Martin John
@martinjohn.bsky.social
Dakelh Writer. Prose and comics. Dark fiction (horror). He/Him.
Has a small white poodle mix who he adores.
https://martinjohn.substack.com/
Living on the lands of lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.
Has a small white poodle mix who he adores.
https://martinjohn.substack.com/
Living on the lands of lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.
Was listening to the frightening prospects of a world wherein predictive text becomes the normal thought for our minds. It’s quite frightening to think on.
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Was listening to the frightening prospects of a world wherein predictive text becomes the normal thought for our minds. It’s quite frightening to think on.
In a world where we’re so entangled with technology, it’s so crazy to think that people deny science. You have supercomputer in your pocket.
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
In a world where we’re so entangled with technology, it’s so crazy to think that people deny science. You have supercomputer in your pocket.
Welp, vaxxed to the max. Covid and flu.
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Welp, vaxxed to the max. Covid and flu.
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Publishing: Trilogies are dead. Everyone must cram everything into two books.
Publishing: Why don't we have long-game stories anymore, where the plot develops across years/titles? We should buy fanfic bc that comes with an audience.
Publishing: Why would we buy partials? Fanfic is already done.
Publishing: Why don't we have long-game stories anymore, where the plot develops across years/titles? We should buy fanfic bc that comes with an audience.
Publishing: Why would we buy partials? Fanfic is already done.
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Publishing: Trilogies are dead. Everyone must cram everything into two books.
Publishing: Why don't we have long-game stories anymore, where the plot develops across years/titles? We should buy fanfic bc that comes with an audience.
Publishing: Why would we buy partials? Fanfic is already done.
Publishing: Why don't we have long-game stories anymore, where the plot develops across years/titles? We should buy fanfic bc that comes with an audience.
Publishing: Why would we buy partials? Fanfic is already done.
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Imagine being responsible for the deaths of 400,000 children and then just going about your day. How do you live with yourself?
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Imagine being responsible for the deaths of 400,000 children and then just going about your day. How do you live with yourself?
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It’s truly a Good Morning when you start the day with a big @shortwavebooks.bsky.social restock at the door!
KILLER VHS series books plus some extra lovely novellas from one of our favourite presses now hot on the shelves.
Don’t miss these delicious horror delicacies!
🖤👻📚📼
KILLER VHS series books plus some extra lovely novellas from one of our favourite presses now hot on the shelves.
Don’t miss these delicious horror delicacies!
🖤👻📚📼
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It’s truly a Good Morning when you start the day with a big @shortwavebooks.bsky.social restock at the door!
KILLER VHS series books plus some extra lovely novellas from one of our favourite presses now hot on the shelves.
Don’t miss these delicious horror delicacies!
🖤👻📚📼
KILLER VHS series books plus some extra lovely novellas from one of our favourite presses now hot on the shelves.
Don’t miss these delicious horror delicacies!
🖤👻📚📼
Men reading is the best thing. Just let them read.
I've been reading in public all my life purely for the pleasure of reading and long before The Independent existed... they can fuck off with this kind of pearl-clutching, mocking, attempt to make me feel bad about it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Men reading is the best thing. Just let them read.
Have fun out there.
I don't care if the world is melting my face off, I'm happy dying that way.
I don't care if the world is melting my face off, I'm happy dying that way.
"The billionaires are the only people with the vision and resources to bring us to the cosmos. Because they also helped defund NASA."
Don’t Worry, Bezos Will Let Some of Us on His Space Ark
“Jeff Bezos says the future is so bright, he doesn’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now… ‘In the next couple of decades, the...
buff.ly
November 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Have fun out there.
I don't care if the world is melting my face off, I'm happy dying that way.
I don't care if the world is melting my face off, I'm happy dying that way.
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I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that
Ice Cream Man. What a fucking comic. They’re discussing what horror is, and that we live in a horrific world. It’s breaking the fourth wall again and it’s just good at doing it.
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Ice Cream Man. What a fucking comic. They’re discussing what horror is, and that we live in a horrific world. It’s breaking the fourth wall again and it’s just good at doing it.
Landlords, in this day and age where you are charging arms and legs, there is no need to cheap out on absolutely everything.
Got it? Okay. 👌
Got it? Okay. 👌
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Landlords, in this day and age where you are charging arms and legs, there is no need to cheap out on absolutely everything.
Got it? Okay. 👌
Got it? Okay. 👌
Cool, Vancouver, take 12% from the arts and increase police funding by 40% from last year. In five years, Sims has increased police budgets by 100 million.
'I'm proud of this one': Mayor Ken Sim talks budget with $50 million more for police amid property tax freeze | CBC News
In his final budget before facing voters next October, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is presenting a property tax freeze, and $50 million more for police, balanced by major cuts to arts, culture, community ...
www.cbc.ca
November 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Cool, Vancouver, take 12% from the arts and increase police funding by 40% from last year. In five years, Sims has increased police budgets by 100 million.
