Elliott Dunstan
fiversdream.bsky.social
Elliott Dunstan
@fiversdream.bsky.social
disabled deafblind writer, editor and reviewer, he/it, 29, transmasc genderqueer

anarcho-communist feminist, chaos gremlin. 18+ only, please.

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Day four and GULA is just shy of 25% funded! I'm nervous but so hyped to share that the Book Bazaar has funded 13/22 of our projects! Let's make GULA join the rest of them -- check out the project here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Day four and GULA is just shy of 25% funded! I'm nervous but so hyped to share that the Book Bazaar has funded 13/22 of our projects! Let's make GULA join the rest of them -- check out the project here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Devastated to wake up to the news Alice Wong has passed, she was the Oracle for our time, a fierce warrior and a representative to the disability community. Peace, light and love to this beautiful soul.
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'

'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'

www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
#SpoonieAuthChat I'm currently crowdfunding GULA - a book-length poem about capitalism, poverty, and the fall of the empire! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

Come check it out; there's still just shy of 2 hours left to get the Early Bird reward, too!
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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#SpoonieAuthChat I'm currently crowdfunding GULA - a book-length poem about capitalism, poverty, and the fall of the empire! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

Come check it out; there's still just shy of 2 hours left to get the Early Bird reward, too!
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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August 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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#SpoonieAuthChat I'm currently crowdfunding GULA - a book-length poem about capitalism, poverty, and the fall of the empire! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

Come check it out; there's still just shy of 2 hours left to get the Early Bird reward, too!
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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📢📚 LESS THAN 14 HOURS LEFT TO GRAB THIS BUNDLE! 🌈📚

32 tales of Trans People Taking on the World for only $35. It's a deal you really can't pass up and you're supporting the trans rep you want to see in your books! Wins all around! #BookSky

itch.io/b/3352/trans...
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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As a tangent, this white/not-white binary is the big problem scholars and activists have had to push past in trying to understand racialisation of and in the Balkans more deeply - which is so bound up with racialisation of Roma…
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Another Book Bazaar project is SO CLOSE to funding!!
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I've been too busy to properly promo but MonAct is 85% funded! Go check it out; pledge your allegiance to The Mall and it will grant you Plenty.

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And we're LIVE! Go get your fucked up horror gays.

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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So I did the thing before I chickened out (or came to my senses) and threw up a GFM as a stop gap measure. I hate doing it more than anyone will hate seeing another fund raiser.

gofund.me/f5615787f
Donate to Chip in to help with the cost of existence while I job hunt., organized by Tanya DePass
Like many of those in the games industry, I was laid off back… Tanya DePass needs your support for Chip in to help with the cost of existence while I job hunt.
gofund.me
November 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Speaking as someone who cares to a genuinely kind of pedantic degree about precision in language, while I do think there are certain highly specific times when it makes sense to be precise about the term “pedophile”, I also think you cannot in good faith argue that this is one of those times
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Tomorrow is the 11 year yahrzeit, death anniversary, of movement ancestor Leslie Feinberg Z”L. Leslie was a trans and working class lesbian Jew who stood in lifelong solidarity with Palestinians and viewed her/hir work for LGBT and Palestinian liberation as deeply connected.
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Day two!!! GULA is at 200/1500 - let's keep it rolling!!

Part Nine of Gula slides into a less used form of poetry - the sestina! A sestina reuses the same final words at the ends of each sentence, in six-line verses, but in different orders. I played with the format a bit here but it was still a-
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
THREE HOURS LEFT FOR SHINY THING #1
Pledge before 1 pm EST tomorrow and you get a SHINY THING (special edition e-book of Revenant's Hymn)

Pledge to 5 Book Bazaar projects and you get a DIFFERENT SHINY THING (anthology, special for Special Backers, because we Love You)

www.backerkit.com/c/collection...
The Book Bazaar 2025 on BackerKit
Streaming live every night! We'll have live programming for you every night of the Bazaar! Check out the streaming schedule for more details. [https://itch.io/b/3379/the-book-bazaar-preview-sampl...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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#WeeknightWriters FUNNY YOU ASK I am currently crowdfunding the paperback of an epic poem because I choose to pretend that time goes backwards and people still read modernist nonsense

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
yo btw you're not fucking subtle when you decide I'll be "easier to talk to" than "that person" and the "person" in question is a Black woman. Go fuck yourself
I feel like you're worried about the wrong thing if you're peeping that and not "they keep confusing Mexicans and Natives" as the issue
November 14, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. www.twitch.tv/ludwig
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM