Virtual Festival

My book *The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard?* is up for preorder as of today! Here’s a blog post about the book, how to preorder it if you feel inclined, and why I chose not to self-publish for the first time ever: https://sheerspite.ca/on-writing-the-politics-of-lonely-why-is-friendship-so-hard/ Here’s what it’s about: > Friendship is hard because everything is hard. This book examines social structures to demonstrate how people mend an unravelling social fabric. > > Why is it hard to make and keep friends as an adult? Even if you finally find time to see each other, can you connect more deeply than just catching up over coffee? How many do you count as ride-or-die pals who’ll always show up with effervescent banter and deep conversation — your “chosen family?” > > Widespread loneliness reflects a world of crappy jobs and unaffordable housing that makes it almost impossible to have close, interwoven friendships. A dwindling social safety net takes a toll on us and on our relationships. Particularly for queer people, friendships can be crucial relations of equality, constancy, and care. Still, we disappoint each other and fall into irreparable conflict. > > A less lonely world is possible. Through interviews, research, and personal narrative, this book shows how people build tight connections despite living in the austere conditions of colonial capitalism — boldly weaving a new social fabric as this one unravels.

StimuWrite now has a patreon! For just $5/month you’ll get 1 or 2 new themes and/or addons each month, plus your name in the credits https://patreon.com/StimuWrite

Xenofact’s Xine 11! Does desire differ from basic urges? How much of our psychopathologies are just grasping? Do Conspiracy Theorists hate actual communities? Xenofact speculates on this and more! Also contains personal roundups on meditation, and reviews of books, zines, shows, and more. Plus plenty of his surrealist art! Rounds up his blog posts from November 2025 into January 2025. Print: https://ko-fi.com/s/3ccef6b00d PDF (PDF): https://xenofact.itch.io/xenofacts-xine-11-pdf https://ko-fi.com/s/7f79db90d6

If you want to revisit my early comics (or experience them for the first time), I’m currently running one page a day of Meeting Comics from the beginning at ComicFury! https://meetingcomics.thecomicseries.com/

https://kammerdorn.itch.io/fish-tank-dream put another zine on my itch.io page :3

Finally got my Buttondown.mail account approved, the newsletter is up! https://buttondown.email/MyDogStoleMyLiver

gonna be part of the spring sale and post a new sketchbook soon ❤️ https://fanficciera.itch.io

SAD GAY VAMPIRE POEMS II is here! second chapbook in the series of vampire exes writing poems to each other. i’m very proud of this one : ) https://www.etsy.com/listing/1566614855/sad-gay-vampire-poems-2-zine

Warning: The print that terrorized the world is now loose! Frankenstein is the sixth print in the Movie Monster series of block prints. 8″ x 10″ two color block print on Mulberry Paper https://www.grantthomasonline.com/product/frankenstein-linoleum-block-print/

New comic in my shop! https://www.rubymayvalentine.com/product/desert-scene-1-and-2-jumbo-size

here’s my shop!! quite a bit of it is 18+ jsyk!