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Writer and mom living in Oakland. Short speculative fiction and serialized novels at https://joshannonphillips.substack.com/. I like old things, wild places, tall tales, and the people who tell them.🐉
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If you want to help Manny’s recover from this vandalism, here’s how:

Two things can be true: 1. Antisemitism is real. It upends people’s lives. It results in Jews dying. 2. Antisemitism is being exploited by the non-Jewish, antisemitic fascists running our nation to justify their agenda. They use Jews as human shields. 2 undermines our efforts to put an end to 1.🧵

A terrifying escalation:

If you are feeling helpless and adrift in the face of current events, I PROMISE you that finding a protest and joining (if you are able and have capacity) really can make you feel profoundly a part of things in an empowering way.

anyway I’m going out to protest this weekend because we haven’t been beaten yet, and I suggest you do the same it’ll make you feel better than reading an endless stream of posts about how we’re all doomed and we might as well offer ourselves up to be processed into slurry for the MAGA AI mines now

Newsom is doing what almost every Democrat in the country is afraid to do right now and he is going to reap all the rewards if they don’t hurry. As a California voter intimately familiar with Newsom’s actual policy bonafides, I am loudly imploring someone else to do that hurrying.

the hideous rot of life should make him easier to harvest

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

I have a new exclamation

How can’st thou endure without being mad?

yeah I'm not sure this is so much a petty feud between two men as it is the president of the United States sending troops to attack the people they're supposed to protect

Also, Journey is now part of the Indie California collection on BiblioBoard, so Californians can request it through their libraries: library.biblioboard.com/content/6326...

Monday's new chapter: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-17-the-...

Abolish ICE.

The best theater in the Bay Area, the Grand Lake in Oakland, committed long ago to never showing advertisements before screenings. (But they do have an organ player on Friday and Saturday nights.)

I'm really glad that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is coming back for due process, but what about Andry Hernandez Romero? Do we know anything?? I'm so so so worried about him

This is maybe a lil unseemly but I can't say I don't understand where they're coming from

New chapter: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-16-the-...

Happy Pride! And also "Bad Girls" by Tennis is a sapphic werewolf song. Not enough people are saying www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBht...

Here is my personal philosophy, based on several decades of watching publishers go under: the moment a publisher is late on money because they don't have it, they are the enemy and your goal is to get your rights back.

that's why i refuse to use baby talk and only refer them as "cinema". now to take a big sip of coffee and look up that word's etymology

"Even given everything that's happening, we must aggressively, ferociously celebrate every single win. Guard every spark of light. Let them fuel us. And let them help us bring the world we need into being."

without downloading any new pics where are you mentally

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 78 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (& today a video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

At the screening last night Tony Gilroy spoke about why a lot of people in creative fields are progressive. I forget his exact phrasing but basically it’s because you have to have empathy in order to make something that speaks to people. Refreshing to hear empathy talked about as a positive.

I'm going to re-up this. Every Dem in the country needs to study the messaging here, especially "progressive" NIMBYs in Seattle. Want to stick it to landlords? Allow for the construction of more housing. Want to fight displacement? Build more housing.

I love to see the cultural consensus on this movie coming around to respect. It was so fun and so good

Decompression fucks a body right up.

saw a really good bumper sticker at the gym today

Omg, 😍. “This is a site for pictures of owls… in towels.” owlsintowels.org

In the end, don't we all want the same thing? A secret library filled with occult books, an enchanted skull who gives questionable advice, and singing mice that will sew us fabulous outfits for the ball?

I genuinely think we should have a certification process. Like you submit your drafts to an oversight committee and you get a little "100% Humancrafted" logo to put on your cover

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

JOURNEY is out now ( www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8WTJXHJ , or can be ordered through your local bookstore). Reviewers interested in getting a copy, feel free to message me!

New chapter: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-15-the-...

The way I would phrase it is that the best way to recruit people is to try to be the kind of person other people want to be. And when the good guys present as neurotic messes and the bad guys sell themselves as unstoppable ubermensch, Not Good things become more likely.

After decades of attempting to Study my husband's masculine allure--subjecting him to numerous interviews on the subject--I have reluctantly concluded that a deep resistance to thinking about it is in fact part of it. Real manly men are only bewildered by this shit.

a terrible thing about the last ten or twenty years of comics is seeing how many massive talents are still with us and in poor health, dying young, forever freelancers that gave their physical health to make things that now fuel the biggest blockbusters ever. It’s not right.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.