Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

honestly fu** you if you think gazans are only allowed to ask for help to cover their very basic necessities when they’re starving or being killed, calling a gazan a grifter for trying to secure her education proves that you don’t see gazans as humans who deserve to live equally.

It’s Banned Books Week, and I don’t need you to buy my book as a solve for it (but buy it if you want to! That’s still extremely cool of you)—I need you to show up for your public libraries and your schools!

I went to Graphic Novel Festival in Baltimore on Saturday and to my surprise Derek Kirk Kim was there and I got to tell him that his work in the early 2000s is one of the reasons I got into webcomics.

too many gems to quote, but this is one of the beauties: "Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind."

Attempting to farm Midwest-style on sand has led a lot of people to describe Southern soils as "bad."

This is false. Slanderous, even.

Sand is great!

Root crops love it! It's soft! Long skinny roots like carrots can push downward without hitting rocks or clay pans & turning into this

Thank you!

Thank you!

Checking things off the to do list is such a relief. 😭

Thank you! Haha it's so weird, just sitting here like who am I? WHAT am I? Also will take me weeks to get over the "I should be working on my script" anxiety.

Also I have been kicking around next book ideas but told myself I wouldn't start anything new until the script was done and the thought that I can now dive into next book ideas guilt-free is also very weird.

I just turned in the first draft of a graphic novel script I’ve been working on for three years and it’s always weird coming to the close of a years long project cuz it’s like, now I gotta discover the me who is not working on this project.

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie;
But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

Monster High Question of the day: on insta bigbird1226 asks: “How different was making this show compared to other Mattel projects you helmed (mainly DC Superhero Girls and Polly Pocket)? Was there ever guidelines on how characters should be written?”

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

(If we can try to support living authors, that would be especially neat btw)

With alt for the image nested.

Black Speculative Fiction Month starts next week. Read/reserve/rec/preorder/buy accordingly

Yeah, we quiet over here, but we love y'all. These publishing streets are rough these days. October marks Black Speculative Fiction Month, and we're thrilled to drop TWO issues on you in the coming weeks. Updates soon come. Anyway support some Black creators: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p Follow, share, BUY 🔥

That's gonna be me one day. 😭 Turning in this GN script in a week and then never again!!! (Except maybe a webcomic, if I feel like it)

Comic script pacing. It haunts me.