Latest read, Man and His Symbols (1964) by Carl G. Jung and associates; Jung on the exploration of the unconscious, and essays by his associates. Includes dream interpretation, human sexuality (anima & animus), repression (the shadow). "Your wife has a great animus. Jah?" -- Carl Jung #BookSky

"Consistency is a virtue until it gets annoying." -- Ursula K. Le Guin

Must bring this up. In Paul Auster's City of Glass, a story about real and imagined identity, the main character is named William Wilson. I should have seen the nod to Poe sooner.

Scott O'Neil@bluecollarscholar.bsky.social · 4d ago

I'd be curious to hear your take on "William Wilson." It's one of my absolute favorite Poe stories, and it seems as if most people haven't read (or often haven't even heard of) it.

Not one word on NBC about this. Just an arrest at Mar a Lago and 'Look at that Stock Market'. I keep telling my wife NBC are among the pod people now.

Patch Zircher@patrickzircher.bsky.social · 22h ago

He's a corrupt, crooked, sleazy shit. The shame of the nation. abcnews.com/US/capital-c...

EMPEROR OF THE WASTELANDS (1993)
 Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 32" x 20" 

For the Coldfire Trilogy, I set all the main characters within a framework of strange and exotic trees. 1/3 #art #booksky 🪐📚

I think, according to Jung, we were looking for vaginas when we were crawling through dungeons in Dungeons and Dragons. ... ... He's either incredibly wrong or incredibly right.

I had a rather obvious epiphany about 20 years ago. You can read any damn thing you want. Not just the genre entertainment. Truth is, most people read that. But the 'high-brow' stuff too. It's the high-brow stuff that is really looked on with suspicion and derision.

If his followers started smearing orange whatever-that-is on their face in imitation of the pres it would be like being in a science fiction satire. A Stanislaw Lem book or something. I kind of want it to happen so I can finally say, see? Clearly the world is bat-shit crazy.

Imagine if people's heads physically shrank or enlarged based on reading. While it'd make some things apparent (where did the president's head go?) it'd also suck to need a neck brace for a giant head. Now if reading turned you, I don't know, silver and not reading, say, Orange-- that'd work.

I've read all of these 'great thinkers'-- and I'm still a goob.

Blocking scads of writing 'festival' accounts. They look spammy.

Reading Jung's Man and His Symbols and I don't want to seem anti-academic but when an academic dreams he's being physically attacked, there's a pretty good chance he was acting like a jerk the day before :) Especially as Jung frequently leads with "an intelligent man will, an educated man considers"

Chef Jotte* looks lovely in our chaise lounge. * I do not comprehend the nicknaming process, I just roll with it.

A look at White Collar Crime prosecuting, despite theft being at record highs (theft that costs the common worker in higher prices, lost jobs). tracreports.org/reports/760/

He's a corrupt, crooked, sleazy shit. The shame of the nation. abcnews.com/US/capital-c...

Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'

Capital One says it closed hundreds of accounts associated with President Trump and his businesses in 2021 "for anti-money laundering reasons," according to a filing.

abcnews.com

Been reading a massive book (900 pgs) of Thomas Hardy poems. He goes Hyborian Big this morning: If but some vengeful God would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: "Thou suffering thing, Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy, That thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!"

My wife bought this towel for the kitchen and I'm being nice but inside I'm thinking, 'When did she become my grandmother'?

All the time :)

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 2d ago

You ever stare at your dog like I can't believe this is free. He could easily charge for this

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Home Recognized as National Historic Landmark, to host Writers’ Residency locusmag.com/2026/08...

I love crime stories that have a terrifying badass who thinks its his right to mete out death-- and the lawman in the other chapters, whose been eating at diners, a regular guy-- and the lawman abruptly meets the badass & puts a bullet between the bastard's eyes almost immediately-- impersonally.

I watched an interview with another comic artist (Paul Pelletier) and he said he was a book guy, that translating words to images was just how his brain works now after decades of doing it -- and I thought, "It's not just me."

Latest read, Perdita Durango (1995) by Barry Gifford; the author of Wild at Heart writes a wicked novel about a "half Tex, half Mex" bombshell & her equally psychopathic amour. Snapping, brutal crime fic. If you consider there are people actually like these characters, you'll feel uneasy. #BookSky

15 yrs ago I used to argue in favor of the old open script/classic Marvel method (the writer gave you a loose plot, and they scripted (aside from a few key phrases) after you drew the comic). I realize, as an artist then, I argued for this because I wanted to write-- to create scenes.

"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter." -- Diderot

I was an artist-only for 20 years and I know all the excuses :) They are less often concerned with the narrative than "I didn't want to draw a helicopter." That sounds harsh coming from an artist but I've seen it. A good work ethic is important for artists too. Those who have it will do fine.

Gideon Knight@glknightwrites.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wholeheartedly agreed. As someone who only writes, I fully believe in the story not just being mine but my whole team's. They did the work, they deserve to have a say and take credit as storytellers. But I draw the line at immaturely trying to change a story to control certain narrative beats.

See, I don't like the idea of not being able to write something concrete-- only suggestions. Hell of a way to make a story. It's not a freedom issue, it's a maturity issue. Freedom for a collaborating artist is choosing angles, longshots, close-ups, designs, setting details-- not changing the story.

white@iamnothereatall.bsky.social · 2d ago

I had a few things that never made it to print because I ditched the artists when they race swapped intentionally black characters. Or just completely ignored other elements of the script without discussion. Most of what I write visually can be regarded as suggestions open to discussion. Others...

Used to argue with comic writers about their method. No outline? Are you nuts! You go wherever the story's going? Nuts! THEN I found out an artist not drawing what's in the script was more common than I realized, and if you wrote watertight--they were going to punch a whole in the bag regardless.

I grew up in print. First thing, when I was 8 years old. Drawings in the Kids Page of the local paper. I won a state-wide poster contest in the 6th grade. At the end of high school I had my first spot illustrations showing up in role-playing games. All the mistakes 'immortalized' :)

I still hear my mom when I draw a head. I'm 12 years old and she's telling me "Don't make the head too long. The head is wider at the brow than at the jawline. The eye is wider a third of the way from the nose than at the middle. Eyebrow hair angles downward toward the nose."

Gotta tell you, I'm just messing around and don't have time to really fix an old drawing, but that guy would look a lot more like this now:

New Warriors Talk@newwarriorstalk.bsky.social · 2d ago

Don't jump to conclusions but HOLY $#*%! From New Warriors issue 63 by Evan Skolnick and Patrick Zircher with Margeaux Pepoy, Joe Rosas and John Costanza (1995)