Dave Palmer

Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."'

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They’re so jealous you can write.
They’re so jealous you can draw.
They’re so jealous you can make music.

They have all the money in the world, but they’ve been driven insane because they don’t have your joy.

Warner Bros. has said The Hunt for Gollum is in fact the first of two new Lord of the Rings feature films from Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, as the company aims to make more of the franchise. With The Hunt for Gollum, we’ll get to see what Gollum was up to in the years between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to

7 things everyone should know about Trump's megabill The Republican reconciliation legislation, which Trump calls his "big, beautiful bill," is massive.

7 things everyone should know about Trump's megabill:

Cuts $930 billion from Medicaid

16 million lose health care

Slashes nutrition aid by $186 billion

Less income for bottom 40% of families

Increases debt by $3.3 trillion

$45 billion for immigration jails

Billions for defense contractors

Prep? I thought one was supposed to leave oneself notes like "werewolf (breakdance?)" and just stare at them in confusion

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Awesome :) See you there!

Soon they're going to lean as hard on the "ICE is just a bunch of people doing a thankless job" deflection as they did on "thank you for your service." Fuck every syllable of that noise.

Locus Mag: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror 2025 Celebrating and uplifting authors, artists, and story -- the guide to the world's imagination

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ZILLA The music of ZILLA is composed and performed by Julie Palmer, who studied the koto while living in Nagoya, Japan. ZILLA reinterprets classical Japanese pieces with electronic and ambient sounds. "Tha...

Julie's music for all the experimental lofi koto aficionados out there zillakoto.bandcamp.com

Not sure where I'm going with this except to say to support and follow artists with disabilities. There's more than you think, in so many disabilities are invisible.

Reading My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, I'm reminded of seeing K Flay perform after her hearing loss and watching my partner reinvent herself and her music through a disability and (mis)diagnoses, treatments, and the typical mistreatment by health care insurance and practitioners.

Thanks i will check this out!

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder. 2025 Whiting Award WINNER in Fiction Kirkus Reviews Best 100 Books of the Century (So Far)...

Late to the party on this one but My Favorite Thing Is Monsters was phenomenal @fantagraphics.bsky.social @emilferris.bsky.social can't wait to snag the next one
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#SeattleWorldconRoomies don't make me sleep in the bushes outside they told me i had to but i don't want to

Doing a violence on demons whose lust for resources and unchecked growth caused them to betray their obligations in order to victimize and profit from the defenseless.

Where do you fall on the #dnd alignment chart as a writer?

True Plantser all the way, no question, but I also resonate with:

- Knows the end, writes toward it
- Loves to worldbuild
- Who writes things down??

I try to Lawful plot but end up chaotic plotting

Learn from your surroundings. Let your pug drink the spilled milkshake on the side of the road

"Can u write that in Python" "u should learn Python" my brother the snakes wont talk to me 😭😭😭

This is step one to achieving a forensic science merit badge

Me getting the car ready to go see Nosferatu

and don't forget the Ominous Corn in Dublin

poorly-photoshopped Count Orlok (of Nosferatu) superimposed over Vin Diesel from the Fast and Furious franchise carrying a tank of Nos

i think i might be onto something

rum ham

that's horrible. so sorry Jordan. DM me if I can help in any way.

Yes not as if insurance does things so tragically, comically wild that you couldn't write them

Flippin sweet

I will do it only once and correctly and i won't start until I'm certain how to do it 😤😤😤

A cruel and unjust place