Queer Ahead 2025 Minisode

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[00:00:56] Hi, Christina.

[00:00:57] Hi, Evan.

[00:00:59] Can you believe another year already?

[00:01:03] No.

[00:01:03] Like we just started this one.

[00:01:04] And now it's 2025.

[00:01:09] I mean, on the one hand, I'm like January 2024 was a million years ago.

[00:01:15] Yeah.

[00:01:16] But how could it be 2025?

[00:01:18] Yeah.

[00:01:19] The year was fast and also short.

[00:01:23] Yeah.

[00:01:24] Truly boggles the mind.

[00:01:26] Yeah.

[00:01:27] Yeah.

[00:01:27] But that is what the calendar says.

[00:01:29] Yeah.

[00:01:30] Yeah.

[00:01:30] Yeah.

[00:01:30] And I guess every year is some weird, like it never feels like the right amount of time

[00:01:35] has passed.

[00:01:35] It's been long.

[00:01:36] It's been short.

[00:01:37] Yeah.

[00:01:38] Yeah.

[00:01:39] It's been long.

[00:01:40] It is.

[00:01:40] There you go.

[00:01:41] It is invented.

[00:01:42] It's a social construct.

[00:01:43] And so we're just going to go with it for our purposes.

[00:01:47] And this is our annual queer ahead.

[00:01:50] Yeah.

[00:01:50] Yeah.

[00:01:50] Episode where we talk about what we're excited about in the queer year to come.

[00:01:55] This is an attempt to not do like toxic new year resolution bullshit, which is funny because

[00:02:04] every year I have the last couple of years I've set the same resolution and I have not made

[00:02:08] it.

[00:02:08] So we're not doing that this year.

[00:02:10] I'm not.

[00:02:13] But yeah, we'll talk about some things that we are excited about and then some intentions

[00:02:17] we have for the year.

[00:02:19] Yeah.

[00:02:20] Oh, I would like to give an update that I did finish my eighth nonfiction book.

[00:02:27] Yeah.

[00:02:27] Look at you hitting the stretch goal.

[00:02:29] Yeah.

[00:02:29] It's not even it's not the one I had started at the time that we recorded the queer in

[00:02:36] review where I was like, I'll just finish this book and that will get me there.

[00:02:39] I read an entirely different book.

[00:02:40] Wow.

[00:02:42] So you can still finish that one and then you could really, you know, it's true.

[00:02:46] In theory.

[00:02:46] Crush the stretch goal.

[00:02:47] In theory.

[00:02:48] Very good.

[00:02:48] Mm hmm.

[00:02:49] Love that.

[00:02:50] I think I'm going to finish one more novel before the year is over.

[00:02:53] Look at you.

[00:02:54] Which will be, I think, three novels this year.

[00:02:57] Not that many.

[00:02:58] More than usual for me.

[00:02:59] But yeah, we're living in the future now.

[00:03:02] 2025.

[00:03:03] Yeah.

[00:03:04] Ugh.

[00:03:04] What a time.

[00:03:05] But Evan, is there anything that you're excited about for the year?

[00:03:10] Anything you're looking forward to?

[00:03:11] Yes.

[00:03:12] I'm excited about books, which is every time we do one of these, I'm like, what are the

[00:03:15] books coming out?

[00:03:16] Books are good.

[00:03:17] Yes.

[00:03:18] I, uh, my list is just all books.

[00:03:21] Like I'm looking at your list and you have like some other things and I'm just like, here's

[00:03:26] the books I'm looking forward to.

[00:03:27] But I will tell you, Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yaros comes out in January and that's the third

[00:03:34] book in the, um, fourth wing.

[00:03:37] The, um, Smutty Dragonrider books.

[00:03:41] Which I've maybe mentioned on the show before as I was really into dragons as a kid.

[00:03:49] And...

[00:03:50] I think we talked about that with Maggie.

[00:03:51] Yes.

[00:03:51] Yeah.

[00:03:52] So as someone who was really into dragons as a kid and now reads romance novels as an

[00:03:56] adult, I'm like, this book was written for me.

[00:04:00] Yeah.

[00:04:00] So that comes out in January.

[00:04:04] And then in April, Gifted and Talented by Olive E. Blake comes out.

[00:04:09] And that one's not part of a series or at least it's not a continuation of a series.

[00:04:13] I think it's a standalone.

[00:04:14] But the premise is like Succession but with Magic.

[00:04:21] Ooh.

[00:04:22] Yeah.

[00:04:22] And I, to give myself away, I don't watch Succession because I watched one episode and

[00:04:27] I was like, I am too uncomfortable with how gross I feel about watching these rich people

[00:04:34] be terrible.

[00:04:35] Mm-hmm.

[00:04:35] But for Magic, I'm in.

[00:04:37] Yeah.

[00:04:38] That's fair.

[00:04:38] Yeah.

[00:04:39] Yeah.

[00:04:39] So these three people, their father dies and they're gonna like feud over his empire but

[00:04:51] with magic.

[00:04:53] Yeah.

[00:04:53] Ooh.

[00:04:53] And I mean, Gifted and Talented, great name for the...

[00:04:57] Yeah.

[00:04:57] Ooh.

[00:04:57] Yeah.

[00:04:58] So that's in April.

[00:04:58] I basically have a book every quarter.

[00:05:02] Nice.

[00:05:03] Which is nice.

[00:05:03] Something to look forward to.

[00:05:05] Yeah.

[00:05:05] Nightshade God by Hannah Witten comes out in July.

[00:05:07] And then this is technically still in Q3.

[00:05:10] The second book, the second Immortal Dark book comes out in September.

[00:05:14] There's not even a title yet.

[00:05:15] Wow.

[00:05:15] That's how fresh it is.

[00:05:17] And I just read the first book in October.

[00:05:21] Yeah.

[00:05:22] And I liked reading it so much that when the audiobook became available at the library,

[00:05:28] I just immediately started listening to it.

[00:05:30] So I've read that book twice in the 2024 calendar year.

[00:05:36] Wow.

[00:05:36] I'm excited for the second one.

[00:05:39] So I've got two books in Q3 and then one in Q1 and Q2 that I'm looking forward to.

[00:05:46] And hopefully something will pop up for Q4.

[00:05:49] There's also a number of series that I was like, do they have another book coming out?

[00:05:53] And there's nothing scheduled.

[00:05:54] But I'm hoping at the very least I'll get some updates.

[00:05:59] Particularly Leora Dugo's Ninth House series.

[00:06:02] I'm like, where's book three?

[00:06:04] When do I get it?

[00:06:05] Where is the show?

[00:06:06] Are they turning into a show?

[00:06:07] It's been in development.

[00:06:08] And I think the last news was like last year at some point.

[00:06:13] She said she was like working on the script or had just like read a version of the script or something.

[00:06:19] And then I Googled for news earlier and did not find anything new.

[00:06:25] So I don't know.

[00:06:27] Yeah.

[00:06:27] When things are in development, like film and TV takes forever.

[00:06:31] I looked to see because one of my favorite novel of the year, Whoever You Are, Honey by Olivia Gatwood.

[00:06:38] The author is working on the script and Lucky Chop picked it up.

[00:06:42] But there's like no information about when that would come out because she's still writing the script.

[00:06:49] But I did look.

[00:06:50] I was like, is there any way that we have?

[00:06:51] We don't have any information about that at this time.

[00:06:55] And then theoretically at some point in 2025, I will be putting out a chat book.

[00:07:01] Yeah, you will.

[00:07:03] A chat book or a full length book?

[00:07:05] I mean, current work in progress in my head is full length.

[00:07:09] Oh, yeah.

[00:07:10] Yeah.

[00:07:11] I mean, it's I mean, it's like a whole world.

[00:07:14] I mean, it's your book.

[00:07:15] So you can do whatever you want to do with it.

[00:07:17] But I just feel like there's like enough ground for it to be a full collection.

[00:07:22] Yeah, I guess because it's I want to say it's like 48 pages right now.

[00:07:27] So it's like you're basically there, you know.

[00:07:30] I'm a little shy.

[00:07:31] But yeah, I suppose I could.

[00:07:34] Yeah.

[00:07:35] Do a little more with it.

[00:07:37] I guess it's good to know that you think this.

