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Jared Pechaček
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It's pronounced PECK-a-check. Artist, Crawford Award-winning writer, third thing now and then. He/him. Seattle. https://linktr.ee/jpechacek repped by Jennifer Azantian. Debut novel THE WEST PASSAGE out now from tordotcom!
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oh no he’s loose
Ballpoint sketch of a creature made up of two halves like abalone shells, each with a shapeless arm and leg, separated or held together by a mass of arterial structures. The creature strides confidently to the right
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Plymouth Pillars being an off leash area is so funny. where are they supposed to go? sounds to me like you’re just feeding dogs to traffic
Photo of Plymouth Pillars Park in Seattle; a tiny triangle of concrete wedged between a sheer drop to I-5 one side and two extremely busy streets on the others. Also there are four big headless pillars
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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oh no he’s loose
Ballpoint pen illustration of a creature shaped a little like a slouching potbellied human (no arms), dotted with wiry hair, its long goose neck opening to let out a thick, slimy coil like a tongue or a lubed up snail shell
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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heading out
Selfie in a black kimono jacket over a black buttoned shirt, black pants, and gold + burgundy boots Selfie (crouching this time) in a black kimono jacket over a black buttoned shirt, black pants, a turquoise bracelet, and gold + burgundy boots
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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every straight fitness influencer couple
The video game character design meme with extreme variation in body type among male orcs, trolls, and demons, but the female version of each species is just a differently colored woman in a bikini
November 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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oh no he’s loose
Ballpoint sketch of a creature with deerlike legs, a long thick tail, and a “body” principally composed of a long thin neck drooping down to a large bulbous head, resting on the ground, with several small eyes and a few large triangular teeth poking out of its heavy-lipped mouth
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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bulging forehead vein meme
November 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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it’s cousin oskaar time!
drawing of cousin Oskaar from that one daylight savings time video saying “THINK ABOUT ME DAVE” with an anguished expression
November 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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31. Pythagoras’s speech
Ink illustration of the world as processes of change in two linked circles, one proceeding from sea to clouds to trees to mountains to river and back to sea, the other proceeding from insects to birds, splashing through the water to become fish, a whale, then a deer, whose antlers join with the tree trunks in the first circle, from which butterflies emerge. The sea creatures orbit a crescent moon; the air and land creatures orbit the sh.
November 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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the love that dare not meep its name
image of beaker and dr. honeydew from the muppets
October 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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30. Hecuba and Polydorus
Ink illustration of an old woman kneeling over a corpse washed up on the shore. She is wrapped in a cloak, her face turned away in grief. The wind, carrying ashes, blows her hair out so as to block the corpse’s face
October 31, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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she does so love to sit with her eyes downcast. demure. wistful. waiting to be adopted by a kindly benefactor
Photo of a small black cat sitting with her tail curled decorously around her paws, head tilted down at a demure, wistful angle
October 31, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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thinking about her 😍
still of Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck saying "I just want you to know no matter what you do, you're gonna die, just like everybody else."
October 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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29. Aesacus and Tethys
Ink illustration of a gigantic watery goddess with her hands reaching out to cup a small mortal man floating in the sea
October 30, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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legitimately unwell fashion tips today

-pants over shorts
-a collared shirt over another for that slutty Steve Bannon look
-two long coats over each other
Screenshot of a reel from theedwardpark where he stands (shirtless, ripped) behind the caption “4 elevated layering ideas from your own closet” Screenshot of a reel from theedwardpark where he layers a pair of pants over a pair of shorts Screenshot of a reel from theedwardpark where he layers one collared shirt over another Screenshot of a reel from theedwardpark where he layers two long coats over one another
October 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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in Jonah 2 he and the whale fuse to fight god. most canons don’t include it because they don’t want people worshipping the man-whale instead
Drawing of a sperm whale with muscular arms and legs, a grim expression on its face, steam coming from its blowhole
October 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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28. Iris in the home of Somnus
Ink illustration of a woman pushing her way through bubbles of some amorphous substance
October 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Four books to get to know me
Cover of The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin Cover of Shadow & Claw by gene wolfe Cover of The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon Cover of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
October 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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27. Myrrha and Adonis
Ink illustration of a myrrh tree. Under it stands a woman cradling a baby, linked to a crevice in the tree by a dripping umbilical cord
October 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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I want what they have
Still from the early Disney short “The Skeleton Dance” showing one skeleton playing the other like a xylophone. The xylophone skeleton is on its hands and knees, chin on the ground, femurs pulled out and used to play its spine
October 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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as it was writ in the days of our forefathers
Photo of a Seattle metro information kiosk with pink graffiti reading TRY GAY SEX
October 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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west passage characters and their favorite halloween candy:

Kew: Butterfingers
Frin: those caramel apple lollipops
Yarrow: Tootsie Rolls
Arnica: it's all good
Old Yarrow: raisins
Peregrine: Hershey's Dark Chocolate
the Ladies: whatever's in YOUR bag
Tertius:
photo of a box of monkey-shaped chocolate-covered apple/banana flavored candy
October 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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a cockroach in summer
Comic of a cockroach. In the first panel, sweating, he says “man I’m so hot”. In the second panel panel he reaches up with his forelegs to tug at his carapace, making little noises of exertion. In the third panel the carapace is half-off, revealing human-like legs. In the fourth panel, the carapace lies discarded next to a little four legged-humanoid figure, hands on hips, shapely rear facing the viewer, sighing in relief. (He still has his antennae though)
October 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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the dinner wanter has logged on
Photo of a small black cat sitting in a cardboard box, looking up at the camera with wide wet eyes
October 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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26. Orpheus and Eurydice
Ink illustration of a cavernous underground space. In the background, a small figure stands in an opening, looking over his shoulder. A pathway winds back behind him to where a featureless white female figure looms in the foreground, merging with the border around the art itself as if dissolving out of the image
October 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM