nicolas77
@nicolasleonel77.bsky.social
Σηκώστε το πηγούνι, παιδάκι. Θα σκότωναν για να σε δουν να πέφτεις.
-Νικόλαος
-Νικόλαος
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Greetings from Boston Pride parade, always a joyous time! And since tomorrow is Father's Day, sending big "Dad" vibes of unconditional love and acceptance to anyone who needs it!
June 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Greetings from Boston Pride parade, always a joyous time! And since tomorrow is Father's Day, sending big "Dad" vibes of unconditional love and acceptance to anyone who needs it!
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In honor of Pride, a nice Psychology Today post about gender fluidity & intersexuality in myths around the world, reminding us that gender & sexuality have been understood as spectrums for the entirety of human history. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide...
June 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
In honor of Pride, a nice Psychology Today post about gender fluidity & intersexuality in myths around the world, reminding us that gender & sexuality have been understood as spectrums for the entirety of human history. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide...
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Q: When did you realize you were old, sir?
A: Well, I guess it was when I found myself in the check-out line inexplicably holding a giant bag of these.
A: Well, I guess it was when I found myself in the check-out line inexplicably holding a giant bag of these.
May 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Q: When did you realize you were old, sir?
A: Well, I guess it was when I found myself in the check-out line inexplicably holding a giant bag of these.
A: Well, I guess it was when I found myself in the check-out line inexplicably holding a giant bag of these.
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I'm participating in TWO Pride Month giveaways! One for picture books, one for middle grade. Want a chance to win a PB by me or another amazing creator? Go to tinyurl.com/pb-giveaway
If middle grade is more your speed, go to tinyurl.com/mg-giveaway for more information.
If middle grade is more your speed, go to tinyurl.com/mg-giveaway for more information.
LGBTQIA+ Picture Book Giveaway!
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Winner must be following all creators participating in this giveaway.
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May 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I'm participating in TWO Pride Month giveaways! One for picture books, one for middle grade. Want a chance to win a PB by me or another amazing creator? Go to tinyurl.com/pb-giveaway
If middle grade is more your speed, go to tinyurl.com/mg-giveaway for more information.
If middle grade is more your speed, go to tinyurl.com/mg-giveaway for more information.
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Digitizing more old photos. 1984 Rick says hello from the front steps of our house on the near west side of San Antonio. That's our neighbor's dog, Kenny. He didn't mind my cheesy mustache and unironic mullet. He was a good, nonjudgmental dog.
May 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Digitizing more old photos. 1984 Rick says hello from the front steps of our house on the near west side of San Antonio. That's our neighbor's dog, Kenny. He didn't mind my cheesy mustache and unironic mullet. He was a good, nonjudgmental dog.
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"I'm sure this will be fine," says Percy, like pretty much all of us living in 2025.
May 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"I'm sure this will be fine," says Percy, like pretty much all of us living in 2025.
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National Literacy Institute: 21% of adults in the US were illiterate as of 2024. 54% of US adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level). Worldwide the US ranks 36th in literacy. This is horrifying. It also explains a lot.
May 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
National Literacy Institute: 21% of adults in the US were illiterate as of 2024. 54% of US adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level). Worldwide the US ranks 36th in literacy. This is horrifying. It also explains a lot.
stop i sent in an audition for pjotv (for nico) and i lowkey look exactly like this fool (i even hit that expression sometimes 😭😭😭) @rickriordan.bsky.social
Naturally, we will be looking for a Nico di Angelo who closely resembles the original Disney-Hyperion promotional art from 2007, since I know that is everyone's favorite depiction. 😏
May 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
stop i sent in an audition for pjotv (for nico) and i lowkey look exactly like this fool (i even hit that expression sometimes 😭😭😭) @rickriordan.bsky.social
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Just started reading this. A powerful and timely book based on unbelievable but too believable history. apple.news/ArhIgu4zSQNC...
WWII-era queer and trans history inspired debut novel — WBUR News
Author Milo Todd's research into the trans and queer prisoners in German concentration camps and this period of LGBTQ+ history became the foundation for his debut novel “The Lilac People.”
