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Lee Black

@leeblack

Editor of ATOMIC ROBO, co-writer/-creator of ARISE, YE SKELETON KING!. Executive they/them, thanks. Hi. How are you

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Lee Black@leeblack· 25d

Cover of for bisexuals by bisexuals magazine titled Anything That Moves (1990-2002) responding to the Newsweek bisexuality issue: three bisexuals with much cooler styling and better lighting are holding the Newsweek mag together, reading with grossed out expressions

Lee Black@leeblack· 26d

Hannah Waddington…

Guy trying to bite through a keyboard

Lee Black@leeblack· 28d

Excerpt:

It didn't happen overnight, so maybe you didn't notice, but the signs of your transformation into slop publications were gradual, and preceded generative-Al. They began when you demanded horror fiction without blood, when you wanted romance but turned your nose up at eroticism and sexuality, and worst of all, when you wanted stories of rebellion and resistance, but dismissed anything that might be overly critical of the status quo. You chased away authors like Isabel Fall who drew a line connecting your industry and that of war criminals who still sponsor the annual Hugo Awards. You pretended to champion diversity while still prioritizing white perspectives, thus allowing frauds like Freydis Moon to play you all for fools for years, meanwhile actual marginalized authors were silenced for sounding the alarm bells. You stripped genre lit of everything that made it messy, uncomfortable, uncompromising, and human, and are surprised you wound up being the perfect marks for a machine.

Lee Black@leeblack· Jul 12

Sell your book in five words: five losers dig up sixth

The cast of ARISE, YE SKELETON KING!, L-R: Renfaer, Sila, Monty, ZUA ERL ANH, Erris, and Simnel, drawn by Escher Cattle and written by Lee Black (me) and Brian Clevinger

Lee Black@leeblack· Jul 10

When he was just a little guy a bedtime Churu was sleep insurance, he’d pass out all night like a grandpa at Thanksgiving, but now he’s a moose with a 15” chest and it’s bedtime Churu Or Else

Little baby Ollie, a gray colorpoint and white kitten with blue eyes and a pink nose and ears, curled up on a purple fake velvet armchair with a green rectangular throw pillow and an oatmeal colored crochet blanket folded on top

Big 2.5~ year old grown cat Ollie on the same blanket, visibly larger

Lee Black@leeblack· Jul 9

Ran some errands like an idiot

Bobby Hill in a blue (linen?) suit with a walking stick and white (straw?) hat fanning himself and saying “Well, I need a window seat because this flower is wiltin’”

Lee Black@leeblack· Jul 8

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender with one image

Sluggo sitting on a stool with a comically large old timey “rabbit ears” TV reception antenna on his head. His eyes are closed and his expression is blankly serene

Lee Black@leeblack· Jul 6

Saw someone sneer about the “drawn covers” on vintage romance novels, buddy if I had to rescue the original of this or you from a fire they’d be sending you home in an Altoids tin

The late ‘70s-early ‘80s high Gothic cover painting of the 1980 Gothic gay romance novel Gaywyck by Vincent Virga. A dark Mr. Darcy type stands with one hand on the shoulder of a seated blond twinkgenue. They’re somehow on the edge of a waterfall itself at the edge of the lawn of a great manse? I’ve never read it but I long to

Lee Black@leeblack· Jul 5

The New Colossus
By Emma Lazarus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Lee Black@leeblack· Jul 1

HEY

The same cat but with an evil leering expression, his horrible little teeth just exposed

Lee Black@leeblack· Jul 1

hey

An extreme closeup on a gray colorpoint and white cat with pink ears and blue eyes

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 30

Screenshot from Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol where the late beloved Tom Wilkinson is saying the only slightly edited line “The President has initiated Hell Yeah Protocol”

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 28

Me too, paint store register

A piece of white paper with
“Hold On Partner
I’m Overstimulated” over a crude lineart drawing of a cowboy frog with a six-shooter, taped to a register

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 27

Well well look who showed up

A paperback copy of Hector Plasm vol 1: Born Into Night Battles by Benito Cereno, Nate Bellegarde, and Derek Hunter lying on a blonde wood table. If you too would like to be a person of discerning taste get yours (not the table) today!!

