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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Freaky Deaky: queer print-only speculative fiction lit zine seeking submissions.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I'll send a copy of this little zine about my childhood armory to the first 7 people who send me a mailing address.

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Lee Knox Ostertag @leeknoxostertag.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I've been going by Lee and using he/him pronouns with friends and now you are invited to do so as well! hi!

a picture of me with the word 'LEE!' written across it. this is also what the next two pictures are.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

A new zine about the old days.

Small zine on graph paper. The title is A Well Armed Childhood with the subtitle I Read A Lot Of Fantasy. All the lettering and art is hand drawn in simple black ink. The image is of a sword with a curved guard and some etching on the blade. This was a very common plastic sword design in the 90s. Once you hit a few things with them, the would split along the seam on both sides and have to be taped back together with duct tape.

Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. The art is a life size drawing of a butter spreader knife from a set of silver flatware. Text: "You can't sharpen a silver plated butter spreader on a brick." Below: "Mom hated when I took these." It's true, too. I always lost them in the yard trying to use them as boot knives.

Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. Text: "Drinking straw + tape wrapped pin blow gun" and "Seldom worked but stung like hell when it did." The art is of those two exact things. I'm pretty sure I mostly just tried to get the darts to stick in my wall or some cardboard.

Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. Text reads: "Daggers: a pirate requirement," "Slats from a semi-discarded shutter," and "Trimmed with a hand saw." Art shows a very blocky wooden dagger with a squared off guard, attached with three nails (one showing the bent over end, two just showing the head). My folks weren't happy that I stole all the slats from that shutter.

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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I've said it before, I'll say it again. It's a sin and a shame that Taye Diggs was one of the only actors in Chicago that didn't get nakedish.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Note to OPM staff: Personal items cannot be searched. If any attempt is made, demand legal representation. Personal devices you own are off-limits to these staffers. Also, do not leave personal items in the office overnight. Stay alert and cautious.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Okay, but when did 90s plastic chokers become a trans girl specific accessory?

Sabrina the teenage witch wearing a see through top with a white tank top under it, long blonde hair, and a plastic choker. She's in front of a classroom chalkboard. The 90s!

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I am both so very, very glad to be sober in these times and also very, very aware of how good it would feel in the moment to just get blackout drunk.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I honestly don't know why people are acting like this admin or the folks who voted for them care if their actions are legal or make sense. They just change or ignore rules. Laws only have power as long as those with the power agree to abide by them. Quit acting affronted and start fighting back.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Beer and barley soup. Truly the most peasanty of the soups.

Soup! With beef, barley, green beans, carrots, and a spoon. And lots of garlic, but you can't see that here.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Fire and ice, baby. Strange times in a strange state.

Snow lingers on the ground in small drifts around the edge of a yard and along a wooden fence. A metal fire ring in the middle of the yard holds a sprightly wood fire. The sky is blue, the trees are green. An unusual Florida winter!

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Got my T shot today. Grateful I still can and angry that I have to be grateful.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

For the foreseeable future, I don't want to hear any cis het white guys talking politics. Even if we 100% agree. I don't want to hear how they now understand how hard it is for everyone (else). I don't want to hear their solutions to (my) problems. If you want to help, give money or time.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Do you know of any good, up to date zines about setting up shows, first aid, getting hormones, community support networking, cooking or other necessary skills, how to talk to cops, etc?

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Queer sex is great, it's fun as shit Don't kill yourself cause people can't deal with your brilliance Sometimes I can't remember why I want to live But I think of all the freaks and I don't want to miss this youtu.be/foNWI1mvWtQ

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Musical Fanzine

YouTube video by Team Dresch - Topic

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Seditionist Distribution @seditionist.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

[Mexico City, Mexico] Following the attempted murder of a trans woman. Cops just let the alleged perp go. So actionists from the Mexican sex workers union stormed the judicial building. Via Ghost of Durruti

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Under Hill! Draw Your Adventurer #4.

