Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica Kickstarter NOW COMPLETE!

We’re thrilled to announce that the crowdfunding campaign for Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica has successfully funded, and we’ve hit our first stretch goal! Our total backing was for just over $12,000.

Our authors will get a raise, doubling the base pay, and backers at levels 3 and 4 (the two levels that automatically include merchandise) will get bonus merch – a sheet of temporary tattoos!

For people who backed, backer surveys have now gone out, and we’ll be pushing forward on getting everything ready to go to production and get fulfillment set!

For everyone else – wanted to back but missed your chance? It’s not too late! We’re trying out Kickstarter’s new late pledge options. Backer levels 1 (e-book only) and 2 (trade paperback + e-book) are available as options for people who missed the initial funding period!

Thanks so much to everyone who backed, helped us spread the word, or otherwise did anything to help bring this project from concept to reality. We couldn’t do it without every single one of you.

You can take a peek at the campaign here!

Friday Five: The Olympics

Ooo I love the Olympics, I'm happy to jump on this one!

1) What's your favorite Olympics event?
I love most of the winter events; I'll watch basically anything that's part of the winter olympics happily, especially skating and skiing. For summer... probably gymnastics and swimming. and running. idk I just like watching people be awesome.

2) What do you think of when you think of Paris?
The Louvre. It's my favorite place in the world. A teleportation system that could deliver me their beignets on command would result in me gaining at least 100 pounds.

3) What's something that's not an Olympic sport, but if it were you might be a contender?
uhhhhhhh absolutely nothing???

4) Which of the newer Olympic events are you interested in watching? (breakdancing, surfing, 3x3 basketball, skateboarding, men's artistic swimming?)
I didn't even know there were new events tbh, which shows you how much attention I've been paying. But I do love watching skateboarding during the X Games so lets go with that.

5) What are your top 3 countries to cheer for?
Usually USA, Germany, and then idk, it depends, if I spot an underdog (like Jamaican bobsledders for example - people who often have trouble accessing an event for whatever reason) I'll usually vote for them no matter what country they're from. I also often like to see Scandinavian countries do well, and East Asian countries do well.

idk, I mostly like the athletes, my allegiance isn't really by country? I tend to just randomly pick someone to be like "I like that one, let's root for them" and then I do so.

Fandom Lexicon: Numbers and Characters

So far, we don’t have many entries that start with not-a-letter, and they all open with brackets, but nonetheless, here we are: the final installment of our main Fandom Lexicon!

View the Fandom Lexicon!

Notice an omission? Think we made a mistake? Let us know!

Lexicon Entries Beginning with Non-Letters:

[Character A] & [Character B]: When referring to a fanwork, using an ampersand between the names of the characters means the characters are being portrayed as in a platonic relationship, usually as friends, found family, or family. May include more than two characters.

[Character A] x [Character B]: see [Character A]/[Character B]

[Character A]/[Character B]: When referring to a fanwork, using a slash between the names of the characters means the characters are being “shipped,” or portrayed as being in a non-platonic relationship with each other, usually a romantic or sexual relationship. May include more than two characters. Note that characters in a QPR may be an exception, and sometimes characters in QPRs (which are neither romantic nor sexual) may still be listed with a slash between their names.

[Character’s] A+ Parenting: The character in question is a terrible parent and is shown being a terrible parent. Usually used as a tag, especially on AO3.

[Character] x Reader: When referring to a fanwork, the character is portrayed as being in a romantic relationship with the person reading the fanfiction. These stories are usually written in the second person, will often specify the gender and sometimes the sexuality or romanticism of the reader, and will use a place holder (often y/n – “your name”) to refer to the reader. May include more than one character. Sometimes referred to as a genre as “x Reader” works.

[Gender]/[Gender]: Indicates the genders of characters in a relationship in a fanwork. May include more than two characters. The genders are usually given as abbreviations. The most common are: m = male; f = female; nb = non-binary.

[Sexuality/Romanticism/Gender] Spec: Shortened form of “[sexuality/romanticism/gender] spectrum.” A term used to say that a person or character is on the spectrum for the sexuality/romanticism/gender specified. For example, if someone is “arospec,” it means they feel that they are aromantic to some degree, as they are on the spectrum of identities that fall under the umbrella of aromanticism.

[Tag] for TS: Abbreviation for “[tag] for tumblr saviour.” A tagging protocol related to a browser extension, Tumblr Saviour, that made Tumblr more usable for some people. Most people no longer use browser extensions to filter in this way because Tumblr introduced an internal tag-filtering system.

[Thing]-coded: A person or thing that shares certain core element(s) with the “thing” in the brackets, but is not actually that thing. For example, if a media is queer-coded, it has implied or subtextual queer content but nothing explicit/textual.

[Thing]blr: Refers to the blogs/community on Tumblr that focuses on [Thing]. Typically used to differentiate what’s happening inside that sphere of interest (the thing, on Tumblr) from everything outside it (anything else, any location other than Tumblr). These tags also enable people interested in these communities to find more, while those not interested in them can ignore or blacklist. For example: writeblr (used by writers), momblr (used by moms), lawblr (used by lawyers), etc.

[Thing]core: Used when the target’s aesthetic is focused on [Thing]. Example: “That house is Deancore” = that house looks like Dean lives in it. Also commonly used for genres, such as “cottagecore” as a term that means something is cozy and fits with a cottage aesthetic.

[Thing]punk: A fiction genre featuring counterculture protagonists in an (often, but not always) anachronistic world dominated by a specific type of technology that operates based on [thing]. For example, cyberpunk, steampunk, aetherpunk, etc.

[Thing]sona: Originally coined as the term “fursona” in furry communities, the term has gotten genericized to apply to alternate versions of a persons persona/how they project themselves. Fursona, or a version of a person where they are combined with an animal(s) of their choice, is still the most common usage, but other terms such as worksona (the person we project as ourselves while at our job) and similar usages have come into use.