https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-drawn-world

A twenty-one-year-old kid from rural nowhere teaching a mountain of a man from deep Georgia how to read Japanese comics in a queer bar basement. That's the whole story. That's the whole revolution. Scissors and tape on a bedroom wall, updated for a generation that draws its own mirrors. #QueerFiction #LGBTQ #MangaCulture #ChosenFamily #QueerArt #TransLiterature

This is why it is important to build a chosen family, connections you can turn to when you feel like things are a bit too rough or the days are a bit too taxing.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/my-digital-chosen-family-being-a-queer-pen-pal-afa0bd3b0313?sk=424a59bba02b765b6312602ede91ee6d

#LGBTQ #Family #ChosenFamily #Friends #Queer

By Christmas Eve ’94, I’d already learned that there are several ways to be homeless without sleeping on a sidewalk. Couch-hopping, car-sleeping, staying too long at your boyfriend’s, getting fired for looking like the wrong kind of tired. I’d done them all.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/how-a-southern-queer-family-rescued-me-on-christmas-eve-7e54e27bd866?sk=eb1ba0dd8f963d001f22acca1cf83df1

#LGBTQ #Memoir #Gay #1990s #ChosenFamily

Planting Life in a Dying City

Left alone after a tsunami destroyed eir village, Lefeng would have walked into the mountains and not looked back. A child lost on the trails redirected eir course and another survivor planted the seed of an idea – a new family. Lefeng's commitment to those ey comes to love will take em to the hated city and a new way of life. But in a slowly dying city, Lefeng's determination can only carry eir family so far.

Now on Itchio:
https://jess-mahler.itch.io/planting-life-in-a-dying-city

#Queer #Books #ChosenFamily #Fantasy

May I present my humble offering to anyone seeking a cozy sci-fi read?
Weaving In The Ends, a novella duology that starts with a summer fling & ends in a comedic Winter Solstice brawl.

It's a feel-good chosen family story that can be read as a standalone, or as an easy springboard into the world of 2 connected novels.
Print, ebook, & audio

https://books2read.com/WeavingInTheEnds

#Writing #Reading #Books #ScienceFiction #Romance #ChosenFamily #KnittingFiction