Mariah McCourt
@monsterteatime.bsky.social
Bestselling graphic novel writer, editor, artist, mominator. Obsessed with hedgehogs, cozy horror, and squidly octopi.
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site: mariah-mccourt.squarespace.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterTeaTime
Rep'd by Dara Hyde at Hill/Nadel
site: mariah-mccourt.squarespace.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterTeaTime
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For the night folks: free downloadable art for any protests you might be attending. www.patreon.com/posts/131420...
Haha, s5 of Only Murders in the Building is really taking a massive swipe at billionaires this season. And not just one, but three diff types of billionaire.
November 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Haha, s5 of Only Murders in the Building is really taking a massive swipe at billionaires this season. And not just one, but three diff types of billionaire.
Merrylotl! I have this series of little watercolors I've been doing for awhile now I call "Cozy-lotls" which is axolotls usually in sweaters drinking something. So here's a silly holiday one!
November 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Merrylotl! I have this series of little watercolors I've been doing for awhile now I call "Cozy-lotls" which is axolotls usually in sweaters drinking something. So here's a silly holiday one!
Hey, I don't know if a lot of folks are doing this but let's not use the rhetoric of the fascists and call Tr*mp "bi" or "gay" derogatorily when he is in fact a sexual predator who preys/preyed on children and women. There's nothing queer about that, it's a whole other thing.
November 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Hey, I don't know if a lot of folks are doing this but let's not use the rhetoric of the fascists and call Tr*mp "bi" or "gay" derogatorily when he is in fact a sexual predator who preys/preyed on children and women. There's nothing queer about that, it's a whole other thing.
I really can't fathom wanting to be around the "elites" of the world. These people are -awful-. And especially if you're just like adjacent to one, wtf is the appeal? Shitty dinners with boring awful people being awful? I can't imagine wasting my precious life time like that.
November 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I really can't fathom wanting to be around the "elites" of the world. These people are -awful-. And especially if you're just like adjacent to one, wtf is the appeal? Shitty dinners with boring awful people being awful? I can't imagine wasting my precious life time like that.
You don't know you're missing it until it's real obvious. Yikes.
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
You don't know you're missing it until it's real obvious. Yikes.
One of my fave things about the trip I took to Edinburgh & Dublin was how quickly folks wanted to discuss how much the British suck. Like they were ON IT from cabbies to historical walk guides. I also have a special place in my heart for the Scottish cabbie who really hates Outlander.
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
One of my fave things about the trip I took to Edinburgh & Dublin was how quickly folks wanted to discuss how much the British suck. Like they were ON IT from cabbies to historical walk guides. I also have a special place in my heart for the Scottish cabbie who really hates Outlander.
If the universe really wants to prove to me that irony is the source of its power for all time, Tr*mp consensually having sex with a dude/s ending him but not all the fucking actual crimes and horrible shit would do it.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
If the universe really wants to prove to me that irony is the source of its power for all time, Tr*mp consensually having sex with a dude/s ending him but not all the fucking actual crimes and horrible shit would do it.
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Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
Donate - Authors Against Book Bans
Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight to...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
Whether it's true or not, the "bubba" story is the kind of thing I can actually see Tr*mp being this determined not to have out there. Because as he's made obvious, sexual assault isn't something he feels any shame about. But this and/or the pee tape, are.
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Whether it's true or not, the "bubba" story is the kind of thing I can actually see Tr*mp being this determined not to have out there. Because as he's made obvious, sexual assault isn't something he feels any shame about. But this and/or the pee tape, are.
YUP. Some of this is because Queen Victoria basically forced the UK to grieve Albert. She even tried to make all the doors in Dublin be painted black. The Irish, whose wakes are notorious for the way they handle death, said HAHA NO and painted them all bright colors as a fuck you.
Saw a post discussing the Victorian "obsession" with death, saying: "of course they were! They were surrounded by it! It was normal to them!" which did a lot of rewiring for me.
And recently at a family funeral a monk talked about how distanced we are from it now, and that rang true and parallel.
And recently at a family funeral a monk talked about how distanced we are from it now, and that rang true and parallel.
November 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
YUP. Some of this is because Queen Victoria basically forced the UK to grieve Albert. She even tried to make all the doors in Dublin be painted black. The Irish, whose wakes are notorious for the way they handle death, said HAHA NO and painted them all bright colors as a fuck you.
I've been struck by this too. It's both this utterly ghoulish obsession with "resurrecting" dead people and also avoiding grief. Grief is not bad, it's a normal experience. It means you have loved someone.
at some point we ought to interrogate the link between the techbro-freak demographic and cowardice in confronting death anxiety. not usually one to go "society has gotten too soft and that's why everyone is weird now" but in this case it feels salient. I think we unlearned how to accept death
New insult to life itself just dropped
November 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I've been struck by this too. It's both this utterly ghoulish obsession with "resurrecting" dead people and also avoiding grief. Grief is not bad, it's a normal experience. It means you have loved someone.
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They will try to censor porn. They will use those rules to then censor anything and everything else 1 inch at a time. You need to support porn and you need to do it vocally. The Internet (and all other media types) you save will be your own.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
They will try to censor porn. They will use those rules to then censor anything and everything else 1 inch at a time. You need to support porn and you need to do it vocally. The Internet (and all other media types) you save will be your own.
