Phantasmagoria
@jamielnathan.bsky.social
Storyteller & Bookwyrm 💙📚
Loves the spooky & fantastical
PNW Girl
Words in Inner Worlds coming soon.
Pinned
I published my first story at 44.
If you’re still breathing, there’s still time.
If you’re still breathing, there’s still time.
Fuck that noise, do it even if you're old. I learned tattooing at 43. I learned editing and publishing at 46.
There is always still time to do or learn new stuff.
There is always still time to do or learn new stuff.
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I published my first story at 44.
If you’re still breathing, there’s still time.
If you’re still breathing, there’s still time.
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my nibling has adorable crochet stuffies, hats, and bags for sale on Etsy at VERY reasonable prices if you’re looking for handmade gifts. please clear out their shop so i can convince them they need to charge more!
www.etsy.com/shop/FiberAr...
www.etsy.com/shop/FiberAr...
November 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
my nibling has adorable crochet stuffies, hats, and bags for sale on Etsy at VERY reasonable prices if you’re looking for handmade gifts. please clear out their shop so i can convince them they need to charge more!
www.etsy.com/shop/FiberAr...
www.etsy.com/shop/FiberAr...
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Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
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What's everyone bringing to Thanksgiving tomorrow?
(And by that, I mean what books are you bringing to sneak off somewhere quiet to read?) 💙📚
(And by that, I mean what books are you bringing to sneak off somewhere quiet to read?) 💙📚
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
What's everyone bringing to Thanksgiving tomorrow?
(And by that, I mean what books are you bringing to sneak off somewhere quiet to read?) 💙📚
(And by that, I mean what books are you bringing to sneak off somewhere quiet to read?) 💙📚
Seriously
Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Seriously
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
Oh the chaos and drama they would bring!
Oh the chaos and drama they would bring!
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
Oh the chaos and drama they would bring!
Oh the chaos and drama they would bring!
What's everyone bringing to Thanksgiving tomorrow?
(And by that, I mean what books are you bringing to sneak off somewhere quiet to read?) 💙📚
(And by that, I mean what books are you bringing to sneak off somewhere quiet to read?) 💙📚
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
What's everyone bringing to Thanksgiving tomorrow?
(And by that, I mean what books are you bringing to sneak off somewhere quiet to read?) 💙📚
(And by that, I mean what books are you bringing to sneak off somewhere quiet to read?) 💙📚
Good luck to everyone making pies today. 🥧
May your crust edges always turn out golden brown and never burn.
May your crust edges always turn out golden brown and never burn.
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Good luck to everyone making pies today. 🥧
May your crust edges always turn out golden brown and never burn.
May your crust edges always turn out golden brown and never burn.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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The plan for 2026 is to be open to submissions these three times:
April 19-25
July 19-25
October 18-24
I’ll be updating Kaleidotrope’s submissions guidelines page accordingly soon.
April 19-25
July 19-25
October 18-24
I’ll be updating Kaleidotrope’s submissions guidelines page accordingly soon.
Do you have a specific date for opening back up for submissions in 2026? If you care to share...
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The plan for 2026 is to be open to submissions these three times:
April 19-25
July 19-25
October 18-24
I’ll be updating Kaleidotrope’s submissions guidelines page accordingly soon.
April 19-25
July 19-25
October 18-24
I’ll be updating Kaleidotrope’s submissions guidelines page accordingly soon.
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Stuck in place you don’t want to be this Thanksgiving? I got you! Like every year, I can be your boss, angry/needy boyfriend, friend in trouble, the mob, or whatever you need on the phone. Also happy to yell at your racist uncle. Price? Purchase a copy of this beauty! Rescue and a book, baby.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Stuck in place you don’t want to be this Thanksgiving? I got you! Like every year, I can be your boss, angry/needy boyfriend, friend in trouble, the mob, or whatever you need on the phone. Also happy to yell at your racist uncle. Price? Purchase a copy of this beauty! Rescue and a book, baby.
Find yourself someone who bakes a pumpkin pie so good it doesn’t need whipped cream and never let them go.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Find yourself someone who bakes a pumpkin pie so good it doesn’t need whipped cream and never let them go.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
I retrace my snowy footsteps back towards the gate, sweeping my lantern in front of me, keen to see even the faintest glint in the drifts. The light bounces off an object pushed into the snowbank by the garden gate. It's glass. 1/3
It's not until you've bundled inside, stomped ice from boots and burned lips on hot chocolate, that you realize you lost your necklace out there in the drifts. You suit back up, search in the waning light, but the necklace remains lost. What do you find instead?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I retrace my snowy footsteps back towards the gate, sweeping my lantern in front of me, keen to see even the faintest glint in the drifts. The light bounces off an object pushed into the snowbank by the garden gate. It's glass. 1/3
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I get asked a lot for advice I'd give first time writers and honestly, it's... just get the words on the page. That's it. Don't worry about anything else until you've got the words on the page. Let that first draft be messy and glorious and fun. Deal with the rest of it later.
