JamesTheBalladeer
@jamestheballadeer.bsky.social
Novelist, short-story scribe, poet, editor, reviewer, comic-book aficionado, selenophile. Librarian-adjacent.
Town & Train, small-town Canadian horror novel & Fear Itself short-story collection from Lethe Press. In indie stores & on the amazons.🍀🩷💜💙🌈
Town & Train, small-town Canadian horror novel & Fear Itself short-story collection from Lethe Press. In indie stores & on the amazons.🍀🩷💜💙🌈
Pinned
Re-introducing myself-a writer/editor/reviewer/comic aficionado.
Town & Train is my small-town Canadian horror novel. Fear Itself (also Lethe Press) is my short-story collection.
Town & Train is my small-town Canadian horror novel. Fear Itself (also Lethe Press) is my short-story collection.
Watching Boots (Netflix). Features winsome actors (incl. lead Miles Heizer),
a banger early 1990's soundtrack, intrigue and fourth-wall breakages. Altho it's about US marines, as a former army reservist, I connect with the themes of basic training & brotherly bonding & loneliness.
#queerTV
a banger early 1990's soundtrack, intrigue and fourth-wall breakages. Altho it's about US marines, as a former army reservist, I connect with the themes of basic training & brotherly bonding & loneliness.
#queerTV
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Watching Boots (Netflix). Features winsome actors (incl. lead Miles Heizer),
a banger early 1990's soundtrack, intrigue and fourth-wall breakages. Altho it's about US marines, as a former army reservist, I connect with the themes of basic training & brotherly bonding & loneliness.
#queerTV
a banger early 1990's soundtrack, intrigue and fourth-wall breakages. Altho it's about US marines, as a former army reservist, I connect with the themes of basic training & brotherly bonding & loneliness.
#queerTV
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JoAnna Mendoza is a queer former USMC drill instructor, like in the new Netflix show “Boots” (that Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon called “woke garbage”), and she’s running for Congress in Arizona.
www.advocate.com/politics/joa...
www.advocate.com/politics/joa...
Queer ex-Marine Corps drill instructor channels leadership & Netflix’s ‘Boots’ in Arizona congressional run
Democrat JoAnna Mendoza told The Advocate that her life's story has prepared her to run for Congress.
www.advocate.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
JoAnna Mendoza is a queer former USMC drill instructor, like in the new Netflix show “Boots” (that Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon called “woke garbage”), and she’s running for Congress in Arizona.
www.advocate.com/politics/joa...
www.advocate.com/politics/joa...
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Just finished the series.
Such a great show.
Such a great show.
November 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Just finished the series.
Such a great show.
Such a great show.
Sign in the washroom at my fave local, Southside Tap & Grill.
Just remember to wash your hands, you weird beautiful creatures.
Just remember to wash your hands, you weird beautiful creatures.
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Sign in the washroom at my fave local, Southside Tap & Grill.
Just remember to wash your hands, you weird beautiful creatures.
Just remember to wash your hands, you weird beautiful creatures.
Tough month, for many reasons, but doing the writing work. Book review for @strangehorizons.bsky.social of
Matthew James Jones' fantastical cautionary novel about war, Predators, Reapers & Deadlier Creatures (Toronto's Double Dagger Books) and my second short-story collection edits to look at.
Matthew James Jones' fantastical cautionary novel about war, Predators, Reapers & Deadlier Creatures (Toronto's Double Dagger Books) and my second short-story collection edits to look at.
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Tough month, for many reasons, but doing the writing work. Book review for @strangehorizons.bsky.social of
Matthew James Jones' fantastical cautionary novel about war, Predators, Reapers & Deadlier Creatures (Toronto's Double Dagger Books) and my second short-story collection edits to look at.
Matthew James Jones' fantastical cautionary novel about war, Predators, Reapers & Deadlier Creatures (Toronto's Double Dagger Books) and my second short-story collection edits to look at.
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Never forget this day.
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump and MAGA did Jan 6 2021 and what Dems are NOT doing today!
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Never forget this day.
bsky.app/profile/mjfr...
bsky.app/profile/mjfr...
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Tomorrow is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR). I stand in solidarity with the trans community, honoring those we've lost by supporting those who are here.
Sharing a handful of resources to ensure the trans community has the care and support they need.
#TDOR #TransCommunity
Sharing a handful of resources to ensure the trans community has the care and support they need.
#TDOR #TransCommunity
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Tomorrow is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR). I stand in solidarity with the trans community, honoring those we've lost by supporting those who are here.
Sharing a handful of resources to ensure the trans community has the care and support they need.
#TDOR #TransCommunity
Sharing a handful of resources to ensure the trans community has the care and support they need.
