raspberryrain

"If we can't have chocolate without slavery, we shouldn't have chocolate."

"It's disgraceful that these candy companies stopped using real chocolate."

(Come to think of it, if real chocolate requires slavery, is that why Target and Baskin Robbins are now selling "Dubai chocolate"?)

lb_lee

Hey everybody, it's that time again: time to vote for which stuff gets the LiberaPay/Patreon money this month!

As always, anyone can vote (please do!), but LiberaPay and Patreon patrons get double weight for their votes. (Due to Patreon's porn purges, I really encourage you to use LiberaPay, if you get a choice.) If you want to see the blurbs for any of these works, those are here! (You can also leave your requests there; requesting a story or essay is always free!) If you don't have a DW and so can't do the poll, that's okay; just leave your vote in the comments below; anon comments are turned on.

Which works gets the money, and thus posted this month? YOU CHOOSE, readers!

Poll #34457 2026 April Fan Poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22

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Did you toss LiberaPay/Patreon money my way last month?

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Yes (my votes count double)
5 (100.0%)

What writing gets posted this month?

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Infinity Smashed: Born Lucky
5 (25.0%)

Reverend Alpert: the Traveling Exorcist
4 (20.0%)

Henchwench for Hire (F/F supervillainy)
8 (40.0%)

Rutless (trans omegaverse porno)
4 (20.0%)

Kayfabe in the Coliseum (psuedo-Greco-Roman gladiator fights)
1 (5.0%)

Porn Comics: How To Eat Pussy In Three pages or Fewer (essay)
14 (70.0%)

What art/comic/zine gets posted this month?

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Cult Comix (doodle strips of Cultiples BS)
6 (28.6%)

Death Watch (bony lady comic)
9 (42.9%)

Protection (one-page dark side of protector duty)
2 (9.5%)

Thrown Away
2 (9.5%)

Gazongas! (silly Mori/Rawlin stuff)
8 (38.1%)

Possessions (text-only poetry zine of haunting incompetently)
5 (23.8%)

Dr. Frankenstein vs. the Queerborgs (book spine poetry)
5 (23.8%)

Current Mood: working

lb_lee

Mori: Okay, I kicked Rogan's dilapidated ass off the front and unlocked a lot of our old-as-dirt DeviantArt archive, which was started back in 2003. (We started this project weeks ago, all because we wanted to unearth the twenty-two-year-old fanart we did of Sam Kieth's Zero Girl in honor of Kieth's passing. Rest in peace, old man!)
( Said fanart behind the cut! Seriously, if you want to give someone credit for giving us the idea of making comics, credit Sam Kieth. )
I also took the opportunity to hork up a huge chunk of old-as-dirt Infinity Smashed art and upload it to archive.org. It's about 160 pieces from 1999-2011, everything from little sketches and doodles to full illustrations, all in chronological order. (I guess if folks want newer stuff all in another big dump, I could do that?) It includes the first art we ever did of me, Biff, Grey, Mac, Bob, and the only art we ever drew of Rawlin pre-2019.

Because we used to draw on enormous sheets of paper, image quality varies a LOT. (If you're dying for a better copy of some of these, feel free to ask, but...) Most of these characters, settings, and plotlines no longer exist and haven't in... shit, twenty-plus years. A lot of it has aged exactly how you'd expect.

I dunno who'd want access to our old juvenilia, but if you want it, there it is. If you want all our archive.org works, here's the list.

EDIT: sure, why not, gonna just upload some of the old doodles here.

( The newest of these sketches is sixteen years old )

Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/27566.html

feotakahari

Look, I know she took way more shit than she deserved, and I know most of it was transphobia. But I still reserve the right to be annoyed by a self-proclaimed “forcefem” blogger who doesn’t like forcefem.

grammarwoman

In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, I have fallen deep into "Heated Rivalry". It's so refreshing to be only a few months late to a TV show fandom's debut! I absolutely love every part of it, from the steamy love scenes, to the tropealicious romance arc, to the gorgeous and talented leads, to the unhinged interviews with the cast (Hudson Williams, you horny chaos gremlin, never change), to the showrunner Jacob Tierney and his uncompromising vision of a gay love story with passionate love scenes that doesn't end in punishing tragedy, as well as his media savvy and whip-smart presence. The only thing that could have made me love it even more is if they had hired some of the old gang from the Seacouver Acting Mafia. David Hewlett as a crotchety coach? Tahmoh Penikett as a hockey enforcer? Throw us a bone here, Jacob!

I love everybody in this bar and have a ridiculous number of tabs open and a huge swath of fic marked for later on A03.

In no particular order, here are some of my favorites:

Gay Hockey Show
An absolute gem of a filk + vid (do I need to call them edits now? Fuck I'm old). This had me literally clapping and kicking my feet. I may have hit octaves only my dog heard with my squees of joy.

Shane & Ilya - We Found Love [Heated Rivalry]
Do you ever get lost in new relationship energy and every song on your playlist could be the soundtrack for a vid? And then sometimes you get lucky enough that someone has already had your brilliant idea and done a fantastic job so you don't have to? Yeah, that's this one with Rihanna's "We Found Love". I swear I watched it on repeat for a week to get my micro dopamine hits for this show. I really want to learn how to incorporate dialogue and audio from the source with the vid song to be able to make something like this.

clear to a hedgehog by magneticwave
An AU where Boston Raider Ilya Rozanov wonders if his casual fling Doctor Shane Hollander thinks he's actually in the Russian mafia. If I could send the author flowers and accolades and beg for more of this, I would. Delicious prose, fantastic character voices, super hot.

the secret society of stick handlers by gurlsrool
A screamingly funny epistolary series which had me shrieking so loud my husband was laughing at me.

