Comic page , text says ‘only change will save us’ a women mid transformation into a werewolf

Happy werewolf Wednesday, freaks

Absolutely over the moon about this.

If you've not read my HUGO NOMINATED book-length essay on Sandman, it remains free to all at www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...

Ideal relationship dynamic is I'm cloistered in a cell devoted to my art and worship, and you occasionally visit me in the form of ecstatic visions.

i worry the medium itself is slightly antagonistic in that regard

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also, you might enjoy this essay looking at magic and ecology: www.patreon.com/posts/150679...

that's a very good observation! i also have a nice set of fantasy works dealing with this in the context of Brexit

before i get to those books i need to write about how nationalism can curdle re-enchantment though

will i have an essay for you in two essays time!

it would make my life so much easier if Polish had gender-neutral names

she's a 10/10 but she insists on having a soundtrack during an rpg session

trans women have a biological advantage at being hot now

black and white drawing of an underwater scene. a large bird sticking it's head into the water, surrounded by shocked fish

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

second evening of typing up my story and my confidence in it continues to climb a little

pretty much, yeah

that's possible!

every once in a while someone will reinvent hopepunk from first principles

Feast upon the fruits of my labor*

* dejectedly asking smarter people what I should read

"I just need to finish this project" repeated across a disturbing meme involving a distressed stick figure

Apothecary Diaries, Heaven Official's Blessing

approaching the end of draft zero, i'm about 50/50 on whether this short story is going to work; better than i felt, still not where i'd like to be

So much this! And social media has made a lotta people forget that it's okay to have an unexpressed thought/feeling/critique. Sometimes you should either keep scrolling or log off for a bit and give your brain a break.

I think about this post almost every day

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There comes a moment when you realise your weirdness is you strength. Lean into it. There comes a moment when you realise you are Fully-grown Changeling. Celebrate it. We are strange and we are here.

Reading a lot of fantasy novels as a kid gave me deeply unrealistic expectations as to the importance of "rifts" in daily life

there's nothing bad about this take

also, a critic i really respect swears by Wayne Booth's "The Rhetoric of Fiction" and "The Implied Reader" by Wolfgang Iser

Aristotle for sure. David Lodge's "The Art of Fiction"

Anyways, I think there needs to be a serious internalization of “trans women are women.” I think there is a deep lack of understanding of how transmisogyny is in fact misogyny. Trans women are marginalized women. The dual harmful societal fixation/erasure is the marginalized woman’s struggle.

the world is ready for Borges in RPGs 😍

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