THE OCEAN WELCOMES YOU will be released on Sunday, January 25th 2026. it's an interactive fiction game that starts as a whodunnit murder mystery and morphs into a horror as the story wants more bodies. i'm excited to share it with the world!

DE-GOOGLE YOUR LIFE! i'm hosting a remote workshop i've done a few times IRL dedicated to divesting from google/similar tech companies! i'll give a presentation and then body double with folks for an hour and a half as we de-google together. join at acd.works/workshop on december 15th at 7pm EST!

it's itchio creator day so i'm doing a bundle until december 3rd! all of my writing is available to download for free regardless but if you want to chuck me $15 for it, it would be greatly appreciated buy the bundle: itch.io/s/168997/acd...

since i already have them all on my website (along with download links), i uploaded all of my minizines onto one itchio page called a.c.d's minizine collection! you can download any/all of them here: acdworks.itch.io/minizines i'll be updating it regularly as i make new ones!

How to lie to doctors a zine by a.c.d An instructional zine on how best to work with doctors when they refuse to listen to you. Download to read or print yourself here: acd.works/writing/htltd Print/distribute to your heart's content! No need to link me but I'd love to know where you share it.

CELEBRATING OBESITY! a poem/graphic by a.c.d i hope everyone RSVPs :-D you can also check this piece out on my website: acd.works/writing/collages/obesity

started writing a new short story about a girl who dies and meets death A LOT. i'm excited for where i'm going with it :-D

started a new zine! i'm planning on printing the 5 poems on my website and then mirroring them using only the words from misprints of my 10 songs zine, with all the missing words blacked out/redacted. i want it to be a kind of reflection on my own personal themes in my writing and what i prioritize

ExploringYourWorld a collage poem by a.c.d i ran a found/collage poetry workshop a few days ago and this is one of the things i created. i like how it turned out! you can also see it on my website: acd.works/writing/collages/exploring

recently acquired a very nice expensive printer so that i can start printing my own stickers! i did some test prints today that turned out very good besides a few first-pancake hiccups. i'm gonna hit up my local reuse junk shop for more supplies so i can perfect my printing process

10 songs to lose your mind to a zine by a.c.d a zine/playlist that explores my experiences with psychosis through music buy here: acdworks.itch.io/10songs

Make Yourself Feel BETTER! a collage poem thing by a.c.d made from an email my insurance sent me about "self care", a scammy car advertisement i got in the mail, and a financial planner i stopped using you can also look at it on my website: acd.works/writing/collages/better

i'm finally ready to make the switch! my website might be down for a few days while the DNS settings update

and last update (sorry i'm rarely on bsky these days) i updated my newsletter again! subscribe at buttondown.com/acdworks and make the fact that i'm trying to stay off bsky and instagram worth it

i'm also working ONCE AGAIN on transferring website hosts, now to neocities which i cannot recommend enough! i'm using @kayleerowena.com's template, which has really helped get it set up. i know enough html/css to manipulate the code but not enough design a site wholecloth

i recently finished a new 16-page zine! i'm gonna work on printing it today and set up a pdf to put on my itchio so keep an eye out for that

new blog post: this morning i went hunting for lists of conventions/zine fairs to apply to & made a list of all the lists i found kayleerowena.com/blog/2025/co...

GALL STONE FRUIT a digital collage by a.c.d i have chronic gallstones despite having my gallbladder removed 10 years ago (doctors love telling me how wild that is) so i made some art about it! more info + better image on my website: acd.works/gallstone

going to redo my pinned real fast hold tight

i have a newsletter now! it's completely free and will stay that way. i've become VERY disillusioned with the current socmed climate, so hopefully this will help combat that. expect a first post within the week subscribe here: buttondown.com/acdworks

i spent a few hours last night getting familiar with the engine i want to use for THE OCEAN WELCOMES YOU instead of twine and i think i'm going to take the plunge! if i can learn twine and rpgmaker XP then i can learn this bad boy

in other a.c.d news: i was recently discharged from my 4th hospital stay in as many years, coupled with trying to focus my energy on irl Action so i don't fall into a pit of despair, i haven't been writing basically at all these past two months

shoutout to my local junk/secondhand craft store, where i essentially stock everything for my market table that's not the actual art i sell

