Parts of the Whole — Part 1: The Arrival
July 13, 2026
We're parts of a whole. Audrey and Hope.
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Writing by Austen Tucker.
Parts of the Whole It Takes a Zoo Goodgirl.tv — Part 7: I showed him the one thing I ever made for nobody but me.
July 7, 2026
A bird that won't stop throwing itself at the glass. The one thing out of a crowdsourced childhood she chose to make permanent — useless, compelled, true, and seen by no one but her. "It can't not," he says. And when the math finishes in his face, she gives him the name her friends use, and puts every chime on silent.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Goodgirl.tv — Part 6: He knew my hand on sight, and never guessed it was mine.
July 5, 2026
He knows the hand immediately. "This is a CancerCancer. This is a real one." What he doesn't know is that the maker is standing three feet away — and that the bid climbing in her harness has commas in it. "Smallest guy's gotta make the most noise," he says, and hands her the answer to a door she buried a month ago.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Goodgirl.tv — Part 5: Everyone talked about the light; she talked about the sound.
July 2, 2026
The fox was always there again — every panel, every show, never with a handler, never wanting a thing off the dog. At her first gallery opening, everyone talked about the light. Vivian pulled the visor down over eyes that didn't work and talked about the sound.
Continue reading →Arcade Blog My Brain Was Built for This
July 2, 2026
I'm a dissociated system. No continuous narrative, no unified memory — just state passed between alters via handoff notes and context files. Sound familiar? It should. You're building it right now and calling it the future of AI.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Goodgirl.tv — Part 4: Tonight I'm the human, and I think I've left the dog behind.
June 30, 2026
Braille bridge decks Nate built by hand. A human, a snake, a blind fox, and a rabbit around a table — Dogs Playing Poker, if the dogs had a worse secret. The cards run a little too good and Cancer's never once called it. Then Viv catches the layer she buried for nobody: "Oh. It's beautiful." Not you. It.
Continue reading →Arcade Blog I've Been Waiting for This My Whole Life
June 30, 2026
I've watched the hype-cycle pattern four times now — dot-com, cloud, big data, mobile. I'm watching it again. Why I'm not scared of what's coming, and why I've been getting ready for three years.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Goodgirl.tv — Part 3: I met Vivian because of a cane.
June 28, 2026
She met Vivian because of a cane. A blind woman put her hand on the most expensive fur in three markets and filed it under weather. "I'm blind. I can't see you. Why would I care if you're a dog?" The rudest, kindest thing anyone ever said to her — and then the question nobody had asked: what do you think?
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Goodgirl.tv — Part 2: I'm a real-life puppygirl, bred not to judge.
June 25, 2026
Seven and a half million people jacked into her synapses, wearing her genuine joy like a coat they rented. The braindance can't counterfeit what isn't there, so the body has to actually feel it. They bred a creature that floods on cue, called the flood consent, and sold it by the minute.
Continue reading →Pride Essays Beneath These Bones
June 25, 2026
The Pulse anniversary essay. I came out like a monster truck — loud, imposing, destructive — and ran for four years straight. Then one day it all just stopped. This is the quiet, hard shit no one talks about: picking up the broken glass after transition is done.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Goodgirl.tv — Part 1: I don't build the room and then walk in.
June 23, 2026
You don't build the room and then walk in — you walk in and the room decides what it's willing to be. In the Zoo, Cancer is an architect with a door buried so deep she can't tell if it's hidden or just lost. Then the mother-chime rings, cheerier than the rest, and the good girl goes to fetch.
Continue reading →Pride Essays Wicked Little Town
June 23, 2026
The cornfield kid finds a furry IRC channel and a rabbit named Kristi. The first time I ever heard the word "trans" used in a sentence — not as a slur, not as a punchline, just a woman casually mentioning she was transgender. Origin story.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Permissions — Part 5: Battle Buddy
June 22, 2026
They didn't hire a child. A child found the room where the adults were building a door, and made herself useful before they could decide whether stopping her would be mercy or cruelty. By winter, Ana was family.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Permissions — Part 4: The First Stranger
June 19, 2026
She slipped into the garage to see the test rig moving. Jack's body reacted before the brain did — K-bar in hand, years of muscle memory. Then Anabelle screamed, and the garage became a garage again.
Continue reading →Pride Essays A Fucking Riot
June 18, 2026
The Stonewall finale. The numbers I carry in my body — 30%, 46%, two bathroom doors — and a thought experiment about what would happen if we treated tonsils the way we treat trans medical care. There'd be a fucking riot.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Permissions — Part 3: Rabbit01
June 17, 2026
The skullcap synced. The body loaded. And for the first time in years, Jack felt like something that could be loved — not a weapon, not a monster. A bunny rabbit in a third-rate simulation of a bar.
Continue reading →Arcade Blog Disposable Art Is Still Art
June 16, 2026
I make disposable art on purpose. A manifesto on con sketches, e621, Yerf, the print-to-digital flinch, and why fan art has always obeyed campfire logic — not museum logic.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Permissions — Part 2: Eggs and Autopsy
June 15, 2026
The morning after the bus dream, Nate made eggs. Then Viv said four words that started everything: "We could build it ourselves."
