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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 19h

I fucking love writing, and I'm never ever going to ask an LLM to do it for me. Why would you let the machine have the fun? #amwriting #darkfantasy #wipsnips

"The bishop knows the way, the message said. The men, I sent twenty of them, brought the chest back for me. I had it melted down and molded into the shape of a great cock and balls, and if I ever do see Aidan Deforêt again, I'm going to beat him to death with it."

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 04/10/2026

Day one on the new book and here's the first entry into my word count spreadsheet. This is my thirteenth book, the fourth and final in this series. Thus begins the new project for the next couple of months! After that, well, there's a whole lot of editing and redrafting to do on books 2 - 4!

A screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet showing a date of 10/4/26, a total word count of 2,324, and expected word count of 1,500, a daily average of 2,324, and a daily over/under of 824 words.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 02/10/2026

My book The Blond That Bonds was featured in this week's Obooko newsletter, which is super cool! It's free, has been free since 2009, and will be free forever. It's a story of descent and rebirth, despair, redemption, and growth. It's also the first in a trilogy. cwbwriting.com/books/theblo...

It's the cover for the Blood That Bonds! It features a close-up, straight on portrait of a young woman with long, dirty-blonde hair. She's got glowing green eyes, pale skin, and red lips. Her makeup is running, she's got scrapes and much all over her face, and there is blood running from her mouth down to her chin. There is a hint of fangs visible. At the top in white sans-serif font are the words "Christopher Buecheler" and at the bottom in distressed, gradiented red font, the words "THE BLOOD THAT BONDS". Below that, in a small version of the same font as the author text, are the words "Part One of the II AM Trilogy" (the II is a roman numeral 2).

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 01/10/2026

Post a vampire! 🧛🩸🦇 It's Ashayt! The Second Source and the mother of all the vampires of her type. Painted by the amazing @kortizart.bsky.social, Ashayt is a figure of legend amongst the characters in my trilogy of vampire novels. cwbwriting.com/books/2amtri... #fiction #fantasy #vampires

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 30/09/2026

Amusing myself in a friend's discord ... with apologies to @brandonsanderson.com 😅

A shot from discord of me saying "Sent all of my notes on the last book in the dark fantasy series to my agent, so now if I cack it before it's written, no worries, I'm sure Brandon Sanderson will finish it."

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 25/09/2026

I want to these in Paris so badly. They're cool looking, they're solarpunk as hell, and they store way more carbon than trees do. They shouldn't replace trees, of course, as those have many other benefits ... but they should absolutely replace standard benches and bus stops. liquid3.rs

It's a liquid tree! A solar-powered tank full of algae that also doubles as a bench. The algae captures carbon as it grows and is then collected on a regular basis and used as fertilizer (among other things), putting the carbon back into the ground instead of in the atmosphere. It's right at home on a street in Serbia, between several mature trees.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 23/09/2026

So, I think this piece (Pastel, 1995, senior year high school) is perhaps my magnum opus. I present: Grover in Space.

It's a pastel drawing of Grover, from Sesame Street. He is VAST - dwarfing two separate planets. He floats through a black void peppered with white, yellow, and red glowing dots (stars). One of the planets is mostly cut off in the lower left (Grover's hand is behind it) but looks like a purple and pink gas giant. Grover is reaching out toward another, smaller planet. It is earth-like, with water, clouds, and land-masses, but has a tight pink ring around it. Grover looks very happy, but the overall composition is kind of menacing. In the bottom right is a "CB95" signature.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 23/09/2026

Hello Alicante and thank you for the very acceptable hotel room view!

A view from a hotel room. There is a small balcony with two chairs and a table. Beyond that is a vast blue pool with a ton of deck chairs. Beyond that are a couple of small native gardens. Beyond those is the vast blue sea, with a slight pink tinge to the sky where it meets the water because the sun is beginning to set (out of view)

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 18/09/2026

At #DotJS Paris. Nice to be able to take a metro from my house to get to a conference 😄. Looking forward to some great talks! Are you here and playing the bingo game? I'm blue - come find me and say hello.

