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Recent Recap: latter 2025

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Equinox Watershed Seattle Georgetown Primal Spiral & Friday Harbor 1st Block
Primal Spiral creative studio evolved through its reactivation in 2025, starting up for a season and some at Make.Shift in Bellingham. I accepted an offer for studio space in Seattle Georgetown with the Equinox Collective Watershed arts neighborhood project, and transferred my Bellingham functions here. I also reopened in Friday Harbor, my island town address, on the first block from the ferry at [Parking Gate] 3. So now there’s Primal Spiral Seattle & Primal Spiral Friday Harbor, and at these places I can forge ahead with new writing, and receive creative company.

Seattle WorldCon 2025
Seattle WorldCon was a culmination of years of participation and contribution, and I’m so proud of my local SFF and writing community for hosting a world-class event that brought many of the amazing authors, artists, publishers, and fans that I’ve been hobnobbing with for the previous decade to our very own city neighborhood. Along with speaking on some fabulous panels, I hosted my first WorldCon dealer’s table, which was a cheery scene, and invited people to my Midnight Write-In Cacao & Tea Social Hour at Primal Spiral Georgetown.

Leagues Cup 2025
Sounders All-Win

There are some new poems just rolled out, a demiromantic 3-pack:
Let Me Be Your Ocean, Bold Sailor (after my Let Me Be Your Ocean, Bold Surfer)
When Search AI Has No Idea What You’re Talking About, on oKOMOn News
feminine ego grandiosity / this does not seem allowed (see above)

ELASIEL176CE: 12/21/25 print date
This story came together from ideas and processes that began some time ago, and was ready to step forth for publication after Bones of Starlight; I consider it part of a larger book, titled alwaysbeeneverwas, with other intertwined mythologies. In this separate photoessay-constructed form, it’s a Fantasy New Age Multiple Life Philosophy Erotica; for sale to ages 18+, only as an additional purchase to any other volume by the author, in print through limited in-person/author-direct distribution; with a look to a later-upcoming online release on: Only Fans.

I renewed with SFWA through 2026
I’m also renewed with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association through 2026! Cheers to my second year in the professionals’ formal league.

photo credits, top-bottom: 1. Jason Ruvelson; background painting wall treatment mural by ELE Eva L. Elasigue 2. Adrian 3. stadium neighbor 4. Myrrh Larsen 5. selfie by the author

Manzieri Cover

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Feast your eyes: Maurizio Manzieri, the reknowned and 2025 Hugo-nominated artist, has created a cover version for Bones of Starlight! Featured is Princess Ascendant Soleil, piloting Moonshadow in her Vedani control suit, with Dragons in the air over Alisandre Capital. I’m truly honored.

We will both be at Seattle WorldCon this year, with panels and more. I invite expansive thinkers and magical potion drinkers, wisps and wonderers to the sea-sprayed woods wherein I create and dwell.

Places: Specific Places of Note: the Aetherscape

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A mindspace dimension intrinsic to the Vedani, where they consciously integrate and share information; their minds engage here while their bodies rest, and they also use it as collaborative workspace.

aetherlab – a construct belonging primarily to Aelrn, where Vedani research the aetheric Symbias
bio-aetherscape – sensory connection through the aetherscape, a normal form of shared experience
Garden – the secret beginning of Aelrn’s aetherlab, where she learned to listen to the Symbias trees
Learning Country – Soleil’s personal node in the aetherscape via streamviewer, where she practiced manipulating concepts with different self-perpetuating reflective engines, using it to process her information
Palace – an omni-point projection Vedani can utilize when they want to create a ceremonially impressive atmosphere

(NATURE)

aetherscape – see also Places; naturally, the individuated actively collective mind connection of the Vedani

(SCIENCE)

aetherlab – referring to an aetherscape lab where Aelrn and others researched aetheric Symbias
aetherscape – the informational mindscape that is the natural resting retreat of Vedani
bio-aetherscape – sensory connections between Vedani via aetherscape

bundle – when Vedani on the aetherscape group and combine streams of information
trunk – when many bundles are synthesized into a sizable consistent body of information
connect – common term for a bio-aetherscape confirmation for mutual exchange

flows – flows of information in the aetherscape, visualized for interaction netbranches – some pieces of knowledge float and extend from a body of knowledge, independently discoverable
Sphereaonic – the experimental Vedani brainchild of the Mothership Jottings, a massive aetheric sphere
streams – flows of information in the aetherscape
streamviewer / viewport – equipment designed to give Humans some interface with the Vedani aetherscape

Fanart

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Here’s some fan AI art for Princess Soleil, sent in by Dean Hawkey. This would be that moment near the beginning when she’s dressed for royal ceremony in capital colors. Different takes / reimaginings / cool castings, looks like Zendaya auditioned for the second.

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Story Portal Inking; Sh’BangFest

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Sh’BangFest, Lookout Arts Quarry, Alger, Washington, Northwest United States. After midnight on Friday (that’s today), around 1:15am to be exact, I will transform into a mermaid upon the Pirate Stage to deliver Pirate Poetry & Siren’s Tales.

Following, a series of photos showing part of the process of creating my portion of a story portal for Book 2, The Enfolding Abyss. I was the solo chapter illustrator for Book 1, and in Book 2, each portal is a collaboration between me and one other artist. I hand-draft the medallions using classical methods of compass & straight edge, and some of my freehand linework. I usually leave a ‘hole in the weaving’. These are aimed toward combining with a guest illustrator. Updated WIP sequence plates updated for 14 & 15.

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