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Joel Kreissman

@zarpaulus.bsky.social

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Author, comic writer and TTRPG developer. Mid-30s they/them. Creator of the Para-Imperium setting and the webcomic "Joanna: Ghost Hunter". See my works at https://zarpaulus.carrd.co/

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Joel Kreissman @zarpaulus.bsky.social · Oct 11

Hi, I'm Zarpaulus, writing as Joel Kreissman, I'm a writer juggling multiple projects. I have a webcomic titled Joanna: Ghost Hunter, a sci-fi worldbuilding project known as the Para-Imperium or Parahuman Space, and the occasional Korps story.

Cover of the webcomic Joanna: Ghost Hunter

Front cover of the anthology Tales of the Para-Imperium

Cover of the novella Horizon: Salvaged Heroes

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Joel Kreissman @zarpaulus.bsky.social · 6h

Old Who or new Who?

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 18h

I’ll get to it, okay?

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18h

Meanwhile the White House just illegally laid off dozens of CDC researchers and scientists during the shutdown.

Tweet by Dan Pfeiffer: “Anti-vax in the streets, pro-vax in the sheets.”
Below is Kaitlan Collins’ tweet showing a photo of a White House medical memorandum dated October 10, 2025, stating that President Donald Trump received his flu shot and COVID booster at Walter Reed.

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Fox Popvli @foxpopvli.bsky.social · 19h

11. Tanuki
Trisha's back!
#foxtober2025 #foxpopvli

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Hue @hueversecomics.bsky.social · 16h

Let’s switch to elementary. It’ll be less drama right?
www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/me...
tapas.io/series/Meow-...
meowandthen.thecomicseries.com
#cats #meowandthen #webcomic #comedy #family #school #Ginger #autism

A para is talking to Ginger Kitty while giving a high five. "Let's go ginger, my man. Gold Star Day."

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heresvix @heresvix.bsky.social · 16h

Bro ...in a dress....!? 😳👗

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KCVulpineStudios @kcvulpinestudios.bsky.social · 12h

Two of my best women have a special message for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

#anthropomorphic #anthropomorphicart #anthroart #originalcharacters #breastcancerawarenessmonth

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Thomas K. Dye @projectionedge.bsky.social · 13h

I get by with a little help from @danacorn.bsky.social's teenage Milo.

(... I ... didn't even try to fit the meter of the song there.)

The first two panels are a medium close shot of me and Milo. Milo is leaning against a wall corner... somewhere.

Panel 1: Me: Hey, do you remember when you were younger and you hid my clothes until I was done drawing my comic pages?
Panel 2: Milo: ... Yup.

Panel 3 pulls out to reveal that I am not wearing pants and using a comic page to hide my nether-bethers.
Me: ... You did it AGAIN, didn't you.
Milo: Just your pants this time. Now. Less EXHIBITIONISM and more WRITING.

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SmallerGod @jennysmallergod.bsky.social · 23h

Corporations make billions in profit so they can choke smaller businesses to death

Your furry artist shirt maker sells them so they can pay their rent

It's not morally questionable to buy a furry shirt from walmart, it's morally repugnant.

Nyil @nyil.bsky.social · 1d

The annoying thing about corporations trying to break into furry spaces is that like.. when corporations do this it's because they want to take control of the space so that they're the only ones who can sell things. They're corporations, they can afford to undercut small creators.

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Jan @tigerknight.com · 11h

Nine to Nine - Decision shrub https://www.tigerknight.com/99/2025-10-12

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Shapeless Ink @shapelessink.bsky.social · 12h

Calvin and hobbes meme format image.

Text reads:

Analysing your headmates? here, let me show you something interesting.

All of your headmates fall into two categories. Mom, and Weird Dog. Heather? Mom. Star? Weird Dog. Morrigan? Mom. Veil? Weird Dog.

Despite embodying many of the aspects of a Weird Dog, Maxwell is actually a Mom.

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Rose, The Sword Vixen @threetails.bsky.social · 1d

Fascism is a joyless ideology that always looks for problems where there are none because if anything is fine just the way it is, the fascist has no reason to exist. Expressing any kind of enjoyment or contentment is the greatest sin to a fascist.

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

setting aside the fact that they just don’t know what jokes are, this gives a big insight into the mind of white nationalists. they are deeply paranoid about the idea of being percieved as anything other than Epic Stoics

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Joel Kreissman @zarpaulus.bsky.social · 19h

How's his brain age?

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 1d

Is america great again yet.

image froma news report of military families having to rely on food banks

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Kayodé Lycaon @kayodelycaon.bsky.social · 21h

All I can ask is: “how the hell did we get here?”

Pope in front of Trump supporters saying “If you think I’m too woke, you should talk to my boss.”

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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 1d

Always going to point out that, in Disney’s expanded universe, the New Republic has two major parties… and the one that likes authoritarianism, the one that does “the Empire had some good points” in public, the one that turns out to be chock full of First Order agents?

It’s called The Centrists.

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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Nitrofox 🔜 Your parents' bedroom @nitrofox.bsky.social · 1d

Are we sure Coyotes aren't just runty wolves?

OnlyYotes @onlyyotes.bsky.social · 1d

#hourly #yote https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/yotes/16319272395_aa6dcfaec3_c.jpg

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Joel Kreissman @zarpaulus.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, they could be

Joel Kreissman @zarpaulus.bsky.social · 1d

The tail at least

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AffirmationCoyote.bsky.social @affirmationcoyote.bsky.social · 1d

It is National Handbag Day.

Affirmation Coyotes reminds their handbag carrying friends that what is inside the bag is as important as the bag's style.

www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day...