No matter how many #books are already in my #TBR stacks (no such thing as "too many"), I love welcoming home new book friends.📚

—Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
—Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
—Sensor, Lovesickness, & The Liminal Zone by #JunjiIto
—How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
—Even Greater Mistakes by @charliejane
—And a beautiful stack of #FlameTreePublishing #horror anthologies for pleasure & #LiminalFlares research.

#Bookstodon #ForeverReading #AmReading #SciFi

You know how a song gets stuck in your head? I tend to have a number of things haunting my mind at once, including #poetry, often the work of #EmilyDickinson.

In a special mini episode of the #LiminalFlares #podcast, @theremina and I offer up a few shadowy wisps of my mental atmosphere: one of Dickinson's bewitching poems, amended to be #GenderInclusive, plus a New Year's announcement about our show.

Listen to the entire episode wherever you get your #podcasts.

#eldritch #StoryTime #LGBTQIA

Did you know that Bram Stoker's #Dracula (the #GothicHorror novel, not the swoonworthy 1992 Coppola film) originally began with a chapter that was cut before the book was published?

It was posthumously published as the #ShortStory #DraculasGuest, and now you can listen to part 2 of our #GenderInclusive revision of it wherever you get your #podcasts. 🦇

Wondering what the #LiminalFlares #podcast is all about? Check out our first episode, "A Prelude at the Threshold: https://mastodon.lol/@LiminalFlares/109462646482643486

"Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore..."

—Edgar Allan Poe, from #TheRaven

One of the ravens of Coyote Wall in the Columbia River Gorge for #PhotoMonday / #FotoMontag

Shot with a Pouva Start, using LomoChrome Purple XR 100-400 120.

("The Raven" was the first piece of literature that I amended to be #GenderInclusive for the #LiminalFlares podcast, which you can listen to here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-raven-by-edgar-allan-poe/id1651897918?i=1000585066387)

#PNW #Dreamscape #Corvids #BirdsOfMastodon #FilmPhotography #ToyCamera

@joel I created and launched my podcast, #LiminalFlares (in collaboration with my phenomenal audio engineer @theremina), which is all about creating spaces for #nonbinary / #genderqueer people using eldritch, public domain literature, and normalizing the use of #GenderInclusive language.

Time to lose ourselves in the wintry wilds of #GothicHorror courtesy of #BramStoker. Nothing says cozy winter listening (or cool summer listening, for our friends in the Southern Hemisphere) like #GenderInclusive #GothicFiction.

If you like your #hygge haunted, haunting, and NOT heteronormative, then you're already home.

Listen to the entire episode wherever you get your #podcasts!

More info at https://liminalflares.com/

#LiminalFlares #LGBTQIA #Nonbinary #Trans #Genderqueer #Dracula

What's better than a fervently sensuous #Victorian gothic poem with #queer subtext? One that swaps that subtext for beautifully open queerness!

For ep 7 of the #LiminalFlares #podcast I amended Christina Rossetti's #GoblinMarket to make the language #GenderInclusive, removed any ambiguity about Laura & Lizzie's relationship, and made on of them #nonbinary.

Use your headphones if you've got 'em. The audio #witchery is strong with @meryayanos⁣⁣.

#Trans #Genderqueer #LGBTQIA #Literature

Grab your headphones, gird your loins, and welcome to an unabashedly #Sapphic & #GenderInclusive rendition of Christina Rossetti's #GoblinMarket.

Ep 7 of the #LiminalFlares #Podcast is out now! It's an exquisitely decadent aural treat.

(If you aren't using headphones to listen to our show, we strongly encourage it, especially for this episode. @theremina pulled out all the stops and then found still more stops for this one.)

#Trans #Nonbinary #Genderqueer #LGBTQIA #Lesbian #Literature #Poetry

New instance intro part 1:

Our first episode is unlike any that follow: a personal introduction and an illustration of why I created #LiminalFlares in the first place. Listen to the entire episode wherever you get your podcasts (or liminalflares.com) and find out what makes us more than just another podcast of #spooky tales - to say nothing of our unearthly music and phenomenal audio engineering by @theremina. 🖤 🕯️

#GenderInclusive #Nonbinary #Trans #GenderQueer #LGBTQIA #Eldritch #StoryTime

What if there were a place where you could listen to haunting tales, bedecked in unearthly music without smacking into language that breaks the spell of the fiction by pretending people outside the gender binary don’t exist?

#LiminalFlares is a weekly #Podcast of bedtime stories from beyond & in-between. Join me, Maika, your #Queer, #Trans, #Nonbinary narrator, as I read pieces of #Eldritch literature that I've amended to be #GenderInclusive.

