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Song of the Week

Florence + the Machine, “The Old Religion”

Good morning!

The newsletter will be going out later today, probably later than the usual noon, as I haven’t written it yet. I was traveling all weekend, and my baby experienced jousters at the Renaissance Faire and penguins at the aquarium! She slept very hard when we finally got home.

If you’d like to receive the newsletter, here’s the signup link. Be sure to check your inbox for a confirmation.

We have only three more weeks of Last Watch Before Dawn before this volume is done! New pages will go out tomorrow and Friday.

A couple of petitions:

Via Daily Kos: End the water crisis in Puerto Rico

Via Amnesty International: Palestinian journalists disappeared

As always, thanks for being here, and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

Dolly Parton, “Jolene” (33 rpm)

I guess it’s good afternoon, now. Here’s something fun.

Brooke is going to be at the Milwaukee Mature Indie Literature Festival (MKE MILFest) on Saturday the 29th! As the name suggests, it’s an adults only event, and it will be at The Sugar Maple, 441 E Lincoln Ave, from 2 until 7 in the evening. Her gorgeous Dancing with Death set of cards will be available for purchase for the first time!

In the meantime, I’ll have a new page of Last Watch Before Dawn for you on Tuesday and Friday. We’re down to the last eight pages! One more month before this draft is finished!

The newsletter will come out on Monday the 31st. Here’s the signup link if you’re interested. Be sure to check your inbox afterward for a confirmation.

A couple of petitions for today:

Via Just Foreign Policy: End the illegal blockade of Cuba

Via Amnesty International: Close family detention centers

Via Save the Children: Protect children from war

Thanks for being here. Stop by again soon, and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

Billy Vicente, “Above the Ground”

Good morning!

We’ve arrived at the end of the month again, so if you’re signed up for the newsletter, it will be going out noon my time (US Central) on Friday. If you’re not signed up and would like to be, put your email in the box at this link. Be sure to check your inbox for a confirmation afterward.

Tomorrow will be the last page of Chapter Four of this volume of Last Watch Before Dawn, and on Friday I’ll have some bonus art, which will be available for paid subscribers on Patreon (and, eventually, in the published version of this volume). The fifth and final chapter will begin next week.

Here are a couple of petitions I’ve signed, and you might want to too:

Via Amnesty International: Close the Dilley detention center

Via Campaign for a New Myanmar: Support TPS for Burma

Via No Business With Genocide: Stop the UAE from funding genocide in Sudan

That’s what I’ve got for you today. Take care and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

MAREWREW, “Sonkayno”

Good morning! More Ainu music for today.

I am so sad to have missed the Chicago Pride Book Fest. My car stopped working on the way out of Milwaukee, and despite trying very hard (we got a jump from roadside assistance, but it didn’t help), we ended up having to head home. Fortunately, it managed to make it there (at like 35 miles an hour, max), so we didn’t get stranded. I’m taking it in to the dealership today.

If the newsletter is something that interests you, it’s going to go out at noon tomorrow (Central time). You can put your email in the box at this link. Be sure to check your inbox right after for a confirmation. This edition has garden and cat pictures, plus a bunch of Brooke’s new paintings.

New pages of Last Watch Before Dawn this week. This coming month will finish up Chapter Four, and then we’re on to the last one!

A couple of petitions:

Via Native Organizers Alliance: Save the Equal Access Rule

Via Action Collective: Drop the 30-year charges against ICE protestors

Via All Out: Stop deporting LGBT+ people into danger

That’s all for now. I love you, take care, and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

C.W. Stoneking, “The Love Me or Die”

Good morning!

The newsletter is going out tomorrow. Brooke has a new pack of cards for you, and I’m going to an event in April, and there will be cat pictures in there also. If that’s something that interests you, put your email in the box at this link, then check your inbox for a confirmation.

We’ve concluded the third chapter of this volume of Last Watch Before Dawn! There will be two more. Bonus art will go up tomorrow, and then we’ll start the next chapter on Friday. Now’s a good time to get caught up if you’ve been waiting. Here’s the table of contents.

A couple of petitions:

Via Win Without War: Block the sale of bombs and bulldozers to the Israeli government

Via Just Foreign Policy: No troops in Iran, no on the draft

That’s all for now. I love you; stay safe and stop by again soon.

Newsletter delay

MailerLite appears to be down at the moment (I’m getting a “no healthy upstream” error, and it seems other people are too). This was the time I had blocked out to work on the newsletter, and I’ll be busy all day tomorrow, so unless it comes back in the next ten minutes or so, I won’t be able to get it out on the usual last day of the month. Hopefully I can get it out in the next few days.

