A photo of the front of a bookshop. Above the shop windows, under the name of the shop is a quote attributed to Neil Gaiman. A man on a ladder is scraping Gaiman’s name off.

A friend of mine took this photo yesterday

A small insolent dog (miniature schnauzer). One ear stands up and the other flops over.

this creature has a persistent food allergy that requires her to eat a kind of kibble she hates. in order to get her to eat it I have to add small amounts of a different food she IS allergic to. today not even this was good enough. she only desires the kibble that gives her dermatitis

User the-frog-in-the-bog says "I want to decompose in a bog" well you clearly don't know the first thing about bogs. Clout chaser User thebigwolf says #in the bog is like the opposite of decomposition #get pickled idiot Huge fan of the phrase "get pickled, idiot"

Elite discourse

bobson dugnutt would be on par for the genre

my kneejerk “selfpub some smut” reaction is probably unwise, and also born of impatience with the tradpub system where everything takes approximately 200 years, but also even if I followed this impulse i’m stuck on—get this—picking a pseudonym

what’s happening with these gay books I’ve written? HARD 2 SAY. STILL FIGURING IT OUT. but they do and will continue to exist

things are ??? right now to the point where I am so eager to get back to work so I can think about other stuff. let 2025 be a year where I write 2 more gay books, as I am on track to do

My first completed illustration of the year is a follow up to one of my most popular illustrations (linked below). This new one is titled "Fealty." 😁

a piece of fandom advice that i've been thinking a lot about lately is: join a small fandom. join an obscure fandom. join an old fandom for something that started 30 years ago. join a fandom where you're creating just for you + maybe 3 or 4 other feral, patient people.

last christmas
i gave you my harp
the very next day
you gave it away
what the hell
you expressed interest in learning concert harp

HASTINGS: I say, Poirot, this vial’s labeled “hyaluronic acid”! Is it a poison?
SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: Non, mon ami. This acid, it replenishes the skin’s barrier naturale
HASTINGS: So this is a gal who takes care of her skin.
SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: *irritated* The gentleman may use it as well

i’ve saved the terror camp recordings to watch on an upcoming 12+ hour road trip in the hope that it will inspire me to finally finish the last chapter of my little fitzier fic, but also what I’ve been writing instead is original stuff and it’s hard to be mad at myself about that

nevermind that tiny tim FAMOUSLY NOT AN ORPHAN

when you talk about food I feel like I am a Dickensian orphan seated at your feet. “Yes, rhod, I want to hear more about the candied citrus peel” but I’m saying it like tiny tim crachit

two windows, each with a cat sitting in them

I love when they do this. Impatience and Lack of Fortitude

saw war of the rohirrim, felt primal joy, thinking a lot about how i’ve retreated into hyperfixation on a formative childhood/adolescent fantasy world in order to cope with (among other things) my love for another formative fantasy world being systematically dismantled by violent transphobia

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”

Today, on Shirley Jackson’s birthday, let’s all marvel at one of the greatest opening paragraphs ever written (from THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)

three quarter portrait drawing of Matthew McNulty as Edward Little in The Terror. Background includes stars and blue bell flower silhouettes

birthday boy 🎉

SLEEPY CAT

slightly less sleepy cat

wow…

i’m starting to look for a part-time gig in earnest and wowee it’s bad out there. the concept of going full-throttle on some smutty original novellas becomes ever more enticing.

FYI for people who aren’t in the midst of a blorbo crisis about baby elrond, season 3 is official now which means 2026 is the year I become this particular monster. advance warning

a drawing of Tuunbaq, the polar bear creature from The Terror, standing on its hind legs and chomping on Cornelius Hickey who's wriggling in its jaws. the caption says Season's Greason's

it's that time of year again

god i’ve been so quiet on here because the last month has been….. Struggle, but i did finish my draft of Big Kid Book A, and i’m now storybreaking Big Kid Book B, which is the bisexual polyam ice adventure.

me @ me, you’re gonna be suffer, but you’re gonna be productive about it

Frodo from 2019

CRAZY POWERFUL

OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis) Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%) Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis) New mothers extend their maternity leaves Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%) Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%) Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%) Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people) Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%) Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%) Savings go up, debts go down Source: scottsantens

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.

This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

if you really want to support me as your child you should at least pretend to care about earendil and elwing and their beautiful sons

me: ELROS IS HIS TWIN BROTHER THAT CHOSE THE WAY OF MEN AND HE’S BEEN DEAD FOR CENTURIES—
them: if this is important shouldn’t they explain it
me: 😠

i’ve watched trop s1e4 with my parents twice now and both times i’ve paused the show to explain why there’s a picture of elrond on the tapestry in numenor’s hall of lore and you guys aren’t gonna believe this but I don’t think they care about the half-elves

ME: *writing to the group chat* I don't mind the drive, and I actually like my in-laws. It just seems like a big lift to drive 14 hours to only stay for three days

WERNER HERZOG: *in the group chat* this, to me, is a thing of unspeakable madness

MY FRIEND DAN: *also in the group chat* 100%