Tears from Google (This is an actual update. I know, panic.)

This morning I was nearly wrecked by a spam email. Let me unpack that.

I am however passively what google calls a “local guide” I take lots of fucking pictures and do reviews of places I go and so on. This morning I opened my inbox and there was a thing from them; it said

Gwendolyn we miss your point of view!

And said it had been 90 days since my last contribution – I guess that means my “new phone” has now been out of service longer than it was functional.  But we live in an era. *I* live in an era, where automated spam messages will say to me things that no one living has ever said to me

Food for (particularly miserable) thought


Updates (Links in Super Special Minty Green!)  

Loaded what (might) be the first (or the only) of (maybe) a notebooks (series) – I dunno.  Originally I wanted to scan in the actual pages from Fall 2022 – Fall 2023 and then put the copy over that but like most of my more interesting print/POD/digital book emulation ideas, it requires skills and tech I do not have and (as far as the tech) I will probably never have.

So it’s godam pdf like everything.

I can’t guarantee it will be entertaining or – honestly – interesting but..hey it’s there. It’s … not very pleasant. But you do have the benefit of knowing how it turned out.  

I mean, I’m right here.

It’s available at Itch.io and the patreon store. Patreon won’t let me carve my shop into sub-shops….just my posts, because...way to be useless patreon. Keep rolling out new features no one asked for or wants.

https://dreaming-gynoid.itch.io/freedom-year-one-a-year-in-the-life-of-a-maenad

https://www.patreon.com/DreamingGynoid/shop/freedom-year-one-year-in-life-of-maenad-506153?source=storefront


You can also find the Ishtar Cycle, my first chap, now available at my patreon store – I apparently still need to load it upon Itch.io. The original publisher, Lupercalia, is sadly no longer with us. I wish them well.

https://www.patreon.com/DreamingGynoid/shop/ishtar-cycle-57174?source=storefront


All of my games work (DCC and indie) and the whole of the Dreaming Gynoid studio fictional universe – the eternal omniverse, Emperess Imperium, Jaldipoor, etc. is available from both the Patreon (it’s home) and itch.io of course.

https://www.patreon.com/DreamingGynoid


https://dreaming-gynoid.itch.io/


Dreaming Gynoid’s blog (needing updates) contains additional content for those games and books.

https://dreaminggynoid.blogspot.com/


Finally but not least, my second chap Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods, is available from kith books in both print and digital

https://www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/harper

as are the first (and so far only) four issues of Maenadum – my screaming bloody madness trans-activist disability zine and some of my oldest work.  

Of note the next to last one basically predicted the last four years of Presidential non-administration. To the letter and decimal point.  But no one, NO ONE, wants a “I told you so.” in matters of politics.  

the (last) election year issue https://www.kithbooks.com/friends/p/mo20

Anyway, the rest of them are available there.

2019  https://www.kithbooks.com/friends/p/ms19

2020 https://www.kithbooks.com/friends/p/ms20

2021 https://www.kithbooks.com/friends/p/fore

I may be putting another rage zine out this year, if so, in the next month most likely. We’ll see. Details forthcoming if it sees the light of day.


Right now I’m finishing up

Pommegranite Molasses – a poetry collection where I am proud of every single piece and love them all. Might change the title since the substance itself became instagramable since I came up with the title. Then again, I might (pro’lly won’t) be bothered as that feels like compromise.

I hate the internet. Or rather, I hate what it has become.

The Space Girl’s Guide to the Empress Imperium – a stand alone DCC book (for Galaxy Black) providing an alternate “in” to the setting material and what Dreaming Gynoid does in general, as well as 410 pages of pure queer punk ass SNARK.

Despite all of these things it’s pro’lly the most “trad rpg” book I’ve ever done – full of spells and classes and All That Junk.

But I promise you it’s a good time. Trying HARD to get that out for the holidays where it wlll do the most damage.


Am just starting on

And all our endeavors led to this…Freedom: Year Two - another year in the life of a Maenad

which should be more substantive and possibly quite different (format wise) than it’s predecessor.  It might also not have any verse or poetry or very little. I dunno yet. I literally started work a few weeks ago.


AT some point

I will be getting to figuring out wtf I want to do with “Fist me and Talk about Marx” which is done but….it’s a very snapshot in time kind of thing and …. it’s all trauma all the way down.  I am of mixed thoughts about even releasing it right now.  Which just means at some point I’ll have an impulse and do it but .. whatever. 

 But it’s not forgotten, just in arrears. 




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