The Maenad's Bone Garden

 A bit of Delayed Grief and Gratification Meant to post this up last month on her birthday but November was a deep abyssal depression that I am still in some respects, trying to scrape off of me as I climb out of it. She would have turned 72 this year, were she still in the land of the living. This is not really a lit post though if I can salvage the MSG from poor Xanadu’s hard drive, this will pro’lly wind up slipped in there … somewhere. If. If If If. So many possibilities for failure….like in a proper tabletop RPG. This gets hella personal so if that is also not your jam, maybe stop reading here. Thanks!   CW growing up in an abusive household, light discussion of sexual issues, mental health issues, socially inappropriate musings on one's progenitors, tabletop RPGs TW Dead Parents  About my dead mother ... I am pretty sure at this point that my mother started the Game of Life with the same character package I did, with just a few critical differenc...

 Sometimes just sometimes, you're talking to someone, an editor someone, and they maybe mention that something you were talking about is maybe a thing they'd like to accept. That's a fucking prompt right?   Anyway, so that happened but it wasn't then it was but now there's no room and ...whatever.   I highly doubt I will be able to get  rid of pitch this anywhere so guess what, y'all get an essay.  (I hate that shit by the way, but what can you do?)  MEET THE MAENAD’s POLYFAM Who are these daft creatures that inhabit the Maenad’s Labyrinth?   Osi (she/hers) – (no pic and she likes it that way)    Osi is not fond of their picture being taken at all, which I understand, once long ago I was the exact same way.    Osi is a pre/non transitioning trans girl, she is my beloved Monster and I love her more than most of the rest of you put tougher, collectively   or in aggregate.   We are very differently non NT from...