2025 October Fan Poll

Hey everybody, it's that time again: time to vote for which stuff gets the LiberaPay/Patreon money this month!

As always, anyone can vote (please do!), but LiberaPay and Patreon patrons get double weight for their votes.  (Due to Patreon's porn purges, I really encourage you to use LiberaPay, if you get a choice.) If you want to see the blurbs for any of these works, those are here!  (You can also leave your requests there; requesting a story or essay is always free!) If you don't have a DW and so can't do the poll, that's okay; just leave your vote in the comments below; anon comments are turned on.

Which works gets the money, and thus posted this month?  YOU CHOOSE, readers!

Poll #33684 2025 October Fan Poll

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Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 29

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Did you toss LiberaPay/Patreon money my way last month?

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Yes (my votes count double)
8 (100.0%)

What writing gets posted this month?

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Infinity Smashed: Born Lucky
6 (20.7%)

Reverend Alpert: the Traveling Exorcist
2 (6.9%)

Henchwench for Hire (F/F supervillainy)
4 (13.8%)

Rutless (trans omegaverse porno)
2 (6.9%)

Many-Selved Family Portraiture
10 (34.5%)

Anatomy of a Dance (essay)
9 (31.0%)

The Boy Whose Heart Is Home (teen hardship)
3 (10.3%)

The Battleaxe and the Blood-Eater (pseudo Greco-Roman gladiators)
3 (10.3%)

two apocalyptic micro-stories
4 (13.8%)

Rage Against the Regime (LB life)
11 (37.9%)

What art/comic/zine gets posted this month?

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Cult Comix
6 (21.4%)

Death Watch
4 (14.3%)

How it Was, How It Is
6 (21.4%)

2012 hospital sketchbook
1 (3.6%)

2013 Homeless Year sketchbook
0 (0.0%)

2014 AllFam sketchbook
2 (7.1%)

Protection
2 (7.1%)

2015 early Biff sketchbook
3 (10.7%)

So Wiggly, So Fluffy Sweethearts (silly Rawlin sketch comics)
15 (53.6%)

Old Man Yaoi (silly LB sketch comic)
15 (53.6%)

The Power of Touch, by Phyllis K. Davis

Miranda: I was hoping to make a proper post about all this, but I am freshly vaccinated and rapidly losing my ability to think. So instead I will just post the notes because this interlibrary loan book must be returned to Utah and we need these notes somewhere for later.

Around the time of those touch workshops, Rogan took an interest in trying to study touch more. The two books we've read on the subject are Touch by Tiffany Fields, and now the Power of Touch, by Phyllis K. Davis.

If you only get to read one, choose Fields; her book is definitely stronger, dealing in study data on the therapeutic uses of touch for various ailments and situations. However, Davis does engage with something Fields doesn't: "vicarious touch" and "internal touch"... things that are extremely relevant to us multi-wise, as people who overwhelmingly meet our touch needs through noncorporeal means.

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