SEED STARTING SEASON IS HERE

I forgot about my puzzle curse. The puzzle has been opened, the pieces dumped on the table, I cannot focus on anything else until the puzzle is complete

This is half the point of Ursula K Le Guin’s The Dispossessed! Being a leftist or even living in a utopian society doesn’t free you from the everyday pettiness and social conflict that come with just being a human being who exists around other human beings, especially when ambition is involved.

Woke up feeling particularly heavy today. My day job is hell but there's really no way for me to leave it any time soon. The most content I've ever been at a job was when I had a government one for a decade but I had to leave that when I needed to leave the state I was in.

No shade at OP but this is like when capitalists go "free market just gives everyone more choice" lol I've been in a room with 2+ leftist/socialists and I can assure you that "we are in cooperation not competition" is not just the opposite of what happens but you can set your watch to it happening

Spending Saturday afternoon calculating shipping rates for the DEVOURING FORTUNE campaign. 🥲🥲 Finding the best prices by country. It's looking like Canada might get a hand signed option after all. For some reason shipping there from the printer is SO EXPENSIVE. it's cheaper to come to me first

First Eye #illustration

Altman's "intelligence as a metered service" captures the AI moment well—it's an attempt at the formal subsumption of ever-finer microrealms of human labour embedded within capitalist production. You already have an underpaid email job but what if you also had to pay the machine to write your emails

The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.

With all these streaming services becoming increasingly hostile due to cost, ads, terribly buggy platforms and media contracts endlessly changing, it's only a matter of time until all of it becomes completely unusable. And I wonder what will happen when the distraction machine no longer functions

This sounds really good 👀

In case you missed it, DEVOURING FORTUNE officially has a cover! Follow the prelaunch page so you don't miss this one if you love: 🥲 To develop trust issues with every character 💀 When someone comes back wrong ⛰️ A terrifying cave that is more than it seems www.kickstarter.com/projects/ole...

Owning a house is just a lesson in throwing money into a shredder labeled repairs

"Messy lesbians, toxic power dynamics, giant robots fighting eldritch horrors, oppression, and hard choices." Impressions of Isabelle Ruebsaat's Girl Frame, with some insights from the designer herself.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art) Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"

March's short story is up! Two men in 1920s England die in a motor vehicle collision and come to in a shared afterlife. MM friends-to-lovers romance with less angst than you might expect, considering they're both dead. 5500 words 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜

If you want an exclusive discount on the ebook or paperback of 'Phantasms & Phenomena' - the early bird [cryptid] tiers end this weekend! See a cryptid, be a cryptid, back the cryptid! #booksky #queersky

Skate Story had it right. We're in hell where no one can sleep because of the bright moons. The only solution is to devour that which brings us pain

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

"We've Always Been Here" has been featured by Kickstarter as a #ProjectWeLove !! And we're only one week into the campaign! 🌈 If you want some beautiful art celebrating queer history (and queer joy!), check it out and get yourself a copy! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap...

ECONOMY: SHAMBLES OIL: $300 PER BARREL COUNTRY: ON FIRE REPUBLICANS: Hey man can i look in your child's pants? Just for a second man is it cool if i inspect your child's genitals. Just a quick little look man it's totally cool i just need to make sure you're not doing crimes. Just a quick touch man-

Lol at that rating for Gavin Newsom, it's like the Democratic party *wants* to lose by trying to make him the front runner or something huh

I should also mention this will be an international campaign (I'll be doing a combination of shipping directly from the printer and shipping along the rest of rewards personally). So if you want to get a physical copy, this will be the time to do it!

This looks phenomenal! 😄 Why does their one eye glow like that? What a scary-cool deagon skeleton! So intriguing!

Y'all better read this one it is VERY GOOD

in case you haven't seen the cover of PASHA THE STORM we've got a butchy older lesbian with tattoos, a gun, and magic so you have NOTHING to complain about!!

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"Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars. Give us gossip wicked and vital, dinner parties salacious and droll, debutantes vile and intrepid. Give us unforgivable rudeness and oppressive etiquette, scathing asides and dire gaffes." Under 6K words

Just wait until he starts dressing everyone in identical outfits

EMPATHY - He was confused when he died. Confused and alone, most likely. Overcome with the awful surprise of it all.

Some gates need to be kept. And that’s okay.

hell even the hot Shakespearian gargoyles were telling you to read:

Having a whiplash kind of day... On one hand I'm full of gratitude and emotion for the outpouring of support for the DEVOURING FORTUNE cover reveal. I'm absolutely celebrating. And on the other I'm full of simmering rage about dealing with insurance prior auth denial phone calls all afternoon 🫠

COVER REVEAL for DEVOURING FORTUNE by @oleandercraw.bsky.social I'm so excited to celebrate this forthcoming science fantasy with Tanith Lee vibes and sick world building Art by @jeleynai.bsky.social Coming to Kickstarter June 2026, save it for later: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ole...

Damn, look at this beautiful cover!! And the book sounds excellent.

There is no such thing as "equality in everything but" any more than there is equality for most people and not others. Anyone who tells you otherwise does not understand the notion of "equality" and probably does not happen to be included in the exceptions to it.

woohoo, this looks INCREDIBLE!

Oooh! Queer science-fantasy!

You're not going to make any money doing this and no one is going to read it, so you must hope for a secret third thing to happen

AAAAAAAH ITS SO GODDAMN COOL AAAAAAAAAAAH #booksky

Fortune can be deflowered, as a treat

I've read this book and it is a BANGER - sign up for the KS, you won't be disappointed!

I'm still genuinely shocked the inventory zine has so few downloads considering it's free and fully illustrated. All the pieces in it are taken from a 5 year passion project so it's a bit demoralising that no one seems to care for it. beastcutter.itch.io/inventory

We have only 61 stories submitted for WHAT ELEGANT STARS so far. I suppose a lot of folks will submit in the last month, but that still seems low. Though the theme is more specific than some previous ones, so folks are less likely to have anything ready to go. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

This looks rad as hell check out Oleander’s Kickstarter

Y’all check out this STUNNING cover!! I was fortunate enough (pun not intended) to beta read DF and trust me when I say you need to read this!

This looks awesome.

Check out what my friend did!!