Jon Erik!
@honestlyjon.bsky.social
Writer | Journalist (formerly ComicsAlliance, Book Riot, MNT) | Glittering Bog Fiend | Tired and True | He/him | Icon by @eiffelart | 🏳️🌈👻🍂
one thing I miss about Twitter is that it felt more amenable to sadposting. bluesky feels like everything has to be actionable or productive. a righteous madposting or bust
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
one thing I miss about Twitter is that it felt more amenable to sadposting. bluesky feels like everything has to be actionable or productive. a righteous madposting or bust
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I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.
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My game Kitten Burst is on sale for 15 bucks in the Steam Animal Fest! ( because you play as a cat )
It's an Adventure/Racing Game with a full story and soundtrack inspired by 2000s internet culture! ( also you play as a cat )
It's an Adventure/Racing Game with a full story and soundtrack inspired by 2000s internet culture! ( also you play as a cat )
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My game Kitten Burst is on sale for 15 bucks in the Steam Animal Fest! ( because you play as a cat )
It's an Adventure/Racing Game with a full story and soundtrack inspired by 2000s internet culture! ( also you play as a cat )
It's an Adventure/Racing Game with a full story and soundtrack inspired by 2000s internet culture! ( also you play as a cat )
(and yes, I called)
Living in New Hampshire means not only do I get regular and ample reason to call and yell at my senators, I also myself get to receive messages from blue state friends asking me to call and yell at my senators
In a way I am a proxy elected, against my will
In a way I am a proxy elected, against my will
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
(and yes, I called)
Living in New Hampshire means not only do I get regular and ample reason to call and yell at my senators, I also myself get to receive messages from blue state friends asking me to call and yell at my senators
In a way I am a proxy elected, against my will
In a way I am a proxy elected, against my will
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Living in New Hampshire means not only do I get regular and ample reason to call and yell at my senators, I also myself get to receive messages from blue state friends asking me to call and yell at my senators
In a way I am a proxy elected, against my will
In a way I am a proxy elected, against my will
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This bothers me more and more as I get older. It is so normal to change our minds when we encounter new information. Everyone’s so scared of being a little embarrassed at not knowing, but it’s fine and normal to not know everything.
I am frankly sick of all the people who insist “so and so seemed off from the start.”
Stop lying. Sometimes bad people are very charming and likable and you liked them and that’s fine.
Stop lying. Sometimes bad people are very charming and likable and you liked them and that’s fine.
October 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This bothers me more and more as I get older. It is so normal to change our minds when we encounter new information. Everyone’s so scared of being a little embarrassed at not knowing, but it’s fine and normal to not know everything.
Kinda felt like molten trash soup yesterday during my actual birthday, but luckily today I am well enough to celebrate the only way I know how: with my annual rewatch of Catwoman (2004).
October 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Kinda felt like molten trash soup yesterday during my actual birthday, but luckily today I am well enough to celebrate the only way I know how: with my annual rewatch of Catwoman (2004).
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"ELEVATED HORROR" DIRECTOR SEEING ANY WOMAN OVER THE AGE OF 45: ahh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AIEEEE!!!! AAAuuUGHHHH!H! OUGHGHGHGGHHGHGHGGHHG
October 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"ELEVATED HORROR" DIRECTOR SEEING ANY WOMAN OVER THE AGE OF 45: ahh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AIEEEE!!!! AAAuuUGHHHH!H! OUGHGHGHGGHHGHGHGGHHG
Starting a nonprofit where I teach people age 50+ how to lower their devices from max brightness when on night transportation.
October 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Starting a nonprofit where I teach people age 50+ how to lower their devices from max brightness when on night transportation.
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Umm only like a week left! Consider it!
ShortBox Comics Fair is live! My offering this year is a horror short story about a son questioning if he needs to rescue his mom from a newfound obsession with making art.
www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...
www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...
October 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Umm only like a week left! Consider it!
