Dylan Morrison

Lucille bluth

It's one "blueberry," Michael. How many Bs could it contain? 3 Bs?

Sketchbook comic. Panel 1: a disembodied voice says “I KNOW a.i. is ethically, ecologically and esthetically awful, but I just gotta say…” Lucy is reacting with a ._. Face and thinking “do ya? Do ya really GOTTA?” Panel 2: Lucy’s thought bubble reads: “do you just GOTTA recite some tired anecdote using the phrase ‘I just typed it in!’ That just amounts to you admitting that your cheapness, laziness and poor taste outweighs your unexamined ethical code?”

Sketchbook comic page 2: Panel 1: Lucy’s thought bubble reads “and, at the very least, do you GOTTA say it to ME?” She is turning away, saying “ok I’m gonna go, um, get a snack.” Panel 2: another disembodied voice is saying “Lucy! You’re an artist— whattaya think about a.i? Ya know, it may be bad, but I JUST GOTTA SAY…” Lucy is startled, dropping a chip.

Sketchbook comic page 3: Panel 1: Lucy is surrounded by speech bubbles and text, repeating the phrase “gotta say…” she looks terrified. Panel 2: she is fleeing the repeated “gotta say”s, yelling “you gotta live with yourselves, but I don’t gotta!” A note with a heart at the end reads “stop doing this I will not absolve you.”

Gotta say…

every day i dream of a world where 'hobbit' is a paying job

I saw a crow with one of his chest feathers sticking out so I pointed at him and said "you're feather is unruly" and he put it back in place. COMMUNICATION

Chiropterology (BATS) with Dr. Merlin Tuttle — alie ward PART 1: “People fear most what they understand least." Words of wisdom from explorer/American treasure/bat expert, Dr. Merlin Tuttle. Alie headed to the bat capital of Austin and sat down with the leg...

important note: in waking life i find bats cute & NOT scary, they are a VITAL AND DEEPLY COOL PART OF OUR ECOSYSTEM, not trying to add to the wrong rep of bats! if you don't like and/or know much about them you should listen to this podcast episode with a BAT EXPERT www.alieward.com/ologies/chir...

An open notebook page on which the words "Bats - cute but scary" are scrawled in the messy and borderline unreadable scrawl of the mostly asleep.

ME THIS MORNING: oooo i think had a really wild dream last night! and if i remember right, it was such a cool one that i actually wrote it down in the little notebook i keep by the bed and never remember to use! let's see what my dreams had to say
ME LAST NIGHT, HELPFULLY:

AHHHH YAY!!! tysm for showing me this thrills meeeeee

it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught

somehow typed but didn't send yesterday: i feel about psych the way some people feel about law and order, in terms of the "i know that guy!" to "wow everybody and their mom has been in this show huh" ratio lmao

i believe that at 18 every american should be entered into a draft, not for military service, but for one year of mandatory retail or restaurant work

i worry about this too tbh. butttt i try to tell myself that the idea that humans don't do what's best for us is maybe only looking at one piece of the puzzle. people are really complicated, right? and, like the societies we build, even when in balance tend to do some good stuff & some bad stuff 🤷‍♂️

every story has been told already, in one way or another. the only thing any of us has is OUR version of a story, the way WE want to tell it. a machine can't get there for you! that shit is it your melon heart! and turning your back on it is stealing the joy from your own pocket.

but learning how to express what YOU want to say, to take what's in your mind and capture it in a way that resonates or communicates or connects with other humans, other people -- that's the point. that connection. that's what writing is for. the words are just a (wonderful, important) tool.

we (i.e., people) grow and learn and find meaning in life through trial and error. through doing shit and making mistakes and trying again. sometimes it sucks. sometimes writing sucks. sometimes it's hard or slow or emotionally excoriating or just so not what you want to be doing in a given moment.

TRULY THIS. also, constantly amazed that people don't see: the reward of writing isn't the work you produce, it's DOING that work. the act is worth MORE than the result. writing is about communicating with human beings: others, and yourself. using AI to spin it up cheats everyone, but mostly... you?

yes!! and for some of them, even being at the point of ripping the literal world in half didn't wake them up to the harm they were doing to themselves, let alone to the people around them. that angle of evil as a sort of collective misread of reality borne of distance from others -- chef's kiss tbh

for whatever reason -- maybe because i started watching psych in my formative teen years and then, as we can agree we both did, watched it a normal number of times after that -- i recognize most of the recurring actors at any age & with a degree of accuracy typically reserved to my loved ones lmao

YES! and one of my favorite little background choices was the various ways/times you saw doubt, uncertainty, horror, or regret on the faces of those people -- even ones with non-speaking roles -- and the way they mostly continued to follow orders even after that point. subtly, brilliantly rendered.

"how many times have you watched every single episode of psych, dylan?" great question! it was definitely the normal amount of times for a person to have watched every single episode of psych, and not a single viewing more

EVERYONE ELSE IN MY SUPERMAN SHOWING: haha neat! they filmed this movie in cleveland ohio! that's where we are right now! oooh i know that street they're on!
ME IN MY SUPERMAN SHOWING: oh actor who played young shawn spencer in psych after they recast the first kid in S5, you will always be famous

"...well in the end we all decided coldplay wasn't really that bad and now everyone's mad that the CEO got fired. classic reverse milkshake duck" anton chigurh lowers the bolt pistol from my forehead. what would be the point

there are many things to be said about this story (ie, 'saying the male novelist is endangered is like suggesting the bradford pear is'), but as someone who has been writing since before i transitioned: anyone who is brought onboard by this publisher has the opportunity to do something so, so funny

i got a screener copy of "Heightened Scrutiny" and i just want to say i love trans people. i know we fight sometimes, we have our petty disagreements, but i love you all and wouldn't pick anyone else to be in this fight with.

THANK YOU MY DEAR PAL 😭💜

YOU THERE! READER OF ROMANCE! Have you read Dylan’s AMAZING debut M/M about an apple farm, sticky family relations, finding yourself, and falling in love? NO? WELL, GET TO IT! I cried! I laughed! I loved the flirtatious banter! (Dylan is a master of dialogue btw.) READ IT NOW! geni.us/1201-rd-two-am

ahhhh, thank you so much!! so glad you enjoyed it 💜

When I reached the end of FALL INTO YOU, I immediately turned back to the beginning and started to reread.

I kept trying to write a sensible review that actually described the contents of the book, but I figure that’s all you need to know, really.

Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn’t.

Andrea Gibson. Poet. Powerhouse. Beacon of hope. Lover of life and the world. You will be missed forever 13/8/1975-14/7/2025

By far, this has been my favorite read of the year. I don’t even realize how new it was when I picked it up. Read it hot off the press and I am all the better for it 🫶🏽