J. Robert Matthewson ♾️🐿️♾️💻

We need to stop with the purity tests! Like, seriously, who amongst us /doesn't/ have a mass hobo grave in their basement? Huh?

And above all, that was the vibe I desperately wanted to capture and reproduce with "Tales of a Stranger Sister."

I know I could never do it as well as Miyazaki, but I hope I copied the spirit, if not the technique.

And it was delicious. Ooh! We should do that again!

Part of the Ghibli magic is that their movies contain multitudes. They are cozy and painful and beautiful and unhinged. No Ghibli movie allows itself to be just one thing.

The Arts, Philosophy, and History are often referred to as "The Humanities" and it it is no shock that those who are currently trying to defund, denigrate, and destroy them have very little of it.

Find the other immortals and take their heads.

There can only be Uno!

Ngl, "Hell-wisher" sounds like a dope AF book/movie/album/song title.

This whole JKR ban hammer nonsense reminds me of one of my fave Simpsons quotes:

"I'm a well-wisher, in that I don't wish you any *specific* harm."

If you want it to be easier to become an artist, here are some things to demand instead of generative AI:

Flexible work hours
Four day work weeks
Universal basic income
Living wages for artists
Free arts education

Those things will give you time, and with it, you can become an artist

7/7

I think a lot if it comes down to people misunderstanding what talent actually is.

Talent ≠ naturally skilled
Talent = have traits that make it easier to learn said skill.

Ei Talent in art may be having strong spatial reasoning or above average colour vision. You can do art without either, but

I'll say it once and I'll say it again. If you think artists are just "naturally talented", you're deeply wrong. The only difference between you and us is that we kept trying when it didn't come out like we hoped.
You can always make art yourself. There's no bad time to start, you can start now.

Yes! This! Thank you!

Partially built Lego model of the Delorean time machine from Back to the Future with Doc and Marty minifigs

Partially built Lego model of the Delorean time machine from Back to the Future with Doc and Marty minifigs

Session #9, Bag #10:

Constructing the surprisingly complex rear side panels and trunk contents (case of plutonium and the Mattel Hover board)

Only 2 more bags left. Gonna be sad what this is done. Proud, but also sad.

I followed you on the hellbird app until I left it in 2022. I followed you under my real name there & use my pen name here because after quitting hellbird app, used the time I used to spend doom scrolling to write a novel.

WhenI signed up here saw some of my old follows, I decided to follow again.

A Promotional ad for Tales of a Stranger Sister by J. Robert Matthewson. The image is a green background with gold trim featuring a tablet computer and paperback novel. The cover is of a boy, girl, and cat sitting by the water's edge. The girl's reflection is that of an woman holding a coffee cup and tablet. Text: Tales of a Stranger Sister: A Small-scale, Slice-of-Life Fantasy Isekai about Siblings, Stories, & Second Chances Available as an e-book and in paperback! "Thoughtful and authentic" - Goodreads review "A good mix of light-heartedness and more heavy themes" - Goodreads review

Out now!

Tales of a Stranger Sister

A Small-Scale, Slice-of-Life Isekai Fantasy novel about Siblings, Stories, & Second Chances by J. Robert Matthewson

Available as an e-book & paperback!

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I'm so unbelievably, insanely proud of my spouse on the pending release of their 12th book!

I alpha and beta read this one and, friends, it's amazing. Seeing this story develop over the last couple years has been a genuine joy & you owe it to yourself to check it out when it's released.

#booksky

When did Aubrey stop wearing glasses and her choker?

Tales of a Stranger Sister: A Slice of Life Fantasy Novel Amazon.com: Tales of a Stranger Sister: A Slice of Life Fantasy Novel eBook : Matthewson, J. Robert: Kindle Store

Imagine waking up on a new world. In a new body. With a new family.

And only your new 12-year-old brother can help you get home.

Tales of a Stranger Sister: a small-scale, slice-of-life isekai fantasy novel about Siblings, Stories, & Second Chances.

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A picture of two hands shaking a smirking woman in the background

A close up of the smirking woman from the previous picture

Why though? She effin' rules.

Them: I’m DNFing this unnamed book bc it’s just not for me

Every author on the timeline: Oh fuck it’s probably mine I should just give up now

Here's some music to help you stroll, skip, dance & march into the weekend.

And perhaps, maybe pick up a copy of the book about siblings, stories & second chances that the music helped inspire.

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Jesus took 2 fishes and 5 loaves of bread and fed 5000 people. Donnie Tweets took 500 tons of food & turned it to ash, feeding no one.

He's like the opposite of Jesus. If only there was a word for that. Nega-Jesus? Inverse-Messiah? Hmmm...🤔

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To quote the great philosopher, 🎶Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit, kilk the wabbit huh huh huh huh huh!🎶

GIF that pops up when you type your name

(since this account in under my pen name, I used that.)

Cool. Give us Democrats that aren't Wish-version Republicans and maybe they'd fucking win.

"A well regulated deli, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear hoagies, shall not be infringed."

Things like this are NOT helping my imposter syndrome as a writer.

Like, seriously, how could I ever hope to construct a tale as simple, yet as intricate as this? As believable and yet utterly fantastical?

HOW?!

I can't not hear that panel in H. Jon Benjamin's voice.

Oh defs! I'd rather watch something try something new and fail than something that plays it safe and does the same, already popular thing for the nth time.

Pittsburgh boy represent! 🖤💛

Whatever that art may be, be it drawing, writing, music, or bodyslamming another human being in the process of telling a miniature morality play.