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Gather round and welcome
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This is Liminal Flares
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bedtime stories
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from beyond and in-between
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readings of eldritch literature
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drawn from the public domain
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and amended
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to be gender-inclusive.
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Needlessly gendered
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heteronormative language is everywhere
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summarily excluding
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anyone who isn't
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a woman
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or a man.
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If you exist somewhere beneath
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the vast and kaleidoscopically beautiful
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nonbinary umbrella
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there are so very many ways
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the world repeatedly
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that you don't merit consideration
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let alone inclusion.
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That will not happen to you
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here.
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Here stories spill out of the darkness
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a thick blanket of fog rolling endlessly
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across a twilight deamscape
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carrying haunting whispers
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plaintive echoes
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poignant lullabies
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and hypnotic incantations
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intoned in unfamiliar tongues.
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Brooding shadows
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and beguiling will-o'-the-wisps
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turn the unremarkable
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into the uncanny.
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This would be an easy place
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were it not for another
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luminous linguistic liminal flares
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sent up to signal that you are seen.
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You belong.
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You matter.
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Because you do.
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And you deserve stories
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that include people like you.
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Join me
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Maika
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your queer, trans, nonbinary narrator
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as I read gender-inclusive revisions of
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Gothic horror stories
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weird fiction
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folk tales
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science fiction
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poetry
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and more...
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I am here to remind you
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that the relentless heteronormativity of this world
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is a falsehood.
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That we cannot assume to know
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a person's gender
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or their pronouns
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based on our own perceptions.
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But more than anything
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this is a place for haunted
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gender-inclusive story time.
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Gender neutral language creates room
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for everyone
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which means that you are welcome here
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no matter what your gender.
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And I do hope that you'll join me.
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