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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 11h
Hi, friends! If you're around tomorrow (Wednesday October 15), please join the Northwestern English department for this Colombian Writers Symposium, with Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Gloria Susana Esquivel, and Julian Delgado Lopera.
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Sarah Kokernot @sarahkokernot.bsky.social · 9h
May all beings be free from dumbfuckery. By @fulmerford.com
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 9h
RIGHT?
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 9h
Today’s #postitdoodle is a failed attempt at reconciliation.
Doodle of a tiny astronaut reaching out to enormous tentacled cyclops creatures
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 9h
“Pretty soon I learned cautious discretion
When your first crush crushes something kind
When I said I don't believe in marriage
That was a lie
Every eldest daughter
Was the first lamb to the slaughter
So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire”
Black and white closeup of the black sheep in the previous doodle
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 11h
Hi, friends! If you're around tomorrow (Wednesday October 15), please join the Northwestern English department for this Colombian Writers Symposium, with Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Gloria Susana Esquivel, and Julian Delgado Lopera.
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 17h
Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is a verse from “Eldest Daughter,” the sixth song in Taylor Swift’s LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL, brought miraculously to life through the magic of coloring pencils and ink.
Sharpie doodle of a black sheep on a trampoline
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 1d
I LOVE this story & was so lucky to have @mikecripps.bsky.social as a student this summer and got to see this unsettling vision take shape!
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Mike Cripps @mikecripps.bsky.social · 1d
Very grateful to Macabre Magazine for publishing “Constance” my short story. Read it here! macabremagazine.com/constance/
Constance
It was an accident when I saw Mom cry for the first time. I was cutting class and snuck home during lunch—freshman year, each day a unique disaster; I had been slighted by some former best friend and ...
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 1d
It’s so good! Very funny, very bloody.
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 1d
these two movies are low-key academic satires
Midsommar poster you’re next poster
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 2d
at the fun part of the novel revision process where I have to draw some maps to make sure the geography checks out
Detail of a map sketch—a toothy Domokun looking thing w an arrow and some lines
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 2d
my early-morning writing companion.
Black and white photo of Cosmos the cat sitting by the laptop
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Megan Stielstra @meganstielstra.bsky.social · 3d
"What holds this city together is not a frigid fear. What holds this city together is a million different kindnesses every day. That’s what makes Chicago.”
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J.R. Nelson @jrnelson.bsky.social · 3d
So honored I got to know the legendary artist, actor and raconteur Tony Fitzpatrick a little bit over the years. May his memory be a blessing to his family and many, many friends blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/11/t...
Tony Fitzpatrick, Lauded, Eclectic Chicago Artist, Dies at 66
The artist, writer and actor recently published “The Sun at the End of the Road: Dispatches From an American Life," and had planned to star in a Steppenwolf show based on his new book.
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 3d
idk if people know this but corn mazes are mostly a lot of corn
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 3d
roses are red
violets are lonely
Sign reads “pumpkins are for your pumpkin convenience only”
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d
ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

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Michael Zapata @michaelzapata.bsky.social · 3d
If you have a moment, please consider donating to ICIRR, who are working hard to protect those most impacted by federal oversight and the ICE occupation in Chicago, and beyond.

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Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
ICIRR is dedicated to promoting the rights of immigrants and refugees to full and equal participation in the civic, cultural, social, and political life of our diverse society.
www.icirr.org
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 4d
and it’s not a hypothetical. I’m sure there’s a little four year old right now trying to recite a string of numbers to an adult because the parents have been disappeared.
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 4d
I was helping out my four year-old with her shoes this morning & thought of all the parents doing the same thing, all while having the kids memorize an emergency phone number just in case they get rounded up by ICE.
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 4d
Some awesome #nabokovilia in Megan Abbott’s searing financial-crash/MLM suburban noir EL DORADO DRIVE:

“—prompting Beverly Linebaugh to ask, "Didn't the braces tip you off?" And Becky Schloss was raging because she'd already served that buck-toothed Lolita at least two Tom Collinses.”
prised as anyone else that Lisbeth was so young, prompting Beverly Linebaugh to ask, "Didn't the braces tip you off?" And Becky Schloss was raging because she'd already served that buck-toothed Lolita at least two Tom Col-linses. "Sandy," Harper said, pulling her aside, feeling some obligation as the one who first brought her in. "Taking money from a teenager..." "I'm sure she didn't mean it," Debra said, picking at a tray of blinis. "I'm so embarrassed," Sandy kept saying, her fingers back in her hair, smoothing her curls ceaselessly. Some day, Harper thought, tired of Sandy already,
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 4d
that meant I had too much time, had too much fun with a Pilot Precise V5--not the ideal pen for lunch bags btw. But I loved the psychotic fussiness that came out of it.
an aggressively inked doodle of a woman dancing in the dark w/ ghosts
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 4d
I normally don’t take photos of the doodles before I color them, bc they’re quick and I don’t have time, but I was watching Wednesday w my son this week and I did the one for “Opalite” while watching &
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 4d
In retrospect I don’t know why I didn’t like it—maybe the eyes were too tiny?
closeup of the jellyfish
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 4d
Two fun process bits from this week’s Taylor Swift #lunchbagdoodle attempts. I wasn’t happy with the initial jellyfish for “Father Figure,” so that one ended up being the one I used for my own lunch.
photo of two lunchbags, each w/ a doodle, the first a finished one w/ a jellyfish and lots of fishes, the second w/ a single lonely jellyfish
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 4d
Here's the link to get tickets to tonight's event! Friday 10/10 at 6:30pm.

www.eventbrite.com/e/horror-wri...
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 4d
“Shiny wood floors underneath my feet
Disco ball makes everything look cheap
Have fun (mm-mm)
It's prom (mm-mm)
Wilted corsage dangles from my wrist
Over his shoulder, I catch a glimpse”
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