Brandon Amico
@amico.bsky.social
NEA fellow • MTG articles @ EDHREC • Events/marketing @gamershaunt.bsky.social • Author, DISAPPEARING, INC. www.brandonamico.com
A quote on “seriousness” in individuals from an old lecture by John Cleese. Feels especialy apt lately—
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A quote on “seriousness” in individuals from an old lecture by John Cleese. Feels especialy apt lately—
Honored to have two poems from my pandemic crown of sonnets in the latest South Dakota Review along with several friends and writers I admire. Thank you to @artichokeheart.bsky.social for including me in this storied journal.
October 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Honored to have two poems from my pandemic crown of sonnets in the latest South Dakota Review along with several friends and writers I admire. Thank you to @artichokeheart.bsky.social for including me in this storied journal.
Look, it’s not my fault we were both raised in proper households that taught us that ODY/ONS basics are the best. These are the basics of my Grumgully deck:
September 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Look, it’s not my fault we were both raised in proper households that taught us that ODY/ONS basics are the best. These are the basics of my Grumgully deck:
Time for my monthly check in of ONE of my student loan bills from 2017 to see if it’s tipped over to me paying more principal than interest yet…nope! So close.
Eight years later. $55,000 paid in and only $19,500 to principal—and I still owe $68,000 on this loan alone.
Eight years later. $55,000 paid in and only $19,500 to principal—and I still owe $68,000 on this loan alone.
September 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Time for my monthly check in of ONE of my student loan bills from 2017 to see if it’s tipped over to me paying more principal than interest yet…nope! So close.
Eight years later. $55,000 paid in and only $19,500 to principal—and I still owe $68,000 on this loan alone.
Eight years later. $55,000 paid in and only $19,500 to principal—and I still owe $68,000 on this loan alone.
If there’s one piece of art that perfectly encapsulates the millennial experience of a life placed squarely at the intersection of a country’s promise and its broken pieces that we’ll be left with, it’s Kentucky Route Zero. Hauntingly beautiful, human and bleak.
September 15, 2025 at 6:19 AM
If there’s one piece of art that perfectly encapsulates the millennial experience of a life placed squarely at the intersection of a country’s promise and its broken pieces that we’ll be left with, it’s Kentucky Route Zero. Hauntingly beautiful, human and bleak.
Yesterday I didn’t know this card existed but today it’s one of my new favorites. Sometimes you need to deploy a midair lion
September 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Yesterday I didn’t know this card existed but today it’s one of my new favorites. Sometimes you need to deploy a midair lion
The mailman today finally brought me something other than warnings about my untimely death delivered in Pig Latin—the @nightvaleradio.bsky.social Roleplaying Game!
Love the world that @planetoffinks.bsky.social & @happierman.bsky.social created, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with friends.
Love the world that @planetoffinks.bsky.social & @happierman.bsky.social created, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with friends.
August 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The mailman today finally brought me something other than warnings about my untimely death delivered in Pig Latin—the @nightvaleradio.bsky.social Roleplaying Game!
Love the world that @planetoffinks.bsky.social & @happierman.bsky.social created, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with friends.
Love the world that @planetoffinks.bsky.social & @happierman.bsky.social created, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with friends.
And it got some flavor text from you at Vegas in 2023 for this project! commandersherald.com/project-gore...
August 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
And it got some flavor text from you at Vegas in 2023 for this project! commandersherald.com/project-gore...
A thank you to Mergoat Mag for including my haiku in this, their last issue, focused on Appalachia, Catastrophe, and Helene.
July 31, 2025 at 11:55 PM
A thank you to Mergoat Mag for including my haiku in this, their last issue, focused on Appalachia, Catastrophe, and Helene.
A hard but grateful message: the Fall 2025 issue of The Florida Review will be the last with me as Poetry Editor. Nothing but love for my time there, and I’m excited for whatever the next steps for my life look like.
