Science Fiction and Fantasy writing from @aksan.dev. Mostly poetry and #IntimacyExperiments! (https://www.aksan.dev/) (Profile pic and Cover Art by @furlana.bsky.social)
Taking an attitude of smug superiority towards your audience is generally a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy in that its very easy to be superior to an audience with nobody in it
You have to be familiar enough with the genre you're writing that you don't just show up all "heh, bet you slop-eaters have never seen anything like this: [unoriginal work derivative of the most mainstream entries in the genre]" and you also have to bring in ideas from outside the genre.
Tonight's sonnets, titled 'Identity' as a pair, get shared for once. The material rituals that accompany are shared with those dearest. The love is shared with you all.
Your absence breaks like water off my face,
And suddenly my lungs are full of you,
And all the world now falls back into place;
My soul can take a moment to renew.
It turns out we might have been missing our little fox something chronic...
I don't think $30k is a life-changing amount of money.
Median American born in 1980 will have $2m in income in their lifetime. It's a 1% increase in earnings.
Because despite having the realisation when they were a messy fifteen, Alexis got it right that they were a lesbian; everything that followed— the repression, the abuse, our brain sundering in two, being convinced that it would be harmful to act on it—that was the confusion and the phase.
Why are we trans? Wrong answers only...
So, Alexis will compulsively play games on their hardest setting, and life is no different.
As for Charly, she's not even trans, folks just see a girl with a dick nowadays and assume. Wait, that's the actual answer with her...
hey fuckers. Who wants to see a trailer? Just a lil taste? Just an itty bitty lil sense of the flavor of extra i'm gonna be bringing to this fuckass endeavour? hmm?
@lkcreations.art you're doing a beautiful job of brightening our day. We have always enjoyed spotting the cat, and are blessed to have your art in our house. The joy of supporting your work has always been ours. 💜🌸🤍
It's probably not a good sign when someone was told we'd try to be extra nice to them in the writing workshop as it would just be them, and this was their reply:
'😭 They're going to tear out and braid my capillaries'
Are we that scary?
Sometimes our little writing workshops are a delightful opportunity to push ourselves to write differently, get interesting and insightful feedback, and discussion our craft.
Other times they are hearing a fellow writer tell themselves:
'No, I cannot use "womb" as an adjective.'
Perrin meets Polly
Been wanting to make fanart of @lovethrupoke.bsky.social's amazing version of Petra for a while, and I thought this was a fun way of doing so lol
#petraparker#spiderwoman#spiderman#trans#spiderverse#lesbian#sapphic
It is probably best for our productivity, but we finally pinned down today that the reason Charly floats along rather than walks nowadays is because the other options are wearing a bra, gods forbid, or breasting boobily.
If she's going to be a distracting hallucination, we can at least minimise the jiggle physics.
Also, yes, the floating did start after we played through Expedition 33.
As Alexis is planning to start engaging with the local kink scene more the urge to finish up the PhD so they can introduce themselves as 'Dr. Payne' intensifies.
Mustn't let them delay engaging just so they can do that on their first impressions.
Trying to make plans for Alexis' voice training today we realised... They have basically no daily routines?
They make food and go to bed when our nesting partner says to, shower 0-3 times a day as they feel the need, and usually dress before noon.
Everything else is... ???
Needs improvement.
At a certain point 'target audience' becomes a version of No True Scotsman; a convenient way to select the opinions one is after as valid and discard those that don't fit your narrative. If you don't get it, appreciate it, or interpret it correctly, that's just you not being the 'target audience.'
Utterly deranged to say that because someone is not the “target audience” for a movie that their opinions and experiences watching it are worthless. First of all that’s not how art works but second of all bestie everyone’s opinions are worthless. That’s what makes art criticism so great
There is something both satisfying and heart breaking about really cementing a tragic plot point by piling on pain and angst ahead of it.
Like yes this character is going to meet a terrible end... But only because we made her life absolute hell before hand.
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you:
Seriously, we're the red hot glass that burned off Alexis' short clippered hair as it swung past.
Flippantly, we're Charly.
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you:
Hi, I'm an adult moose obstructing the only path home as the sun begins to set in the dead of Alaskan winter. I do not move.
The question of the night is simple: is Alexis manic rebounding from an absolute pit of depression, or is their muse simply that pretty?
Both?
All evidence suggests both.
Sorry to quote this again, but we somehow forgot:
Alexis being told to consider vaginoplasty over an orchidectomy 'because we'll have an easier time getting that commissioned.'
Love this idea that their genitals should be inverted for convenience of the doctors.
The mirror starts reading a bunch of feminist theory and comes back to the witch like "So my research on the subject got me onto a bit of a different track and I think the real answer is that you need to stop tying your self-worth to beauty standards."
witch: mirror mirror on the wall who's the fairest of them all
mirror: okay so this is a pretty complicated question that you're dropping on me given that it's quite dependent on a lot of beauty norms which vary significantly over time. you'll have to be more specific to get a good answer