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Brenton Lengel
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Playwright, Screenwriter, and Appalachian Trail 2000-Miler. Writer/Creator of Scout Comics’s THRICE Ringo Award-nominated series “Snow White Zombie Apocalypse”.

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Also, not to distract, but this is a bit of serendipity. We met at DragonCon back in 2015 & I pitched a web series (starring you) about NPCs to Geek and Sundry.It didn’t work out due to budgetary reasons. Since then I’ve become a Ringo Award nominated comic creator & that very story just came out!
July 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Sorry to hear this. We lost a cat to cancer about a year ago. I've had pets my whole life. It never gets easier, though I find poems like the one below provide some real comfort.
February 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Found this in the mail yesterday after seeing #DavidTennant wearing one. It captures how I feel about #TransRights and #CivilRights in general. Perfect timing after the absolute tire-fire of the #TrumpvBiden #debate. #transrightsarehumanrights #pride #pride2024 #pridemonth #lgbt #Whoovian #DrWho
June 29, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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This just arrived yesterday. Perfect timing after the tire-fire that was the 1st #TrumpvBiden #Debate.
June 29, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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It is with all this other crazy shit within a 3 block radius.
June 19, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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BTW: if anyone’s wondering why the pictures don’t have leaves, I took those last winter…but I’m *ALSO* there now. Whole bunch of other crazy sh*t. We have straight-up haunted house vibes, the street layout is positively lovecraftian in its incomprehensibility and…the tree with the roof is ALIVE!
June 19, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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Pulled off the highway on the way to visit family, and I think I may have walked right into @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com’s #AmericanGods, we have: a weird giant tree with a roof on it, a toy train museum, a shrine to #Osiris, and a McDonalds that gets nearly every order wrong. #NeilGaiman
June 19, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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Found my journal from my 2008 thur-hike of the #AppalachianTrail. Among memorized quotes by #Shakespeare & #Thoreau I (poorly) transcribed “Going Wodwo” by @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com—still one of my favorite poems & served as inspiration to keep my nerve while doing something so objectively insane.
It were as well to be educated in the shadow of a mountain as in more classic shade. Some will remember, no doubt, not only that they went to college, but that they went to the mountains. - Henry David Thoreau The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Shedding my shirt, my book, my coat, my life Leaving them, empty husks and fallen leaves Going in search of food and for a spring Of sweet water. I’ll find a tree as wide as ten far men Clear water rilling over its gray roots Berries I’ll find, and crabapples and nuts, And call it home. I’ll tell the wind my name, and no one else. True madness takes or leaves us in the wood halfway through all our lives. My skin will be my face now. I must be nuts. Sense left with shoes and house, my guts are cramped. I’ll stumble through the green back to my roots, and leaves and thorns and buds, and shiver… I’ll leave the way of words to walk the wood I’ll be the forest’s man, and greet the sun, And feel the silence blossom on my tongue like language.
June 13, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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“There comes Fenris' twin
His jaws are open wide
The serpent rises from the waves
Jormungandr twists and turns
Mighty in his wrath
The eyes are full of primal hate…”

#Eclipse #Ragnarok #amonamarth
April 8, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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I don’t mind because I think censoring fuck is often funnier than using it, but it’s odd that the CULTURE is now fine with obscenity, but *social media conglomerates* are somehow NOT and will punish you in the algorithm, sometimes without even telling you—We should probably be concerned about that.
April 7, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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These are gorgeous! Also: the poem excerpt you let me use was absolutely PERFECT. People love it. Thanks so much. PM me a PO Box and I’d be happy to send you a copy of the hardcover!
Excerpt of “Fairy Reel” by Neil Gaiman as a tone poem to begin Snow White Zombie Apocalypse by Brenton Lengel, Hyeondo Park, and Luana Vecchio. Cover of SWZA vol. 1 where Neil Gaiman’s poem is presented as a tone piece, SWZA vol. 1: Rapunzel’s tragic backstory. Trefene, a peasant witch casting a spell via Scapulamancy a real form of Chinese ancestral magic. From SWZA Vol. 1’s Bluebeard preview.
March 28, 2024 at 9:30 PM
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It’s really just absolutely perfect! PM me an address and I’ll send you a copy. We’re just over $9k on a goal of $12k so if anyone wants a copy you can get it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bre...
March 27, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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Hey @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com! Thank you SO much for contributing an excerpt from your poem “Fairy Reel” as a tone piece for my first ever graphic novel “Snow White Zombie Apocalypse Vol. 1”! Especially since “Snow Glass Apples” directly inspired #SWZA: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bre...
March 27, 2024 at 11:03 PM