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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 1h

Girlfriend, founders, antifa

Agrias oaks, she has good boots and good ideas

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 16h

For some reason, the Osaka Expo is officially hawking its own NFT featuring a picture of mascot/eldritch horror Myaku-Myaku. The Expo is pitching the giveaway as a so-called "soul-bound token," a type of NFT that can never be digitally transferred.

buff.ly/foXmKqr

"Soul-based token" of Myaku-Myaku doled out by the Osaka Expo 2025

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 1d

dignity is a good quality that everyone should have

dawn weiner reading from the text of "a ship called dignity" by deacon blue to her classmates. she's wearing really intense pink patterned pants that seem not of her choosing while a teacher fidgets and spits behind her

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 2d

:fascist drills violently into my forehead with a 2" bit after beating the shit out of me and all my friends: see, I understand the parts of this that are conversation

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 2d

I am so tired and (Joe the lion voice) it's Monday

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 2d

I keep thinking about how my former therapist once said I was good at "listening to aggression and hearing the parts that are conversation" and how at one point in my life that felt like a kind perception and now feels like a terrible curse. Like what an awful thing to do

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 2d

lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it

bluesky post from
@knilirabaj.bsky.social that says

It's pretty cool you're using that alt text accessibility feature. It's not cool that you're not really describing the image though. Nice and simple is a good start. Descriptive and accurate is the way to go. You'll get the hang of it. Try pretending you're describing the picture over the phone.

July 1, 2023 at 10:33 PM Everybody can reply

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 2d

Cool commuter cartoonz

Here lies a bone. It cannot move without muscle. The blood and marrow are sealed within it. All its destiny is defined by its joints.

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 2d

Edward de Vere's Life of a Showgirl

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 3d

Taylor Swift is not a real person. There are like nine people who are Taylor Swift on different occasions.

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 3d

...the general principle that what now

From haruki murakami, the city and its uncertain walls: I used the library copy machine to make a copy of the map and penciled in several corrections I noticed. The library, for instance, was shown as too close to the town square, the river was depicted as two gently meandering just before the pool, the area where the unicorns lived was a little bigger...these sorts of things. Seven corrections in all. These were all minor differences, nothing to do with the overall structure of the town. No need, really, to make these corrections ( and how accurate was my memory, anyway?) But I surmise that the boy would value accuracy of detail. Also at play was the general principle that every act of expression required critique, and my need to make contact with the boy in some form or another. If the ball is served to me, I need to hit it back. That's the rule.

"The general principle that every act of expression required critique": do we like, agree with that??

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 3d

I should put it up somewhere! I think there's an ancient copy on like scribd

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 3d

thank you it helps to be both not that good at drawing and excited about crosshatching!!

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 3d

and the rest (in all its cw glory :/)

Jules kisses Patty not really consensually (she says YAAAAAAGH) while a bunch of punks, hippies, and demons watch

My favorite joke here is the way Jules quotes like--an evil poem, i.e. a poem about the evanescence of time. I also like how committed I was to weird crosshatching ideas back in 2011 when i drew this

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 3d

lol here's more of it

a typical Chick tract party scene. I'm really not good at drawing debauchery but there is some here, plus the little cartoon dog Jack Chick draws a lot. "After all, physics teaches us that we're all random motes of chaos in the universe, and none of us lives forever! HAW HAW"

"Why, they don't even believe in clocks, or the scientific method" is my favorite thing on this page, as well as "See Bantam 1972, 'Oppenheimer and Manson" as a citation

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 3d

If you have not read my first novel and have no idea who these troubled women are, here is your chance

(Note: there are no trans people in this book, anyway that we know of--I guess Patrice could be??--so don't go buying it if u want that kind of thing)

orbooks.com/catalog/the-...

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 3d

the editor of a piece that i am working on + very excited about right now queried me about a reference to Jack Chick, which has sent me down a rabbit hole, and also reminded me of this promotional tract I drew for my first novel. I actually wrote to Chick Publications asking if they'd print it

"The temptation you're talking about is LOVE! Because love involves caring about people! That means feeling guilty if things don't go how you want them to! And that means causality--and that means the same flawed, time-bound thinking that led to the ATOMIC BOMB! In order to achieve greatness and avoid destroying our planet, I need to reject all love!" says Patty, snapping her fingers.

"You got it," says another voice.

Panel 2: Julie Thatch calls: "Hey babe! We're doing some tests down at the lab tonight! Wanna come over and make out?"
"Sorry, you timebound loser!" crows Patty. "I've been saved by the Institute and Dr. Bantam! ENJOY FEELING GUILTY!" She hangs up.

Jules says: "Oh well, her loss! But what's that---YAAAAAGH!"

In the background, a scientist (who I remember consider coloring red, like that one Chick tract about the rock musicians) says: "I'm afraid you should have listened to your friend! Now get the best science has to offer--DEATH!"

Final panel, Patty, standing in front of a bunch of weirdos smiling with dead faces, says: "Thanks to the applied philosophies of Dr. Bantam, I'm going to be morally perfect forever!" A caption tells us: "You can be perfect too! To begin your personal journey, YOU MUST LOOK AT THE NEXT PAGE!" (The next page is an ad for buying the novel at O/R Books's website made up to look like the Chick Tract boilerplate)

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 3d

But I don't want to be--(sighs, sultrily)--limited

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 3d

I want to do a science fair project investigating the hypothesis that I get called sir more when I show more cleavage. I'll define four outfits (lots/boat neck/v neck/crew) and have 50 conversations with men in each, then chart the results. I'll mount my research on a triple foam board. I'll win.

Y'all this is not sir cleavage. Is this just you negging me? You must know what I intend! You must know that; we live in the same society!

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 3d

Yesssss / complicating it is that I rented the NES game "Goonies II" a lot which doesn't help clarify anything one bit!

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 3d

Goonies

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 3d

Like: Billie Eilish's "Lunch" song is exactly as explicit as "Wood," but also understands WHY one would eat that girl for lunch, and "Wood" as a lyric doesn't understand the why of dick other than its social meaning. Like a rich man buying a sports car without joy because that's what rich men do

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 3d

Second day of discourse in this house: the thing about the wood song is not that it's explicit, but that it's dutiful. She understands one must like and attain dick; she reports she has done this. It almost is not sexual.

What is sexual though is her Charli song, which, honestly: restraining order

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 4d

Taylor Swift feat. David Tibet when

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 4d

In a new interview with author @jeannethornton.bsky.social, @ryanspencerphoto.bsky.social asks: What is the difference when writing characters in fiction and characters in gaming? Where do they intersect and where are they divergent?

“Conjuring and Reality”: An Interview with Jeanne Thornton - Public Books

“Pronouncing a sentence about a person, wrapping them up in your narrative, can be a very gracious action, or a cruel one, or probably most often both.”

www.publicbooks.org

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