humantooth's postnormal cyberpunkjournal

July was filled, flushed, absolutely fecund with fun stuff for tooth. At the top of the month, my (dont tell the others) favorite cousin flew in fresh of fashion week in paris. Her sister (whom i also treasure) followed a couple weeks later from North (like far far north, norther than north korea north) China, and we fostered my brother's humongous mongrel in between. Both were on break from higher education, which is crazy to think about since I was part of their lower baby education. Ma.ny. meals were had trying to fill the girls up on all the foods they missed from America including a bountiful seafood boil (a summertime staple for us) and all manner of snacks. We celebrated my parents anniversary at JCK where I got to say "我請客".
And then there was comiccon!

Holy Haul-lelujiah, Batman!

As always, I was able to sneak in swiftly with elegance and grace and able to fill my bags to my heart's content in similar style. Suck Geoff Darrow wasn't there again but truly, this year was a lot better than past prior. If I went through everything I got we'd be here all day but here are some Haul Highlights:

MUD + SLUDGE (Q Hayashida)
FUTURE (Tommi Musturi)
UNKNOWN PLEASURES (Tomer Hanuka)
MINION II (João Ruas)
Ultraman Art Book
The Lost Tune (Stanislav Sukalski)
hella art supplies from Holbein
Cool shirts, knickitty knacks and DVDs

And then of course at the beginning of the month we had the country's birthday, which usually I dont give a shit about but to temper possible doggy trauma at all the firework noises, we brought Chola up to the lookout point. That ended up backfiring a bit where she was barking at.. well everything.. so we ended up stuffing her in her travel bag* to restrict her movement like puppy hannibal lecter, which she did not take kindly to. Just kidding.

*Also to be clear, she generally doesn't travel in that bag, in fact she usually goes grocery shopping in this set up since the beginning of the year when she made it clear that she will no longer tolerate being in stores with freezers.

Month: jewn.
	Intro
	I know, I know this is late as hell. The month was a good, mostly kept my head down, working hard training my robot babies and pushing social media posts for my grown robot sluts. That journal issue I was putting together is finally done with. Not sure when its going to be released but some articles should already be available (linked below). The beginning of the month erupted with bizarre online drama, details of which will be forthcoming. As a general reminder, there's a bunch of goodies constantly uploaded to the Library. This month, I'm proud to present a short story I've searched for off and on for the past 6 years, The Adopted Chinese Daughters' Rebellion, from Better Living Through Plastic Explosives.
	Media Consumption
	Gem of a graphic novel that takes place on a cursed family desktop computer in the 90s. Artist website: https://wylesol.com/sequential Interview: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/george-wylesol-internet-crusader-illustration-160919
	BIBLIOMANIA: https://mangafire.to/read/bibliomania.1n64q/en/chapter-1 so nice I had to post it twice
	Got 37% of the way through Brainwyrms, a queer horror novel by Alison Rumfitt, that is horny, trans and spooky, in that order.
	Internets
Mayor of Eastsound	Reinforcing the ruralness of the land my friend Clark moved to, is the mayoral race of Eastsound Fuck Honey Cat!
World Futures Review	Articles from the special Arts+Poetry issue of World Futures Review I was invited to co-edit are beginning released! Not sure when I will have a direct link to the issue, but you can read here as it comes out
	Le Drama
	TLDR mod creates code that auto-likes/follows all activity/users on neocities to promote their projects and gain popularity gets pushback for it on lolcow.farm mod becomes obsessed with lolcow farmers, cyber stalks them, creates fake¹ sites² calling them out, makes fake sites³ calling themselves out to cover their tracks, nobody is fooled. mod goes nuclear, pretends to get banned, erasing their all their projects, personal site (and fakes), vacates servers and privates discord account
	i wrote this long ass thing laying it all out that i'm gonna have to turn into a separate page, mostly because said drama was a blip at the beginning of the month and proportionately was taking too much real estate from this update. I'll be damned if anyone would actually find it interesting but it's rare i get to actually experience a niche internet community drama myself. but here are some (archived) links to whet everyone's appetite:
Links:
¹Sped-call-out (also named: SailorMoonDiary)	Very NSFW. NSF Living Rooms either. Meant to troll one of the farmers (comes with a deleted reddit post)
³ban-divsel	The sloppy ass self call-out site
²websiteforwomen	another stupid troll site tw terf shit

