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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥
@leftlanesmith.bsky.social
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Author of "78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World" (Sounds True, 2024)
Tarot & Politics zine editor • they/he
🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 Bi Trans GenX Anarchist in Baltimore City
www.mxlanesmith.com
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How do writers use Tarot? What relationship does Tarot have with science fiction & fantasy? Why would science-minded writers use spiritual tools? Is asking Tarot just like asking an LLM?

@brightflame.bsky.social and I will discuss our thoughts on these topics THIS SUNDAY at @sfwa.org Quasar!
Tarot Need-to-Knows for SFF Writers 11 am PST Nov 16th Free for Nebula attendees $50 for new guests events.sfwa.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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New street art just dropped in my #Baltimore neighborhood overnight by a local Gemini ♊ and I love to see it!! ⚡💙🤎

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Photo of a wall under a bridge painted with a blue fist holding a brown thunderbolt and a Gemini symbol with the words "Brown boy down for the revolution" in Baltimore City.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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The world is up for grabs

I feel glorious, glorious
Got a chance to start again
I was born for this, born for this
It's who I am, how could I forget?
I made it through the darkest part of night
And now I see the sunrise
Now I feel glorious, glorious
I feel glorious

youtu.be/7OrLroFa0AI
Bright blue morning sky with brilliant white puffy clouds on the Full Moon in Taurus after Mamdani was elected Mayor of NYC Framed print by Olly Costello of activists of various gender expressions, races, ages and abilities with sunflowers holding a "We Were Built For This" banner.
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Full Moon in Taurus in my pleasure house. Mmmmm hmmmm. Prepared to fully soak in & enjoy the satisfaction of whatever comes my way over the next 24 hours. ♉🌕
Photo of a cream colored full moon in a darkening sky in a gradient of pink to purple to blue on the horizon, with a few trees and the point of a rooftop.
November 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Good. Night.
Photo of a barn at night strung with twinkly lights and patchwork banner garlands and a Palestine flag. Photo of Lane with a shirt painted with a huge eyeball on it tied around their head holding pink tentacle horns, with twinkle lights in the background. Photo of a bonfire
November 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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No notes 🤌
Photo of a bin filled with lollipops and plastic 67s in different colors and fonts
October 31, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Scary masked trans antifa boogeyman by day, "Mr. Incredible" 😏 by night.

(Putting a jacket on over this to go out because it is COLD and WINDY 🥶)
Tired trans guy with the most low-effort costume imaginable for trick or treating with kids - just an "Incredibles" t-shirt over a long sleeve black thermal shirt and a black felt mask.
October 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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THIS plan would have worked, if I had a new pumpkin, and probably also different tools, lol.
Stencil pencil sketch of a trans anarchy symbol
October 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Just a handsome devil wishing you a deliciously mischievous Devil's Night 😈
Photo of Lane wearing a black masquerade mask, a white T-shirt, a black corduroy jacket, and a silver moon with roses on it on a silver chain.
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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I grossly underthought how this design would work 😅 And also my visual-spatial reasoning is atrocious, lol. I think I can save it with toothpicks though! 🎃
A tranarchy symbol carved out of pumpkin but not attached to the pumpkin shell
October 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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It is my very great honor and pleasure to be on the schedule for this @sfwa.org conference next month, talking about writing & Tarot along with @brightflame.bsky.social ! ✨🃏

#Tarot #TarotSky #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SpecFic #Writers
11:00 AM – 12:30PM - Seminar 2.2 Tarot Need-to-Knows for Writers (with Bonus Breakout-Room Chats and Readings!) In an age of portents, how could we resist? Join BrightFlame and Lane Smith for a rich conversation about how and why to incorporate Tarot concepts into your speculative storytelling. What does a structure, an art form, and a ritual like Tarot do for your worldbuilding? How does it empower and how can it be inflected to improve and imperil? This conversation will be followed by a breakout room activity that allows participants (limited sign-up!) to get deeper into the nuances of the form.
October 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Where was I today?
Don't worry about it.
Creepy photo of some dirty glass bottles and some kind of large rodent skull lined up on the windowsill of a place that looks like it's made of mud. Trees and blue sky out the window in the background.
October 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Good morning from the Sun, Moon and Venus in Libra 🩷⚖️🌸🏳️‍⚧️
Photo of a waning crescent Moon and Venus shining through pink clouds in a blue sky over a softly golden sunrise in Baltimore City
October 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Flaming sunrise
October 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Same sunrise but brighter, fiery orange clouds
October 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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GM!
Pink sunrise touching ripples and waves of clouds with the Moon high overhead where it's still dark blue.
October 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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I have two sides:

Saturday was the Fall Harvest & Arts Festival with my kids 🏵️

Sunday was Subscape right after stick fighting class 🤘🏻
Fall Harvest & Arts Festival flyer for October 11, 2025 Brown paper wrapped dahlias bouquet on display at the Fall Festival Subscape 2025 (all ages, free) Oct 10-12 flyer with a long list of bands playing and a scary green crab with claws that look like Venus flytraps Glorian (a person with long hair and a mustache wearing a pink tank top showing snake tattoos on the shoulder with blue jeans and converse sneakers) performing in front of a red curtain under strings of twinkly lights at Mobtown Ballroom for Subscape
October 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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I'm having a beer, listening to some bands, and going back to my car without getting into any fights (so may it be). ✨
Photo of a can of Space Jellyfish IPA on a bar with strings of lights hung in the dark background. Photo of Lane in a full length bathroom mirror wearing a black mask, black jeans and boots, and a "Protect Trans People" t-shirt.
October 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Hey #Baltimore friends, come see me down in Pigtown next Thursday for some drinks & spooky season genre fiction! I'll be reading from a very trans, very queer & fun short story I wrote this year called Punk's Undead. 🤘🏻👻🖤
Tomorrow Will Be Worse Thursday October 16 Old Major 7 pm Featured Readers: RUPERT WONDOLOWSKI JAIME FOUNTAINE KIMBERLEY LYNNE BESU TADESSE LANE SMITH
October 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Love to sit back and see what just happens to arrive on the Full Moon. This time it's this greatly anticipated Devil issue of @therebis.com (a journal of #Tarot related creative writing and art) guest-edited by @megjoneswall.bsky.social ! 😈❤️‍🔥
Photo of a high quality print magazine called The Rebis: Tarot - Creative Writing - Art, with a red cover and Baphomet inspired illustration reflecting the Devil card theme of this year's issue. The magazine is laid on a quilt with a dusty mauve background, green and blue leaves, and red and white berries.
October 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Photo of the Full Moon at 6:50 pm Eastern low in the sky framed by leafy trees in Baltimore.
October 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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October 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Thank you! This is the full front, while it was still in process (2018). I know it's kind of chaotic, but with the creepy patterns and colors I was kind of going for a disconcerting effect. 👻
October 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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A quilt and pillow I made some years ago with this year's irresistibly gay little dollar store Halloween plushies
🖤🧡🩷💚
Photo of a patchwork quilt in eerie greens, yellows, pinks, orange, grey and black with insect, spooky tree, moons and bats, and scales & teeth patterns on them, and a matching pillow with some of the same fabrics in the quilt plus a big block in the middle with potion bottles and black roses on a grey background. A plush cupcake with a spider on top, with rainbow striped legs and a rainbow web covering the cupcake frosting. A plush ghost with a pink witch hat and black spiderweb.
October 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM