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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again

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I read. I write. I drink tea. Filatina American 🇵🇭🇵🇷🇪🇨🇺🇸 East Bay. she/her My stuff: linktr.ee/jenniferdeguzman Rep'd by Kaitlyn Katsoupis @redpenkaitlyn.bsky.social Profile pic by @xylavie.bsky.social

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · Mar 18

Today (or any day, really) is the day you can start reading my post-punk romance about the songs that save your life, If I Never Saw the Sun, on Tapas! Like, subscribe, you know how it goes. tapas.io/series/If-I-...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 7h

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 16h

Hurrah, I got such nice notes back on my revised manuscript (the one I cut 30,000 words from!). I should get the final revision done by mid-November, then it's to a copy editor for line edits and OUT ON SUBMISSION!

This has been such a long process and I nearly went crazy, but now I'm excited!

Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 1d

HMPH

Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote that down on the 17th day of COVID lockdown. There’s a whole model for a fiction writing workshop curriculum in there. It’s good, too!

Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s another visual interpretation of literature—this time my theory of Hilary Mantel’s (yes, I know I misspelled it) model of historical fiction as an altar triptych.

Handwritten in cursive:

[Mantel’s] device if the triptych as a model of historical fiction

A drawing of a folding altar triptych each part labeled 1-5

The images are the sequence of a story, one the “reader” knows, so they know they conclusion—what will be on panel 5. But the images on 1-4 must compel their attention and spurt them forward—the viewer must be in the present of the story while anticipating its conclusion.

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote this down in around 2007 after having a dream about bowling with Jacques Derrida.

As you can see it’s a visual representation of “The Second Coming” as a gyre composed of two cones and something about a section of a cone being parabola/parable/parole.

A water-damaged drawing of the Hyde as described with the labels “The worst art full of passionate intensity,” “2nd Coming” and “The best lack all conviction” pointing to the point where the two cones meet (narrow tip of second against wide base of first). There’s also a drawing of a cone with a line intersecting it with “parabola parable parole” written next to it.

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 1d

A while back, I had to call my childhood best friend's parents' house. I picked up my phone and my fingers just tapped the right numbers on their own.

I don't know my own children's cellphone numbers now.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday morning - Doodle in the margins of this 12th century manuscript, Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College - 101, fol. 97v

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 3d

What gets me is he calls her a “young girl” dismissively at the end, like, yeah dude, you’re 35, married, and were creeping on someone only a year past being a teenager. The lack of real self-interrogation is astounding.

Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I just wrote a novel for a book packager, but they’re a boutique kind of place, not licensed IP. I’ll have to find some others to send my portfolio to.

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 3d

Love it. I can’t quite tell, but are those wings made of sampaguita? (The national flower of the Philippines.)

The style seems to be is a callback to mid 19th century styles—a barong tagalog with trousers. I wish I could see the hat!

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 3d

Howwwwww do I get a gig writing one of these? I love the idea of exploring the SW universe outside of the central characters and conflicts.

I have IDEAS.

Bria LaVorgna @chaosbria.com · 3d

Star Wars is starting a “genre fiction initiative”. First up is a YA romance called Eyes Like Stars by Ashley Poston

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 4d

One thing I’ve learned from drawing self-portraits is that I have a weird face! It’s, like, Adam Driver-level asymmetrical. It makes it hard to draw without the image looking wonky. No, I promise, that’s just my face! Ok, part of it is that I’m not a great artist, but a lot of it is my face.

A coloured line drawing of me, my hair being blown by wind.

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 4d

Whoops--credits! Writer: @charlessoule.bsky.social, artist Stefano Rafaele, colors @nolanwoodard.bsky.social

Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 4d

"Jennifer, why are you crying?"

"M-m-my... my evil space boyfriends. Just so horribly evil. It's beautiful."

Also, "Hux... couwd we still destwoy a pwanet?🥺"

I'm laughing. Literally laughing. He's such a dork.

Comic page of Kylo Ren and General Hux talking on the Finalizer

The Finalizer.

"BOTH STARKILLER BASE AND THE SUPREMACY HAVE BEEN LOST

"WITH THAT IN MIND. GENERAL HUX, I
HAVE A QUESTION.

COULD WE STILL DESTROY…
PLANET?

IT DEPENDS ON THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE
SUPREME LEADER.
PULVERIZING AN ENTIRE PLANETARY BODY DOWN TO ITS ATOMS COULD VOSE A CHALLENGE BUT THERE IS MORE THAN
ONE WAY TO DESTROY A WORLD

WE RETAIN OUR SIEGE DREADNOUGHTS AND THE STAR
DESTROYERS POSSESS POTENT
ORBIT-TO-GROUND ASSAULT
CAPABILITIES. WE COULD, GIVEN TIME,
SCOUR AN NHABITED PLANET CLEAR
OF ALL STRUCTURES AND LIFE

VERY GOOD,
GENERAL.
I AM GLAD TO HEAR IT.

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 4d

Amanda is so amazing! Their art just blows me away. I really hope we get to do the whole book. Submissions have been a little heartbreaking--all "we love it, but..."

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 4d

Here are some teasers for the final cover concept of The Queen of Smokey Mountain:

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 4d

The concept covers for The Queen of Smokey Mountain, a graphic novel by me and the amazing artist Amanda Castillo, are up on my Patreon! It's available to all members on the free tier and up. And... there's interior art in previous posts!

The Queen of Smokey Mountain Covers | Jennifer de Guzman

www.patreon.com

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 5d

*Folsom PRISON

dammit

Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 5d

Johnny Cash is an icon of coolness. This is so stupid.

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 5d

Johnny Cash. The Man in Black. Wrote “Folsom City Blues.” Made his version of a Nine Inch Nails song the definitive version.

“Deeply uncool”?

Who the fuck is this dork Jon Fasman?

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 5d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 5d

You better believe I have something in this!

Two somethings, in fact.

🖤🧡🖤🧡

Careful Ren Zine @carefulren.bsky.social · 6d

The "Careful, Ren" 10th Anniversary Kylux Zine has now sold *80* COPIES! I am blown away by how much love there is for kylux after 10 long years!❤️

If we can sell 100 copies, we will have reached enough funding to add *10 MORE PAGES*!

Currently, we are at 100 pages, plus AMAZING merch!

Careful, Ren

(image of Kylo and Hux leaning close to one another, with a knife drawing a thin cut across Kylo's jaw)

10th Anniversary Kylux Zine

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 6d

I say this as a quiet woman of color: There are white woman who will simply steamroll over anything someone like me has to offer in a conversation, and that’s the kind of woman I suspect she is.

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 6d

People once got mad at me for speculating that she is one of those people who suck the air out of a room because they have to be the center of attention.

I feel the same way about Frances McDermott.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6d

It was only a matter of time before these stories started to come out
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

The former member of Congress, who is now running for California governor, also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

www.politico.com

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 6d

Alternatively…

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