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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 15/09/2026

you want true crime? try reading about coal operators and the black lung movements in the 60s and 70s. a new horrific crime against workers on every page

In 1970, after a year of examining claimants under the new compensation law, the three physicians who composed the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board of the West Virginia workers’ compensation system recommended the following preventive action: “A vigourous and persistent campaign should be carried on by all authorities interested in preventing lung disease in coal miners to point out the hazard of cigarette smoking and to encourage all coal miners to become nonsmokers.” From DIGGING OUR OWN GRAVES, revised edition, by Barbara Ellen Smith with photographs by Earl Dotter

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 14/09/2026

SENT TIME TO PLAY VIDEO GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Straith's email inbox highlighting an email with the subject line, "For your review: EVERY YEAR THE SUMMER - draft 6 complete", plus an attachment to that effect

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 14/09/2026

final formatted page count holy crap

a page header in LibreOffice Writer, black text on a white background: "Straith / SUMMER / 383"

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 11/09/2026

One Piece does roller derby … I love this show …

One Piece screengrab: with raised bleachers and a banked skating track in the background, Straw Hat pirates Nami and Usopp react to finding out that their captain Luffy cannot skate to save his life. Subtitle reads “Oh, my! He can’t skate at all!”

One Piece screengrab (ep. 214):
at the starting line of the skating track, Straw Hats captain Luffy lies faceplanted in the concrete, skates to the sky, as his crewmate Usopp looks on in despair

One Piece screengrab (ep. 214): Nami, a white woman with red hair in a bob, skates with determination. Her yellow pinnie has the number 73 on it

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 08/09/2026

I have also switched my Ellipsus view to the "Icicle" theme and switched the font to trick my brain into thinking it's something new and different

Chapter 2: The Green Knight disappears into the

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 07/09/2026

Ok I AM gonna read today but first I’m going to attempt play this game I’ve only watched multiple let’s plays of

Bloodborne character creator screen, where the player has created a silver-haired guy with glasses and a twirly stache

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 29/08/2026

TIME TO GET BACK INTO IT

a screenshot from Straith's Steam account that says "Recent Games" and features the game Blue Prince. the tile says that Straith has played 2.2 hours of the game so far

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 25/08/2026

getting ready to read the existing one !!!!!!!

s.m. hallow’s THE HALLS OF THE DEAD on an ereader which the photographer is holding in front of one of their leggies

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 14/08/2026

well I can’t say for sure whether it fixed all my problems but it sure did make me cozy sleepy. delicious, needs a little more heat, 10/10

a half-eaten chana roti (w/ potatoes and spinach) in a white plastic takeout clamshell, complete with knife and fork. the roti is so enormous is practically exceeds the size of the container

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 12/08/2026

here are the stickers I gave myself earlier today (20 mins per sticker)

a cluster of four stickers on a gridded agenda page: in the centre, a plate with two big honkin tuna nigiri; then, surrounding it, clockwise starting at the top left, a chopped salmon gunkan maki with its own mini pile of pickled ginger; a leaf-wrapped treat with a mackerel(?) nigiri; and a large serving of pickled ginger. All the stickers are lined in gold foil.

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 12/08/2026

you know what this means

fatality, as it is often noted of your metropolitan freebooters that they ever encamp around the halls of justice, so sinners, gentlemen, most abound in holiest vicinities.

“Is that a friar passing?” said Don Pedro, looking downwards into the crowded piazza, with humorous concern.

“Well for our northern friend, Dame Isabella’s Inquisition wanes in Lima,” laughed Don Sebastian. “Proceed, Señor.”

“A moment! Pardon!” cried another of the company. “In the name of all us Limeese, I but desire to express to you, sir sailor, that we have by no means overlooked your delicacy in not substituting present Lima for distant Venice in your corrupt comparison. Oh! do not bow and look surprised; you know the proverb all along this coast”

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 12/08/2026

lo and I have earnt a sticker, and have reached yon two-thirds percentage of comments addressed!!!!!!!!!!

extract of a spreadsheet, where the number "0.6666666667" representing 2/3 is front and centre

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 09/08/2026

HERE ARE MY STICKERS I am very proud of them. Yes I am nearly 40

A cluster of seven stickers on a weekly agenda page: four jellyfish of various colours and sizes, the famous archaeopteryx fossil, a horseshoe crab fossil and a shark tooth. All the stickers are outlined in a shiny gold foil

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 27/07/2026

I love to get really great really excellent palette ideas from a colour shuffler

a bunch of tiled vector shapes in extremely clashy colours like brown, hot pink, grass green, cyan, violet and pumpkin

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 26/07/2026

something satisfying about leaving a book like this

a 540-page softcover held in the photographer’s left hand, showing a decent number of blue page flags stuck in the book at various spots

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 26/07/2026

consent on the page… get him Ysabele

And thereupon my lord Walewein, who knows well how to behave himself, said, “Ah, fair damsel, what shall it be? Shall I die or shall I love? If I am to die, then I entrust to you my soul, fair damsel. If you are to take my life, I would with sweet sorrow die in your lap.”

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 26/07/2026

I’m not saying ANYTHING except that this is accurate to MY canon (EVERY YEAR THE SUMMER, going on sub eventually/soon)

Then the damsel boldly ordered that his armour be removed at once, and next that his hands and feet be harshly bound together, and that he be led before her and thrown at her feet. […] ‘In God’s name, do with me as you please, fair damsel. Kill me; whatever torments you inflict upon me will be a pleasure.’

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 26/07/2026

back at it for round 2

A softcover book: DUTCH ROMANCES, VOLUME 1: ROMAN VAN WALEWEIN, edited by David F. Johnson and Geert H.M. Claassens

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 26/07/2026

TRANS GAWAIN CONFIRMED CANON sorry I will not be accepting any notes to the contrary

When the damsel heard this, she said, “My Lord, by your faith, will you grant it me willingly?” “As I wish to live in honor, I will, indeed, as soon as I learn the truth.” “Then discern, dear father, what the following may portend. A very strange dream came to me last night as I lay: it seemed to me that a knight, a youth well-versed in all virtues came riding here from a distant land – so distant, that no one would believe it! Upon his shoulders stood a head that seemed to be that of a damsel. So it seemed to me, in very truth. What might this mean?”

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 26/07/2026

FIRST MENTION OF THE LADY HERSELF

At that he spoke to the king, “Tell me, Sire, whither I shall journey. I would not delay any longer the fulfilment of my pledge!” “Then you must fetch a maiden, Sir Walewein, whom you do not know. I have loved her for many a day. Those who know her say that there is in this world none so fair nor so good. Therefore my heart grieves that I must live without her for so long. I fear that I shall perish because I cannot win her for myself.” Next to this extract, a blue post-it note with the name “YSABELE 💚”

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 26/07/2026

sorry to historiography but that shit is gay as hell /respectful

Walewein the Fearless saw this, and it moved him to pity the lad because he perceived that he was so handsomely formed and yet rode such a sorry horse. He was broad shouldered, healthy and good-looking. His nose was handsome and straight; his forehead broad and smooth; his eyes were a beautiful gray; brown and narrow were his eyebrows; his hair was curled and fair; his neck white as snow and round; his cheeks blossomed like a rose; his breath did not smell at all foul; with teeth white and small, no one had ever seen a more handsome creature! He had a narrow waist and a dimple in his chin. He was perfectly formed in body and very well mannered.

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 23/07/2026

sometimes revision is about writing sentences real nice. sometimes revision is about making pivot table of categorized comments

a zoomed-in bit of spreadsheet showing five rows, each with an associated count of the number of times a comment has been categorized under the theme in question. themes and counts: Bertilak 6, Climate 1, Endgame 9, Fae 5, Gawain 11.

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 21/07/2026

few feelings more embarrassing in this life than being on the nth draft of a novel revision, reading the version YOU SENT TO YOUR AGENT, and you find a paragraph that fully cuts off mid-sentence

a comment in the margins of a Google document left by user straith: "LOL THIS SENTENCE JUST ENDS??"

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 07/07/2026

it’s almost like an invitation! ha ha! I’ll call you back in a minute I’m having a totally normal time over here

an all-white home interior at the junction of several doorways (bedroom, bathroom, etc.), but on the ceiling there is an attic hatch, and the attic hatch is hanging open into darkness. the attic hatch is visible head-on: there is a folding ladder installed into the door.

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 07/07/2026

a fresh angle post-nap. So Much Fun!

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 07/07/2026

photo evidence of my impending doom

a bedroom doorway in a house, through which an attic trapdoor can be seen from the hinge side. the trapdoor is hanging into the ceiling space

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 03/07/2026

Bluesky gets to see this too: my echeveria is blooming, and it has the prettiest coral coloured blossoms 🧡

A close-up of an echeveria blossom. The echeveria itself is a compact, dusty green succulent with fleshy, spade-shaped leaves growing radially in layers. Three stalks have pushed out from between the top two layers of leaves. They have clusters of almond-shaped flower buds nestled among dusty green leaves. In the foreground, a flower bud is very visible, and it has a delicate coral colour. In the background there’s an elephant jade with white and green variegated leaves and blush pink stalks.