So yeah, that's where my brain is at. What are you up to?

Current Mood: cheerful

feotakahari

I’m reading a fanfic where a half-fae dates a human and struggles to temper his fae impulses. I feel like the kink potential is enormous. If she accepts his instinct towards dominance and encourages him to vent it in a healthy way, they could do things like consensual mind control, or minor curses as a way of enforcing kinky “discipline.” (Sadly, the fic itself is solidly T-rated.)

feotakahari

“It gets really interesting when proofreading a story like With This Ring. The protagonist is British, and insists on using British English, and the narration is written in the first person, so that's all British. But he's living in the USA, so when he talks with someone, there's a good chance that they'll use American English, and the author has chosen to preserve that (even though yes, they sound the same). But he also has a power ring with a universal translator, so when he's talking with someone who doesn't speak English, their words will use his native British English, but if they do natively speak English, even American English, the ring won't translate that, so you still get American spellings. But some characters are capable of speaking English but it's not their first language, eg Wonder Woman's native language is Greek but she has learned American English, so you have to guess based on context (eg: Who else is present and listening? Other Justice League Members? Amazons?) whether it's being translated from Greek, and would thus get British spelling, or not.”

Now I know how other people feel when I keep messing around with pronouns.

feotakahari

I’m playing Beyond Galaxyland, and I feel like it illustrates the boundaries of “all art is political.” Sure, this dev’s probably a RETVRN trad, and a certain tolerance for trad characters is required to put up with the game’s extended cast. But I don’t feel like the game itself is a propaganda piece so far. It’s just supposed to be an interesting story, and it allows sympathy for characters who aren’t trads.

feotakahari

The most powerful person I’ve ever encountered was on a Let’s Play forum. He did blind LPs of ‘90s JRPGs.

lb_lee

Psychodrama and Realitymashing (by Rogan)
Series: Essay
Summary: my favorite genre that doesn't exist.
Word Count: 3114
Notes: Winner of the March 2026 fan poll! This essay builds on my previous realitymashing essay, “All Narrators are Unreliable,” and you’d be best-served reading that first. This essay is dedicated to Sam Kieth, the original champion of comics realitymashing, who died March 15th. Sam Kieth’s work on Zero Girl and the Maxx are what originally inspired us to make comics, and our work as you know it wouldn’t exist if not for him. Rest well, titan.

What is psychodrama?

One of my favorite genres, though it doesn’t formally exist as far as I know, I call psychodrama: a person working through their own (or someone else’s) mind, memory, or imagination, made into “real” places or people. (“Real,” for the purposes of this essay, means, “must be dealt with and taken seriously.”) ( Read more... )

Current Mood: I DID IT
Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/26966.html

lb_lee

Two bits of news!

First of all, we will be presenting a shortened form of our many-selved history lecture (along with, by request, a brief talk about how we came to do what we do and what it entails) at a little trauma and dissociation conference, from 3-7 pm on Friday, April 3, at Franklin Patterson Hall at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.

The second thing is, the essay I owe y’all will likely be late. Sorry guys. Ny died, Meagan got convicted of first-degree bullshit, this month has been challenging.

Current Mood: tired
Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/26860.html

lb_lee

minoanmiss, AKA Ny, AKA my friend who died earlier this month, is having a fanfic commentathon thrown in her honor for June. If you want to participate or know details, please check out https://www.tumblr.com/rubybweek

Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/26327.html

feotakahari

People always say that AIs don’t understand what they’re doing. That means AI-generated code follows the principle of software enlightenment:

Glue together things you don’t understand.

Glue together things you don’t understand.

feotakahari

Superhero with one of those trick guns that loads different kinds of bullets. They’re a little slow to enter a fight, because they always keep the gun unloaded until they know what they want to fire. They don’t want to, say, accidentally use a net bullet on a winged villain high above the ground.

feotakahari

Soulmate AU thoughts: a criminal defense in our world is “I had no idea my spouse was involved in this crime.” In a Soulmate AU, is it considered implausible that you’d commit a major crime and then hide it from your soulmate?

lb_lee

Rogan:

hungryghosts nerd-sniped me with, of course, multi etymology! Specifically, an anthology that looked like it might contradict my previous posts on the history of the use of "system" in plural space!, Richard P. Kluft was the editor; it's Childhood Antecedents of Multiple Personality from 1985!

( Interestingly enough, Kluft himself never uses the term in the book! He might've picked it up from other writers in this book, maybe? Would have to read more of his work to be sure, which... I am in no hurry to do. )

Current Mood: geeky
Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/25749.html

feotakahari

In January, I forgot to open a letter from my insurance provider. It said they were raising the price of my insurance. I paid the old amount, so the next letter said I was cut off.

I spent a month calling my insurance and trying to get back on. They said they couldn’t get me back on unless my former employer agreed (I’m unemployed), and said former employer never returned their calls.

Way too close to the due date for my bi-monthly immunosuppressant, I gave up and tried to get on Medi-Cal instead. I seriously considered just paying out of pocket, but my old immunosuppressant cost $20K a dose, and the person I talked to at the clinic said the new immunosuppressant would cost “about the same.”

Actually, the new immunosuppressant costs less than $1K a dose. I have savings. I could have paid that. But today I got Medi-Cal, six days past the immunosuppressant due date and about thirteen days past when I started feeling like shit, and then I found out the clinic stopped accepting Medi-Cal. Also, they won’t let a patient pay out of pocket if they have insurance, even insurance they don’t take.

I hung up and tried swearing at the top of my lungs. I don’t feel any better.

Next up: I try to get a referral from my doctor for another infusion clinic that takes Medi-Cal.

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