Day 4 of sharing things I love about our book The Butterfly Koi (because I'm bad at marketing). Hatsumi has a vendetta and a potty mouth, but she still helps her mom with groceries every weekend.

Day 3 of sharing things I love about our book The Butterfly Koi (because I'm bad at marketing). Kenji is a chaos gremlin who once turned off a computer by pulling the wires directly out of the wall.

Day 2 of things I love about our book The Butterfly Koi. Eika has the best of intentions and the worst of family. She's also jealous her brother can skip events with the excuse that he doesn't want to buy a ticket for his cello.

In the classic author fashion, marketing is not my jam. So, instead, every day this month I'm sharing one thing I love about our book The Butterfly Koi. Misora is ambitious enough to metaphorically punch through steel. Her bestie jokes that getting back late from lunch might get someone kneecapped…

Apparently, sharing that you just asked the yard rabbit if he's "having a happy bunday" is a kind of one-hit destroy on the cheese scale.

Foreshadowing in real life is the worst - I just watched my baby kitty boy bat a bottle of fountain pen ink off the shelf and start playing with it. The bottle is plastic and I took it away immediately… the problem is THERE USED TO BE A SECOND BOTTLE OF INK THERE.

Exciting to see a review for The Butterfly Koi out in the wild! fantasybookcritic.blogspot.co...

That feeling when you're deliberately relaxing but you still feel like you should be writing. (What I'm saying is 'Guilt, it's time for you to take a break too.')

Sometimes you want to make things with your hands. (For giving away in person.) #minnesota

What people in the Cities are doing matters.

I couldn't get Alex Pretti's last words out of my head, so I made something.

One sweet thing amid the awfulness right now is how wonderful the experience is of adopting a cat and feeling how his fur has gotten softer over the months due to being inside and eating good food. The concept of to be loved is to be changed in action.

With SNAP benefits about to run out, I see that the wannabe king has reached the “let them eat ballroom” phase.

You can tell that Taylor Swift released an album by all of the work happening in the rage-bait engagement farming mines across social media.

Oh, hey, that was a total bop. Looking forward to singing these lyrics out a car window. Would absolutely Release Party again.

I can't keep it in any longer: The Butterfly Koi is coming out on paperback on October 6! And, because it's the logical thing to do with an author copy, I took this out on a walk. Look at how it prances and dances in the fall air.

Getting so excited to announce something soon!

Yes, I did just update my app specifically so I could bookmark something.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Would that I only ever received notifications of happy people, fed cats, and sunshine

In which I realize that I unintentionally TS12-coded my new pencil case. Someone has Taylor Swift on the brain.

Love how people find a way to climb the accidental walls and swim the moats, which is to say I'm trying brid.gy fed to catapult across the Activity Pub / Bluesky divide.

“AI wins not when it becomes more human, but when humans become more like AI: disengaged and devoid of original thought.” This hit me like a ton of corporeal, not copied, not stolen bricks. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...

My stunning entry for #makeaterriblecomicday2025! Which is today btw, no pressure!

Thankfully, time elapsed on this was about 5 minutes. #makeaterriblecomicday2025

Based on a real conversation about hockey.

This is definitely where I always hoped to be spending my time: searching where aluminum foil is manufactured to know if I should start stocking up.

What it sounds like when some tech dude tries to convince me that ethics aside, I’d love AI if if I just tried it: So, I broke into this old lady’s house and stole her tv. If you just try it out you’ll see how high def it is

Is the f short for Fatal Frame? When does she get her camera obscura?

Okay, world filled with bullshit, you did it. You made me dig Neko Atsume out of a folder.

If I may again suggest terminology for the zeitgeist: vitriol signaling.

Hi, welcome! If you’re curious who I am, I write angry speculative fiction about fighting to do good in the midst of capitalism twisting those intentions (free novel linked in bio) and sometimes make angry comics. I’d really rather there be less inspiration these days.

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

(Don't) love what they've done with the place.

Right now #comics are the hands of the 🫣 emoji that I need to get through the day.

Tesla stock going down.

More lingo for the times.

When you're feeling the spirit.

One way to make it through.

Do I think that the FAA cuts today caused the Delta plane to land upside down in Toronto? Of course not. But we should talk about them together because 1.) cutting desperately needed staff in the midst of these incidents is terrible planning, (1/2)

Tonight's CAN-USA matchup promises to be great hockey. But nothing happens in a vacuum, and the political context is fraught because the US has been threatening Canadian sovereignty. [are we the baddies dot gif] Keep booing fascism, Canada. #nhl #4NFO www.nytimes.com/athletic/613...

It's time for more news from the darkest timeline.

Based on the Tulsi Gabbard confirmation, I can only conclude that the Rs would confirm Putin himself for Director of the CIA.

Even for people who (mistakenly) oppose these terms, there’s some kind of a phrase out there for this involving words like “baby” and “bathwater”.

Sometimes quiet fun is formatting an unordered list to look nice.

Are there improvements possible? Yes! And they are certainly needed. Do I think these clownshoes can make them safely? Not in a million rushed and poorly tested years.

Four albums you think are perfect

Again, because not giving them undue reverence is important right now.

Timely, what with the extremists wanting to force half of us to be princesses with no agency in the world.

If honk honk gets me sent to the re-education camp, at least I’ll be giggling.