I hope you’ll consider Kaleidotrope for this year’s H҉u҉g҉o҉, N҉e҉b҉u҉l҉a҉, o҉r҉ o҉t҉h҉e҉r҉ b҉e҉s҉t҉ o҉f҉ y҉e҉a҉r҉ l҉i҉s҉t҉s҉! This is my annual Awards Illegibility Post.

a sonnet

posting about anaïs mitchell like she's my kpop bias, adding SAW BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN 1x, SAW HADESTOWN 2x to my screen name

i can feel it this story is going to be a nice safe publishable length it's happening this time *one novelette later* no no no no,

well i won't say the Single Thing. i think it is the Primary Thing

keen eyed viewers will notice i'm not using a broad nib to do that lettering and am instead using a flexible nib in a way that's both bad for the nib and unnecessarily laborious. that's cause it's what i have on hand and perfectionism is The Single thing that stops me from creating as much as i want

finished a zine for the first time in a long time - this isn't the addams family zine i teased before but it IS an addams family zine. and the other one is still happening. eventually. calling this $3? dm for my venmo or reply if my dms are accidentally closed again when u read this

i'm sick right now and this notification made my day/week/month/etc. wow!

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*playing undertale after 10 years of being told undertale is good* how come nobody told me undertale is good

need to finish my zine about my favorite lesser-known addams family character

I'M IN THIS 🪲🪲🪲

There's a new issue of Kaleidotrope today! kaleidotrope.net

OKAY MAYBE I'M REALLY BACK THIS TIME. last time was a false alarm. trying to keep my relationship with social media healthy, which is like tending to a sickly victorian child or pug

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sorry it's been very hard to be a person in the world lately for mostly obvious reasons. currently responding to ppl i've been ghosting in the depths of despair

happy getting-back-up-and-spitting-out-the-blood-and-trying-again monday, everybody. happy one-must-imagine-sisyphus-happy monday to all who celebrate

new sweater COMPLETE AT LAST but my phone grip broke and it looks weird so i covered it with a ribbon seal

I'M ON A ROLL - TWO NEW ZINES PRINTED AT THE LIBRARY, EVERYBODY SAY THANK YOU LIBRARIES - bittersweet body positive zine / 3 very short weird stories based on the gregory berrycone post / name your price in my DMs, suggested price $1

Kishi Station in Wakayama has a cat stationmaster named Nitama (who I spotted taking a nap there today).

Izukyun is a sentient train car who's the mascot for the Izukyu train line.

I LOVE ZINE MAKERS

the steadfast tin soldier was kind of emptyspaces

reposting for the friday afternoon crowd (and my dms are actually open now OTL)

My kid lives in Siddall Hall and sent me these yesterday. First is what was put up by the school, second is the students’ alteration of the administrations’ cowardice.

I FINISHED MY FIRST ZINE AND MADE COPIES AT THE LIBRARY dm me if you want one. these are $1 or if we're friends or you can't afford it or something you can just have one

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

submitted to SIX OR SO magazines tonight please clap

might try they/them only for a bit and see how it feels

confirming that you should read this beautiful story if you haven't (relevant mammoth for scale)

it occurs to me this looks like i sweat an incredible amount but im just wearing a beige shirt under my white shirt. i promise. i promise

As You Know Bob i'm obsessed with Child ballad 216 Clyde Waters and have recreated this scene in several forms over the years including tattoo (well I sketched the tattoo, Lua at Crimson Tattoo in KC actually did it and made it look beautiful) and very amateur embroidery. next i think is puppetry

jefferson ornithopter

i have like 30 stories written that have never seen the light of day bc after like 4 rejections i say "well guess nobody wants it" and stop trying to sell it i need some kind of surgery to rewire my brain to not do that

every time i'm reading and the author describes the whimsical tea blend a character is drinking it lodges itself in my mind forever and years down the line i still think to myself "i wish i were drinking that tea from that story"

fiction is a place where we can explore the possibilities of beverages

Collide a trope.

i need to be posting more fiber stuff so i can find the knitters and crocheters of bluesky. look at this bunny i made

this flatland (e. a. abbot, 1884) erasure is from 2021 but i still like it

We must all continue living, and not just living but thriving, for Sweet Potato

mammoth for scale

before the internet you had to carry your posts around and hand them out to people