[00:07:39] I had not been thinking this whole time.

[00:07:40] I'd been like, it's a chat book.

[00:07:42] I never once thought it was a chat book.

[00:07:45] Interesting.

[00:07:46] Okay.

[00:07:46] Okay.

[00:07:46] I guess I should be asking these questions.

[00:07:48] You should.

[00:07:49] Yeah.

[00:07:49] You should be asking what I think of what you're going to do.

[00:07:53] But yeah, it would.

[00:07:53] I mean, obviously, you could do it.

[00:07:55] You could do a chat book if you want.

[00:07:56] But I think it's worth expanding.

[00:07:59] Okay.

[00:08:00] Well, let's get to know.

[00:08:01] You have a whole year.

[00:08:02] So, you know.

[00:08:07] All right.

[00:08:07] Well, then perhaps it's not as close to done as I thought.

[00:08:10] I got to write some more poems.

[00:08:12] Congratulations.

[00:08:12] More homework.

[00:08:14] Love that.

[00:08:18] All right.

[00:08:18] Well, I told you about all the books I am looking forward to.

[00:08:23] What are you excited about in 2025?

[00:08:27] Many things.

[00:08:27] I thought about looking.

[00:08:29] I was like, Evan's going to talk about things that are coming out.

[00:08:31] But then I was like, do I like anything that's coming out?

[00:08:34] Probably.

[00:08:35] Don't know where to find it.

[00:08:36] Won't look.

[00:08:37] But in my personal life, I have some travel plans coming up that I'm excited about.

[00:08:42] I think the listeners might kind of know.

[00:08:44] I was supposed to go to Kenya like twice in 2024.

[00:08:47] And both times we had to.

[00:08:48] It's the whole thing.

[00:08:49] We had to cancel and postpone.

[00:08:51] So hopefully, as you're listening to this, I am at Danny Beach with the clear water.

[00:08:58] And if that doesn't happen, I give up.

[00:09:00] I'm not going.

[00:09:02] But that's not true.

[00:09:05] Just complain about it more.

[00:09:06] Yeah.

[00:09:08] I don't know.

[00:09:09] After three times, I think I will take the hint and just go to Italy instead or something.

[00:09:13] Yeah.

[00:09:14] But yeah, you're just never again going to go to the place where your partner is from.

[00:09:18] You know what?

[00:09:18] The universe three times said no.

[00:09:21] Sometimes you have to listen.

[00:09:22] I'm just kidding.

[00:09:24] It's looking good.

[00:09:26] But yeah, that's in January.

[00:09:27] I'm excited for that.

[00:09:29] I've only been to Kenya once.

[00:09:31] And it'll be a good trip.

[00:09:33] I'm also planning to go to Western Europe to visit my brother in the summertime, early summer.

[00:09:39] And I'm also planning to go to Alaska with a friend of the show, Donovan, to see the Northern Lights, hopefully.

[00:09:48] I'm excited about that.

[00:09:49] You know me.

[00:09:50] Don't want to leave the house day to day.

[00:09:52] Love to leave the house for long periods of time.

[00:09:56] A book that I am excited about that is coming out is my book.

[00:10:02] I made my whole list and then I was like, I should move this.

[00:10:05] It was the last thing I thought of.

[00:10:07] I was like, I should move this up.

[00:10:08] Planning to have my second poetry collection come out in February.

[00:10:14] We'll see.

[00:10:15] But that is the current plan.

[00:10:17] And I am excited, I guess, to do that.

[00:10:22] I'm like getting into the point now where I'm like, oh, people are going to read this.

[00:10:27] Which is true of books.

[00:10:28] I had the same crisis with my last book.

[00:10:30] Yeah, that is how they work.

[00:10:31] When I realized that it wouldn't just be you and our writing group reading it.

[00:10:37] That in fact, others will be allowed to as well.

[00:10:40] In fact, the idea is that they will.

[00:10:43] Yeah.

[00:10:43] Like I'll encourage people to read it and then I won't.

[00:10:46] I'll feel uncomfortable about that.

[00:10:48] Yeah.

[00:10:48] You will ask them for money for the potentiality to read it.

