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We're almost there !

🧭🏳️‍⚧️ HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO FIND THE UNKNOWN 🏳️‍⚧️🧭

Tomorrow is Kickstarter Day! To celebrate, I thought I'd show off some paraphernalia I've acquired over the years to connect with these characters and the world they lived in.

The matchbook is the first item I collected, and the brochure is the second. The newspaper clipping is one I obtained later on, but all three have to do with the Furness Prince Line.

A postcard from the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, where antivenin was developed and our characters witness the process, and its effects.

Cornelius' camera, a Kodak Eastman No. 2C Autographic edition. Mine is awfully rough shape, but when I stumbled upon it in a local thrift store I knew it was meant to be. Cornelius' is a little bit different, his has the red bellows.

For books most are for research, but others were for vibes or setting. Not pictured is Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon by Larry Rohter, which I have in ebook.

Lastly, a Camillus pocket knife. Watt carries a Camillus TL-29, which is an electrician's knife. This is not a TL-29, but it is a well aged electrician's knife like the one he would've used, and from the same company.

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Author copy 2.0 frolicking in the sunflowers. I had to tweak the cover and fix some errors I found, sprinkle in a few key details. Other than that damnable spine, we're good to go!

You can pre-order this in ebook or paperback, signed or annotated, and with a bunch of goodies if you'd like. Check out the Kickstarter campaign!

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When it comes to trope time, I'm not the greatest. Yes, there's two beds but they're forced to one. Yes, one's a black cat and the other is a golden retriever.

And yes, it's a slow burn that was kindled in the summers of Michigan, tempered by friendship and brought to a roaring in the depths of Brazil.

But why say all that when I could just say: Indiana Jones, the Queer Edition 🏳️‍⚧️🧭

Kickstarter Campaign is still going!

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Do people actually like quote books, movies, and TV shows in casual conversation because I refuse to believe that that's true. I legit cannot remember a single quote from anything that I have ever watched or read and you're telling me that people can quote full on paragraphs from their favourite book and it's not just a movie trope to show that they're a nerd.

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technically we’re ALL, always LARPing, because the Self is only a construct,

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Making friends with people from other countries is so crazy. I sent my group chat a Big Bird gif.

And this one girl says, “why isn’t he blue?”

I’m like, the fuck you mean??

So today I learned that in the Dutch version of Sesame Street, they do, in fact, have a blue Big Bird.

I was baffled by this so I went on Muppets Wiki and guess what.

In Mexico, Big Bird is green and his name is Abelardo.

Turkish Big Bird (aka Minik Kus) is apparently fucking orange.

This looks like a fuckin alternate universe or smth. I can’t.

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It's. Bigger than my scanner .

Grave Goods, 8/5/25 18x24" mixed media on watercolor paper

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You know that Ada Limón poem where she’s like “i can’t help it i love the way men love”? my dad recently confessed to me that he became a shoemaker because they buried my grandma shoeless

oh…………………………………

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Kickstarter campaign for the gay explorers is still going !

It began, as most things do, with a Tumblr post.

Firstly, this is my official announcement! The Kickstarter for The Voice of Wild Places opens on August 1st.

There is a formal explanation for the origins of this story, but before that I'd like to introduce the seed that began this story, planted by my good friend and talented author Luna Daye.

And so began the quickly snowballing project of 'finding the gay along the way.'

The Voice of Wild Places was also borne from my love for history and a need for more queer historical fiction. What was originally supposed to be a fun and quick archaeological story in an urban fantasy world swiftly evolved to a story far beyond anything I imagined, and definitely not urban fantasy.

Yes, there is romance, but this is also a story of adventure, fighting to be who you are in a world that begs you to be anything but yourself, finding the truth, and discovering your value.

The early 20th century has always called to me, but when I first dove into this era I had no idea the feelings that would surface. As I wrote, I discovered many of the issues my characters faced are similar to the ones people face now. It provided me with a way to cope with the changes our world is enduring, and it is my hope that others can find the same comfort in it that I found writing it.

Travel with Cornelius and Watt as they journey from Philadelphia to New York City, to Brazil's coast and her interior. Visit the places of their past such as Michigan, France, Egypt, Columbia, and more as they two untangle the threads of their lives, and what made them into the people they are now.