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 22/06/2026

HEAR YE, HEAR YE: I am now officially repped by Laura Zats at Headwater Literary Management! Laura has a fantastic vision for my very bi+trans, rather mind-bendy throuple-centred Gawain remix, EVERY YEAR THE SUMMER. I'm excited to see what's next! @lzats.bsky.social @headwaterlit.bsky.social

I'm agented! I'm now represented by Laura Zats at Headwater Literary Management for my mind-bending throuple-centred Gawain remix, EVERY YEAR THE SUMMER! (Text is bracketed by headshots of Straith (L), a white person with short black hair and large glasses, and Laura (R), a person with bright red lipstick, bangs, and shoulder-length salt-and-pepper hair)

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 21/06/2026

not too bad considering I haven’t done this in 15 years

A spiral bound sketchpad with white paper, upon which are drawn several practice shapes (upper left corner), a stick figure in a low mid-step position (right), and a more massed-out figure (lower left corner) standing with arms in fists above its head

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 12/06/2026

ok *sweats* everybody can stop liking this extremely low effort post now and start reading my fiction

A post from straith that reads “also this week I learned that current slang for a crisp Diet Coke is ‘fridge cigarette’ and damn if that doesn’t feel correct as hell” that has 121 likes (plus other engagement)

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 11/06/2026

surviving this conference like

a white person’s hand holds a can of Diet Coke with the condensation still clinging to it. the holder of the can wears an extremely cool chainmaille bracelet and sits in a conference room with beige carpet and furniture

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 02/06/2026

time for..................... a mid-year writing thing goal: draft of a novel between now and end of august. 778 words a day should get me around 70,000 words. doesn't have to be good, just has to be something to revise. don't have to write every day, just have to keep up the commitment. LET'S GO

hello it's june so it's time for a mid-year writing thing. pleas join me as I attempt to write a first draft by end of august. if I write 777.78 words per day I can finish a 70k draft by then. unrealistic? possibly. will I still try? hell yeah!! June 1 thru Aug 31 c'mon

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 27/05/2026

my main character after confronting the strange apparitions in his house and realizing they're on the same side:

A behind-the-scenes photo from the production of Guillermo Del Toro's CRIMSON PEAK, in which a red-skinned, red-haired, gaunt figure with a wide open mouth (left) fistbumps a long-haired blonde white woman in a voluminous white dress

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 23/05/2026

Credit where credit is due

Production design and art direction: Daniel Haller

Assistant director: Jack Bohrer; sound recording: Roy Meadows; makeup: Ted Coodley; wardrobe: Marjorie Corso; properties: Richard M. Rubin; set decorator: Harry Reid; construction coordinator: Ross Hahn; unit manager: Robert Agnew; production assistant: Jack Cash

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 18/05/2026

SMOOTHIE OBTAINED I call this one “potion of gray” and it is my foremost autism chow (tagging for #food so ppl can mute the term if desired)

a glass stein-style cup with a glass straw standing in it. the cup is full of a greyish-purple opaque liquid. next to the glass is a large blender jar with more opaque liquid in it

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 11/05/2026

*hurriedly closes Canva* uh yeah, OBVIOUSLY I'm working on my outline, why are you looking at me like that, it's fine. I'm working on the outline it's fine. I'm Writing The Book It'S FINE

a slide that says "HELIOTROPE by D.A. Straith". the background is "Old Woman in Greenhouse", a 1936 painting by Walter Kurt Wiemken. in which a pale-faced old woman dressed in black and sitting in a largely empty greenhouse stares out from the middle of the painting. there are glass walls, and the struts of the building as well as the underside of the roof are painted in green; but there are only a few scattered plants around the place.

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 09/05/2026

the writing setup for this spront

Straith’s writing setup in this moment: on the recliner, with an old brown fuzzy blanket on their legs; they have a Chromebook out. In the background is a tv stand festooned with various anime, video game and Transformers figurines. A clock states that it’s 9:06 AM.

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 07/05/2026

Please look at my maranta it is flowering it has never done this before so I am very excited!!

a maranta, also known as a prayer plant, with flat oval-shaped green leaves shot through with red veins. a single stalk emerges from the heart of the plant, bearing a tiny, delicate pink flower.

