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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 5h

I did a little Blue Hollow page preview pack for editors to look at, do you also want to look?? 😮 This is chapter 2: scene 1... three varieties of ghost, two teen boyfriends, and the one type of scowl that unites them. ❤️ This is enemies to lovers YA, baby. Follow for the full pages.... soon 🌱

Sheriff Dale Abernathy and teen Onion Pendergrass approach a blue house on a gloomy day.
Dale: ok Will, look sharp.
he knocks on the door
someone beyond the door: Hold on for just a second!
Dale coughs while they wait, but Onion looks off into the yard, where many ghosts linger in the distance surrounding the tombstones out by the treeline.
Dale tips his hat back: Some house, huh? Whoever built this sure had some scratch! you heard of the waylon mine?
Onion isn't listening.
Onion thinks: There's a lot here. is it cuz we're so far in?

a large man with red hair and overalls opens the door.
George: howdy, sheriff abernathy! this the kid you said?
dale: yes indeedy! william frost pendergrass. this is he! say hi, will.
Onion says nothing, but he has a black eye that radiates purple.
George: whew! that is some shiner, sonny! hope you're not afraid of getting dirty! ha hah! oops, looks like you got that one covered. We got one of your type here already, you're gonna fit right in. I'm george, you'll be working with me. welcome to the blue house! come on in, I'll introduce you to the owner.
Onion scowls, remaining silent.

they walk through the interior of the house-- an old and rotting victorian mansion, the inside painted mostly blue. the wall is peeling and detritus is everywhere.
George: sorry about the mess! well, I guess that's what you're here for, huh sport? ha ha ha!
George turns to converse with Dale, Onion lagging behind.
George: the damn house got built in 1876 so you know it's all fucked up inside! been here six months and barely made a dent!
Dale: yall got any pest control issues? termites?
George: ohhh, rats? cockroaches? this and that! no wood borers though, thank god.
Onion stops at the sound of whistling and looks through an open door into another room.

The geometry of the house briefly bends out of reality, and Onion finds himself staring down a long corridor full of black doorways, at the end of which a blue ghost of a teenage girl is seen stepping just off scene.
Dale smacks Onion's shoulder, bringing him back to reality.
Dale: C'mon, trouble.
Onion looks back, but the corridor is gone. Only a single room remains.

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 3h

aww, thanks! ❤️ I hope they become MORE INTERESTING to everyone increasingly as they did for me lol

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 3h

🥲❤️

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 4h

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 4h

aw thank you so much Jasmine! I hope it lives up to your expectations! 🥰

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 4h

what I coincidence I love YOUR book!

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 5h

(3/3)

the boy and Onion exchange silent looks. However, the boy soon gives his clothes a silent, snotty look of judgement, and Onion grow hurt and defensive, though he still refuses to speak.
the boy: hey... jethro. have we met somewhere before?

Onion, now fully angry, takes a step closer to confront him, but George's hand hits his shoulder at the last second, holding him back.
George: OH GREAT, YALL MET ALREADY? don't let him scare you off, this spooky spectre is just richard hargrove, the owner's nephew. And that thing is william.
Both boys say at the same time: "it's Bill." / "I'm Onion."
realizing they are more similar than they would like, they glare at each other in unfriendly silence.

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 5h

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Onion is dry and displeased as he follows the adults through the house. George babbles on about the house, but Onion could care less.
George: keep your eye on the floor here, fellas, theres nails that keep poking up, but if i start yanking them i'll have to pull up all the boards too, and im not ready for that part yet.
Dale: that bad, huh?
George: Brother you have no idea. Plumbing is okay but don't ask about the framing! Now most of this house was built with old growth oak and chestnut, so it don't go down easy, but in the 60's there were some renovations with pine that rotted right out.
George, Dale and Onion walk through the house, its many doors strange and maze-like.
George: you know, these old houses, they've all got personalities of their own! This one's got a pretty kooky floorplan if you ask me, but i didn't build the fucking thing, i just keep it from falling down! ha hah!
George and Dale talk closer, and once again Onion lags behind.
George: and don't worry about the kid, sheriff, will's just like i was at that age, it's a phase. Really, there's nothing quite like a little manual labor to settle down a testy... (the font gets increasingly smaller as they wander off.)
Onion, alone, turns again at the sound of more whistling. He peers into another dark room....

