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Jay Wayward

@ricochetrita.bsky.social

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Writer, bisexual, vocalist for sludge metal band Cursed Body. He/Him I like X-men comics. Eviscerate fascism everywhere. 🏴🌱 “The Dreaming Dead”, a queer sword and sorcery novel, available at jaywayward.com

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Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · Mar 17

Ever wanted to see an elderly bisexual woman disembowel an imperialist soldier?

The Dreaming Dead is out now. It’s a queer, dark fantasy novel that follows a notorious bandit as a young adult and much older woman.

#queersff #booksky #fantasy
💙📚 🌈📚 🪐📚

A book cover. The background is a red and black fog. The foreground shows a muscular, somewhat young woman in leather armor swinging a sword and yelling. The white text at the bottom reads “The Dreaming Dead”

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 52m

Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.’s longest-standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction.

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.’s longest-standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction.

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Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 1h

Tony Hawk, hit us up

Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 1h

I’m not under any illusions that Cursed Body will make me enough money to quit my day job but if a track we write got used in a skateboarding game I would be extremely pleased

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Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 1h

While I’m SW posting I’ll add
- Rey is extremely overhated, she’s cool as hell.
- Phantom Menace is a good movie
- Rebels is the best animated SW
- its gross when characters act like droids aren’t people

Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 2h

I’m on a Star Wars thing right now

Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 2h

Right? There’s a book that gets into Obi-wan being afraid to fly and I’m like whelp I guess he got over it.

Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 2h

They shoulda kept Rian Johnson on for the 3rd sequel movie too tbh

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 2h

I’m on a Star Wars thing right now

Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 2h

Love that every Star Wars character is inexplicably a great pilot

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Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 4h

Genuinely so wild. Lots of stuff is problematic but like…why are people still on Harry Potter? Avoiding it is so easy. Smh

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World's Spookiest Lesbian🏴 🔯 🏳️‍⚧️ (Amanda) @amandak6647.bsky.social · 4h

It really is so fucking bleak how many adults can't give up their favorite children's franchises despite the creators being massive bigots. They care more about being piggies at the trough than they do any kind of solidarity with marginalized people, even when they're marginalized themselves.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 9h

If you can’t make it to the festival, COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES is available wherever books are sold!

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elias...

Cocktails and Consoles

Press start and get ready to craft delicious cocktails. With 75 unique and easy-to-prepare recipes inspired by some of the most popular video games in histor...

www.hachettebookgroup.com

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Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 9h

I’m reading The Starving Saints and playing Crow Country atm

Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 9h

Am I going to have a bunch of weird dreams that disrupt my sleep schedule? Absolutely. Am I going to briefly chill out only to start again within days and just power through? 100%

Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 9h

Love Halloween season. I’ll take any excuse I can to binge a bunch of horror media.

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HolBolDoArt🏳️‍🌈 @holboldoart.bsky.social · 16h

🎂 It's my special cake and candles day you all have to be nice to me because it's been QUITE the year 🎂

So share some of my paintings??

In the pew-lined interior of a dim medieval church lit by rows of candles on tall staffs and pale sunlight coming through a window, a tall humanoid crow figure with flowing black robes and a glowing yellow eye stands beneath an ornately carved semicircular arch in Norman Romanesque style. On the wall surrounding the arch are many colourful murals depicting more humanoid crow figures with halos, carrying various items including swords, spears, harps, and chalices.

A painting set in a cosy shady woodland clearing on a sunny summer's day. In the centre of the frame, two figures sit on a fallen log mostly hidden by vegetation. The figure on the right has wavy blonde hair down past her shoulders, and wears a flowing white floor-length dress with long sleeves, with delicate lacework around the cuffs and neckline. She looks into the distance with a contemplative, sad expression. On her lap rests a small green book, covered by both of her hands.
The figure on the left sits leaning with her head against shoulder of the other figure. She wears a similar dress but simpler, and in a dark slate grey. Her hair is dark and straight, and flows down her tilted face, and she looks off towards a nightingale bird perched on a nearby branch. She raises a hand towards the other figure as if to get her attention.

Both figures are surrounded by various flowers. On the left of the frame are many spires of foxglove flowers in vivid pink and white, interspersed among green stinging nettles. On the right are the purple flowers of monkshood/wolfsbane.

Wrapping around the figures is a clear stream flowing from a distant pond that descends in a series of steps. Around the stream are many small mossy rocks, and shoots of dark green dog's mercury.

Above and behind the figures and flowers are two trees; on the left is a weeping willow with dangling dark green leaves. On the right are the branches of an old ash tree.

A snowy scene in which a humanoid figure in long black robes with the head of a rook stands in a churchyard holding a long spear. By its feet is a red fox. Both are flecked with fallen snow. Around them are many weathered snow-covered graves. In the background is a medieval church of warm coloured stone with large rectangular windows and a battlemented parapet topped with pinnacles. Behind the main body of the church is the tower with clock face and belfry. Behind the church are tall but bare trees dusted with snow. More snow falls in the air.

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RM @rmx.bsky.social · 14h

Happy Coming Out Day!
Remember there is no bad time to come out, as long as you do it as dramatically as possible.

Northstar coming out as the first openly gay comic book character while fighting a Mountie- themed weirdo.

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Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 15h

This song rules. Bongeziwe Mabandla has such a great voice

youtu.be/l1J4MvyL2to?...

Alfa Mist - "Apho (feat. Bongeziwe Mabandla)"

YouTube video by Alfa Mist

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 16h

“That's 40 *cents*. Cents are a form of currency one hundred times smaller than the reál. I'm not even going to take this. Come back when you have 130 reál.”

Isn't it... evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person -- and what they have?

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Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 1d

Uhhhh *basis

Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 1d

Frankly astounding I’m allowed to hang out and make art with cool, talented people purely on the bases of being able to sound like I was kicked in the throat and write angsty poetry

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Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 1d

Being in a band rules

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Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 1d

I got very close to both a big corvid and a very small sparrow recently, and I’m still riding that high.

Jay Wayward @ricochetrita.bsky.social · 1d

Yo this sounds awesome

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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