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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 1d

She's a delight. ❤️

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 4d

Revising a draft that I first dictated and came across the part where I caught movement out of the corner of my eye...

text that says "Oh my god oh my god that is a huge fucking spider holy shit"

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 6d

Cool I have my receipts $5.33 for posterboard and $17.99 for markers anyone got the Soros link to submit expenses? Hmm?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

Trump says the government is going to investigate whether Soros paid for all the signs No Kings protesters were carrying. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump on No Kings: "It's a joke. I looked at the people. They are not representative of this country. And I looked at all the brand new signs I guess paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics. We're checking it out. The demonstrations were very small. And the people were whacked out."

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yulkradness🌹TTRPG @yulkradness.bsky.social · 6d

Sharing the second card I made for @saharian.bsky.social Briardark!

More info about the books in their profile 🖤🌱

#art #illustration #darkfantasy #bookcover #novel

Illustration I made for S.A. Harian's book Briardark. The scene is showing an upside down tree supported by lots of tangled roots. Behind it there's a gigantic moon filling the central composition and all around the picture there's roots coming from the ground, showing the place filled by an unsettling atmosphere.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 7d

7 million people today and no serious political violence. I love this country.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 7d

somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 8d

All of these first posts from US government accounts give "hey baby miss me" abusive ex boyfriend vibes

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 9d

Hey Americans it's my birthday tomorrow and if you please for my birthday I request that on Saturday you:
1. Make a sign
2. Exit your place of living
3. Fight for democracy
tyvm

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yulkradness🌹TTRPG @yulkradness.bsky.social · 11d

So happy to share one of the three cards I made for @saharian.bsky.social Briardark!
For more info about the books please visit their profile 🌱

#art #illustration #darkfantasy #book

Illustration I made for S.A. Harian's book Briardark. The scene is showing a young woman wearing a blue coat lost in an heavy atmospheric forest in which the trees tangles with each other and the roots are everywhere on the ground. The woman is sitting - knees down - on the grass, the look on her face seems scared and hurt while she tries to extract a glow arrow from her chest, dripping blood as she's looking at the viewer, terrified. Next to her, on the grass, there's a bloody knife almost hidden.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 10d

-Alien
-The Descent
-Sinners
-Late Night with the Devil

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10d

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10d

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 10d

@yulkradness.bsky.social is open for commissions!

yulkradness🌹TTRPG @yulkradness.bsky.social · 11d

So happy to share one of the three cards I made for @saharian.bsky.social Briardark!
For more info about the books please visit their profile 🌱

#art #illustration #darkfantasy #book

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yulkradness🌹TTRPG @yulkradness.bsky.social · 12d

It's #PortfolioDay !
I'm Julien, a freelance italian artist who works on illustrations, concepts and book covers with an intense love for dark fantasy themes! 🖤
Open for work at:

✉️ [email protected]

COMMS: yulkradnesscommissions.carrd.co

Vgen: vgen.co/yulkradness

#art

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 12d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 13d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 12d

Someone left a rack full of inflatable costumes near the ICE building in Portland.

I love this town.

This is a wonderful thread that explains how & why Portland is Like This.
bsky.app/profile/ceau...

A clothing rack on a sidewalk, full of colorful inflatable costumes, with a sign that says free.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 15d

Fwiw I loved loved loved Good Boy and I'm a huge dog person. The only movie I've seen this year that beat it out was Sinners.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 15d

As someone who has lived here for over a decade, @wyden.senate.gov 's B-roll in this video is the Portland I see on a daily basis. We have our rough edges like any city, but the clips & claims of endless dog parks, weirdos, and farmer's markets you see that counters the propaganda is not hyperbole.

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 15d

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 16d

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 17d

I am so fucking proud of the place I lived for ten years. This is the best of the city, this is the heart and the goodness of it and I'm so glad

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 18d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 17d

🖤🖤🖤 given the state of the world, getting out of bed always deserves a big gold star

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 17d

🥰 I think it's pretty great too

S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 17d

I built out the infrastructure and launched an interactive app for my reader magnet! I designed a special edition! I ran a crowdfunding campaign that contained an ARG and a video game that I made myself! That's some awesome, difficult shit that I accomplished.

Anyway thanks for reading my memoir.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 17d

I still struggle with writing-related anxiety from a bad experience ~7 years ago and since so much of my energy is spent just trying to get in a mental space that produces words, I forget that all the other stuff I did this year counts for something too.

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