Sometimes comics is fun.

Meanwhile SJM is like "lol I wrote something SO big" like, idk girl, I've read some of your books and I don't know if all of those scenes were truly adding to the story. But she can do it bc people adore the world she built so whaddo I know?

I have cut nearly 20,000 words from this draft, and ideally we should cut 20,000 MORE. And then even more ideally another 15k from there (though that last bit I'd deeply unlikely.) That's an entire novella chopped away from my CHILD. 😭😭😭

11k flowers, thank you 🥺 this humble space continues to grow.

NEWSLETTER IS UP. (It is free) This month I talk about Why I'm Like This. www.patreon.com/posts/152157...

Nancy 3/4/26 💅

NEWSLETTER IS UP. (It is free) This month I talk about Why I'm Like This. www.patreon.com/posts/152157...

I like writing. I like having-written. Folks, I think I hate editing.

Writing my newsletter today and this month it is getting ~personal~ 😌

For whatever reason Woman in Black kinda bounced off of me? I had a difficult time keeping my attention on the page. Weird how some books I drop straighy into and others I can never seem to inhabit. Next: Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeester. Really promising premise on this one for me.

I love Time War so. Much. What a beautiful book. Next: the woman in black!

I read a lot this month. Maybe too much? Some of these were very short, though.

We have a very handsome party, I think. 😌

- Endpapers illustrated by @kelsijosilva.bsky.social ! (Different front and back)

My toxic trait is stubbornly hand drawing every single book.

Now, another reread because I've just read two heavy books back to back and I've earned it! Timewar Time 😌

This book is written in such a frank way that it can be difficult to understand the real impact of the MC's experiences, but in a way, it fits so perfectly with one of the main themes of the book: the untangling of the protective knot of emotion. I still cried a whole lot. It's a hard book to read.

It was really important to me when designing my characters that they look and dress like lesbians. Not like someone's ideal of a lesbian, but like messy, teenage, queer girls.

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Fairies 🩷

Standing outside, yelling at the clear sky: "WHAT GOD HAVE I FAILED TO PRAY TO?!"

Watching the east coast shovel snow with my hands pressed against the window like an orphan in a Dickens novel. Please. I want... Blizzard.

It was really important to me when designing my characters that they look and dress like lesbians. Not like someone's ideal of a lesbian, but like messy, teenage, queer girls.

I think it's time we talk about how nightmare technologies are super normalized in the Star Trek universe. The Holodek was a mistake. You should not be able to take anyone's image and make a believably sentient counterpart to them. It's DEEEPLY invasive.

Every year my DND group does a secret Santa, and every year I use it as an excuse to draw their characters. This is Kalodor, a Faewild Tiefling quite possibly slowly turning into a NOT Faewild Tiefling.

Fairies over the years 🩷💕

Beloved: incredible. Difficult, important, beautifully told. Next: Stone Butch Blues. I don't know why it's taken me so long to read this. It's time 😌

Fairies over the years 🩷💕

Fairies 🩷

What I think a lot of people are missing is that the goal of writing a book or making a comic is to write a book or make a comic. It's not to make a TV show or movie. The goal is to make a book. The end goal, is to have a book that people can read and cherish. THE GOAL IS BOOK.

Relationship dynamic

Relationship dynamic

"if you could give your jewels to a thief and watch them wear them to a fancy party, would you do it?" 🥺 bsfr.

I really enjoyed Silent Companions. I do think it became predictable at certain points but I don't believe that's always a bad thing. Next: Beloved by Toni Morrison.

New post up on Patreon 😘

New post up on Patreon 😘

Delighted to see me and @kelsijosilva.bsky.social 's OFF MENU on YALSA's 2026 list of recommended "great graphic novels for teens"! Seeing how determinedly librarians are supporting our book always makes my day. www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/2026/...

It seems to be one of the rules of the universe that every library hold will become available at the same time 🫠

Hiking 😌

Obviously I love Hill House. It's part of my personality now. Next: the Silent Companions! This premise is so unsettling. I love it.

Hey if your AFAB partner had "not like other girls" energy, buy them chocolates and flowers for Valentine's Day. Trust 🙌 There's a good chance no one ever has. Every once in a while being treated like a "girl" is nice, is all.

Share your couples art!

Hiking 😌

Little ☺️

I just think, maybe we shouldn't be casting movies based on our 14 y/o perceptions of a story. Maybe we should be casting movies with fully grown adult consciousness. Maybe we should be really careful with the changes we make to the source material and how that impacts the themes.

Unfortunately my work computer is likely either dead or gonna cost a shit ton to fix. And for a whole slew of reasons im broke as shit. So if anyone is feeling like being generous i would greatly appreciate it. 💜💜 ko-fi.com/iceghost

Patricia Highsmith's prose was really odd to me, but I can see why The Price of Salt (or Carol) earned it's cult following. I did NOT expect a happy ending at any point, and yet! Now, a reread! Although I've never physically read this book, I have listened to it twice.

Both my apple pencil and my headphones died AT THE SAME TIME. Im being betrayed by my technology.

I have booked all of my travel for C2E2! See ya nerds there!