Howard Tayler
@howardtayler.bsky.social
He/Him, Husband to Sandra Tayler, Father of Four, Fully Vaxxed, #mecfs/#LongCovid, howardtayler.com, schlockmercenary.com, writingexcuses.com. This feed is 100% artisanal human me.
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February 18, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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Pneumonia would have ended me at age 4. So, yeah. Same answer as @wiswell.bsky.social.
I don't know enough medical history to calculate my odds case-by-case, but I've had some life-saving hospital visits that would just been leeches and last rites a couple of centuries earlier.
I don't know enough medical history to calculate my odds case-by-case, but I've had some life-saving hospital visits that would just been leeches and last rites a couple of centuries earlier.
People always ask, "What would you do if you were born in another time period?"
With my health the answer is almost always, "Die before kindergarten."
Medical progress is the real deal, buddies.
With my health the answer is almost always, "Die before kindergarten."
Medical progress is the real deal, buddies.
before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 17, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Pneumonia would have ended me at age 4. So, yeah. Same answer as @wiswell.bsky.social.
I don't know enough medical history to calculate my odds case-by-case, but I've had some life-saving hospital visits that would just been leeches and last rites a couple of centuries earlier.
I don't know enough medical history to calculate my odds case-by-case, but I've had some life-saving hospital visits that would just been leeches and last rites a couple of centuries earlier.
This is an excellent point. If you're a comics person accustomed to working in a particular way for comic-book output, you should pay close attention to your publisher's requirements if you're making comics for inclusion in a different kind of book.
Speaking as a book production person who has had to print a graphic short story in an otherwise text-based book, please do NOT create it as spreads. The production folks can put the pages together as you wish.
You might want to confirm with the publisher what the dimensions should be?
You might want to confirm with the publisher what the dimensions should be?
February 17, 2026 at 6:56 PM
This is an excellent point. If you're a comics person accustomed to working in a particular way for comic-book output, you should pay close attention to your publisher's requirements if you're making comics for inclusion in a different kind of book.
I'm working on a comic mini-story (13pp) that will be consumed almost exclusively by people reading it in a book.
This means they'll be reading page spreads (left and right pages both visible at once,) which suggests that I should be *creating* it as page spreads.
This is hard on the CPU.
This means they'll be reading page spreads (left and right pages both visible at once,) which suggests that I should be *creating* it as page spreads.
This is hard on the CPU.
February 17, 2026 at 6:18 PM
I'm working on a comic mini-story (13pp) that will be consumed almost exclusively by people reading it in a book.
This means they'll be reading page spreads (left and right pages both visible at once,) which suggests that I should be *creating* it as page spreads.
This is hard on the CPU.
This means they'll be reading page spreads (left and right pages both visible at once,) which suggests that I should be *creating* it as page spreads.
This is hard on the CPU.
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I think pancakes should be ordered in the same way copper wire is sold.
GAUGE.
I need some 18AWG, 2-conductor wire for low-voltage DC lights.
I need a 3-stack of 6x100mm pancakes, no fruit, for a sweet breakfast.
GAUGE.
I need some 18AWG, 2-conductor wire for low-voltage DC lights.
I need a 3-stack of 6x100mm pancakes, no fruit, for a sweet breakfast.
February 17, 2026 at 6:00 PM
I think pancakes should be ordered in the same way copper wire is sold.
GAUGE.
I need some 18AWG, 2-conductor wire for low-voltage DC lights.
I need a 3-stack of 6x100mm pancakes, no fruit, for a sweet breakfast.
GAUGE.
I need some 18AWG, 2-conductor wire for low-voltage DC lights.
I need a 3-stack of 6x100mm pancakes, no fruit, for a sweet breakfast.
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FANBOY: "Where do you get your ideas?"
ME: "Wrong question."
FB: "Wait, what?"
ME: "It's not the where, it's not even the ideas."
[convo redacted for brevity]
FB: "So... how do you execute on your ideas so that they seem wondrous, or scary, or romantic, or whatever?"
ME: "Excellent question!"
