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Martin John

@martinjohn.bsky.social

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Dakelh Writer. Prose and comics. Dark fiction (horror). He/Him. Has a small white poodle mix who he adores. https://martinjohn.substack.com/ Living on the lands of lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 3h

Another post apocalyptic dream. This one, stranded on an island. Very clearly remember talking on a radio, trying to find someone.

And getting together with a group of others to find out what had gone wrong elsewhere.

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 14h

This movie is so solid and the storyboards are incredible! Highly recommend “reading” it after a viewing.

Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 16h

The dance floor sequence from Blood: The Last Vampire (2000), dir. Hiroyuki Kitakubo, Production I.G

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 16h

God, I love Portland. Keep it weird. I miss visiting.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 16h

What’s this from? I like it.

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 16h

Oh, yeah, I guess that is a character isn’t it.

Joe King ain’t so bad either.

Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 16h

Founders of antifa. Lol. Its so fucking stupid.

Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 16h

Chef’s kiss.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 22h

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

kotowych.com

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 16h

You know Americas fucked when killing Klan members is not longer tolerated in media.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 22h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 16h

This is some bullshit.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16h

"There is no grooming in this book, either metaphorical or literal. No one leads children astray by the power of sequins, and no one combs their hair or washes their hands after they pee."

Finally, a Book That Cannot Be Banned

This is a good book. It has a cover and many pages. This book is endorsed by parents and is church-friendly. It is clean and full of Grace, as in i...

buff.ly

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 16h

Immortan Joe is just such a good character name.

I personally love a moniker with a noun as a name. Joe Stone, or whatever.

Anyone have character names they like?

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 19h

Ew. Eye rolling so hard right now.

Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 21h

Writing a nonfiction essay and it was struggling at being a puff piece. A good question is always, “How do I make this personal?”

Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 21h

I'm an old head (46), and was formally educated in a truly colonized system, and am still unlearning so much of what was drilled into me. I'm so glad we've got people like your friend who are deeply investigating the depth of appropriation.

Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 22h

Of course, everything is more complicated than a simple statement, but the sentiment of that time sucks.

Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 22h

"I consider them real Art treasures of a passing race."

Well, fuck you, Em, we're still alive and still making totem poles.

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 22h

Reckoning with the legacy of Emily Carr from an Indigenous perspective.

My readings today said she wrote a letter to a parliamentarian asking for funding to paint totem poles so that she could document them because, "The Indians do not make them now and they will soon be a thing of the past."

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 1d

And it's on the shelf at their 58th St. branch if you want to borrow it.

Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 1d

Oh whoa, nice. UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (@undertow.bsky.social) is on New York Public Library's list of 2025 best adult horror. Many thanks to NYPL!

Best New Horror of 2025 for Adults

Our expert horror committee read more than 150 titles published since last Halloween to select their 20 favorites. There's something for everyone here—whether you're looking for jeepers, creepers, sca...

www.nypl.org

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Have they seen GDT’s last few movies? They’re all, in some ways, romances.

Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Just use a person FFS. 🤦

Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Based of Lascaux, or any other paintings? Or just cave paintings?

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 1d

In my head, is immediately thought this was a chupacabra corpse.

Natalie @nataliehall.bsky.social · 1d

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 1d

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 176th deathday, here are a few of my recent pieces inspired by Poe's works 🫀

Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee". Two lovers embrace at the edge of the sea, water splashes around them and the surrounding rocks. A full moon shines over them, and storm clouds loom.
Published in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" 2024 Macmillan

illustration by Abigail Larson of a raven perched on a skull with a teal curtain backdrop

illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" showing a man restrained as a pendulum blade swings close to him. Rats have swarmed around him, chewing the ropes that hold him down. This illustration is featured in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" for Macmillan Books.

Illustration by Abigail Larson for Macmillan's "Edgar Allan Poe Sticker Jigsaw" book. The illustration is a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven". The narrator is at the center of the image looking up at at raven perched above an open doorway. Behind the narrator is a tall window with red curtains, and the ghost of Lenore lurks nearby. A black cat is watching the scene from the lower right corner.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

our planet. our one and only earth. this is what the colonizers choose to do it with it.

Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 1d

Supreme Court refuses Apache plea to save Oak Flat from copper mining destruction

* *Gorsuch dissent calls the decision a “grave mistake” as copper mine threatens to create massive crater

By: Shondiin Silversmith- May 27, 2025 12:54 pm UPDATED OCT 6TH 2025

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Dr. Wendsler Nosie Sr. of Apache Stronghold talks to a crowd of people outside the Sandra Day O’Connor Courthouse on May 7, 2025, as Apache Stronghold urged the federal court to save Oak Flat. Photo Courtesy of Becket

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