Townsend S. Wright

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A vampirically pale scarecrow hopefully coming to the Sci-Fi section of a bookstore near you! Bookseller. He/they townsendwright.com

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Townsend S. Wright@townsend· 10h

What happens after the #SexPurge? Introducing, the #SexCops #comic

Splash panel: an early morning cityscape with a cop car in the foreground and people boning all around. "Premarital sex is legal for One Night Only/ The Sex Purge/ For the other 365, there's guys like us”
Panel 2: closeup on a man absolutely fingerblasting a doughnut, his badge reads SEX COP. “Sex Cops/ specially trained t" "364"
Panel 3: zoom out, stout doughnut eater sits in the passenger seat next to a lanky younger partner with a fuck-ass haircut. "wha-" "sex is legal one night, so we're needed the other 364" "You hearin' my inner monologue, rookie?" ''Yer just talking out loud, Lockhart"
Panel 4: zoom out on the cop car, the two characters cast in silhouette. "shut up, Iglesias. It's a leap year, anyway" "No, it's not/ it Was, 2 years ago, the first full-" "I said shut up!”
Panel 5: extreme closeup on Lockhart’s sneering features. The game is on. The Sex Game. “Sun's up/ night's over/ time to Delicto some Flagrantes"

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· 2d

Not me repeatedly fucking up trying to letter for the first time in years. #SexPurge #comic #OneNightOnly #SexCops

Unfinished comic page with just the text inked, depicting two figures in a cop car in a city full of people boning. Text: “Premarital sex is legal for One Night Only/ The Sex Purge/ For the other 365, there’s guys like us/ Sex Cops/ specially trained t” “364” “wha—“ “sex is legal one night, so we’re needed the other 364” “You hearin’ my inner monologue, rookie?” “‘Yer just talking out loud, Lockhart” “shut up, Iglesias. It’s a leap year, anyway” “No, it’s not/ it Was, 2 years ago, the first full-“ “I said shut up!/ Sun’s up/ night’s over/ time to Delicto some Flagrantes”

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· 6d

Of course the thing that gets me to draw for the first time in months isn’t any of my actual comic story ideas, but a stupid joke based on the latest film Discourse.

Cartoony explorations of two men, a stout, grizzled old fellow and a weak-chinned string bean, some pencil some inked. They wear badges labeled “Sex Cop”. They are from the Sex Purge World.

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· 11d

I’m not sure anybody has ever looked as cool and ridiculous at the same time as Grace Jones in this movie.

Grace Jones in Conan the Destroyer. She’s wearing a sort of spiked leather vest open nearly down to her navel and a bronze plate strapped to her forehead. Not shown: pretty much just a thong below the waist. She looks sick as hell.

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· 11d

Now watching:

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· 11d

This thought occured to me yesterday and I was compelled to make a meme for the first time in my life.

The Predator Handshake meme. One arm reads "Romance Writers entering the Fantasy sphere with 'Romantasy'". The other reads "Literary Writers 'breaking bold new ground' with Sci-Fi". At their clasped hands it reads "A text that has mass appeal but utterly fails at the modern standards of a genre the author doesn't read".

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· May 31

Day 2 of the Bay Area Book Festival! In line for a talk about starships! #bayareabookfestival

Selfie of me at the Bay Area book festival with some retailer booths behind me

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· May 31

Haven’t even bothered to update the app yet, but I have called the manager on everybody’s behalf.

Bluesky feedback page with my text: “The point of adult content labels is to moderate your feed for specific posts and content, not *people* and not entire accounts. In the pre-public days one of the greater draws of Bluesky was that users had the freedom to self-report their adult content without consequence to the larger account, this new policy is not only blatant censorship, it a betrayal of the base that made this platform popular in the first place.
Porn is fine and good and has a place in our society, and people should be allowed to create, consume, or avoid it without supposed moderation being used as a cudgel against so-called undesirables.”

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· May 28

Oh fuck me, it’s the one Gaiman wrote that was ok at the time but has aged really poorly in context

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· May 10

Just bore witness to the “Tesla Prototype Cybercab,” for those drivers who want the experience of “what if 1990s Donald Trump was a TRON villain?”