A crowd of people at Folies Bergère in Paris enjoying the ore-conference coffee and viennoiseries. The venue is incredibly colorful, full of blues and pinks and golds.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 04/09/2026

Well, mydialect.us sure nailed it. I was born in Massachusetts and split most of my childhood between there and Syracuse, NY. I also lived in SoCal for five years, and in Philadelphia and NYC. And Rhode Island. So basically all of the red areas on the map, except 2 years in Indianapolis.

A map of the united states showing that I speak the most like people in New England and New York, with some orange in California also. the area of deepest blue is the deep south: Alabama, Louisiana, etc. It lists my most similar cities as Boston, Portland ME, and NYC. It lists my least similar cities as New Orleans, Nashville, and Houston. Overall I speak the most like someone from Massachusetts, which makes sense since my mom is from there and that's where I lived from around the age of 2 to whatever age kids are when they start 7th grade. I dropped the MA accent, but I still use a lot of their terms.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 26/08/2026

Anytime you worry you're not good at your job, remember that someone got paid to tell this hotel chain that yes, this faucet was a good choice to go with this basin. Never mind that if you don't turn it on full blast, which causes it to spray water all over your groin, it pours out the back.

A vast white circular basin and perched above it the world's stubbiest and most idiotic faucet.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 26/08/2026

From a private discord I'm in, my thoughts on the whole "clanker" thing.

So, I guess I'll be mildly contrarian here ... I see the point people are making about "clanker". I do think its use in The Clone Wars, a tv show for children, was misguided. In that instance, it's obviously based on a long history of military use of slang like that to dehumanize and other the opposition (cf gooks, slopes, huns, bosh, etc). That series rubbed me the wrong way in a lot of different ways, including how routinely demeaning it is to what are obviously sentient droids.

I do absolutely think there's a difference between using a slang term for machines and using one for actual human beings, but the example of the woman with the myoelectric arms being repeatedly called a clanker by people is a good demonstration of how easily the language jumps across that barrier. I've also seen people use the term "clanker lover" which uh ... is a real, *real* bad look.

Ultimately, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on Bsky or whatever calling people out about it. But it's not a term I intend to use, not because of worries the machines will remember someday (I've seen people make this argument and I believe it's truly ridiculous), but because I think it's a fairly slippery slope to start throwing terms like that around. I think we're all better off without that kind of shorthand.

(thanks for coming to my TED talk, etc etc)

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 21/08/2026

My normal breakfast, for comparison, is an egg and spinach scramble with feta. It provides similar macros: 14g carbs, 31g fat, 33g protein. It also, you know ... tastes good. I don't normally track salt and pepper but "a good amount" also goes in.

A screenshot from a calorie tracking app. It shows 3 large eggs, 50g feta cheese, 200g frozen spinach, and 6g butter.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 21/08/2026

Sad to report that while this breakfast's macros are pretty good - 46g carbs, 18g fat, 36g protein - it is boring as hell. Needs more cinnamon, more vanilla, and more almond flavor. Also soupier than I expected. Will have to play around with ratios.

A shot of a calorie-tracking app showing an overnight oats recipe. It includes 40g rolled oats, 30g whey powder, 10g chia seeds, 0.5 tsp cinnamon, 1 dash salt, 0.5 tsp vanilla extract, 15g unsweetened creamy almond butter, 7.039 oz (200ml) unsweetened almond milk, and a packet of Equal sweetener, without which this truly would've been a flavorless tragedy.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 06/08/2026

Doing some actual on-paper sketching while on vacation. Been a while since I drew much. Really need to go back to doing some photo studies! Still, baby steps back into the habit.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 05/08/2026

Album of the Year - Faith No More OK Computer - Radiohead Secret Samadhi - Live Urban Hymns - The Verve

The album cover for Faith No More's Album of the Year. It is a black and white photograph of a man leaning out a train window. He is wearing a white suit and derby hat. He holds a bouquet of flowers in his left hand. With his right, he is either giving or receiving a smaller bouquet from a hand reaching up from out of frame. Small text in the bottom right says "album of the year"

The album cover to OK Computer by Radiohead. It is a digital collage. A white background with a superimposed highway in blue. There are some "lost child" airport signs, and what looks like a small piece of an airport safety guide. There is also an inscrutable humanoid figure superimposed partly over the road.

