In this episode, our characters participate in a strange VR experiment the princes are involved with; and the author feels nothing but pain and remorse after hearing the fruits of her Tumblr addled youth.

In chapter 3, our main characters attend a tea party with local royalty, and the writer considers the role of gender in writing, and whether or not it is gay to have a rich, internal life. Suggested to drink tea while listening to this episode.

My old podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2DnSIYBn3i6dsHUSMgH8jU?si=f8ec2dd0d4524e3c

Chapter 2 of Midas: The Golden Dome sees the main characters learning about the creepy, sci-fi biotechnology known as the hylomorphs; and the writer studying abroad in Greece and preparing for Nanowrimo.

Now listen, I know there's some drama going on with Nanowrimo and AI. I'm not really engaged in the discourse, but I don't use AI to write at all. I wrote and recorded this before I knew about all that, so don't @ me.

In 2015, I started writing Midas- a series of novels about college guys trying to escape a VR simulation. When I started out, I was a fundamentalist Bible college student planning to become a Christian missionary. Four years and four Midas novels later, I was out of college, out as queer, and writing psychedelic zines in the Chicago underground art scene. So, what happened there?

This week, I'll introduce you to the concept of the show, and read the first chapter of the first Midas novel. Then, I'll try to explain what in the world I was thinking writing all that.