Halteclayre
@halteclayre.bsky.social
Classically trained enabler and dream critic. Dark chocolate biscuit enthusiast. A debugging rubber duck, but for words.
Currently playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Currently playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Yes, I am still alive. I am just very tired all the time.
I go by a different name in some places now. It's the kind of name that conjures up the image of someone who publishes one (1) obscure text before disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Will still answer to the usual, though.
I go by a different name in some places now. It's the kind of name that conjures up the image of someone who publishes one (1) obscure text before disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Will still answer to the usual, though.
May 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Yes, I am still alive. I am just very tired all the time.
I go by a different name in some places now. It's the kind of name that conjures up the image of someone who publishes one (1) obscure text before disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Will still answer to the usual, though.
I go by a different name in some places now. It's the kind of name that conjures up the image of someone who publishes one (1) obscure text before disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Will still answer to the usual, though.
A book that has haunted me since I read the first draft of it all those years ago. Delighted to see it out in the world so it can find and torment even more people.
The Starving Saints is now out in the world! I wrote the first draft of this book five years ago, and have been obsessively searching for a home for it ever since. It’s meaty and squelchy and lustful and terrifying, full of alchemy and and weird magic and flesh. I’m so excited to share it with you.
May 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A book that has haunted me since I read the first draft of it all those years ago. Delighted to see it out in the world so it can find and torment even more people.
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So true! Iain McCaig once told me to 'draw the stuff you'd run naked through the snow to see'. It's advice I cling to when I think I shouldn't be drawing something cooler, or less cute, or whatever thing my brain rats tell me I shouldn't be doing. That love shines through the art.
Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.
November 26, 2024 at 12:48 PM
So true! Iain McCaig once told me to 'draw the stuff you'd run naked through the snow to see'. It's advice I cling to when I think I shouldn't be drawing something cooler, or less cute, or whatever thing my brain rats tell me I shouldn't be doing. That love shines through the art.
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[noticing a group of people having a nice time at the park] enjoy your echo chamber
November 18, 2024 at 4:03 AM
[noticing a group of people having a nice time at the park] enjoy your echo chamber
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It's deeply important that we don't treat this as Twitter circa 2014, & instead as a radically new form of communication infrastructure. By increasing hole posting to an hourly rate, we will revolutionise the
November 14, 2024 at 3:13 PM
It's deeply important that we don't treat this as Twitter circa 2014, & instead as a radically new form of communication infrastructure. By increasing hole posting to an hourly rate, we will revolutionise the
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People from Twitter are complaining that the environment here is full of too many mentally healthy people and not only is that not true that is a self own if I’ve ever seen one
October 18, 2024 at 3:23 PM
People from Twitter are complaining that the environment here is full of too many mentally healthy people and not only is that not true that is a self own if I’ve ever seen one
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Asking the Omelas child to stop crying so loudly as I am an Empath and it's causing me harm :(.
February 5, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Asking the Omelas child to stop crying so loudly as I am an Empath and it's causing me harm :(.
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Remember, kids, it’s only censorship if it’s done by the government, otherwise it’s just sparkling Get The Fuck Off My Timeline
October 18, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Remember, kids, it’s only censorship if it’s done by the government, otherwise it’s just sparkling Get The Fuck Off My Timeline
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I have 2 spots open!
so I very regularly work 1-on-1 in an artist mentorship for various things -- skill improvement, project management, addressing creative burnout.
I currently have a couple spots open! Check out info in the link below and contact me if you're interested!
www.jaydaitkaci.com/services.html
I currently have a couple spots open! Check out info in the link below and contact me if you're interested!
www.jaydaitkaci.com/services.html
April 5, 2024 at 8:20 PM
I have 2 spots open!
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My friends and I like doing a game where one of us makes a pinterest board and all make a character inspired by it.
This is mine, I call them the Mandrake King.
This is mine, I call them the Mandrake King.
March 9, 2024 at 7:45 PM
My friends and I like doing a game where one of us makes a pinterest board and all make a character inspired by it.
This is mine, I call them the Mandrake King.
This is mine, I call them the Mandrake King.
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Over on Mastodon, which has a Kind of Person, I made these images to attach to help people manage replies.
Album: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBdZ8F
Album: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBdZ8F
February 13, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Over on Mastodon, which has a Kind of Person, I made these images to attach to help people manage replies.
Album: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBdZ8F
Album: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBdZ8F
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On twitter around this time every year I spent a day boosting independent artists so people could buy stuff for the holidays. Bluesky's smaller, so reply to this with your OR someone you know's art, a link to buy it (VERY IMPORTANT) and a pic of the art! Hooray let's SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS!
November 3, 2023 at 2:36 PM
On twitter around this time every year I spent a day boosting independent artists so people could buy stuff for the holidays. Bluesky's smaller, so reply to this with your OR someone you know's art, a link to buy it (VERY IMPORTANT) and a pic of the art! Hooray let's SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS!
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OMG SCHOLASTIC STRIKE
Scholastic workers walk out to protest glaring hypocrisy by the children’s publishing powerhouse |...
newsguild.org
November 1, 2023 at 3:23 PM
OMG SCHOLASTIC STRIKE
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Just a reminder :)
Jpeg loses fidelity and is correct for online publication only
Tiff does not lose fidelity but reads poorly on web browsers so it is correct for print only
RGB is for online, CMYK is for print
Highly saturated and luminous greens/cyan do not print.
