lucy 🐻

it’s mint day

ink + digital color of my character Milo, a living wooden doll. they are wearing a fancy corseted pink dress with lots of peonies

ink + digital color drawing of Juniper, wearing a shiny green jumpsuit topped with huge pink roses and patent pink booties

ink + digital color drawing of my character Ophie, wearing a long lavender and blue dress with flowy sleeves and fitted top and lilies all over

fancy dresses for the gutless cast, just for fun (and inking warmups) ✨

cloud busters

#BookSky

LOVE YOU TOO!!!

I JUST SAW THIS

A print of frogs as tomatoes on a vine

A lens cloth featuring an assortment of tomato frogs

An round enamel pin of a tomato frogs

A sticker sheet with assortment of tomato frogs

tomatoads! 🍅

Portal to and from, somewhere

#pixelart

A picture of a physical ARC of Brigands & Breadknives

Physical ARC day!

Full list here: https://www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/best-american-science-fiction-and-fantasy-2025/2025-notable-stories/

The year’s best science fiction and fantasy -the cover

I served as guest editor for this year’s Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. The finish line is sweet, 🏁. It’s due out in October.

Here are the stories I chose. Congrats to all the authors! 💐 I laughed, was terrified, wept, was delighted, was disturbed…*and* I had one clear favorite, 🤐😊.

Just a reminder! Get your library cards and build your personal libraries! 💙

#booksky #resist

An illustration with minimal colors. A sunbeam falls on a lion-woman. She is crowned in a southeast-Asian style headpiece, and she is illuminated against a dark sky. She has the ears of a lioness, and she holds a sword, looking gently forward. Her hair is long and slightly wavy, and she holds a sword dug into the ground. Her lower half is that of a lion's. Her expression is one at peace.

She Who Walks In The Valley Of Starlight

❤️‍🔥

YouTube video by More Perfect Union How Amazon Ruined Christmas

BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time.

The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.

Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...

A little louder for the folks in the back:

The development of vaccines is likely the greatest achievement of mankind.

www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

No war but class war

Sparrow & lilies

tip for surviving the holidays with extended family: produce harmful spheres of electromagnetic energy

A drawing of hot chocolate topped with marshmallows shaped like bunnies

hot chocolate 🌟 #art

WHO HOG

Book Bans Overwhelmingly Target Children’s Books by People of Color, Study Finds A new peer-reviewed study finds that books by women of color, often featuring diverse characters, are frequent targets.

A new peer-reviewed study finds that books by women of color, often featuring diverse characters, are frequent targets.

mantis shrimp
mantis shrimp
not a mantis or a shrimp
is he strong?
rocket punch
eats a crab
for his lunch
look out!
here comes the mantis shrimp

Subtitles aren’t just for deaf or hard of hearing players. They’re important for players in loud environments (who can’t use headphones), non-native speakers who rely on text to follow dialogue, and many neurodivergent folks who struggle to focus or process audio quickly. Just to mention few.

Men don't go "Yabba Dabba Doo" anymore

golden retriever sleeping on a brown leather chair, with her head propped on one of the chair’s arms

do you have a piece of furniture you keep only because your pet loves it? this chair is 15+ years old and matches nothing in the living room, but to her it is perfect

flug wearing a purple sweater for this winter season

A brush-written Chinese character composed of 㐅 and 也, a gender-neutral way of writing tā.

A brush-written Chinese character composed of 男 and 也, a way of writing tā with male reference.

Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered.

This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!

What more could you want?

#langsky 🀄️📚
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