Trying to conserve phone battery but I needed to check in to share that this tour guide decided to have a Swastika Segment and the commentary was Not Good
Four hours into a twelve-hour tour and our driver/tour guide has been spending about half of it prefacing comments with “not to be a conspiracy theorist” and “subtly” pushing conservative talking points.
send help
send help
October 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Trying to conserve phone battery but I needed to check in to share that this tour guide decided to have a Swastika Segment and the commentary was Not Good
Four hours into a twelve-hour tour and our driver/tour guide has been spending about half of it prefacing comments with “not to be a conspiracy theorist” and “subtly” pushing conservative talking points.
send help
send help
October 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Four hours into a twelve-hour tour and our driver/tour guide has been spending about half of it prefacing comments with “not to be a conspiracy theorist” and “subtly” pushing conservative talking points.
send help
send help
I still haven't read all my 2024 SBCF comics, but I prioritized reading the remaining ones who have artists also exhibiting in this year's, and I'm so glad I did!
@peonygent.bsky.social's 'autobiography has become a stone in my shoe' was thoughtful and lovely. excited to check this one out too
@peonygent.bsky.social's 'autobiography has become a stone in my shoe' was thoughtful and lovely. excited to check this one out too
October 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I still haven't read all my 2024 SBCF comics, but I prioritized reading the remaining ones who have artists also exhibiting in this year's, and I'm so glad I did!
@peonygent.bsky.social's 'autobiography has become a stone in my shoe' was thoughtful and lovely. excited to check this one out too
@peonygent.bsky.social's 'autobiography has become a stone in my shoe' was thoughtful and lovely. excited to check this one out too
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I'm still sorting out the site dressing, but that's less important than the fact that I'm putting my writing somewhere again:
New York
A mostly unknown fact about me: At the high school I graduated from, courses were largely set up in the way that college courses are. You had to have so many English, Math, and Science credits, but wi...
left-handed-wisdom.ghost.io
October 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I'm still sorting out the site dressing, but that's less important than the fact that I'm putting my writing somewhere again:
it's also never lost on me when stories that "suspend" the realities of what queer people face also erase the queer people more visibly impacted and shaped by structures being ""erased""
honestly I can't connect emotionally to stories with no hint of the reality we live with. and listen: that's coming from someone who literally wrote one lmfao
October 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
it's also never lost on me when stories that "suspend" the realities of what queer people face also erase the queer people more visibly impacted and shaped by structures being ""erased""
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this also comes right along on the heels of "you don't have to include queerphobia in your story if you don't want to" and I'm like. yes okay yes I hear you. true. the thing is I want to, really bad, and are you going to also be okay with that?
there was a long time where I thought I would never write queer tragedy because it was all we had, but I'm feeling expansive and chafing against the idea that I'm betraying my community by accessing the full spectrum of human feeling and pain
October 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
this also comes right along on the heels of "you don't have to include queerphobia in your story if you don't want to" and I'm like. yes okay yes I hear you. true. the thing is I want to, really bad, and are you going to also be okay with that?
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tbh I don't think this is that niche but man we gotta make LIVING accessible for people who don't have smart phones and/or data. I'm talking bus schedules, restaurant menus, doing your laundry, accessing social security and unemployment, all of it. we goddamn GOTTA dude
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
tbh I don't think this is that niche but man we gotta make LIVING accessible for people who don't have smart phones and/or data. I'm talking bus schedules, restaurant menus, doing your laundry, accessing social security and unemployment, all of it. we goddamn GOTTA dude
me vaguely remembering some comics drama that transpired in the last year but it seems the relevant posts might've been deleted, and I'm left wondering if I made it up in my head
October 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
me vaguely remembering some comics drama that transpired in the last year but it seems the relevant posts might've been deleted, and I'm left wondering if I made it up in my head
so I just finished reading Hello Sunshine by @keezyyoung.bsky.social and it's my favorite comic of the year. and I've read a lot of great comics this year!!
exceptional
exceptional
Hello Sunshine is a horror mystery GN about a boy who comes back from bible camp to find out that his secret boyfriend, Alex, is missing after a very public mental breakdown. #comics
Available now!! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...
Available now!! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...
October 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
so I just finished reading Hello Sunshine by @keezyyoung.bsky.social and it's my favorite comic of the year. and I've read a lot of great comics this year!!
exceptional
exceptional
I'll never financially recover from this (it's fine)
Rising from my tomb of relative comics obscurity thanks to it being Shortbox Comics Fair time of year
October 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I'll never financially recover from this (it's fine)
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Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.
October 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.
Rising from my tomb of relative comics obscurity thanks to it being Shortbox Comics Fair time of year
October 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Rising from my tomb of relative comics obscurity thanks to it being Shortbox Comics Fair time of year