ME: "Wrong question."
FB: "Wait, what?"
ME: "It's not the where, it's not even the ideas."
[convo redacted for brevity]
FB: "So... how do you execute on your ideas so that they seem wondrous, or scary, or romantic, or whatever?"
ME: "Excellent question!"
February 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
FANBOY: "Where do you get your ideas?"
ME: "Wrong question."
FB: "Wait, what?"
ME: "It's not the where, it's not even the ideas."
[convo redacted for brevity]
FB: "So... how do you execute on your ideas so that they seem wondrous, or scary, or romantic, or whatever?"
ME: "Excellent question!"
ME: "Wrong question."
FB: "Wait, what?"
ME: "It's not the where, it's not even the ideas."
[convo redacted for brevity]
FB: "So... how do you execute on your ideas so that they seem wondrous, or scary, or romantic, or whatever?"
ME: "Excellent question!"
I got followed by a UK-based fiction competition for first-time novelists. Just pay the 25-pound entry fee and okay stop, full stop, hard stop, [record-scratch noise].
Blocked.
Blocked.
February 17, 2026 at 5:05 PM
I got followed by a UK-based fiction competition for first-time novelists. Just pay the 25-pound entry fee and okay stop, full stop, hard stop, [record-scratch noise].
Blocked.
Blocked.
In the "broken watch is correct twice daily" category, RFK's push to change "GRAS" classification for processed foods is, to my mind, a good thing that is too long coming.
GRAS = Generally Recognized As Safe, and it is how a bazillion additives and artificials got grandfathered past FDA testing.
GRAS = Generally Recognized As Safe, and it is how a bazillion additives and artificials got grandfathered past FDA testing.
February 17, 2026 at 1:47 AM
In the "broken watch is correct twice daily" category, RFK's push to change "GRAS" classification for processed foods is, to my mind, a good thing that is too long coming.
GRAS = Generally Recognized As Safe, and it is how a bazillion additives and artificials got grandfathered past FDA testing.
GRAS = Generally Recognized As Safe, and it is how a bazillion additives and artificials got grandfathered past FDA testing.
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
February 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
A decade or so ago I invented the biscuits-and-gravy breakfast chimichanga (recipe follows). I never really explored other B&G fusions until today (story continues after recipe).
February 14, 2026 at 8:44 PM
A decade or so ago I invented the biscuits-and-gravy breakfast chimichanga (recipe follows). I never really explored other B&G fusions until today (story continues after recipe).
Catching up on RESIDENT ALIEN. I'd forgotten how good it feels to have this much actual LOL.
February 14, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Catching up on RESIDENT ALIEN. I'd forgotten how good it feels to have this much actual LOL.
Woke up to good news. The deadline for ballot initiatives is 32 hours away, and the re-gerrymandering petition from Utah GOP and Turning Point is still, after months of canvassing, far short of the signatures required to make the cut. The Utah Supreme Court just said the deadline stands.
February 14, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Woke up to good news. The deadline for ballot initiatives is 32 hours away, and the re-gerrymandering petition from Utah GOP and Turning Point is still, after months of canvassing, far short of the signatures required to make the cut. The Utah Supreme Court just said the deadline stands.
Sometimes you spend all day working on a picture in order to figure out your drawing the wrong thing.
I'm silent on the outside, but my soul's scream is rattling both Heaven and Hell.
The angels and demons are jointly demanding hearing protection from management.
I'm silent on the outside, but my soul's scream is rattling both Heaven and Hell.
The angels and demons are jointly demanding hearing protection from management.
February 14, 2026 at 7:05 AM
Sometimes you spend all day working on a picture in order to figure out your drawing the wrong thing.
I'm silent on the outside, but my soul's scream is rattling both Heaven and Hell.
The angels and demons are jointly demanding hearing protection from management.
I'm silent on the outside, but my soul's scream is rattling both Heaven and Hell.
The angels and demons are jointly demanding hearing protection from management.
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Warhammer Owner Games Workshop Bans Its Creative Staff From Using GenAI.