1+1*'
Bibliomania is the best manga I have come across and had I read it in my formative years it would have become one of things that molded my mind and leaves a trail of slime across my soul.//As far as I can tell there isn't an English release readily available for purchase -i actually checked- but you can read it online like i just did.
Spectrolite is a free OSX program that separates images into Riso color layers, it has layout features for zines and prints. Even if you are poor and don't have a mac, they have great guides on general zinery and an inspiring tutorial on Riso Animation and heaps of links. There's something about their inability to not share that makes the creators of this project seem like good ppl.

visited my pal Clark

Israel bought a Champagne Minivan

books and media

A.
round mid month i headed up to the city of sour patch angels to bid my good friend clark a fond farewell before he embarks upon his life-changing or at least -altering journey to the place Free Willy was filmed‡, Orca's Island.
This meant carpooling a couple hours w my ma post-Mother's Day who was game to go visit one of her own friends that day, visiting my bro and his wife at their home in [REDACTED], and constantly defending myself from Clark's -I say this with peace and love- demented ass dog.
And books. Many many books. One of Clark's best qualities is he has taste similar to mine*, and a natural consequence of moving for most people is having to downsize. Thus I was bestowed with many hundreds of dollars worth of top-tier stuff-and-things. Daido Moriyama, Martin Parr, very cool and obscure first issues of magazines that failed later. I am tempted to pull up prices for the mostly out of print haul I walked away with and come up with a grand total for the value to make him feel slightly worse about shedding his items. But in all seriousness folks, (folks? take my wife, please) I wish nothing but the best for him no matter what part of the planet he brings his talent and demented ass dog (peace and love)

*(Reading that back, i realize how vain it sounds, but i'm going to keep it because its funny and true)

‡ Note: I have no reason to believe or disbelieve whether Free Willy was actually filmed in, on, or around Orca's Island, but I'll believe it for their sake, since not doing so would really chaff my blowhole

	having spent the whole year reading contemporary japanese novels and obsessing over yokai, I found a book of contemporary japanese short stories BASED on yokai.

        Celebratory Meals
        Chilaquiles and Creme Brulee at Ninas 5/5
Make Hainan Chicken & Rice + Pineapple cake icecream for Mother's Day 5/12
Ceviche at Yoltich's Graduation party 5/24

had a hard time realizing my sweet baby dove in paris was having a hard time

What did we do this month? work a lot.

a lot a lot. enjoying it tho.

made a funky bootleg of a bootleg on an official Daido Moriyama shirt.
I cropped, rotated and resized the image from this product page, gussied up the text and prepared it for cricut, then added it to a shirt my brother and his wife got me from Uniqlo. i think the correct equation is Bootleg SH X Daido Official.

i'll throw the cut file onto the cricut downloads folder for other horror survival craft enthusiasts.

LSRxWFR
↑↑ my academic obligations ↑↑
LSR, aka The International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots, bka Love and Sex with Robots is an academic conference about sex tech research and of course, sex robots, recently expanding to cover the realm of artificial "companions" and horny chatbots. It's had its share of controversies (1,2, 3,) which forced the conference into an online format for the past three years, two of which I served on the planning committee. This year marks the return to an online format, and will be held in Montréal. It also marks the first year I've been apart of where we have been flushed with cash, as such I'm actually getting paid to handle their social media and am expecting to get my travel and stay covered for the conference (though I still haven't decided if I'll actually go).

WFR refers to the World Futures Review and I'm sure ive talked about that somewhere. Im co-editing a special issue on Arts and Poetry and after collecting and accepting submissions, I finally spit out my side of the introductory editorial, which.. I know in my heart of hearts wasn't my best and I'll probably try to rewrite it. The problem was they never gave me a hard deadline, just "whenever it's ready", which probably sounds keen, but as a perpetual night before the deadline writer, it turns out i really need to feel the heat to produce anything of quality.

my mum has been in taiwan for the past month plus leading to concern over the multiple and on-going earthquakes, extended family gossip and teleshopping at my favorite stationery store on the planet, the 9x9 in Kaohsiung.

but the real highlight of the month was the icecream
the grocery store i live by usually sells pints of Ben&Jerry's for $5.99+ but this month had a sale for 4 @ $3.00 per piece, yes, i am writing about this which is like buy 2 get 2, so.. ive had half a pint of ice cream each night and cooling my blood with chocolate and icey creams.
i think the less that happens the more prone i am to rambling because i somehow am trying to justify the time ive spent, or maybe, and this is true, i appreciate what my current version of monotony is.

media for the month on 2024.html