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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

seriously though gonna try using this as an incantation against writer's block

"Come," said I to my engine, "let us make a tale."

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of my favorite categories of historical museums: Famous Person Lived Here Very Briefly

Brass plaque about Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived in this cottage in Saranac NY for ~5 months.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Adirondack October: "okay, if you're into that kind of thing"

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

long story but I fell down a fact-checking rabbit-hole and am now obsessed with this Shonisaurus drawing, good job Dmitry Bogdanov

A drawing of a large silvery icthyosaur (a dolphin or shark-shaped extinct marine reptile) kind of a chonky boi, with a sharp beak and a jaunty air.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Are we concerned? Yes. Enough to bark? Not at this time.

Jo, a small brown and white dog, with an expression of vague concern.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

once again reminded that I had a slightly different childhood reading experience

Anakin & Padme meme:
Anakin: I was traumatized by Where The Red Fern Grows.
Padme: Because it endorses cruelly killing wildlife and destroying old-growth forest for profit, right?
Anakin: Smug look.
Padme: You were rooting for the mountain lion, right?

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wall inspector! Walls are looking good, citizen; go about your business.

Close-up of a large black carpenter ant.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I want a settled life, I want to be calm and polite

Britt Daniel of Spoon singing on stage, with a white tshirt and a yellow guitar.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

offhand comment that I've been unable to get out of my head

Black and white picture of Ursula K. Le Guin and J.R.R. Tolkien with a barbed wire fence behind them, labelled "Only Hard Gs".

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Don't know if actually agree with this now but once upon a time I blogged trying to make an extended metaphor about fiction lengths and drink strengths that weird thing where the *taste* of a coffee or booze tastes right at different dilution rates though nothing else changes reposted to fix graph

Graph showing Length of Work (flash to expanded universe) vs Importance of Element. Character rises then stops; Style descends linearly; Plot describes a parabola peaking somewhere past novel.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this is always the pic I share (not mine, though I've seen the book), Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club I think, it's just so gosh-darn class and respectful

A credits page from the Malinda Lo novel, showing all kinds of people who worked on it.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

going through more Worldcon photos containing 0 pictures of friends and acquaintances

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Favorite niche animal: forever the binturong (entire family viverridae kind of slept on in the US imo)

Wiki picture of a binturong, which is a kind of raccoon-sized mammal with black and grey fur, a long prehensile tale, and sort of catty doggy bearlike features, with long whiskers, in a tree.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

half-heartedly tried to make a meme where a politician sez "let me be clear" but it's that senator who turns into a jellyfish in the first x-men movie. What's important is I stumbled on this

A story treatment was written by Bigelow, with Bob Hoskins being considered for Wolverine and Angela Bassett as Storm. The deal fell apart

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

unpacking & got to the box with the coolest action figure, that's right, just like you remember, it's Buzz-Saw from SilverHawks

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

(No shade to the books on the list but whew this framing)

King of the Hill meme, Hank asks "Yall with the queer- & kink-phobic moral panic?"
Ladies reply "No! We just yearn for green flags like explicit consent, mature grounded characters, and equal power dynamics."
Hank: "Yeah, this is it."

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

future archaelogists running chemical analyses on the residue and concluding we were in fact worshipping a corn (syrup) god

One of those silver communion platters with like 40 little juice cups

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Not sure if we're allowed to say "vampire" but the new guy is kind of a

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Yeah, weird angle shot that does some cursed things to the entry+fountain-marble thing. Plus some suspicious processing that generates eg Weird Hedge Chunks

Zoom in on cover showing bizarre perspective alignment of front of house with disorienting contours/sharpness.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Last good Readercon coffee: Gerson Mora Colombia from Broadsheet. Sweet & complex, loads of peachy fruit & floral coming through. One of my top cups so far this year.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

didn't take a single picture of myself and/or other humans at Readercon. Here's a dragonfly tho

Probably a twelve-spotted skimmer, a dragonfly with transparent wings w/3 dark spots on each, and a somewhat stouter body, checking things out from the top of a red & white striped hydrant marker.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The temporary decline of proletarian criticism as laid out by @willmcmahon36.bsky.social in our Readercon panel

Epic handshake meme, two burly arms clasping, one is the iconic picture of a crowd on the partially torn down Berlin Wall, other is Taylor Swift's album 1989.

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