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

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

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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-
Background is a red cityscape in a pencil filter. Text reads: GULA: PART NINE ROMA INVICTA forgive, forgive, forgive these fragile parts Forgive, forgive, forgive what I've become The fault/the taint/the contaminant/the lapse Of consciousness and conscience in collapse CAMPAIGN STARTS NOV-12-25
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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IT'S TODAY IT'S TODAY

The Book Bazaar launches at 10 am PST/1 am EST! Come hang out with us at twitch.tv/TheBookBazaar an hour before launch to hang out, chat, and count down :D

If you're dropping in at the last minute, the Book Bazaar is a group of indie authors all crowdfunding our books-
A rainy window with indistinct images behind it. Text reads: GULA: PART EIGHT LIFEBLOOD the church bells are broken from ringing their warnings; I open the newspaper, more urgent headlines, more whipped-up frenzies and furor and fear-- I heard my histories but now I am here... Campaign starts Nov-12-25
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Three days!!!! As a reminder, if you back GULA within the first 48 hours, you get a shiny special edition of Revenant's Hymn for FREEEEE

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
Picture of a stony outcrop. Text reads: GULA: PART SEVEN Holokautein om tryambakam [transcribed without diacritics] shema shema shema In the garden of Gethsemane/ in the desert of Eden yajamahe sugandhim [transcribed without diacritics] so mote it be can the poor uplift the poor can the meek inherit a wasteland Campaign Starts Nov-12-25
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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One week until the Book Bazaar launches!!! Come support the GULA campaign -- an epic poem about poverty, capitalism and the fall of the empire. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
Black solid background with white vultures in top right and bottom left corner, and Art Deco designs in top left and bottom right. Text reads: GULA: Part Six URUBU who has killed the fallen men? -- who knows? Who knows? Who will mourn them? Who will grieve them? The ravens and the crows. Campaign Starts Nov-12-25
November 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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It's getting close to November! If you haven't yet, come check out the campaign page for my epic-length poem GULA. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e... Campaign starts Nov 12th and 20% of every tier goes to UNRWA!
A boldly colored, slightly distorted broken statue head with finger to his lips. Text reads GULA: PART FIVE. CARTHAGO DELENDA EST. "Against the walls of the desert/house of Tanit and Baal Haamon/against the blood of the enemy/sown like dragon's teeth/against the wailing of the dead/that bid them to forgive." At the bottom text reads "Campaign starts Nov-12-25".
October 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Hello new people! There are....quite a lot of you! Time to tell you about my upcoming crowdfund!

GULA is an epic-length modernist/post-modernist poem about a place called Carrion City -- the shadowed wreckage of the perfect illusion. I'm crowdfunding this as part of the Book Bazaar-
A brightly-colored red, white, and gray cubist painting of a woman's face. Over top it says in light gray "GULA: Part Three" followed by black text 'GESTALT'. White text on a red background continues "what do you do with the skin left over after sloughing off the face that never fit? what do you do with the mask that's broken after you have no more need for it?" At the bottom in white text, "Campaign starts Nov-12-25".
October 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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getting ever closer to the start of this campaign! GULA starts crowdfunding on Nov 12th -- check it out over here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

It's part of the Book Bazaar project, which means if you back FIVE projects, you get a shiny special reward!
A misty background with white, black-bordered text that says "GULA: PART TWO". Red-bordered white text says "Pythia". Text continues in black, "Words are words are words are sounds/are cycles thrumming in the ground/are ink and blood spilled vellum-thick/are sung and spoken, long passed down,/epithets and kenning-lines/warped around a truth's design/holding time within a glass--/a question, if the reader asks...". At the bottom in red text: "Campaign starts Nov-12-25".
October 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Hey all! We're a week into October which means we're just over a month away from the start of the crowdfunding campaign for GULA! Stay in the loop and find out more here:

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

#poetry #indie #crowdfunding #anarchist
A dark, blurred city silhouette with the text "GULA: Part One" in white, followed by "Memento Mori" in red, and the poetry: "in Carrion City, the streets are paved/with Styrofoam and butcher's blood,/with packing tape and roofing nails/along the housing rows./In this city, streetlights cast/alabaster halos down/from fluorescent xenon discards/onto heaps of trash below--" At the bottom, in white: "Campaign starts Nov-12-25."
October 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Next up is the Northern Spotted Owl. This lovely creature is one of Canada's most endangered species, with only a small portion of habitat left in British Columbia. B.C. is currently aggressively trying to reintroduce the Northern Spotted, in part by eliminating the invasive species pushing it out-
A Northern Spotted Owl. It has dark eyes, large claws, and plumage that looks like a variegated log. I'm probably biased but I think he's gorgeous.
August 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Burrowing owls (Athene cunicularia) are another species at great risk in Canada. One of the smallest species of owls, they're primarily terrestrial, live in repurposed burrows of other species, and are active both by day and night. Active in prairie, savannah and grassland, burrowing owls-
A burrowing owl -- a small, speckled-white-and-brown owl with long legs and yellow eyes.
August 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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-let me know! First up: the barn owl.

Wait, what?

That's right! Barn owls (Tyto alba), some of the most culturally recognizable owls, are actually endangered in Canada as well as 10 north and north-eastern states, and a species of special concern in others. This means that the species is at risk-
A barn owl -- heart-shaped face, black, round eyes and a curved beak -- with a tilted head and staring at the viewer. They're really cute.
August 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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***truly cannot overstate how much i should never ever be the blackest person in the room***

like the amount i pass as white, specifically, depends on the day but that is a features thing.
a trans guy with a black cap, gold-rimmed glasses, leather vest, leather cuff and kind of olive-tan-ish skin leaning in a chair. kind of bad lighting, sorry.
August 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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"what do you do in your spare time"

Oh

Uh
Drag performer in skull makeup, a sequined black scarf, sequined bodysuit, leather leggings, leather harness and skeleton gloves looking like they just crawled out of RuPaul: Hellraiser
July 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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"You looked at this character and decided to sexualize them!"

