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I had a lot of fun with this! Thank you for running it! As for promo, today's the last day of 50% off all the #PostSelf books, one of which includes a story about What Right Have I. itch.io/s/200343/sku... Also, her story, which I've been writing about here, is being serialized! Check pinned~

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 3h

Sixteen hours and change left in the Skunktember Post-Self ebook sale! itch.io/s/200343/sku...

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 18/09/2026

And, of course, the Post-Self cycle, the story of (nominally) 100 ways of dealing with trauma told across four novels and two novellas. Half off for Skunktember itch.io/s/200343/sku...

And thus grew a new world, a world that was not built for death…

From the very beginning of the consensual dream of the System, the members of the Ode clade, all forks from the same core personality, have dealt with fear each in their own way. Do they search for greater ways to control their lives? Do they hunt for yet deeper emotional connection? Do they hone their art to the finest point?

From roots in political turmoil to the building of a new society, the story is there to be found, and the Bălan clade is there to tell it.

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 18/09/2026

She painted her nails, her claws, herself. She got it on her fur. She got it on her clothes. She got stripes over her ears and polka-dots on her nose. ✨ Motes Played, a Post-Self story about identity and childhood, is half-off for Skunktember itch.io/s/200343

She used to just wave away her supplies, either letting them dissipate back into her memories or float back to their proper locations in her studio, but some decades prior, she had started using the process of putting things away by hand to unwind from the context of painting.

She split the difference today and forked quickly into four Moteses: one hauled the stool up above her head and trundled over to plop it down in the corner by the workbench; one ran off with the brush and palette to wash them off in the sink; one brought the easel, painting still clamped to it, over to the corner to dry; one tried to do a handstand in the middle of the room while Motes#Root watched. Eventually, she managed for a few seconds before collapsing into a giggling heap.

One by one, the various Moteses quit until #Root was the only one remaining. She pushed herself to her feet, stretched, and padded out of the pleasantly cluttered studio.

“Lights, Dot.”

Motes jumped at the sound of A Finger Pointing’s voice from the couch beside the door. “Oh! Yeah!” she said, forking off one more ephemeral instance to go flip the switch in the studio, make some spooky noises, then quit, all while #Root climbed up to join her down-tree instance on the couch, slouching against her side.

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 18/09/2026

Once upon a time, there was not-a-king... × Idumea, a Post-Self story about the escape from suffering in a digital world and the effects of trauma on the functionally immortal, is half-off for Skunktember. itch.io/s/200343

Once upon a time there was–

“A king?” my little readers will immediately say.

No, children, you are mistaken. Once upon a time, there was a woman. She was not a fine woman, not a prize to adorn your arm or to set beside you at the head of a grand table, but a simple woman — the kind we pass on the street and imagine some plain home life for. She has a house, one might think. There are floors and walls and windows, there are tables and chairs and sofas and beds. There is a shower and a claw-footed bathtub. There is a creaky step — the eighth — that she always swears she will fix.

We must imagine such a woman happy. We must imagine that she has friends and that she goes and drinks okay wine or maybe strange cocktails with them at the most absurd bars. We must imagine that she comes home, wobbling slightly with each step, with some other simple woman on her arm. We must imagine them sharing their kisses, being happy together.

We must imagine these things because they are not true.

I do not know how it happened, but one cloudy day, she was asking after her friend most pure and then her mind was turned all in on itself, was wrapped and folded three times, turned, and then wrapped and folded thrice more. Some malicious baker kneaded and kneaded and kneaded, and when next she woke up, sixteen hours and twenty three minutes later, her mind remained in some unknown, integral way tied up into knots.

But that was three hundred years ago.

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 15h

Prepping to get posting on Kaddish again. This starts by posting a bunch of new content mixed in with the old chapters (darned structural changes). You can find the changes here: read.post-self.ink/kaddish/temp...

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Temporary update post

This is just to let you all know that several edits have been made, including whole new sections. More work will be coming soon (I have t...

