I love Fall. The crisp air, the radiant colors, the bleak realization that everything dies

QRP with your dark art 👁️

New flash fiction: A Murmuration of Starlings, 300 words. A wandering knight witnesses an omen foretelling the death of a king, and is glad for it. "A witch could tell him the starlings’ secrets, but he had been alone for days, and the land around him was empty." www.patreon.com/posts/murmur...

Nipped around the block between rainshowers as dusk comes on and the hound did an excellent job alerting the town to Every Single Deer She Saw. Now everyone knows where they are. Then we got hailed on.

Fanart for The Starving Saints 🥀🗡️

the legacy left to you -- incredible incredible incredible amazing psyche emet-selch elyan from my friend ;_; @motheatenwizard.bsky.social #elyancomms

Show me how you draw/paint snow ❄️ A recent-ish study and an old personal piece that i still kinda like

The rain stopped just long enough for me to dread the thought of going for a walk in that wind, but it's okay, it's raining again now.

Writing still feels like an uphill slog these days. Every time I poke at things and get surprised that I'm still in burnout I ask, hey, why, how, when I've pulled back from publishing so hard this year?? I have to keep repeating to myself "It's the fascism, boss."

it is now possible to transfer your spotify playlists seamlessly to other listening apps btw

GO BACK WITCHING SEASON 150 pages of INCREDIBLE comics from names like @planetx.bsky.social, @laurenknight.bsky.social, @heatherantos.bsky.social, @lengog.bsky.social, @ryehickman.bsky.social and MORE all edited by @cerealpancake.bsky.social You've got ONE WEEK www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

Illustration for "Old Moon Quarterly" I've been getting so many cool projects to work on lately, thank you all very much!

I'd write weirder, longer, more complicated books without worrying about marketability, and I'd drop my freelance work to write full time. I'd invest in supplies to teach myself different art forms, too, like sculpture and woodburning.

HOT LIBRARY INTEL: you can ask your library to purchase specific titles for their collection, usually right through the library's website. Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!

ATTN: SUBMISSIONS FOR THE NEXT @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social ANTHOLOGY OPEN DECEMBER 1ST. EVERYTHING IS FINE. NOTHING IS WRONG. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA. Start planning your submission to LIE MACHINE now!! ironcircus.com/lie-machine/

From a trip to Utah, and sold this one at Lightbox Expo last weekend.

Ginkgo 🍂 #art #patterndesign

A bit of dice testing ✨ #resin

I'm going old school. I want to reach a wealthy patron who intends to shower me with gifts and money in the vain hope that I might produce another work this year.

Lake Kaindy is a valley lake made by flooding in Kazakhstan, whose water is so cold that it preserved the spruce trees that grew in the valley for over 100 years. Underworld environmental design drop for you!

Occasionally while walking home from work, I get little moments where I can pretend I'm in Skyrim

Three (US) ARCs to mark three weeks until UK publication! I realise using ARCs that have a different publication date on them is confusing, but they just arrived and I couldn't resist. finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...

Ditching Photoshop for Krita, day 3

greeted by absolutely ~charming~ (/s) news in my e-mail this morning. anyone else try to launch an NSFW project on Kickstarter recently? myth of consensual sex, ffs. (good news is, they approved the project, sigh.)

Your friendly semi-regular reminder that the single greatest way to help your favorite authors is to rate and review the books you've read. Goodreads, Itch, Kindle, they all give you the opportunity to rate/review and it REALLY helps us get visibility!

Corto (…ish).

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Fresh from the flames, it's Feather Locklear, a diva who isn't waiting to reclaim her duck Dynasty status. She is serving 80's drama with a ceramic twist and ready for another comeback. Quacky Melrose Place reboot anyone? #duck #80s

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

In my head this is 100% Benoit Blanc speaking

"I wonder if the author fact checked this single sentence detailing how the characters get from Location A to Location B in 1922" said literally nobody EVER, and yet...

badger and coyote 🌕

here's another set of #blooms from the SJ Rose Garden for #RoseWednesday because I love #roses. 🌱 #JBCFlowers #flowers #garden #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #DailyFlower

You GOTTA stop being so desperately afraid of the audience. Look at me. Look in my eyeballs. Stop being so desperate for approval. Stop writing for the whiny babies in your audience and start writing for the freaks who like cool fucked up shit

Last golden leaves bathing in the light… #nature #photography #tree #autumn

I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?

Two new art prints in the Palace Life series out tomorrow from @blackdragonpress.co.uk . Intruder from Beneath the Palace and Entrance to the Dead Garden come in editions of 80 copies each. 18x24 inch. Signed and numbered. Out tomorrow November 6 at 5pm UK time through: www.blackdragonpress.co.uk/

I'm so relieved for the NY results (seriously, congrats, so happy for you!) but jfc I long for a day when I never have to hear about or be remotely invested in any kind of US politics ever again ✨

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

I read A Conspiracy of Truths by @alexandrarowland.bsky.social! 5 stars, recommended for fantasy readers who want elderly mcs, no romance, thematically relevant first-person narration, folklore, revolution to overthrow corrupt governments of declining countries, and a little bit of magic.

*gripping my computer* the book doesn't suck it's just a first draft the book doesn't suck it's just a first draft the book doesn't suck it's just a first draft THE BOOK DOES NOT SUCK IT'S JUST—

I'm looking forward to this! That's my cozy dragon banner, and I have an upcoming author interview with them, and I'll be giving away a copy of my queer SFF collection The Carnelian King and Other Stories as one of the daily giveaway prizes!

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Re: the sloppy marketing scams going around. Do people not generally have this immediate suspicion and distaste for being over-the-top flattered? It makes me mistrust you, like someone using my name too many times in a sentence. What do you WANT. Why are you trying to sell me on my own book.

My allonautilus portion of the painting is finish. Now I just need to add three big atomic diagrams before I can call it done. #wildlifeart #oilpainting #marinelife #nautilus #allonautilus 🐡 🦑 #animalart #mollusks #cephalopods #girlthatgoldenspiralthough

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

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On a rainy fall day you have to bake an entire squash in the oven and eat it like a peasant. It's not optional.