The Maenad's Bone Garden

I present another batch of transcripts here in one place, under the aegis of the littlest altar.  Having sufficiently bit off far more than I can easily chew The Maenad is quite busy.   (Presently I have a short tale trying _hard_ to go novella on me. NO!  I don't have time for that.   The Muse is amused by my token act of resistance.)  Patterns of Behavior.    TW  Childhoood Abuse, Trama Survival, Recovery  Regarding the  recurring cycles inherent in abuse and trauma survival.    A pointed and savage MSG excerpt.  Losing your Illusions    Losing your Illusions about Civilization   Sound cloud link  - A very short snippet.  Sorry for the audio quality.     The continuation is here.  (Honestly this part sounds far less like ever scratchy shit. I do not recall why) While obviously I am both planning on releasing this and substantially revising it I am providing the raw r...

   An MSG excerpt. This was the introduction at one point.  Now ...it's in there somewhere.   (My work strategy strongly resembles "Weaponized Wing-it." )   Kind of tore it apart to make this post but...whatever. Don't ask me I was making it up as I went along.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Look I don’t give a good god damn if your preferred gender expression actually is talky toaster, okay?   I will defend to the death your right as an intelligent self-aware being to self-identify however the fuck you want. No matter what.   Gender expression is just like religion, or believing anything, or speech, or transit, or resettlement, or life…these are things all people in all eras have an undeniable right to.   Period, end of discussion. You can be against all of these things all you like but the moment you try to impose your values over our...

So, on and off in the background for a while now.  Since sometimes in November technically, I have been low key working on a sort of unnamed/unnamable project.   It’s kind of a memoir kind of an autobiography….thing. Of note, --I hate these kinds of books.— In particular I get vomitous at the notion that trans people in nay way are obligated to tell “our story.” Fuck you.   That’s ours. This is not a book for straight people. It’s not a book for allies.  It’s a book for people in the trenches.   It’s a book that does not give you easy answers. It’ doesn’t pat you on the head and say “everything magically gets better” Because we know better. Nothing gets better unless you make it better. This is for those who want to make their life better.  It only has a working title and, at this point I have to say that the increasingly ironically named Maenad’s Survival Guide is definitely going to need a new title.  Whatever I don’t care about shit l...