RussMakesStuff

RussMakesStuff

@russmakesstuff.bsky.social

Artist of all trades, master of none. Author of the urban fantasy Clandestine series. My newest, CUT TO THE QUICK, is out now! He/Him https://www.russellisler.com/

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Hello new followers! I’m Russ. I write Urban Fantasy. If you like Vampires, Las Vegas, and Magical Girls, then you’re probably in the right place. My newest, CUT TO THE QUICK, is coming in March. I occasionally post about the films, books and art that I love.

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This is one of four 9" x 12" pieces that will be part of a blind auction for charity. Coming up this week. (In a blind auction, you won't know what others are bidding. You bid what the piece is worth to you) Three DWs and one Chip n Dale piece.

I'll be honest. I burned out pretty hard after wrapping CUT TO THE QUICK back in March. Burned out, although it was a soft sort of burn out. A lack of motivating energy, mostly. Half a year, a move and a whole bunch of gaming later I'm ready to resume BOOK 4!

I was anxious, because I've procrastinated sitting down and just writing for about a month now. Part of me worried that I might have lost the juice. Or lost my love of the process.

Not now brain (jots down notes) not the concept for *another* novel! (Even more notes) I have book 4 in my already running series (more, more notes) to write! Chat, what's the opposite of writer's block? (Scribbles more notes)

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LRS: I will advise any queer artists on how to get a personal site up and running for $0. (The site may not be $0 but my help will.) Will it be the greatest site ever and on a backend that's super bespoke and custom? No, it won't. But it'll be enough to be your place on the web that no one can take.

Shout out to the theater full of nerds who bellowed "Till all are one" in response to Rodimus Prime. 🤜🤛

RussMakesStuff@russmakesstuff.bsky.social

Tonight I'll be seeing "Transformers: The Movie" in a theater for the first time since 1986. (I've watched it at home many, many times since.) I could not be more hype for this comfort food of a movie. 'Till All Are One!

Death to ai

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

SOON

RussMakesStuff@russmakesstuff.bsky.social

Tonight I'll be seeing "Transformers: The Movie" in a theater for the first time since 1986. (I've watched it at home many, many times since.) I could not be more hype for this comfort food of a movie. 'Till All Are One!

Tonight I'll be seeing "Transformers: The Movie" in a theater for the first time since 1986. (I've watched it at home many, many times since.) I could not be more hype for this comfort food of a movie. 'Till All Are One!

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Once again I find myself honored and grateful to find that MAGICAL GIRL BLUES has made it to the Shelley Short List. Thank you so very much!

chantireviews.comThe 2026 Shelley Short List for Paranormal Fiction | ChanticleerThe Shelley Awards Short List is here! Congratulations to these Paranormal authors who made it here, and good luck on the semi-finals! #Shelley #Paranormal #ShortList #CIBAs
RussMakesStuff@russmakesstuff.bsky.social

So this is exciting. My second novel, MAGICAL GIRL BLUES, has made the long list for @chantireviews.com 's Shelly Book Awards for Paranormal Fiction! Absolutely amazed and grateful, thank you! www.chantireviews.com/2026/08/07/2...

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At some point you figure out that "being apolitical" in the public arts always means getting on your knees for the rich, the bigots, the fascists and authoritarians. It never means anything else, and those people are somehow never obligated to set their own politics aside on behalf of anyone else.

Once again I find myself honored and grateful to find that MAGICAL GIRL BLUES has made it to the Shelley Short List. Thank you so very much!

chantireviews.comThe 2026 Shelley Short List for Paranormal Fiction | ChanticleerThe Shelley Awards Short List is here! Congratulations to these Paranormal authors who made it here, and good luck on the semi-finals! #Shelley #Paranormal #ShortList #CIBAs
RussMakesStuff@russmakesstuff.bsky.social

So this is exciting. My second novel, MAGICAL GIRL BLUES, has made the long list for @chantireviews.com 's Shelly Book Awards for Paranormal Fiction! Absolutely amazed and grateful, thank you! www.chantireviews.com/2026/08/07/2...

That was then. This is now.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com

You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.

Ok, I'll cop to it. I actually like the hardware of the Iphone duo. From the detail they went into during the announcement, the engineers seemed very proud of their work. But I don't want ai fingering through all my shit so unless there's an off switch, no thanks.

OH MY FUCKING GOD can I keep just one of the tools I use to make my life more convenient? I swear to christ this is getting ridiculous. Every fucking company. Fucking shit-assed techbro fuck-knuckles.

andy™@andylevy.net

ah yes once again the racists are the real victims