In Search of Absent Pigments, part 1 of 4 🩵✨ A short comic by myself and @lindarrow.bsky.social, originally published in the Come Together anthology in 2019.

If you live in Alberta, please sign this. Danielle Smith cannot be allowed to casually trample our rights our of sheer malice and laziness. Alberta's education system needs a leader, not a coward. savethecharter.ca

best thing that happened to me all year. yes i said TO ME because that's how invested i am in everyone finally having a chance to realize what I've known for over 15 years, that Lin is the best writer in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

❤️❤️❤️ I am so excited to be writing scifi ghost mysteries!

I'm so excited to announce that I have a book series officially forthcoming! It's Beetlejuice x Bladerunner but make it Queer, funny and romantic, about ghosts technologically resurrected and left to navigate dead end jobs to support themselves. TY to @LucienneDiver!

been lucky enough to see some of the first book and I’m DEEPLY obsessed with it, you don’t understand, you will not be able to shut me up, I couldn’t be more ready

I saw Re-Animator (85) at a theatre! I love how often someone grabs Herbert like a misbehaving cat & goes "HERBERT NO" because this man refuses to stop doing outrageous unethical science, will not apologize for his outrageous unethical science, & will not be denied his outrageous unethical science.

I'm so excited to announce that I have a book series officially forthcoming! It's Beetlejuice x Bladerunner but make it Queer, funny and romantic, about ghosts technologically resurrected and left to navigate dead end jobs to support themselves. TY to @LucienneDiver!

I play Book Bingo every year and I think I crushed it for 2025! My bingo card + the bonus side! MORE PEOPLE SHOULD PLAY BOOK BINGO!

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

personally i love him

Third film for #CIFF: Hedda, a Sapphic adaptation of Ibsen's Hedda Gabbler that updates the play from the 19th Century to the 1950s. I felt it was a bit psychologically restrained, but the recasting of Lovborg as a woman is genius; genuinely elevating to already great material.

Second film at #CIFF: Blue Moon, about Lorenz Hart trying to keep it together on the opening night of Oklahoma! Marathon Ethan Hawke performance. A movie about the pains of collaboration & the agony of popular inoffensive art. 2 scenes made me absolutely lose it--spoilers in 🧵

She's one of those 'constantly making you hold multiple complex ideas in your head at the same time' writers, which I love.

Seeing some films at #CIFF! First up: Kiss of the Spider-Woman. I liked the central paradox, that we can't live without fantasy but, conversely, cannot /live/ in fantasies. But I thought the in-world film they're recreating together could have better evoked the style and look of old Hollywood.

Second film at #CIFF: Blue Moon, about Lorenz Hart trying to keep it together on the opening night of Oklahoma! Marathon performance from Ethan Hawke in a movie about the pains of collaboration and the agony of popular inoffensive art. Two scenes made me absolutely lose it, though--spoilers in 🧵

Do you hate reading but kind of wish you didn't? Here are some tips for getting into it from a lit professor. 🧵 With good book recs for reluctant readers!

Kpop Demon Hunters is really about the undeniable power of three girls walking together in a line.

The funniest part of Murderbot and ART's relationship is that Murderbot is a fundamentally good person made to work for an evil institution, and ART is a fundamentally evil person who works for a good institution.

My favourite Robert Redford movie is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a movie where the heroes spend the whole moving running away and are probably in a throuple with Katharine Ross. They also go on a really long vacation and do bike stunts. RIP.

You look like your day would be improved by photos of Groucho Marx staring adoringly up at tall women.

#RandomMovieRecs Starting Halloween off early with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966), a movie about how spooky it is to be married for a really, really long time.

Reviewing Classic Vampires. Lord Ruthven, The Vampyre, 1819. Literally Byronic. Described as "profuse in his liberality," constantly enabling "the profligate" to wallow in lust and sink deeper into iniquity, seemingly for just the thrills. You have to respect it. 8/10.

