begging y'all to get the fuck off substack. so many newsletter articles i'd love to read and can't.

since this is a story that takes place entirely over text message, I actually wrote the whole thing on my phone, which you can hopefully tell? Enjoy!

Hello hello, I did the artwork and most of the edits for this wonderful ghost short story which is free to read like whenever you want

Notch: The Lost Years She spent thirty years learning to trust the part of herself she couldn’t explain to anyone.

This week's new short story is "Notch: The Lost Years" by Patricia Caspers. Part Magical Realism, part Queer Coming-of-Age, and totally unexpected.

Edits and artwork by @jonnegroni.bsky.social

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It’s extremely possible that I’m going to write a rom-com about a casting director

An illustration of two hands nearly touching on a table on a balcony by the water

“memory with a view”

Oh no not Sora! Whatever shall we do?! Here I thought this technology was ‘inevitable’ and we are ‘simply going to have to adapt’ if we ‘don’t want to get left behind.’

'Invincible' Season 4 Episodes 1-3 Review - InBetweenDrafts Invincible Season 4 episodes 1-3 kick off with a full-on depression arc, plus its best episode yet asks what it means to become someone new.

Invincible is BACK and it still kicks ass.

the cover of "Tales of Steel and Sorcery" a fantasy anthology with information about Jon Negroni's story, "The Fool Who Learned the Spell"

I have a new short story coming out in the next anthology from the wonderful folks over at @oddityprodigy.bsky.social! The kickstarter is already live, so please consider checking it out and backing some awesome new indie fantasy!

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*calls 911*

Me: hey yeah my house is being robbed

911: uhhhh Robber Derangement Syndrome much

Cold Genius A god of cold is dragged from extinction to retrieve a doomed child.

A god of cold is dragged from extinction to retrieve a stolen child. He has no idea what the child is capable of.

"Cold Genius" is a new fantasy short story by Daria Agad that expands the King Arthur aria. Edited by Natalia Emmons and Jon Negroni. Artwork by @jonnegroni.bsky.social

My favorite movie of 2025!

I’m pretty sure that if I asked nicely enough, taco bell would let me go behind the counter

maybe they enjoy the humiliation aspect of this

today is a day you can support MZS. “Mad Men Carousel” is a great place to start, as his shared analysis of that series is quite unmatched!

Eh there’s time traveling in the Pixar universe, we can write around it in post

I did notice the turtle at the beginning is named "Crush" like in Finding Nemo, and there's a nod to Ralph Eggleston (RIP, he was a lovely man!) and For the Birds at one point. But yeah that ending shot...years of research! I've also heard that a new Toy Story 5 character shows up in Mabel's room

First thing I said to my wife after the movie was “damn it now I have to update the theory again”

Kristi Noem will be replaced by another stooge, yes, but at least now I don’t have to see her face every time I go to the airport

Love is Blind Season 10 Finale Review - InBetweenDrafts The Love is Blind Season 10 finale just dropped, and so did our jaws. Here's who got married and who got rejected at the altar.

The I Do’s of March

how tf does GI Gin still have a job

How I arrived on Bluesky

'Hoppers' review: Pixar hops into a different decade - InBetweenDrafts Pixar’s 'Hoppers' is charming, thoughtful, and occasionally hilarious. But its optimism feels aimed at a world we no longer live in.

Guess I'll be one of the Debbie downers on HOPPERS, unfortunately. Good* movie, but kind of a frustrating watch for a variety of reasons.

I do take some solace in the fact that sk8ter boi is a song that will beyond Gen Alpha’s ability to comprehend

hey look the show about positive masculinity and how choosing to be good even when it’s impossible ended up being loved by everyone, how interesting and amazing and unprecedented

hold on. wait. You’re THAT Tim Onion?!

'luck... or something' review: Hilary Duff is still the new girl - InBetweenDrafts Is it 'luck... or something' that keeps bringing Hilary Duff back to us? A decade away, the millennial everywoman returns, her voice intact.

yes me breaking down the lyrics of Hilary Duff’s new album

'Love is Blind' Season 10 Episodes 7-9 Review - InBetweenDrafts In 'Love is Blind' Season 10 Episodes 7-9, Chris finally becomes the villain this season (and series) absolutely deserves.

I am still, stubbornly and none too wisely, writing about love is blind

'Scrubs' Reboot Episodes 1-4 Review: It's mostly super, man - InBetweenDrafts J.D., Turk, and Elliot return to Sacred Heart in a Scrubs reboot that earns a positive diagnosis, with only a few checkups needed.

Scrubs is back

Cetera Poetry #1 – The Things That Survive Us Every poem in this issue arrives carrying its own weather. Some carry the hush of a kitchen after midnight, or the shape of a shoreline where the water keeps its counsel. Some move through childhood t...

Our first poetry issue is officially live and free to download.

"The Things That Survive Us "collects 11 poems from 10 poets, each one documenting a different aspect of afterlife in real life.

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