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 30/04/2026

Hi, reality tech support? Yes. Yeah, time loop. Uh huh, well, seems like the longer it goes, the more the climate uh, unravels? & the more people die? & also try kissing me? Uh huh. Oh—sorry I don't mean STOP, I want them to go back to looping. Tryin to uphold the status quo here #Q #A #F #questpit

EVERY YEAR THE SUMMER: an agent's guide. Text is set against a mixed-media backdrop featuring a largely black-and-white landscape, with one cutout section showing a bright green bit of the landscape with a hunched figure looking despondent.

EVERY YEAR THE SUMMER is a 103k standalone adult weird fantasy. It's A24's THE GREEN KNIGHT meets GROUNDHOG DAY but with an MFM throuple romance. Text is set against a mixed-media backdrop featuring a largely black-and-white landscape, with one cutout section showing a bright green bit of the landscape with a hunched figure looking despondent.

Comps: THE EVERLASTING, by Alix E. Harrow, for folklore-inspired time loop romance featuring memory. THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER, by Simon Jimenez, for being queer, lyrical and dreamlike. THE BRIGHT SWORD, by Lev Grossman, for Arthuriana not retold, but reimagined. Text is accompanied by various sketches and images of knights and figures: one drowning in petal-scattered water, one holding aloft a sword with their face blurred out, one lying dead with flowers growing from their chest.

"I will not behead you again, beloved."

At Midwinter, one knight beheads another for an audience of jeering immortal courtiers. At Midsummer, he rides into the hinterland to be beheaded by the same man he killed—then returns to life to tread the cycle anew, lest his own body punish him for straying. The only one who remembers the loop, Sir Gavin knows that being a good knight—and a good man—means surrendering to the brutal beheading ritual again and again. It is only by this ritual that the seasons keep turning.

One cycle, the usual Midwinter blizzard becomes a flood, killing the children of Camelot while Gavin is lost in his own apathy. The seasons, he realizes, are collapsing. Gavin, as a good man ought, blames this on some failure of his to uphold his knightly morals, a blame that only escalates when he learns that the world's instability has spread to Hautdesert, where resides the married couple for whom he harbours a secret passion.

There's no time to get swept up in the lord and lady's delicious new kissing games, nor to trade literal and figurative jabs with the beguiling Green Knight. If Gavin cannot soon find a way to repair the seasons while continuing to complete the loop's knightly quests in sequence, the kingdom will drown in the pitiless sea, and with it his beloveds—and it will have been his fault alone.

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 29/04/2026

POV: you're a knight stuck in a time loop & yr fave thing is going to Hautdesert every summer so you can hang with the local lady and her unfortunately hot husband but this year she's...flirting with you?? & so is her husband??? HOW? it's a time loop!! WHY ARE THINGS CHANGING!! #Q #A #F #questpit

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 29/04/2026

EVERY YEAR THE SUMMER: Totally hypothetically, what if you were an extremely repressed knight and the only way you could save reality was to let yourself be really, really bi? A24's THE GREEN KNIGHT w/ a transmasc protagonist (and this time the MFM romance is full-blown canon) #Q #A #F #questpit

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 28/04/2026

cn: food . . . microwave means I can have fondue in 40 seconds any time I have the ingredients. I am an adult

two small dishes: on the left, a dish with a fish pattern with melted chocolate in it; and on the right, a dish of cut strawberries

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 26/04/2026

content note: food . . took a break from trying to figure out how to make my Gothic novel wider and more unsettling to engage in domestic labour apple cinnamon walnut baked oats | instant pot pinto beans

two dishes side by side: a square metal pan containing apple-cinnamon baked oats topped with walnuts (left), and a round glass container full of pinto beans in their cooking liquid (right).

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 26/04/2026

I mean, it’s 10k of notes that look like this, but yeah! I got in a zone I haven’t been in in like, 2 months!!

she doesn't look to be in like, *great* health - kind of pinched and dead-eyed.
4. **Opponent**: Francisse, who seems determined to ruin the evening with her competitiveness - unwilling to lose a game. Possibly Gaspar, who I think enjoys making people feel stupid. Possibly Eloise, who "seems determined to ruin the mood" according to her husband (actually she just feels sick).
5. **Conflict**: The competitiveness really shows the threat Francisse, Gaspar, Eloise, others feel at the sight of Aimery
6. **Endpoint**: The kid, who's been watching from a distance, like from behind a curtain or something (plan this better) breaks into tears and runs away, and Erica is

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 20/04/2026

$8 to tip this campaign over to the $10k mark 👀👀👀

a screen grab from the YEARS BEST CANADIAN FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION: VOLUME 4 anthology Kickstarter page, which shows that the campaign has received $9,992 CAD in pledges across 264 backers and with 10 days remaining in the campaign

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