This coffee I'm drinking tastes mildly of salmon oil. Not exactly my favourite flavour profile for a coffee.
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This coffee I'm drinking tastes mildly of salmon oil. Not exactly my favourite flavour profile for a coffee.
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Oops. I went out for a bowl of pho and accidentally bought Coffin Moon by @keithrosson.bsky.social because…vampires.
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Oops. I went out for a bowl of pho and accidentally bought Coffin Moon by @keithrosson.bsky.social because…vampires.
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Frankenstein
@realgdt.bsky.social created a vicious and beautiful monster of a film. A patchwork of childhood trauma, friendship, yearning, regret and forgiveness. I laughed, I cried, and I said “eww!”
It is the best.
@realgdt.bsky.social created a vicious and beautiful monster of a film. A patchwork of childhood trauma, friendship, yearning, regret and forgiveness. I laughed, I cried, and I said “eww!”
It is the best.
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Frankenstein
@realgdt.bsky.social created a vicious and beautiful monster of a film. A patchwork of childhood trauma, friendship, yearning, regret and forgiveness. I laughed, I cried, and I said “eww!”
It is the best.
@realgdt.bsky.social created a vicious and beautiful monster of a film. A patchwork of childhood trauma, friendship, yearning, regret and forgiveness. I laughed, I cried, and I said “eww!”
It is the best.
Oops. I went out for a bowl of pho and accidentally bought Coffin Moon by @keithrosson.bsky.social because…vampires.
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Oops. I went out for a bowl of pho and accidentally bought Coffin Moon by @keithrosson.bsky.social because…vampires.
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
Well, it’s always cool to see someone who has a career in comics also having fun making fan comics and sharing them. There’s a couple cool short stories on Emily’s site.
E.M. CARROLL
www.emcarroll.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Well, it’s always cool to see someone who has a career in comics also having fun making fan comics and sharing them. There’s a couple cool short stories on Emily’s site.
This is a fantastic page by E.M. Carroll. A low sense of dread building in the background of everything.
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
This is a fantastic page by E.M. Carroll. A low sense of dread building in the background of everything.
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Great piece of social protest art. Anyone doing art like this these days?
November 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Great piece of social protest art. Anyone doing art like this these days?
“Hard to burn a book that you’ve read.” Salman Rushdie.
Novelist Salman Rushdie at ‘The Eleventh Hour’
Podcast Episode · Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso · 2025-11-02 · 1h 26m
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November 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“Hard to burn a book that you’ve read.” Salman Rushdie.
Yup. I’ll be poorer when this comes out.
Darwyn Cooke's The Complete Spirit Connoisseur Edition
Immerse yourself in the noir world of Darwyn Cooke’s The Spirit, now collected in one place for the first time in this oversized collectible editio...
www.simonandschuster.ca
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Yup. I’ll be poorer when this comes out.
Yup. Anytime I see someone flub a layup at the end of the game, I’m sure it’s to ensure their friends get a good payday.
After a recent N.B.A. scandal, more writers and pundits came out against legalized sports betting. But the case that they’re making is weaker than it appears. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/7tQVbk
Is Gambling Really Threatening the Integrity of Sports?
After a recent N.B.A. scandal, more writers and pundits have come out against legalized betting. But the case that they’re making is weaker than it appears.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Yup. Anytime I see someone flub a layup at the end of the game, I’m sure it’s to ensure their friends get a good payday.
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“I swear there are a few panels in here when you can almost hear the music coming off the page.”
librarypass.com/2025/11/06/n...
Thanks for the SPECTRUM hype, @librarypass.bsky.social !!!
The oversized DELUXE HARDCOVER of SPECTRUM is dropping in January, y’all!
librarypass.com/2025/11/06/n...
Thanks for the SPECTRUM hype, @librarypass.bsky.social !!!
The oversized DELUXE HARDCOVER of SPECTRUM is dropping in January, y’all!
New Additions to Comics Plus: October 2025 | Rob’s Advisory - LibraryPass™
Rob Randle puts a spotlight on his favorite comics added to the Comics Plus collection in October 2025 — for readers of every age. #ReadAllTheComics
librarypass.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
“I swear there are a few panels in here when you can almost hear the music coming off the page.”
librarypass.com/2025/11/06/n...
Thanks for the SPECTRUM hype, @librarypass.bsky.social !!!
The oversized DELUXE HARDCOVER of SPECTRUM is dropping in January, y’all!
librarypass.com/2025/11/06/n...
Thanks for the SPECTRUM hype, @librarypass.bsky.social !!!
The oversized DELUXE HARDCOVER of SPECTRUM is dropping in January, y’all!
You know, I’m 46, studying writing at University, something tech bros tell me has no future, but I’ve never felt more sure that I wanted to create fiction in my whole life.
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
You know, I’m 46, studying writing at University, something tech bros tell me has no future, but I’ve never felt more sure that I wanted to create fiction in my whole life.