Townsend S. Wright
@townsend.bsky.social
A vampirically pale scarecrow hopefully coming to the Sci-Fi section of a bookstore near you! Bookseller. He/they
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Welcome to Electric Spec - Shockingly good short works of science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre
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Hi, my name's Townsend and as of today, I'm a published writer! "The Ballad of Black Calchas" is my debut short story, an epic and tragic tale of magic and piracy. I'd appreciate if you gave it a read here at Electric Spec magazine!
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Hey, do me a favor. If you like dark fantasy, give this a read. Maybe tell your friends about it. Take out a billboard if the feeling strikes you.
Hi, my name's Townsend and as of today, I'm a published writer! "The Ballad of Black Calchas" is my debut short story, an epic and tragic tale of magic and piracy. I'd appreciate if you gave it a read here at Electric Spec magazine!
electricspec.com/Volume20/Iss...
electricspec.com/Volume20/Iss...
Welcome to Electric Spec - Shockingly good short works of science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre
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November 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Hey, do me a favor. If you like dark fantasy, give this a read. Maybe tell your friends about it. Take out a billboard if the feeling strikes you.
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The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
December 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
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The year is running low on Sundays! Funnies away!
December 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The year is running low on Sundays! Funnies away!
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when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.
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Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
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Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
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it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes
they hate music, they hate art, they hate artists, they hate pop, they hate the video games they play, they hate the movies they watch, like, they're just all the worst fucking people you've ever met, none of them believe in anything
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM
it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes
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oops it's her again
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
oops it's her again
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
This is the one year anniversary of leaving my old job. Might’ve been hard to feel like it didn’t all just wash away, but just in the last month I’ve gotten my first short story published, I’ve started querying my novel, I really feel like I’m actually on my way.
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This is the one year anniversary of leaving my old job. Might’ve been hard to feel like it didn’t all just wash away, but just in the last month I’ve gotten my first short story published, I’ve started querying my novel, I really feel like I’m actually on my way.
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I don’t know how many times we’re gonna have to say this, but, “People with disabilities need AI to create!” is the dumbest, most ableist thing you can say and please fucking stop.
December 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I don’t know how many times we’re gonna have to say this, but, “People with disabilities need AI to create!” is the dumbest, most ableist thing you can say and please fucking stop.
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Surreal that we could go through covid, still be going through covid, and yet it's not outlandish to think in a couple of years we might have to get our measles or small pox or flu shot from a guy in a back alley.
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Surreal that we could go through covid, still be going through covid, and yet it's not outlandish to think in a couple of years we might have to get our measles or small pox or flu shot from a guy in a back alley.
Seeing #WakeUpDeadMan, and supporting a small local theater because it was the only one playing the movie.
December 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Seeing #WakeUpDeadMan, and supporting a small local theater because it was the only one playing the movie.
It’s me. I am the new breed of asexual, asocial male. Join me in being, just, kinda wigged out by performative masculinity and not really caring what people think.
Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It’s me. I am the new breed of asexual, asocial male. Join me in being, just, kinda wigged out by performative masculinity and not really caring what people think.
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Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
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I'm reminded of a funny tweet I saw on Twitter a few years ago, about Star Trek episode titles.
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I'm reminded of a funny tweet I saw on Twitter a few years ago, about Star Trek episode titles.
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One of the drums I am going to keep beating is that the US needs to submit to the jurisdiction of the ICJ.
Right now, we live in a time in which the president is immune and can grant immunity to basically anyone he wants. They are acting accordingly.
Right now, we live in a time in which the president is immune and can grant immunity to basically anyone he wants. They are acting accordingly.
December 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
One of the drums I am going to keep beating is that the US needs to submit to the jurisdiction of the ICJ.
Right now, we live in a time in which the president is immune and can grant immunity to basically anyone he wants. They are acting accordingly.
Right now, we live in a time in which the president is immune and can grant immunity to basically anyone he wants. They are acting accordingly.
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You should call your representatives TODAY about the House Committee meeting
mention the meeting, mention that you do not think the "child safety" bills in this package are actually addressing child safety. These bills are a trojan horse even in the best of times LET ALONE under this administration
mention the meeting, mention that you do not think the "child safety" bills in this package are actually addressing child safety. These bills are a trojan horse even in the best of times LET ALONE under this administration
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
You should call your representatives TODAY about the House Committee meeting
mention the meeting, mention that you do not think the "child safety" bills in this package are actually addressing child safety. These bills are a trojan horse even in the best of times LET ALONE under this administration
mention the meeting, mention that you do not think the "child safety" bills in this package are actually addressing child safety. These bills are a trojan horse even in the best of times LET ALONE under this administration
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Game developers were here first. Not executives.
Game developers make games. Not executives.
Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives.
Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives.
Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.
Game developers make games. Not executives.
Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives.
Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives.
Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.
December 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Game developers were here first. Not executives.
Game developers make games. Not executives.
Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives.
Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives.
Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.
Game developers make games. Not executives.
Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives.
Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives.
Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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“By dusk light, some two hundred sailors of now sunken ships are slumped over the gunwales of my fleet. Manacles and ropes and torn cloth--whatever my crew could spare--bind their hands to the outside hull, such that they look down over the waters of this rocky cove, which has cost me so much.”
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December 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“By dusk light, some two hundred sailors of now sunken ships are slumped over the gunwales of my fleet. Manacles and ropes and torn cloth--whatever my crew could spare--bind their hands to the outside hull, such that they look down over the waters of this rocky cove, which has cost me so much.”
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miners do not interact. you delve too greedily and too deep
December 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
miners do not interact. you delve too greedily and too deep
What have been your LCS over the years?
Starting around college when I got into comics because it was on my commute, Two Cats Comics, which closed a little before the pandemic.
Nowadays @comixexperience.bsky.social
Starting around college when I got into comics because it was on my commute, Two Cats Comics, which closed a little before the pandemic.
Nowadays @comixexperience.bsky.social
What have been your LCS over the years?
San Diego:
Comickaze (both as a kid and when I moved back as an adult
Nuclear Comics North Park (now gone)
And sometimes Now or Never
Tucson:
Heroes & Villains
Fantasy Comics
And sometimes R-Galaxy
What should my LA shop(s) be?
San Diego:
Comickaze (both as a kid and when I moved back as an adult
Nuclear Comics North Park (now gone)
And sometimes Now or Never
Tucson:
Heroes & Villains
Fantasy Comics
And sometimes R-Galaxy
What should my LA shop(s) be?
What have been your LCS over the years?
Mine:
Toledo:
King’s Comics (RIP)
Cosmic Creations (RIP)
The Game Room
Columbus:
Laughing Ogre
Seattle (ish):
@arcanecomics.bsky.social /
Subspace Comics
Mine:
Toledo:
King’s Comics (RIP)
Cosmic Creations (RIP)
The Game Room
Columbus:
Laughing Ogre
Seattle (ish):
@arcanecomics.bsky.social /
Subspace Comics
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
What have been your LCS over the years?
Starting around college when I got into comics because it was on my commute, Two Cats Comics, which closed a little before the pandemic.
Nowadays @comixexperience.bsky.social
Starting around college when I got into comics because it was on my commute, Two Cats Comics, which closed a little before the pandemic.
Nowadays @comixexperience.bsky.social
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
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December 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM