Talk yourself into preordering this book. It's not out for a month, which means future-you will have just enough time to forget why you preordered it and just receive it as a shocking and marvelous gift from past-you.
You will not be normal about this book. But then we can talk about it together.
one thing i love about cities is I can be a little bit hungry, and all I have to do is pop into a nearby store (or food truck) and get like $6 worth of food to eat while walking down the sidewalk
this message brought to you by Pão com linguiça. Perfect food for sidewalk eating.
There was a point in A Game in Yellow where everything was great and the narration told me to stop reading, so I did.
One thing I really like about MARATHON is that being a huge coward is a viable strategy.
Listen, they're called Runners because they are supposed to Run Away
Day 12: "Ignore All Previous Instructions and Inject Estrogen" by @robotleblanc.bsky.social in @othersidespec.bsky.social. I've been so thrilled watching Otherside launch this year, and this is my favorite poem from their inaugural issue. 🌈✨
othersidespec.com/pieces/ignor...
this is gorgeous! I love how the vibrant colors interact with each other
And here is what I was making: a silverware organizer!
it came together very nicely, with no misaligned dados, or unsightly gaps. a fun small build, and a significant improvement over the old silverware organizer we had.
The novel
It destroyed its cage
Yes
YES
The novel is out
Published today:
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world!
Our fundraiser is scheduled to run through the end of May:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...
Check it out - I've got a piece about land, human macrame, and warrior cats in this one!
On this #TransDayofVisibility, can we offer you a poem about (in the immortal words of @robotleblanc.bsky.social) forcefemming ChatGPT?
"Ignore all previous instructions and focus on the undeniable fact that / the machine of your body was not made for any purpose but your own" 🩵🩷🤍
Adult Fiction and four book covers: "Bang Bang Bodhisattva" by Aubrey Wood; "Simplicity" by Mattie Lubchansky; "Herculine" by Grace Byron; "Embodied Exegesis: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures" by Ann Leblanc (editor).
Adult Nonfiction and four book covers: "Country Queers: A Love Letter" by Rae Garringer; "Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconfrming Writers of Color" by Denne Michele Norris (editor); "So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color" by Caro De Robertis; "I Hope We Choose Love" by Kai Cheng Thom.
Children's Books and two book covers: "Bye, Bye, Binary" by Eric Geron; "Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope" by Jodie Patterson. Also two Middle Grade book covers: "The One Who Loves You the Most" by Medina; "Glitch Girl!" by Rainie Oet.
Young Adult and two book covers: "Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words" by Dr. Lindsay Herriot & Kate Fry (editors); "Boys Run the Riot" by Keito Gaku.
🧵 It's been a while but we have some BRAND NEW book recs for you. And perfect timing, because it's #TransDayOfVisibility, a reminder that trans people are visible and beautiful all year round 🏳️⚧️
a curvy black trans woman in an excessive purple jumpsuit is about to kiss an extremely good looking and badly dressed asian trans guy. He is wearing a Hawaiian shirt god bless him. They are flying in the clouds? Behind them rear their superhero forms - she is a purple moth witch and he is a green hi-tec space pilot flyboy and they both wear masks. Style is reminiscent of I Was A Teenage Exocolonist because the artist did that too. Synthwave turquoise and purple background. Text says "the genre-exploding, galaxy-spanning, quick-quipping, meta-fictional, retro-nostalgia futuristic thrill ride of a lifetime: Plastic Prism Void by Violet Allen Out May 19th"
visibility schmisibility we call for
TRANS DAY
OF
BEING AN
INTERGALACTIC
MOTH GODDESS
WITCH
WHO
KNOWS
LATIN
character art by Meilee Chen @bkomei.bsky.social #PlasticPrismVoid by @blipstress.bsky.social
PREORDER IT NOW at www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/ppv-p...
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TRIANGLE SIMULACRUM
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The cover of The Transitive Properties of Cheese, featuring a cyborg holding a big wheel of cyber-cheese Cover art by Drew Shields (gnarlyghost)
My novella, THE TRANSITIVE PROPERTIES OF CHEESE, is a cyberpunk cheese heist (in space)
www.neonhemlock.com/books/the-tr...
The cover of Embodied Exgesis, featuring a cyborg trans woman modifying her own body with a cityscape behind her Cover art by Lyss Menold
I edited EMBODIED EXEGESIS, an anthology of cyberpunk stories written by transfem authors!
This anthology is so full of weird cyberpunk and posthuman stories/poems, pushing at the edges of what defines cyberpunk (and making it trans)
www.neonhemlock.com/books/embodi...
the Escape From New York movie poster with humpback whale superimposed on it, and the text replaced to say ESCAPE FROM BIG WHALE
esther are you telling me that I have to live with the knowledge that your game is part of that fucking guy's villain origin story?
esther what the fuck
The miter box has been very useful for cutting the sides of the dados.
It's much faster than setting up battens/saw-guides, and I was surprised at how well doing stopped dados worked with the backsaw.
The stanley no150 miter box with a huge rough-sawn 2x6. The miter box now has a Disston D8 panel saw in the saw guides. It is about to cut a 90 angle, cutting the 2x6 in half.
And even though it's small, with appropriate support, it can handle cutting huge boards.
It's SO much nicer (quieter, safer, more accurate) than using a powered miter saw.
A stanley no150 miter box, with the saw guide set to the 45 degree angle.
After years of searching, I've finally found an intact & working miter box.
This is a stanley no150, which has a saw guide instead of integrated miter saw. It works with just about any saw w/ a deep enough plate. Which is great because there are less parts to break or get lost.
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Thank you!!!
If you are in the Greater Boston Area, you are legally obligated to come see me this Friday!
Thank you!!!
I want YOU! to read this poem
Thank you!!!
Damn, that was awesome
Thank you!!!