The album cover for Live's Secret Samadhi. It is a charcoal grey flat square with a black vaguely eastern-influenced swirling design of what looks like a demon face in the center. The words "Live" and "Secret Samadhi" sit over the demon face

The album cover to Urban Hymns by The Verve. It is a photo of the five band members in spring attire (jeans, button-downs, polos, sneakers, etc) all sitting on the grass at Richmond Park in London. There are trees in the background.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 23/07/2026

Hi, I just published my sixth novel, a contemporary comic fantasy called Possessed! More info here and I'd be happy to furnish copies. People are saying it's "really funny!" and "a banger!" and "wow, you write women as actual human beings!" cwbwriting.com/books/posses...

The cover to Possessed. A completed color illustration in which we can see three people walking down a Miami street at sunset. Two young women and one young man. One of the women is looking into a store window, and we can see that her reflection has been replaced by a demonic figure. At the top is the word POSSESSED scrawled in what looks like white acrylic paint. The bottom of the curve in the D is elongated and there are splatters at its end. At the bottom, in white sans-serif deco font, are the words "CHRISTOPHER BUECHELER"

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 17/07/2026

The hell is Vanilla bringing to this party? (Yes, I'm eating Jonas Bros ice cream. Shut up)

A zoomed in shot of an ice cream box showing that it's a limited edition Jonas Brothers flavor that's 1/3 coffee cookie crumble, 1/3 chocolate marshmallow, and 1/3 ... vanilla.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 15/07/2026

Whoah, okay there Amtrak, let's just ... let's just calm down.

A screenshot of an auto-translated voice mail from Amtrak. It reads: "this is Amtrak calling with a status update for Christopher Butler important boating notice the cars on asshole and 94 will be situated in the platform in a different ..."

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 11/07/2026

Doing a tasting at the Guinness storehouse.

It's my fingers holding up a tiny 1/8th punt of Guinness in the background is a blurry dark room with a gold chandelier.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 10/07/2026

If you have to put up a sign like this in your hotel bathroom, what you have is not a usage problem. You have a design problem. The fix is not a sticker. It's designing a bathroom that is usable by people with all levels of mobility.

A sticker on the bathroom wall of a Staycity hotel that says "please do not grab the towel rail as you exit the bath/shower" and then, I'm bold, "this is not a hand rail"

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 10/07/2026

Airplane sketching on the way to Dublin. Need to get back to drawing more!

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 27/06/2026

Celebratory "we went to IKEA and didn't get into a fight" mocktails

A rocks glass full of ice and red liquid, and a Nick-abd-Nora glass full of green liquid.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 27/06/2026

Finally cool enough in the morning for our first café breakfast in the new neighborhood! We haven't really been able to do this for the last two years. Our old hood was nice, but didn't have a close enough café. Now we have at least six options within two blocks!

Two pains aux chocolats, two oranges pressés, a café crème, and a double espresso.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 20/06/2026

At a friend's 50th birthday party in the middle of goddamn nowhere in France. Having a good time! A little hot, but it's certainly pretty.

The sun shines through the branches and leaves of two massive oak trees, their branches spreading very wide.

Sunset over the green hills and farmland of the French countryside.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 18/06/2026

My new book, POSSESSED is NOW AVAILABLE in print and eBook formats! $3.99 US for eBook, $12.99 US for print (signed copies also available for a limited time). If you like contemporary comedic fantasy, or if you've liked my other books, you'll love this one! cwbwriting.com/books/posses... #booksky

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 17/06/2026

I will again mention that there is effectively no domestic air conditioning in this country. This is a VERY long stretch for these temps, even with the reasonable overnight lows. Buildings' thermal inertia will at first help, but then eventually trap the heat indoors.

A shot of the next ten days of weather, showing nothing but sun, with highs of 89F, 97F, 95F, 91F, 98F, 101F, 94F, 92F, 95F, and 94F. Lows are in the high sixties and low seventies.

A screenshot of the next ten days of weather, showing highs of 32C, 37C, 36C, 33C, 37C, 39C, 35C, 34C, 35C, and 35C

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 14/06/2026

This country has basically no residential AC. At least we'll be able to open the windows at night (allowing mosquitos free access since this country also doesn't believe in screens), but god damn.

A shot of the forecast showing highs next week of 89F, 93F, 94F, 95F, 98F, and 85F.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 10/06/2026

Here are the total album counts by band. No HUGE surprises here but I'm a little shocked by how many Muse albums I own. I like them just fine but wouldn't consider them in my top 15 or so bands. Same with Gorillaz. Also a bit surprised by how much RHCP I listened to as a kid. I'd forgotten!

A spreadsheet with the following values:

Our Lady Peace 10
Big Wreck 9
Silversun Pickups 9
Alice In Chains 7
Gorillaz 7
Live 7
Manchester Orchestra 7
Smashing Pumpkins 7
Stone Temple Pilots 7
VAST 7
Muse 6
Nothing But Thieves 6
Tool 6
AWOLNATION 5
Dave Matthews Band 5
Puscifer 5
Red Hot Chili Peppers 5
A Perfect Circle 4
Faith No More 4
Queens of the Stone Age 4
Royal Blood 4
Alpha Conspiracy 3
Bad Snacks 3
Incubus 3
Massive Attack 3
Middle Class Rut 3
Radiohead 3
REM 3
The Black Keys 3
The Blue Stones 3
The Decemberists 3
The Verve 3
Young the Giant 3
Zero-7 3
3rd Secret 2
Bad Books 2
Cage the Elephant 2
Cake 2
CKY 2
Elysian Fields 2
Kings of Leon 2
MD 2
Nirvana 2
Octavate 2
Pearl Jam 2
Soundgarden 2
U2 2
XYZZY 2
Army of Anyone 1
Audioslave 1
Autechre 1
Band of Skulls 1
Barefoot Gravediggers 1
Bowery Electric 1
Cat Stevens 1
Cowlick 1
DangerDoom 1
Disturbed 1
Eiffel 1
Eileen Noise 1
Ethel Cain 1
Everclear 1
Filter 1
Guns n Roses 1
Jerry Cantrell 1
King Hannah 1
King Missile 1
Linkin Park 1
Lovage 1
Mahal 1
Man Made Sunshine 1
Meg Meyers 1
Moby 1
Panic! At the Disco 1
Primus 1
Reignwolf 1
Seether 1
Sungazer 1
The Tea Party 1
Them Crooked Vultures 1
Tomahawk 1
Tosca 1
Zwan 1

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 10/06/2026

Holy shit, we did it! This project's been going on for almost six months, but I've listened to and documented every album in my regular collection! Thanks to all those who've replied with their thoughts! 😘

Frodo surrounded by the fires of Mount Doom looking devastated. Below him the subtitles read "It's done."

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 10/06/2026

No One Leaves Clean (2026) - Eileen Noise. This is a project between Marco, an Italian bassist who did basically all of the music and Sophie, an American (I think) singer. Grunge-influenced hard rock. The music's fairly typical post-grunge imo (POD, Staind, etc), but the vocalist is very good.

The album cover for Eileen Noise. It's a photograph of a woman leaning out of the backseat window of a car (70s or 80s sedan, it looks like) that's driving down a gravel road in what looks like the mojave desert under an overcast sky, with hills in the background. The woman is very 90s heroin chic: young and broadly attractive; pale skin; very thin; somewhat stringy, long, dark hair; tons of eye shadow/liner; a black tank top; a necklace with a cross pendant. She looks very grumpy. At the top right of the image in black typewriter font are the words "eileen noise" and below that in the same font but smaller and in grey, the words "no one leaves clean"

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 10/06/2026

When your data guy updates a bunch of models and has already tested everything, but still needs someone else to approve the PR

A screenshot from Github of me approving a pull request with the message "Yes, this all definitely looks like things I understand and know what they do!"

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 10/06/2026

Victory Garden (2026) - Young the Giant. I didn't like their previous album, American Bollywood. It was a bit more experimental and just didn't grab me. First time listening to this one; it appears to move back more toward their pop-rock roots. Seems fine. This is never going to be a favorite band.

