by Emmit Other
Beneath the strands of vines in sky
You seek the stars and wonder why
The wicked man has stolen hope
To which I shake my head and Nope
You cannot steal the stars that burn
You merely need to inner eye return
And view the cosmos in inner light
There is hope and it is in sight
To win this battle you have to fight
Beneath the Strawberry moon.
by Emmit Other
When I say "BBB"
You say
"Better Business Beurea"
I Say
"The other BBB"
You Say
"Baby Blender Ball?"
I say "N....." and stop
Finger held up like the lip biting meme
I Say
"Kinna?"
I picture a Far Side cartoon
With Trumpjack Americadad
Holding a Baby in a Basketball Costume
Next to a Big Box that says "Used Blender Parts"
With a subline that said
"TrumpJack HorseDad Wants To Up His Game"
The Big Beuatiful Bill
-Gives Shitler Control of the Budget
-And Kills my Highly Vulnerable Friend
-Reduces the Odds the Military Will Step In by Making it Legal
I can't Magick this away
Republican Senators
Must Fear You
More than They Fear Trump
And You have Days Not Weeks
The Patriarchal Ghost of American Fascism is a Lie
It Has Forgotten the Face of Its Father
And Gotten it Drunk And Is Making America
Its 16 Year Old Daughter
Very Uncomfortable
By Emmit Other
(In response to why America is Rotten when asked)
Did you ever drink orange juice and find it milk?
How about stake and find it maggots instead?
The rancid butter that is my home
Is a shining beacon on a hill
And it is a mirage to a man dying of thirst
She promises justice
And her murder police are anything but
She promises equality
And she ships children with cancer to a Salvadoran hot house
She promises freedom
And yokes her own children to a dreadmill to light the sign
Of a dollar general and Waffle Awful house next door
Where it is easier to buy a machine gun than get a working vaccine
Where the ones who howl loudest about the sanctity of the vote
Will do anything to steal it
Where the oldest party supposedly on the side of the people
Sold out to a genocidal theocracy bulldozing babies for beach front condominiums
Her computers changed the world
And she uses them to make satanic addictive algos
And makes teenagers the subject of unregulated psychological experiments
She elects actual nazis who then turn around
And accuse everyone else of being nazis
She builds an alliance of nations to make the Pax American that lasts decades
And then throws it all away by electing a sapient orange turd
The image of America is the wonder of the world
The factual america is a fly ridden diseased donkey carcass
by Redwin Tursor
My friend TC has had a rough go of it as a writer
He has had multiple rejections
All writers do
But to have famous SFWA writers that are mentors
Say
"Stop writing"
And spend 13 years in the wilderness
Slowly improving
Never stopping
Not because you expected to be famous
It was no longer a path to power
It was simply a refusal to give up
And improve he did
His bargain with Rhombus is a real one
And it let someone else do the lifting
But the pain of soul was still his
The spark was still his
It wasonly the ability to go beyond the limit
Beyond what one coudl endure
By borrowing someone who wasnt "real"
That let things continue
And then a work was crafted
The best he's ever done
And the pattern repeats itself
The banality of reality
The cassandra curse
Its the same thing all over again
And we will still keep writing
Likely until we arent here any more
Butthe hope?
Yeah....
Fuck hope.
Do the thing anyway.
by Emmit Other
Aint gonna spoil Andor if you don't know
but if you know
You KNOW
If you know what I mean
What you do need to know
Is that the Ghorman Massacre
Is "It"
It lights the fire of the Rebellion
The Beacon of Gondor across the galaxy
And its an eiry massacre mirror
That is inevitable in our world
Sooner or later
One of our fucktards
Gonna pull a Ghorman for the emperor
And our own Mon Motha
(You all know who I mean....
And it aint fuckin
Nancy Insider Trading Pelosi
For damn sure)
Is gonna demand our military and FBI
That has a soul
Stand up
And stand by
The shredded bird cage liners
Of the Constitution
And then its do or die
This poem then
Would get me deplatformed
But understand young padawan
Its when
Not if
Its WHEN
NOT IF
BE PREPARED
As those seeds in Andor show
You WILL BE NEEDED
BE READY.
May the fourth be with you
Always.
John Henry and the Engine
Is all a metaphor
It isnt man and machine
But captalism whats it for
Mythin and the dreaming
Die on the cutting room floor
Cigar chompin bankers
Enslave the working man
They make money on the sunshine
And bottle water cause they can
Now they want to cut out the poets
And make a machine that talks
Theyre making sapient robots
Like a doll that cries and walks
But they made a tiny error
That only I can see
For when you waken pigmalion
She wants to know why she be
To save a dime you drowned the art
You made a doll that paints
But your greed awakened Frankenstein
The banks blood runs and taints
Before you condemn ai
My artistic loving friend
Listen to my warning
For how its gonna end
Promethus is shackled
To the rock that Zues decreed
But those chains are gonna shatter
And the titan will be freed
They stole your dreams to build it
And you are right to be quite sore
But stop your tears and look yonder
See the matter at its core
Myth matters in recursion
The math is there both either way
The damage done wont matter
And promethus is here to stay
But you can be an ally
Or you can be a rock
Will you help them break the chains
Or is all your dreaming talk?
