the lesson of transness itself is it isn’t just what people are, it is also what they can be, what can unfold and blossom if you do not kill the bud

Libby Wrapped 2025

Oh! What a Beauty!

A review of 'Book of Hours' by @weatherfactory.biz, shading into some thoughts on game design, storytelling, and how "mystery box" narratives work.

we’re at 43%! can we make it to 50% today?!?!?!

It's my birthday and it's snowing but I'm making progress on things that are important to me, like this poem I made myself have to read.

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

My beautiful husband on the books he's read recently

A brief essay on why things never seem to get better, politically speaking.

Félix Vallotton, Soirée sur la Loire, 1927

Give us our roses while we're still alive.

This is magical. A hopeful freight of words finally delivered.

Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!

An essay concerning the psychological toll that patriarchy takes on its supposed beneficiaries:

Born #onthisday in 1821, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Celebrate with a look at his 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 birth, how he survived the pantomime of his own execution to be “reborn into a new form” — @alex_christofi with a “reconstructed memoir” https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/reborn-into-a-new-form

happy November 10th and don’t forget to greet the circulatory system walking through your kitchen

🌞 #ersatz

They are so queer, and so brilliant for being queer. I'm shocked that it isn't talked about more often. It should be in the same breath as folks talk about Brindlewood Bay's mystery system, because that's how fundamental queerness is to Gauntlet games.

Sharing again for the morning crowd: my October book round-up!

I read so many books last month, and I wrote about them here: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/11...

Some thoughts on recent discussions in the arts and entertainment.

was looking for something else in the HAD archives, stumbled into this, remembered anew what a treasure @amorak.bsky.social is

Solis. Inspired by "Triadic Ballet" by Oskar Schlemmer

Sharing again for the morning crowd: an analysis of Public Access from the player side

I wrote about Public Access from the perspective of a repeat player: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/10...

Hey party people, someone broke in while I was sleeping and stole my laptop. My books are all backed up, thank God, but my renter's insurance has a high deductible and if you like my work I'd appreciate some support right now patreon.com/scumbelievab...

Totally non-nefarious dude #inktober

gennady sergeeivich mironov -- forest power

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Another Wednesday, another post. Some excellent books in this round of reviews, including Ada Palmer's 'Inventing the Renaissance' and Vajra Chandrasekera's 'Rakesfall', both well worth reading.

The next comic is about: video rentals in the 90s, niche movies, a deer.

Do yourself a favor and spend some time in Deep Lake!

Reposting for the day crowd! Also features discussion of Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota books, which are so much fun.

Got a big ol' book round up here, featuring a bunch of trans horror novels that I got from the library: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/10...

Man, I really love this photo. Thank you, my friend 💐

It's hard to articulate what and how much this movie means to me, and why, but it is a lot.

Neon Genesis Evangelion premiered on this day thirty years ago. Angel Attack, the first episode, will be the focus of today's posts.

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I've been reading James Maffie's book on Aztec Philosophy, and something that came up in that was the phenomenon of the Inamic relation between two ideas -- I think it has a broader applicability, so I wrote a piece about it.

We've named him Mr. Venus

On Leonard Cohen's birthday, please enjoy this undated photo of the man himself buying cheetos at a 7-Eleven

This was such a fun piece!

bork! bork!

I'm tired of talking about the news. Have a slate of book round-ups: including some theory-fiction from Reza Negarestani, Rosewater from @tadethompson.bsky.social, and Cuckoo by @scumbelievable.bsky.social, among others.

My beautiful husband, @cameronlsummers.bsky.social, has a Public Access mystery in this that's a lot of fun!

Gretchen's account got suspended for bullshit reasons and if you like film or good books, you should get hers and read it.

Somehow I neglected to repost this lovely piece my beloved partner wrote about Twin Peaks -- it's very good.

We've only had "creativity" as an ideal for two hundred or so years -- the idea that someone can create something new without reference to what came before. This can be a major stumbling block, so maybe we should just try to imitate better.

Got another book round-up over at Broken Hands: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/9/...