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Quoth the Raymond

@raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social
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Poet-y: The Cataracts, Special Powers and Abilities, Saltwater Empire, Murder. I have big Captain Nemo feelings.

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 59m
Winding Wayfarers
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 1h
Camino Unreal
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 2h
Most of my Anne encounters are indeed along that route
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey mister! I had this essay about Micronauts and bad eyesight published! atlengthmag.com/nemo/
atlengthmag.com
Nemo
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Matt! This is wonderful!
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It is! It just tickles me that as coverage collapses elsewhere it’s the WSJ that steps into the breach!
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s weird!
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
And things like this define simpler times
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They cycle in and out, so if it’s been a while maybe they will be back soon…?
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
At Length!
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
… impeccable
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Song life cannot be sung nightly
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I mean, I only say things like “Oh my gosh Natalie I’m going down to the market for pop” as a form of ironic appreciation, so
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It induces a deep aural wrongness
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
No one will ever be more punk than Dolly Parton. The best of us.
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Planes waited a long time after Thunderbird to get Banshee too. Such patience!
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No ground upon which Terry Long stands can be trusted.
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Gavin! Please stop confirming Time, it will only give Time ideas.
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You survived the experience!
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Even the most hyperbolically deranged feedback I ever received was more reasoned and considered than what’s possible now.
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I would love a trilogy that went from the style of John Forte to that of Mike Grell and then Keith Giffen.
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
As long as it didn’t give you… paws
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The more interest in long, dense, weird, and obscure prose declines, the more committed I become to writing it
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Epistemological comfort tropes!
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The near-past, often shockingly grotesque, does not inspire confidence in the probity of the present
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I reckon they are also more likely to let her go wild in ways the WP would not
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Ah, descent to the level of “concern”
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It also seems weird to call it “escalation” when every act is a descent deeper into Hell
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Once again pondering how to create a society that is immune to the effect of wealth because the latter annihilates the former
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
He’s got the frown and wrinkled lip down, though
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
So much more embarrassing
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The Judge Dredd timeline of events seems more rational than the last ten years
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
My pleasure! 😇
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Can never think about that one without thinking of this one poets.org/poem/because...
poets.org
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry
Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Some did both 😅
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
So I suppose “story” encompasses “epic” but: EPIC
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
It seems like you really want to get started on this story, though
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
All praying mantises are Cretans
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
… did a praying mantis write this
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I did not anticipate being so embarrassed by a society in which I had so little faith to begin with
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
It’s not that things don’t make sense; it’s that the sense they make doesn’t make any sense
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Thank you for providing this reason to live, Caroline
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Too few!
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I have not but upon looking it up it seems like the kind of thing I would enjoy arguing with! Thank you for mentioning it!
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Standardization of printing conventions (binding, cut size, length, stock) grievously erodes literary imagination
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
When I put on boots this morning I nearly wept with relief
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Have any of you ever been completely ghosted by your own publisher and if so how did you cope
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
A perfect, merciless poem.
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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I just got a message that chicken tenders are now called chicken TOUGHS and that I’m not man enough to eat one
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