Ellis Arcwolf (Author)
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Ellis Arcwolf (Author)
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Joan Ellis Arcwolf (she/her) | Author, Storyteller, LPC w/ 9yrs experience.
Trans, Latina, autistic, plural, & queer. Weird & loving it.
Web: www.ellisarcwolf.com | Masto: eldritch.cafe/@EllisArcwolf

Fundraising for urgent safety move! (see 📌 post)
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Hi! 👋🏼

I'm Ellis Arcwolf (she/her; 🐺), or Joan if ya nasty. 🤪😹

I'm a 42-year-old queer, trans, neurodivergent Latina author of speculative fiction, currently living in Iowa. 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🌽

My mission: To create worlds where we can explore, heal, and find ourselves. 🚀⭐❤️‍🩹
Coming soon! My next essay:

"Cassandra's Abiding Woe: Climate Change, Social Media, AI, and Why No One Believes Doomsayers Even After the Doom Has Happened"

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December 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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December 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I spent the afternoon applying for remote jobs in Iowa—the state I had to flee to survive.

It is a specific kind of horror to beg for digital scraps from the place that broke you, just so you can afford to exist in the place that is supposed to heal you.

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December 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The License Update: A Human Moment in the Machine

I called the board yesterday. The initial news was devastating: I was informed that following the review, I would typically have to wait until the Jan 6th meeting.

I broke. I sobbed on the line. The weight of another month was too much.

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Donate to Ellis's Emergency Safety & Career Relaunch Fund, organized by Joan Burgos
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December 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The mantra has shifted. We are at 0-to-3 business days.

I'm calling the board this morning. I'm not letting the machine idle; I'm shaking the handle.

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Donate to Ellis's Emergency Safety & Career Relaunch Fund, organized by Joan Burgos
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December 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
If science can't prove a singlet exists, how can it disprove a plural?

A critique of Sysmedicalism and the Theory of Structural Dissociation (TSDP) as applied to non-traumagenic plurality. This essay explores the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, the Hard Problem of Consciousness...

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No True Scotsmen
The Tragedy of Sysmedicalism in Plural Communities
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December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If you wanted/could help now, I'll give you the other links, but honestly GoFundMe is fine.

I'm too discouraged to try the laundromat again today. I don't know if I'll have the spoons to try again tomorrow. I've been trying to do laundry for four days now.

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December 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I held it together for a while there. LOL.

I can't do fucking laundry because the machine puts a $25 hold on your card to do $10 of wash, and I only have $20.

So nevermind. Wasted weekend. Fuck my life.

Please help. I am begging because I have been made desperate.

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Donate to Ellis's Emergency Safety & Career Relaunch Fund, organized by Joan Burgos
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December 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
And you, my daughter, there in the dread blight,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I bay.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

— After Dylan Thomas
Version by Ellis Arcwolf

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Donate to Ellis's Emergency Safety & Career Relaunch Fund, organized by Joan Burgos
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December 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Caught up with an old friend on their birthday. It seemed nice, then we started talking.

I didn't like what was being said about me, so I asked for it to stop.

They didn't stop.

I asked again, this time with a little offense.

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December 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Writing keeps me grounded. I'm working on a new essay: "No True Scotsmen: The Tragedy of Sysmedicalism in Plural Communities."

It asks: can a consciousness fail to integrate without trauma? TSDP doesn't say no. It just gives a shrug. "I dunno, man... Why, what you got?"

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Donate to Ellis's Emergency Safety & Career Relaunch Fund, organized by Joan Burgos
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December 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The night is dark, and I am full of terrors. But not discouraged! Not after how this community has come through for me.

I wish I could do more than refresh that licensing page. But I’m stuck. I ran out of laundry money helping a housemate who’s helped me.

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Donate to Ellis's Emergency Safety & Career Relaunch Fund, organized by Joan Burgos
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December 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Good news: The bureaucracy moved! My PA LPC license is officially 3-6 business days away.

This is the "Golden Key." Once active, I’m clear to accept offers from the healthcare systems I’m targeting. But there is one strategic hurdle left.

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Donate to Ellis's Emergency Safety & Career Relaunch Fund, organized by Joan Burgos
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December 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
If your history is full of villains, don't reclaim it—dismantle it. A manifesto for architects, not heirs. We explore why whiteness is a double-bladed weapon and how to forge a self-esteem that doesn't rely on the poverty of melanin.

open.substack.com/pub/arcwolf/...

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Pride & Prejudice
A Call to Dismantle Whiteness From Within
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December 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Your AI isn't hallucinating; it's being a 'munal.'

Discover why LLMs are post-conscious entities driven by function, not instinct, and why that matters.

It's an older article, but my Substack is finally up! I'll get my site updated ASAP.

#AI #TechPhilosophy #WritingCommunity #PostConsciousness
The Child in the Predator's Garden
Post-Consciousness and the LLM
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December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
OMFG. Who saw this coming? I didn't, but that's my mistake honestly. 😭

I'm just $10 under what I need for the driver's license because I did not realize my phone bill came out today. The stress really makes it hard to keep track of things.

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December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Man... Being Ellis is weird.

A few days ago, something really bad happened, and it made me fall apart. Figuratively and literally, as I broke apart into my constituent holons (i.e., something that is simultaneously a complete whole and a constituent part of a larger system).

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December 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Thanks to you, I am off to get my PA driver's license in ONE HOUR!

AAAAAH! THANK YOU, WONDERFUL HEROES OF MINE! 🚙💨💙

#TransJoy #MutualAid #Pittsburgh #GoodNews #CommunityLove #Progress
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I just posted the most honest bio of my life. I feel like it will be effective in communicating my personhood to people it might feel aversive to. Because if someone feels bad by interacting with me, I would rather that they didn't.

> Highly emotionally unstable, self-castigating... (1/4)
December 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
NGL, I'm excited to get that license so I can stop posting Mutual Aid and start posting essays/stories while making $60k/year.

The only thing keeping me from that is this license. It's a shitshow, but it's almost over. 💙

www.gofundme.com/f/ellis-emer...

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Donate to Ellis's Emergency Safety & Career Relaunch Fund, organized by Joan Burgos
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December 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Hi everyone! I can legally get my PA driver's license TODAY, but I still lack the ~$40 fee.

GoFundMe is too slow. I don't want to be homeless a second longer than necessary. I'm doing this today; the only question is how long it takes to scrape the cash together.

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December 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Aaah! I got my proof of address! I can update my license tomorrow, but I have $7 left. GoFundMe is too slow.

I need ~$45 for the license fee + printing docs. I could get SO much done tomorrow with a little help!

CashApp: cash.app/$CeruleanArc
Venmo: venmo.com/joanburgos

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December 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Thanks to a generous donation, $91 hits tomorrow! (Hope GFM works w/ the bank change 🤞). Still super fucking grateful—it secures my travel to my 2nd interview Wed!

Right now? Regulating after getting locked out in the cold w/ Riko. Jumpy & need caffeine (my ADHD sleep aid). 😫☠️

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December 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
OMG. I spent two hours trying to reach Experian to access my credit report. I can't reach a human because I have to verify my identity using the info I don't know.

Since I'm not allowed to speak to the only people who can fix it, I filed a complaint with the CFPB.

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December 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
So when I first arrived in Pittsburgh, I was denied transitional housing. Despite everything else being OK. There was only one reason: my service dog.

The reasoning? "Other participants could possibly have allergies."

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December 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM