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@hanklyspeaking.bsky.social
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Trans man doing zine stuff and also non-zine stuff.
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I'll send a copy of this little zine about my childhood armory to the first 7 people who send me a mailing address.
September 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. Text: "This is a flail." Also: "This is a BAD idea" with bad underlined. Descriptive text notes that this is a pine cone tied to a cut off broom handle with braided yarn and the art shows exactly that. This was easy to lose control of while swinging wildly and could do real damage. I probably shouldn't have made these. Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. Text: "Broken glass tapes to a stick." Also, "Not a weapon - a makeshift pocketknife until I turned 7 and got a real one." The art is of a chunk of broken glass taped to a stick with scotch tape. I made these when I was 5 or 6 and wanted to do something like sharpen sticks or cut string. I was weird but clever! Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. Warning at top: "Don't hit your sister!" Seriously, though, this could cause actual damage. The text is a small poem: "Palmetto frond/with edges trimmed/can become/the swordman's friend." The art shows a palmetto frond spine that has been trimmed to allow a handle and several spikes along one side. I still make these today, given half a chance. Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. Text: "I dug so many holes!" and "This folding shovel was the best toy I ever had." Y'all, I dug so many holes in so many places I shouldn't have been digging holes.
July 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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A new zine about the old days.
Small zine on graph paper. The title is A Well Armed Childhood with the subtitle I Read A Lot Of Fantasy. All the lettering and art is hand drawn in simple black ink. The image is of a sword with a curved guard and some etching on the blade. This was a very common plastic sword design in the 90s. Once you hit a few things with them, the would split along the seam on both sides and have to be taped back together with duct tape. Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. The art is a life size drawing of a butter spreader knife from a set of silver flatware. Text: "You can't sharpen a silver plated butter spreader on a brick." Below: "Mom hated when I took these." It's true, too. I always lost them in the yard trying to use them as boot knives. Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. Text: "Drinking straw + tape wrapped pin blow gun" and "Seldom worked but stung like hell when it did." The art is of those two exact things. I'm pretty sure I mostly just tried to get the darts to stick in my wall or some cardboard. Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. Text reads: "Daggers: a pirate requirement," "Slats from a semi-discarded shutter," and "Trimmed with a hand saw." Art shows a very blocky wooden dagger with a squared off guard, attached with three nails (one showing the bent over end, two just showing the head). My folks weren't happy that I stole all the slats from that shutter.
July 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Sometimes he and Lala match.
Alan Cumming sits gaily in a leather library chair in a field. A wooden side table next to him holds a bullhorn. Alan is wearing a blue beret, a black top, a red plaid top under that with sleeve/gloves, a red plaid kilt that exposes quite a bit of Miss Cumming's Scottish pale legs, and black boots with blue socks. His adorable dog Lala has her own basket next to him and wears a red tartan hat and jacket. A gay day in the countryside.
February 28, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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A spry gay man with adorable dimples stands gayly in a field with woods in the background. He's wearing a green beret, a tweed jacket and skirt, a flowy green scarf, and tall socks. His jacket is decorated with what I can only describe as gay broccoli.
February 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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New patch on my overalls.
A patch with a cartoonish frog reading a book. The frog is saying "READ IT" and beneath that are the words Girl Scouts. It has a yellow border. The patch is sewed to dark blue denim overalls. You can see the wearer's pale skin and red chest hair. It's very cute.
February 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Okay, but when did 90s plastic chokers become a trans girl specific accessory?
Sabrina the teenage witch wearing a see through top with a white tank top under it, long blonde hair, and a plastic choker. She's in front of a classroom chalkboard. The 90s!
February 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Beer and barley soup. Truly the most peasanty of the soups.
Soup! With beef, barley, green beans, carrots, and a spoon. And lots of garlic, but you can't see that here.
January 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Fire and ice, baby. Strange times in a strange state.
Snow lingers on the ground in small drifts around the edge of a yard and along a wooden fence. A metal fire ring in the middle of the yard holds a sprightly wood fire. The sky is blue, the trees are green. An unusual Florida winter!
January 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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My first snowball!
A cute guy in a light grey hoody and dark blue sweatpants holds up a small snowball. Behind him, a light snow covers the ground. He's very excited! It's his first snowball.
January 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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The back page of the zine. Some stamps (they didn't come out great) accent mountains in the background. A sign points the way into a cave. Two twirly trees support a small hut. A closer view of the sleeping bear. How cute are they? I love them. The paper under the fish restaurant is lifted to show an underground sea full of fish. A buggy demon guy holding a top hat and a lumpy bottle. Booze up and riot, little dude!
January 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Under Hill! Draw Your Adventurer #4.
The cover of a small zine on graph paper titled Under Hill. It's hand drawn in black ink. A ragged hill goes toward the right top corner. Halfway up, a cave goes into the hill. Several trees can be seen on the hill going up. A mountain in the background shows a forest (stamped in green ink). In the cave you can take the downward path and deal with biting plants or the upward path. There's a snail and crystals on the ceiling. A small zine on graph paper. In a cave you can see biting plants, rope platforms going up the wall like a climbing toy for cats, and a number of small birds dancing among leafy plants. On the side of a mountain are an owl creature, a water tower, and a three story shack with what appears to be a heated outhouse on top. A small zine on graph paper. Golden mountains are stamped in the background. On the mountain is a tent and campfire. In the cave are small bugs riding on rolly pollies while another bug cheers them on. Pumpkins grow along the bottom. Snailor Moon glitters on a crescent shaped rock. A small zine on graph paper. Inside a cave are a sleeping bear, tucked into a cozy, round space near the ceiling. Two doors in the wall of the cave have built in ladders leading up to the them. Near the floor, a fish restaurant on a pier has several fishing lines dangling below it, going into a hole in the paper/cave floor. A sign shows the Way Out. On the surface, a small pool of water holds several large jellyfish.
January 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Sausage soup, truly the friendliest of soups.
Soup cooking in a pot. Carrots, chard, cabbage, fennel, and sausage. Rustic!
January 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Too on the nose?
A panel from Robolink comic by Carl Pfeufer (1966). A man in a fedora and trench coat watches a series of white guys in orange jumpsuits with very 50s haircuts falling out of a metal tube into a hole in the floor. The fedora guy thinks, "Good grief! Workers used up by the dozens... exposed to nuclear rays... to be dumped away callously! Who runs this heartless kind of world today???" Who indeed, fedora guy?
January 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Cold weather is the best if you have cats and like adorable things.
A round, black and white cat and a roundish orange tabby rest on a bed with mushroom sheets and a purple bedspread. The tuxedo cat rests his paw on the sleeping ginger's back and looks at the camera. My love for these cats is endless, like time itself.
January 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Best thing about using a cpap (aside from being able to breathe at night): sleeping with your head fully under the blanket in winter.
This is what it looks like under my top blanket at night. Like a blue and white flannel cave. It's so cozy, y'all.
January 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Two cats relaxing on a purple blanket and a patchwork quilt. One is black and quite large. The other is orange tabby and still pretty large but not quite as. Both are sleeping soundly. It's cold outside but warm in bed.
January 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Best thing about the week after new year - hoppin jon leftovers.
A bowl of black eyed peas and collards with pork topped with Crystal hot sauce. Delicious!
January 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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What's the first book you're reading this year? I'm starting with Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff. (As my granny would say, "he's a peach!")
The cover of Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff. Two middle school aged kids sit on a floor in what is probably a classroom or bedroom. Behind them are posters of fruit, the Seattle Aquarium, and the non-binary pride flag. Queer kids are awesome!
January 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Tried out my new clothes yesterday. I forgot how great a baggy pair of overalls can be. At one point I was carrying a jar of jelly, three lighters, a pocket knife, a pair of work gloves, a jar of medical mj, a hunter green hanky, and possibly two or three small animals. 2025: living la vida baggy.
A short, fat redheaded man wearing baggy blue denim overalls and a purple plaid flannel shirt bends over a bonfire, probably to do something dumb like adjust a log by hand. He's very cute.
January 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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May your child soup be delicious in 2025.
A New Year's greeting postcard from 1890. A solemn woman prepares to toss a child into a cauldron labeled SOUP over an open fire. It appears that other kids have already been added. Happy New Year!
December 30, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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Every queer friend group.
An illustration from the children's book Johnny Crow's Garden (L. Leslie Brooke). A whale tells a long tail while sitting next to other animals, including a lion, a hippo, a dog, an owl, and - of course - a crow. The lion is yawning - you know how whales do go on.
December 26, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Hook looks proud. Smee looks devoted and impressed. Gay, y'all.
December 23, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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A dirty zine from the footlocker! S.T.H. (Straight To Hell) #66. Started in 1972, this one's from 2007. "True" gay sex stories sent in by readers with titles like "Whore Sez Massive Prong Is Pure Heaven" and "Bodybuilder Recruited Into Secret Sex Club." Plus dirty photos! Which I'm not posting here!
A zine titled STH (Straight to Hell): The Manhatten Review of Unnatural Acts. A fit young man in a Mickey Mouse shirt and sneakers sits on a chair with his knees spread. His crotch is covered with a circle bearing the subtitle. What a tease! The credits page of Straight To Hell #66. Billy Miller is the editor, Scott Hug is the designer. In the middle of the page is a small pic of a naked man in chains with his ass up. A badge in the upper left proclaims "Approved by the Cocksman Union." I bet their holiday banquet is amazing! The back cover of a zine. A pic of two men in jackets - one is on his knees in front of the other, the other holds the back of the kneeling man's head. Cocksuckers in their natural environment. There's also a short piece of poetry by Lord Alfred Douglas. And afterward, in radiant garments dressed, With sound of flutes and laughing of glad lips, A pomp of all the passions passed along, All the night through; till the white phantom ships Of dawn sailed in. Whereat I said this song, 'Of all sweet passions Shame is loveliest.'
December 21, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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If @dieworkwear.bsky.social could see through time.
Three panels from an old comic. A man in a fortune teller style turban tells a man in a tacky, striped green suit jacket, "I actually saw the future! I saw you! I couldn't be mistaken about that jacket you're wearing." Shady!
December 18, 2024 at 7:30 PM