An index of in-progress things.
Fiction, essays, tools, and audio-visual experiments — collected as project hubs. Listed by recent activity. The last few drops are shown under each.
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It Takes a Zoo
7 chapters available now · Read online · PDFs available by chapter or as one complete edition
Read It Takes a Zoo- No. 01e
A monthly column by Austen Tucker on trans life, queer history, and the policies that shape what happens next. Let people be people.
- Wig in a Box→2026-10-23 · 1d ago
- The Safe Door→2026-09-23 · 4w ago
- No. 02e
Essays on AI, creativity, and the collapsing scarcity model.
- The Old Limitations No Longer Apply — Part 1: The Price of Admission→2026-10-12 · 12d ago
- The Old Limitations No Longer Apply — Part 2: The Rentier's Last Stand→2026-10-12 · 12d ago
- The Old Limitations No Longer Apply — Part 3: What Happens When We Can Make Our Own?→2026-10-12 · 12d ago
- No. 03t
Your character, ten reactions. A reusable AI sticker workflow with a small web demo, a robot reference to try, and a skill you can run in your own chat app.
last drop · 3w ago · Reaction Stickers: your character, ten reactions →
- No. 04e
- No. 05e
- No. 06e
Essays on AI productivity, engineering culture, and what the data actually says.
last drop · 3mo ago · My Brain Was Built for This →
- No. 07e
Five essays about Pride, trans life, queer history, grief, survival, and the people who make a life possible.
last drop · 4mo ago · Beneath These Bones →
- No. 08a
A catch-all for all the things I make using AI generation.
last drop · 5mo ago · AI Is an Art Medium →
- No. 09f
A novel-in-stories about escaping the hypercapitalist grind.
- No. 10e
Essays on accessibility, blindness, and neurodiversity.
last drop · 7mo ago · I Thought I Had a Bad Memory. I Don't. →