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May 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Just started reading this. A powerful and timely book based on unbelievable but too believable history. apple.news/ArhIgu4zSQNC...
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Today's deep-cut deity: Alala, the personification of the war cry. This is the closest we have to a Greek god of screaming, which probably offers us a lesson. If life makes you want to scream, turn it into a war cry!
May 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Today's deep-cut deity: Alala, the personification of the war cry. This is the closest we have to a Greek god of screaming, which probably offers us a lesson. If life makes you want to scream, turn it into a war cry!
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Happy May Day! Whether you celebrate it as the beginning of spring, or a day to mark the struggle for workers' rights, or as an international distress call derived from the French m'aider, 'help me,' all options seem appropriate this year!
May 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Happy May Day! Whether you celebrate it as the beginning of spring, or a day to mark the struggle for workers' rights, or as an international distress call derived from the French m'aider, 'help me,' all options seem appropriate this year!
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Since I communicate primarily by writing, I had difficulty adjusting to the film industry, which conducts business 99% by phone calls and face-to-face meetings. I finally realized this is because no one wants written records of conversations that might leak out and embarrass anyone. Fair enough.
April 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Since I communicate primarily by writing, I had difficulty adjusting to the film industry, which conducts business 99% by phone calls and face-to-face meetings. I finally realized this is because no one wants written records of conversations that might leak out and embarrass anyone. Fair enough.
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What's in box, Rick?
April 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
What's in box, Rick?
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Got to see some early concept art for PJOTV season three monsters and beasties yesterday. Really not fair to tease this since it is still so far away, but Holy Hera it looks good! I'll just be over here squealing internally for the next couple of years until I can share it with you. Carry on.
April 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Got to see some early concept art for PJOTV season three monsters and beasties yesterday. Really not fair to tease this since it is still so far away, but Holy Hera it looks good! I'll just be over here squealing internally for the next couple of years until I can share it with you. Carry on.
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On my plate this week:
Look over marketing and merchandising ideas for PJOTV season two.
Read / note a script for season three.
Edit a manuscript that I can't talk about yet.
Continue writing a manuscript (the third new Percy novel)
Have meetings on two other projects I can't talk about yet.
Nap.
Look over marketing and merchandising ideas for PJOTV season two.
Read / note a script for season three.
Edit a manuscript that I can't talk about yet.
Continue writing a manuscript (the third new Percy novel)
Have meetings on two other projects I can't talk about yet.
Nap.
April 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
On my plate this week:
Look over marketing and merchandising ideas for PJOTV season two.
Read / note a script for season three.
Edit a manuscript that I can't talk about yet.
Continue writing a manuscript (the third new Percy novel)
Have meetings on two other projects I can't talk about yet.
Nap.
Look over marketing and merchandising ideas for PJOTV season two.
Read / note a script for season three.
Edit a manuscript that I can't talk about yet.
Continue writing a manuscript (the third new Percy novel)
Have meetings on two other projects I can't talk about yet.
Nap.
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Today's deep-cut deity: Antheia, goddess of flowers. Antheia "flowering/blooming one" was an epithet used to describe both Aphrodite and Hera, but she also seems to have been a separate god, one of Aphrodite's attendants the Kharites. Antheia has been hard at work the past few days in Boston!
April 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Today's deep-cut deity: Antheia, goddess of flowers. Antheia "flowering/blooming one" was an epithet used to describe both Aphrodite and Hera, but she also seems to have been a separate god, one of Aphrodite's attendants the Kharites. Antheia has been hard at work the past few days in Boston!
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Happy Megalenses Ludi! From April 4-10, Ancient Romans honored Cybele, the Magna Mater (Great Mother), with games and plays. Originally an Anatolian deity, Cybele was incorporated into the Roman calendar, though some Romans complained that her pageants were too "Greek," not properly Roman enough. 🙄
April 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Happy Megalenses Ludi! From April 4-10, Ancient Romans honored Cybele, the Magna Mater (Great Mother), with games and plays. Originally an Anatolian deity, Cybele was incorporated into the Roman calendar, though some Romans complained that her pageants were too "Greek," not properly Roman enough. 🙄
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A week later, I've signed 15,000 COURT OF THE DEAD tip-in sheets, now on their way to Mark Oshiro. These will be bound into the special editions, including for Books-a-Million, Barnes & Noble, and indie bookstores. If you're looking to preorder one, make sure it says 'signed' on the description.