i'm tabling at an art market on saturday that encouraged all the vendors to include an interactive element to their booth SO i'm setting up a "fold your own minizine" station and i made this tutorial to include in it! whenever i fold one-page zines, this is how i do it

i've folded an unearthly amount of zines in the past hour

i don't talk to thin people. a short satirical zine about about how it feels to be a fat person sometimes. everything in this is a joking rendition based on real experiences. buy the PDF for $5+ here: acdworks.itch.io/thin

my redesigned website is also up now! check it out at: acd.works/

i don't talk to thin people. a short satirical zine about about how it feels to be a fat person sometimes. everything in this is a joking rendition based on real experiences. buy the PDF for $5+ here: acdworks.itch.io/thin

last night i got kind of obsessed with the idea of writing something about a character named Sleep. we'll see if anything comes of it but Sleep is a really good name for someone imo

my website is going to be down for a few days as i switch website hosts! i'll post here when it's back up

been working on layout for my next zine this weekend and really liking how it's turning out! "i don't talk to thin people." will probably be the last new thing i make before i start printing and assembling everything i need for my store/future markets/zinefests

Thinking about media that gets celebrated for its diverse and inclusive approach to sexuality and yet fat people are nowhere to be found save for maybe as evil trolls and demons, their bodies an object of horror and ridicule

i also finished up all the writing for my next zine and now i just have to edit and then do layout, so that's exciting

slowly but surely migrating my website over to a new, cheaper, more fun webhost. hoping i have something to show by next week and can fully make the switch!

i'm planning on switching my webhost and redesigning my website soon! i found a cool alternative to my boring one

speaking of being fat, the zine i've been working on titled "i don't talk to thin people." is going well! i'm almost done with the writing and ready to move onto the designing and i'm excited to figure out the visual style i want

i flew on two planes yesterday and the fatphobic design of planes and airports made it a typical hellish experience! check out the zine i made a year ago that gets truer the fatter i get <3 acdworks.itch.io/flying-while-fat

every time i get a piece of useless ephemera in my life, i immediately try to think of how i could repurpose it into an art piece

started working on a new zine...very tongue-in-cheek and sarcastic i'll probably be posting this on itchio when its done but i'm debating whether i'll make physical copies of it or not. i'm liking how its turning out though! my partner read through what i have and chuckled at all my jokes

i'm planning on going out of town next week and am going to close my online store while i'm gone! hoping to revamp the way shipping works because of the new EU guidelines and to make international orders a little easier on me coming into the new year

i've also been working on making printable versions of a few of the one-page zines i made this year because i'm tabling at TWO local zinefests in march! i've always wanted to table at a zinefest but it's never been feasible to travel and we didn't have any local ones before this year

i recently had a frustrating medical experience and now have new materials and plans to make another "a.c.d has emotions about her disabilities and the way they affect how she interacts with the world" collage. get hype

happy #CreatorDay, buy some of my stuff, won't you? i've got zines, poetry, interactive fiction AND interactive poetry games, and more! get 'em all at: acdworks.itch.io

i've been getting the urge to put the cart before the horse and design a cover and Look for THE OCEAN WELCOMES YOU despite only having written about 1/3 of the first scene. this slow and steady strategy continues to try me 😔

looks like my website is down currently! i'm at the hospital waiting for my partner to get out of surgery so. can't fix that immediately but i'll try to have it back up ASAP

i tried to change my handle on this account to my website domain so we'll see if it actually worked! i think it's supposed to take a bit to go through

my slow and steady strategy for working on THE OCEAN WELCOMES YOU is going well i think! i've been adding a passage or two like every 2-3 days and that's Good Progress. (<- posts made to convince myself)

in general, my goal for the structure of THE OCEAN WELCOMES YOU is for it to start out full of pithy dry wit and eccentricity (really embracing the point-and-click inspiration) and then slowly shift towards a gooey horrifying tone that swallows you whole

for my newest interactive fiction game, i'm writing little character profiles for all of the characters and giving each of them roles (like "The Artist" or "The Professor") to lean into the fun mystery of it all and drop some possible clues and i accidentally made two characters Very Divorced

chanting to my self "slow and steady wins the fucking race" as i add approximately 100 words to my new IF game every day as opposed to my usual 3k writing stints once a month