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 24

George W. Bush being informed 9/11 is happening but edited so he’s wildly excited

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 24

This was just a 5 minute circuit of our block, hell yeah

Screenshot of Cornell’s Merlin app, basically Shazam for birds, showing that over 5 minutes we heard these birds: tufted titmouse, downy woodpecker, red-shouldered hawk, Carolina wren, American crow, Northern cardinal, and American goldfinch

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 23

Ollie Owwy Lil Ollie man Peanut Stinky Stinky baby Stinkis malinkis Pvt. Stinkovich Jumbo marshmallow Toasty marshmallow

Ollie, a gray colorpoint and white cat with blue eyes and pink nose and ears, wallowing on his back with his paws curled up bunny-style. He’s lying on a brightly colored patterned towel which is on a white wooden bathroom shelf. This is “sauna time” if he’s in here while someone’s showering

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 20

Ollie can we throw out at least one of your sheets of emotional support packing paper

A gray colorpoint and white cat with pink nose and ears peering out at you with a deranged expression from deep inside an impromptu nest of brown packing paper. His pupils are huge and sharky. The paper is tattered and crumpled and ripped and ready to start a new and exciting life as substrata in a landfill somewhere but Ollie isn’t ready to cut the cord just yet (he never will be)

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 18

Some manga kid also with a gun saying “Save your excuses for Hell”

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 18

Me reaching through space and time to blow his shit smoove off if the exposition scene is longer than two pages max

Gale Baldursgate reaching through the magic portal you find him in but this time he has a gun

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 14

I think this would slap actually

Movie poster for FernGully: the Last Rainforest that in no way communicates what this movie is actually about or that it contains Tim Curry putting his whole pussy into a song about pollution so hard you forget Robin Williams is even in this

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 13

Well if it isn’t the Brown Winged Angel

A very beautiful gray colorpoint and white cat with blue eyes and pink nose and ears sitting in an arch he made from his emotional support packing paper. The arch is crumpled in the middle in a way that kind of makes it look like the cat has trash wings, and he’s backlit by the curtained window behind him giving him a deceptively angelic aura

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 9

The heavy blackpoint saturation meme of Mr. Incredible

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 9

You fool that’s a structural Portuguese migrant!!

Spidey having a train run on him in Spider-Man 2

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 6

Nice Lupin III homage in Mission Impossible 7

Jigen leaning out the passenger side of his best friend (Lupin)’s ride (a yellow Fiat 500) trying to fire a comically large anti-aircraft rifle at a pursuing airplane, from The Castle of Cagliostro

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 4

God, what can you even say other than rest in peace, truly

Screenshot from the Le Monde article about the death of Marjane Satrapi:

Her husband, whom she met in Paris, had been a long-time collaborator. After his death, Satrapi founded the Mattias and Marjane Ripa-Satrapi Cinema Foundation to support foreign students wishing to come to Paris to study filmmaking. Since his passing, Satrapi's Instagram page consisted almost exclusively of a series of images spelling out "For I Lost the love of my life," along with a picture of her husband and an announcement of the foundation.

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 3

This is my favorite piece of Warhammer art, like this is WH40K to me, and so too is John Blanche now and forever

I’m sorry but it is just not possible to convey in one alt text box everything that’s going on in this image. A protypical Battle Sister is standing with one boot propped up on a skull, she has a sword, there’s a tide of blood and bones at her feet, there are about a hundred dudes behind her in various outfits raising torches and standards, the sky is red and streaked with black smoke. This IS Warhammer 40K and in the grim darkness of the far future there IS only war and John Blanche IS its prophet

Lee Black@leeblack· Jun 3

Doing another experiment: “pizza vinegar”

Two glass jars packed full of fresh basil, rosemary, oregano, and parsley, plus a bay leaf and dried hot pepper each. Garlic would’ve been good but I’m anxious about jarring it raw on account of botulism

Lee Black@leeblack· May 30

We have doves (pigeons)!!!

A tryptich of Norms MacDonald saying “All the stars are here!”

Lee Black@leeblack· May 29

“What do you mean there are seven more of these things”

Ollie lying expensive tummy up with his front and back right paws curled and his left back leg stretched out razzle dazzle style. His tail is discreetly covering his colorpoint junk for once and his expression is alarmed. I have to keep telling him Tom Cruise isn’t really upset, he’s just playing pretend