SE Daniels
@soyoused.bsky.social
Words & Illustration | • | Narrative Director | • | Assoc Fiction Editor @NarrativeMag | • | @soyouSED everywhere | Tweets my own (or whatever we call them now)
“I Love You More Than Spiders” on Ingram and Amazon.
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“I Love You More Than Spiders” on Ingram and Amazon.
https://tinyurl.com/5t2zvf7d
Thanksgivings are normally a time of chaotic joy, but this weekend I took the time to work on an illustration for a contest. I’ve been a fan of Edward Gorey since I was a Ghastly Tiny, so this was a labor of love. Can’t wait to share the final results.
#edwardgorey #illustrator
#edwardgorey #illustrator
November 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Thanksgivings are normally a time of chaotic joy, but this weekend I took the time to work on an illustration for a contest. I’ve been a fan of Edward Gorey since I was a Ghastly Tiny, so this was a labor of love. Can’t wait to share the final results.
#edwardgorey #illustrator
#edwardgorey #illustrator
Before there was internet, there was the quiet joy of finding a package in the mail.
This beautiful anthology from #Interim Poetics was a labor of love for so many.
Congratulations to my fellow authors, the artists, and the editorial staff. I’m honored to be in your company. #cnf
This beautiful anthology from #Interim Poetics was a labor of love for so many.
Congratulations to my fellow authors, the artists, and the editorial staff. I’m honored to be in your company. #cnf
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I call the two-stroke whine of leaf-blowers the Battle Song of New England. My bane. My nemesis. My mortal enemy.
You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I call the two-stroke whine of leaf-blowers the Battle Song of New England. My bane. My nemesis. My mortal enemy.
It’s decided. Today, I will let this image be my guide.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
It’s decided. Today, I will let this image be my guide.
I felt this way about Piranesi.
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I felt this way about Piranesi.
My people.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
My people.
My darling little town is home to big ideas. Love seeing The Villager on national TV.
youtu.be/0oVlPQ4mzA4?...
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In Maine, a cafe helps subsidize a community newspaper
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
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November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My darling little town is home to big ideas. Love seeing The Villager on national TV.
youtu.be/0oVlPQ4mzA4?...
youtu.be/0oVlPQ4mzA4?...
I’m illustrating today. Can’t show you what it is quite yet, but I can give you this hint.
It’s demented giddy fun.
It’s demented giddy fun.
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I’m illustrating today. Can’t show you what it is quite yet, but I can give you this hint.
It’s demented giddy fun.
It’s demented giddy fun.
I feel judged.
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I feel judged.
“Be the most ME artist.”
Before we called it content, it was art. This is how we got Crumb, Larsen, Gorey.
If the powers that be want to shove homogenized AI slop down our throats, use it as permission to get off the content hamster wheel and be your own weird wonderful self.
Before we called it content, it was art. This is how we got Crumb, Larsen, Gorey.
If the powers that be want to shove homogenized AI slop down our throats, use it as permission to get off the content hamster wheel and be your own weird wonderful self.
I think most artists hit a point where they’re like, well if I can’t be the best artist, I shall be the most ME artist.
November 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
“Be the most ME artist.”
Before we called it content, it was art. This is how we got Crumb, Larsen, Gorey.
If the powers that be want to shove homogenized AI slop down our throats, use it as permission to get off the content hamster wheel and be your own weird wonderful self.
Before we called it content, it was art. This is how we got Crumb, Larsen, Gorey.
If the powers that be want to shove homogenized AI slop down our throats, use it as permission to get off the content hamster wheel and be your own weird wonderful self.
Reposted by SE Daniels
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
Dear potters of the world.
Please know that if you make a giant mug, I will buy that mug.
It’s like a hug for your food.
Please know that if you make a giant mug, I will buy that mug.
It’s like a hug for your food.
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Dear potters of the world.
Please know that if you make a giant mug, I will buy that mug.
It’s like a hug for your food.
Please know that if you make a giant mug, I will buy that mug.
It’s like a hug for your food.
Creativity is the core human experience. Rebecca’s thread contains some great reference for folks looking to engage in the AI debate and examine its implications for the future of human creativity.
Hey, all!
My kid's public school is having a meeting for a discussion about AI implementation. If anyone has talking points that have worked in the past to keep it out of the classroom, I'd love to hear them.
My kid's public school is having a meeting for a discussion about AI implementation. If anyone has talking points that have worked in the past to keep it out of the classroom, I'd love to hear them.
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Creativity is the core human experience. Rebecca’s thread contains some great reference for folks looking to engage in the AI debate and examine its implications for the future of human creativity.
No one who knows me will be surprised that this is on my “must listen” list.
Some great news from the world of podcasting, geeks. Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk have just launched a new show, called "Once We Were Spacemen", and it is as lovely a listen as you might hope it to be.
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Once We Were Spacemen
Comedy Interviews Podcast · Updated weekly · Nathan FIllion and Alan Tudyk were once spacemen. Since co-starring on Firefly, they have also been aliens, mystery writers, veterinarians, superheroes, ch...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
No one who knows me will be surprised that this is on my “must listen” list.
“Just because” is the perfect excuse.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“Just because” is the perfect excuse.
I read something beautiful today.
Though I can’t share who wrote it, please, dear writer, imagine it was you.
Thank you for doing the thankless job of putting down word so others may read them and think “that was beautiful.”
Though I can’t share who wrote it, please, dear writer, imagine it was you.
Thank you for doing the thankless job of putting down word so others may read them and think “that was beautiful.”
November 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I read something beautiful today.
Though I can’t share who wrote it, please, dear writer, imagine it was you.
Thank you for doing the thankless job of putting down word so others may read them and think “that was beautiful.”
Though I can’t share who wrote it, please, dear writer, imagine it was you.
Thank you for doing the thankless job of putting down word so others may read them and think “that was beautiful.”
TIL: The second shingles shot feels like taking a cannon ball to the chest then being set on fire.
What a prick.
What a prick.
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
TIL: The second shingles shot feels like taking a cannon ball to the chest then being set on fire.
What a prick.
What a prick.
Yes. More of this. When the world seems bent on its own destruction, let’s pause to appreciate beauty wherever we find it. Every time I take this walk, I can’t believe how lucky I am to call this place home.
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Yes. More of this. When the world seems bent on its own destruction, let’s pause to appreciate beauty wherever we find it. Every time I take this walk, I can’t believe how lucky I am to call this place home.
Rescue dogs are the best.
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Rescue dogs are the best.
There’s no such thing as a small election. Voting is an act of citizenship. It’s the acknowledgment of those who came before who were denied a voice in the course of their nation. Let’s send a message that we’re still here, and our voices matter.
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
There’s no such thing as a small election. Voting is an act of citizenship. It’s the acknowledgment of those who came before who were denied a voice in the course of their nation. Let’s send a message that we’re still here, and our voices matter.
There’s nothing as thrilling as a cover reveal, and Interim Poetics have outdone themselves with this gorgeous cover.
I’m honored to be among the authors featured in this special print edition, and now I’m extra excited to receive my contributor’s copy.
I’m honored to be among the authors featured in this special print edition, and now I’m extra excited to receive my contributor’s copy.
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
There’s nothing as thrilling as a cover reveal, and Interim Poetics have outdone themselves with this gorgeous cover.
I’m honored to be among the authors featured in this special print edition, and now I’m extra excited to receive my contributor’s copy.
I’m honored to be among the authors featured in this special print edition, and now I’m extra excited to receive my contributor’s copy.
The best part of Halloween.
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The best part of Halloween.
Look what came in the mail today!
That’s right. I bought a copy of Quentin Reiser’s Field Guide to Birds because I will always support glorious weirdos wherever I find them.
Yes. I’m yet another LISTERS evangelist, so consider this your call to go watch the best film you’ll see this year.
That’s right. I bought a copy of Quentin Reiser’s Field Guide to Birds because I will always support glorious weirdos wherever I find them.
Yes. I’m yet another LISTERS evangelist, so consider this your call to go watch the best film you’ll see this year.
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Look what came in the mail today!
That’s right. I bought a copy of Quentin Reiser’s Field Guide to Birds because I will always support glorious weirdos wherever I find them.
Yes. I’m yet another LISTERS evangelist, so consider this your call to go watch the best film you’ll see this year.
That’s right. I bought a copy of Quentin Reiser’s Field Guide to Birds because I will always support glorious weirdos wherever I find them.
Yes. I’m yet another LISTERS evangelist, so consider this your call to go watch the best film you’ll see this year.
“…The smell makes you feel something in the space between your
heart and your stomach...
In that feeling is the dying of summer, the rise of fall, the coming of winter, and threaded throughout, a season of funerals and flowers left on a grave.“
Yes. He’s writing about an apple.
heart and your stomach...
In that feeling is the dying of summer, the rise of fall, the coming of winter, and threaded throughout, a season of funerals and flowers left on a grave.“
Yes. He’s writing about an apple.
Sure, let's have a little fun. New apple review: THE RUBY SLIPPER. Ahem.
Apple Review #32: Ruby Slipper
This is the apple in your hand. Some would say it is so red that it looks black, but that’s not quiteright. It’s the color of wine and offal, of liver soaked in Pinot Noir.Bruise-dark and blood-bri…
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October 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“…The smell makes you feel something in the space between your
heart and your stomach...
In that feeling is the dying of summer, the rise of fall, the coming of winter, and threaded throughout, a season of funerals and flowers left on a grave.“
Yes. He’s writing about an apple.
heart and your stomach...
In that feeling is the dying of summer, the rise of fall, the coming of winter, and threaded throughout, a season of funerals and flowers left on a grave.“
Yes. He’s writing about an apple.
Perhaps this is a good thing. Maybe this is how dystopia becomes utopia and these apex predators will consume themselves like an ouroboros while the rest of us return to the roots of our humanity.
Still, it’s tough to watch your industry turn into a game of corporate centipede.
Still, it’s tough to watch your industry turn into a game of corporate centipede.
So Microsoft wants Copilot to play the games, Twitch wants AI to stream the games, and a whole bunch of publishers want AI to make the games.
Very sustainable much inspiring.
Very sustainable much inspiring.
October 31, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Perhaps this is a good thing. Maybe this is how dystopia becomes utopia and these apex predators will consume themselves like an ouroboros while the rest of us return to the roots of our humanity.
Still, it’s tough to watch your industry turn into a game of corporate centipede.
Still, it’s tough to watch your industry turn into a game of corporate centipede.