Galen LK

@galenlk

Just a 'yote making my way through a good and grand world. Writer, science nerd, proud husband of a proud husband. I'm from the 20th century, please be nice to me. Icon + banner by Storiel

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Galen LK@galenlk· 18d

perfection

Galen LK@galenlk· Jul 10

Permission granted! I'm okay with any of the kinks you've previously posted in public, plus a good few others.

Galen LK@galenlk· Jul 9

Post-con reading nook is really starting to come together I think.

Galen LK@galenlk· Jun 1

I hope you can make this a season of renewal, and a chance to find out just a little bit more about who you've always been. Happy pride, y'all.

Birds wheeling in front of a massive waterfall. Rainbows are projected on either side.

Galen LK@galenlk· May 11

Post your warning sign

Warning sign reads:

WARNING

IT IS POSSIBLE TO SURVIVE THIS BUT NOT UNALTERED

Galen LK@galenlk· Mar 21

Last call for votes! Head on over to ursamajorawards.org/voting2025/ to let the fandom know how much you liked Sanctum Scriptorium, The Wideness of the World anthology collection, and all your other favorite works of furry art.

Galen LK@galenlk· Mar 16

Thereabouts, I think. I gotta fill this graph up with more characters though! Get some of those in-progress projects moving.

Galen LK@galenlk· Mar 8

It's award season! My story "Sanctum Scriptorium" was nominated in the short fiction category of the Ursa Majors. If you liked it, you can vote for it, and all your other favorites, at ursamajorawards.org

The cover of "The Wideness of the World" early modern anthology. A group of furries in 18th century dress share stories in a tavern.

Galen LK@galenlk· Feb 25

And he’s given me permission to share our anniversary present, care of @storiel.bsky.social

Galen LK@galenlk· Feb 25

Galen LK@galenlk· Feb 18

sorry for your loss

Galen LK@galenlk· Jan 23

Printed, not hand-illuminated, but all the same, so great to finally have all our stories as a physical object in my hands!

A picture of “The Wideness of the World” short fiction anthology.

Galen LK@galenlk· Jan 10

Inside you are two wolves. They look like this.

Galen LK@galenlk· Dec 22

Most of the "wrapped" thing I will keep to myself, I'm small potatoes and it's not that interesting. But! "It's not just furry" is apparently my modal sentence? I suppose it's true enough; I am more than furry. But I promise, dear reader, that I will never be *less* than furry, either.

Galen LK@galenlk· Dec 7

👀

Galen LK@galenlk· Nov 23

Its not just the queerness, I think, though that’s part of it. It’s also just that the Very Online dynamics and the complicated relationships between fursona and identity have a way of exposing the non-monogamous parts of the brain, and making room to express them in healthy ways.

Galen LK@galenlk· Nov 9

The normies aren't ready, but I'm keeping the flame alive in my heart all the same.

Galen LK@galenlk· Sep 6

What flavor is your sona?

Galen LK@galenlk· Aug 29

Getting very excited for the new Furry Historical Fiction Society's story collection, coming soon from @tfpublishing.bsky.social. Y'all are gonna love it! It's been super fun to watch the project come together and see what everyone had to write. They also showed me exactly 1/17th of the cover...

Galen LK@galenlk· Jul 31

We're backsliding so hard that 90's counterculture is funny again! (Honestly a lot of it always was.)

A 1992 single-panel comic by Matt Groening

A small, caricatured rabbit figure, with an aggrieved expression, sits tied to a wooden chair by voluminous ropes covering most of its body. The room is otherwise bare. A closed wooden door has a small slit open, with a person's eye's visible on the other side. A speech bubble coming from the door reads, "Are you ready to embrace family values yet?"

Galen LK@galenlk· Jul 26

No cheating, post your Lock Screen.

Galen LK@galenlk· Jul 24

Here's my version. Full text in the alt-text, if you wanna copy it.

I'm writing to let you know that I plan to stop using Itch.io as a service, effective immediately.

This is a response to your recent decision to de-list adult, and especially LGBT, content. As history has shown us, bans on adult content are almost immediately turned to the enforcement of heteronormative social patterns; gay, trans, and queer content is treated as 'not worksafe' regardless of how those stories are presented. We see this already, in the number of LGBT games you have already de-listed despite not otherwise having objectionable content.

And we know why, too.

Listen, nobody goes to work at Itch.io because they hate letting creators share their games. I understand the pressure you're under, from activist groups, from payment processors. I'm sure it seems reasonable to compromise just this once. I'm sure there's a conference room somewhere where you're convincing yourself that it's better to make sure the remaining 90% of your content still finds its audience, even if you have to do the distasteful thing.

But "just this once" never really seems to stop at one, does it? The more you give in to them, the more they'll demand; the more they demand, the more you'll give. I don't want to be part of a system that lets these assholes win, and so I won't be joining you in that system.

I wish there was some obvious next step that I could use to make some kind of legible financial threat that would make sense to your shareholders, other than just denying you my custom. One thing I can say is that you have absolutely no tools, none whatsoever, to prevent this from happening to you over and over again. But then, those shareholders don't seem to be all that good at taking the long view, do they?

Maybe this, then- enshittification of services only works if the customer base is locked in. Before you take steps to deliberately become a worse version of yourselves, ask yourself:

How strong, exactly, do you think your customer lock-in is? How easy will it be,…

Galen LK@galenlk· Jul 24

Shamefully, there *are* some really good human portraiture artists that I really like, even though they don't do furry art. Guy Denning is a particular favorite.

Galen LK@galenlk· Jul 22

The most beautiful crater on Mars is this one from HiRISE Image ID ESP_057152_0985. The way it punched through the thin layer of surface ice, making beautiful wings against a stark white background; the way the burst of wind from the impact cleaned and scoured the ice. Perfection.

Galen LK@galenlk· Jul 11

This is me! The three mountains in the background are the Tharsis Montes on Mars, with Phobos and Deimos visible in the sky- in honor of some work I did in planetary geology back in the day. Art's by @orinoxide.bsky.social , given to me as a Christmas present by my husband.

Galen LK@galenlk· Jul 4

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
--Emma Lazarus

Galen LK@galenlk· Jun 8

Not all upside, though.

Galen LK@galenlk· May 4

Pivotal "I feel funny" moment.

Galen LK@galenlk· Apr 21