Ash Howell

A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC x HOUSE M.D. An ambitious blood-magic medical student must unravel a government conspiracy before a murderer can close on a corporate takeover of death itself. HANDS RISE RED (103k) is a queer anticapitalist cassette-punk adult fantasy. #amquerying #A #F #questpit

OlyWa Cc: @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social

The daily existence of millennials is laughing while crying. On special occasions, we alternate screams of laughter and despair.

I've just realized. Banks used to be big imposing high street buildings because it gave people confidence they had money and weren't fly by night. A big elaborate website was the internet equivalent: proving someone had invested £ and was here to stay. You can't trust that any more.

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

If Democrats haven't announced their proposal for the Donald Trump No Guns in Public bill by the end of the day, they're missing an easy shot

After the Boston Massacre, the soldiers responsible were arrested and received fair trials. King George recalled the regiment to England, and then American leaders were like “good, that was enough, we’ll remain your loyal subjects forever…” wait, that’s not right…

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"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!

Also, if you’re having trouble concentrating you’re not alone. BOSS, THE FASCISM

So @tobymorton.bsky.social is a national treasure and Hilton is fucking up royally with this nonsense. www.hiltonice.com cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

12:32 am on Christmas… trans rights

we are in this constant artistic conversation that is coated in years of fingerprints and patina from being handled by artists and being shaped by our senses and our bodies and our gravity and physics and how sound carries in the air, and that is such a precious, beautiful thing

Breaking news: US military has seized oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Leadership making foghorn noises and insisting they are now “friends with all the octopus. All of them.”

They are giving away 50 copies of my debut, The Poet Empress, on goodreads! I hope you'll enter 🥰 #booksky #ThePoetEmpress

Fearless earnestness is the next cultural phase.

“Art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation.” I’m not Catholic, but Chicago pope spittin’ bars

Hey Charlotte folks-Compare Foods has waived delivery fees for groceries, so if you know anyone who'd like to get groceries delivered rather than go out to the store while the nazis are in town, spread the word

"Love your neighbors more than your government" Sticker spotted in Savannah, Georgia

a “Space Force”, if you will

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

YOU THERE BOY, WHAT DAY IS IT

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

I truly can’t imagine the person I would be, the art I would’ve made, the choices I might’ve made, the wide-open vistas that might exist in my brain if the constant anxious horror of the last 10 years in America wasn’t just 24/7 squatting its horrible carcass on every cell of it.

For anyone who can, a GoFundMe has been set up to help Rob's wife and their young daughter. Sending tons and tons of love and deepest condolences to Rob's family and friends. www.gofundme.com/f/family-of-...

I'm gutted. Rob Wieland was one of my first friends when I moved to Milwaukee. He was one of the kindest and most generous people I've ever known, and his joy was as infectious as his creativity. He was a brilliant writer and a stalwart friend. We'll miss you, Rob, more than I can say.

“A good main character lies at an odd angle against the plane of the world.” 🔥🔥🔥 Even better if they are garbage at introspective trigonometry.

A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC x HOUSE M.D. 🏥 Blood magic, medical degree required 🎓 Graduate? In *this* economy? ✊ Best friend is a secret rebel 💰 Capitalist conspiracies 🗡️ That lesbian tried to stab me, and I think I liked it #DVpit #F #A #LGBTQ

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC x HOUSE M.D. Days before graduation, blood-magic medical student Nettle accidentally girlbosses herself into the middle of a murderous conspiracy. Her best friend has been hiding his radical political activism. And worst of all, she’s *really* broke. #DVpit #F #A #LGBTQ

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Writers with kids face many extra challenges to our schedules/productivity/sanity. But also, they will just randomly drop the most banger story prompts.

This is an incredible friend

a comic about fishing (1/7)

Absolutely chuffed, so proud of my neighbors down the coast.

Here’s to actual good news:

I have the immense privilege of being not only in the same @viableparadise.bsky.social cohort as Allison, but now the same critique group. She's SO SMART you guys. Get IN HERE while the door is open.

These statements are couched (heh) in terms that sound like ones of politeness: say please and thank you! But they encode entire hierarchies. And that is explicitly what JD is doing here: trying to make the United States into a place of hierarchy instead of one of equality.

I don’t play Magic at all but this warms my heart. Vivi, my BOI 💖 so on brand of him

The most shocking thing that Sam Altman and his cohorts have achieved is making Big Tobacco look positively lazy by comparison.

Amateur writers: I can get away with using an LLM so long as I thoroughly check the manuscript myself. Pro writers: I can not be trusted with the Find and Replace tool.

*turns to camera with a dead-eyed stare* Wow. Shocking. Who could possibly have predicted this. Certainly not any sensible software engineer who hadn’t been chugging SV’s latest batch of Kool Aid.