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I wrote CHAMELEON MOON, STAKE SAUCE, DAWNFALL, and more weird queer stuff.
)O( Wyrd Lokean Witch. Despair isn't very punk. )O(
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Coming This Halloween: CHAMELEON MOON, in glorious audio!

Pre-orders (with a crapton of bonuses!) open Now!

Yes, I am vibrating into another dimension and beyond excited to announce, the first book of the queer-AF rebelliously hopeful dystopian superhero epic Chameleon Moon series is here - for your ears, at last!

If you haven't heard of this Weird, Queer Indie SFF series, have some important points in meme form!

Funded on Kickstarter in under 48 hours, this audiobook edition features the incredible voice of Kyle Rocco East!

(And a special guest narrator! ........ Me. It's me. Yeah, I make sounds/songs as well as words!)

This baby can hold so much ear-goodness, including sixteen (16!!) hours of enhanced narration and original music including two full songs!

And we've got free bonuses, boy howdy! Every pre-order comes with:

  • CM-verse short stories "Runtime" and "Always Be You"
  • Narrated short story "Un-Dead" MP3 (Recommended to listen after reading CM!)
  • "What You Remember" and "Dream Sweet" song MP3s
  • All 6 character portrait phone wallpapers, seen above and below!

And that's all cool, but need some examples of said audio mastery? As you should!

So, you can listen to the ENTIRE PROLOGUE as a free preview, right here!

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... And lastly, hi there. If you read this far, THANK YOU. If you reblog or like, THANK YOU. And oh boy, if you pre-order, THANK YOU FROM THE ACTUAL BOTTOM OF MY HEART. <3

This project has been a labor of utter love, but it HAS been a labor for both me and my incredible narration partner Kyle Rocco East, and I'm happy, relieved, and exhausted to have it finally UP AND DONE.

Halloween can't come fast enough.

(...More than usual, I mean.)

THANK YOU!

~ RoAnna Sylver
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inneskeeper

BTW nearly every Western and samurai movie qualifies as cyberpunk specifically of the Tokyo school. The inexorable march of radical new and dangerous tech which cannot be stopped must be opposed, but in a futile way. The samurai knows that his age has ended with the gun, but he is required to fight for traditionalism regardless of the hopelessness. The cowboy is running further and further West, but soon there won't be any more West to run to.

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kira-serialfaggot

To me cyberpunk has to challenge our perception of humanity. It's not just about corrupt capitalist companies. It also must challenge our perceptions of what "human" is. So I don't think samurai or cowboys should count

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inneskeeper

The definition of cyberpunk by the genre's creators disagrees with you entirely. At most you'd find common ground with the Los Angeles school of cyberpunk.

Also the idea that samurai movies and cowboy westerns don't fundamentally challenge our ideas of what it is to be human and how to adapt and live in the face of changing ideas of how you should live and who gets to be considered human is...

...well, frankly, it's just flat-out wrong. Dwelling on the inevitability of the death of their ways of life is intrinsic to basicallh every single samurai/cowboy western movie.

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estrogenesis-evangelion

y'all not to doxx myself too hard but irl i have spent some time in my life in mental health recovery, and i am here to tell anyone who needs to hear it that people with multiples & schizophrenia & psychosis & BPD are fun and interesting and lovable people and my friends

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estrogenesis-evangelion

i knew somebody in recovery who had a system of 12 personalities that he drew out in a nested chart for me. they did not remember each other's experiences. and it was cool! i could talk with one alter and then catch up another alter later about what we talked about! it was fun!

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estrogenesis-evangelion

i knew a girl with psychosis who heard voices in static and running water but didn't want to get rid of them cause they never said anything distressing and they were familiar and comfortable. that's awesome! how cool is the variance of human experience??

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estrogenesis-evangelion

bringing this back for disabled pride month. invisible disabilities count too. if you don't fuck with the mad community i don't fuck with you

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riotrhea

Lots of "mean angry dyke" blogs on here that still treat any kind of rough sex as abuse and honestly? Laughable. Pathetic.

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riotrhea

Anti-Kink is the ideology of the cowardly and infantile. Do not allow it to breed in queer spaces or you'll find your surroundings so sanitized that you'll never stop smelling bleach.

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sev-wildfang

breeding in queer spaces 👀👀👀💦?

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riotrhea

POST CANCELLED I GOT TOO HARD

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monsterhospital

the best part about being a Girl Who Knows A Lot About Star Wars is that you can fuck with dudes so much. no guy has ever been able to refute my backed claim that moff tarkin canonically had sex with a stormtrooper. why? because doing so would force them to admit they've never read 'of mouse droids and men' and therefore know less about star wars than me: a girls' girl who thinks that luke skywalker and the mandalorian "are probably in an open relationship".