The clips of this are sooooo good and Lupita Nyong'o in a suit with a mustache RAPPING SHAKESPEARE is my new sexual orientation.
Tonight at 9pm ET, 8pm CT, the Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and directed by Saheem Ali will be on PBS Great Performances.
You can stream at pbs.org/gperf or on the PBS app.
You can stream at pbs.org/gperf or on the PBS app.
Twelfth Night ~ About | Great Performances | PBS
The Shakespearean comedy of mistaken identity starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Junior Nyong'o and more.
www.pbs.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The clips of this are sooooo good and Lupita Nyong'o in a suit with a mustache RAPPING SHAKESPEARE is my new sexual orientation.
1. Well, my belief that the universe actually runs on fucking epic irony remains rock solid 2. Uh, My Antonia and Lolita are not AT ALL about "similar themes" beyond the most superficial interpretation. What.
did not have Harvard English professor Elisa New emailing Jeffrey Epstein about Lolita on my 2025 bingo card
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
1. Well, my belief that the universe actually runs on fucking epic irony remains rock solid 2. Uh, My Antonia and Lolita are not AT ALL about "similar themes" beyond the most superficial interpretation. What.
THE FUCK.
me waking up to see that Bluesky suspended Patton Oswalt @patton.oswalt.bsky.social for saying that it’s evil to sexually assault children:
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
THE FUCK.
Man, the whole quote is somehow even worse. First of all, child abuse is wrong at any age. It's not "better" to abuse a 15yo than an 8yo. It doesn't work like that. Second, apparently these 15yo's both look younger AND "barely legal". Megyn, just get a shovel & bury yourself already.
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Man, the whole quote is somehow even worse. First of all, child abuse is wrong at any age. It's not "better" to abuse a 15yo than an 8yo. It doesn't work like that. Second, apparently these 15yo's both look younger AND "barely legal". Megyn, just get a shovel & bury yourself already.
Made a big old stew thing so we have cozy food for the next few days while it rains in LA. I love walking in it but driving in LA during rains is hazardous due to 1. flooding 2. drivers absolutely lose all common sense.
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Made a big old stew thing so we have cozy food for the next few days while it rains in LA. I love walking in it but driving in LA during rains is hazardous due to 1. flooding 2. drivers absolutely lose all common sense.
Man, he really loves this racist lie. It's not at all what has caused housing prices to rise as cost of living also skyrockets but wages stay depressed. He knows.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Man, he really loves this racist lie. It's not at all what has caused housing prices to rise as cost of living also skyrockets but wages stay depressed. He knows.
In an effort to not doomscroll myself into another depression I'm using my treadmill while I'm online and it does help. Walking helps my brain reorg and I stop just kind of spinning into anxiety and panic.
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
In an effort to not doomscroll myself into another depression I'm using my treadmill while I'm online and it does help. Walking helps my brain reorg and I stop just kind of spinning into anxiety and panic.
Ok, seriously, why are we like this as a species. We have all this "No, that's a real bad fucking idea and here's why" info from experts and also just common fucking sense and then we do this shit anyway.
toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Ok, seriously, why are we like this as a species. We have all this "No, that's a real bad fucking idea and here's why" info from experts and also just common fucking sense and then we do this shit anyway.
Between Epstein's self-sent email of "deep thoughts" and Joyce Carol-Oates absolutely body slamming Musk for being a weird freak who understands nothing...it's obvious these people are the superficial and ridiculous nothings.
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Between Epstein's self-sent email of "deep thoughts" and Joyce Carol-Oates absolutely body slamming Musk for being a weird freak who understands nothing...it's obvious these people are the superficial and ridiculous nothings.
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It feels SURREAL that we've got nearly 60 folks signed up and we haven't even done the proper announcement of this series yet
Thank you all for being such lovely, rabid supporters
Thank you all for being such lovely, rabid supporters
We're gonna do a announcement next month--title, plot, cover reveals, etc--but if a sapphic vampire noir series from me, @laurenknight.bsky.social, @jpjordan.bsky.social, @longtalljodie.com and @cerealpancake.bsky.social is enough for you, follow it here
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Coming soon: Unannounced Queer Vampire #1 from DEATHline
TBA. Chicago-set Queer Vampire Noir series.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It feels SURREAL that we've got nearly 60 folks signed up and we haven't even done the proper announcement of this series yet
Thank you all for being such lovely, rabid supporters
Thank you all for being such lovely, rabid supporters
On a sort of related topic; My whole life I've had teachers & bosses compliment my coherent writing skills in things like papers and emails and I always thought that was not really anything special. Apparently it is.
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
On a sort of related topic; My whole life I've had teachers & bosses compliment my coherent writing skills in things like papers and emails and I always thought that was not really anything special. Apparently it is.
There are a lot of just heart-stoppingly awful things in the Epstein stuff so far but one thing that make me feels morbidly justified: Tr*mp really doesn't have any friends. None of these people are capable of normal human emotions or relationships.
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
There are a lot of just heart-stoppingly awful things in the Epstein stuff so far but one thing that make me feels morbidly justified: Tr*mp really doesn't have any friends. None of these people are capable of normal human emotions or relationships.