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Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hi I'm Joe! I'm an author and portrait artist living in Victoria, BC with my wife Sandra and our degus. I've published several novels and novellas, and I have art prints for sale at joehumphrey.com

Also, you can sign up for my newsletter at joehumphrey.online for updates, art and writing stuff.

Joe in front of a grey wall wearing headphones

The cover for Joe's book Charlie. It is an illustration of a girl's eye over a dark highway

A drawing of Mercy and Swan from The Warriors

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Raichiyo33 @raichiyo33.bsky.social · 5h

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Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 4h

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 🍿

My Letterboxd last 4 watched

Presence - 3
One Battle After Another - 4
Bone Lake - 2.5
The Smashing Machine - 4

Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 8h

I drew Salome from my books. I wish I could say she's 100% my OC but she was technically in the New Testament

Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 11h

The #WIPSnips word for October 10th is "prize" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I’ve never considered myself queer. Not because I had an issue with it, but because I didn’t think it was my title to claim. I’m in a straight marriage, and I’ve never been with a woman before. Sure, I’ve considered it. I’ve fantasized about it, and those times in the middle of the night when I’m trying to figure out what I want from my life, I often think about my time with Deborah. It hasn’t been overtly sexual, but it was at least romantic, these thoughts. I imagined sitting with Deborah and holding hands. I thought about shopping together, falling into each other in fits of laughter at some joke one of us made. Hugging and smelling her hair and tasting the salty sweat on the skin of her fingers as she touches my lips. I’ve thought about these things but never quite got myself to long for them.
Right then, in the hot tub, standing there for Deborah, all I wanted more than anything was her approval. I wanted her to tell me I am beautiful, appreciated, and loved. I wanted her to treat me like more than a dusty trophy on a shelf, but to hold me up as a prize won by the complete and utter devastation of all other suitors. I wanted to be on her arm and walk down the street together as equals. Partners.
Jesus, I was falling in love and didn’t even know it.

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Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 13h

The answer is yes!

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 2d

Day 8, #hARToween25
Famous Movie Monsters
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Close, but not quite. I tried & tried, and now hate Elsa Lanchester's absolutely AMAZING face a teensy bit. It is *really* unique & hard to draw! I guess next time I should do the graph or something more technical/exact, instead of freehand like I do.

A pencil drawing that's supposed to be Elsa Lanchester in The Bride of Frankenstein but instead looks more like her sister or cousin.

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Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 13h

lookit her little feets and teeth! OMG

Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 13h

Should I start a Discord server? I need a new way to feel like I'm a social pariah.

Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 13h

I'm alright. Having a chill day. Might do some writing. But mostly alright. Thanks for asking!

Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 13h

well, probably not because they'll mysteriously die

Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 13h

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Friday, October 10, 2025

My office, Presence, One Battle After Another, Ed Gein, and a visit from Willow

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Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 13h

Say hello to Willow!

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Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 16h

Oh man, what happened here?

Please enjoy one free audio review copy of Danny (Bloodletting Book 3), now available on Audible. Redeem the one-time use code below at www.audible.com/acx-promo

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Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 17h

what happens if I do this?

Please enjoy one free audio review copy of Danny (Bloodletting Book 3), now available on Audible. Redeem the one-time use code below at www.audible.com/acx-promo

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Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 17h

I may be a sullen, stoic guy (I'm not), but the way I got visibly excited when Jerry Was a Race Car Driver by Primus came on in the car was not flattering.

Slap that bass, Les!

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Jerry Was A Race Car Driver

YouTube video by Primus - Topic

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Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

so I saw One Battle After Another, and maybe I'm naive but between this and another movie that came out this year, are we just saying antifa is real now?

Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

I'll probably end up pulling an Edgar Allan Poe tbh

Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

he was a man of many passions

Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

❤️

Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

His popularity certainly fluctuated over the years, and when I was a kid, he was thought of as pretty corny, but when he put out that cover of Soundgarden's Rusty Cage, suddenly, he was the coolest old man on earth.

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Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

I generally draw on my ipad using Clip Studio Paint. I use Procreate from time to time, but typically CSP is my go-to.

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Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

It's ok they were a antifa cartel person

Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

Temu Patrick Bateman is the opposite of what we need.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 3d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

I remember pretty recently Late Night With The Devil getting pretty roundly lambasted for using AI to make a title card. People definitely care

Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, but maybe, just maybe, one of them will hit and the rest will fall into place. That's what I tell myself as I start my next novel anyway.

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