I had HOLOHAUS1 in my to read pile for about a year and finally read it two weeks ago and then smashed through the next 9 installments of Swords… It might genuinely be the best thing I’ve read in the last five years. (I also liked the story about polar bears with human faces).

this one from @greatdismal.bsky.social is a new one on me and will stay with me

for your saturday, a gritty Heat-like action shootout, made using Miku Miku Dance animation tools www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTLG...

Hi all! Wanna learn more about the GULA crowdfund coming up in 22 days (22 DAYS AUUUGH)? Check out my blog post here for a breakdown of the pledge tiers! elliottdunstan.com/2025/10/21/t... To follow the project: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

"A so-called indie culture that rejects negativity in the name of a false camaraderie is one that invites backstabbing and passive aggression ..." minorliteratures.com/2025/10/18/d...

this is the real frontier of AI in literature

CHAPTER 1 OF ISSUE 2 IS OUT NOW! Read it!! open.substack.com/pub/multifra...

resonance of the day: MERCENARY PLANET 11 coming very soon andataexpress.neocities.org/planet-ch

this manual is weird

On my substack, I wrote a companion essay to my poem “Query Telling on Other Elder,” published by @thedeadlands.com in their summer issue. Read on for reflections on the politics of translating oral poetry, and when world-building demands the poetic to express it. open.substack.com/pub/mrpoemgu...

SWORDS UNDER THE PHOSPHOR SKY returns very soon in HOLOHAUS11, please wait warmly (and catch up here): andataexpress.neocities.org/phosphor-ch

SCARRED ZERUEL by ghostedvain returns in HOLOHAUS11 very soon – please wait warmly and catch up! andataexpress.neocities.org/zeruel-ch

Some excerpts from this months chapter of Citizen One

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welcome back, 2005 🃏 you can read the "director's cut" of my novella zine here: newtype.itch.io/the-passion-...

Queerness is difficult to qualify in my story, since from a xenofiction perspective most of the native animal characters don't really do gender and thus their "queerness" is the norm for the setting. But as an ex-human character thrust into a non-human body, Quiet-Dream is queer in interesting ways.

#unhingedpit a leftist trans woman makes first contact with a symbiotic alien who both fears humans' warlike nature and wants to use it to turn the tides of a galactic war, and becomes humanity's sole intermediary at the head of an international military force in hopes of leveraging change on Earth

Mercenary Planet by @baroquespiral.bsky.social & Escher McDonell returns in HOLOHAUS11 - coming soon andataexpress.neocities.org/planet-ch

#unhingedpit in the interval between reincarnations of its dreaded Dark Lord, a fantasy world has had time to modernize - but what do they do to make sure the Dark Lord doesn't come back? combining magic and psychology, make sure he grows up as the most non-functional neurotic loser of all time

It's A Good Thing The Dark Lord Is A Shut-In by @baroquespiral.bsky.social returns in HOLOHAUS11 - coming soon andataexpress.neocities.org/shut-in-ch

Down By The River To Pray by @aksijaha.bsky.social returns in HOLOHAUS11 - coming soon andataexpress.neocities.org/river-ch

today, something a little different. benn and i played about half the toxic yuri jam games and talked about them into a microphone for about 16 hours split across three recordings which we’re releasing over 3 saturdays. first up, the games we didn’t both get a chance to play moonarchive.art/ep-115-1

SARA or 'I lived my life as a cloud that followed overhead' A lot of very small stories about a girl and her dog. Out Sept 17, 2025 from Inside the Castle @incastellated.bsky.social preorders US: bookshop.org/p/books/sara...

we've also been slowly working through our Youtube backlog, with another Young-Boy AMV as well as two classic Plaza recordings www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1gq...

if you've wondered where legendary Bsky user(s) Lysette Chau & Grace Song went, they are now writing outsider theory-fiction under the banner of Bratpolitik. stay tuned for more updates and live debuts on our Andata Plaza readings! write.ellipsus.com/edit/8a611a1...

me n my buddies were about to do an EVIL curated bundle a couple days ago, but it took us a few to set this up instead. theres no payment involved now, just promoting EVIL scary sexy games click the link for a full description and get your hands on all the deleted games thatsvnclub.neocities.org

The Great Big Thing Crawling All Over Me is far more extreme than 99% of the content being banned on itch right now. the extremity is not meant to be *pleasant*, but then this battle is also a matter of suppression of dangerous info. get it while you still can. andata-express.itch.io/the-great-bi...