#amediting
#amediting
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I get asked a lot for advice I'd give first time writers and honestly, it's... just get the words on the page. That's it. Don't worry about anything else until you've got the words on the page. Let that first draft be messy and glorious and fun. Deal with the rest of it later.
#amediting
#amediting
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It’s time for my Thanksgiving Storewide 25% Off Sale! 🎉
Now thru Sunday, December 7th, every item - originals & prints - in my Etsy shop is 25% Off.
Time to go holiday shopping for your favorite art lover!
Find it all here:
Etsy.com/Shop/TheArtOfRobHusberg
Now thru Sunday, December 7th, every item - originals & prints - in my Etsy shop is 25% Off.
Time to go holiday shopping for your favorite art lover!
Find it all here:
Etsy.com/Shop/TheArtOfRobHusberg
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It’s time for my Thanksgiving Storewide 25% Off Sale! 🎉
Now thru Sunday, December 7th, every item - originals & prints - in my Etsy shop is 25% Off.
Time to go holiday shopping for your favorite art lover!
Find it all here:
Etsy.com/Shop/TheArtOfRobHusberg
Now thru Sunday, December 7th, every item - originals & prints - in my Etsy shop is 25% Off.
Time to go holiday shopping for your favorite art lover!
Find it all here:
Etsy.com/Shop/TheArtOfRobHusberg
400 words written. Really hard to focus with it being Thanksgiving week. So much to do. But I hope to make some good progress in between the chaos.
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky 💙📚📝
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky 💙📚📝
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
400 words written. Really hard to focus with it being Thanksgiving week. So much to do. But I hope to make some good progress in between the chaos.
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky 💙📚📝
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky 💙📚📝
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Okay, because I need to try and re-spark some writing community joy after… *gestures at everything* how about a revisit on a way you can absolutely support authors you love for zero dollars: by dropping a low-stress, three-sentence review somewhere.
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Okay, because I need to try and re-spark some writing community joy after… *gestures at everything* how about a revisit on a way you can absolutely support authors you love for zero dollars: by dropping a low-stress, three-sentence review somewhere.
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My birthday is this friday! Which means my gift to you is that Songs of Broken Bells is on sale for the whole week!
Universal Link: buy.bookfunnel.com/rktaq3muij
Payhip: payhip.com/b/hKG10
Itch: voicesofvalhoon.itch.io/songs-of-bro...
Universal Link: buy.bookfunnel.com/rktaq3muij
Payhip: payhip.com/b/hKG10
Itch: voicesofvalhoon.itch.io/songs-of-bro...
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
My birthday is this friday! Which means my gift to you is that Songs of Broken Bells is on sale for the whole week!
Universal Link: buy.bookfunnel.com/rktaq3muij
Payhip: payhip.com/b/hKG10
Itch: voicesofvalhoon.itch.io/songs-of-bro...
Universal Link: buy.bookfunnel.com/rktaq3muij
Payhip: payhip.com/b/hKG10
Itch: voicesofvalhoon.itch.io/songs-of-bro...
Good gods, I just read a submission call that "pays in exposure". 🤯
#WritingCommunity #SFHH #WriteSky
#WritingCommunity #SFHH #WriteSky
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Good gods, I just read a submission call that "pays in exposure". 🤯
#WritingCommunity #SFHH #WriteSky
#WritingCommunity #SFHH #WriteSky
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I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
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Maybe you think it’s okay to get in here and insult and berate folks who use AI to make “art,” and I’m here to tell you that you’re right. Good job, everyone. Keep it up. Much love.
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Maybe you think it’s okay to get in here and insult and berate folks who use AI to make “art,” and I’m here to tell you that you’re right. Good job, everyone. Keep it up. Much love.
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“Do you know how to read?”
“No. It is one of the black arts.”
He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.
“No. It is one of the black arts.”
He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“Do you know how to read?”
“No. It is one of the black arts.”
He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.
“No. It is one of the black arts.”
He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.
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In some good book news this morning, Books We Love is live! I have a bunch of recommendations in here.
Books We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
n.pr
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
In some good book news this morning, Books We Love is live! I have a bunch of recommendations in here.