Reposted by Ellis BrayDiabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 27/07/2025If you are thinking of starting a fiction publication, do everyone including yourself a favor and do at least the minimum due diligence of doing your best to avoid copyright infringement by making sure the writers have granted you unambiguous permission to publish their work. 2435
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 19/12/2024FAFSA has an opinion on noses in higher education. 010
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 07/12/2024CVS, who treats their employees like shit, took the photo of their CEO down but it’s very googleable 010
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 07/12/2024For tonight’s autistic rabbit hole, I discovered a letter in a medical journal, responding cattily to an article on emergency management of cauda equina syndrome. He medicsplains the paper to its authors, complete with “helpful hints”. 1/ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 100
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 04/12/2024My autistic self-soothing technique is reading about medical pathologies. Since I just had a pulmonary function test, I fell down the pulmonary rabbit hole tonight. Where I found THIS JEWEL 230
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 02/12/2024This is what 30.5 hours of effort looks like 😅. “Tea for 3.” Procreate 131
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 28/11/2024“After several minutes, the ringing in your ears returns to its background status and your eyes no longer hurt, though you still catch flashes of afterimages burned in your retinas whenever your focus shifts too suddenly.” 141
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 25/11/2024This week’s topic in Law & Ethics was reproductive rights. *Nobody* wanted to jump into the online discussion; tiptoes all around. Me: (1/)media.tenor.coman elderly woman in a blue jacket is holding a megaphone to her mouth .ALT: an elderly woman in a blue jacket is holding a megaphone to her mouth . 130
Reposted by Ellis BrayBrian U. Garrison @bugthewriter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Micropoetry for Microplanets is the perfect gift for anyone interested in space. Or a good gift to put in a little free library. Or just send me money and I will put a copy in a little free library near me. Info about my book on my website. Stop on by!website.top盾集域名停放-全球优质行业导航备案网站盾集域名停放【dns1.dopa.com,dns2.dopa.com】本着让资源创造价值的使命,助力推动网络资源应用共享,为客户和合作伙伴创造更高价值;为中小企业提供数字化、快速化、轻量化、精准化的网站链接服务! 021
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 24/11/2024This is a cool (and depressing) infographic of just how big the Big 5 actually are: almossawi.com/big-five-pub...almossawi.comThe Big Five US Trade Book PublishersWith all the imprints out there, it's sometimes difficult to know which imprint belongs to which of the big five publishers. 111
Reposted by Ellis Brayslate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 23/11/2024doctor: make sure you drink plenty of fluids me: that’s literally all i drink 113125751432
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 24/11/2024On December 6 I’m taking part in Seattle’s Punk Rock Flea Market, which just has the coolest vibes. It started as a fundraiser for Low Income Housing Programs & now just takes over abandoned buildings & sells local art (& donates to LIHP after each show) Anyway. I helped make a promo for them. 2123
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Ok, I’m back. I’m going to try to make this work for human interaction and occasional self-promotion. We’ll see how long I last 😅 230
Reposted by Ellis BrayThe Future Fire @thefuturefire.bsky.social · 15/04/2024We also have some really nice art from these fab people: Joel Bisaillon @fluffgar.bsky.social Katharine A. Viola Melkorka L.E. Badillo @flytingnwriting.bsky.social 283
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 01/03/2024HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! I am so thrilled to announce that I will be teaching poetry this August at the Willamette Writers Conference. Registration is now open! You can find out more at Bit.ly/Wilwrite24. #wilwrite24 041
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 29/01/2024Contract is signed and I’m thrilled to say that my quiet slipstream ghost story “Day 3” will be a part of the MIDNIGHT LABYRINTH anthology! This story has all the trauma your therapist wishes you’d examine. It hurt like hell to write; I hope it hurts you all to read 😅 @grendelpress.bsky.social 120
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 09/01/2024First digital painting of the year is in the bag 😁 000
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 31/12/2023Today is the first day in 8 weeks that I climbed the stairs in my house without getting short of breath. I caught a small virus that became a horrible respiratory exacerbation. I have cracked ribs from coughing so hard. Please mask up if you are inside. 140
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 13/12/2023My eyes are leaking. They liked their piece that they paid me to make. They gave me real money in exchange for art and then said nice things about it. 110
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 11/12/2023Went on an art date today. I don’t hate this but it definitely taught me some things 😂 000
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 09/12/2023First commission piece is done! I’m so proud of it! Just waiting for the hanging bit to cure & I’ll send it off to its new home. (The client found me at a small SFF con & said his ex would love one if the colors were different & commissioned it on the spot) #art #commissions #pyrography #mixedmedia 010
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 09/12/2023I organized my procreate folders. Look at how pretty they are now! 110
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 05/12/2023Guys. I’m just. Really proud of this poem so I want to share a couple lines thank you for indulging me 120
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 29/11/2023My immune system thinks my body juice glands are a threat. 010
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 29/11/2023I am utterly utterly verklempt. 😭 (I sold this print at the show this weekend but it was in the sale bin because I could not budge it) 120
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 28/11/2023I *really* want to post a poem I wrote up here but if I did that and then later decided I wanted to submit it for publication, it would have to be as a reprint. Thank you for coming to my TEDBitch 020
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 28/11/2023The view from my front door this morning. A moon with a ring around it. Gonna guess Seattle traffic is gonna be stupid AF as a result. 010
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 27/11/2023Another glass quill dip pen and walnut ink drawing, courtesy of Walnut Ink & Quills. My gnome collection grows 😁 #gnomeart #cottagecore #art #inkandpaper 020
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 27/11/2023Ahhhhh my wooburned skull AND my watchpiece clock found forever homes today!! 😁 110
Reposted by Ellis BrayA. Faë @anaisfae.art · 22/10/2023I never know how to promote myself but hey I have a shop and it helps pay the bills anaisfae.art/shop Boosts super appreciated, thanks! #art #supportartists 7249110
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 26/11/2023Guys, I think I accidentally adopted this sweet autistic teenager at the art show. This is our 3rd show together & he keeps coming up to show me things from his booth because he’s so proud of them & he wants me to be proud of them too. And gosh darn it, I AM proud of them. He’s a good kid. 180
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 26/11/2023Little ink drawing at #tacomanightmarket. Gonna make a good base for a woodburning project I think 😁 030
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 23/11/2023Guys, at Orycon I got my very first commission: a woodburning of a tree with birds and a green gold ombré background. I just finished the burning. I need to show it to you all. #art #pyrography #commissions 140
Reposted by Ellis BraySteve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 23/11/2023Mother of God! This first paragraph of John Updike's article for the New Yorker in 1963 on the Kennedy assassination is one of the most incandescently brilliant ledes I've ever read. www.newyorker.com/magazine/196... 841682
Reposted by Ellis Braycait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23/11/2023one of the biggest things about finding a partner is they absolutely must be the same level of hater as you. you cannot have a mixed vibes relationship 30875117
Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 23/11/2023Gradually returning to the textual landscape of social media after having spent most of the last year exclusively on instagram, posting and talking about art. (If that’s something you’re into, find me over there! @idreamofvikings) 040