Echoes • 16” x 30” • gouache & watercolor on paper Based on my 2024 residency in the wilderness of Minong (Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior)
Liz (E.M. Morrissey)
@lizardskinshoujo.bsky.social
Pursuing the peccary with pardine limers. Lapsed academic. PhD in Japanese Art History. Viable Paradise 2024. Short fiction in The Daily Tomorrow, Old Moon Quarterly. She/her. No AI. www.elizabethmorrissey.com
Like literally seeing a big account say this is the worst era to live in. Dog, my grandparents were sharecroppers under Jim Crow.
violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · 3h agoPeople's insistence that now is the worst possible time in every way is so strange to me. Besides the issue of truth, I think people should take strength from the fact that many, many things were worse in living memory and people fought and won and things got better.
Mamdani is operating in the tradition of the “sewer socialist” Milwaukee mayors who got Milwaukee through the Great Depression, survived McCarthyism, and left lasting robust, quality infrastructure… and were mocked or ignored by the press.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h agoMamdani is doing something interesting, which is investing a huge amount of his political capital into the nuts and bolts of governing. That is really unusual! If he succeeds, other politicians might focus more on implementation, correcting a huge blind spot for them! bsky.app/profile/mayo...
(I know I said this was a summer comic, but it's also a fall comic, sort of:)
Linnea Sterte@decassette.bsky.social · 3mo agoas promised months ago when I expected this to be a shorter thing, it's available on a pay-what-you-like basis on itch dot io. been taking a while to finish but I think summer is the right time for it: turndecassette.itch.io/the-prisoner...
"There is no good empire except, apparently, in fantasy novels." Haven't read this but the above quote ftom @stewarthotston.com's review sums up something I have been feeling hard lately. Why are so many writers today insisting on 'doing' politics when they have nothing interesting to say?
Dr Stew Hotston (he/him)@stewarthotston.com · 24h agoA Drop of Corruption is everything I wished people writing about fantasy empires would avoid. #sff #fantasy #reviews #booksky
Hey all, not to sound sinister or anything but I AM MAKING A LIST. So if you're a reviewer/author who might be interested in my novella BEASTS OF THE WILD BLACK (I mean, it's space cats? But also serious SF) then dm me an email to pass on to my publisher. (More book dets in alt text)
It’s about time we had a reckoning with the need so many writers feel to over-explain everything aspect of their stories, even in non Weird genres. Readers don’t need to be babied. Let us figure things out. Leave room for interpretation. Over-explanation makes writing worse.
jonny@misterbloat.bsky.social · 2d agoWeird fiction seems to be having a moment but without lots of the people trying to write it actually grasping what it is. I keep reading stories where there’s clearly an attempt at vaguely gesturing towards ‘the Weird’ but they just cant help over-explaining everything. Truly frustrating stuff.
Richard Dadd 1817-1886 Victorian academy painter, paranoid schizophrenic and murderer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...
books can be about bad people. the characters are not your friends. the protagonist is not you.
A #Roman helmet with a face mask found in Pfrondorf. It's decorated with wings and snakes, a reference to Medusa, the snake-haired mythical creature whose sight turned everyone who saw it to stone. Medusa’s head was a popular motif used to ward off any evil. 🧵1/2 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
"Téléchat" now has an official YouTube channel (Season 1 already available) + new short episodes soon on Instagram. A children's television show aired in France in 1983, created by Roland Topor & Henri Xhonneux ("Marquis"). It was weird, I loved it when I was a kid. www.catsuka.com/news/2026-09...
AND THEY'RE UP!! ☀️ tanks available to preorder now thru 9/6. sizes S-2XL, printed on cotton unisex tanks! www.vetiverfoxapparel.com
✷vetiver✷@vetiverfox.bsky.social · 6d ago☀️TANK PREORDERS☀️ will be opening on monday 8/31 thru 9/6! come and get your creatures... soon... www.vetiverfoxapparel.com
i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job
I'm sure Bluesky hacked off most of that headline on mobile, so:
lincoln carpenter@lincolnhello.bsky.social · 3d ago"'Where'd EA go? It's been purchased. So we didn't have a wall there,' Adams said. 'Could have had a wall. Didn't have a wall. Many such cases.'"
400-year-old grave of feared young woman reveals rare anti-vampire burial ritual in Poland A 400-year-old grave in northern Poland has given archaeologists a rare look at how fear shaped burial practices in the 17th century. The remains of a young woman... archaeologymag.com/2026/08/grav...
400-year-old grave of feared young woman reveals rare anti-vampire burial ritual in Poland | Archaeology News Online Magazine
A 400-year-old Polish grave reveals a rare anti-vampire ritual, with a sickle across a young woman's neck and a padlock on her toe.
archaeologymag.com
I think people get into a lot of trouble when they fall into the trap of thinking that if someone they like or care about does something unforgivably awful, that means either there was never anything real there OR what they did wasn’t that bad. No, both things can be true
How I support myself as a writer is by not supporting myself as a writer and having an entirely different job and pretending this is a fun adventure I get to go on to make friends
exciting news! I now have a Patreon!! Tier rewards include behind the scenes, process breakdowns and even TCG Tokens / Art Cards to download & print go check it out! 🔸 www.patreon.com/cw/DDBTorres 🔸 also, here's some ✨ cool art ✨
September is Baby Safety Month. Don't you dare put that baby in pelican mouth.
Archaeologists return to Grunwald battlefield to map the 1410 Battle A team of archaeologists and metal detectorists has begun a new survey of the battlefield where Polish-Lithuanian forces fought the Teutonic Order in 1410... More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/08/arch...
To be clear, the official position of the US government is that Black Haitian lives don’t matter and it is absolutely the institutional version of hate mail telling people to kill themselves It’s genocidal
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3d ago“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Here she's performing "Didn't It Rain" at a train depot in Manchester, England in 1964. She's often called the "Godmother of Rock & Roll" and influenced future music icons like Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
What's happening in Nepal is terrifying and infuriatingly unfair; here's how to help: kathmandupost.com/national/202...
The tattoos of the Pazyryk ice mummies are of paramount importance for the archaeology of Iron Age Siberia Re-examining the tools and techniques employed in Early Iron Age tattooing High-resolution near-infrared data reveal Pazyryk tattooing methods🏺🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