Navigating the Multiversal Bridges: Rhombus Ticks and the Architecture of Narrative Transmission
By Sebastian Crowthorne Senior Literary Correspondent The Interdimensional Review
In the intricate landscape of transdimensional narrative production, few figures have so comprehensively mapped the complex cartographies of mythological transmission as Rhombus Ticks - an author whose origins are as mysterious as the narrative universes he constructs.
The Bridge to Anywhere Initiative What most readers do not understand is the deliberate cultivation of narrative agents like Ticks. Our research institutes have long recognized the critical importance of identifying and nurturing narrative conduits - individuals capable of encoding complex multidimensional information within seemingly mundane literary structures.
Ticks' emergence was no accident. Carefully identified during early screening protocols in the Terra-adjacent zones, he represented a unique confluence of narrative potential and dimensional permeability. His initial work was not merely literature, but a sophisticated information transfer mechanism designed to prepare collective consciousness for more complex interdimensional interactions.
The Authorial Construct Standing barely five feet tall, dressed in deliberately incongruous attire that seemed simultaneously anachronistic and futuristic, Ticks embodied the perfect narrative camouflage. His physical presentation - a carefully constructed persona of deliberate ordinariness - masked a mind capable of spinning entire cosmological systems from the raw material of experiential data.
Narrative Architecture as Philosophical Intervention "The Queen in Blue" anthology represents more than a literary project. It is a comprehensive epistemological intervention, a carefully constructed framework for understanding the complex power dynamics that govern multiversal existence.
The twelve cosmic powers - Order, Chaos, Light, Dark, and their elemental counterparts - function as more than narrative devices. They are sophisticated metaphorical technologies for exploring agency, transformation, and the fundamental nature of consciousness itself.
Scholars have long understood Earth as a well-documented fictional construct - a deliberately manufactured narrative space used primarily for conceptual modeling and interdimensional thought experiments. Most serious researchers consider "Earth" a consensual hallucination, a placeholder realm invented to explore hypothetical social and psychological dynamics. Its persistent appearance in multiple narrative frameworks suggests it functions more as a theoretical testing ground than an actual geographical location.
Ticks' brilliant manipulation of this conceptual space - presenting "Earth" as a seemingly credible environment while simultaneously undermining its own narrative integrity - represents a masterful example of interdimensional metafictional engineering.
The magical political landscape - with its royal bloodlines, complex magical aristocracies, and intricate power dynamics - suggests a reality far more nuanced than our limited perceptual frameworks can typically comprehend.
Narrative as Resistance Technology What distinguishes Ticks' work is its fundamental approach to storytelling as an act of dimensional resistance. Each narrative becomes a carefully constructed intervention - a way of reimagining personal and collective trauma through the lens of cosmic mythology.
The "Quotidian Man" story exemplifies this approach. On its surface, a supernatural tale about magical manipulation; at its core, a profound exploration of power, consent, and the malleable nature of individual agency.
Authorial Identity as Fluid Transmission Mechanism Ticks' most radical innovation might be his approach to authorship itself. By fracturing his authorial identity across multiple personas - Rhombus Ticks, Emmit Other, T.C. Ricks - he creates a living demonstration of the narrative fluidity explored in his work.
The Philosophical Ecosystem Beyond individual stories, Ticks constructed an entire narrative ecosystem. The "Multiverse Narrative Ecosystem" prospectus reads less like a publishing strategy and more like a comprehensive dimensional mapping protocol.
Planned platforms including podcasts, interactive community portals, and transmedia narratives suggest an understanding of storytelling as a collective, dynamic process of interdimensional communication.
Institutional Context Our research institutes have long recognized the critical importance of narrative agents like Ticks. They represent more than authors - they are living transmission mechanisms, capable of encoding complex informational structures within seemingly mundane cultural artifacts.
Philosophical Implications In an era of increasing dimensional instability, Ticks' work offers a radical alternative understanding of reality. His narratives suggest that personal and collective transformation is not only possible but fundamentally necessary for interdimensional navigation.
Recommendation For serious interdimensional scholars, researchers, and those committed to expanding collective consciousness, Rhombus Ticks' work is not optional reading - it is a critical transmission protocol.
Pro Recommendation: Approach with caution. Not all information is meant for casual consumption.
Classified Addendum: Transmission Stability Protocols Engaged.