Adults Sometimes Have Sex.
This Character Became An Adult.
Teens Sometimes Have Sex.
This Character Is A Teenager.
I Have An Imagination, For I Am A Creative Engaging With This Work
Sometimes I Also Think About Sex
July 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Gif of Eric Andre saying "Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?" Eric Andre is a light skinned Black man in a light grey suit, sitting in a chair in front of a microphone.
July 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Cause I haven't been faggy enough on here lately.
A drag performer with a black wide-brimmed hat, long black hair, a beard, blue-black lipstick and a MASSIVE bow instead of a shirt over their breasts. They have gunmetal shorts on over fishnets, and a gunmetal and black cape/train held on with a belt with a bow on it. They're also wearing elbow-high black gloves and silver hoops. The background is...messy, because I'm poor and it's a small apartment.
May 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Being raised/in school with Wab Kinee as kind of an "Indigenous/Social Studies Bill Nye" figure means that every time someone brings him up this is my mental picture:
Wab Kinew, premier of Manitoba, a good 10-20 years ago. He's an Anishinaabe man with short cropped hair and shaved sides, and a black jacket. Very handsome.
April 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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gonna take this opportunity to shout out Within Temptation who does that very rare thing of "stays the fuck out of it if they're not sure" and "is incredibly based about things they are certain about". they're currently on a 30 year streak of this
Sharon den Adel of symphonic metal band Within Temptation holding a pride flag on stage. Because she's based. (She's an adult white woman with brown/black hair and a dark-colored dress.)
March 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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The editor has been digging herself into a deeper and deeper racist hole so I'm gonna name and shame: this is Graveside Press + she's now trying to claim that Indigenous beliefs are... Folklore instead of mythology, I think? This is all happening on Threads.

TW for anti-Indigenous racism like WHOA
Threads screenshot. Elliott_dunstan (me): W**digos are not cryptids. They are Indigenous folklore and you shouldn't be accepting anything about them. Kelleywrites: This pushes out Indigenous authors. If they choose to submit something based around this, they're welcome to. Rest assured that nothing utilizing the pop-culture Westernization of Wendigo/Windigo lore will be accepted and any potential acceptances will undergo sensitivity reads. elliott_dunstan: it says on the site how cryptids aren't the same thing as mythology. Why are Indigenous beliefs 'cryptids' but, say, Ancient Greek ones aren't? If you actually mean it about sensitivity readers, sure, but you could stand to familiarize yourself on the concept as well. kelleywrites: We've hired sensitivity readers on stories in other anthologies, so yes, we mean it when we say it. Worth noting: mythology has a religious identity, typically existential concepts & creation stories. Folklore focuses on tales passed through generations regarding people, animals, cryptids (which are defined as creatures that have been sighted but have no scientific evidence of their existence). It's more of a social phenomena (1/2) kelleywrites: Mythology CAN be passed down like folklore, especially in groups that relied on oral tradition rather than written, but the core of it isn't the same. Sometimes the line is blurry, but as an anthropologist, there is a difference between the two.
February 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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I live in the part labeled Nepean. Which, technically, "isn't suburbia".

It still takes me an hour to get downtown by bus.
A map of Ottawa-Carleton, which unfortunately defies description; bordered by Lanark County and ending at the Ottawa River.
February 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Almost definitely troll account, if not then certainly bad faith and ableist. Sorry about lack of alt text, not in a good mood -- if someone else can provide I'd be very grateful. account name is monithetart
February 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Small good thing:

I've wanted snakebites since I was 14 years old. Finally got them!
Trans man with blue glasses, black paisley bandana and grey shirt with floral design. He has brown hair in a ponytail, and BRAND NEW snake bite lip piercing studs on his bottom lip.
February 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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In times of great terror, sometimes you need a laugh. Have I mentioned I do drag

Rest in piss Anita Bryant
A drag queen in a curly brown "grandma" wig, floral scarf and purple shoulder-padded jacket squinting at the camera. Text next to her reads "I know what you are". She is dressed up like Anita Bryant. Drag queen from previous picture, this time with ugly polka dot ruffled skirt visible, as she pours cups of orange juice next to the stage. Anita Bryant drag queen with a face full of whipped cream pie, arms outstretched and cream dripping down her shoulders. A drag king is standing next to her with the plate, looking slightly concerned.
January 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Heads up about another bad faith Bsky list. I'm on this list and after some investigation into the person running it, it appears it's over my criticism of N. B*rlatsky. As a result I don't think anything on this list can be trusted, given that my criticisms of B*rlatsky are EXCLUSIVELY based-
Screenshot of a Bluesky blocklist. Title is "Pedojacketers", description says "Those who abuse others with false pedophilia slurs". Underneath the title it says "Moderation list by @jere.my".
January 25, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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bdapublishing.com/product/your...

Today is horrible for so many reasons, but BDA Publishing is raising funds for four separate charities with this anthology of feminine body horror! My story 'Ferlac ynd Fyre' is among excellent company. Last day to preorder is today!
A woman from a Renaissance/Baroque painting, but the painting is covered in red tally marks. Text reads "Featured Author: Your Body My Rage. A Charity Feminine Rage Horror Anthology from BDA Publishing"
January 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM