makyo

Author, Beat Sabreuse, Skunks

Recovering techie with an MFA, working on like a kajillion writing projects at once. Check out the Post-Self cycle, Restless Town, A Wildness of the Heart, ally, and a whole lot of others.


Trans/nb, queer, polyam, median, constantly overwhelmed.


Current hyperfixation: SS14


Skunks&:

ā³ Slow Hours | šŸŖ” Beholden
🫓 Hold My Name | ✨ Motes
🌾 Rye | ā˜… What Right Have I
🌱 Dry Grass | āš–ļø True Name
🌺 May Then My Name

Icon by Mot, header by @cupsofjade

posts from @makyo tagged #post-self

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She played in color. She played in paint. She painted the backdrops for the productions. She painted the props that sat on the stage or rested in the actors' hands. She painted the stage itself, the matte black of so many past productions long abandoned. 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. She painted her dreams, those serene and idyllic landscapes interrupted by hyperblack squares, unexpected and unexplained holes in the world that depicted a nothing-ness, a missing-ness, a not-there-ness that slid easily between the border of absurd and unnerving. She painted the holes in the world that she dreamed about but was afraid to touch and yet which would not stop touching her mind in turn...

Motes Played will be out August 1! It is available for pre-order, and the ebook is currently 20% off for Pride, along with all my other ebooks~

Lovely cover by Astolpho!



I have a lot of books for you, all 20% off. I got:

  • memoirs written as a conversation between two parts of me but I promise it is not plural!!! (It was totally plural)
  • A making-of zine for the totally-not-plural memoir
  • Sad, queer animals in a flyover state
  • Sad, queer animals in a flyover state 2 — the return of sad, queer animals in a flyover state
  • I wrote enough poetry in five years to put in a slim volume
  • Skunks
  • Skunks 2
  • Skunks 3
  • Skunks 4
  • Instead of skunks there is genocide
  • This skunk is very small
  • An anthology in which some of the stories feature skunks but I promise not the one I wrote
  • A bunch of Q&As from skunks
  • Three collaborative historical fiction anthologies that I have helped with

Help a trans girl out on pride month!


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