[00:10:53] Yeah.

[00:10:56] But yeah, that'll be fun.

[00:10:58] Good time.

[00:10:59] I think it'll be good.

[00:11:00] It's a book of breakup poems, which is my specialty.

[00:11:03] So I think it is what people want.

[00:11:06] I love concerts.

[00:11:08] Going to concerts next year.

[00:11:11] I only have a couple.

[00:11:11] I thought I had more, but a lot of people are touring and I've been like, I don't know

[00:11:14] what I'm going to feel like in March.

[00:11:16] Let me just wait.

[00:11:18] K-Flay tickets, which will be wonderful.

[00:11:20] Obviously, every time we see K-Flay is a good time.

[00:11:23] Yeah.

[00:11:24] I also have St.

[00:11:24] Motel tickets.

[00:11:26] St.

[00:11:26] Motel is excellent in concert.

[00:11:28] There will probably be more.

[00:11:31] And allegedly, I think I maybe said this last year because like allegedly, Ren Weaver

[00:11:35] was going to put out new music last year and then she didn't.

[00:11:41] So I'm like, maybe this year.

[00:11:43] She told us she has music.

[00:11:45] She's working on the record.

[00:11:47] And I don't have it.

[00:11:49] So I'm keeping it in my personal zeitgeist by bringing it up again.

[00:11:53] Yeah.

[00:11:54] I hope we get a new Harry record in 2025.

[00:11:57] I feel like I've heard rumors about that.

[00:12:00] Yeah.

[00:12:01] Yeah.

[00:12:01] Supposedly he's working on it.

[00:12:03] I did not go see Tommy LaFroix this year, even though I wanted to.

[00:12:12] But I was like, let me make a choice that's good for my overall well-being.

[00:12:16] And so I feel like this means.

[00:12:18] He's going to blow up.

[00:12:20] Yeah.

[00:12:20] But they're going to be huge by the end of 2025.

[00:12:24] So you heard it here first.

[00:12:28] Look out for them.

[00:12:31] Yeah.

[00:12:31] We made that mistake, didn't we?

[00:12:35] Sabrina Carpenter, Chaparron.

[00:12:37] Although Chaparron is going in like a country direction.

[00:12:40] So maybe the like the I don't know what to what to call these people.

[00:12:44] But like disparagingly fans who are only in it for this particular moment, maybe they'll

[00:12:49] go away.

[00:12:50] And then the true fans such as us, you know, maybe they also could be true fans, but I'm

[00:12:55] just bitter.

[00:12:56] That's all.

[00:12:57] But yeah, those are the things I'm looking forward to, as I'm sure many other things

[00:13:01] will happen.

[00:13:02] But will they?

[00:13:04] I mean, we'll see.

[00:13:06] I'm not looking forward to, you know, a lot of other things that are going on in the world,

[00:13:10] but I can't control those.

[00:13:11] And that's not what this mini episode is about.

[00:13:13] No, it's not.

[00:13:14] Yeah.

[00:13:15] Do you have any goals or intentions for the year?

[00:13:19] I would like to carve out more protected, nonproductive time.

[00:13:26] And I don't quite know what that will look like.

[00:13:30] Like, I don't know that I'm ever going to be a like no work on the weekends person because

[00:13:37] you'll have to work on the weekends because that's what I could do the podcast.

[00:13:40] Yeah, exactly.

[00:13:41] So like there are just too many things in my life that would make that like impractical.

[00:13:45] Yeah.

[00:13:46] And also I just like working.

[00:13:50] Okay, Virgo.

[00:13:53] But it also has been good the times where I've been like.

[00:13:59] Like there was one day.

[00:14:02] I'm realizing now it was probably in like January because it was rainy and I'm like,

[00:14:06] oh God, that was.

[00:14:08] But there was one day where like I just like spent all day cozy on the couch, like listening

[00:14:13] to an audio book and like hanging out.

[00:14:16] And I was like, wow, it's so nice to just like be.

[00:14:22] And I had we went on a trip to Joshua Tree and that was really nice.

[00:14:27] And that was last weekend at the time of recording.

[00:14:30] Yeah.

[00:14:30] Not 12 months ago.

[00:14:31] No.