Thanks for your patience!

Song of the Week

Mediaeval Baebes, “Adam Lay Ibounden” (traditional)

Good morning!

I wanted to warn you that the newsletter will be going out on Saturday, so if that’s something you’re interested in (it does include pictures of my cats), put your email in the box at this link. Be sure to then check your inbox for a confirmation.

New pages of Last Watch Before Dawn will be up Tuesday and Friday! This chapter is going to be pretty dark, but I promise the following one will be much more hopeful. Things have to get worse before they can get better.

I hope that in the real world, we’re also in the part where things have to get worse before they get better. Unlike fiction, we don’t wait for the writer to get to it; we have to make it better ourselves.

So, here’s some petitions, as a small effort you and I can make:

Via the National Campaign for Justice: Keep ICE out of public schools and publicly commit to vote against funding DHS

Via CodePink: Tell the British Embassy to take action on the hunger strikers

Via Win Without War: Stop a new nuclear arms race

Take care of yourselves, and stop by again soon.

Song of the Week

Ye Vagabonds, “Her Mantle So Green” (traditional)

Good morning!

I am trying very hard to get the next page of Last Watch Before Dawn finished and out to you. It’s almost done! I’m on the last panel (out of four), and then I just have to format the text. It is very difficult to draw while holding a baby. I appreciate your patience.

The next episode of The Well Below the Valley will conclude the Whitmoor arc, corresponding to Chapter Two of the Call of Cthulhu module (which you can read, if you don’t mind spoilers, here). It will be a chunky one, so it’ll take a little while to complete. The good news is that it is much easier to type while my baby naps on my chest.

The newsletter will be going out on the 31st (Sunday). You can put your email in the box at this link if you aren’t signed up and would like to be. Be sure to check your inbox afterward for a confirmation.

I’ll be away for the Labor Day holiday, so there won’t be a Song of the Week next week. I’ll get you new content as I finish it, but otherwise your regularly scheduled nonsense will resume the following Monday (the 8th).

A couple of petitions:

Via Turn Left: Tell the White House Faith Office to condemn Trump’s treatment of migrants

Via RootsAction: No war on Iran

Via Just Foreign Policy: Restore medical visas for Palestinian children

That’s all for today. I’ll be back as soon as I have new content for you. Thanks for reading!

Song of the Week

Nathan Evans Fox, “Hillbilly Hymn (Okra and Cigarettes)”

Hello! It’s Monday again.

Thank you to everyone who braved the heat to come out to the Kenosha Book Festival! I’ll be heading back out there in September for the last one of the year. I’m hoping it will be a pleasant fall day.

The newsletter will be going out on Thursday (the 31st). If you’re not signed up and would like to be, put your email in the box at this link, and then check your inbox for a confirmation. If you signed up at the festival, I’ll put your information in today, so you don’t need to do anything else.

I’ll be working on the first proper page of the comic this week, as well as the next episode of The Well Below the Valley. Last week’s episode will be up here on Wednesday for free reading. I appreciate your patience as I continue to try to get on a regular schedule. I don’t know if that will be happening anytime soon, but please believe that I’m trying.

A couple of petitions:

Via Demand Progress: Stop ICE’s human trafficking to foreign prisons

Via Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid: Demand that Congress and the White House act to deliver food to starving Palestinians

Thanks for stopping by! Come back soon!

Song of the Week

Allison Russell, “Persephone”

Good morning!

I had a lovely time at the Spooky Frog Book Fair! Thanks to everyone who climbed the stairs to see us. I hope you enjoy the books!

The newsletter will go out on Friday, so if you haven’t signed up yet and want to (there are bonus cat pictures in it), you can put your email in the box at this link. Be sure to check your inbox for a confirmation, or it won’t add you to the list. If you signed up at the book fair, I’ll be adding you today; no need to do anything.

On Wednesday, the next episode of The Well Below the Valley will be up on Patreon! We’ll get to know some new characters and solve the puzzle the late professor was carrying around in his briefcase. I’ll be working on Episode 5 this week, as well as the first issue of the comic. I’m hoping to finish the comic script soon and get started on storyboarding, which is a much more interesting thing for you to look at, but I’ll see if I can post a bit of the script on Friday as a fun teaser.

Couple of petitions for this week:

Via Left Click: Stand against the expansion of Guantánamo Bay for immigrant detention

Via Native Organizers Alliance: Stop racist mass deportations

Via Our Revolution: Stop weapons sales to Israel

That’s all I’ve got for today. Take care and have an excellent week.