rax: rhess as a lion (rhess)
hey y'all, i made a zine for CGR this year and you can download it for free here: https://raxraxraxraxrax.itch.io/tower-of-the-wizard-king-a-zine

it's about plurality, differential consciousness, and a board game from 1993 that has been literally living in my head for almost thirty years.

i'd be tempted to post it to dreamwidth in its entirety but formatting with images here is a pain so instead here's a preview:

printed pieces of paper over a game manual saying "The Tower of the Wizard King: a fox to recognize traps, a lion to scare away wolves (a pangolin to protect, a coyote to scavenge, a snow leopard for some reason) comic by rax e. dillon

if you check it out, i hope you enjoy it!

a note on recommending this text at this time )

That said: This past weekend I read ally by Madison Scott-Clary [1], and I found it a deeply rewarding experience. ally is a fictionalized memoir in which Scott-Clary grapples with issues of mental health, sexual and asexual identity (there's some excellent writing about aceness in here!), what it means to have a self, how abuse and trauma affect those things, and, excitingly for at least me, how being a hopelessly nerdy furry specifically inflects all of that in really interesting directions. It's a typographical adventure (the whole thing is produced in LaTeX), with the inclusion of sheet music, threaded stories, interlocking footnotes, and subtle but crucial uses of color. (Think House of Leaves, although it's less frenetic, or one of the really good Catgirl Goth Rave invites.) That alone is probably enough enticement for some of y'all, but I am really excited to recommend it for another specific reason: I think it's my favorite plural memoir.
 

and this is why )



"That matters to me more than I expected," said about someone else's life, is my summary of this whole book.

in conclusion maybe read it )

 

 

footnotes )

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