The album cover to Victory Garden by Young the Giant. It's a cream-colored square. It's padded about half an inch on all sides. Inside that is a black and white photo that appears to be taken at an outdoor festival of some sort. There's a crowd of people in front of a bunch of trees and a clear sky (which fades into the cream color of the background). In the foreground of the picture, a young woman has her head tilted back and her hands raised, eyes closed, an expression of quasi-religious rapture on her face. The rest of the crowd, mostly men, seems a bit nonplussed. Above all of this in hand-painted lettering are the words "YOUNG THE GIANT" in green and "VICTORY GARDEN" in orange. Above the green are three simple painted flowers in purple, yellow, and orange.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 09/06/2026

The Mountain (2026) - Gorillaz. This is literally my first time listening to this album. It uh … sounds like Gorillaz? Like at this point you kind of know what you're getting. A ton of guest stars. Damon Albarn doing Damon Albarn things. Poppy electronica. I'm maybe a touch burned out on this band.

The album cover for The Mountain by Gorillaz. It is an image of the top of a mountain above a vast, cloud-filled sky (most of the clouds are lower than the mountain). On top of the mountain are the four Gorillaz characters, variously perched and looking off into the distance. Above them in a gradiented yellow-to-orange, heavily outlined in black font is the hindi word for "Mountain".

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 09/06/2026

Just to add to the "writers don't need AI to give artists a brief" discourse, here is the single sample sketch I sent to Alyssa, and here is the amazing cover she produced for POSSESSED ... Artists will figure it out. In fact, it's usually better if you DON'T give them too specific direction.

A god-awful pencil sketch of a wraparound book cover. The back features some palm trees and a building. The spine says "POSSESSED" and the front shows three people, barely more than stick figures, walking in front of a window. The window is reflecting a nebulous, shadowy shape instead of the person in the lead. At the top it says "CHRISTOPHER BUECHELER" and at the bottom "POSSESSED"

A completed color illustration in which we can see three people walking down a Miami street at sunset. Two young women and one young man. One of the women is looking into a store window, and we can see that her reflection has been replaced by a demonic figure. At the top is the word POSSESSED scrawled in what looks like white acrylic paint. The bottom of the curve in the D is elongated and there are splatters at its end. At the bottom, in white sans-serif deco font, are the words "CHRISTOPHER BUECHELER"

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 09/06/2026

POSSESSED - My new novel, is out June 18th, Pre-Orders available now! Just $3.99! Today's character is Matthias, the cult leader, illustrated by the amazing @beavs.bsky.social Here's a pic, a description, and some quotes/scenes Learn More: cwbwriting.com/books/posses... #BookSky

Matthias has been obsessed with demonology since his encounter with a possessed woman when he was in his twenties. He has spent three decades researching, studying, and searching for arcane knowledge. Though he hides it well, he has also become unstable, dangerous, and obsessed with punishing the people of Miami.

Older than he seems, and much scarier than Shannon realizes, Matthias has spent his entire life waiting for the opportunity to bond with a demon. When Amber accidentally takes that opportunity from him, he is crestfallen and enraged. Unsure what, exactly, prevented the thing he considers his birthright, and unwilling to admit to any of his devotees that the procedure didn't work, he buys time with other magic while attempting to suss out what went wrong.

As time drags on, and he grows more desperate, Matthias begins to consider other, more terrible actions to get what he wants.

He will bring Miami to its knees, and anyone who stands in his way had better have help.

“I used to be like you,” he said. “Or perhaps more like Dylan. I was young and stupid, and while I wanted to believe, I’d never been shown anything to believe in, so I mostly focused on getting drunk and getting laid. I was never in a group like our family, but off and on I met people who believed. Most of them were hopeless. All of them, until Cassandra. She believed, but that wasn’t all of it. She was also real in a way the others weren’t. It was like all the other people I’d met were fuzzy, indistinct shadows and she was the only person I’d ever known who was a full part of the world. She glowed.”

He paused and looked away, the expression on his face not what Amber had expected. There was no nostalgia there. In fact, he looked a little sick.

There were gasps as it happened, but before anyone could say anything, a single wide rope of fire launched itself along the table toward Matthias. It leapt the gap, even as he continued chanting, his voice now a roar, and hit him square in the chest. In the next instant, his entire body went up in flames.

