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“Just a man” — Billy Shakespeare I write stuff that nobody reads. He/him

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11.03.2026 05:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character, wrong answers only.

11.03.2026 04:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So Man-Man?

10.03.2026 20:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

File again under: "The writing for the final season of America is a little too on the nose"

10.03.2026 15:35 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Have I mentioned what a cool game Action Heroes is lately?
And Chris is a cool person you should support.

10.03.2026 15:14 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

And hope you get paid before the publisher goes out of business and ghosts you.

10.03.2026 14:57 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ECCC was fun and I had a wonderful time.

But there was a storm cloud. When I complained about Trump with my white straight cis friends, we were all sincere and concerned.

But I talked with many Trans friends, and it’s so much worse. They are in fear for their lives.

1/

10.03.2026 14:11 👍 1517 🔁 436 💬 23 📌 40

In his defense, he is a moron.

10.03.2026 14:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I just got a crumb of Flamin’ Hot Cheeto in my eye. 0/5 stars. Do not recommend.

10.03.2026 01:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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09.03.2026 05:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“250” must be the number of felonies he’ll eventually be found guilty of.

09.03.2026 05:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was great! Pure, unflitered Star Wars joy!

08.03.2026 16:10 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Before regular gas hits $4 a gallon”.
<laughs in San Francisco Bay Area>

07.03.2026 15:26 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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“A country that can instantly fund endless wars but debates every dime for healthcare and education doesn't have a budget issue--it has a values issue."

A billion dollars a day going towards the war in Iran so far.

06.03.2026 15:22 👍 7236 🔁 1890 💬 1 📌 1

It came out when I was an intern at ILM in college. I got to see it at an ILM screening, which was a bunch of fun. Some early experimenting with CGI image compositing happened in that film, as I recall.
I should definitely watch it again soon.

07.03.2026 06:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I haven’t seen that in forever, but I remember really digging it at the time.

07.03.2026 03:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Huh. I was convinced we were going to get Terminators. I never expected we’d get C-3P0s.

06.03.2026 15:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s from the old Disney Zorro show which I’ve been watching lately.

06.03.2026 02:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

You're trapped in the last tv show you watched. Where are you?

(Which is fine for me, as I have no desire to leave California any time in the near future…)

06.03.2026 01:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2

“Two weeks.”

05.03.2026 15:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t know man, Joe Landsdale once described a sunset as something like “a Cherry snowcone melting on the side of the road,” and that was pretty great.

05.03.2026 15:13 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Me in conversation with my brother (a professor of archeology) a moment ago “you should give extra credit for punching Nazis like any respectable archeology professor would.”

05.03.2026 15:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Listened to a “friend” of mine when he convinced me to send a letter which kind of ruined a huge career opportunity for me in my 20s.

Actually maybe the entirety of my 20s…

05.03.2026 06:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nic Cage still owes my mom. $5.

05.03.2026 05:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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05.03.2026 05:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I worked on a Star Wars.

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New story release day!
My story “the Clearing” is in the inaugural issue of “Nat20,” a neat new magazine of games and fiction. I had a blast writing this piece, and hope you’ll check it out.

bookshop.org/p/books/nat2...

05.03.2026 01:44 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Over the past few weeks, a number of people (repeat customers, coworkers, etc.) have commented on how I bring such a "calm energy" to the work environment.
And I keep thinking about that line from a Sting song: “I’m not a man of too many faces. The mask I wear is one.”

04.03.2026 18:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0