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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 #33797 2025 November Fan Poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

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

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Yes (my votes count double)
3 (100.0%)

What writing gets posted this month?

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Infinity Smashed: Born Lucky
3 (30.0%)

Reverend Alpert: the Traveling Exorcist
1 (10.0%)

Henchwench for Hire (F/F supervillainy)
0 (0.0%)

Rutless (trans omegaverse porno)
0 (0.0%)

Many-Selved Family Portraiture
3 (30.0%)

Anatomy of a Dance (essay)
6 (60.0%)

The Boy Whose Heart Is Home (teen hardship)
2 (20.0%)

The Battleaxe and the Blood-Eater (pseudo Greco-Roman gladiators)
0 (0.0%)

two apocalyptic micro-stories
1 (10.0%)

What art/comic/zine gets posted this month?

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Cult Comix
2 (25.0%)

Death Watch
3 (37.5%)

How it Was, How It Is
1 (12.5%)

Freight Train Flirting
4 (50.0%)

Old Man Yaoi
0 (0.0%)

Cult Comix
0 (0.0%)

Current Mood: sick

lb_lee

Had extremely busy weekend, then woke up sick. Will do usual poll and stuff when better. Thanks for patience.

*goes back to chugging tea and eating raw onion with honey*

fuzzyred

The carpet is thick, soft and cream coloured, while the walls are a yellow bronze colour. In the corner along one wall there is a large sofa, able to seat 4 or 5 people comfortably. Along the other corner wall there is a smaller sofa for 2 or 3 people. In the middle of the furniture, there is a low, round coffee table, perfect for colouring at or for other craft activities.

There is a scratching post and a cat tree for climbing, which are both along the wall opposite the couch. A few fluffy beds have also been put out, in varying sizes, in case any one prefers the floor. There is also a large sturdy perch and a marked off area that says "Landing Pad" in case any winged friends want to visit.

There is now a blue chaise chair in the nook as well, which has been placed near the couch and is good for both sitting and spreading out lengthwise. There are also two armchairs; one an oversized, deep gray leather chair, the other a square fabric armchair in deep blue with light purple swirls on it.

There are two baskets off to the side. One contains fuzzy blankets, a variety of fuzzy and textured pillows, and a collection of stuffed animals while the other contains a variety of art supplies, ranging from colouring pages and blank paper to crayons and coloured pencils, and more besides.

Current Mood: good

lithophiles

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lb_lee

Mori: So. Nobody's getting food stamps next month. And I needed to take a day to just... scream into my pillow and rant about the nature of evil, but it's cool! I'm better now! And I'm doing something about it! Maybe I could do something... FOR YOU!

See, we've discovered that we are a really good courier when it comes to getting stuff into free boxes! We've also discovered that we are good at helping people clean out their kitchens (and other rooms, but right now, food is the important thing). We've helped people do this and can give references!

So: is your kitchen full of herbs, spices, teas, drinks, or food that you are never going to get to? (Teas and herbs/spices are SO useful to people, and so often forgotten!) Does looking into your cabinets stress you out? We can help with that! We can help clean out your kitchen, disappear the bad stuff into the compost, and transport the good stuff to local free pantries so that hungry people can eat it! You get cupboard space, your neighbors get fed, I get to prove to myself the government can't break my spirit, and everyone wins!

This is an open offer for the general Boston area, but because we are a pedestrian and stuff like canned goods are heavy, we are most useful in the Arlington, Cambridge, Medford, and Somerville areas. We will be limited in how much we can carry, but we have two VERY sturdy 20 liter backpacks, a tote bag, and a heart filled with determination and spite.

Help us feed our neighbors! Spread the word to anyone around who might find this useful!

(I don't require pay for this. It is free, because I am MAD.)

Current Music: Laura Jane Grace - "Mine Me Mine"

fuzzyred

I hesitate to call this a weekly update, but here I am, posting again. I'm not sure what it is, but posting has felt really difficult lately, so I've missed a lot of Thursdays. Things are going relatively well in my corner of reality though, so that's a good thing.

I've kept up with Duolingo and I haven't done too poorly with staying on top of the dishes and all of the falling leaves. Yoga has been so-so, probably around 75% of my intended goal; not terrible, but not as good as I'd like. I have read three books this month, which I'm really pleased with, but I think I may have forgotten about my flute practice. I've also had a rather hard time tracking my daily tasks lately, so I feel like I'll have to make a call to either remedy that or ditch it; I'm not sure which yet.

My birthday was earlier this month, and I had a lovely get together with some friends and family. I've also had a decent chance to hang out with my good friend and my boyfriend. It's mostly been small things, like lunches and going to a local national park, but sometimes those are the best kind of days. I need to make more time to see my family and to do more things with my friends, but I seem to struggle the most with making time for everything, especially if it means less time to do what I want (even if I want to do *both* things).

Something I've realized lately is that I don't have time for nearly as many hobbies as I'd like to. I'm not great at switching between things, so I'm likely to binge one hobby (say reading) and ignore the others (e.g. puzzles or knitting) in the meantime. I would love to be able to make time to do all of them at once, but I'm not sure how to make that happen. I'm not sure I *can* make that happen. It's not a problem, necessarily, it just means that I can't do as many things as I'd like in as short a time frame as I'd like. It also extends to not being able to pause the hobby/fun thing I'm doing to do "necessary" things, like dishes or yard work, or visiting family. I'd like to get better at managing my time and juggling my tasks, but so far, I don't have any ideas on how to make that happen.

In the meantime, I'm going to keep working on my goals as best I can, and I'm going to try to prioritize things I'd like to get done before the holiday season.

I hope you all are doing well and I hope to talk to you again soon! :D

Current Mood: good

lb_lee

This was the winner of the fan poll for this month! Images behind cut.

( Sneak just wants to pet zer headmate. Why won't Rawlin let zer??? )

gze

Author: ????
Length: 3-5 minutes
Warnings: vague mentions of bad mental health I guess?

[Temporary note: this will go up on the website when we have more brain and will be backdated accordingly when it does. It's just easier to post on DW only for now. When it does get posted then this note will vanish mysteriously...]

( So lately we’ve been in the midst of a crisis. )

mark posting in

dw_maintenance

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

lithophiles

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lb_lee

We are presenting a slideshow and talk on spirited/many-selved family portraiture at the New England Graphic Medicine Summit, on Friday, October 24, at 10 AM! Attendance can be virtual via Zoom or in-person at the Richard E. Griffin Academic Center, 670 Huntington Ave., Boston. Come say hi, and let's paint the con multi!

(Many thanks to

dreamer_marie for being our test rehearsal audience!)

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2025 November Fan Poll

Poll and Patreon Stuff Delayed

Comfort Corner

I guess this is the plural equivalent of "born too late." [Nina]

Boston-area Kitchen Clean-Outs

Update

Comic: So Wiggly, So Fluffy (2024)

The Strange World of System Crisis Mode (To use a YT title cliché)

Database maintenance

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Fri., Oct. 24, 2025: We are presenting at the New England Graphic Medicine Summit!

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