Reading

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unfinished

Piekarski and Piekarski's "Trail Cooking: Clean and Green"

This is a placeholder post that will later hold a textual transcription of the 1995 pamphlet Trail Cooking: Clean and Green, by Ro and Joanna Piekarski.

Current Mood: tired

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We are Tabling at Anti-Robot Club in Cambridge!

Details here: https://www.anti-robotclub.com/event-details/the-marketplace-cambridge-ma-2

Time: Sunday, June 8, 12-5 pm

Location:
The Foundry
101 Rogers st.
Cambridge, MA

We will have a bunch of short-run prose collections, including Perspichor Freelance Explorer (an asexual monster romance), Disabled Cyborgs, and more! Cone say hi!

Current Mood: accomplished

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A new home for Dude and Skeeter (and us)!

Thanks to everyone who took part in the cat fostering! The day before I moved, I got to run by and finally meet Dude and Skeeter, the fluffballs who have occupied so much of my mental real estate.

( pics of happy kitties at home! )

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moving

Offline until at least June 1

Computer getting packed. If you need to get in contact with us quickly, use phone. We have a broken smartphone that SOMETIMES can access DW or email, but don't count on it.

See y'all at the new place!

Current Mood: working

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poll

2025 June Fan Poll

Hey everybody, it's that time again: time to vote for which stuff gets the LiberaPay/Patreon money this month!

As always, anyone can vote (please do!), but LiberaPay and Patreon patrons get double weight for their votes. (Due to Patreon's porn purges, I really encourage you to use LiberaPay, if you get a choice.) If you want to see the blurbs for any of these works, those are here! (You can also leave your requests there; requesting a story or essay is always free!) If you don't have a DW and so can't do the poll, that's okay; just leave your vote in the comments below; anon comments are turned on.

Which works gets the money, and thus posted this month? YOU CHOOSE, readers!

Poll #33175 2025 June Fan Poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23

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Did you toss LiberaPay/Patreon money my way last month?

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Yes (my votes count double)
6 (100.0%)

What writing gets posted this month?

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Infinity Smashed: Born Lucky
7 (31.8%)

Reverend Alpert: the Traveling Exorcist
3 (13.6%)

Henchwench for Hire (F/F supervillainy)
3 (13.6%)

Rutless (trans omegaverse porno)
4 (18.2%)

Flights of Reality (the Cursed City)
1 (4.5%)

Anatomy of a Dance
7 (31.8%)

The Boy Whose Heart Is Home
3 (13.6%)

The Battleaxe and the Blood-Eater
1 (4.5%)

Crisis Planning: Legal/Medical Stuff
11 (50.0%)

What art/comic/zine gets posted this month?

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Cult Comix
1 (5.0%)

Death Watch
6 (30.0%)

How it Was, How It Is
7 (35.0%)

2012 hospital sketchbook
0 (0.0%)

2013 Homeless Year sketchbook
2 (10.0%)

2014 AllFam sketchbook
2 (10.0%)

Protection
5 (25.0%)

Kissing
12 (60.0%)

Current Mood: busy

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Knocking from the Inside: Breaking Free from Mental Imperialism, by Jimmy Dunson

Mori: I textually transcribed this zine I raved about earlier! It's a mad pride manifesto with influences from Thich Nhat Hanh, the Icarus Project, Inner Family Systems, and anarchist concepts like mutual aid and collective liberation. Its beautiful imperfection means a lot to my hothead self, so here it is!

This zine is anti-authority and anti-medical. You may not want to read it, especially if you're in a place mentally where your brain is causing you a lot of havoc and doesn't seem at all your friend. Paris Williams's Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift In Our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis covers some similar territory with more research, page count, and moderation.

Knocking from the Inside: Breaking Free from Mental Imperialism
by Jimmy Dunson

( You have lost your mind? So? There are worse things to lose. You have found the heart and soul of the universe. You simply stopped being the false god to the universe within you, you stopped being the dictator to your differing parts. )

Current Mood: artistic

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Howard Schatz's "At the Fights" handwraps drawing refs

Rogan: I love drawing handwraps, they're so aesthetically appealing, but it's also tricky to find good reference for them! Fortunately, the largest, HEAVIEST book I own is Howard Schatz's At the Fights, an ENORMOUS photobook of boxers. I regret the Brobdignagian size of the thing (and the WEIGHT, oof, that book must weight close to ten pounds) but I had fun pulling it out for reference sketches on this month's Patreon postcards...

( pic behind cut! )