The cover of a small zine on graph paper titled Under Hill. It's hand drawn in black ink. A ragged hill goes toward the right top corner. Halfway up, a cave goes into the hill. Several trees can be seen on the hill going up. A mountain in the background shows a forest (stamped in green ink). In the cave you can take the downward path and deal with biting plants or the upward path. There's a snail and crystals on the ceiling.

A small zine on graph paper. In a cave you can see biting plants, rope platforms going up the wall like a climbing toy for cats, and a number of small birds dancing among leafy plants. On the side of a mountain are an owl creature, a water tower, and a three story shack with what appears to be a heated outhouse on top.

A small zine on graph paper. Golden mountains are stamped in the background. On the mountain is a tent and campfire. In the cave are small bugs riding on rolly pollies while another bug cheers them on. Pumpkins grow along the bottom. Snailor Moon glitters on a crescent shaped rock.

A small zine on graph paper. Inside a cave are a sleeping bear, tucked into a cozy, round space near the ceiling. Two doors in the wall of the cave have built in ladders leading up to the them. Near the floor, a fish restaurant on a pier has several fishing lines dangling below it, going into a hole in the paper/cave floor. A sign shows the Way Out. On the surface, a small pool of water holds several large jellyfish.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Sausage soup, truly the friendliest of soups.

Soup cooking in a pot. Carrots, chard, cabbage, fennel, and sausage. Rustic!

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Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Did you know that Highlights has been running a scholarship for trans women and transfemme people who want to write children's and YA? You can apply here, or share it with your friends, or donate if you're so incline! www.highlightsfoundation.org/trans-women-...

highlightsfoundation.org

Trans Women Write Scholarship - Highlights Foundation

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I dreamed last night that I was starting a queer zine & music distro. Great dream, but then I woke up and realized that's way too big of a project for me these days.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Hurrah/oh no! Tomorrow I'm getting dental work done for the first time in decades. I'm both super excited and super freaked out.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Cold weather is the best if you have cats and like adorable things.

A round, black and white cat and a roundish orange tabby rest on a bed with mushroom sheets and a purple bedspread. The tuxedo cat rests his paw on the sleeping ginger's back and looks at the camera. My love for these cats is endless, like time itself.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Best thing about using a cpap (aside from being able to breathe at night): sleeping with your head fully under the blanket in winter.

This is what it looks like under my top blanket at night. Like a blue and white flannel cave. It's so cozy, y'all.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I guess I'm an overalls guy now. Does this mean I have to start listening to folk punk?

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Best thing about the week after new year - hoppin jon leftovers.

A bowl of black eyed peas and collards with pork topped with Crystal hot sauce. Delicious!

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

What's the first book you're reading this year? I'm starting with Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff. (As my granny would say, "he's a peach!")

The cover of Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff. Two middle school aged kids sit on a floor in what is probably a classroom or bedroom. Behind them are posters of fruit, the Seattle Aquarium, and the non-binary pride flag. Queer kids are awesome!

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Tried out my new clothes yesterday. I forgot how great a baggy pair of overalls can be. At one point I was carrying a jar of jelly, three lighters, a pocket knife, a pair of work gloves, a jar of medical mj, a hunter green hanky, and possibly two or three small animals. 2025: living la vida baggy.

A short, fat redheaded man wearing baggy blue denim overalls and a purple plaid flannel shirt bends over a bonfire, probably to do something dumb like adjust a log by hand. He's very cute.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

May your child soup be delicious in 2025.

A New Year's greeting postcard from 1890. A solemn woman prepares to toss a child into a cauldron labeled SOUP over an open fire. It appears that other kids have already been added. Happy New Year!

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Woman's Hell @hecuba.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

perzine, as we all know, is short for "pervert zine"

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A dirty zine from the footlocker! S.T.H. (Straight To Hell) #66. Started in 1972, this one's from 2007. "True" gay sex stories sent in by readers with titles like "Whore Sez Massive Prong Is Pure Heaven" and "Bodybuilder Recruited Into Secret Sex Club." Plus dirty photos! Which I'm not posting here!

