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It's pronounced PECK-a-check. Artist, Crawford Award-winning writer, third thing now and then. He/him. Seattle. https://linktr.ee/jpechacek repped by Jennifer Azantian. Debut novel THE WEST PASSAGE out now from tordotcom!

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yeah, I think it's just both pieces are short and have some similarities. I forget the reason given in the liner notes for the album I have, but I'm sure Bach was taking inspiration from Vivaldi

08.10.2025 22:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

also why do people keep pairing Bach's Magnificat with the Vivaldi
like, I love Bach, but when you put him next to Vivaldi he comes across as fussy and overworked. like putting Mahler with Sibelius

08.10.2025 22:32 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Screenshot of Apple Music putting Fauré’s requiem under “more like: Vivaldi Gloria in D Major”

Screenshot of Apple Music putting Fauré’s requiem under “more like: Vivaldi Gloria in D Major”

in another universe, the worst part of my day would be Apple Music thinking that a late romantic French requiem is ANYTHING like an Italian baroque Gloria

I’m glad I live in this one

08.10.2025 22:26 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

its like the old saying goes, if you dont get everything done in one day you should give up. its obviously not going to happen

08.10.2025 22:07 — 👍 178    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 0

Puyallup.

08.10.2025 21:27 — 👍 25    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

their nervous systems aren't complex enough to feel pain, only torturous despair

08.10.2025 22:17 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And yet!

08.10.2025 20:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

anyway I don't know why this just occurred to me, I'm outside playing ball in the sun with athletic grace and perfect posture

08.10.2025 20:12 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

if you just started the doc TODAY then sure but if it's OLD AND LONG I don't think it should just let you delete everything! anyway thank god for ctrl z

08.10.2025 20:10 — 👍 27    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

i don't think any word processor should let you select all + delete without asking if you really want to lose years of work!!!!!!

08.10.2025 20:09 — 👍 50    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

it’s not even that I object to the word, it’s just that nothing irritates me quite like everyone deciding This Is The Joke We Make Here

08.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

wouldn't have published anything without it!

08.10.2025 18:24 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

if this place does saw off the tree limb it's sitting on, I will plummet to the depths spitefully happy that I never called them skeets

08.10.2025 18:23 — 👍 37    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1
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It's little Alex Horne!

Reminder: I'm running a special on pencil portrait commissions to help pay for booktour travel, healthcare, and wedding costs. I've also opened up my weekly drawing giveaways to the general public at just $5! Wow! You can't afford NOT to keep food on my table.

08.10.2025 17:56 — 👍 92    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0

You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚

08.10.2025 14:45 — 👍 416    🔁 185    💬 2    📌 27

Ramzi is now also fundraising for medical needs, if you can help. Thanks to everyone who has donated thus far.

08.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Dear [Author],
Your book [Title] is wonderful. I did not understand the play The King in Yellow until [Title] and now the way to Carcosa is clear in my mind.

[Title] deserves a wider readership. My team of 5,000 cultists can post honest reviews and raise your Cthulhu Mythos ranking, for a modest...

07.10.2025 19:53 — 👍 42    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
Preview
The Tower of the Tyrant NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

The Tower of the Tyrant is now available to request on Netgalley!

Read the book that
@richardswanauthor.bsky.social
recently called "a belter" (which I assume is a good thing) and "a great sword and sorcery affair with modern sensibilities."

www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

07.07.2025 17:51 — 👍 45    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 1
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#DVPit #GN #A #LGBT

Going undercover as a race car mechanic, a young mobster makes the mistake of falling in love with his target. Unable to quit his mission or his new romance, he is forced to choose between which truth he wants to live. Either could cost him his life.

08.10.2025 16:12 — 👍 227    🔁 70    💬 29    📌 8

As is THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR signed limited edition hardcover.

07.10.2025 19:59 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

THE DEVOURERS is lightly discounted on Bookshop.org again, stick it to Prime Day if it is indeed Prime Day.

07.10.2025 19:58 — 👍 19    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 0

sir charles brown hath maidens

25.07.2025 08:25 — 👍 327    🔁 71    💬 26    📌 10

I permanently altered my brain re: honey

08.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

also frogs! the frogs are my favorite!

08.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

unearthing an ancient tome of deep knowledge and crying about how woke it is

05.09.2025 14:31 — 👍 207    🔁 51    💬 2    📌 4
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The West Passage Check out The West Passage - <p><b>THE LADIES REIGN. THE PALACE ROTS. THE BEAST RISES.</b><br><br>Five starred reviews from <i>Kirkus</i>, <i>Booklist</i>, <i>BookPage</i>, <i>Library Journal</i>, and...

free shipping on bookshop! the perfect time to get a book! and do I have one for you! weird medieval guys, gender™️, cannibalism, living beehives, illustrations, and big monster ladies

08.10.2025 15:43 — 👍 40    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 2
Banned Books

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

08.10.2025 15:13 — 👍 260    🔁 151    💬 3    📌 11

Palestinian children like Nismah's daughter are being violently displaced, sickened & starved to death w/ their families in Israel's genocidal famine & invasion. Please help by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, healthcare, shelter, her baby daughter is severely ill from malnutrition:

08.10.2025 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Ink illustration of a woman sitting on a hill, seen from behind, her face drawn multiple times to suggest the passage of the day, with the sun in the sky going from noon to sunset over the ocean, each phase of her face at a different angle to follow it

Ink illustration of a woman sitting on a hill, seen from behind, her face drawn multiple times to suggest the passage of the day, with the sun in the sky going from noon to sunset over the ocean, each phase of her face at a different angle to follow it

7. Clytie

08.10.2025 05:12 — 👍 22    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks!

08.10.2025 05:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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