Peter Damien

The alt text is the real treasure in these posts

1,700 words written yesterday, 500 words written today. I'm within sight of the end of this story, I swear I am

It's really cold here in Seattle, and I wouldn't mind if it would at least come with some SNOW. Either commit to winter, or retreat back to stylish jacket weather, dammit

Mostly this all sounds exhausting for that poor bartender

After the initial reporting came out and I poured through it, profanities were all I had to offer, really. So that seems fair.

I don't have the heart to read it, and I don't need further convincing...but here it is if you haven't read anything on the topic and need to. Content Warnings abound, obviously

The Vulture piece on Gaiman is heartbreaking, disgusting, and important. I hope our genre stops looking away.

Many thanks to all those sweet congratulations on The Wrath of Khan being included on the National Film Registry via the Library of Congress, (which, I take it, is still open for the people's business).

Ohhhh I'm ready

Tech bro fascism looks like a lot like old-fashioned fascism Andreessen Horowitz partner Balaji Srinivasan advocates anti-democratic "gray tribe" to take over cities, ban liberals from areas.

Sometimes when I read articles about Fascist Tech Bro Utopias, the articles will wonder "didn't they play BioShock?"

of course, they did. It's just that they were on Andrew Ryan's side from the getgo. All the bad stuff that happened was someone else's fault.

boingboing.net/2024/05/02/t...

Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.” When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history...

CW: for Cormac McCarthy's underage muse.

I wanted to read the article because as with Neil Gaiman, I like to be thorough when learning an author is shit. But good Lord the prose in the article is so desperately literary, it rapidly vanishes up itself

www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

That's brilliant, congratulations!! 😁 I can't wait to hear more about it

I rebuilt my list as much as I could, and then I'm kind of enjoying organically finding or re-encountering people again as I interact. Importing is good too, but it's been a nice process of rediscovery

...how on earth has Brian Blessed NOT been in Doctor Who at some point

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

It's freezing! I have a chest cold! We're starting the week really well so far!

Say what you will about America, but boy do we go ALL IN on our labels for things that didn't need labels gone all in on

...well now *I'm* waiting for this

I’m not ‘waiting’ for anyone to join Bluesky except Sam Neill so I can see him post one picture of his pigs every three months and then disappear

I thought we were all going to have a moment of unity about Wally West being best, but here we are....

"I also played around with the idea..." = "Please don't ask me to show my work, even I know this is iffy"

As soon as I find a young person to tell me what sassy gif to use, I'm going to clap back SO hard I swear to God

It drives me insane, but I'm also relieved it's not just me. I always worry I'm just getting old and can't figure out the software.

Finally, the sort of news and journalism I want in my life.

I gotta get better at using blue sky too. I like it but I keep forgetting about it...!

I'm still hoping against all odds that other authors and institutions are still in shock and that's why the silence. But I sadly worry my optimism is unfounded.

I'm so sorry. Rats are so amazing, and it's so hard that they don't live longer. It's why I had to stop having them as pets, their loss was too sad. I hope you're okay.

ALL MY MF'RS AGREE WITH THIS

The Great Gatsby book cover but instead of the classic eyes and mouth they’re replaced with the emoji eyes and mouth.

This morning, my Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon is probably temperature based...