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Author Jack Stein / artist / gardening nerd between March and August 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Savvy observers may suspect I’m some kind of mathematician. While correct, this is a part of my tragic backstory I’m doing my best to move on from.
Art & writing NSFW / be 18+ please
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January 18, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Hey guess what? I’ve donated one of my works to this fundraiser as well. I generally do not sell my embroidered art - if you’ve ever desired it from afar, this is one of the only chances you’ll ever have to own a piece of it.

postcards.visualaids.org
January 18, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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solidarity of light
January 15, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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As Pratchett said:
January 17, 2026 at 7:43 PM
The rest of my house is growing filthier by the day but by god I’m gonna fix my yard
January 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM
the earth has a secret it can’t wait to tell you
January 17, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Time to put on my steel toe cowboy boots and go shovel dirt in the yard, because apparently I am a parody of an American man
January 17, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 3:52 PM
seeing a romance novel with my name on it in the IAH airport bookstore. Well, with -a- name corresponding to me, anyway. Probably not the same name I write centipede monsterfucking porn under.
what is the biggest writerly goal you are willing to cop to publicly? I would like to be nominated for a Lammy
January 17, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Sweet dreams, from Haze
#deadlock #illustration
January 13, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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Snail helm is go
January 17, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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January 16, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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oh miss ivy 🥀

#art
January 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Oooooooh. Queer, sci-fi, AND sewing-themed? How can I NOT?
We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th.

Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.

<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.

www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
January 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
garden center, lowes, home depot, AND tractor supply all before noon
January 16, 2026 at 4:10 PM
This isn't what I came here for, but I'm not gonna lie, I'm tempted
January 16, 2026 at 3:10 PM
soooooooooooon
January 16, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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More couch art.
January 15, 2026 at 6:08 AM
my BOYS
January 15, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Writing erotica professionally is just wild because you get to sit down and say “I’m gonna spend a while imagining what it would be like to have sex with one of these, and then I’m gonna write it down, and at least ONE other person is gonna willingly read it”

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💬 2  🔁 390  ❤️ 883 · Photo 1: Alipes multicostis from Cameroon, Africa. (Credit: UG, modified) Photo 2: Aspects of ultimate legs in Alipes spp. (A) Posterior trunk with leaf-like ultimate legs…
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January 15, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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unbearable
January 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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The Kiss/The Thing
October 29, 2024 at 9:31 PM
praiiiiiiiise our lord and savior The Licensed Plumber, the water flows once more
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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Grim ritual. Oils, 16x20, sold
January 15, 2026 at 12:45 PM
The look my cat is giving me right now for not turning on the magic faucet water is UNBELIEVABLE
January 15, 2026 at 2:10 PM