This weekend's creative project is to adjust this map of the city of Volgstadt so it's more print ready.

Volgstadt is the largest city in Old Volgvarra, situated on the rivers Edda and the Volge; the people who founded the city came from our world, originally, and settling here only when they realized there was no way home. The river Volga is so named because they did not realize for many years that it was not the famed river they were looking for.

Politics in Volgstadt are dominated by powerful labor unions, collectively known as bluecoats, a paramilitary style city watch (greycoats), fading aristocratic families who worship the stars (asterites), and bourgeois merchant guilds who control trade throughout the region with an iron grip.

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Hey so as I’m moving back here there’s two Mastodon communities I’ve not been able to find too many of, so asking for help finding my people:

Magic the gathering players and queer authors, where are you all?

(Also just always looking for more general flavors of freaks)

For visibility:

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This one was meant to be a comic or something similarly more drama focused. I don't know if I'll ever continue it :P
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WbVmv_KOsRKIyGSVJ_DjHSaDr0VJhWV-IFm02g8e1x8/edit?tab=t.0

The setting known as HDG (Human Domestication Guide) managed to irritate me enough that I got inspired to write a short story:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nE9YGbyxx4i0H6EkuuzUza8k8qFj0re39b6x6B9_0FY/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.xt8ngbo01lu0

-- Seeding the Interregnum --
Mutual Aid as Collapse Infrastructure

**This isn’t about saving the world. It’s too late for that. It’s about making sure something usable survives the burn around you and your community.**

Collapse doesn’t announce itself with fireworks. It shows up as peeling paint, missed deliveries, and a flickering municipal website. The termites eat the floorboards while everyone debates curtain colors. Most people won’t notice until the ceiling drips, the lights stutter, and the pharmacy shelves stay empty too long. Then one morning, the floor gives out.

Mutual aid networks, structured horizontally and rooted locally, aren’t just acts of compassion. They function as infrastructure for continuity through collapse. While governments fail, markets fragment, and institutions hollow out, these networks maintain the basic patterns of care and connection that humans require for survival.

We’re building what comes next, not stockpiling against the apocalypse.

...

Read More:
https://pixelnull.substack.com/p/seeding-the-interregnum

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Since I’m getting back into #AuthorLife after being incógnitas for about 6 years. Goodness, but I’m coming back to it, and one of the first things I’m going to accomplish is releasing the paperback version of Murderous Profession, which was released in August 2019. Better late than never. I got proofs from the printer, and other than a couple of tweaks, it will be good to go and available for purchase on my website. It’ll have a matte cover bc I like the feel and look of it.

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I recently made a storybook all on my own (besides my cousin designing the cover art and my partner @magicalgrrrl helping to put all the pages together into an ebook).

https://ko-fi.com/s/a100cf0ae0

“Lost Kitten Finds a Way” is an illustrated book, about my experiences with homelessness and DV trauma, from the perspective of a cat (so it’s more palatable to a wider audience). It’s currently only available in ebook, on my Ko-Fi and Patreon. Hopefully sooner than later I’ll be in a position to order physical copies to send out.

For now, though, I’m just trying to meet my family’s basic needs (shelter, food, and meds) so I’d appreciate if anyone decides to get the book or simply buy me a coffee (on Ko-Fi). My partner talks more about our current situation on her page, too 🖤

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🌙 Hello darlings!
I’m Trixie Adara (she/her), a queer erotica & fantasy author building the Spells & Sundry series—where magic, devotion, kink, and trans becoming entwine.

Book 1, Quests & Queries, features monster girls, mind control, found family, sapphic tension, and a shadow-wrapped domme who just might be a god. 💦✨

🔮 Patreon: www.patreon.com/trixieadara

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