Our Brain On Tufte
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Brain: x_x what will you do to nourish me?
Mori: organize magazines at the sci-fi library, of course! What could be more soul-nurturing than that?!
Brain: you’re right, absolutely nothing!
Mori: man, I can’t help but notice how racy these chainmail bikini babes are and how they’re all over the place, even in nonporny things, while the actual porn we buy these days is way, way tamer in their cover art. These old geeks get to have jiggling nipples everywhere while Rogan can barely buy gay porn comics with a shirtless guy on the cover.
Brain: Hmm... could we make a soul-nurturing activity out of this??? @_@
Mori: I want to go through our entire bookshelf for all the nudity and horny covers and then arrange them into real-life bar graphs charting them by year, content, and couplings.
Brain: HUZZAH! That’s the way to use me! I feel better already!
(And then we made photo graphs and photographs.)
Bob’s Birthday Ice Cream
4 August 2025 21:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Today, he was at the ice cream shop, and one of the specials was Xtabentun coffee ice cream with anise/honey liqueur. Coffee and booze: my favorite combination! (And wasted on these kids; Falcon is the only one in this place who appreciates a decent cup of coffee asides from me.)
I staked my birthday claim early. I got my ice cream. Oh, it was an experience to be savored, for sure! Best ice cream I’ve ever had... and their body can take it no problem.
Happy early birthday to me!
Somerville Yart Sale (Saturday, Aug. 9)
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In better news, we're going to be a part of the Somerville YART Sale event with Joshua Porterfield! We'll have a table of art, zines, books, and FORBIDDEN OBJECTS in front of 68 Bonair At., Somerville, MA 02145.
Event Date: Saturday, August 9th, 12–6 PM (weather date Sunday, August 10th)
Event Map: https://somervilleartscouncil.org/yart-sale/yart/ (check out more people selling art as yard sales!)
More info anytime at: www.somervilleartscouncil.org/yart-sale
I have also updated my Events Page, which I just realized a lot of people may not know the existence of. (Didn't help that I myself neglected it a lot during the early years of COVID.)
Wow, I hate this.
1 August 2025 22:48![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This is incredibly degrading. This might be more humiliating than getting shadowbanned from Gumroad for Cultiples, and that was pretty damn crummy.
I make mental health work about sexual trauma. It's bad for business to have "minors in a sexual context" as code for "child pornography" anywhere near me professionally, even if you ignore that this is, again, a memoir about how incest fucked me up. The whole point is that it's awful! Josie Riesman called it "one of the most brutal and engaging comics I’ve ever read." Tarun Athmika did a whole fucking paper on the politics of implication in (among other things) All in the Family, and how bans of discussion of oppression supports that oppression! Holy shit, he couldn't have been more prescient had he tried!
I've still heard nothing from itch.io. I ordered my payout a week ago and it's still "in review." I don't know if I'm going to get paid. The idea that I might get pedojacketed, AGAIN, for totally nonsense reasons is...
I don't know what it is.
This never used to happen to me until 2023, and now it's becoming normal to me. This is just life to me now. And I feel stupidly naive that it took this long to happen; it feels like it was always going to.
At least I can take comfort that the Banned Book Sale is going well. But god, I would've way rathered never throwing one.
2025 August Fan Poll
1 August 2025 17:59![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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!
Did you toss LiberaPay/Patreon money my way last month?
What writing gets posted this month?
Infinity Smashed: Born Lucky
2 (8.3%)
Reverend Alpert: the Traveling Exorcist
2 (8.3%)
Henchwench for Hire (F/F supervillainy)
2 (8.3%)
Rutless (trans omegaverse porno)
2 (8.3%)
Flights of Reality (the Cursed City)
0 (0.0%)
Anatomy of a Dance (essay)
4 (16.7%)
The Boy Whose Heart Is Home (teen hardship)
4 (16.7%)
The Battleaxe and the Blood-Eater (pseudo Greco-Roman gladiators)
3 (12.5%)
LB Economics (essay)
7 (29.2%)
Cultiples #1 Afterword (essay made of AAAAAAH)
5 (20.8%)
Aphantasia and Headspace (essay)
11 (45.8%)
two apocalyptic micro-stories
1 (4.2%)
What art/comic/zine gets posted this month?
Cult Comix
4 (17.4%)
Death Watch
5 (21.7%)
How it Was, How It Is
6 (26.1%)
2012 hospital sketchbook
1 (4.3%)
2013 Homeless Year sketchbook
4 (17.4%)
2014 AllFam sketchbook
7 (30.4%)
Blushing and Scent (Mori/Rawlin fluff)
9 (39.1%)
2015 early Biff sketchbook
5 (21.7%)
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Summary: “Loving, consensual touch can be a deliberate religious practice.” —Christine Hoff Kraemer, Eros and Touch from a Pagan Perspective, pg. 122.