Next to Amber, Shannon’s gasp turned into a cry of terror, and she stepped forward, as if there was anything she was going to be able to do for Matthias other than join him in burning to death. It was already way too late for stop, drop, and roll. The guy was a walking inferno. Amber pulled on Shannon’s shoulders and, when that didn’t work, Dylan reached out and grabbed her arms. Everyone else remained rooted to their spots.

“Let me go!” Shannon shouted, struggling against Dylan’s grip.

“Dude, not a fuckin’ chance,” Dylan said, and his voice was such an odd combination of baffled shock and common sense that Amber burst out laughing.

... there's more but Bsky limits alt text length, sorry!

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 07/06/2026

Normal Isn't (2026) - Puscifer. I am listening to this album for the first time as I type this! It's still adhering to what's becoming kind of the standard pseudo-electronica Puscifer formula at this point, but it's at least less soporific than their previous release. There's more going on.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 06/06/2026

At the Nanterre / AS Monaco playoff game. Great crowd! Unfortunately, Nanterre has missed basically every single open shot they've had, and also have like three hundred turnovers. Down fifteen at the half. Let's go, third quarter comeback!

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 05/06/2026

"You'll grow more conservative as you get older!" I'm 49 and this dot has not moved northeast in the slightest in nearly 20 years. www.politicalcompass.org

A political compass made up of economic on the X axis and social on the Y axis, with Authoritarian at the north and Libertarian at the south, left-leaning economically on the west, right-leaning economically on the east. My dot is in the far southwest, meaning very left-leaning economically and very anti-authoritarian.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 05/06/2026

Tenterhooks (2026) - Silversun Pickups. We've reached this year. Truth is, I haven't listened to this or any 2026 album much, because I've been busy doing this thread! Some catchy tunes on this one (Nikki's Au Revoir Reservoir is a banger). Some weird rhythm choices. Needs more listens to hook me.

The album cover to Tenterhooks by Silversun Pickups. In keeping with their other covers, it is largely abstract. It's a painting, starting brown at the bottom and then moving to yellow-orange at the top, albeit not in a smooth gradient. In the brown section is what looks like a wood burning illustration of mountains and fir trees. Above that we move into the yellow-orange section, which looks like a watercolor panting, with bands of umbers blending into the more yellow tones. In the center is what resembles a smoothed-over mountain, long eroded, but it's formed entirely with shades of pink, and slight highlights of light blue. Here are there are scattered small rectangular shapes, and shapes that look like slightly distorted upside-down "U"s. At the bottom in which sans-serif font are the words "SILVERSUN PICKUPS" and below them, in larger, gold-foil serif font the word "TENTERHOOKS" - the "Tenter" part is slightly larger than the "Hooks" part, and the cross bars on both "T"s extend further on the right than on the left.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 04/06/2026

Heeyyyy there it is. Wilt Chamberlain is a cheat code in this game. Fun little app, though! 82-0.com Amusingly, Chamberlain (and Hayes) would be even MORE powerful if they'd tracked blocks and steals back then.

A screenshot from 82-0.com showing that a basketball team with Fat Lever at PG, Pete Maravich at SG, Larry Bird at SF, Elvin Hayes at PF, and Wilt Chamberlain at C scores a perfect 82-0, with a total scored of 112.6 points. 122 PPG, 62.8 RPG, 27.6 APG, 5.8 SPG, 1.4 BPG

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 03/06/2026

The Rest of the Story (2025) - Big Wreck. This album has the distinction of having the first and only Big Wreck song I've ever genuinely hated on it: Holy Roller, a Van Halen tribute. I do not like Van Halen. Other than that, the album's solid. I feel like Big Wreck could slow their pace a bit tho.

The album cover to The Rest of the Story by Big Wreck. It is a battered and scuffed notebook/sketchbook cover. It's pink-red, with a square, white double border near its edges In the center is an embossed sunburst with an angel that looks like it's unconscious and being held in someone's arms, though there is no someone holding it. Above that, also embossed, in distressed white, sans-serif display font, are the words "BIG WRECK" and below it, non-embossed, in distressed, yellow-white, serif font, are the words "THE REST OF THE STORY". Behind this notebook cover, along the right side, you can see a hint of the album cover for their previous album, Pages.

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