Trick Weekes

@trickweekes

Narrative Designer by day (Mass Effect, Dragon Age), Novelist by night (The Palace Job, Feeder). (they/them, views strictly mine, OC do not steal)

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Trick Weekes@trickweekes· 13d

Excited beyond words to have a story in DC’s Hawk-Girl Summer! Let’s hit the beach! Writer: Me Art: @nikolacizmesija.bsky.social Colors: @francescosegala.bsky.social Letters: @droog811.bsky.social Thanks to editor Katie Kubert for making it happen.

Panel from a comic book showing Shining Knight (Ystin), a hero in gold armor with a sword, and Kid Quick (Jess Chambers, Earth-11), a hero in red and black, introducing themselves to one another.

Comic book cover showing Hawkgirl (Kendra Saunders) spiking a volleyball on a beach with the title “Hawk-Girl Summer”

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· 14d

Reposted with alt text.

Screenshot of three Tumblr or similar social media posts in order:

goldensunset
has anyone else noticed that the classic sci fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus features a Torment Nexus? That's pretty problematic of the author

firestorm09890
the main character eventually recognizes the torment nexus is bad but by that point I had already stopped reading the book because I don't condone the torment nexus, the narrative really should've condemned it outright :/

some-sort-of-humanoid-lifeform
Really it's also problematic that you started reading it, at all. I mean, good on you for stopping when you realized but if you were *really* a good and decent person you would have read reviews first and known not to even buy it in the first place.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· 17d

But but but but

Screencap of top of Wikipedia page for Broccolini, a vegetable similar to broccoli but with smaller florets, and which you get redirected to if you search wikipedia for Baby Broccoli

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· 18d

My accountant, looking at my receipt for Devon Aoki’s ride from 2 Fast 2 Furious: And you want to claim this for… Me: Work expense. Her: … Me: I needed it for one of my Daggerheart games. Her: Are you PAID to run those? Me: I COULD be!

A Lego box for a Lego set with text saying “Speed Champions” and “Fast & Furious.” The car is a pink fancy tricked out Honda.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Jun 12

Walked into a mall, saw the Uniqlo logo, and spent several seconds trying to make it work as "Loss".

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· May 20

I mean, this is general goblin rather than specifically Gollum, and it's from 2019, so apparently I've been doing this forever.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· May 18

Krista Krista Krista look what I made last night from scratch!

A bowl of noodles and vegetables sitting on a plate that has a green onion cake cut into quarters sitting around the bowl. A hand is visible holding one of the quarters.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· May 18

In case that might be construed as me being unhappy to have Felix, he is an amazing blessing upon our home, and we are lucky to have him. Here he is on his dog bed.

A respectably large dog that is some kind of mix (husky or malamute, some Shepherd, probably? A mixture of brown and grey with the mask markings that give him a soulful look) taking up most of a black couch and lying with a blanket and a chew toy that looks like Deadpool’s mask by his head.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· May 18

Me, talking to sons: Then Karin told me that no, not everyone saw "the cosmic donut,", and THEN Karin looked at the pic I mocked up for it, and THEN Karin had me image-search "visual migraines." Son, looking at my mockup pic: Wait. Does not everyone see that? Us: ... Son: GOD DAMMIT.

A stock photo of a backyard with a pool in one corner and poolside furniture on the other side. In the middle of the screen, there's a donut shape wider than it is tall. The donut shape is gray and transparent, but it glows and appears to kind of shimmer at the edges.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· May 17

Me, in my Stargate: SG-1 rewatch: It's not that I think Ba'al is hot. I just respect his amused attitude as a refreshing change from most Goa'uld. Ba'al: (Shows up in a suit and tie.) Me: God damn it, Trick, you basic-ass pansexual.

Cliff Simon as Ba'al in Stargate: SG-1, wearing a modern human suit rather than a Goa'uld outfit -- a dark striped coat and pants and a yellow tie, sitting with a cocky grin.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Apr 20

Oh, so THIS made-up word is unacceptable? I have to use YOUR made-up word? (I still have not entered the actual word they want me to use, no. Apparently I feel very strongly about this.)

Phone screencap close-up on some Wordle-type game with URBGN typed, letters in orange to indicate that this isn’t a valid English word and can’t be picked.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Apr 7

“Oh, John, I’d love you even more.”

Scorpio’s from Farscape (pale corpse like alien in bondage gear) smiling while wearing some kind of headset.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Apr 2

Thanks to the Candy Mermaid from Lego’s old VIDIYO line, I have a “close enough for game night” version of the femme fatale who broke one PC’s heart years ago by betraying the resistance.

Lego minifig on stand on a Lego box. The minifig has a big pink dress with a top that is candy themed and sexy (by Lego standards) in a kind of Katy Perry/Sabrina Carpenter way. She has a big smile and big pale green hair with purple highlights blowing in the nonexistent wind. Basically, she looks like A Lot.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Apr 2

The tough thing about using Lego minifigs for the Daggerheart 1949 game I’m running is the lack of period-appropriate dresses. “I doing my best to drown the sins of the day when she walked in with an angel’s smile and a devil’s dress,” and my options are:

A lineup of Lego minifigures in dresses standing on an unrelated Lego box. Left to right: Old West Robot Bar Lady (Lego movie), Vampire Queen, Roman Goddess, Old West Wyldstyle (Lego movie), Ballerina, Marie-Antoinette-looking French noblewoman.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Mar 23

My coworker is really rubbing in her lack of morning meetings.

