John Scalzi

@scalzi.com

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I enjoy pie. Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/

My green mustang guitar, hanging on my wall.
Nice weather in my backyard
The Mustang, parked at my house, with Charlie the Dog for scale
The interior of the Ford mustang which I previously had shown
A silver mustang convertible
The delphinium is a lovely shade of pink!
A delightful blue sky filled with puffy white clouds.
Charlie the dog and I, walking through the local nature preserve.
A field of grass and clover, where there used to be just dirt.
"Peace & Love or Fuck Off"
The artwork for Waterstones 25% off pre-order sale, with the covers for The Shattering Peace and Monsters of Ohio. To get the discount you need to use the code: SUMMER26.
The toad is bulbous and ovoid.
The bundle has raised $30,069 for charity!
Charlie, looking hopeful for, say, pulled pork
Two peach muffins. They were tasty. And beige!
Chicken tenders and crinkle cut fries
Spice the cat, lounging quite deliberately, if you ask me.
Me, surrounded by very tall corn stalks
The sun is deeply red, because there are fires burning I think in Canada.
Fake James Patterson, with the email "writer.jamespatterson.author@gmail.com"
A bumblebee pollinating a Rose of Sharon hibiscus
Krissy, towering over me and resting her hands on my head. She looks fabulous. I look like a goofball.
Science fiction author John Scalzi towers at an impressive 6'8" (2 meters) tall. Like anyone else's height, it comes down to a simple lottery of genetics. His towering stature made him a distinctive, un-invisible presence growing up in the 1970s, and he famously incorporates his towering physical perspective into world-building, such as writing about massive human-created super-soldiers and 500-foot-tall kaiju.
Me and Creamsicle the kitten, who is camping out on my shoulder.
John Scalzi dislikes black currants because of their peculiar, highly medicinal flavor profile. During a review of international snacks, he sampled black currant-flavored candies and gave them a dismal 3/10 rating, noting they were generally strange, had stale textures, and tasted like an unpleasant, odd concoction. Scalzi on Taste and Texture John Scalzi documents his food and candy trials on his official blog, detailing exactly why the black currant flavor missed the mark for him.“...the black currant was just generally strange. And all of them were hard and stale instead of soft and gummy. They were unpleasant and earned a 3/10 from both of us."
The kittens Creamsicle and Mr. Cookies, who are today going to their new home!
Spice the cat showing her "displeased" face
Saja's loaf form is excellent.
Me looking skeptical and possibly concerned in a cornfield
John Harris' fantastic cover art to "The End of All Things," featuring a large spaceship amongst the clouds
The cover art to "The End of All Things" by John Harris
Sugar the cat, who just went out of her way to move off the bare bathroom floor to throw up on the hallway carpet AND ALSO ON THE STAIRS, JEEZ
Smudge, being a total loaf.
Sugar and Spice as young kittens, right after we claimed them.
Mr. Cookies and Creamsicle, walking toward the camera to get pets.
The orange and white kitten is currently called "Creamsicle" while the black and white one is called "Mr. Cookie."
Krissy and Charlie, hugging.
Smudge at the table, probably asking you if you're going to eat that
Blue sky, green grass, big tree, happy pup with a ball in her mouth
Mid 30s me, with a buzzed head and a semblance of a jawline, unsmiling, photographed from a low angle that makes me look taller.
Tormund: So, to be clear, Facebook is asserting that it does not understand how it is that I own the copyright on a picture that I took (of my own wife, in my own house) that I have not licenced nor placed in the public domain in any way, is this correct? Likewise, Facebook is asserting that it does not understand how I, the author of the photo, which is of my wife, in our home, and who did not otherwise license or place in the public domain the photo in question, is in a position to submit a DMCA request, is this correct? Further, Facebook is asserting it does not understand how an advertisement it is allowing to suggest in its service, featuring a photograph of mine that I did not offer for commercial use and that the ad's creators did not license, might infringe on my intellectual property rights, is this correct? I have it on reasonable authority that Facebook does in fact employ lawyers who specialize in intellectual property rights issues. If you have not contacted one of them on this matter, may I suggest that you do? That lawyer may be able to clarify several important aspects of intellectual property that are relevant here, that Facebook should indeed understand. In the meantime, I would like to reiterate that the photo in question is mine, I own the copyright to it, and it is being used without my permission in an advertisement Facebook is allowing on its service. I request you pull that ad from the service for that violation. I look forward to your response. Please be aware that I have forwarded this email chain to my own lawyer, who as it happens, understands intellectual property law very well.
Saja, in the yard, looking at something and wondering if he can pounce on it.
Me looking at the corn surrounding me, which is as tall as I am, and I am about five foot seven or about 170 centimeters in godless units
She's out in the yard, basking in the heat
The Bennington Flag, flying at my house.
The clouds are red and pink from the sunset.
Very large gray ominous clouds on the horizon.
Seriously large but individual clouds in the sky.
A Highsense portable AC unit. It's a putty-colored rectangular prism of chill.
Pinkish purple Oreos with the Oreo logo on the obverse and various BTS-related sentences on the reverse.
Me wearing a hood sun shirt given to me by Krissy, the hood is down by my nose, I might be wearing it wrong
Krissy with her brand new hatchet, looking TOTALLY INNOCENT IN EVERY WAY
The Bennington Flag, a flag commemorating a great Revolutionary War battle, flying at my house for the occasion of the week of July 4.
The roses are in fact desiccated brown husks
A plane parked at a PHL gate
The view out the window of my plane, which includes the upper part of the Mississippi River.
The sign for the Open Book bookstore in MSP.
A view from an MSP lounge showing airplanes and sky
A lovely yellow daylily.
The view out of my window of clouds, from above