Warhammer Owner Games Workshop Bans Its Creative Staff From Using GenAI
A "few senior managers" are testing the tech but remain unexcited, says CEO
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January 13, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Warhammer Owner Games Workshop Bans Its Creative Staff From Using GenAI.
"I find your lack of faith disturbing. The Dow is over 50,000."
February 13, 2026 at 4:43 PM
"I find your lack of faith disturbing. The Dow is over 50,000."
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there are only two moods as an artist
July 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
there are only two moods as an artist
AI or bad translation, I dunno which.
February 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
AI or bad translation, I dunno which.
February 13, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Spent all of yesterday's art cycles noodling on this. It's not done, but now I have all the volumes defined and know what it looks like so I can come back to it later and fine-tune.
February 13, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Spent all of yesterday's art cycles noodling on this. It's not done, but now I have all the volumes defined and know what it looks like so I can come back to it later and fine-tune.
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The Hugo Nomination form links have been sent to members of the World Science Fiction Society and LACon V.
If you're able to nominate, please consider Conan the Barbarian #25 "The Nomad", for Best Graphic Story or Comic and painter Alex Horley for Best Pro Artist.
www.jimzub.com/conan-the-ba...
If you're able to nominate, please consider Conan the Barbarian #25 "The Nomad", for Best Graphic Story or Comic and painter Alex Horley for Best Pro Artist.
www.jimzub.com/conan-the-ba...
February 13, 2026 at 3:03 AM
The Hugo Nomination form links have been sent to members of the World Science Fiction Society and LACon V.
If you're able to nominate, please consider Conan the Barbarian #25 "The Nomad", for Best Graphic Story or Comic and painter Alex Horley for Best Pro Artist.
www.jimzub.com/conan-the-ba...
If you're able to nominate, please consider Conan the Barbarian #25 "The Nomad", for Best Graphic Story or Comic and painter Alex Horley for Best Pro Artist.
www.jimzub.com/conan-the-ba...
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Relinking
#dúo con @Funny dog #bubbles #bath #sqirrelsoftiktok #funnyanimals
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February 12, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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I left some scraps of pastrami on a plate on the counter overnight and they dried all the way out so *of course* I ate one and now I need an angel investor to help me open a jerked pastrami factory.
February 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I left some scraps of pastrami on a plate on the counter overnight and they dried all the way out so *of course* I ate one and now I need an angel investor to help me open a jerked pastrami factory.
I could go on and on about this exact point.
Short version: When something's grammatically tricky to sort out, I often find I'm presenting the information in the wrong order, or trying to use too few words. So I ask what I truly mean to convey, and then rewrite to those specs.
Short version: When something's grammatically tricky to sort out, I often find I'm presenting the information in the wrong order, or trying to use too few words. So I ask what I truly mean to convey, and then rewrite to those specs.
Sometimes the answer to the question "How should this sentence be punctuated?" is "It should be entirely rewritten."
#copyediting
#copyediting
February 12, 2026 at 6:13 PM
I could go on and on about this exact point.
Short version: When something's grammatically tricky to sort out, I often find I'm presenting the information in the wrong order, or trying to use too few words. So I ask what I truly mean to convey, and then rewrite to those specs.
Short version: When something's grammatically tricky to sort out, I often find I'm presenting the information in the wrong order, or trying to use too few words. So I ask what I truly mean to convey, and then rewrite to those specs.
I'm using my Bad-Bunny-budgeted Peacock membership to watch THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, the TV series starring Lashana Lynch and Eddie Redmayne.
It's good, but it does seem to stray from one of the core conceits of the book and the Bruce Willis movie.
It's good, but it does seem to stray from one of the core conceits of the book and the Bruce Willis movie.
February 12, 2026 at 3:55 PM
I'm using my Bad-Bunny-budgeted Peacock membership to watch THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, the TV series starring Lashana Lynch and Eddie Redmayne.
It's good, but it does seem to stray from one of the core conceits of the book and the Bruce Willis movie.
It's good, but it does seem to stray from one of the core conceits of the book and the Bruce Willis movie.