a strange, pale ghosy half-faded into the dark stands in front of a glowing window. A small candle sits lit on a table, casting a small glow on the corner of something undefinable.
Onion thinks: jesus, another one? the way yall pop up like dandelions.... yeah well, not today. get lost!
Onion slashes a hand through the air, casting a green exorcism spell. However, it does nothing and the ghost remains.
Onion rubs his hand, thinking: What the-? still here? that's new.

Onion clicks on the light. A small bell-shaped wind chime picks up the breeze, making a tinking noise. Revealed by the light, the room is a small white kitchen. An exhausted looking teen boy is sitting at the table next to a book and the candle, which is now extinguished. He looks up, his nose a little bloody.
Onion thinks: huh? he's alive?
The boy looks up at Onion with some surprise.

Onion looks back. As they stare across the room at each other, the brisk wind flaps the window curtains and Onion's jacket. The wind chime returns: tink tink tink-tink, tink tink
A dog whines and Onion looks down. a mutt is begging for attention from the boy, who pets her, then wipes the blood from his nose.

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 5h

I did a little Blue Hollow page preview pack for editors to look at, do you also want to look?? 😮 This is chapter 2: scene 1... three varieties of ghost, two teen boyfriends, and the one type of scowl that unites them. ❤️ This is enemies to lovers YA, baby. Follow for the full pages.... soon 🌱

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 9h

The death of our careers comes hand-in-hand with building the surveillance state just as much as "cutting unnecessary jobs." I sincerely believe accepting AI is letting in a fascist death cult whose ideologies are normalized by embracing this supremely evil tech.

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 25d

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 1d

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Rosemary V-O @hirosemary.bsky.social · 1d

Cover for the newly announced series The Crying Doll, the latest collaboration between Mariko Tamaki and myself, coming from Vertigo in 2026!! 🪆🩸

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 2d

when I lost the BB in the first game for a little while it genuinely made me feel crazy anxiety. I love her!!!!

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 4d

Greetings from the Onion factory

J. Scott’s work desk, surrounded by posters and comic books. There are three screens, a cintiq, an Apple desktop, and a laptop on a stand. There are green mood lights and plants around the monitor.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 2d

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 2d

Garden variety snail terrarium for fun 🐌 ❤️ mostly interested in plant terrariums but creatures are critical components in healthy ecosystems so let’s just make some to see what happens!

An illuminated snail terrarium with plants featuring six snails and a large log sits on a glass desk surrounded by books and a few more plants sitting on the lid. No snail escapes today!

A small plastic guy peeks excitedly around the edge of the log

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! Just in time for Xmas on the horizon

🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 3d

Started making terrariums again… this hobby can only experience exponential growth

A jade succulent stuck into a rock well with moss, underneath a small bell jar.

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 3d

I mean……….. 🐌🥹

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 3d

They are pests in the garden and ate so many of my beans but I genuinely do not care, let them be a sacrifice for the cute gods

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 3d

Since the winter is coming and that means my garden is dying off, it is time for me to turn my interest towards house plants and terrariums. For my first endeavor I will make a SNAIL habitat since they are in my garden anyway and are sooo cuuuteeee 🐌 🥺❤️

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 4d

picarto.tv/JScott

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 4d

gonna stream in a few

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 4d

Look!! At Josh!!!!! Go!!!!! I would read this x5 times over

josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 4d

#DVPit #GN #A #LGBT

Going undercover as a race car mechanic, a young mobster makes the mistake of falling in love with his target. Unable to quit his mission or his new romance, he is forced to choose between which truth he wants to live. Either could cost him his life.

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 4d

stumbles over my own feet rushing to bring you a huge bag of gold coins

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