Ben Fisher

Don’t forget! Saturday, March 14th, Cosmic Monkey Comics is excited to welcome GODZILLA VS PORTLAND writer / artist Colleen Coover & writer Mark Russell for a special local signing! Noon to 2PM, so don't delay...

I was JUST asking about an app like this. Hopefully iOS will have one soon.

Normalize telling the bartender/server “Please tell the owner we’re leaving because the pervert sitting over there has a camera on his face and we won’t be back until there’s a sign on the door prohibiting it.”

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

Hollywood copaganda told multiple generations that bad guys were constantly “getting away with it” because evil DAs got key evidence thrown out or similar “trickery.”

This really needs a longer thread, but the short answer for why we have those rules? Nothing else made cops follow the law. Nothing.

Here's a draft manuscript of the Magic: The Gathering roleplaying game from 1996, and I've giving it away as a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, with permission from the authors. Not sure how much to ask for. Vanishingly rare. $1,872 raised so far. #mtg #ttrpg

Dubious milestone: I received my first review obviously written by ChatGPT.

It was positive (5 stars) but got every single aspect of the story wrong, from the plot to the characters and even the genre.

Beyond the inaccuracy: what’s the POINT?

Anyhow, real reviews by live humans welcome!

Shuffled (Book One): The Four Body Problem In the year 2049, the most popular hyper-reality game on the planet receives its first update. Unfortunately, the new patch has a few bugs. For instance, four of Silverdawn's best players—Char, Mammon...

Also, my beloved pal @wordblanket.com is writing a cool serialized fiction, too! He just started the other day, and this has already become one of my reads when I need an enjoyable stress-free work break!
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1555...

Hey look! Two of Portland’s Finest teaming up in one of the objectively best genres (Magic Wild West with Jokes).

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

That sucks! I tend to form a symbiotic bond with coffee shops I like (especially if it has good writing ambiance) and losing one in *this* way would send me over the edge.

Shuffled (Book One): The Four Body Problem In the year 2049, the most popular hyper-reality game on the planet receives its first update. Unfortunately, the new patch has a few bugs. For example, four of Silverdawn's best players—Char, Mammon,...

Announcing SHUFFLED, a serialized litRPG story on Royal Road!

Features gender fluid body swappin’, + monster fightin’ + monster smoochin’.

Making an account is free. Leaving comments/reviews is even freer.

Would love to have y’all along for the ride!

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1555...

A cover sketch for The Wild Vengeance of Witches

Sometimes it's fun to throw a bad sketch of the game's cover into the rules doc. Just so if anyone sees it, they get the vibe immediately

Black and white drawing of a grimlin: a constant nuisance in the hyper-reality game “Silverdawn” which looks like an armadillo mixed with a rat. Plushies and Funco Pops on sale soon!

In addition to all the words, you’ll occasionally get DM’s Guide style art like this, thanks to national treasure (and hyper-reality superstar) @admancomics.bsky.social

Shuffled (Book One): The Four Body Problem In the year 2049, the most popular hyper-reality game on the planet receives its first update. Unfortunately, the new patch has a few bugs. For example, four of Silverdawn's best players—Char, Mammon,...

Announcing SHUFFLED, a serialized litRPG story on Royal Road!

Features gender fluid body swappin’, + monster fightin’ + monster smoochin’.

Making an account is free. Leaving comments/reviews is even freer.

Would love to have y’all along for the ride!

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1555...

FYI: Portland

Arbitrary Self-Rules, Ass Denied, and the End of Middlebrow Your Weekend 'Round the Web also looks at Jesus' actual job.

My latest roundup of other writers' stuff that I like at the moment. lytrules.substack.com/p/arbitrary-...

Next Door Dungeon: Book One (Giant Rats With Big Gnashy Teeth) When twenty-one-year-old college student Josh Hester moves back into the apartment of his youth, he finds a strange doorway that allows him to go back and forth between a fantasy RPG world complete wi...

And of course here's my own Royal Road project, which is neat and will make your life better. The more readers, the better, whether you join my Patreon or just read on Royal Road. It's appreciated!
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1507...

Portland is filled with, and/or occasionally visited by, Awesome People.

Also huge thanks to @calvinrosscarl.com for design help, particularly with the “in game” screens within the story and @admancomics.bsky.social for some incredible interior art pieces that I’ll be showing off soon.

Will be announcing a new serialized project soon on Royal Road!

LitRPG w/ body swapping, gender fluidity, & lots of monster fightin’ (also monster smoochin’ between all those fights)

Thanks to @igorgrouper.bsky.social for the incredible cover(s) and @paultobin.bsky.social for showing me the ropes!

different types of giants lizards and a barbarian woman riding one of them.

double spread page full of people. It took weeks.

A convoy of lizards enters the ribcage of a giant humanoid skeleton with horns.

The portal is invisible = you see the insides of who crosses it.

Woo-hoo pinned post! Hello! I'm Nuclearpasta and I make Ten Earth Shattering Blows, the webcomic with big lizards, big trees, big fights, one big woman and one tiny one!
tenearthshatteringblows.com

Laser Joan and the Rayguns A 24 pg one shot adventure comic about an all-female rock band collecting the three stories that originally ran in DARK HORSE PRESENTS.

Huh. SHHHHH don't tell the rest of the team, but I just added 3 slots for a developmental editing session (comics or prose) with me. I almost never take on new clients these days, but for this...

I am so, so sorry.

There is a LOT of cool stuff in Helioscope's etsy shop right now, and the sale ends at the end of February!

Already snagged tix for the new tour!

Image of Michael Shannon singing in an REM cover band, living my dream life.

For Valentines Day, @twocookiesandacoke.bsky.social got me tickets to see Zod sing “Superman” with Bobcat Goldthwait as an opening act and it’s gonna be tough to beat that ever.

@paultobin.bsky.social, @penzerker.bsky.social and @chrisroberson.net will be attempting to return an overdue library book from an evil vampire prison. Pretty basic Tuesday stuff.

It’s so liberating to embrace this mentality. I’ve blocked folks for saying Portland doesn’t have good donuts. Recently, I nuked an account that said REM was overrated.

You don’t have to suffer shit takes here. It’s fine! The only people who care about getting blocked are engagement farmers.

WE'RE LIVE PAL (on ios)!!!!!

Eras of Wrestling, the wrestling management simulation game i drew EVERY SINGLE WRESTLER for is now available for download!

apps.apple.com/us/app/eras-...

Sorry I Ruined Film Criticism I wanted a niche. It became a virus.

You might want to put aside some time for this one -- it's the length of an OC Weekly cover story, and I would know. lytrules.substack.com/p/sorry-i-ru...