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Ebooks still half off for another day or two! makyo.itch.io

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 29/09/2026

(Using the card text!) "I do not know why Madison would want to actually include the argument I had with Rav. It is...ah, it is humiliating, that I should have to write that. I ache even still over it, and yes, I acknowledge this is the story of me getting better, but still..." #QueerCharChat

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Silver 🔜 BLFC @sprayporwave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Found family" includes the headmates

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 29/09/2026

I read Peter S Beagle's A Fine and Private Place (*highly* recommended) and decided what was missing from Kaddish, as a meditation on Jewish trauma after loss, was a wry, old Yiddishe bubbe. Natch~

“What Right Have I! Baruch HaShem, I’m glad to see you.” She speaks in the same mix of Aramaic, Hebrew, and syslingua that much of our out-of-character chatter takes place in, but I have decided that I will keep this record consistent. Evocation, rather than imitation. Imagine for me if you must an old Ashkenazi woman of the type who slips more readily into Yiddish than anything. Let not her Mizrahi appearance — all olive skin and thick, curly black hair — fool you, she is a Yiddishe bubbe at heart, and reminds me most of my grandmother Sarah, despite the similarity in looks to my other grandmother Rahel. “How’re you? How’ve you been? Come, you must tell me everything. Tea? You look parched.”

I slowly ratchet up my hearing to about halfway, enough to hear her without the noise of the crowd outside overwhelming my hearing. “As I am you!” I reply, a phrase not nearly so awkward in our easy chatter. “Yes please to the tea. I have...ah, I have been well enough. Not great, but well enough. What of you? You are well, I pray?”

Havivah gives a short, sharp bark of a laugh as she digs briefly in a chest and comes up with a bundle of mint. “That’s not telling me everything! You want I should just continue on blithely? What Right Have I, back in our neck of the woods for the first time in years, having fundamentally changed our holidays — and for the better I might add! — and now we must get by on ‘not great, but well enough’! Vey Gott! A pittance!” She cackles, brandishing the mint at me like a conductor might a baton, as though to lead me into speaking. “Now, Havivah will tell you all sorts, to be sure, but you must tell her everything, first, mayn skunkniu.”

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JillieDaw @jilliedaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

wigly

sketch of wiggling a little skunk with my hand

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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God appearing to Moses: BE NOT AFRAID God appearing to Jacob: you know what, you should be a little afraid, yeah , square up

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 27/09/2026

It would not be 'just a quick update to the PDF' unless you have to rewrite large portions of the base LaTeX file and switch compilers from XeLaTeX to LuaLaTeX. Sigh.

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 27/09/2026

Frick YES. Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House is EXCELLENT, and highly recommended reading :D Even if the show/movie wasn't your thing, the book is delightful.

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 27/09/2026

"I have lived too long to...ah, to know any one person to be either villain or hero entire. I, like all, have done good and ill by others. Perhaps...not as much good as I could have done of late, but one can only do better. One can only hope to do better..." #QueerCharChat

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 27/09/2026

Brunch in the sukkah with a bunch of lovely folks~

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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Finally illustrated this idea like I’ve wanted to do since I posted this three years ago!! 🌿🖤

A woman who is covered in a splotchy nebula texture of blue, green, purple, and pink. She is leaning forward with her hands behind her slightly arched back. In her hands are a lulav (long rod made of three different tree branches), and an etrog (a fruit with an elongated and bumpy lemon shape/color).

Her leg is signed “M.Nutz”

Surrounding her in bold black handwriting is the quote: “Joy is a deep release of the soul, and it includes death and pain. Joy is any feeling fully felt, any experience we give our whole being to. We are conditioned to choose pleasure and to reject pain, but the truth is, any moment of our life fully inhabited…any immersion in the full depth of life, can be the source of deep joy.” — Rabbi Alan Lew

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Mot @marqosias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

hiii my family and I are under a lot of financial stress so i'm setting up a donation goal !!! we just got our biggest electricity bill to date, and are going into debt just to buy groceries, so its pretty grim!! ▶ GET A DOODLE FOR ANY DONATIONS OVER $20USD!!! ko-fi.com/marqosias/go...

Helianthus pointing at the donation goal.

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 25/09/2026

"It is...ah, it is more likely that the next morning after not enough sleep, I am a weepy mess who will come crying to From Whence, 'Rav, I am so tired! I am so tired...' until she pets me on the head and lets me nap in her bed. "So...about seven?" #QueerCharChat

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Some "Some Egrets" Egrets @some.egrets.ca · 18/09/2026

the one redeeming quality of this website is that if i see a skunk with a sufficiently evocative display name, i know there's gonna be the word "clade" somewhere in their bio

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

never forget lemon grab's immortal words (yes, i get to post annihilation riffs until the power goes out)

lemon grab from adventure time declaims the words from the tower tunnel in Annihilation

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dragonweirdo @dragonweirdo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mina the Hollower doin a lil dance Song: At Last We Rest (Old Graveyard) by Jake Kaufman

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Silver 🔜 BLFC @sprayporwave.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Skunks are just the HD version of the main character from the hit video game Asteroids

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No Good Stinker 🎱 @baasphemy.online · 22/09/2026

🐑 Treatment page I was happy with today. :3 #furry #furryart

A scribbled sketchbook of a skunk in heart glasses and a red set of coveralls. Their hands are at their hip, and text around them says "your heart is a muscle the size of your fist, keep on loving, keep on fighting, hold on, hold on, hold on for your life." It's very expressive and uses a lot of colors.

