Henry Neff, author of the Tapestry series, Impyrium, and as of this week, Witchstone.

Awesome writer. Awesome illustrator, and in 2020, he made my year. I DM’d him on Twitter asking if he had a physical copy of his 5th book in the Tapestry series that I could buy, because at that time you could only get it in e-book format. He sent me an inscribed and signed special edition as a Christmas present with a bunch of neat swag. That book is my prized possession.

www.henryhneff.com

(Honorable mentions: Christopher Farnsworth and Christopher Buehlman)

I dunno, man. I keep telling people to stop voting capitalist, and every election it’s 99% Democrat and Republican, so this is what happens.

Whipped a doodle up over lunch: https://www.instagram.com/stories/artbyflashmob/3394812415645811438?igsh=M3FqNnpwbHFrdzg2

Thank you!

No, I didn’t draw them up, but now that you mention it I probably should. They’re very holiday themed.

El Pollo Diablo - Looks like a chicken with a flame aura. Invulnerable except to laugh-based magic (Vicious Mockery, Wounding Whispers, Tasha’s Hideous Laughter, etc.) or can be killed via elaborate practical jokes. Wields high level charm magic and powerful fire attacks. (Hence the name)

Turkeybear - Very similar to the owlbear except fatter and with much more indulgent plumage. Attacks with “gravy” (poison spit/breath weapons), sonic attacks, and heralds its presence with the dread cry “Gawwwww-buuuuullll!”. I made him resistant to magical weapons and most slashing attacks, though coincidentally, is weak against cleavers specifically.

That’s amazing, and just as it should be. Sex work is work.

Reminds me of how vociferously the Right raged against Obama when his DOJ released its report on domestic terrorism and rightly attributed to right-wing interests. Obama, as the good corporate lap dog that he was, apologized for saying the correct, factual things, which is weird, because that report’s one of the few good things Obama ever did.

Not awesome.

Dad’s in the hospital for the umpteenth time.

Kid brother died yesterday morning, and even better, may have inadvertently hung himself during autoerotic asphyxiation. (Though, objectively, that seems like a decent way to go, truly.)

Israel keeps pounding murdering people in Gaza as Palestinian death toll in hostage rescue raid rises to 274.

That feels a tad more honest.

If I’m understanding you correctly, Brave Browser does that.

I’m about 2/3 of the way through backing up my ‘Liked’ songs to MP3 files, at which point I’m ending my sub.

It’s a bummer because I actually really like Spotify’s algorithm and it suggests great music for my tastes, but, I can have that for free without feeding their stupid insatiable greed.

LOL

US agencies will take their bribes and do jack shit. As with everything else, Europe will lead on the regulatory front.

The billionaires are enshittifying everything.

I love that half of my feed is Israel stories, all of them negative, and both presumptive US presidential candidates support Israeli genocide 100%.

I still have a ton of these books and bust them out occasionally. CYOA was the peak of reading growing up.

Idaho got away with criminalizing abortion. Texas has gotten away with making doctors too scared to save people’s lives when it’s clear they need a lifesaving abortion.

In less than two years 2/3 of the US states will have followed in those footsteps, just like in 2/3 of the US states it’s still legal to pay someone $7 an hour.

They still sold user data without being upfront about it until caught,

And then they did better, as a business should. It’s all in their FAQ.

I’m not sure why there has to be a circle jerk of trolls any time someone mentions Brave, but here we are.

I work out six days a week, haha.

Once you get to a point where it’s like brushing your teeth, it’s easy.

That’s fine. Do what you like.

I think that, if you’re going to pretend to know what you’re talking about, you should know what you’re talking about.

I think it’s a good thing that a person as to willingly opt-in to data collection.

It’s really that simple.

Now THAT is what I’m talking about.

It should be commonplace, not rare, to see government function in a way other than rewarding the rich and handing out war money