#TDOR #TransCommunity
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My latest at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: I talked to @oglaf.bsky.social! Not the character, but rather, the people who create it.
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
My latest at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: I talked to @oglaf.bsky.social! Not the character, but rather, the people who create it.
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
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Please share widely
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Please share widely
Just over halfway through Max Tzannes' 2025 Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project. I know a diamond, a gem, when I see one.
Documentarians follow
Chase (Brennan Keel Cool), an ambitious yet hapless young director trying to make the world's best found-footage flick about Bigfoot. 1/2
Documentarians follow
Chase (Brennan Keel Cool), an ambitious yet hapless young director trying to make the world's best found-footage flick about Bigfoot. 1/2
November 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Just over halfway through Max Tzannes' 2025 Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project. I know a diamond, a gem, when I see one.
Documentarians follow
Chase (Brennan Keel Cool), an ambitious yet hapless young director trying to make the world's best found-footage flick about Bigfoot. 1/2
Documentarians follow
Chase (Brennan Keel Cool), an ambitious yet hapless young director trying to make the world's best found-footage flick about Bigfoot. 1/2
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President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
Great to hear fab bi @robynochs.bsky.social lay out bi+ history and grassroots activism on the:Bisexual Killjoy podcast.
Bisexual Killjoy | S4E2: Bi+ Activism and the Long Haul with Robyn Ochs.
On Podbean.
www.podbean.com/ea/pb-egjjt-...
Bisexual Killjoy | S4E2: Bi+ Activism and the Long Haul with Robyn Ochs.
On Podbean.
www.podbean.com/ea/pb-egjjt-...
S4E2: Bi+ Activism and the Long Haul with Robyn Ochs
Welcome back to Bisexual Killjoy! This week, we’re exploring what it means to be a Bi+ activist who’s in it for the long haul with the one and only Robyn Ochs as our guest. This Bi+ visibility month w...
www.podbean.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Great to hear fab bi @robynochs.bsky.social lay out bi+ history and grassroots activism on the:Bisexual Killjoy podcast.
Bisexual Killjoy | S4E2: Bi+ Activism and the Long Haul with Robyn Ochs.
On Podbean.
www.podbean.com/ea/pb-egjjt-...
Bisexual Killjoy | S4E2: Bi+ Activism and the Long Haul with Robyn Ochs.
On Podbean.
www.podbean.com/ea/pb-egjjt-...
Quite dig this concise @horrordna.bsky.social James Ferguson review of TC Eglington &
Simon Davis' folk horror/culty graphic novel Thistlebone from @2000ad.bsky.social.
I'm in.
www.horrordna.com/comics/thist...
Simon Davis' folk horror/culty graphic novel Thistlebone from @2000ad.bsky.social.
I'm in.
www.horrordna.com/comics/thist...
Thistlebone: Volume 1
Not that I needed it, but here's another reason to stay out of the woods.
www.horrordna.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Quite dig this concise @horrordna.bsky.social James Ferguson review of TC Eglington &
Simon Davis' folk horror/culty graphic novel Thistlebone from @2000ad.bsky.social.
I'm in.
www.horrordna.com/comics/thist...
Simon Davis' folk horror/culty graphic novel Thistlebone from @2000ad.bsky.social.
I'm in.
www.horrordna.com/comics/thist...
I am a regular reviewer of stuff—memoir, spec fic & even graphic novels (hooray!)—for Plenitude Magazine.
plenitudemagazine.ca?s=James+moran
plenitudemagazine.ca?s=James+moran
plenitudemagazine.ca
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I am a regular reviewer of stuff—memoir, spec fic & even graphic novels (hooray!)—for Plenitude Magazine.
plenitudemagazine.ca?s=James+moran
plenitudemagazine.ca?s=James+moran
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With the holiday season here I can finally bring out my festive clothes
November 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
With the holiday season here I can finally bring out my festive clothes
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Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
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The Question 🤔
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The Question 🤔
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Federal agents’ use of force amid an aggressive deportation campaign in Chicago “shocks the conscience,” the Trump administration’s arguments “lack credibility,” and a top Border Patrol official lied while trying to justify the use of tear gas, a judge found Thursday. - @jonseidel.bsky.social
Federal judge enters broader order governing feds' use of force during immigration blitz
The judge previously forbade federal agents from using tear gas or other “riot control” weapons against people who pose no immediate threat and without two warnings during the deportation campaign. Ho...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Federal agents’ use of force amid an aggressive deportation campaign in Chicago “shocks the conscience,” the Trump administration’s arguments “lack credibility,” and a top Border Patrol official lied while trying to justify the use of tear gas, a judge found Thursday. - @jonseidel.bsky.social