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Apr 26

My used book Haul from my impromptu #IndipendentBookstoreDay crawl.

Used Books laid out on a blanket: “Space Punks” by Jonas Goonface, Art Myth and Ritual by KC Chang, Elric Saga pt 2 by Michael Moorcock, Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson, Merchanter’s Luck by CJ Cherryh, and Sundiver by David Brin

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Apr 6

Now watching Red Cliff, a film I know almost nothing about except it’s I think supposed to have good action scenes.

Blueray of Red Cliff I got from the library

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Mar 17

Lately I’ve been grabbing whatever cheesy Shaw Brothers movies I can find at the library, now enjoying Legend of the Bat which already has all the trappings of a bad old swashbuckler

Blue ray case for Shaw Bros. films The Emperor’s Tomb Raiders and Legend of the Bat, focused on the latter

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Mar 6

Also got the Sarglagon I was hoping for! Thank you free shipping sale for rewarding my terrible impulse control! #Pathfinder #Pathfinder2e

A mini of pathfinder’s sarglagon, a purple fish-like devil with pink fins and tentacles for hands

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Mar 6

And like that I am the proud owner of EVERY #Pathfinder adventure path pawn collection still available in physical form. Have I played these games? No. Will I? Probably not, but oh how I love my little cardboard guys.

My collection of pathfinder AP pawn sets, Extinction Curse being the latest

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Feb 28

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Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Jan 5

I have decided to spend my evening watching a cheesy old Shaw Brothers kungfu movie I checked out randomly from the library. Will report back

Poster for Holy Flame of the Martial World, all in Chinese

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Jan 2

FUCK

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Jan 1

Serialized in late 1929, Robert E. Howard of Conan the Barbarian fame wrote "Skull-Face", a short story centered on the villainous antics of the titular atlantean, who after being revived in the modern day plans…to overthrow white supremacy and white hegemony. Yeah. That's the villain's motivation.

Cover for Famous Fantastic Mysteries Dec 1952, featuring Robert E. Howard's "Skull Face"--a near-skeletal figure emerging from both the sea and a sarcophagus, surrounded by deeply offensive racial stereotypes that could only be printed in the mid 20th century.

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Jan 1

I am once more powerless to resist a @paizo.com sale. I don’t even know 1st edition! I just like the art and the lore! #pathfinder (My AP pawn sets collection is now complete as far as 1st ed ones that are still physically available!)

My newest ill advised pathfinder purchase: pocket editions of Monster Codex, Horror Adventures, and Villain Codex; and Ironfang Invasion Pawn Collection

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Dec 22

I am failing to temper chocolate out here but I am ready for Christmas nonetheless!

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Dec 19

Alternatively, going by the month of August…

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Dec 11

Once again I find myself powerless to resist the devilish “Sale” enchantments of the fiend @paizo.com

Starfinder GM Core pocket edition and a bunch of Pathfinder booster boxes BOUGHT ON SALE

Pathfinder Pawn collections for Return of the Runelords, War for the Crown, Tyrant’s Grasp, and Ruins of Azlant I bought ON SALE SERIOUSLY THESE WERE LIKE FIVE BUCKS EACH I WAS SUPPOSED TO RESIST THAT?

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Nov 28

If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Nov 27

My thanksgiving contribution.

A round glass serving vessel full of delicious homemade cranberry sauce

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Nov 26

…he might beat me to it though.

Text convo where I send my dad the link to the above skeet and he replies “OMG I might make that my new ringtone”

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Nov 13

‘Tis beautiful. One more for my collection. #Pathfinder #Pathfinder2e

Pathfinder 2e Monster Core 2, featuring Wayne Reynolds’ glorious sketch cover—featuring a pack of dinosaurs and flying bat like beings before a towering tzitzimitl—held in front of several of my other sketch cover Pathfinder books

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Nov 5

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE DID IT!

An acceptance email for a short story I wrote to Electric Spec magazine!

Townsend S. Wright@townsend· Oct 31

Found the hat for free at my local library and cobbled together the rest Happy Halloween everybody!