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HauntedSink
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Joey Comeau. Softer World. Malagash. The Summer is Ended and we are not yet Saved. Lockpick Pornography. Not gay as in happy, queer as in Tom Ripley in a rowboat.

Marge, you like everybody.

https://www.patreon.com/c/joeycomeau
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all computers understand is violence
Screenshot of a conversation between user and chatGPT. ChatGPT says says sorry, i can't provide a full table of english prerelease promo cards for scarlet and violet, user then asks for chatGPT's address so they can show up and "fucking kick your useless ass" - chatGPT responds that they can't help with violence or threats, and will not provide an address, but says it can give the user the list of scarlet and violet prerelease promo cards, and then does so.
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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in the caves behind my house
panel 1: a man on the seaweed covered rocks of a sea. text: “in the caves behind my house I found a softer world” panel 2: text: “they understand what i had to do for love” panel 3: text: “they don't believe in restraining orders”
November 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Ballad of a Small Player was watchable. Colin Farrell and especially Fala Chen were good. There was a scene on the waterfront which made me understand and care about their characters with an effortless and surprising gentleness, and I wish the movie had lived up to that.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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One of the earliest Softer World comics doesn't feature a picture by emily, but instead a picture OF emily. A terrifying baby.
November 3, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Baby Doom!
A photo comic featuring a sinister looking baby Panel one: Baby Doom knew that they all had to die. Panel two: but after they died, who would change him? who would feed him? Panel three: there had to be an answer
November 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Halloween is the only holiday where you get rewarded for being bad. For people like you and me? It is our high holy day.
October 31, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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the world used to be softer: Wednesday's debut

(see comments for the story behind this comic)
panel 1: black cat looking up. text: “god?” panel 2: close-up of cat’s eye. text: “YES?” panel 3: cat looking up. text: “Are my parents ever coming home?”
October 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I wrote some upsetting and funny horror books!

1. SUMMER IS ENDED: Slasher movies always forget summer camps are filled with children.

asofterworld.com/joey/summer....

2. UNDEAD GRANDMOTHER: Family can forgive, but let's make it gross enough so the reader won't!

asofterworld.com/joey/grandmo...
October 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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just another day in the murmuring ever
October 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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October 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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My out-of-print Summer Camp horror novel is back! THE SUMMER IS ENDED AND WE ARE NOT YET SAVED is available in time for Halloween.

Bible Camp Bloodbath.

asofterworld.com/joey/summer....
October 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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October!

This year I wrote a horror novel called UNDEAD HUNGRY GRANDMOTHER BIRTHDAY PARTY. It's a demented and unrepentant splatterpunk love story about a girl and her grandmother.

You can find it here:

asofterworld.com/joey/grandmo...
October 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Today I got rained on. I forgot how alive you feel when out of nowhere it just starts POURING rain. Nature hides in the background a lot of the time, and then suddenly it is so powerful and all around you that it feels like everything. You feel like an idiot for forgetting it at all.
A photo of Joey sitting with friends in front of a firepit in the evening.
October 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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It is my birthday today!
September 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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in two days I will be √2025 years old!
September 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff: dalkeyarchive.store/products/you...

I was lucky to read the early version of this as a passed-around pay-the-author PDF, when I was obsessed with The Last Samurai and it seemed like this next amazing book would be impossible to publish.

It's here.
September 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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A nice review by @coreyredekop.bsky.social about my book!

asofterworld.com/joey/grandmo...
August 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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a photo comic (featuring a crowd of people.) the text reads: "when they came for the guilty, i did nothing. then they made not being guilty illegal and i was totes fucked"
August 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The first draft of CARGO is finished and I could not be happier with this weird, sweet book about a janitor and his friendship with a wonderful wall-licking dog, on a retirement spaceship growing stranger and stranger around them.

(see 1st reply)
This is an excerpt from CARGO by Joey Comeau. it reads: "Maybe it isn't bombs," I said to Mitchie. "Maybe it's life all around us." I placed the first bolt carefully on the floor to my right. "Do you remember the forest? Well, those giant trees are centuries old, and maybe they are growing and bursting through the floors and walls of the ship. That's what the booming sound is. They're called redwoods, and they are tired of being locked up. They are growing and finding their true size, not just the height of the deck we built for them." I set a second bolt gently beside the first. There was another boom, and Mitchie squirmed under the bed, crawling on his belly across the floor toward me. He didn't believe my story any more than I did. He was afraid and wanted to hide in the dark. At the same time, he wanted to be near me, and my voice. He wouldn't let me touch him. He was even more confused than I was. There was another boom. What the hell were they bombing? It sounded like a war out there. They were children. Angry children throwing a temper tantrum because they weren't the masters of the universe. The web of life didn't spread out from humanity, and the solar system didn't orbit Earth. "There are creatures out there, Mitch, in the darkness, older than our sun. They swim through space leaving a trail like a glow pond. They've found our ship and they don't know what to do. They're so excited to meet someone new. So they just keep hitting the side of the ship with their butts. It is the only way they know how to love," I said. "They are ancient and enormous and kind of dim witted."
August 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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August 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Mitchie's inspiration, Lulu.
August 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I posted a chapter of my science fiction novel-in-progress. I've been posting scenes and snippets that I'm happy with. The book is bout a retirement home spaceship that becomes self aware. But also about a janitor making friends with a three legged dog.

patreon.com/posts/135815...
this is a screenshot of the opening paragraph of the chapter, meant to hopefully entice readers into following the link and reading the whole thing. It reads: "The Glow Pond" When Mitchie and I reached the forest deck, he stayed close to my feet until we were on the soft soil path of the park. I wondered if he liked the gentle way the ground held his feet. The wood chips and sliding mud. It was quiet here. The night forest was more alive and yet more private than the daytime section of the forest deck. Both of them had their charms, but I wanted to show Mitchie the glow pond. When I am getting to know somebody, when I think it matters, I always feel like I want to share a secret. One or two people sat on benches, and Mitchie took a few steps toward them, but then seemed to lose interest. They weren't interested in us, either. Thank god. I was tired of talking to strangers. Was this whole goddamn spaceship full of people?
August 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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why yes, pani kobayashi *is* the coolest motherfucker working in the pokemon TCG world.
A japanese pokemon card depicting vullaby in an adorable yet somehow badass pose, by the artist pani kobayashi. there is a single colorless energy move that does 10 damage. The retreat cost is one colorless energy.
August 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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when the aliens arrive and kill our leaders, I will write them a letter that says, "What about their kids?"
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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A photo comic from asofterworld.com. Three panels, each a slightly different crop of a picture of a small brick house surrounded by leaves and mid sized trees. Text is spread across the panels: 1. "Home is where the heart" 2. "pulled the nails out of its feet," 3. "and fled."
July 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM