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Partner's parents are still refusing to grant any sort of visitation with my daughter on their property, so I may have to start hunting for legal aid.

I'm hoping I can do this at no cost, but I'd like to make sure, that if needed, I have other options.

Please help

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can't wait to hear your wizardry!

I want to write a song with dumb rules on myself.

Respond with a chord progression 3-5 chords.

First three responses I’ll use regardless of key differences.

@neastwizardtyrant.bsky.social is disqualified due to using his response last time I did something like this.

FMaj, Fmin, Cmin, GMaj, AbMaj

i started writing a story in 2021 about a near future where a trans femme pop star, astelle astelle, gets "cancelled" when it's revealed most of her discography's vocals were composed using AI since she lost her voice to COVID early in her career. maybe i'll return to it for a dose of levity

Anna Karina Floats in the Ocean — [fiction, from the archives] | robin herold Get more from robin herold on Patreon

"… the barracuda scraped past her thigh a few minutes ago. It was silver and long and thick as her leg. The bracelet of a sea monster, she thought."

read & listen to my very short story, a portrait of the spectacle & drama of adolescent girlhood.

Closing statement from Des' lawyer 🙏 #FreeThemAll #ZinesAreNotACrime

Quilting the Archive — [note/update] | robin herold Get more from robin herold on Patreon

a few reflections from me here as the seasons turn.

"court the threatening ember! call in delicate green!"

i'll be sharing more of my short fiction in the coming months. thanks for support & care in all forms—finanancial support remains a need as i search for supplementary work.

Great day to pick this up!

sunrise blushes pink in an arc above the overcast horizon, beyond a distant frozen river. bare trees, snowy expanse, & a house fill the middle ground. close up, on the brown earth at the foot of a decaying stump, lies an altar composed from split river stones, brittle deer bones, a pewter candelabra, & a dessicated rose boutonniere.

sunrise a couple days ago from this park altar i arranged last summer, which has finally emerged from the snow. i tuned it up & cast a queer love spell.

"each factory runs right up until
the weather halts it. sometimes

the people are the weather."

—robin herold

beestungmag.com/issue26/two-...

And if you hate AI, you need to hate the colonial relationship with labor and material goods. The problem with mechanical looms isn't that the cloth has no soul, it's that the result consolidates power further into the hands of capital, and that they're intending to replace capitalism with omnicide.

i gently recommended this workshop to my mom (a self-identified progressive) & she started asking me invasive questions & dismissing my carefully expressed boundaries. this is how the conversation ended. this is the shit we autistic & trans people deal with every day from supposed "allies."

There is so much wild shit out there from independent creators, from people outside the US, from your own damn friends and their friends! There's upcoming things, recent things, out of print stuff, and painstakingly recovered treasures.

You have never needed those rich cunts less than you do now.

The ACLU gets over $50,000,000 a year in funding and trans people have like a 30% unemployment rate. Your money goes a lot further when it’s handed to someone constantly on the brink of homelessness instead of given to filmmakers to shoot a documentary about losing a very important case, you know?

I see a lot of people I respect fundraising for trans orgs and I say this with full love for them and knowledge of how much work goes into organization but like. I feel like I should mention that I believe it’s time to just give trans people money so they can flee these red states trying to kill ‘em

every trans girl is fighting a secret fight that you can solve by giving her 20 thousand dollars

every day as a trans person doing creative work is forcing yourself to not focus on the nightmares and hunker down and keep doing as good a job as you can in the hope that for a brief window you can fulfill your drive and get your art into the world before the hammer falls on you too

pronouncing the word invents / even more of them—stars—

Cryptograms & fried okra. Incorrect metaphors & cocktails of saliva. Guard dogs & praise songs. Worshipping you.

beestung #26 is here!

w/ Lichen Euchella, Sam Nartus-Fois, E.K. Bartlett, Lucy Jones, Sandra Alland, Grey Traynor, & robin herold

www.beestungmag.com

a welcome note to self on this blizzardy day ❄️

click through to read my whole poem(s) & the rest of beestung's newest sticky-sweet issue 🍯

"each factory runs right up until
the weather halts it. sometimes

the people are the weather."

—robin herold

beestungmag.com/issue26/two-...

likewise! so refreshing to read a story that doesn't erase the escalating eugenicist norms since covid emerged. thank you!

Poetry | Collection from robin herold | 8 posts Get more from robin herold on Patreon

thank you! please feel welcome to read more of my poems (& other stuff) on Patreon. it's free+ 😊

would you like to share any of your offerings?

thank you for reading, fellow creature 🐠

the whole issue is fucking awesome & rageful & wondrous & reverant in the queerest sense. i'm so thrilled & honestly baffled that my poems get to live among these marvels of language

a black and white drawing of a human figure with their back to the viewer. they hold an oar in one hand and the other hand above their head, facing over the bow of their canoe, across water, toward a mountainous coastline. text scrawled across the image reads, "WAVING TO THE SHORE OF CIVILIZATION UNSURE IF THE ISLAND IS SINKING OR MY CANOE WITH THE END OF KNOWLEDGE"

& finally, here's a panel from Lichen's comic, "Lower."

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