Emily Dorffer

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

I finally captured Sonata singing the song of her people while she carries her favorite toy.

Space Unicorn!

PLEASE REPOST! Poets! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to read your poems!!! buff.ly/9AyStcb

Things about mainstream publishing I wish more people knew:

1) The NY Times Bestseller List is a marketing list, not an accurate list of the best-selling books for that period.

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Y'all, it's Agender Pride Day. Celebrate by following an agender creative. Here's a whole list right here!
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A doodle I did of my Vanilla Creme Matcha Fox! Five of them in total, along with three vanilla creme matcha drinks.

Vanilla Creme Matcha Fox (2017) Doodle

Photo of a sunset over a lake. The focus is on the silhouetted branches of a tree that is just beginning to bud for spring, so branches look crisp and black and the orange sunset is blurry to the point of being quite abstract.

Not rich, not famous, not even very healthy but I do live in a beautiful place and that's not nothing.

cartoon bear opening a laptop captions read let's focus ON THE WRONG THING

current vibe

There's a Japanese artist I love whose entire schtick is drawing a cat yelling at me to take care of myself:
www.instagram.com/shikaruneko/

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of New Mexico have developed a tau-targeting vaccine that could help PREVENT the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. In preclinical trials, the vaccine REDUCED pTau, IMPROVED memory AND motor function, and REDUCED brain atrophy with NO major side effects. 🧪🧵⬇️

Coming soon: Aces and Aros: An Asexual and Aromantic Comic Book Anthology A 100-page graphic novel anthology about Asexual and Aromantic experiences across a wide range of genres.

With weeks until launch, our Aces and Aros anthology already has 400 followers! Can you help us get to 500? Click the link and go follow it!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

Generally speaking, being kind takes way less energy than being an asshole. It also tends to lead to being surrounded by kind people rather than assholes overall.

NB: kindness does NOT mean putting up with assholes.

me, fiasco, a fluffy grey tabby, sitting on a windowsill very dramatically, lit from beneath with my owner's reading light (not in photo)

Fiasco am... THE NITE

The reason there's no working class representation in publishing is because publishing and writing currently pay so badly only people who are already financially stable can afford to do it.
The problem is always, always money.

drawing of an underwater scene with a horselike creature and a ghostly girl

mother of pearl (2023)

It’s stuff like this that makes me love spring

#flowers

This is the most basic truth there is. It's NOT a big deal. Just let people be who they are. ❤️

Nothing quite sums up cat ownership quite like buying a new comforter, having it immediately get claimed by the cat, and having to cut off the tag on it in the middle of the night because a certain someone decided it was an absolute delicacy perfect for loudly chewing on

Telehealth isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity. For many of my patients with Long COVID and disabilities, in-person visits are exhausting, inaccessible, or simply not feasible. Removing telehealth coverage means denying care to those who need it most. We must protect access to virtual care.

please support ur friends making creative shit in this cruel world. u have no idea how much a kind comment can mean to an artist when every website just tries to make you focus on the numbers

Tater tot (left), an orange and white tabby, and Triscuit (right), a brown and gray tabby with white feet, are perched in the window looking outside very intently

There is an BIRB outside 👀👀👀

It's time to spike those Google searches again!
Happy #InternationalHyenaDay!

BONUS Panel below! 👇

#HyenaDay #hyena #hyenas

I love this strategy (and picture). ❤️

Like... the way you develop both taste and discernment in writing is to read *enough* that you eventually start going "Oh, I like this" or "Oh, I don't like this." Otherwise how do you evolve your own prose style?? A knife can't be sharpened on itself. You need to find a surface to use against it.

Noreen Young, creator of CBC’s Under the Umbrella Tree

Under the Umbrella Tree show screen grab

Just heard of the passing of Under the Umbrella Tree creator Noreen Young. We did a DefunctTV on the show and her puppetry a few years ago, and afterwards, she sent me a long and kind message about how well we did and how much she enjoyed reading the comments of people remembering her show.

My painting TIDAL WETLANDS

Back cover blurb on an orange background over an illustrated leopard in a field of tiger lilies. Text: When Deepa Patel rejects the wrong man, he curses her: every night, she will transform into a wild animal until her curse is broken by true love’s kiss. The problem is twofold. One: Deepa needs her nights to seduce shallow men into spending money on her—money she desperately needs to buy herself and her mother a better life. Two: she doesn’t believe in love. She’s never met a man she wanted to keep longer than a week, never mind forever. She never considered her true love might be a woman. Roz is unlike any of Deepa’s past suitors. She’s working class, with a nose that’s been broken at least once, courtesy of an underground boxing club. And she makes Deepa feel lighter and softer than she ever thought possible. But Roz can’t afford to give Deepa the life of luxury she craves. Meanwhile, Deepa is posing as a wealthy nobleman's fiancée. There’s no love between them, but his lifestyle is everything she’s ever wanted. Caught between a real relationship and a loveless fake one, Deepa has to choose: give up on her dreams for a chance at true love, or make her dreams come true but stay cursed forever.

Of Socialites and Prizefights illustrated cover art: two women in silhouette, one butch, short, and white, the femme tall, slender, and brown, dancing in a field of tiger lilies against an orange background.

I have a sapphic awakening novel for #LesbianVisibilityWeek! OF SOCIALITES AND PRIZEFIGHTS is a butch/femme romance in 1920s London with magic: a boxer and car mechanic/a club singer who unwillingly turns into a leopard every night.

✨3.99 on Amz (also KU + paperback): www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSC1JHLV