Eric Tolladay
@e-tolladay.bsky.social
Writer, artist.
One of these days I will be something, but right now I’m just me.
One of these days I will be something, but right now I’m just me.
Every year I manage at least one artsy photo with the Xmas lights. It’s not intentional. It’s just that they are different enough that you notice them. Like the way they look out the bathroom window.
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Every year I manage at least one artsy photo with the Xmas lights. It’s not intentional. It’s just that they are different enough that you notice them. Like the way they look out the bathroom window.
No one explained to me as a child exactly how much vomit you clean up as an adult. Pretty sure there should have been a warning label or something, especially with cats.
December 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
No one explained to me as a child exactly how much vomit you clean up as an adult. Pretty sure there should have been a warning label or something, especially with cats.
There are no onions in the house. Not sure I can cook anything. The only thing I use more is cooking oil.
What would you be lost without in the kitchen?
What would you be lost without in the kitchen?
December 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
There are no onions in the house. Not sure I can cook anything. The only thing I use more is cooking oil.
What would you be lost without in the kitchen?
What would you be lost without in the kitchen?
Walked to a local farmers market with The a Pretty Wife™️, and found some nice leaves on the way back.
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Walked to a local farmers market with The a Pretty Wife™️, and found some nice leaves on the way back.
I was over at a friend’s place helping with a shoot. We set up all this lighting gear, but then went with natural light for most of the shots.
December 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I was over at a friend’s place helping with a shoot. We set up all this lighting gear, but then went with natural light for most of the shots.
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If a few select American investors make billions of dollars from an episode of mass killing, it cannot legally be considered a genocide.
by Jared Kushner
by Jared Kushner
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If a few select American investors make billions of dollars from an episode of mass killing, it cannot legally be considered a genocide.
by Jared Kushner
by Jared Kushner
A little "how to" advice from someone who has been working in creative fields for over 40 years.
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So you want to be an artist
Unsolicited advice on how to make it in the creative world, from someone who has been in the trenches for a while. Many years ago I had a job as a delivery driver for a rental company. This was bac…
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November 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A little "how to" advice from someone who has been working in creative fields for over 40 years.
erictolladay.com/2025/11/so-y...
erictolladay.com/2025/11/so-y...
Oh man. One of the giants has passed.
November 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Oh man. One of the giants has passed.
Laying down in the back with a feral for company. Say hello to Pat.
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Laying down in the back with a feral for company. Say hello to Pat.
This was so good. Two amazing authors, lots of good questions.
I am SO EXCITED to share this Fifth Saturday extra: @annleckie.com and @byzantienne.bsky.social in conversation about questions of empire and imperialism in their respective novels.
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine: in conversation — Speculative Insight
Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine have both written novels that focus on empires, imperialism, and colonialism, and how people react to and work within those structures. I asked them to chat with me, a...
www.speculativeinsight.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This was so good. Two amazing authors, lots of good questions.
Had a piece of leftover apple pie for breakfast. Heated it first in the microwave. Not gonna lie, it was fucking amazing.
November 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Had a piece of leftover apple pie for breakfast. Heated it first in the microwave. Not gonna lie, it was fucking amazing.
Was taking a water bowl outside for a local feral, when I noticed our overhead lights in the backyard made a lovely pattern.
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Was taking a water bowl outside for a local feral, when I noticed our overhead lights in the backyard made a lovely pattern.
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Trimming the trees in the alley behind our house. About 3/4 done. You can roughly see our progress. I normally stage a photo, but this was taken from the shade where I sat my ass down for a break. Too tired to get up for a proper photo.
November 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Trimming the trees in the alley behind our house. About 3/4 done. You can roughly see our progress. I normally stage a photo, but this was taken from the shade where I sat my ass down for a break. Too tired to get up for a proper photo.
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It's that time of year
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's that time of year
Sticker on the back of a Tesla in front of me.
We know but we have the car now.
We know but we have the car now.
November 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Sticker on the back of a Tesla in front of me.
We know but we have the car now.
We know but we have the car now.
Grillin. That’s corn waiting to go on a second time.
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Grillin. That’s corn waiting to go on a second time.
Sometimes when I write the ideas are so rich so crystalline that I have to step away. They are so beautiful that you can’t look at them directly.
What a gift those moments are.
What a gift those moments are.
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Sometimes when I write the ideas are so rich so crystalline that I have to step away. They are so beautiful that you can’t look at them directly.
What a gift those moments are.
What a gift those moments are.
Signed a contract with Baubles From Bones today. My first professional sale. Pretty excited.
"C'mon Boys," my story of a robot that accidentally starts a labor union is going to be in Issue 7 in early December.
Not gonna lie, after many years of swinging it feels pretty good to get a hit.
"C'mon Boys," my story of a robot that accidentally starts a labor union is going to be in Issue 7 in early December.
Not gonna lie, after many years of swinging it feels pretty good to get a hit.
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Signed a contract with Baubles From Bones today. My first professional sale. Pretty excited.
"C'mon Boys," my story of a robot that accidentally starts a labor union is going to be in Issue 7 in early December.
Not gonna lie, after many years of swinging it feels pretty good to get a hit.
"C'mon Boys," my story of a robot that accidentally starts a labor union is going to be in Issue 7 in early December.
Not gonna lie, after many years of swinging it feels pretty good to get a hit.
Sometimes I think the best gift you can give to another is the safety and comfort to dream their own future.
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Sometimes I think the best gift you can give to another is the safety and comfort to dream their own future.
This is so massively fucked up, and done in our name. If you’re a citizen of the US this will directly affect you.
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This is so massively fucked up, and done in our name. If you’re a citizen of the US this will directly affect you.
I finished this novel about a week ago and it went so deep and so hard that I am still trying to process it.
It is a glorious mirror of the modern world. She uses the tools of fantasy in ways that no one else can do. We’ve come a long since Tolkien and all I can say is thank god.
It is a glorious mirror of the modern world. She uses the tools of fantasy in ways that no one else can do. We’ve come a long since Tolkien and all I can say is thank god.
I bought airplane wifi so I could tell you that @alixeharrow.bsky.social’s THE EVERLASTING is a perfect goddamn book, also if you can see her on tour you absolutely should
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I finished this novel about a week ago and it went so deep and so hard that I am still trying to process it.
It is a glorious mirror of the modern world. She uses the tools of fantasy in ways that no one else can do. We’ve come a long since Tolkien and all I can say is thank god.
It is a glorious mirror of the modern world. She uses the tools of fantasy in ways that no one else can do. We’ve come a long since Tolkien and all I can say is thank god.
Adding orange oil to water and vinegar. The Pretty Wife was making weed killer, and I thought the dispersal looked beautiful.
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Adding orange oil to water and vinegar. The Pretty Wife was making weed killer, and I thought the dispersal looked beautiful.