Jpeg loses fidelity and is correct for online publication only
Tiff does not lose fidelity but reads poorly on web browsers so it is correct for print only
RGB is for online, CMYK is for print
Highly saturated and luminous greens/cyan do not print.
November 2, 2023 at 3:37 PM
Just a reminder :)
Jpeg loses fidelity and is correct for online publication only
Tiff does not lose fidelity but reads poorly on web browsers so it is correct for print only
RGB is for online, CMYK is for print
Highly saturated and luminous greens/cyan do not print.
Jpeg loses fidelity and is correct for online publication only
Tiff does not lose fidelity but reads poorly on web browsers so it is correct for print only
RGB is for online, CMYK is for print
Highly saturated and luminous greens/cyan do not print.
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"You are no poet. The rest of your clan were. But that was before Half-Brilliant came and began eating them."
Family, art, theft, and AI. My sci-fi horror short story "Thin Ice" is in this month’s issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com! [1/2]
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ashing-giwa_...
Family, art, theft, and AI. My sci-fi horror short story "Thin Ice" is in this month’s issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com! [1/2]
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ashing-giwa_...
The November 2023 issue of Clarkesworld is now available at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_206
and features original stories by Bo Balder, Hannah Yang, James Van Pelt, Louise Hughes, Thomas Ha, Thoraiya Dyer, Kemi Ashing-Giwa, and Tia Tashiro.
Subscribe at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_206
and features original stories by Bo Balder, Hannah Yang, James Van Pelt, Louise Hughes, Thomas Ha, Thoraiya Dyer, Kemi Ashing-Giwa, and Tia Tashiro.
Subscribe at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
November 2, 2023 at 5:04 PM
"You are no poet. The rest of your clan were. But that was before Half-Brilliant came and began eating them."
Family, art, theft, and AI. My sci-fi horror short story "Thin Ice" is in this month’s issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com! [1/2]
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ashing-giwa_...
Family, art, theft, and AI. My sci-fi horror short story "Thin Ice" is in this month’s issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com! [1/2]
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ashing-giwa_...
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It's been a little irritating to watch people who've spent the past decade yelling about colleges having a responsibility to host speakers who call for the literal "eradication of transgenderism" now going, "Student protests must be stopped bc some of them take a position I disagree with."
November 2, 2023 at 5:45 PM
It's been a little irritating to watch people who've spent the past decade yelling about colleges having a responsibility to host speakers who call for the literal "eradication of transgenderism" now going, "Student protests must be stopped bc some of them take a position I disagree with."
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Reminder: I teamed up with @sarahmackattack.bsky.social to make CRAB FACTS, AN ADVENT CALENDAR
Show your loved ones how much you care by giving them CRAB FACTS, AN ADVENT CALENDAR
CRAB FACTS, AN ADVENT CALENDAR, the only advent calendar involving crab facts, available from
squidfacts.bigcartel.com
Show your loved ones how much you care by giving them CRAB FACTS, AN ADVENT CALENDAR
CRAB FACTS, AN ADVENT CALENDAR, the only advent calendar involving crab facts, available from
squidfacts.bigcartel.com
October 18, 2023 at 6:33 PM
Reminder: I teamed up with @sarahmackattack.bsky.social to make CRAB FACTS, AN ADVENT CALENDAR
Show your loved ones how much you care by giving them CRAB FACTS, AN ADVENT CALENDAR
CRAB FACTS, AN ADVENT CALENDAR, the only advent calendar involving crab facts, available from
squidfacts.bigcartel.com
Show your loved ones how much you care by giving them CRAB FACTS, AN ADVENT CALENDAR
CRAB FACTS, AN ADVENT CALENDAR, the only advent calendar involving crab facts, available from
squidfacts.bigcartel.com
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been collecting cool book covers for reference recently, here are some of them
October 18, 2023 at 9:20 PM
been collecting cool book covers for reference recently, here are some of them
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I want to build a dependable passive income for myself so I can have more time in my weekly schedule to finish personal projects... if you feel inclined to support with a monthly tip, please check out my ko-fi!
ko-fi.com/artofchira
it doubles as my WIP/work diary, as well as early access to stuff
ko-fi.com/artofchira
it doubles as my WIP/work diary, as well as early access to stuff
October 4, 2023 at 9:17 PM
I want to build a dependable passive income for myself so I can have more time in my weekly schedule to finish personal projects... if you feel inclined to support with a monthly tip, please check out my ko-fi!
ko-fi.com/artofchira
it doubles as my WIP/work diary, as well as early access to stuff
ko-fi.com/artofchira
it doubles as my WIP/work diary, as well as early access to stuff
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Just reminded of this important Kate Beaton comic that is very Bluesky at Halloween.
October 16, 2023 at 3:25 AM
Just reminded of this important Kate Beaton comic that is very Bluesky at Halloween.
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#WriterBeware: Another fake agency doing the solicitation thing: Collins Literary Guild. Web domain just 54 days old, multiple ludicrously false claims of repped books, and a roster of AI "literary agents" w/ bios cribbed from Sanford Greenburger Associates collinslitguild.com
Collins Literary Guild
The Collins Literary Guild functions as a specialized firm, providing a comprehensive array of representation services to authors who are at various stages of their publishing journey.
collinslitguild.com
October 15, 2023 at 12:11 AM
#WriterBeware: Another fake agency doing the solicitation thing: Collins Literary Guild. Web domain just 54 days old, multiple ludicrously false claims of repped books, and a roster of AI "literary agents" w/ bios cribbed from Sanford Greenburger Associates collinslitguild.com