Okay, #MutualAid CoSo.

We have a big ask from CoSonaut trying to leave a high-cost space in the US and move back to be with her mother, whose condition is deteriorating here in Colombia.

@Blue_Skyesr_here needs to cover at least this month's rent, passport expenses, animal transport expenses, and maybe the plane ticket to start over.

I know that overall funding goal seems daunting, but every little bit will help to knock one item off the to-do list. Can you help a bit? https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/98eNldiBEw

#Zine ...And I suppose I should be clear... 🤨

I'm trusting everyone to be responsible when sending smutty tales and erotic art for #CoSoAfterDark. We'll be looking for seductive and saucy but not full-frontal. And when it comes to the stories and poems, hot-to-trot tension tends to do better than "throbbing 🐓s" and "aching 🍑s" every other line.

Have fun with it! 😈

But remember that the brain is the sexiest organ, and can fill in whatever tight little narrative holes you give it to work with!

All right, lovelies. What a day!

But for those interested in the #Zine, we have SO many ways to contribute now. Hopefully one of these will inspire something in you!

For Issue #2, we'll have a special section for #Ekphrasis: art and writing inspired by one of the two images below. Other inspired content welcome, too!

For Issue #3, we have a SPLIT between #Limerence (obsessive infatuation) and #CoSoAfterDark (naughty, saucy bits!). When these two meet in the middle, will sparks fly? We'll see!

My computer's in update mode, so I'm off for my weekend crossword & food column. From yesterday's paper:

1) Xmas street decorations are up across town! Woo hoo!
2) COP16 (the UN biodiversity conference) is gearing up in Cali.
3) Folks are concerned about rising violence in my department, Antioquia. On top of local cartels, though, I had to do a double-take: the issue is cartels from México, Perú, Venezuela, the UK, Italy, Switzerland, Dubai, &... CANADA?! 🧐 What?! Did I miss a memo?

#Colombia

*Lysistrata. Silly typos.

But here's the Lysistrata action article from September, for more info:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-york-woman-at-center-of-orthodox-sex-strike-receives-her-divorce/

(One day we'll live in a world where women are full people, without contention or fetishization, either for stupid secular reasons or under arbitrary religious mandate. One day!)

Well, I fell asleep after class last night, so I'll catch up on the Zine after recording.

First though, I'm not sure if anyone here heard about the women who pulled a Lysistra in September (sex strike), but they were pressuring their husbands to make a child-molesting man give his wife a get (rabbinical divorce), & it worked! This episode of This American Life talks about a more brutal intervention (torture) in the ongoing struggle for women's rights among the Orthodox.

https://pca.st/episode/10fac60c-8135-4ee9-a6b1-45329ee6fbf7

You folks are menaces! 🙃 We have four chains going, and some very clear rule-breakers (but all in good fun).

If you want to see how the stories are progressing, here's the flowchart so far.

Check the thread if you want to add more! Each vein is going in a very different direction!

#ChainStory #WritingCommunity #WritersOfCoSo

@JGSchaeffer @AskTheDevil @corlin @Christmas_Snow @cassandra17lina @EileenKCarpenter @AverageCitizen @misterfive

And yes, inevitably the story will fork as people try to post at the same time. :) That'll be part of the fun, to see how many different tales emerge in the end!

Okay, more data entry.

Shall we start a #ChainStory today? Something with a spooky theme, perhaps?

I'm thinking one line at a time, with each person adding more chaos, intrigue, adventure, and shivers to the last.

This opener is inspired by M.R. James and @JGSchaeffer ❤️:

"After my last visit to the coast, where we cast my grandfather's ashes into the wind atop a cliff he'd walked every day for half a century, the ocean followed me wherever I would roam."

#WritersOfCoSo #WritingCommunity