Nate Crowder

“He, too serves Lord Frith. And he does no more than his appointed task.” #BlackRabbitOfInle #WatershipDown #StainedGlass

"The first phase is the music one listens to while thinking about writing, and the second is the music one listens to while actually writing."

Had a dream last night that I met an awesome young artist and commissioned her to do some Cobalt City character art. Then I woke up and remembered I am broke AF.

Be the candy corn you want to see in the world

We did not turn out fine, but we all trauma-bonded over whatever the fuck this thing is!

But is Wildwood too mature for my childre-SILENCE YOU COWARD! We grew up on movies where a baby dinosaur wept over the corpse of his dead mother and a swamp drowned a live horse. We watched these movies at every sleepover. Has your bloodline degraded so much in a single generation?!

Sure. I could go to bed. Or I could stay up late and watch Masque of the Red Death (1964). No surprise which one I've picked.

Tune for a Sunday night Hush-A-Bye by Duke Pearson. youtu.be/Sii-BQFcJI4?...

You ever watch a TV show with a house so absolutely gorgeous it makes you angry? Anyway, we're watching the #Kdrama Take Charge of My Heart.

#Disability occurs across all communities. It’s the one oppressed status that might claim anyone, at any time. Disability justice and accessibility are therefore foundational for community equality. But fundamentalism is all about maintaining the predetermined hierarchy, so #ableism is enforced.

I love dessert week on GBBO, but I could do without Noel talking about a "sloppy pud."

I don’t know, man, I’m kind of sick of treating Trump and his cronies like they’re just absurd and laughable and not really spending any time talking about the murders, the concentration camps, the millions starved around the world, people living lives beset with threats of violence and erasure.

“One of the lessons I learned as a young journalist covering earthquakes in California is that the places identified as having the most damage from a natural disaster are not necessarily the worst-hit places. They’re often the places that are the worst hit and still have the ability to communicate.”

A pun that's pearls before swine. A porkmanteau, if you will.

Today in indie video games, the spouse and I have added Tiny Book Shop to the list of games that are preserving out sanity, along with Stardew Valley. It is just the slice of cozy we needed.

A book unboxing gone wrong or very right? #BookSky

“I’m proud that I have more complaints than any other officer or sheriff in the state,” Sheriff Keith Swank said at a public hearing in June in Pierce County, Washington. Voters next month are deciding a measure that would end his term early.

Not to brag, but I woke up at 7 and got my writing goals for the day met before I even made breakfast. Plus, I wrapped up chapter 12 with a real banger of a line. Everything after that today is fucking icing on the cake!

For the record, I'm not old. I'm going to bed at 7:30 because I WANT to.

One thing I will always be grateful to my mother for is sitting me down in front of PBS as a kid and telling me that I will never in my life experience anything as beautiful as this. And she was possibly correct. youtu.be/cWc7vYjgnTs?...

Queer media. Used to have to search for it, and quality was mixed. Lots of "kill your gays" bullshit. Now there are so many good queer-centered shows (especially from Thailand) that it's impossible to watch them all.

Amen to that. I'm happy these are two of my most popular designs because it means there's other writers out there towing the same line brother.

Anyone who thinks I'm going to quit writing due to AI or other publishing implosions has seriously underestimated my stubbornness. I'm gonna keep cranking out these books until I die, and no God can stop me.

How bad is the writing procrastination today? Well, I just updated my website/blog for the first time in over a year. So, yeah, that's a thing that happened. Should probably get back into the word mines. Weird, gay gaslamp cosmic horror/fantasy doesn't write itself. Or DOES it?

As recently as last month, the Alt National Park Service was amplifying election misinformation. For god's sake, don't trust them. They're just click farmers.

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Spending the day writing a future I want to see. A hopeful one set in 2063, where a coalition of nations gets their shit together to reach for the stars -- and the spiteful billionaires who try, and fail, to stop them.

#HorrorSky, look at what #HorrorWritersChat was up to yesterday. Follow the thread 🧵Read, share, comment. Support an #IndieAuthor today

I watched this last night and found it to be both informative and deeply moving. The Statue of Liberty represents the dreams and hopes for what this country can be, but not what it is. Certainly not at this point in history. It made me hopeful we can dream bigger and do better.

Some 80-year-old in a walker or wheelchair pulls up? They're gettin' candy. 40-year-old Karen I've feuded with? Candy. 8-year-old in a bedsheet? Candy. Halloween? YOU GIVE OUT CANDY, PERIOD!

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

The latest Cassie Workman is Witchy AF is incredible and wonderfully relevant this week. youtu.be/dNgEVmd2pdA?...

Relieved @bradlander.bsky.social is safe, hoping the others will be released soon. But even when they are: Palestinians are still being detained, still attacked daily, still blocked from accessing their trees. Every leading candidate in the Israeli elections supports this intolerable status quo.

INVISIBLES

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

Let them have the damn candy