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J.B. Pinkle

@jbpinkle.com

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Somewhere on this timeline I'm King of the Pirates. No wait, the Wizard King. No wait, a published author. I'll let you know. Sic Semper Tyrannis he/him Husband and Father First Novel Querier Second Novel Drafter Short Story Submitter Fantasy Writer

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · Feb 1

🧵 I decided if I were ever to hit 1K followers it would justify an intro post. I'm a little shy of that, but gonna do it anyway. 🙂

I'm an unpublished, fledgling fantasy author. I've written one novel-length story, which I am currently querying, and I'm in the midst of the first draft of another.

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 15h

#wipsnips

They entered through the side door of the Folly, directly into the common area. She could smell the familiar aroma of the kitchen. Her stomach vibrated noisily and her mouth moistened.
The common room was about half full of various patrons. She stopped in her tracks for just a heartbeat before carrying forward. They’d had the exclusive use of the building when they were here last—she hadn’t even stopped to consider that they would be barging in to an unknown crowd.
Lesin silently cursed herself for the lapse. But she needn’t have worried.
“I cannot believe it!” A boomy tenor voice filled the room. “Nivie and Lesin! Welcome, my friends!”
The floor shook as Fallah, the owner, strode powerfully across the room to greet them. He was a huge man in early middle age. His black beard had little grey, and spread impressively to cover nearly all his massive, if somewhat blubbery, torso. He’d likely been hugely muscled in his youth. He still looked powerful, just soft.

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 19h

This arrived at my home just as life gave me the time and permission to sit down with it and enjoy it.

Thank you, @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social

#booksky

#poetrysky ?

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · Sep 10

👠👠 + 🎣👨🏿‍🦳 + 👰🏿‍♂️

THE SHOES OF THE
FISHERMAN'S WIFE

well, im just over a month out for the collection's Oct. 14th release and preorders (as well as my anxiety!) are in full gear for both hardback AND paperback versions... ❤️

www.kentuckypress.com/978198590345...

The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife - The University Press of Kentucky

The shoes of the fisherman's wife are coated with Kentucky dust and soil. They travel across oceans to ask questions of Egypt's deities, of Mali's Mansa Musa...

www.kentuckypress.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Well, good for DC

search.app/PK45E

DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

search.app

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megHan Solo @meghaminius.bsky.social · 25d

A good day for bugs 🤔

A green praying mantis hanging out on my foreman's hand

A different green praying mantis hanging out on my gloved hand

An eastern carpenter bee hanging out on a butterfly bush flower

A brown and green praying mantis hanging out on my gloved hand

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 5d

Thank you Leslie!

J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 5d

Thank you!

J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 5d

Thank you!

J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 5d

Thank you. I think a certain amount is needed for chsracter development.

After that it is gratuitous, IMO.

J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 6d

Thanks.

J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 6d

Thanks!

J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 7d

Message received.

J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 8d

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Atmosphere - Okay (Official Video)

YouTube video by Rhymesayers Entertainment

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Kel Morrigan 🏳️‍⚧️ @kelmorrigan.net · Dec 28

Part Time Familiar, now on Scribble Hub.
www.scribblehub.com/series/13629...
(Previous location still receiving updates, but gonna focus on this one)

Part Time Familiar

Morgan was just a normal guy in college looking for a job and a place to stay over the summer. Little did he know that the job he'd applied for would come with some interesting perks, and that he woul...

www.scribblehub.com

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 11d

I also have this recording, and had it as a kid.

It is sublime.

Seek it out if you have not heard it.

Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 11d

Totally.
Mint re-purchase because my childhood copy was played out of existence.

J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 14d

Not sure I have this much courage.

M E L L Y med @mel-med-larson.bsky.social · 15d

This is what I’m saying
THIS WOMAN💖💖
So much #YESbitch
2 TIMES

THIS is revolution
Are u ready 2 be like her?!

Look at
These
Fucking
Men
U think
THEY KNOW
How done
WE ARE?

LET’S GO GIRLS
Let’s end this

Here’s my way⤵️
Proceeds 2 Natl Human Trafficking HL
mellymed.com/share/UOQ3DQ...

WHAT’S YOURS?

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 15d

#booksky 📚💙
#writingcommunity

"We live in capitalism. It's power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words."

— Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 16d

Just another day trying to get what I want by following the rules and being polite while inside I am enraged.

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · Sep 10

The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife - The University Press of Kentucky

The shoes of the fisherman's wife are coated with Kentucky dust and soil. They travel across oceans to ask questions of Egypt's deities, of Mali's Mansa Musa...

www.kentuckypress.com

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 16d

Is that not very clearly Grace Park's face atop that AI slop?

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 19d

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 22d

This was on all the time on one of the movie channels in my tween years. It's got romance, humor, self-sacrifice, and uncanny-valley makeup.

0% lol

>Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score

While at the repair factory, Val (Andy Kaufman), a robot valet, meets Aqua (Bernadette Peters), a fellow automaton who functions as a party hostess. Remarkably, the two robots discover that they are in love, and impulsively flee from their duties. Looking for a place where they can establish a home, Val and Aqua create their own mechanized child, but their happiness is short-lived, since a relentless enforcer robot has been programmed to apprehend them.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25d

Why is the right so angry? They control the entire government and they’re still miserable f*cks.

Joy Reid nailed it.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 27d

“Fuck ICE and free Palestine,” Hannah Einbinder said while accepting her award at the #Emmys, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and condemning ICE while wearing an #Artists4Ceasefire pin onstage.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 27d

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REM Exhuming McCarthy W/ lyrics

YouTube video by FilibusterStudios

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