Thoughts on the occasion of the feast of the dead
This is my first time celebrating Samhain, or at least my first time observing it as an actual pagan.
What a fucking year to start.
Okay, two...
2020-11-01 01:27:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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Cyberpunk 2077 is doing cyberpunk so embarrassingly wrong
[Note: I actually wrote this piece a year ago in response to the interview linked below and the Twitter thread from Ryan Boyd (2020-10-30 00:31:06 +0000 UTC
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What we need is here
[photo by Steve Hillebrand]
For reasons I’m not certain of, today during my meditation I turned to a line that was echoing in my head, f...
2020-09-25 20:07:24 +0000 UTC View PostBlessings of Alban Elfed
Today is Alban Elfed, the Light of the Water, the autumnal equinox (known as Mabon for many others). It’s my first Druid holy day, and I’ve been incr...
2020-09-22 19:53:59 +0000 UTC View PostI Read The Turner Diaries So You Don’t Have To: Chapters 1 - 2
I was going to open this by saying I’m not sure why I’m even doing it, because it will probably be painfully disgusting and an unpleasant experience for all concerned. But that’s not quite true; I do have a couple of specific reasons for wan...
2020-09-21 03:21:23 +0000 UTC View PostWalking the Path: the practice of resurrection
[photo by Rob Wanenchak]
I think we’re all pretty freaked right now.
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Something my particular journey down the Druid ...
2020-09-20 03:05:47 +0000 UTC View PostOpening the Grove
Hi, everybody. I’m apparently a Druid now.
Those of you who follow me on Twitter—which I imagine is the majority of you—will probably have noticed this, because I’ve been talking about it pretty openly. I feel compelled to talk...
2020-09-17 19:58:12 +0000 UTC View PostTier update/general update
Hey, everybody.
So as I think I've mentioned, the Plague Times have thrown me for a serious loop (I've been in lockdown since March with only my husband and cats for physical company) and work of any kind is just super weird and uneven and o...
2020-08-04 18:09:17 +0000 UTC View PostA reading of a story I did not write: "Walk Briskly"
Hey, folks. Today I bring you something I've been meaning to do for a while but have been spurred to do in a particular sense by *GESTURES BROADLY AT THINGS IN GENERAL*
This is a reading of the story "Walk Briskly", from Alexandra Erin's fan...
2020-05-14 02:32:28 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed weird gay D/s blood magic thing: an (SFW) excerpt!
At the end of last year, I was trying to make it to my goal of three books written in 2019, and for the final attempt I decided to go ahead and dive into full-on Id and not worry about whether or not I’ll be able to sell. The result was very wei...
2020-05-02 16:16:29 +0000 UTC View PostMonthly (allegedly) Celtic Cross: April edition
Welcome to my first Celtic Cross reading on Patreon! I meant to do this monthly a while ago, but, well, I meant to do a lot of things on a more regular basis until we were hit with a literal plague and that frankly disrupted, well, pretty much eve...
2020-04-20 02:21:23 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Tarot: The Magician
An explanatory intro: I’m experimenting with incorporating my ongoing study of the Tarot into the stuff I’m producing for Patreon. This is the first in a series of brief weekly analytical posts I’ll be writing on individual cards. I’m ...
2020-04-05 22:34:59 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Tarot: Seven of Wands
[An explanatory intro: I’m experimenting with incorporating my ongoing study of the Tarot into the stuff I’m producing for Patreon. This is the first in a series of brief weekly analytical posts I’ll be writing on individual cards. I’m...
2020-03-09 04:05:51 +0000 UTC View PostEmergency Super Tuesday Tarot Reading
So something I do when I’m feeling anxious or uncertain is pull out my Tarot cards and do a reading. I did that tonight, because yeah.
A brief word on how I approach the Tarot: I don’t come at it with any particular eye toward supe...
2020-03-04 01:04:07 +0000 UTC View PostSunny's Maladaptive Political Coping Mechanisms Jamboree: 2 - argh
Yeah, I renamed the audio series. I just didn't love the previous title and this feels a lot more accurate.
Anyway, I got mad and did a Super Tuesday thing. I was going to do it tomorrow on my birthday but again, got mad.
By the ...
2020-03-03 19:52:49 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Tarot: King of Wands
[An explanatory intro: I’m experimenting with incorporating my ongoing study of the Tarot into the stuff I’m producing for Patreon. This is the first in a series of brief weekly analytical posts I’ll be writing on individual cards. I’m...
2020-03-01 21:41:38 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Tarot - Two of Swords
I mentioned yesterday that I’m going to be experimenting with incorporating my ongoing study of the Tarot into the stuff I’m producing for Patreon. This is the first in a series of brief weekly analytical posts I’ll be writing on individual ...
2020-02-19 21:44:30 +0000 UTC View PostNew thing, sort of, maybe?
HI, all.
So I’ve just started this politically-oriented audio series, and I’ve been thinking of other ways to maybe not fail quite so much at Patreon that free me from the anxiety of producing fiction writing (aside from the books I’m ...
2020-02-18 22:37:42 +0000 UTC View PostFumbling Toward Revolution - Episode 1: yes it is that bad
Hello, friends.
This is the first of what I intend and hope will be an audio/semi-podcast series on the dangerous state of politics in 2020, the primaries, the election, what comes next, and what it all might mean. Basically it's me trying t...
2020-02-17 21:07:49 +0000 UTC View PostTier changes
Hey, lovely folks,
Now that I HAVE MY PHD FINALLY and my dissertation revisions have been sent to my committee, and life is undergoing some reorganization, I'm taking stock of what I can and can't manage and how I need to be dividing my ener...
2019-07-03 15:20:22 +0000 UTC View PostGood Character Deaths: what they should and shouldn’t be
I yelled about this on Twitter last night because some frustration built up in me over it, but I feel like it might be worth going into it in some further detail, because it matters:
DON’T WRITE SHITTY DEATHS
Here are a few...
2018-09-16 20:12:23 +0000 UTC View PostHowl (big silly werewolf AU) chapter 94 is up
I talk about the existence of my fanfiction on my actual page here, but as yet I haven’t crossed the streams much. I’m changing that today, because a) 2018-09-13 21:57:33 +0000 UTC View Post
"Your Slaughterhouse, Your Killing Floor" (audio)
This is a reading of a story originally published in issue #20 of Uncanny Magazine (which can be read here). It's one of my fav...
2018-03-31 23:41:37 +0000 UTC View PostTWD Episode 8x10 "The Lost and the Plunderers" Postmortem
As I did last week, I've done a recap/analysis of this Sunday's episode of The Walking Dead as part of the Keep Sin...
2018-03-06 23:25:01 +0000 UTC View PostTWD Episode 8x09 "Honor" Postmortem
For any of you following me for fandom-related reasons, or any of you interested in The Walking Dead, I've started doing a series of...
2018-02-26 20:19:46 +0000 UTC View PostGONE: The Interludes (text)
Lovely GONE listeners, I promised to do this a while ago and I'm sorry it took me so long: The Interlude episodes, while I did make them somewhat garbled on pur...
2018-02-12 20:43:11 +0000 UTC View PostDear wonderful lovely Patrons
(Basically c/ping this straight from my Tumblr)
You may have seen this post. It explains what’s going on with Patr...
2017-12-07 05:10:03 +0000 UTC View Post