mk zariel {it/its}

After a long ass delay, I am pleased as punch to announce that the #InsomniaJam2025 bundle is live 📚!! Pay whatever you can and peruse stories, poetry, zines and even a TTRPG from a wide variety of creators inspired by the things that keep us up at night. Grab it here: itch.io/b/3209/insom...

It's now 1 YEAR mom has been homeless since escaping her #Trump supporting #Pedophile (He CSA'd me) now ex husband! He knocked teeth out. Beat her. Spit all over her body.

It's her b-day month. Her fundraiser continues to be slow and painful.

#MABoost #ElderCare #Trauma #Disabled #MAV #HelpSky

We are in Gaza... hunger, poverty, and endless fear. By God, we don't have a loaf of bread in our house, not even enough to cook with. Whoever can help, please extend a hand... for hearts are thirsty for merc😣😣

sadly not, it's super weird

Download the latest indie games itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you co...

It was collected through a google form and then I just didn't hear back? idk if it has to do with the itch.io stuff

hey, does anyone know what's going on with the Fanwork Bundle on #itch.io? i was part of it and haven’t gotten any info, updates, or payment. would love to know who’s running it or if it’s just fully vanished into the ether 👻

I'm part of this fundraising bundle organized by @mkzariel.bsky.social to support an activist with her legal fees! There are TTRPGs, zinesn, and more!

Check it out: itch.io/b/3210/fundr...

Autistic woman just assumed everyone was consuming media critically An autistic woman has made the foolish and illogical assumption that other people consume media critically instead of taking everything at face value, it has been claimed. Megan Aldrich, 33, was shock...

“You can’t seriously tell me that people are unquestionably adopting things into their belief systems because someone on TV or in the papers said them? I will never allow anyone to call me ‘gullible’ again.”

Download the latest indie games itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you co...

Hannah, a RICO defendant and eco #anarchist comrade, needs support with travel costs for court 💚 Her supporters are fundraising via an itch.io bundle that features zines, TTRPGs, & more by seven #queer and #trans indie creators. pls support queer art + anti-repression work :3 itch.io/b/3210/fundr...

Music Makers!
Submissions open for our compilation!

looking for music that captures the feeling of:
Origins
Fresh starts and
Sonic emergence

No genre restrictions (no a i)

Submission Deadline: September 1st, 2025

Let’s Begin

Send to: contact@shiftctrlmusic.com

#musicsky #musiciansky

Disability Pride Month Book Bonanza Part One (with all of the participating book covers)

Disability Pride Month Book Bonanza Part two (with all of the participating book covers)

Only 33 hours left to grab these disability pride month book bundles!! 📚📦

each bundle contains 20 books, all written by disabled authors, for only $30

Part One (contains my debut novel, Sidetracked!): itch.io/b/3198/disab...

Part Two: itch.io/b/3173/disab...

Bundle Everywhere has a new project going for escapist/casual/chill games and zines, and my lesbian romance chapbook DISAPPEAR FIRST is in there! Here's a link: itch.io/b/3178/pay-w...
And here's their discord, mainly for game dev but also has lots of zine opportunities: discord.gg/6eJneZ5G

Ark put a finger to their lips. “I understand that you’re glad to have jumped on that grenade because of who it saved. But would you do that same thing for this crew, now that we’ve only been together about a year?” This caused Fel to pause. To Ark’s surprise, she thought deeply about this question for quite some time. Breaking the silence, Fel said, “I’m not sure, Captain. I think so. Though I also think I’d have to be in that situation to find out.” The Captain was uneasy about this response. It was honest. But Fel had a romantic relationship with two other crewmembers, and a professional responsibility to the crew as a whole. What did it mean that she might hesitate when an emergency arose? Where did her loyalties lay? Would she defend the crew from the rogue element? Was she the rogue element?

I'm a disabled trans author living with hunger.

I wrote a book about queer polyamorous 90th century space explorers who are embroiled in a history-spanning galactic conspiracy.

🌈VERY QUEER🌈

Romance! Action! Adventure! Thrills!

#booksky #mutualaid

BUY TODAY
jamsheedstudios.itch.io/stbot-eng

My epic romantic scifi horror thriller, Border of Terror, is in a bundle for Disability Pride Month. I am disabled, and so are many of my characters.

All authors have set their profit share with itch to 0% to protest their removal of queer media by delisting adult content.

itch.io/b/3173/disab...

debate me, bro | mk zariel | Substack debate me bro is not "anarchy 101" and has never heard of counter-info. i just explain queer insurrection to randos on the internet! Click to read debate me, bro, by mk zariel, a Substack publication ...

30 NEW FOLLOWERS IN A NIGHT OMG!!!! <3 welcome new friends. it's #gay here. and there's even a newsletter, wow! debatemebro.substack.com

Donate to Help me get back on my feet., organized by Victae C My name is Victae, A few of you probably know me as Frosted, Mael, or one of the other h… Victae C needs your support for Help me get back on my feet.

Hey All,

Due to the layoff and very limited or no income for the past few weeks on FMLA. I'm going ahead to consolidate things into a GoFundme to try and get more traction and due to PayPal locking my KoFi Funds.

I'm setting a variable goal of 5K with this, and anything helps.

gofund.me/5177d262

Disability Pride Against Censorship We’re Disabled and Queer — Itch.io and the Payment Processors Are Starving Us.

Super proud to have one of my poetry zines featured here!!

2 books bundles- 20 books for $30 each & each creator has set their revenue share to 0% & agreed to the joint statement!

disabilitypac.carrd.co

#MakeCensorshipCost #BookSky 📚💙

Disability Pride Against Censorship We’re Disabled and Queer — Itch.io and the Payment Processors Are Starving Us.

Super proud to have one of my unicorn books with queer and disabled characters be a part of this bundle.

2 books bundles- 20 books for $30 each & each creator has set their revenue share to 0% & agreed to the joint statement!

disabilitypac.carrd.co

#MakeCensorshipCost #BookSky 📚💙

Download the latest indie games itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you co...

itch.io just shadowbanned adult/NSFW content, which could disproportionately affect #trans creators & SWers. my all-ages work could be flagged just for being #transmasc #lesbian. I’ve set rev share to 0%—itch gets nothing. pls stand up to this. support here: mkzariel.itch.io

no

'𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘰𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵, 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘕𝘖𝘛 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴.⁣
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𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘰𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘺 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺'⁣

chaos is change, chaos is breaking free from the status quo.

why do anarchists value chaos? (why don't statists value much of anything?)

new #substack post just dropped about the relationship of #anarchy to #chaos <3 if you like what you're reading, pls sign up as a free or paid subscriber! this really helps me as an independent #trans creative debatemebro.substack.com/p/why-do-ana...

NEED 550!!! WE GOT THIS!!

- editors are subjective people, we have our own tastes
- you deserve an editor who is excited to champion your book. if an editor is tepid, you Want to be passed over
- editors have limited time, resources, abilities, etc
- hundreds, sometimes thousands!, of submissions and 1, 2, 3 slots, or 5

"crouch down in thai basil grown from the light of helicopters. yam leaf lessons learned quick. garden glazed in carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, benzene, nitric oxide, soot."

—annakai hayakawa geshlider :: “Top Ten favorite places in los angeles”

alocasia.org/2025/05/01/a...

"Witness the black pointed nails
reveal furrows in my back
the earth reclaimed
in the song of your name"

—Erika Gill

beestungmag.com/issue23/one-...

"Mrs. Sinistra talked to the school priest about it. The priest didn’t believe in malignant spirits, but he believed that a ritual could help ease people’s minds. He agreed to bless their classroom."

—Christian Jil Benitez translates Allan N. Derain

anmly.org/ap40/christi...

10 days left to apply!

if you like this one, @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social & I are about to have excellent news 👀

MAYBE JUST THIS BONES cover: detailed charcoal drawings of bone segments on a background of parchment text: Bones’ exploration of form is radical and transformative, the liminality of her identity seeping into her lines and breaking apart words like brittle bones, bringing into question life’s in between moments. He tackles growth and grief within the same breath, reminding us that blood is both a sign of death and life. OzzyWelch, author of Toothache

MAYBE JUST THIS is a reflection, a refraction, a dissection of selfhood and memory and generational unhealth, that mines the past with eyes on the future, the present, for a way to move forward that honours the grief.
@bonesandpoetry.bsky.social