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Jared Pechaček

@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social

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It's pronounced PECK-a-check. Artist, Crawford Award-winning writer, third thing now and then. He/him. Seattle. https://linktr.ee/jpechacek repped by Jennifer Azantian. Debut novel THE WEST PASSAGE out now from tordotcom!

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · Nov 25

award eligibility post!

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2024 Award Eligibility
THE WEST PASSAGE, a novel by Jared Pechacek
"Vivdly depicted, decidedly peculiar." —Kirkus Reviews starred review
"Spellbinding debut that cannot be missed." —Booklist starred review
"Consistently wondrous." — Bookpage starred review
"Pechacek is unafraid to mix sweet whimsy with horror." —Library Journal starred review
"A mind-bending phantasmagoria." —Shelf Awareness starred review

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Codes 🏳️‍🌈 @itscodes.codyshipman.com · 3h

Day 2 underway. Come see me down at Pike Place Market! Support my small business 🥹

ItsCodes a bearded man in a hat and glasses takes a selfie in front of a wall of shirts.

A map of downtown Seattle; 1st Ave and Pike St. it reads Pike Place Market, October 8-14, 9a - 4p Daily.

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 4h

So I dug deeper into why, with input from @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @thelincoln.bsky.social @bbolander.bsky.social

Big big gratitude to them for sharing their awesome insights.

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why do we still like Ray Bradbury?

Greetings, fellow undercover artists embedded in the apocalypse! It's a funny business, connecting with other covert operatives across time and space. Tracking what holds true and what changes. What ...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 5h

ACA open enrollment starts Nov. 1. Rates should have been published in August. Mike Johnson hopes you don’t know that. But my mom is an independent insurance agent. Has been for 20+ years. So she does know that.

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ghost ship gore @britneyspheres.bsky.social · 5h

'Edge of Time.' Art by Frank Kelly Freas 💫

Woman clutching to an illuminated ball on belly height, below a futuristic cityscape in the dark, orange and yellow flickers of light haunt the nightly air

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Chris Newell @chrisnewell.bsky.social · 5h

Sorry I’m late, there was a weird tree

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 6h

Palestinian families like Baraa's have been violently displaced & starved to death by Israel for 2 yrs. Baraa has lost one daughter to the genocide, please help her keep her daughter Masa, severely ill from malnutrition, alive by sharing & donating. She's very desperate, Bsky deletes her hourly:

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 4h

aw but everyone already does that! I wanna stand out

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 5h

thinking about making a factually dubious statement on the internet. just so we can all have a change of pace

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 5h

hey marc is it because now we'll have UBI a labor-free utopia

marc

hey

hey marc

is that why

Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 5h

because I'm a member of the queer affinity group at work, I thought it was a weirdly aggressive message from them at first

Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 5h

well I formed instant and unrealistic expectations

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 15h

8. Leucothea and Palaemon

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A.D. Sui 🇺🇦 [sway] @thesuiway.bsky.social · 5h

you have till EOD Friday to enter the draw for a physical ARC of THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA!!!

make me feel popular! get me to the top of that "Popular" tab! stroke my ego (please, there is so little ego left to stroke)!

A.D. Sui 🇺🇦 [sway] @thesuiway.bsky.social · 13d

it's a GOODREADS GIVEAWAY! 🔥

enter before October 10th to win!

@erewhonbooks.bsky.social and @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social are giving away 100 ARCs of The Iron Garden Sutra 🤯

www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

*US entrants only

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 15h

8. Leucothea and Palaemon

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 19h

not now kitten, daddy’s suffering a sea change into something rich and strange

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 20h

IT’S SUSTAINABLE

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 20h

not every story can or should work like this! but not every story can or should be Plot™️ either

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 20h

and local!

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 20h

when people complain that a story has “too many digressions” I want to ask them whether perhaps the digressions ARE the story

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 21h

yeah, I think it's just both pieces are short and have some similarities. I forget the reason given in the liner notes for the album I have, but I'm sure Bach was taking inspiration from Vivaldi

Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 21h

also why do people keep pairing Bach's Magnificat with the Vivaldi
like, I love Bach, but when you put him next to Vivaldi he comes across as fussy and overworked. like putting Mahler with Sibelius

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 22h

in another universe, the worst part of my day would be Apple Music thinking that a late romantic French requiem is ANYTHING like an Italian baroque Gloria

I’m glad I live in this one

Screenshot of Apple Music putting Fauré’s requiem under “more like: Vivaldi Gloria in D Major”

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merritt @merrittk.com · 22h

its like the old saying goes, if you dont get everything done in one day you should give up. its obviously not going to happen

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 23h

Puyallup.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 22h

their nervous systems aren't complex enough to feel pain, only torturous despair