April 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A week later, I've signed 15,000 COURT OF THE DEAD tip-in sheets, now on their way to Mark Oshiro. These will be bound into the special editions, including for Books-a-Million, Barnes & Noble, and indie bookstores. If you're looking to preorder one, make sure it says 'signed' on the description.
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Last week's turkey god got me thinking about other bird-related deities. Here's Nanshe, the Sumerian goddess of justice, dreams and marshlands, whose sacred bird was most probably the goose, as seen in the art! The Canada geese in Boston will be happy to hear they have proper god rep.
April 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Last week's turkey god got me thinking about other bird-related deities. Here's Nanshe, the Sumerian goddess of justice, dreams and marshlands, whose sacred bird was most probably the goose, as seen in the art! The Canada geese in Boston will be happy to hear they have proper god rep.
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My weekend assignment: Signing tip-in sheets, which will then go to Mark Oshiro, then bound into the books as they are printed. This edition is for indie bookstores, as you can see on the pages. No details when/how to order yet. At least my hand is better enough to sign! (my usual scrawl, anyway)
March 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
My weekend assignment: Signing tip-in sheets, which will then go to Mark Oshiro, then bound into the books as they are printed. This edition is for indie bookstores, as you can see on the pages. No details when/how to order yet. At least my hand is better enough to sign! (my usual scrawl, anyway)
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I noted the plaintiff in the case against the military transgender ban that just resulted in a nationwide injunction against it, out of WA state, is Commander Emily Shilling, a Navy fighter and test pilot who transitioned while in the service.
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Transgender Military Service Member: “I am proof that we are qualified to serve” | GLAAD
Commander Emily Shilling, a U.S. Naval aviator who is also an out transgender woman, is already serving in the military, already making our country safer and stronger, already well qualified. "I have ...
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March 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I noted the plaintiff in the case against the military transgender ban that just resulted in a nationwide injunction against it, out of WA state, is Commander Emily Shilling, a Navy fighter and test pilot who transitioned while in the service.
glaad.org/transgender-...
glaad.org/transgender-...
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Today's deep-cut deity: Cybele, the Phrygian Mother Goddess (equivalent to Rhea). She was originally born a hermaphrodite named Agdistis, but the gods feared such a male/female being would be too powerful, so they "cut off the male organ." Stories of gender change & fluidity are as old as humanity.
March 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Today's deep-cut deity: Cybele, the Phrygian Mother Goddess (equivalent to Rhea). She was originally born a hermaphrodite named Agdistis, but the gods feared such a male/female being would be too powerful, so they "cut off the male organ." Stories of gender change & fluidity are as old as humanity.
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On the street yesterday, someone recognized me, sort of. He asked if I was making any more Harry Potter movies. I smiled and said not that I knew of, but I'm working on a TV show based on my books. We parted, both satisfied with our wildly different understandings of reality.
January 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
On the street yesterday, someone recognized me, sort of. He asked if I was making any more Harry Potter movies. I smiled and said not that I knew of, but I'm working on a TV show based on my books. We parted, both satisfied with our wildly different understandings of reality.
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Becky and I prefer to keep our charitable giving private, but we recently added PFLAG to our roster of monthly giving. A great organization, needed now more than ever. pflag.org
PFLAG National
The nation's largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them.
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February 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Becky and I prefer to keep our charitable giving private, but we recently added PFLAG to our roster of monthly giving. A great organization, needed now more than ever. pflag.org
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Naturally, we will be looking for a Nico di Angelo who closely resembles the original Disney-Hyperion promotional art from 2007, since I know that is everyone's favorite depiction. 😏
March 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Naturally, we will be looking for a Nico di Angelo who closely resembles the original Disney-Hyperion promotional art from 2007, since I know that is everyone's favorite depiction. 😏