New instance, new #introduction:

My name is Maika. I'm a #writer & #photographer based in #PDX where I'm surrounded by #cats, a couple #snakes, and a few #spiders. (More than a few spiders, to be sure, but most of them are tiny housemates who usually excel playing How Not to Be Seen, which is in their best interest because cats.)

I'm #queer, #trans, #nonbinary, & #neurodivergent. I'm part of the mastodon.lol exodus, but I find it unreasonably daunting to write about myself so I've been procrastinating around this #intro for months. You'll find a more thorough #AboutMe at https://liminalflares.com/about

Workwise, I'm a social media director in the field of #grief education & grief support.

I'm also the creator & narrator of the #LiminalFlares #podcast (https://liminalflares.com/) - atmospheric #storytelling of #eldritch #literature (#ShortStories & #poetry) amended to be #GenderInclusive and bedecked in unearthly music by #TheParlourTrick (https://theparlourtrick.bandcamp.com/) & #eerie ambience by my dear sib, Meredith Yayanos.

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

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:

My name is Maika. I'm #queer, #trans, nonbinary, & #neurodivergent. I'm the creator and narrator of the #LiminalFlares podcast, which you can learn all about by listening to our 1st episode.

It's unlike any that follow: a personal intro, why we're here, and what makes us more than another #podcast of #spooky tales, to say nothing of our phenomenal music & audio engineering by @theremina.

#GenderInclusive #Genderqueer #LGBTQIA #Eldritch #StoryTime #TheParlourTrick