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  • I got to see Beany yesterday for the first time in over a year!

    I had missed her so much. She knows my chaos too well, lol

    -Allēna

  • a post 2 days in a row? Holy fuckin shit?!

    Well it would seem that clearing out the spam comments may have helped fix whatever was breaking the site, or it cleared up on its own. I’m reminded of a meme where it’s like “can you lick the science? Programming: nothing else has made the code work, so you may as well try…”

    I am an absolute garbage programmer but I think it’s a pretty safe bet that over 2000 spam comments waiting in the queue will slow down your site’s processing time, lol. So that’s fixed, AND I have a spam blocker in place now, so hopefully that’s less of a problem going forward. Ugh. If I never have to see “503: no server is available to process your request” again, it’ll be too goddamn soon.

    Speaking of programming, and people far more skilled at it than I am, I am hoping to see my dear friend Beany this coming week, one of the smartest people and most gifted programmers I know. She also happens to be out of work and in search of a job, so if any of y’all know of an open position in programming, broadcast engineering, or audio, please let me know in the comments and I’ll pass it on to her.

    It’s been over a year since I’ve seen her and I miss her so badly…

    I don’t entirely know what I’m doing for the rest of the week. Perhaps a poetry thing tomorrow called Memory Café that happens monthly that a rad poet here puts on, and then workshop on Sunday. Saturday’s activities are TBD. Emerson also found a swimming hole that’s semi-local, so we might go to that sometime soon when it’s not pissing rain.

    Wish me luck and pray that I don’t die.

    I leave you with this photo of Véra baby that Emerson took:

    -Allēna

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  • Emerson and Ashley went to Honeybee Sage yesterday and Ashley read two poems.

    They will roll out elsewhere on social media in early June, but I am going to share them here now.

    He kicked absolute ass, and tbh I think he’s a natural performer. I think he did better than me.

    -Allēna

  • Since I am a tired dumbass and it doesn’t seem to be my day with the braincell,

    here is a second post to tell y’all that you should subscribe to Open Sorcery if you enjoy what we have to say since I didn’t add it in the last post and I STILL can’t figure out how to edit the site so that it’ll let me edit posts directly from WordPress after I’ve posted them without completely breaking everything again.

    So, if you’ve been creeping for awhile and you enjoy this website, please subscribe. Huzzah!

    We’ve also been thoroughly WebFingered, so if the Fediverse is more your speed, follow us wherever the hell makes your little heart palpitate. 💛

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    Now, I’m going to hopefully stop procrastinating and haul my extremely fatigued body into the fucking wet box now that it’s almost 2 AM. It’s shower time.

    Goodnight, all.

    -Allēna

  • I don’t know why I’m writing tonight. I don’t even feel like I have anything worthwhile to say about today.

    except for the fact that I am so goddamned tired that it feels like my organs have been scooped out and replaced with nothing but fatigue.

    Fuck everything.

    -Allēna

  • I’ve defrosted.

    It is technically spring, even though it’s supposed to be 36° tomorrow, which means it’s my time to shine. It’s been awhile.

    -Tindwyl

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  • Froedtert Hospital after dark is a weirdly liminal space and every time I go there I feel like I’ve jumped universes somehow.

    -Allēna

  • This photo from 4 years ago is fucking KILLING ME

    because WTF IS MY HEADMATE EIGHT DOING HERE

    WHAT DID HE INTEND WITH THIS IMAGE

    WHY ARE OUR EYES SO BIG

    I recognize the location as well but I have NO MEMORY OF HIM TAKING THIS PICTURE

    -Allēna

    #dissociativeidentitydisorder #plural #why

  • EGAD, THIS IS BUT A FLYER! And I’m hosting a VERY real poetry performance in my Discord server with the brilliant @mkzariel on March 31! Who wants to party?! Join here: https://discord.gg/8uzCR3hFN

    #wisconsinpoets #party #discordserver #queerart #supporthumanart #transart #transpoet #transauthor #virtualevent #transcommunity #chaos

  • GET A LOAD OF THIS EFFING FLYER!

    (In all seriousness, you should come see @mkzariel and I perform @ the Lions Tooth on April 4th. It’s gonna be Awesome)

    #milwaukee #poetryperformance #liveevent #queer #trans #wisconsinpoets #booktour #author #poetry