(Also, hullo! I just switched from @liminalflares@mstdn.social)

It's #BandcampFriday and I wrote about the very first time I listened to what remains one of the most haunting and magical albums I've ever heard, A Blessed Unrest by The Parlour Trick, aka @theremina, who is also the lead musician and audio engineer extraordinaire for the #LiminalFlares podcast: https://liminalflares.com/a-blessed-unrest-ful-bandcamp-friday/

#TheParlourTrick #ABlessedUnrest #Bandcamp #LiminalFlares #Wunderkammer #HauntedHouse #HauntedMusic

Welcome to the horrifying conclusion of #TheYellowSign, in which the #CosmicDread peaks, but that dreadful heteronormative exclusion is blissfully absent.

Listen to ep 6 of #LiminalFlares wherever you get your podcasts or at liminalflares.com. It's our best yet. I'm fairly certain ⁣@theremina is pioneering a combination of audio engineering and necromancy in this one.

#GenderInclusive #CosmicHorror #LGBTQIA #Trans #Nonbinary #Genderqueer #Eldritch #Podcast #LanguageMatters

When it comes to #CosmicHorror it often feels like characters are doomed from the start. And sometimes there are clear points of no return when characters’ fates are sealed, madness & possibly death are now inevitable. And with that, welcome to Part 3 of #TheYellowSign.

Listen to ep5 wherever you get your podcasts or at liminalflares.com

And please share us with others who might enjoy our #Haunted and #Haunting, #GenderInclusive story time.

#LiminalFlares #Podcast #Nonbinary #Trans #LGBTQIA

Are you ready for another perilous dip into the realm of early cosmic horror? Episode 4 is out today! It's all the fun of cosmic dread without the dreadful heteronormative exclusion: Part 2 of "The Yellow Sign" by Robert W. Chambers.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts or at https://liminalflares.com/

#LiminalFlares #GenderInclusive #CosmicHorror #Nonbinary #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Podcast

New on the blog at liminalflares.com, a look at where I record for our show. Conjuring Kindred Company: When Recording Space Meets Magpie Tendencies: https://liminalflares.com/conjuring-kindred-company-when-recording-space-meets-magpie-tendencies/

While I record alone, I've surrounded myself with a phantom audience via objects connected to some phenomenal humans whose kinship, support, guidance & creativity each bolster me personally and make this whole peri-apocalyptic timeline richer, kinder, and more wondrous & beautiful.

#LiminalFlares #Podcast #BehindTheScenes

Something sinister this way comes… ⁣꩜⁣
⁣Part 2 of The Yellow Sign, Thursday, November 17th on the Liminal Flares podcast
Listen wherever you get your podcasts or at https://liminalflares.com/

#LiminalFlares #Podcast #GenderInclusive #CosmicHorror #Nonbinary #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Genderqueer #Storytime

Have you found #TheYellowSign? Let's hope you don't. Time to immerse ourselves in some early #CosmicHorror courtesy of #RobertWChambers. EP 3 brings all the fun of #CosmicDread and none of the dreadful #heteronormative exclusion. Listen to the entire EP wherever you get your podcasts or https://liminalflares.com/

With that, my @Mastodon catchup is done. Part 2 of The Yellow Sign comes out this Thursday!

#LiminalFlares #GenderInclusive #Podcast #Trans #Nonbinary #Genderqueer #LGBTQIA #Storytime

#TheRaven by #EdgarAllanPoe, but make it #GenderInclusive. After reading I draw back the curtain & share precisely how I edited the poem to make the language #GenderNeutral. Listen to the entire 2nd episode wherever you get your podcasts or at https://liminalflares.com/

P.S. I can't get enough of our amazing intro & outro music by https://theparlourtrick.bandcamp.com, to say nothing of all the other audio #witchery by #MeredithYayanos.

#LiminalFlares #Podcast #Trans #Nonbinary #Genderqueer #LGBTQIA #Storytime

Our first episode is unlike any that will follow. A personal story before #eldritch story time begins: an introduction of myself, your narrator, and an illustration of why I created this haunted and haunting, #GenderInclusive #podcast in the first place. Listen to the entire episode wherever you get your podcasts or at liminalflares.com and find out what makes us more than just another podcast of #spooky tales.

#LiminalFlares #Trans #Nonbinary #Storytime #LGBTQIA #Genderqueer

This is #LiminalFlares… weekly bedtime stories from beyond and in-between. Join me, Maika, your #queer, #trans, #nonbinary narrator, as I read pieces of #eldritch literature drawn from the public domain and amended to be #GenderInclusive.