@teresawong.bsky.social
Canadian cartoonist and author of graphic memoirs DEAR SCARLET (2019) and ALL OUR ORDINARY STORIES (2024). Comics in The Believer, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Walrus. I'm Nobody! Who are you?
“How’s the novel coming along?”
Me:
If your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme ✨
(unless it's writing, then you're probably screwed)
It's exactly what I needed to read right now!
Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can.
Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop.
Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵
www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...
This is really beautiful. Thank you.
babybel implies the existence of scarybel, sportybel, gingerbel and poshbel
My hair is now the embodiment of an anagram of my name: greasetown.
Aw, thanks so much! 💖
Awesome! I'm so happy you're involved!
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
There is a book club organization out there emailing authors telling them the club will feature their work for a "modest fee" for "branded materials" etc. Do not fall for this nonsense. You should never, as a writer, have to pay for such things.
Thank you!
Still kind of in shock over this! 💖
lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight
The Supreme Court has stated that Canadians have a Charter right to strike, and the Premier of Alberta just nullified that in order to end a teacher's strike that is entirely her fault.
She's such a coward that she walked out of #ableg as soon as she tabled the bill. #abpoli #cdnpoli
Thank you so much, Kelly! 💖
Small presses doing big things!! 💖
Thanks, Joe! 💖
Comics for the win!!
It is weird to live in a time when the people I know who tend to speak the loudest and most often about how companies always seem to be ripping them off or do a bad job will turn around and say sincerely that governments should be run more like companies.
"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" so succinct! so good!
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon. #Calgary McDougall Centre at 3p. Get loud, bring signs, be respectful but give them hell! #StandUpForOurTeachers #SupportOurStudents #WorldTeachersDay #ABed #ABpoli #ABleg #YYC #SupportPublicEducation
It was great! Thanks for asking!
I was thinking about you today when I heard the news. 💙
Congrats! So well-deserved!
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Oh, hell no! Rich people can do what they want with their own money, but that entitlement ends when it's public money. Canada has a federally funded literary prize already--any money the Giller organization is asking for can go DIRECTLY to the Governor General's Literary Awards, thank you very much.
Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!
A Thread.
if you really don’t like thinking about or trying to figure out a story’s structure, you probably don’t like…writing? which is fine? you can go do literally anything else?