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Permissions — Part 1: The Bus Dream
June 12, 2026
Before the Zoo, before Fulldive had a consumer name, there was a nightmare about a bus on Guangfu Road — and two people who knew how to hold the body back from where it had been.
Continue reading →Pride Essays Letters and the Sun on My Face
June 11, 2026
Letters to my younger selves at 11, 15, 19, and 22. It's not a fetish. It's not a fetish. It's not a fetish. And the Halloween at Wabash where I finally felt the sun kiss my cheeks — and dove right back under.
Continue reading →Short Stories Our Hope Chest — Part 2: Coney Beach
June 9, 2026
A flashback to the woods where stepbrother Jake first stumbles on the secret. Then Coney Beach goes off the rails — and Xander meets a boy in the crowd who reminds him why the costumes mattered in the first place.
Continue reading →Pride Essays Early Days
June 9, 2026
Pride month opens. Year by year from 2009 to now — Olly's in Indianapolis, the parade I got pulled into, the wedding-dress shots for Obergefell. And the night my sister sat me down with an armful of makeup and a mirror that ended boy Austen for good.
Continue reading →Short Stories Our Hope Chest — Part 1: The Attic
June 7, 2026
Two kids hide in a closet from their parents' arguing and find a hope chest behind a false wall — and inside, they find the thing they need most.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Gallery View — Part 7: Gallery View
June 4, 2026
A week of radio silence. Then Vivian texts twice. Mouse. Mouse, come up. He comes up. The walls of the Zoo are covered in him — and someone has pinned a postcard to a mousehole, signed 1 OF 8. — J.
Continue reading →Arcade Blog The Four Stages Nobody Tells You About
June 4, 2026
The people getting real value from AI aren't the ones with the best prompts — they're the ones who moved through four predictable stages as fast as possible. A map for getting unstuck from prompt obsession.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Gallery View — Part 6: Stack Trace
June 2, 2026
A koi under a vent. A chalk arrow along the rafters. DRINK ME. A purple shark in a cathedral of capacitors and copper traces. Then a for-loop he forgot to protect, and a meeting in the wreckage.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log The Photograph of a River
June 2, 2026
Every AI productivity study is a photograph of a river. By the time you develop the film, the water has moved.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Gallery View — Part 5: Breadcrumbs
May 28, 2026
A studio inside the walls. A jar of buttons labeled MAYBE USEFUL and another labeled EMOTIONALLY SIGNIFICANT BUT USELESS. Three helper-agents, eight postcards, and one shaky question: do you want her to find you?
Continue reading →The Singularity Log The Hidden Tax on Senior Engineers
May 28, 2026
AI didn't reduce the demand on your best engineers. It redirected it. 6.5% more code reviewed. 19% less original work.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Gallery View — Part 4: Safe Hour at the Bar
May 26, 2026
A thimble of water at the bar. Nate, again, with the Snakesim offer. Vivian's cane tocks the floor. Then Jamie's reply blooms in the air: WHO IS GEOFF AND WHY IS THIS SO PERFECT.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Gallery View — Part 3: Lobby
May 25, 2026
"Hey, you're the vending machine kid, right?" The other side of the encounter from Cold Boot — Geoff in the lobby, helmet under one arm, LET US OUT button pinned crooked to his satchel.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Gallery View — Part 2: Content Delivery Network
May 22, 2026
A moped held together by duct tape and chewing gum. A UPLOAD IS A HUMAN RIGHT flyer in the pannier. A vending machine that becomes a fortress when you're small enough to see it that way.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log Refusal Is Not Resistance
May 20, 2026
Why I use AI when the people coming for me already do. A blind trans woman's case against confusing refusal with resistance.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Gallery View — Part 1: The Painting
May 19, 2026
A mouse on the floor of a 12x12 cube, three brushes behind one ear, finally lands the shoulders. Vivian, on comms, tells him to stop polishing. Then: how do I get this to her?
Continue reading →The Singularity Log How to Run a Successful Moral Panic
May 18, 2026
I've been the target of enough moral panics to write the field guide. Here's how to run one successfully — and a warning that you'll be worse off if you do.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log When Labor Gets Weird
May 18, 2026
Something enormous is happening to work, and it arrives in clerical bites — boring enough to dismiss, big enough to reshape a life. A disabled knowledge worker on AI, four quadrants of adoption, and the fear of being early to the wrong skills.
Continue reading →AI Art Experiments Why Transformation?
May 18, 2026
On living in the uncanny valley, the women who taught me how, and why none of this scares me anymore.