Series: Essay
Word Count: 2700
Notes: Winner of the LiberaPay/Patreon fan poll! A lot of these ideas I originally got from Eros and Touch from a Pagan Perspective, especially chapters 1: “Divided for Love’s Sake: An Erotic Cosmology” and 4: “the Sacrament of Touch.” The author has generously uploaded it to archive.org; check it out!
Unsurprisingly to anyone familiar with my history, I (Rogan of LB) have trouble being physically close to people. So what was I doing going to a compassionate touch workshop in a mysterious half-renovated warehouse with a dozen strangers, most of them men? Well, I wanted a change. I wanted to change.
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Where to buy the AllFam Ebook in the meantime
30 July 2025 13:56![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Until I hash things out with itch.io (no response yet), you can buy the AllFam ebook (and the script version) on Payhip. I am slowly uploading all my ebooks there, starting with the stuff most likely to be banned. I have everything copied over now except for the Megapack which is... by far the largest and may take a bit.
EDIT: okay, Megapack should be up now too. Whew.
Comic: Red Tape Hell, 2015
30 July 2025 13:07![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This was the winner of the fan poll and paid for by supporters at LiberaPay and Patreon! Originally printed in 2015 for the floppy copies of All In the Family #3, they were cut from the final paperback version. Now they live again!
Text-only transcript in the comments below!
( every legally disabled person has a story like this )
Perfect Victims (and the guys who made the cash register)
29 July 2025 17:29![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So, when you buy something from a website, there's you (the customer), the creator of the thing (the maker), and the website you buy it on (the shop). But then there's the payment processor. The payment processor is a middle-man between you and the shopkeeper.
The metaphor I use is: imagine you go to a store and decide to buy a cookie. You go to the shopkeeper to give them your money, and suddenly a guy jumps out of the bushes and tells you, "NO! You are only allowed to buy pure, clean, HEALTHY food with your cash!"
You say, "Who the fuck are you, a cop?"
"No."
"A politician? Are cookies illegal now?"
"No."
"Are you involved with the shop? The cookie makers?"
"No! We made the cash register!"
( further explanation, but I am not a banker nor all that educated about payment processors )
Mekhanikos, by ZEKM (sci-fi webcomic/VN, 2020, 2023)
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{SEE THROUGH ME}
{FEEL THROUGH ME}
{MY BODY}
{IS YOUR BODY}
Blurb: An android connects to her giant robot for the first time and finds a new intimacy.
Why is it worth your time?: Though abandoned short, it gets through its first scene and made me happy to read. The comic version does a good job of using a visual medium to convey kinaesthetic cofronting. It's short, free, and available in two different forms; maybe you'll like it!
Plural Tags: abuse not mentioned, bodyhopping, cofronting, nonhumans (robots), setting-specific, voices
Content Warnings: None
Access Notes: Read the comic for free online here, and pay-what-you-want to play the game version here! Neither are screenreadable.
Misc Notes: This work is incomplete and looks to sadly be abandoned, and the comic makes it a LITTLE bit further into the story than the VN does.
Fuck it, Banned Book Sale!
25 July 2025 13:00![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
If you've been putting off downloading stuff off itch.io, now is the time to HURRY YOUR ASS UP. They look to be steam-cleaning the site after a scrubsquad of purityfucker Australians squealed at payment processors.
This is the email I got:
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And hey, if you're like, "Wow, LB, that sure sucks that your #1 bestselling book got muzzled because of some purity wankers in Australia, I want to give you money," then thanks, friend! You're the fucking best! You can send me donations through my Paypal button or have fun buying my various wares. If you've been putting off buying my actual porn or sex shit (Multi Orgasmic, Infinity Smashed: Found Wanting, Rutless, and Coming In or Staying Out) now is the time!
In fact, you know what, for the next week, I'm going to be throwing a special offer. If you buy a paper copy of AllFam or any of the sexy things listed above, I will sign it and put a sticker on it. Your options include sparkles, rainbows, happy cute smiling things, and cute little sayings. Donate extra $ to either me or the Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective, and I'll print you off a trans porn sticker to slap up wherever you want.
LET'S DO THIS.
EDIT: moved my ebooks to Payhip. Please buy them there; I dunno if I'm ever getting my money out of itch.io now, even for the totally NON-banned titles.