It's almost that time again! If you haven't played it yet, this is the best way to experience Boku no Natsuyasumi 2.

THE ANTHROCON VIDEO IS DONE CLOCKING IN AT AN HOUR AND 8 MINUTES FEATURING 2 SCENES OF ACTUAL PEEING DEEP HISTORICAL ARCHIVE RESEARCH LIVE PHONE INTERVIEW WITH LIL B POETRY READINGS POLICE CHASE IC LIGHT KISSING LINK BELOW youtu.be/1-sv1QEEQmc

The demo for my upcoming RPGmaker horror game is doing pretty well on Itch.io ~ In the top RPG games for this week! Expanded demo coming to steam later this month chazakiel.itch.io/rosajuliet

#foundpoetry #generatedpoetry #channeledpoetry

along with a brief appearance from Hexa, Lesia and Chere return and penetrate deeper than ever into the mysteries of their post-real environments - the Temple of the "Pre-Scribes" and the Hypermall - while dealing with Recyclers, ghosts, ninjas, and Ferals andataexpress.neocities.org/zeruel-10

if you're in toronto this saturday and looking for something to do, the queer computer club is having its monthly open house. 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM in unit 403 at 720 spadina (just south of bloor) I'll be there! (I'm a director) more info here: queercomputerclub.ca/events/

Savannah shakes as a cut to their power system reinforces the reality and weight of the See's spearship. now Emelry must make the case for negotiations to a new alliance of Kuryo and her old friend Anahit in the new Record of Down By The River To Pray andataexpress.neocities.org/river-10

GET REAL WEIRD

NMLCT BKTRLR #3 is the third book trailer for the book NMLCT, a new collection of poetry by Paul Vermeersch, now available for preorder from @ecwpress.bsky.social. Music is "antibodies" by wererabbit. Available September 2, 2025. PRE-ORDER NOW! youtu.be/j_JWOn8Tj00?...

It's A Good Thing The Dark Lord Is A Shut-In! by @baroquespiral.bsky.social enters the climactic(?) arc of its first "season" with Failure 10 (updated on the site and in pdf since the issue was originally posted, check even if you've seen it already) andataexpress.neocities.org/shut-in-10

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Polari was a gay slang that was in use for centuries – mixing Italian, Romani, Yiddish, and even Cockney terms. It died out in the 1960s, as homosexuality was legalised. In my novel PROUD PINK SKY, it's the official language of the gay state. I even wrote poetry in Polari! 📝

new poetry chapbook out by forbidden author silver vk: "I SIMPLY WON'T LET THE HATERS LIVE" 35 pages of exactly what it sounds like. poetry, baby! pwyw, free downloads OK, suggested donation $2.50 catch the wave!!!!!!!!!!!!! frogindustrialconcern.itch.io/i-simply-won...

The conflict on Towers reaches the surface - human forces prepare to defend the Rusty Moons from a retributive mob, while Leona and Halation bring the fight to the Hammers' aerial base, despite guilt and explicit alien sex in part 5 of the Soldiers' Road arc andataexpress.neocities.org/planet-10

meanwhile at @andataexpress.bsky.social we basically use them as advertising

Worm-Spine Hall, a cave with dragon bones in its roof, the equivalent of Tartarus, at the base of the underworld. Where one finds, as someone on @osgpod.bsky.social put it, 'the people who really fucked up'.

we basically exist to publish (and host readings for) stuff like this

Yelena reunites with Christine on the battlefield and tears open the guts of their friendship - one of several acts of sacrifice by which the inhabitants of the Zone offer up their desires to the stars in chapter 9 of Swords Under the Phosphor Sky andataexpress.neocities.org/phosphor-ch

Marieken struggles to make sense of her life after the catastrophic awakening of her powers and her first kills, abandoning her civilian life and entering the underworld of Periphery Demographics for good in our first fully new chapter of Moonlight Cantata andataexpress.neocities.org/moonlight-3

Just stop your crying It's a sign of the times

HOLOHAUS10 is out with dramatic new developments from @doremichazakiel.bsky.social, Nekosattva, ghostedvain, @baroquespiral.bsky.social and @aksijaha.bsky.social. magical weeb gang leaders, war crimes on a pumice planet, a religious missile festival and more at andataexpress.neocities.org/holohaus

i could keep passively adding little images to this story forever