👀😈 we'll see if the novel goes anywhere!! :) <3

Oh oh oh! And, if you love fashion, I have another rec for you: Articles of Interest (a podcast & newsletter)

99percentinvisible.org/aoi/

Avery discusses fashion history & style, and never shies away from how capital-E "Empire" has shaped the garments & clothing industries we participate in.

and even if it's not your jam: fund good art. read good stories. scream about the shit you love, and make sure others know it exists. we're going to need to need those beautiful works to hold & re-energize us, for the work ahead.

I may be one of the contributing authors, but I can't wait to read the other stories in this antho. I need them. (& I suspect a lot of us do.)

@davering.bsky.social has a gift for editing stories and bringing collaborations to life.

so, consider backing it. consider exploring what i *know* will be dramatic and unapologetic and utterly dazzling fiction --taking place AMONG THE FRICKIN' STARS, NO LESS.

but then projects like WHAT ELEGANT STARS come along, and i think--hot damn. *this* is why speculative fiction exists. (kinda. it exists for lots of other reasons, including that it's fun going "what if xyz" happened. but, you know what i mean.)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

those fashions; the styles embodied; the persons strutting said-carpets?

often, they're the very things most of us aren't: reed thin. wealthy. white, and/or cis, and almost always able-bodied, and/or adjacent to whiteness in ways that reify the fascist, capitalist, technocratic hellscape we're in.