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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃

@danacorn.bsky.social

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Quasi-mythical pointy-headed being who makes comics, most notably “Phoebe and Her Unicorn" and "Ozy and Millie." Bestselling, award-winning, all that. PNW. She/her. Generally trying to be positive. Account just for book/art stuff: @danasimpson.com

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 4d

Happy book birthday to Phoebe and Her Unicorn book 22, Galactic Unicorn, available at book dispensaries everywhere!

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Galact...

Galactic Unicorn

With lively storytelling and a sincere portrayal of friendship, this new collection ofPhoebe and Her Unicorncomics reveals how an extroverted and e...

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 2h

I think I bought them at a gas station!

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Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · 20h

The debate.

A small dog tells a woman, "Experiencing the world is beautiful and vivid for me. I smell shit piss and vomit and I love it. You are controlled by ceaseless disgust. You're stunted. Haha."

The woman replies, "Yes. But I can read novels."

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 11h

Back on the Evergreen campus, in my capacity as a kind of famous writer graduate who gets to talk about the publishing industry!

Dana, in front of the Evergreen State College clock tower.

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 6h

The Milwaukee Brewers started life as the Seattle Pilots. They played one season in Seattle, in 1969, then immediately left the city and moved to Milwaukee.

Seattle sued MLB over this, and was awarded the Mariners in 1977.

Mariners-Brewers would be a revenge series, for me as a Seattle fan.

codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 18d

happy Mariners cinch day

the series I would most like to see is Mariners/Brewers, I think.

- a chance to exorcise the ghost of Bud Selig
- the Brewers are tough as nails, best record in the NL
- national media would have no idea what to do with a Seattle-Milwaukee World Series

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, that’s some adolescent rebel level thinking.

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 6h

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 6h

As opposed to unicorns, who are mighty and who are high a lot of the time.

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 7h

And you are beautiful and awesome.

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 1d

So, happy #nationalcomingoutday.

This year is the 20th anniversary of me coming out, to myself and then to the people around me, and then the world.

Was that difficult at times? Yep.

But I have never, even for a second, regretted deciding to live as myself.

Peace and love,
Dana Claire (she/her)

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 1d

2005, 2025

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Melissa Paints @melissavandiver.bsky.social · 11h

I know I'm missing context but children deserve art, and they deserve adults who act like there is a future. If trans and queer people are making that art, it is already in and of itself an act of protest in our climate. Imagine saying writing for children is "selling out" in this age of book bans.

Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 12h

I blocked this idiot, but I thought this stupidity deserved to be preserved via screencap.

“Writing for children makes you a sellout who has abandoned the trans community. So does not being as loudly and visibly trans as possible in every waking moment. Being happy means you aren’t really queer.”

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 7h

You aren’t really missing any context.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 18h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

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Fernando Puig @fernandopuig.bsky.social · 8d

Woke up this mornin’, gonna have myself some fun! Mama always said “dont step on bubblegum!”

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 7h

Crazy how with these people it's always AI that's "here to stay like it or not" and never like gender affirming medical procedures or something

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 9h

They don’t want me to just do what I want and be happy. I was going to do that anyway, but now I can frame it as rebellion, too!

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 9h

Well, my brakes are out. Abby’s some gal!

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 10h

I agree. But I would also add that I’m not under any obligation to be a revolutionary.

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 10h

I have done pretty much nothing but this since I was a teenager, yeah.

Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 10h

“Then we can go ask your parents what the hell kind of name Sloopy is!”

Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 10h

Only one person has ever earned the right spell “you” as “u.”

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, I was less smart at 19 than I am now, but I didn’t yell at children’s authors that they weren’t queer enough and needed to read black Marxist theory.

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 10h

A karaoke staple of mine.

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