❤️ @rochellehurt.bsky.social @theflreview.bsky.social
❤️ @rochellehurt.bsky.social @theflreview.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
A hard but grateful message: the Fall 2025 issue of The Florida Review will be the last with me as Poetry Editor. Nothing but love for my time there, and I’m excited for whatever the next steps for my life look like.
❤️ @rochellehurt.bsky.social @theflreview.bsky.social
❤️ @rochellehurt.bsky.social @theflreview.bsky.social
They’re the same picture
July 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
They’re the same picture
Jealous. I literally was in the queue in less than 4 seconds (I had someone time me!) and I’m about a third of the way through as of an hour in now…
July 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Jealous. I literally was in the queue in less than 4 seconds (I had someone time me!) and I’m about a third of the way through as of an hour in now…
How about we just f*cking don’t? Keep AI away from art, whether it’s the Poetry Foundation or a small journal. This desire some have to feed every bit of humanity into the gaping maw of bloodless tech is ghoulish.
June 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
How about we just f*cking don’t? Keep AI away from art, whether it’s the Poetry Foundation or a small journal. This desire some have to feed every bit of humanity into the gaping maw of bloodless tech is ghoulish.
File under “projects that absolutely, definitely will get made, for real, we mean it this time, why are you looking at us like that”
June 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
File under “projects that absolutely, definitely will get made, for real, we mean it this time, why are you looking at us like that”
Finally made a library card system for my commander MTG decks! There’s a stamp I can use to put the date I play a deck on the card inserted into each of these, & I can track wins/losses with it because I am a sicko for stats. Saw someone do something similar & was like well I have to get on that
June 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Finally made a library card system for my commander MTG decks! There’s a stamp I can use to put the date I play a deck on the card inserted into each of these, & I can track wins/losses with it because I am a sicko for stats. Saw someone do something similar & was like well I have to get on that
Last two days I’ve noticed a lot of the trees near our house have these handful of dead patches that are dropping off, despite the rest of the tree seeming fully healthy. Is this something to do with the cicada brood? Is it related to Helene last fall? Any botanists have any idea?
June 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Last two days I’ve noticed a lot of the trees near our house have these handful of dead patches that are dropping off, despite the rest of the tree seeming fully healthy. Is this something to do with the cicada brood? Is it related to Helene last fall? Any botanists have any idea?
What a staggering, heartbreaking, and beautiful book @niina.bsky.social’s PATH OF TOTALITY is. How all-encompassing, how specific. I love it and you should read it too.
June 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
What a staggering, heartbreaking, and beautiful book @niina.bsky.social’s PATH OF TOTALITY is. How all-encompassing, how specific. I love it and you should read it too.
Ok who knows what kinda spider this is living in my mailbox
June 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Ok who knows what kinda spider this is living in my mailbox
Holy cow, anyone playing in the Magic Spotlight with this one please sell it to me, that art is incredible
June 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Holy cow, anyone playing in the Magic Spotlight with this one please sell it to me, that art is incredible
Uhhhh, looks like there’s a new variant of the Secret Lair bonus card Seven Dwarves. Just pulled this from my Vrooom lair! CC: @saffronolive.bsky.social @manacurves.bsky.social @starcitygames.bsky.social @mtggoldfish.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Uhhhh, looks like there’s a new variant of the Secret Lair bonus card Seven Dwarves. Just pulled this from my Vrooom lair! CC: @saffronolive.bsky.social @manacurves.bsky.social @starcitygames.bsky.social @mtggoldfish.com
Grateful to the folks at Spoon River Poetry Review for giving three from my “year 2 of pandemic” crown of sonnets a home with such lovely company. Pick up your copy today!
May 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Grateful to the folks at Spoon River Poetry Review for giving three from my “year 2 of pandemic” crown of sonnets a home with such lovely company. Pick up your copy today!
One of the most exciting mail days I’ve had in awhile! Thanks, @kelogsloops.bsky.social!
May 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
One of the most exciting mail days I’ve had in awhile! Thanks, @kelogsloops.bsky.social!