With years of research devoted to this project, you can find reality in the details. Listen to the music in the queer speakeasy Maxine's, which lay in the heart of what would become the Gayborhood. Cruise on the S.S. Eastern Prince, which ran from New York City to Rio de Janeiro, and witness the construction of Christ the Redeemer.

And we cannot dismiss the less savory parts of history, such as the production of antivenin, the threat of civil war, colonialism, and discrimination.

Are you ready for adventure? Preview the pre-launch Kickstarter page here, and give it a follow if you'd like! All the bells and whistles will be there on the actual launch.

(The book referenced is The Rivers Ran East by Leonard Clark. Yes, I have it.)

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'It's not too late to learn, Fenris'

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When I first proposed the idea of a Kickstarter, my wonderful artist friends (lovingly) attacked me with art, and they both had the idea of illustrating the photographs that Cornelius takes during their trip. This first one is by @bencalico , and features Cornelius, Watt, and Severino on the steamer. Below is the accompanying scene.

Cornelius frequently took shots from the edge of the boat, but of the photographic variety. He focused on people, always incorporating them into the surrounding landscape. On the last day of the trip, he’d taken a photograph of Watt and Severino standing together at the front of the boat, hats on and inches between them.

Watt felt wrong standing there without Cornelius in the picture, and after Cornelius took the shot he called a fellow passenger over to assist with the problem. Cornelius’ face reddened, but he offered the fellow his camera and quickly explained how to use it. He joined them and stood between Watt and Severino, adjusting his hat before tucking his hands into his pockets. He nodded to Severino, then shot Watt a withering look.

“How typical for the photographer not to like having his photo taken,” Watt murmured, fighting a grin.

“It’s just a very valuable piece of equipment,” Cornelius shot back, quiet and whip-quick. Despite his tone, his lip curled upwards. They stared at each other for a moment, then Cornelius winked and turned his attention forward. Watt looked at the camera too, unable to stop smiling.

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When it comes to trope time, I'm not the greatest. Yes, there's two beds but they're forced to one. Yes, one's a black cat and the other is a golden retriever.

And yes, it's a slow burn that was kindled in the summers of Michigan, tempered by friendship and brought to a roaring in the depths of Brazil.

But why say all that when I could just say: Indiana Jones, the Queer Edition 🏳️‍⚧️🧭

Kickstarter Campaign is still going!

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[commissions] show me your beloved characters

form link will follow!

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Kickstarter for this beauty is going strong ! Adventure boxes are popular, and annotated books which blows me away.

You're telling me people willingly want to read all my historical nerd details, unfiltered thoughts and behind the scenes lore?

How fucking rad.

Kickstarter campaign here !

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In amongst the anti-spotify discourse, I've been seeing a tonne of arguments from older bands saying the streaming model in general has been damaging to people's enjoyment of music

I'm not going to get into whether Spotify is evil here, but I viscerally disagree with the notion that easy and cheap access to All The Music* has been in any way bad for music as an artform

There is no generation in history with a broader musical taste than the generations who have grown up with and embraced the streaming model. Without access to a universal library of music, the musical lives of entire generations would be smaller and duller. Romanticising the era of physical media is fine and fun, but someone can record an album in their room and put it on the same global platform as the top-selling artists in the world with no need for a label or corporate contacts, and it can be listened to immediately by anyone in the world... that's the making of an artistic revolution.

Why would you want to go back to a time when people had ten cds? Why would you want to go back to a time when there were financial, locational, temporal boundaries, so many boundaries between you and finding the bands you love that in all likelihood you would never have overcome?

And to make it personal, people would never have found me and my music without the streaming model. So yes, it's a personal cause for me, but not just because I have the accessibility of the streaming model to thank for my livelihood. Almost all of my favourite music from the last ten years is made by acts I would never have found if it wasn't for streaming. That's why I don't romanticise the physical music era - I lived through the end of it, and it was more fraught with elitism and gatekeeping and corruption than the streaming era ever was.

Whether you like Spotify or not is irrelevant. Streaming has democratised the artform and revolutionised independent music.

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Princess with an empathic link to her sworn protector but she has severe anxiety so her door keeps getting thrown open and someone in full armor runs in yelling I'LL PROTECT YOU MY LADY, WHERE'S THE DANGER? and she's just got outlook open and there's two (2) emails she needs to reply to