Joseph Brassey
@josephbrassey.bsky.social
He/Him. Author of a buncha books. PRINCE OF CLAY out now. Serialized novel GLASSBLADE starting in January 2026. Swordsman. Repped by Laura Zats of Headwater Literary.
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My personal newsletter on fiction, life, art, and eventually serialized storytelling
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Okay y'all, my Beehiiv is up. The first post wont go live till June as I'm still working out the kinks of the platform and that first post will cover May. Sign up now, though, so that you get that first newsletter when it drops. #booksky
I’ve struggled to articulate it in the past but kinda finally had it crystallized when I saw a white leftist guy ranting on TikTok about how unchecked rage was part of his privilege and he was gonna use it and it just kinda hit me.
I do not trust this kind of white man.
I do not trust this kind of white man.
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I’ve struggled to articulate it in the past but kinda finally had it crystallized when I saw a white leftist guy ranting on TikTok about how unchecked rage was part of his privilege and he was gonna use it and it just kinda hit me.
I do not trust this kind of white man.
I do not trust this kind of white man.
So the day after Thanksgiving is the best day to hit the weight room if you like it pretty empty. That was amazing.
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
So the day after Thanksgiving is the best day to hit the weight room if you like it pretty empty. That was amazing.
The thing about integrating a discord with a newsletter and setting up paid tiers and getting ready to launch a serial all at the same time when you’re not a tech person is it’s easy to feel like a 15th century peasant trying to understand Linux.
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The thing about integrating a discord with a newsletter and setting up paid tiers and getting ready to launch a serial all at the same time when you’re not a tech person is it’s easy to feel like a 15th century peasant trying to understand Linux.
This is the fifth time I’ve gotten compared to Giles from Buffy by a stranger. Of all the things to age into, Anthony Stewart Head is certainly one I can’t complain about.
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is the fifth time I’ve gotten compared to Giles from Buffy by a stranger. Of all the things to age into, Anthony Stewart Head is certainly one I can’t complain about.
Don’t make me tap the “the answer to a lack of media literacy in the general populace is not to continue dumbing down your work” sign again.
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Don’t make me tap the “the answer to a lack of media literacy in the general populace is not to continue dumbing down your work” sign again.
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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If you want a sense of the kind of things Liberal Currents is willing to publish under its banner of liberalism, read my magnum opus that debunks the entire 'sex based rights' scam, where I reframe that idea as a battering ram being used against the very *idea* of human rights.
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If you want a sense of the kind of things Liberal Currents is willing to publish under its banner of liberalism, read my magnum opus that debunks the entire 'sex based rights' scam, where I reframe that idea as a battering ram being used against the very *idea* of human rights.
BRING. BACK. LEXX.
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
BRING. BACK. LEXX.
My son‘s middle school is in lockdown because there was a shooting two blocks away. I fucking hate this timeline.
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
My son‘s middle school is in lockdown because there was a shooting two blocks away. I fucking hate this timeline.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
When a scientist says “Raw Water.”
Yes. I understand. This is unfiltered water coming from a stream or lake or pond or other natural place.
When a woowoo health person says “Raw Water.”
What are you talking. Why are you you using the word “raw” WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THAT WATER.
Yes. I understand. This is unfiltered water coming from a stream or lake or pond or other natural place.
When a woowoo health person says “Raw Water.”
What are you talking. Why are you you using the word “raw” WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THAT WATER.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
When a scientist says “Raw Water.”
Yes. I understand. This is unfiltered water coming from a stream or lake or pond or other natural place.
When a woowoo health person says “Raw Water.”
What are you talking. Why are you you using the word “raw” WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THAT WATER.
Yes. I understand. This is unfiltered water coming from a stream or lake or pond or other natural place.
When a woowoo health person says “Raw Water.”
What are you talking. Why are you you using the word “raw” WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THAT WATER.
Yeah. If people love you or fear you, they’re unlikely to move against you.
Hatred though? That’s another story.
Hatred though? That’s another story.
Machiavelli: It is better to be feared than loved, but you must absolutely avoid being *hated.*
So many forget that last part.
So many forget that last part.
It is a bit alarming, when rereading Machiavelli's The Prince, that it lands as reportage rather than political theory. However, I find great comfort in the fact that they are really effing it up.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Yeah. If people love you or fear you, they’re unlikely to move against you.
Hatred though? That’s another story.
Hatred though? That’s another story.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
The belief in the possibility of encounters between alien life and some sort of future iteration of humanity directly mirrors broader cultural optimism on the whole and waxes and wanes alongside it, in this essay I will
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The belief in the possibility of encounters between alien life and some sort of future iteration of humanity directly mirrors broader cultural optimism on the whole and waxes and wanes alongside it, in this essay I will
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This is your sign btw that you should call Mastercard
Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is your sign btw that you should call Mastercard
Yesterday was heavy for personal reasons. Nobody died, but I was given reasons to contemplate mortality. Still, there was beauty in that too. Memento mori.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Yesterday was heavy for personal reasons. Nobody died, but I was given reasons to contemplate mortality. Still, there was beauty in that too. Memento mori.
I’m reading a book on cultivating inner strength (specifically it’s an overview of esoteric training methods in traditional martial arts) and all of a sudden my brain stopped and went “wait but what is outer strength? How can my strength be outside me?” And now I’m having an existential crisis.
November 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I’m reading a book on cultivating inner strength (specifically it’s an overview of esoteric training methods in traditional martial arts) and all of a sudden my brain stopped and went “wait but what is outer strength? How can my strength be outside me?” And now I’m having an existential crisis.
I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen
She’s such a grifter.
every time I see a post by Ms Sawant about revolution I think about how she quit a position on the city council to do a podcast
extremely silly shit
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
She’s such a grifter.
I wanted to be an actor but I never gave a shit about auditioning for anything but regularly scheduled college plays. It was pointed out to me that what I was actually doing all the time was writing so why not try that?
I’ve been at it ever since.
I’ve been at it ever since.
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I wanted to be an actor but I never gave a shit about auditioning for anything but regularly scheduled college plays. It was pointed out to me that what I was actually doing all the time was writing so why not try that?
I’ve been at it ever since.
I’ve been at it ever since.
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These folks rock. Go help ‘em
Out if you can
Out if you can
Ugh hate to post this but bringing this back to just get us out of a “small” hole. We have money coming in but it is a struggle to get caught up
Keeping the same gfm for transparency sake
gofund.me/d63b5b894
Keeping the same gfm for transparency sake
gofund.me/d63b5b894
Donate to Support Danny and Nathalie's Housing Stability, organized by Danielle Lorick
EDIT: i should be receiving end of month payments, but trying to deal … Danielle Lorick needs your support for Support Danny and Nathalie's Housing Stability
gofund.me
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
These folks rock. Go help ‘em
Out if you can
Out if you can
I have not had access to my craft space for a few weeks now and dammit I wanna get back to Warhammer stuff.
November 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I have not had access to my craft space for a few weeks now and dammit I wanna get back to Warhammer stuff.
Rip for all the banger posts I never put out because they were right on the borderline of appropriate and I’ve never been great at judging that and so I just deleted them instead.
There is an alternate universe where I’m like 10 times funnier.
There is an alternate universe where I’m like 10 times funnier.
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Rip for all the banger posts I never put out because they were right on the borderline of appropriate and I’ve never been great at judging that and so I just deleted them instead.
There is an alternate universe where I’m like 10 times funnier.
There is an alternate universe where I’m like 10 times funnier.
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The next time you look at a book or film or game and sneer at how being very smart and very charismatic just makes the whole plot go by in Easy Mode for a character, I need you to remember that WH meeting yesterday.
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The next time you look at a book or film or game and sneer at how being very smart and very charismatic just makes the whole plot go by in Easy Mode for a character, I need you to remember that WH meeting yesterday.
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PLEASE tell every author you know about this!
Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.
Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild
In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...
authorsguild.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
PLEASE tell every author you know about this!