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“Unfinished Painting” — Keith Haring

This painting was left intentionally incomplete. Haring began it when he was dying due to complications from AIDS, and knew he didn’t have much time left. The piece represents the incomplete lives of him and many others, lost to AIDS during the crisis.

“AIDS Memorial Quilt” — Multiple

This quilt is over 50 tons heavy, and one of, if not the, largest pieces of community folk art. Many people who died of AIDS did not receive funerals, due to social stigma and many funeral homes refusing to handle the deceased’s remains, so this was one of the only ways their lives could be celebrated. Each panel was created recognition of someone who died due to AIDS, typically by that person’s loved ones.

“Untitled” — Felix Gonzalez-Torres

This pile of candy weighs the same amount as an average adult man. Visitors are encouraged to take some of the candy. As they do so, the pile of candy weighs less and less. This is a commentary on how AIDS deteriorates the body of those who have it, as Gonzalez-Torres’ partner, Ross Laycock, had died due to AIDS-related complications that same year.

The SF Gay Men's Chorus

This photo was taken in 1993. The men in white are the surviving original members. Every man in black is standing in for an original member who lost their lives to AIDS.

“Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers); Only Unclaimed Item from the Stephen Earabino Estate, 1997” — John Boskovich

After the death of his lover, Stephen Earabino, from AIDS, Boskovich discovered that his family had completely cleared his room, including Boskovich’s own possessions, save for this fan. An entire person, existence and relationship had been erased, just like so many lives during the AIDS crisis. Boskovich encased the fan in Plexiglass, but added cutouts so that its air may be felt by the viewer, almost like an exhalation. In a sense, restoring Earabino’s breath.

“Blue” — Derek Jarman

This was Jarman’s final feature film, released four months before his death from AIDS-related complications. These complications had left him visually impaired, able to only see in shades of blue. This film consists of a single shot of a saturated blue color, as the soundtrack to the film described Jarman’s life through narration, intercut with the adventures of Blue, a humanization of the color blue. The film's final moments consist of a set of repeated names: “John. Daniel. Howard. Graham. Terry. Paul". These are the names of former lovers and friends of Jarman who had died due to AIDS.

“Untitled” (Perfect Lovers) — Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Created by the same man who created the previous untitled piece, this piece was also inspired by his lover’s deterioration and death due to AIDS. This piece consists of two perfectly alike clocks. Over the course of time, one of the clocks will fall out of sync with the other.
In a letter written to his lover about the piece, before his lover’s passing, Gonzalez-Tourres wrote, “Don't be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, the time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate by meeting at a certain time in a certain space. We are a product of the time, therefore we give back credit were it is due: time. We are synchronized, now forever. I love you.”

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Yooooo I was already excited for Hercule Poirot: The London Case (sequel to the First Cases videogame), but apparently Alex Jordan (Frogwares Chapter One/The Awakened Sherlock) is Arthur Hastings???

Like thanks, you had my attention, and now you have my FERALITY

#sherlock holmes chapter one#the london case#hercule poirot#arthur hastings#alex jordan#ITS LIKE MORE FROGWARES SHERLOCK CONTENT or at least very Adjacent#and my poor brain is gonna soak that shit UP#like i love hastings/poirot on their own but HOLY GOOD VOICE CHOICE BATMAN
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shitty-check-please-aus

What we need to do is convince all the disney adults in america that high speed rail would be a preferable way of getting to disneyworld compared to driving or flying. We could maybe harness their fondness for the monorail or something, but this is a group of people that has time, income, and passion that we could leverage. If we could direct 5% of the enthusiasm they have for limited edition popcorn buckets into calling their representatives and demanding high-speed interstate rail, we could get it by 2030

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inneskeeper
nyme-pse asked:

Hey, professional not-knower-of-thing here who doesn't know that much about cyberpunk, could you explain what are those three schools of cyberpunk plz ? 🥺

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inneskeeper answered:

Cyberpunk is a genre which has three distinct understandings of its overarching themes, which are divided as follows:

The Tokyo school is inherently conservative and traditionalist. Technology is a plague which cannot be cured nor avoided, but it is better to die or be defeated nobly and uncorrupted, rather than give in and succumb to technology's siren song.

The Los Angeles school is inherently libertarian and individualist. Technology is an amoral tool which can be used for good, evil, or neither. It doesn't need to reform or reconsider what technology is capable of doing systemically; it treats it instead as a vehicle for other plots.

The Seattle school is inherently radical and anarchist. Technology is being used by the few to oppress and subjugate the many--usually represented by CEOs and the uberwealthy--and it is imperative that they must be fought at every possible step. Seattle school of cyberpunk differentiates itself from Tokyo school by having its protagonists use the technology to do good and fight evil--it doesn't view tech as inherently bad, but it doesn't consider it as morally neutral or good, either. Seattle tends to be less about the setting and more about the characters within the setting.

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