Melissa Manuel (she/her)

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AND I HAD A VERY GOOD TIME! Listen now!

Picture from Spotify describing the following: Marve and Melissa welcome New York Times Bestselling Author Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnsonbooks)! We discuss the soup of it all (soup recipes included), how being an angry indoor kid is excellent fuel for becoming a writer, making racist statues into piñatas, and all about Maureen's beautiful new solve it yourself murder mystery casefile book. You can buy The Creeping Hand Murder now at https://maureenjohnsonbooks.com/ or wherever you love to buy books! Cover Art by Les H. follow them on Instagram @xlehx Follow us on Instagram @Not1WayPod to stay up to date on when episodes come out. Or on Tumblr @not1rightway-pod! Email us at notonerightwaypod@gmail.com for any questions or comments! Or if you'd like to be a guest on the show!

Hi bluesky i return to say dreams can come true
@maureenjohnsonbooks.com came on my podcast and we talked about soup and books and statues and more! :)
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News: "J.K. Rowling announces that she will be using her private wealth from the Harry Potter series to develop the J.K. Rowling Women's Fund, an organization dedicated to removing transgender rights 'in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces'"

Tumblr post by mintedwitcher: read this and remember it. read this and remember that she is going to use the profits of her fucking ego-stroking reboot to decimate trans rights. read this and remember that every time you pay into her IP, you are emboldening her to hurt us more. our lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia. trans lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

Even if all you're doing is fandom stuff that "doesn't give JKR a penny," IT DOES THOUGH. It keeps her legacy alive. It keeps her work popular. Which likely makes someone somewhere give her a few pennies going forward.

Queer-friendly fantasy writers exist in abundance. Please come find us!🌈📚🪐

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

this isn't surprising you and John have literally never spoken up for Palestine

All the animated film winners make sense now

Fanmade Chinese regional variant of Tinkaton called Tinkatang, a play on "sugar" or tang, in Chinese. This domesticated line of Tinkaton has developed a major sweet tooth! A common sight at food markets, this cheerful 'mon has exchanged its hammer for its favorite treat, tanghulu. But pickpockets beware! Despite its sweet disposition, it still packs a wallop.

🍬Meet Tinkatang, the Candied Fruit Pokémon!
🍊Won't you buy a tanghulu from her?

DANG if only I knew this one before 😆

When you're Zap and just "have too many jobs" 🥹

She wrote a banger of a letter outlining Microsoft’s active complicity in Palestinian genocide, it’s reproduced in the article and it’s really worth a read

I'm going to do a thread of Palestinians folks in Gaza who need help. Prices are skyrocketing.

I keep coming back to a bit in one of the Expanse novels where a character giving another one aid says that "It's just a drop in the bucket, but that's how buckets get filled."

It all adds up.

This is so fucking amazing

If you use ai you intellectually and mentally lazy. That’s all. You are lazy.

Ai makes art free. No. AI robs you of learning how to do something. In learning how to do something you develop your voice. You are asking ai to speak for you because you are too lazy to face yourself

Just watched "meet the pickles" and someone said "if it can be done in live action we don't wanna do it" brb about to get that tattooed on my body

win or lose finale tonight this is all I have to live for
If you worked on win or lose you're my hero forever

a drawing of pokemons hanging out in the garden with flowers blooming

flower season is coming ⋆˚✿˖°

#digitalart #procreate #pokemon #illustration

If you actually would like to be a guest 🥹 please email me at notonerightwaypod@gmail.com

best day in my professional career

Also new campaign to have @maureenjohnsonbooks.com as a guest on my podcast
one good thing for 2025 plz
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I have been making a podcast since October but really @magictavern.bsky.social inspired me to make it 10 years ago happy 10 year birthday magic tavern 🥹 way to make me feel old

ME: *sits at desk and works* Just focus. Just focus. Don't look around. Do NOT look around.

THE NEWS:

@maureenjohnsonbooks.com hi I've missed you since I quit Twitter but I think blue sky will be good

YouTube video by Jellybox The Secret of Funding Indie Animation (ft. Lackadaisy)

We made a video essay! If you've ever been curious to learn about how animation gets its funding, then check this out! Here's a preview: IT'S ROUGH OUT HERE

Huge thanks to the Lackadaisy team for giving us insight into their production! 💚

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Portland figured it out pretty quickly

a little boy is being interviewed by a woman with a microphone that says ktla on it Alt: a little boy is being interviewed by a woman with a microphone that says ktla on it starts laughing then crying

do you ever feel like you are really good at your job then someone tells you actually you're failing and too mean and it feels like everything you've been doing is a lie and that person is also your boss

Hourly Comic Day 2025!

Hourly comic day 2025 1:44am - I wake up to my stomach hurting and it is too early to wake up. My cat punches me in the stomach after noticing I am awake, she wants to play.

2am - my partner comes to bed. Asks if I am okay, if my stomach is okay because of gluten, if I need aspirin or anything

3am - 4am Accepting fate. Made tea. Worked in hourlies. I am sitting on the couch, sketchbook in lap, cat next to me and tea on the table.

Oh boy oh boy it’s hourly comics day and I’m starting it as a tummy ache survivor 💪✨(sorry for spelling in these, it’s early)

#hourlycomicday2025 #hourlycomicsday

Three comic panels: 1) Me drawing neutrally at my desk, 2) me grabbing my head and screaming "ARRGHH I'M SO FREAKING TIRED!! WHYY IS THE WORLD LIKE THIS?!?!! AAAAAAAAAA" 3) Me in the same pose as before, drawing neutrally, but slightly disheveled this time, and saying, "...Okay, all better."

I regret to inform you all that my #hourlycomicsday strip from last year aged a little TOO well, so I’m just gonna repost it 😖

Picture of a sketchbook with 12-8am entries. 12-4am is darkness until a meow is seen around 4am. Gradient lightens from 5am to 7am where Strat, Joeys partner rises out of bed to say “I gotta move the car” At 8am we see a drawing of a cup of coffee and a clump of dried ramen noodles. Caption is “they/them breakfast. I got a gift of 24 packs of ramen and I’ve eaten them all dry. It tastes so good and reminds me of the Korean ramen snack. I’ve been constipated for a week” Below is the meme of “honey please stop…” where Strat is saying, “honey please stop eating 3 packs of dry ramen everyday.” Joey is facing the other direction with dry ramen in their mouth.

#hourlycomicsday
12-8am