A zine titled STH (Straight to Hell): The Manhatten Review of Unnatural Acts. A fit young man in a Mickey Mouse shirt and sneakers sits on a chair with his knees spread. His crotch is covered with a circle bearing the subtitle. What a tease!

The credits page of Straight To Hell #66. Billy Miller is the editor, Scott Hug is the designer. In the middle of the page is a small pic of a naked man in chains with his ass up. A badge in the upper left proclaims "Approved by the Cocksman Union." I bet their holiday banquet is amazing!

The back cover of a zine. A pic of two men in jackets - one is on his knees in front of the other, the other holds the back of the kneeling man's head. Cocksuckers in their natural environment. There's also a short piece of poetry by Lord Alfred Douglas.

And afterward, in radiant garments dressed,
With sound of flutes and laughing of glad lips,
A pomp of all the passions passed along,
All the night through; till the white phantom ships
Of dawn sailed in. Whereat I said this song,
'Of all sweet passions Shame is loveliest.'

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Well that was a surprisingly satisfying season of Survivor.

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Morgan @pinkgibberish.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I collect library cards. One of my favorites is the Queer Liberation Library: An entirely digital collection and anyone can sign up for a membership. They have a really good Libby collection, and are adding all the time. #booksky 🌈📚 💙📚 www.queerliberationlibrary.org/members

queerliberationlibrary.org

Members — Queer Liberation Library

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Cut an eraser stamp for the first time for this one. A fun thing to do while I have a bad cold and can't leave the couch.

A small zine on grid paper. The title is A Walk Into Town. The cover has a hill with a forest on top. A dragon's snout is popping out of the woods. The hill is riddled with caves, containing swords, bats, and treasure. A small demon/bug named Top Hat is visible through a hole in the paper. Hi. Top Hat!

A paper plate containing a small zine and a hand cut eraser stamp. The zine cover has a cave, a dragon's snout poking out of some woods, and an orange and yellow stamped sun. There's also a tiny demon/bug visible through a hole in the paper. Let's call them Top Hat. Hi, Top Hat!

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Ok y'all, time for some more death math. Today's topic: "all trans people should just leave Florida" 🙄 TLDR: If you don't have experience helping 100,000+ people flee for their lives, maybe STFU. Feel free to link this post to the ignorant.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

His legs look so short! It keeps cracking me up.

A black and white cat in a squid squishmallow cat bed in front of an entertainment cabinet. The way he's sitting makes his leggies look short. He's very sleek and handsome!

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I'm so very very sick. Cough cough my throat is full of razor blades and glass shards. Please show me something interesting or adorable to help me ignore the fact that my joints ache and the edibles delivery isn't here yet.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

You know what was great? 80s art deco revival.

A shot from the opening credits of the tv show Poirot. A stream train rides past an art deco city scape.

A pink room with a neon accented giant painting of Billy Idol.

A Patrick Nagel artwork of a woman with severe lips and eyes looking over her shoulder at you. She knows what you did and she doesn't approve, but she knows you want her to not approve.

An 80s version of an art deco vanity table with a round mirror that resembles a stylized shell.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Hey homos, trans people have had your back for a long, long time. It's time to get out there and show us you care enough to fight by our sides.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I saw Wicked last week with friends who are big fans. As someone who is a) not all that familiar with the play/music, b) VERY familiar with both the Judy Garland version and the books, and c) a trivia guy, it was a really odd experience.

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Hank @hanklyspeaking.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

When you're quite fat, as I am, it's hard to find overalls that fit. So I finally got a pair of size 72s but they are as stiff as a very stiff thing indeed. How do y'all soften denim? Also, is it silly to get a pair of basic overalls tailored so they don't look like JNCOS?

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Aster Olsen @asterolsen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

sometimes i wonder if cis people really understand that men and women are not separate species. we share genes, hormone receptors, have analogous tissues/organs, etc. to claim that there are "biological women" verse trans women is science denialism grounded in ignorance.

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