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Jared Pechaček

@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social

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It's pronounced PECK-a-check. Artist, Crawford Award-winning writer, third thing now and then. He/him. Seattle. https://linktr.ee/jpechacek repped by Jennifer Azantian. Debut novel THE WEST PASSAGE out now from tordotcom!

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · Nov 25

award eligibility post!

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2024 Award Eligibility
THE WEST PASSAGE, a novel by Jared Pechacek
"Vivdly depicted, decidedly peculiar." —Kirkus Reviews starred review
"Spellbinding debut that cannot be missed." —Booklist starred review
"Consistently wondrous." — Bookpage starred review
"Pechacek is unafraid to mix sweet whimsy with horror." —Library Journal starred review
"A mind-bending phantasmagoria." —Shelf Awareness starred review

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 1h

the ones that burn the brightest burn twice as fast :<

Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 1h

in Montmartre I had a guy start weaving a friendship bracelet around my wrist and then ask me to pay him for it. fortunately I had my sister nearby to make sure his accomplice didn't get at me.
then he got mad when I wouldn't pay. took the bracelet back and everything. guess we weren't friends :(

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 4h

#portfolioday again! I'm Nathan, and I've worked in publishing, on boardgames, TTRPGs, for TV shows and a whole lot more!

If you're fancying an illustrator with an affinity for linework and a large variety of subject matter, check out my website!

www.nathanandersonart.com

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Grid @isbergillustration.bsky.social · 2h

I Think It's All Over Now
#inktober #fantasyart

ink painting. two small figures in the foreground, tall jagged mountains like candles, with glowing eyes. a desert

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 6h

when will the boil be lanced

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 6h

standing on the corner in sackcloth with a sign that says "IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE LIKE THIS"

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 6h

there is this entire website called literotica that has probably hundreds of gigabytes of the most intense erotic writing on the planet. i genuinely don't understand this alien mentality. To be so content slop brained that you need On-Demand self inserts and your favorite media franchises.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 6h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 9h

hey georgia, early voting is happening now -- please vote out the shitty republicans who keep increasing our electricity bills for no reason and show them we can kick them to the curb if they don't work for the people!!!!!!

find your early voting precincts here:

mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 6h

it was a visual feast! my eyes were drooling! my eyes were licking their lips! my eyes were cleaning their fingers in bowls of scented water! my eyes were belching and passing out amid the empty trays!

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 6h

getting my steps in by being incredibly inefficient about carrying stuff between my desk and the kitchen

Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 7h

someone didn’t precisely tell me this but it was strongly implied and now I have a Crawford Award, so follow your strange little dreams

Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 7h

We don't tell young writers "You gotta be a huge freakin' weirdo!" often enough.

It's an asset!

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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 7h

We don't tell young writers "You gotta be a huge freakin' weirdo!" often enough.

It's an asset!

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 7h

If I make a joke post, and you reply to it with your own joke, you'd better be sure it was funnier than mine.

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weapo @weapo.bsky.social · 8h

Pouring one out for Drew Struzan.
Here are his sexy George Lucas paintings.

Drew Struzan painting of a young George Lucas, with perfectly coiffed hair, holding a camera over his shoulder. He is surrounded by Star Wars characters.

Drew Struzan painting of a distinguished George Lucas, flanked by Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and Indiana Jones.

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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 7h

Hi, I'm Peter and I draw comics!

I've worked on the Avatar: the Last Airbender comics, written some Dragon Prince graphic novels, and created a few other things too.

✨portfolio: peterwartman.com
✨comics: shipwreckplanet.com

A page from a comic pitch I did, showing a character sitting on a sign built onto a massive metal structure. Airships fly through the rain in front of him. Inset in two panels we can see him looking down at a pilot's pin he's holding in his hand.

A drawing of a space guy holding his helmet and looking at the camera.

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M.O.T.A.Z @motaz-aarchitect.bsky.social · 17h

Remember… Gaza hasn’t recovered yet.
Its people are still suffering💔

You know my story, I lost everything I worked for & now I stand with nothing left😭
I still need your support to get food, medicine & basic necessities🙏🏻

Pls Share & Donate if you can
🔗 gofund.me/55b35d530

✅ @mommunism.bsky.social

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 11h

Lot of people treated a genocide of a people, sponsored by their own country, as an annoying pet issue that needed to be shelved after the killing as complete or pushed aside for other political problems. And pretended that it was just too complicated to engage with.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 8h

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 8h

Day 13 #Invertober2025 - Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois) 😬

holy hell this thing took the most time out of any other #invertober critter i have ever drawn, partially because there are NO GOOD REFS except for its face

#SciArt #invertebrates

semi-realistic drawing of a bobbit worm, a very segmented deep sea worm with a massive jaw at the front and a very holographic sparkly body with two little leg like structures at each segment, on a black background.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 9h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Zen Cho @zenaldehyde.bsky.social · 14h

If you've ever wanted a version of JADE YEO that you could hold and dogear and put on your shelf, this is your chance! I've seen the new cover and it's going to be SUCH a cute book, please support Homeward Books so they can publish it ✨

Lara Elena Donnelly @larazontally.bsky.social · 1d

Have we mentioned if we hit the Kickstarter goal for WITCH OF PRAGUE, we'll open pre-orders for our second book? According to @courtneymilan.com, @zenaldehyde.bsky.social's THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO is "Poignant, beautiful, and incredibly meaningful."

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

The Witch of Prague, from Homeward Books!

Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.

www.kickstarter.com

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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 8h

We’ve lost Drew Struzan. A modern master, who by all accounts was a humble, sweet, loving, dedicated man. His work influenced culture itself, & we’ll be seeing that influence until the end of the modern world. What a legacy. What a body of work. May he rest well, & may his memory be a blessing.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 8h

score! this alien with incomprehensible aesthetic taste says you’re pretty

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 8h

Please share. We MUST be the steady hand in the dark—and the dark persists, even if fire has partially ceased. But everyone is saying that support for their survival has stopped 😓

Food, shelter, winter items URGENTLY needed for six families.

8 hours left ⚠️ 755/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...

chuffed.org

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 17h

13. Persephone and Ascalaphus

Ink illustration of Persephone sitting holding a pomegranate at the foot of a standing stone. Other standing stones are scattered about, receding into the dim underworld. Above her perches an owl. Text in Linear B on the stone reads “po-ti-ni-ja”, i.e. Persephone’s title in Mycenaean Greek

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