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 22/09/2026

I mean, I was ostracized from more than one trans space after surgery. On the one hand, I get that folks want a space for talking about pre- or non-op trans life, I can celebrate that, but still sucks that I lost friends because I Completed Transition and am No Longer Trans :P

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am still $300 short of what I need by friday at the utmost latest, even if you can only chip in $5 it'll help get me there, please share if you can

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can confirm ;-;

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 22/09/2026

I remember when I had to start phrasing my ideas as questions rather than suggestions. "What if maybe we do X?", because if I said "we should do X", I was being bitchy.

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 21/09/2026

The skunk is: hungry, frazzled.

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 21/09/2026

Helped build the sukkah this morning (ish, I mostly had choir practice, but I at least hauled lumber).

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 21/09/2026

"Buttered toast. I wish I were kidding. I am...ah, I am wildly in love with bread in general, but a good salted butter on toast...*sigh* Yes, I will do what you need." #QueerCharChat

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 20/09/2026

I promised myself a thousand times that I would spend every golden hour smiling, that I should spend every blue hour dreaming, that we might stay just one more night for every sunrise belonged to us.

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Vera "Countess" Lycaon @veralycaon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sometimes we just gotta make this face and move on with our lives:

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 19/09/2026

"Mi yimalel g'vurot Yisrael otan mi yimneh? Hem b'chol dor yakum hagibor goel ha'am~ "I was for some years hazzan at Beth Tikvah. I still get various prayers stuck in my head, but for some reason, it is this song that I find myself singing. Perhaps unsurprising, given recent events…" #QueerCharChat

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sneet @jiouska.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 18/09/2026

New Year's Eve, 2399, and the world grinds to a halt... § Marsh, a Post-Self novel and short story anthology about a near miss with the apocalypse, is half off for skunktember itch.io/s/200343/

23:58, and I opened my eyes and smiled. “Well, seems like it’s been a pleasant enough year for everyone involved, though Marsh will deal with all the rest of that later.”

“It continues to amaze just how good you are at that.”

“What, merging?”

She nodded.

“It feels pretty straight forward for me,” I said. “I just…remember it all, and when memories or outlooks on life don’t line up, I choose mine.”

She laughed. “Still, far better than I am at it.”

23:59.

“Practice, maybe,” I said. “But hey, happy New Year.”

“Is it time, then?” she asked.

I nodded, willed away the drunkenness, took a sip of water. “Alright. I love you, Hanne Marie. I’ll miss you.”

She rolled her eyes. “Tell Marsh I said—

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 19/09/2026

"I would like to think that...ah, that there is a comfortable balance to be found, yes? However, I cry more than I would like at times when I would like to be logical. I am pleased that Rav From Whence and Rav Sorensen are so understanding." #QueerCharChat

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 19/09/2026

I don't know where my coworker, Shu, is, these days, but I hope she is well. She gave me this scroll she made of Su Shi's Shuidiao Getou as a graduation present back in 2011. Test-hanging it with paperclips.

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Waxing Tide, of the Flamm/e Clade @flammtay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This #Skunktember, make sure you keep track of any non-skunks that get swept up in the festivities! Oh, @brynmot.bsky.social! I meant for the sweeping to be figurative, not literal! Fantastic sketch done by @emmacat64.bsky.social !

A skunk in a jacket and short shorts, with fishnet leggings underneath. In a wayyyyy zoomed in side panel, a tiny moth is in her tail fur.

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Himmis @himmis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Coloring the World!" - speedpaint for Yogiko over at Bsky featuring their red panda making an exit with a puff of smoke and a splash of pink. What were they up to beforehand? Who knows tbh, but cool pandas don't look at explosions either way =3 #art #anthro #furryart #panda #red_panda

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ΔVee @vernox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Comfiest skunk this side of the System Piece for @flammtay.bsky.social !

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo.ink · 17/09/2026

"The sages taught that...ah, that there is yetzer hara, the heart's will to do evil, and yetzer hatov, the heart's inclination to do good, and that these are most often held in balance. I do not like 'inclination', though. We are beings capable of holding and inflicting trauma." #QueerCharChat

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