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Writer. Novels. Scripts. Comics. 🏳️‍🌈. Latest Book: The Master of Shearhaven New Cover: In the Dark of the Grove (Oct. 1 2025) https://linktr.ee/jonwesleyhuff

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 2d

I'm a queer writer of many things—novels, comics, video, essays, and more. I'm also a graphic designer and illustrator. My #indiebooks have queer themes. Here's a little of what I have out now and what I'm working on for next year! #HorrorBooks #MMRomance #FantasyBooks #GayAuthor
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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 7m

"The Monkey"*

My kingdom for an edit key!*

*statement does not imply user would actually pay for an edit function.

Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 9m

Watched The Money tonight. Very solidly entertaining and I had a god time with it. Some of the humor fell flat for me. Tonally I sometimes have a hard time "tuning in" to Perkins movies, but this won me over by the end.

The movie poster features the monkey looking creepy with a light bar over it highlighting it's face

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 2h

Got the one Basil Gogos-inspired figure that didn’t appear on Universal’s website when I got Frankenstein, The Bride, and Wolfman earlier - Dracula! He’s a little more subtle than the others but still very cool. #universalmonsters #dracula

A Dracula figure whose paint detail is inspired by painter Gogos

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2h

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 3h

Now that I have the 4K of Rocky… we watched this! 😂 (We just saw RHPS in the theater… may watch the 4K on my own tomorrow.) Paul got it the other day and what a great find! It was a lot of fun, from 2007. It features Anthony Head as Frankenfurter and he does a great job.

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah almost got that! Love that artists stuff!

Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 5h

❤️❤️❤️❤️

a woman is dancing on a pole with the number 50 above her

ALT: a woman is dancing on a pole with the number 50 above her

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 5h

Mondo!

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 6h

I am one very satisfied customer especially as it’s been long enough I forgot what I paid! I was a wee bit surprised by no neck articulation but I’m happy they didn’t break up the sculpt. Love the bust to hold one alt head. #UniversalMonsters

A full look at all that’s included like a detailed shore base, harpoon gun, and more. There’s also a manacle and alt hands that are not depicted

Another alternate head with more cartoony yellow eyes

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 6h

The Jersey Devil from the Four Horsemen! Love that they’re getting into cryptids. The unusual proportions are perfect to me here, with the oversized head. A nice addition this October.

JD contemplates a skull. It’s a horned goat head with a lithe body and leathery translucent amber wings

Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 6h

Oh yeah I’ll check this out!

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13th Jedi @13thjedi.bsky.social · 6h

OMGGGGGG EXCUSE ME?!?!

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 7h

Unsurprising that Tron Ares isn't doing that well. I enjoyed it, but I totally get people not going for it based on Leto. Why do executives think he'd even be a draw? Almost anyone could have played the "aloof badass" part, as Greta Lee did most of the heavy dramatic lifting. Sigh

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 7h

I think that's the DVD I had too. It is a great one. I don't think I need to buy another one unless they do a hologram for the 70th or something. :D

Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 8h

A true icon. Rest in Peace Diane Keaton.

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 8h

Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy moved to hospice care: 'She is surrounded by love'
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/08/miss-major-griffin-gracy-hospice-care/?utm_content=1760210400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy moved to hospice care: 'She is surrounded by love'

Trans campaigner and author Miss Major Griffin-Gracy has been moved to hospice care following her hospitalisation earlier this month.

www.thepinknews.com

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 8h

I did like the 45th anniversary steelbook a lot though. I think I’m going to keep it too. Still not sure about the art for the 50th.

Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 8h

I know it’s old fashioned of me but I just prefer to have the stuff I love physically and not be locked into a sub and risk it being taken away from me by corporate nonsense.

The new Rocky Horror steelbook and 4K Clue

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 8h

I see s4 will be the last of Yellowjackets. For the best. A show that started with so much promise kind of devolved into a sad state of affairs by the end of last season. But I'm hoping with only one more season to go, the plate spinning can end. Because I do feel invested in the characters, still.

Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 11h

I wish I’d gotten to see the first one in theaters! I was hoping a theater near me was showing all three. But no luck.

Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 22h

Tron Ares a blast! I say, as though I'm writing a headline. (was*)

Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 23h

I really enjoyed it. Went in with a lot of skepticism, but it won me over.

Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 23h

Tron Ares a blast. It makes the most of its premise, with a lot of fun touches. There's actually a nice amount of action on The Grid. The movie has some clunky dialogue at times. But that was far outweighed by the fun I had. Bonus, it's an amazing NIN music video with some truly fantastic visuals.

Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

Going back to the grid in an hour! Tron was a favorite movie as a kid. Loved Legacy full throttle. We’ll see how this one goes. #Tron #TronAres

Bearded man holding up Flynn’s identity disc

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

Going back to the grid in an hour! Tron was a favorite movie as a kid. Loved Legacy full throttle. We’ll see how this one goes. #Tron #TronAres

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

This little Creature from the Black Lagoon figure is pretty great. Love the clear eyes. The lipstick might not be his shade though.

A cute tiny vinyl figure of the Universal Monster