. World still takes so much cues from an octagon, a stageshow starring a hive clown unawares #vss365 #symphony

It reads as spooked the more anyone just thinks about it. Feeling eclipsed by a potent shadow - what makes them feel less than followed by the latent feeling everything isn't enough to be as big as they need to be mighty. So now their colors... they emote like siren lights. #inkmine #vss365 #sppoked

You’ll survive, but you’ll be funnier in a way that worries people

Once upon a time, people thought the moon was one-sided - a plate shifting now and then if you squinted. An oddball wanted to climb high just for it - to turn the moon around. There had to be something more than this, they figured. Isn't that wild? #soulseedlove #writemap #vss365 #oddball

MC goals: Yes restful sleep, hold the Brooklyn. #FantasyIndiesJanuary #books #tbr #mystery

Pennies scattered when you hit the ground. Ogres hate pennies. They turned from you, and one of them grabbed the man who helped you. Ogre magic absorbs toxins from people's skin, so the man was now drug-free but not the ogre. 'The wise man can help with that,' you say. 'Supposedly.' #fastprompt

Ogres barreled out of the brush in the hope they'd hit someone. The wise one took off. 'Wait,' said one ogre. 'You owe us money.' One of the other ones spotted you and the man. 'What are you looking at? Are you calling us short?' 'They are!' the wise one yelled back. #fastprompt

Typical wisdom. You backed away slowly, but the wise one and the man arguing with him heard as you had a chance encounter with a branch. You tripped, and the man came over to help you. The wise one did not. 'You OK?' 'Yeah,' you said. 'What about you?' 'Could be better.' #fastprompt

The wise one, cig in mouth making you already doubt the veracity of their title; and tip jar in hand, was arguing with a man. 'I said "find a heroine," not heroin, you dolt.' 'No you said heroin!' 'If I did, maybe it was because ...' The wise one shook the empty jar. #fastprompt #vss

You went for a walk near the long path where the wise one camps out now and again. It was early, and the path was quieter than usual. Words from the wise one are in great demand. One doesn't have to pay but the wise one does take tips. You've got pennies. What the hell. #fastprompt #vss

First, we'll visit this supposed wise one, Since we will need help along this adventure. We found a talking tree, But he hardly made sense. Kept yelling about fire, or something. Your 1st prompt is: "wise one" Be sure to tag #fastprompt! 🎨by Arina Orehova vi Artstation

Welcome to the 219th epic fantasy edition of #fastprompt with your hosts @jelaymon.bsky.social and @k----t.bsky.social! We took a journey tonight and ended up somewhere between the Shire and an Entmoot, maybe took a wrong turn in the Aeil Wastes. We made it to 2026, ready for the next adventure!

glowing vibrations write light not lite - whatever it takes to be starry, even if cruel this is a world for it sort of (balderdashed) light has to bend at least a bit has to find a mirror-like surface to not get lost in, rather reflect on a puddle of tears can do #soulseedslove #writemap #vss365

Stranded 4D heart implodes, fortune finds others to lose control with Is it fortunate to know one more dimension hearts skip in this one? Lands of balderdash, oceans of balderdash too - unfold them with who? #inkmine #satsplat #scifaikusaturday #haiku #vss365 #balderdash

Winter skating Mitchell P #art

Stamina slowly waning Time's audacious joke Wearing down the fight Weaving webs of woe Light splinters through Glitter upon silk threads Abstract shapes take form New tales born of will #vss365 #inkMine #poetry

Rebuilding is rare. Renewal comes with flip switch - street shifts upside down. #scififri #haiku

The time traveler keeps checking, wondering if it's all for naught. Success depends on most people being able to make voyages of abstraction - use imaginations informed by reality plus something more. But here again time is bogged down by small molds of thought all queued up. #bravewrite #vss365

Hey, Iranzy here. Thanks for all the support throughout this year. I have one last goal: reaching 100 readers for my graphic novel. Only 28 readers left to go! If you’re into that kind of art, the link is in my profile. The graphic novel is free. Thank you!🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

You coveted peace, but there's not enough of that to go around, apparently. There's more in the way of delights - the cheapest of which make you bigger but never quite full. The pointed ones - ones supposedly the point - are expensive imitations of something elusive. #vss365 #delight

The 6 books I loved best this year, in order of reading. Skipping to late spring - Magic Flask by @fennelsteuert.bsky.social A highly original speculative mystery with compelling voice, wit and insights. app.thestorygraph.com/books/3b8b93...

#2wordprompt Work is not The #solution To poverty Poor health Or any of the multitude Of problems Society frowns upon We've been sold A lie That making money Is the only thing That counts That only the wealthy Are good And the rest Are just #durable Goods to be used Until they break

Everyone you love with you but at some point you know it's not real there's a fraction of those people not lost to time - but they are there in the present and it feels like they're slipping away too. Hazing by a dream is too much. It's your heart that releases guttural scream #horrorprompt #vss365

Later guys, my ride is here.

When there's always a howl in the background, travel isn't as appealing as it'd be otherwise. If the howl is music to you, the appeal of traveling is the appeal of a cocktail made right before your eyes - bit of this, bit of that - you sip and look cool on wolf's back. #inkmine #vss365 #travel

This is not the sole one - a time, a moment, a stretch where you just don't feel like stringing words together. You're already so wrought some things you try to do don't work out. Couldn't manage the delicacy. Still, here you manage some words not fallen by the wall #vss365 #sole

So much to do, and it feels like you have to be dragged to do it. But you lay down in a heated spot and feel knocked out by a wave of comfort. Those always seem to come when they're not particularly useful. #fastprompt

Close your eyes, so you don't lose one as you get pelted at the kisses booth. Resolve to not come to Pennsylvania again. #fastprompt

Resolutions? They're a bit ... ceremonial - part of a template of optimism. Make a small list or a big one of all the things that you want to do, to be. Bask for a while in the optimistic sheen whatever you do or don't. You know some people who deserve that much. #fastprompt

Tipsy only has the one context. But if you didn't know that, it sounds like its result - a little off-balance. Life can do that to you too - you notice you feel tipsy when you've been folded up, trying to fit into pressured space. Then you get up, lunging to balance. #fastprompt