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Gabriel R Johnson, novelist

@grjohnson.bsky.social

Surrealist coming-of-age comedy-horror novel A BAD DREAM WHERE YOU'RE BACK AT SCHOOL available in paperback now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSMY81PP

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Not far into Hades 2, not feeling this Hecate boss, it's pretty easy hut is waaaaay too long for a fight you have to do every run.

02.12.2025 21:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Almost like the sharing of a common life is like to that above if you think about it.

02.12.2025 20:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Blessed be the ties that bind imo

02.12.2025 20:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So it isnt bad for the engine to get in and start driving like you wou I d in summer?

02.12.2025 19:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Actually curious about how much you should do this. It's something I only really learned from coworkers and yeah, they'll usually do it for 15-30. Is five ideal? Is the whole thing stupid?

02.12.2025 18:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you read, you'll see the title serves as a reminder. Why is weird shit constantly happeningnin a way that's never explained by lore? Cuz it's all a bad dream where you're back at school, silly.

01.12.2025 18:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wait was lucas not?

01.12.2025 17:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

All the while leaving the left rhetorically defenseless because we declared all our meanest words to be slurs, which has a straight line to every democrat being like "this executive overreach is very concerning" instead of "these fuckin gestapo freak are brutalizing our neighbors."

01.12.2025 17:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I for one didn't learn that definition from the right, I learned it from seeing leftists clamber over each other to see who could be the most offended by the most benign thing daily. A decade of "saying stupid is ableist" and that it's erasing trans men to say banning abortion is bad for women.

01.12.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.

01.12.2025 05:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3085    ๐Ÿ” 704    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 151    ๐Ÿ“Œ 68
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01.12.2025 04:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The jackboots were really hard to get on and off, had Nazis even *heard* of zippers?

01.12.2025 02:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have actually dressed as a Nazi (because I was playing Rolf in a production of Sound of Music).

01.12.2025 02:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's what I'm feeling trying to get people to read my book, and I get it it, who's all like "know what I'm gonna do with my evening? My favorite: reading some long-form fiction by a rando!"

01.12.2025 00:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's so weird man. Everyone is online all the time but the internet seems emptier than ever.

01.12.2025 00:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

is anyone anywhere?

30.11.2025 23:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I like that the movie has him resist the ring, not easily, but through determination and courage.

30.11.2025 23:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I actually like the faramir change, feels like it weakens the ring if half the random guys they come across can resist its allure easily.

30.11.2025 22:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Decemberists rule because the songs are all given old-fashioned titles like "Governess, Hie Thee Hither" except for every fifteenth track that's just called "The Pussyeater Song" where the lyrics are still all "would that she should hark to me / and hie that pussy hither".

30.11.2025 19:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If i were those parents I would say "that's a bullshit hypothetical" but they...can't manage that? Just "everything trump does must be right by virtue of trump doing it."

30.11.2025 02:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage

Props to the protestors who the New York Times credits for foiling ICEโ€™s intended raid in Chinatown earlier today.

So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
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29.11.2025 23:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2616    ๐Ÿ” 545    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

The most blighted neighborhoods are clearly in Ald'Ruhn, as they are closest to the Ghostgate.

30.11.2025 02:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good-ass casting! I absolutely could not tell!

30.11.2025 02:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Repeated shameless self-promotion: i got a book that's heavily inspired by Curious Incident (but horror), and if the neurodivergent themes of that book resonated with you, this will too. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSMY81PP

30.11.2025 01:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

20 isnt that bad to play a high schooler imo

30.11.2025 01:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Did they not? Was that footage they shot back before S1?

30.11.2025 01:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Conspicuous plot hole I have no good explanation for, it's not about a character decision, it's like forty missing minutes of in-universe time. But it wouldve been worse if I'd written around it, or called attention to it.

30.11.2025 00:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In Chap 3 of BAD DREAM there's a scene in which the kids are supposed to be giving presentations to the class, but only one kid, the protagonist, actually goes before the bell rings. I needed him to go first, and I needed him to go last, too. I have mechanics I can use to fudge the time, but didnโ€™t.

30.11.2025 00:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He's still very good at statistics! That never changed. And I get the impulse of "I'm good with data so I'm extra qualified to explain the causes of voting behavior" but I donโ€™t personally think he actually understands that side of things at all.

30.11.2025 00:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Comes up a lot in plot hole discourse. I think a lot of writers are aware of the plot holes in their work, but include them anyways because a) the themes are better expressed in the version of the story that includes the hole b) the line of dialogue covering it up is boring.

30.11.2025 00:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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