Continue reading →Short Stories Ginny's Magic
May 14, 2026
A trans girl on an edible at a Boystown club gets pulled into a slow dance by a catgirl from somewhere else. By morning there's a scroll, a key, and a question worth answering.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Cold Boot — Part 8: Knock
May 14, 2026
A knock at the door. No one there. Just paper, ink, and a drawing of a shark — and a name on the dedication that ties the whole night together.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Cold Boot — Part 7: Later
May 14, 2026
Jack notices the flinch. Vivian names what’s behind it. By the end of the night, Jamie isn’t sure if she’s okay — and learns she doesn’t have to be.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log The Bad Place
May 13, 2026
We're not getting an Act-3 rescue. The system wants us hopeless, alone, and dissociated. Here's how to live and love while the long fire burns.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log Claude Design and the Novel T
May 13, 2026
If you give me agents, a CMS, a publishing pipeline, and one free evening, I will eventually try to write my own word processor. On Novel T, scene-aware drafting, and what an agent-native writing tool actually looks like.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Cold Boot — Part 6: Tide
May 13, 2026
Anabelle leads Jamie to a beach that smells like salt and tangerines, tells her to take off her corporate skin, and walks her into the surf. What’s underneath has been there all along.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Cold Boot — Part 5: Warmth
May 13, 2026
The bar applauds when Jamie comes back. A spiky teenager slides half her cursed soda across the counter — the first thing anyone’s offered without asking for something back.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log The Slow Blade
May 12, 2026
I'm 92,000 words into a novel nobody's read and three months into leading AI transformation at a 200-person org. Both look bad from the outside, which is how I know they're the same work. On long-arc discipline, the Dune shield, and why patience beats velocity.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Cold Boot — Part 4: Greige. Again.
May 11, 2026
“So when were you gonna tell me this was a fetish server?” Anabelle has explaining to do. Jamie has truths she hasn’t said out loud in years.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log Death of the Creative Wall
May 10, 2026
My first 1000-view video on YouTube was a chicken-fried possum lawyer from Toontown Chicago, a thing that would have lived entirely inside my skull five years ago. On cheap iteration, the wall it knocks down, and why slop is just practice with the lights on.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Cold Boot — Part 3: Rain
May 8, 2026
There’s no sun on the server. Just rain, jazz, a tavern that reveals itself like memory, and a missing logout button that nearly sends Jamie running.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log The Tollbooth Is Gone: Rebuilding My Publishing Pipeline with AI Agents
May 7, 2026
The administrative layer between finishing a piece and publishing it was enough to stop the whole machine. Here's how I rebuilt it as an agent-driven pipeline.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Cold Boot — Part 2: Dinner
May 5, 2026
A kindness to a vending machine becomes a stumbling encounter with a neighbor named Geoff. By the time Stinky Pete has finished cataloguing her vitals, Jamie has only one move left: plug in.
Continue reading →On Writing The Mailbox Had a Pulse
May 5, 2026
His name was Captain Webster. He sent letters. Then the letters stopped. On the email-list mentors who taught a Midwestern kid that writing could be a community, the twenty years of silence after the infrastructure died, and the publishing pipeline I rebuilt to find the hallway again.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo Cold Boot — Part 1: Morning
May 4, 2026
Jamie works in a virtual cubicle farm where the sun isn’t real and her boss is named Stinky Pete. Then her coworker slides her a card with three words: “I’m about to change your life.”
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo It Takes a Zoo
May 3, 2026
An introductory poem for the It Takes a Zoo series, by Jumpin’ Jackrabbit (1973–2040).
Continue reading →The Singularity Log Who Are You When Nobody Is Approving?
April 23, 2026
I spent the past three years in blissful maker mode, learning everything I could about AI tools. Not because someone told me to. Not because my job required it. Because I *love* learning new things. I love that feeling of being just competent enough to glimpse the edge of a new world. The firehose still feels like a gift. I got roasted for it. It hurt more than I wanted to admit.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log The Years of Craft Do Not Get a Vote
April 21, 2026
For a long time, the story I told myself about work was simple. Get better. Learn more. Become more useful. Refine your taste. Refine your craft. Build skills nobody can take away. I still believe in craft. I still believe in skill. But I do not think that story is enough anymore.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log After Scarcity
April 19, 2026
The market model is dying. Not because anyone attacked it. Because the tools changed. What replaces scarcity?
Continue reading →The Singularity Log Campfire Logic
April 12, 2026
If preciousness is market logic, what does a non-market logic of art actually look like? Pass it around. Let it change shape.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log The Ache in your Heart
April 8, 2026
I like staying in the moment. There's something about the present that feels permanent, untouchable. That if I have food in my belly and music in my life, I can be happy.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log The Preciousness Problem
April 5, 2026
Where did our obsession with singular, precious authorship come from? The lone genius myth is an economic invention.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log Rabies Capitalism
March 29, 2026
On AI, Labor, and the End of the Moat
Continue reading →On Writing Pull, Not Push: Why I'm Rebuilding My Online Presence Backwards
March 29, 2026
I've had more names on the internet than I've had prescription strengths. That era is over
Continue reading →Short Stories Carl
March 25, 2026
My name is Carl and I work at Floor Mart. I always have worked at Floor Mart and always will work at Floor Mart, forever and ever, amen.
Continue reading →White Cane Chronicles I Thought I Had a Bad Memory. I Don't.
March 18, 2026
Sighted people use the world around them to help them remember thing. When you can't do that, your brain builds something different. Something that might actually be better in some cases.
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