Cat (mostly black, with white belly and paws and bits of brown here and there) lying ridiculously on her back with one paw extended, on a bed with fuzzy blankets all around her.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Mar 15

Okay, you know what? While nobody is gonna confuse this with something made professionally, I’m pretty proud of my from-scratch effort here.

A slice of homemade pesto lasagna, showing layers of cheese, pesto, and spinach. (So it’s white and green, not white and red like other lasagnas.)

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Feb 15

This is like when Disney+ listed The Owl House under “Disney Favorites”

Screencap of an email from Netflix saying “Remember this?” And it’s Shadow and Bone, the fun fantasy/heist show that got canceled on a cliffhanger.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Feb 10

Agent: I'd like to see your first hundred pages. Me, visibly sweating: Howwwww about the first hundred and FIVE?

Screenshot showing the end of page 104 of a manuscript and the start of page 105. The text reads:

Her hand locks on my shoulder, pulls me to her.
And then she kisses me.
(page break)
It's fast and desperate, her hand tight on my shoulder. She tastes like salt and blood. for a...
(and then cuts off)

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Feb 8

Or I guess not watching the Super Bowl because Crave decided it just wasn't gonna work? Olympics it is!

Screenshot of Crave showing "An error has occurred" on a black background.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Feb 6

First Game Night of the year for the local Daggerheart game I run. Am bringing some Gamer Food.

A large Tupperware-type bowl with its top off. It’s filled with homemade chocolate chip cookies.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Jan 30

New dating profile just dropped.

Close-up of semaphore listings with two flags highlighted: A red-and-white checkered flag that means "YOU ARE RUNNING INTO DANGER" and a flag wit two black triangles, one red triangle, and one yellow triangle, that means "I REQUIRE A TUG."

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Jan 24

Stargate SG-1 feeling topical almost 30 years later.

Teal'c from Stargate SG-1 askng, with as much confusion as Teal'c ever shows, "The war with Canada?"

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Jan 20

This is the excellent storytelling and "Doing this on a trackpad with no mouse" art that my players have come to expect.

A view of an online battlemap for a tabletop game. On the left, a screencap of Moya from Farscape stands in for a big ship. Next to it are two circular icons showing an elf and an infernis (a tiefling from D&D but in the Daggerheart game). Charging them, a swarm of enemy ships. A big enemy cruiser on the far right has an ominous "5" next to it. At the bottom of the screen, a mid-sized enemy ship with "Hunter's Mark" and a glowing circle of lightning around it has fired a hand-drawn squiggle of red at a hero token of an orc, which now has "Restrained" and a kind of badly drawn star of energy around it. All enemy ships are overhead shots of ships from the Homeworld video game. The background is a star field with purple and teal nebulae.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Jan 13

Listen, LinkedIn, I know my expositional paragraphs can be boring sometimes, but you don't have to start calling them that.

A LinkedIn text from "Teledyne FLIR" that reads, "Hi Trick, As a Novelist at Self-Employed, detecting invisible gas leaks quickly and accurately is critical to safety and compliance..." and is cut off after that.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Dec 11

I wish I loved anything with the sheer unbridled joy my younger cat feels having me toss the catnip toys her way. “Oh my god this is the BEST! It‘s like Fetch but with drugs at the end!”

A calico cat on a cat perch blurrily swatting at something in the air.

A calico cat on a cat perch rolling over to rub against a cat toy.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Dec 5

Just a note: I tried to go to your page and was blocked. Might be because I'm not in the U.S., or something odd with the links, but none of them worked for me. That could be affecting sales!

A "Wordfence" notification saying that your access to this site has been limited by the site owner, with the reason being Advanced blocking in effect.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Dec 1

Palate cleanser: my cat and her dog.

Photo: On a bed with blue sheets, there is a large dog, maybe shepherd, maybe husky, something in that neighborhood. He is lying with long paws stretched out. There is a dark calico cat stretched across his paws with her own paw extended (ending in a white sock) over his to claim ownership.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Nov 12

This was from our light-flooded front yard.

Tops of night-silhouetted trees in a suburban neighborhood, and above them, an aurora in the sky, rosy pink shifting to green as it gets higher.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Oct 30

Daggerheart success! The heroes stopped a ritual taking place in a military history museum, specifically the (this world equivalent of) Egyptian/Ancient World section.

Lego battlemat showing overhead view of a large room There are little exhibits everywhere and minifigs looking at them.

Lego battlemat, close view. In foreground, a tiny simple pyramid, with Lego Movie's Unikitty beside it as a sphinx. In the background, a weird blue wall with a pink-armored figure impaled and stuck to the wall with a sword.

Close-up view of Lego battlemat showing a Lego version of the embalming process, with a skeleton serving as the dessicated corpse. Embalming tools, chemicals, and canopic jars are nearby, as is an apparently mummified cat.

Trick Weekes@trickweekes· Oct 19

No Kings but Zalman