l.s. johnson

@lsjohnson.bsky.social

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prima materia, chase & daniels, rare birds, vacui magia. writer, indexer, proofreader, cat wrangler. sfwa, hwa, codex. https://www.traversingz.com/

A still from the last episode of The Vampire Lestat, where Lestat says, in a voice laden with emotion, "Grammar." Same, Lestat. Same.
A Siamese and an all black cat refusing to believe the air numbers are that bad
A Delaware sky made solid by smoke
A picture of the cover of my novella In Her Mind a Darkness, with cutesy little arrows pointing to phrases that describe it: "1980s NYC," "the thing in the laundry room," "haunted girl and bad boys," "weird fiction," "only in limited edition, numbered hardcover," and "buy direct and support an indie author."
Late sixth century antefix of Medusa holding her baby Pegasus, with curled hair, wings, tusks, and possibly a beard? In other words, freakin' awesome.
A floor map of FanExpo Denver, showing my table A1608 in Artist Valley, fourth row in from the comic creators and cosplay alley.
A picture of Mark Rylance as Cromwell and Damien Lewis as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall. I believe this is the moment when Henry is telling Cromwell about his first night with Jane Seymour and he utters that hideous phrase "such maidenly pudeur" which always makes me gag.
A picture of a little crystal bird, which I write about in my newsletter, along with the text "Newsletter drops tomorrow". We won't talk about the field of snow on the other side of the window, which has lingered for far too long now; we're just interested in the bird, which my mother bought when she was battling cancer.
A very well fed Siamese, leaning against an orange blanket with a come-hither look that he saves for mornings when I dare to sleep in.
A short video of dozens of grackles fighting over two bird feeders, one of which is nearly empty; a flurry of black birds against the white snow
The covers of four of my books: Vacui Magia, Harkworth Hall, Rare Birds, and Seeds of Truer Natures, all available as pay-what-you-can ebooks
An orange and white cat before the door of an enclosed porch, soaking up the freezing draft and meowing plaintively but alas! She cannot go out! Woe is her, for she had to stay inside with the heated bed and the heaping bowl of food! Poor baby!
A fluffy black cat is stretched against a window staring very intently at nothing visible to the human eye
An orange and white cat with a very pink nose in the morning snow; not visible is the fact that she is shaped like a potato with legs.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Triumph of Death, which depicts horrific scenes of death and destruction 16th-century-apocalypse style, and fits the mood of a novella about 16th-century vampires.
Two cats snuggling on a couch in the sunlight, a little balm for the soul in these hellish times
A picture of Laurence Olivier as a vaudeville comedian in the miniseries Lost Empires, one of his last roles, with the caption "have you signed up?"
Video from my new bird feeder of a very hungry house finch
President Trump opposes a lapse in appropriations, and on September 19, the House of Representatives passed, with the Trump Administration’s support, a clean continuing resolution to fund the government through November 21. Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution in the U.S. Senate due to unrelated policy demands.
A floofy black cat with a grey patch on her belly sprawled magnificently on a blue carpet, waiting for the inevitable rubs and to be told how adorable and beautiful she is.
A tracking history that shows the box went to Texas (which kind of makes sense, 79127 instead of 70127) but are now in Nebraska, which is beyond sense.
Six stickers of my favorite Ludo designs, though I could also have bought six of the biblically accurate angel and been quite content
Four lovely dark stickers!
A view of the Mississippi River with an orange moon rising, because if I don’t have books to sell, at least I have an amazing view
A perfect panther of a black cat sprawled in a windowsill, listening to a dozen birds singing the avian version of “cant touch this”
A black panther kitty giving me proper side-eye as I lose my sh*t reading today's news. As someone who has endured younger cats stealing his crunchies for three long years now, he now knows life is suffering, and the best we can hope for is someone who cares enough to give us butt-scratches and the occasional Churu.
A fluffy black cat asleep on my lap, wrapped around my left forearm, who has cunningly made it all too easy for me to also sleep
A large short haired black cat looks out a window on a lovely morning, dreaming of bloody feathers, hot flesh, the squirt of organs between his teeth
An elderly tabby, well-versed in the fine art of begging by staring, and his young fluffy all-black protégé, who is fighting the urge to just smack the sandwich out of my hand.
Pictures of the covers of my weird fiction books: Rare Birds, In Her Mind a Darkness, and Vacui Magia.
A picture of a sign that says I, LS Johnson, am at booth B4 in Artist Alley
Three young cat bros who are pressed to the screen door, itching to get at a raven on the roof and oblivious to the fact that the raven would kick all their asses.
A picture of the Welsh defenders hung at Conwy Castle, which is also the number clue for a children’s game.
The cover of Kelly Link’s Stranger Things Happen.
The cover of Andrea Barrett’s Ship Fever
The cover of Yu Hua’s The Past and the Punishments
The cover of Elaine Scarry’s Body in Pain.
The cover of Thomas Ligottti’s Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
The cover of Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety. It is one of my personal theories that Mantel was hot for a certain kind of man. Her portrayals of Cromwell and Danton here feel a little … thirsty at times. 😆
The cover of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble. Cannot emphasize enough how the idea of gender as performance rocked grad school seminars
The cover of Adrienne Rich’s Time’s Power, which includes “Dreamwood,” a hugely influential poem for me
The cover of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, surprising no one probably.
The cover of my copy of Infante's Three Trapped Tigers
An old cover of Toni Morrison's Sula, the cover I remember.
The cover of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, a book that helped me to open a conversation with my dad about Vietnam.
An old-school copy of Stephen King's The Stand.
A pile of stickers, each of two silhouettes of girls stacked atop a broken vinyl LP.
An image of a girls eyes with the text “it’s the only way she can see the monster”