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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

Government / Society / History: Titles

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Ascendants – next in line to the role of Queen or King
-.King Ascendant – in this generation, partner to the Queen Ascendant
-.Princess Ascendant – occurring on the rare occasion of a non-ruling age non-parenting next in line
-.Queen Ascendant – daughter to the Queen, mother of the Princess and royal children
Auditor – a financial city official position
Councillor – an elected representative to sit in Council
-.Aquari Councillor – one of those who represents the Aquarii
-.Dragon Councillor – sole position of political advisory from Dragons to the Pan-Galactic Imperium
King – there have been some ruling Magus Kings
-.King Proxem – in the unusual event that there is a non-ruling age female Scion with only a King to precede them, a King Proxem can rule until they mature
Magistrate – an administrative position on the planet Hirylien
Prince – male royal child, usually next in line to a Princess of any age
Princess – title for the first female royal child, also referred to as Scion Princess
Princessa – title for younger female royal children
Prinzx – a genderfluid title
Scion – prefix title for the youngest in the primary lineage of rule
Signalman – Raev Sturlusson’s title as a primary coordinator of a hidden movement
Queen – the traditional ruling personage of the Magus Dynasty of the Pan-Galactic Imperium, also referred to by:
-.Queen Regent – to distinguish the ruling Queen from
an Ascendant Queen
-.Your Eminence – or Your Vast Eminence, for the ruling monarch
Your Grace – courteous reference to any in the royal family

Government / Society / History: the Synchrony

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The Synchrony is a conversion factor, not a timescale. It loops, but people don’t count them one after the other. People count planetary years, as this works better for linear timekeeping. The Synchrony is not itself a time, it just doesn’t really make good sense that way. People on spaceships live by a planetary time, and if they’re detaching from one planetary time, then they can go by another planetary time. Time is weird and troublesome without a planetary attachment. People learned this, and they don’t reckon by the Synchronies, which are just conversion codes. That said, there is an unusual flower that blooms by the synchrony. This system was a breakthrough after about six planets into Human space diaspora.

Minutes are part of hours are part of days are of unique timespans on each planet, divisible in unique ways. Someone on one planet checks their date, then uses the synchrony to find the date and approximate time on another planet. Date calendars may include synchrony markings, but there are no synchrony calendars. For planetary calendars, the synchrony calculates reliably ahead.

The Three Dials:
the outer synchrony is segmented into betasymbolic sections
the next dial is half-base-ten, the five petals
the finest distinction is counted in three-squared units, 1-9
thought time, plant time, bee time
language, flower/hand, geometry (daystar)

e.g.
epsilon
four-fifths
9

or Epsilon-4/5-9

Government / Society / History

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Additional Patrol – martial law peacekeeping in lockdown neighborhoods
Annals – a diary journal by the ruling monarch, for a ruling monarch’s eyes only
Aquari Aegis – a powerful defensive projector, aided by an amplifying power pendant
Aquari Home Recovery – an aid organization helping with the aftermath of the Symbias Grove fires
Aquari Home Wildfire Disaster, AHWD – when unusual fires destroyed Symbias Groves
Aquari Sendsingers – those with a trained special power to create spatially unifying starsong to enable translocation in concert with travelgate technology
Ascendancy – the ceremony for the Ascendant becoming Regent
Chainers – people who, before the Human-Dragon War, found a way to trap a Dragon in one place
dragontaught – the rare few who have the opportunity to have an extended tutelage with a Dragon
EduNet – a semi-self organizing educational system private support subsidiary
Genesee Geothermal Upheaval – concurrent fault earthquakes and volcanic eruptions all over the planet Genesee, questioned as to whether entirely natural; Red Nexus connection to the Vortex Anomaly and Aquari Home Wildfire Disasters
Genesee Guard – planet guard fleet for Genesee
Genesee Refugee Fund – aid organization for relocated people who survived the volcanic disasters
Genoene Council – planet council for Genoe
GG Unit 17 – Genesee Guard unit during the Zendris Eruption
Human-Dragon War – terrible, very long ago; involved Chainers, and resulted in banishment of the Red Nexus Dragons
IDRA – Interplanetary Department of Relief Assistance, allocates & deploys Imperium resources for emergency measures
Loramer Ultra – top clearance sectors of the prime research center
Maelstrom Rescue – the collective individual translocation engineered by General Claymore, Raev Sturlusson, the Kao-Sidhe & Vedani to spare Imperial soldiers from the Red Nexus fleet destruction
Magus Dynasty – the ruling family that has stewarded the Pan-Galactic Imperium from one single human planet for a thousand years, who made first communication with Dragons
nose-to-nose – a physical tactical meeting in connected spaceships
Octave, Multiplied Octave – Aquari administrative convening of representatives from each of eight Aquari homeworlds and the Sendsingers’ Guild; multiplied, with additional relevant presences.
Oligarchy of Tamakopa – an extremely wealthy shadow organization which the Hoopoe relieved of a large sum of currency
Phiroen Era – as defined by the name of the Magus ruler, during which there was a military revolt
Photuris Vortex, Photuris Vortex Slaughter, Ionian Vortex Anomaly, E.G.G. Incident, Photuris Attack – all names for what happened in a military action on a threatening phenomenon in Ionian nearby space, where Queen Ascendant Charlotte met her doom
Red Nexus – one particular group of fire-related Dragons who were exiled from association with the Pan-Galactic Imperium after the Human-Dragon War
Relief Assistance – shortened on-the-ground name for the IDRA, organizing immediate aid for situations like the neighborhood signal lockdowns
Royal Security – the guards for the royal family
Sendsinger’s Guild – Aquarii who work with the travelgates, and whose talents complete the necessities for the current state of star travel
Shield/Amp Units – military Dragon defense, for and from, using directional energy conversion
Slaughter of Hirylien – how some refer to the first population-wiping outbreak of HA235 on Hirylien
Spear Traffic Control – those directing air & special traffic to the inner-city military tower complex
TransNet, TransitNet, Travelgates, Imperial Transitnet System – names for intergalactic/interplanetary transit gates maintained by the Pan-Galactic Imperium
Vanguard – investigatory government grey ops
Zero Clearance – apocryphal don’t-ask mission scannable top clearance level for a possibly undercover government agent; also a classic film

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The delicate flowers atop the mountain
swaying under the sunlit breeze

Commerce and activity of a civilization
buzzing at the frequency of commonality

The sparkling river speaks its motion
mystically winding and exuberantly flowing

Another day at the public house, opening up
to the unknown callers of fortune and circumstance

The raising of mighty voices in hope and resilience,
holding each other through the worst for a new day

Warmth of an invitation, sharing presence
in relaxation, enjoying a fine home together

The waves call their lovers, profound
depths echoing with life, wisdom, and adventure

Bucolic contentment through hard work
growing and making to share and enjoy

Haven of the outer reaches, perspective
and distance as a refuge for healing

Elevated inner sanctums comtemplating
their perpetuity as ever, the cooperative edifice

The youth seeking their best potential,
at home or away, decisions weighty and enticing

Lush gardens in bloom, the rambling
affections of their tenders in gentleness

A sky unlike any other, seen from the
firm ground, the greatness of being.