Watched Sing Sing (2023) and thought about the human act of creation. letterboxd.com/wisteriajones

Shoutout to the Shaderunners commenter who compared this panel from the Zoll/Ara myth in Act II to this panel of Dom and Ezra in the most recent scene... rest assured, it was unintentional. congratulations you are smarter and more perceptive than I could ever hope to be

Aaahhh!!!

Saw Challengers for the second time and what I really dig about it is that everyone is both a real, living, desired body AND a symbol to the other two and the whole movie is about the shifting dynamics between three symbols/bodies is various stages of WANTING.

Games studies folks! Crime and detective studies folks! We want your work! Emphasis on the 'fiction' part.

The ending of Robert Browning's Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came is one of the most haunting vivid literary images: "There they stood, ranged along the hill-sides—met To view the last of me, a living frame For one more picture! in a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all."

Games studies folks! Crime and detective studies folks! We want your work! Emphasis on the 'fiction' part.

CFP : Videogames and Crime Fiction. Crime Fiction Studies invites contributions for a themed issue on crime fiction and videogames! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/05/...

if you look hard enough on the left of the pic you can see I am in this 🌠 I find the ways we reinvent classic narratives so interesting, it was great to get to talk about!

Proponents are trying to call it a 'porn ban' which is patently absurd. Imagine living in a fantasy land where Albertan middle school librarians are filling their shelves with so much porn the government has to step in?

Didn't see my carpool had arrived and the group chat roasted me, thanks for nothing Edgar Allen Poe

CFP : Videogames and Crime Fiction. Crime Fiction Studies invites contributions for a themed issue on crime fiction and videogames! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/05/...

Me writing 'fragile' on the moving box containing my physical Nancy Drew PC game collection so that the movers treat it like gold.

'Punk rock' dinosaur with metre-long spikes discovered

Utterly ashamed to be an Albertan today. Per my teacher friend, now parents must opt IN to him teaching Shakespeare (which technically counts as 'explicit content'). Can't teach Handmaid's Tale, Kite Runner, 1984, etc. Absolutely monstrous. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I feel like one of the best things about Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 is that he makes jokes about being a vampire constantly but if YOU make vampire jokes you get instant disapproval.

The Greatest Show on Earth is considered one of the worst Best Picture winners, but I actually liked it. The dynamics between the three leads--two competing trapeze artists and their beleagured circus manager--are underdeveloped but have LOTS of potential. #rewritingBestPictureWinners

I'm late to the Baldur's Gate 3 party but the best part of the game is definitely Skittle the mercantile rat who sells you stolen goods via rat puns. Especially because he spawned behind a brick for me, so it looked like he was covertly beckoning me to trade goods.

Hey you! Did you know that the Chimera Comics Collective has its own website? 🦁🐐🐍 Go give it a gander and find a new webcomic to read today! chimeracomics.org #comics #webcomics

Pre-orders and reviews are absolutely the best things you can do for authors you love! I can't overemphasize the importance. To readers and reviewers who spread the word about books, thank you. Love you 3,000!

Alex almost never does a standard grid layout so to me it instantly conveys tension and restriction even without the brilliant idea to put the fight down the middle row. Alex is a comic genius!

She had me at "hologram ghosts trying to make a living that throws the plucky mystery-solving of Pushing Daisies, the death-defying romance of Hadestown and the fantastically technological worldbuilding of Ministry of Time into a Queer blender"! Excited to be working with @lindarrow.bsky.social!

I am beyond thrilled to announce that I am now represented by the incredible Lucienne Diver (@luciennediver.bsky.social) at The Knight Agency! Currently working with her on a very ghost-y, very Queer project that I can't wait to discuss further. Watch this space! 👻📚🎻📽️👻

Best Picture Oscar of 1944, Going My Way. This one is about an irascible priest full of gentle joie-de-vivre who makes a difference in his tough urban parish. My pitch is to make him a cheerful vampire who likes boater hats and baseball and playing piano. #rewritingBestPictureWinners

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