[00:14:33] And I like joined my Sunday morning writing group.

[00:14:36] But that felt very like, you know, it's a casual whatever.

[00:14:41] Like, yeah.

[00:14:42] And maybe I did a couple things on my phone.

[00:14:43] But for the most part, I was unplugged and just like hanging out.

[00:14:51] And it was very good and very necessary.

[00:14:55] So in 2025, I would like my to have more examples than just the beginning of the year and the

[00:15:02] end of the year.

[00:15:04] Good idea.

[00:15:05] Yeah.

[00:15:05] Yeah.

[00:15:06] Yeah.

[00:15:07] It's hard because like you don't have a lot of like external structure currently in your

[00:15:12] work life.

[00:15:12] You have to make your own structure, which is very difficult.

[00:15:16] So like there are times I'm sure when you're not like doing things, but then you're probably

[00:15:20] like feeling guilty about not doing things.

[00:15:22] Yes.

[00:15:22] Or like I'm thinking about the thing or like it's just it's a lot of like polluted time.

[00:15:28] Yeah.

[00:15:29] Yeah.

[00:15:29] I feel bad.

[00:15:30] It's part of why I like to leave the house for extended periods of time.

[00:15:33] Can be in a new place.

[00:15:34] Very good.

[00:15:35] What's a goal that you have for 2025?

[00:15:38] Great question.

[00:15:39] So I have been thinking about and like looking into taking some kind of class about like energy

[00:15:48] work and energy healing.

[00:15:50] It's a thing that I have some practice in, but I don't have like a lot of formal training.

[00:15:56] I don't at this point necessarily feel like I want to like become a formal practitioner,

[00:16:04] but it's something I have a lot of curiosity about.

[00:16:07] And there's a lot of continuing education courses that are like for people who are like in the

[00:16:12] healthcare industry, which I'm not famously that kind of like go over like different forms

[00:16:21] of energy work and like planes in the body.

[00:16:24] And I've been thinking about taking a class, but I'm like, well, I'm not going to like do

[00:16:28] anything with it.

[00:16:29] So maybe I won't take it.

[00:16:30] But it's like it's OK.

[00:16:31] It's just a thing that I'm curious about.

[00:16:33] Yeah.

[00:16:33] And I want to learn it.

[00:16:34] I like being in like a structured educational setting.

[00:16:40] So I intend to do that this year.

[00:16:43] Cool.

[00:16:43] What about you?

[00:16:44] Any other intentions?

[00:16:46] Sell some art.

[00:16:47] Yeah.

[00:16:48] Yeah.

[00:16:49] As a regular listeners of the show, no, in some capacity.

[00:16:54] I don't know how in detail I've talked about it, but I left my day job of eight years in

[00:17:00] March.

[00:17:01] Yeah, I did.

[00:17:02] And have been bouncing around since then.

[00:17:08] I have made some money, but a lot of this year I have lived off of savings that I like

[00:17:17] intentionally was like, I'm going to leave my job.

[00:17:19] So here's the money.

[00:17:20] So I don't have to like figure everything out immediately.

[00:17:23] And so in some ways I like framed this year as a sabbatical.

[00:17:27] Like a lot.

[00:17:28] There were a lot of people when they asked like, oh, like, what do you do?

[00:17:30] I'd be like, I'm on sabbatical because I was like, it's too complicated for me to be

[00:17:33] like, I do a bunch of projects that sort of just pay me a little money, not enough

[00:17:39] money, but a little money.

[00:17:43] And now I've been doing some freelance work and making more money, enough money to pay

[00:17:51] my rent, which is good.

[00:17:52] We like that.

[00:17:53] We love that.

[00:17:53] But yeah, I'm going to in 2025, I see transitioning from being like, I'm on sabbatical to being

[00:18:00] like, I am a working artist.

[00:18:03] Yeah.

[00:18:04] And here's all the different work that I do.

[00:18:08] And yeah, so that's the goal.

[00:18:12] I love that.

[00:18:13] Yeah.

[00:18:13] Very good.

[00:18:14] And when you have art to sell, we can tell the listeners and then they can buy it and

[00:18:17] then you can meet your goal.

[00:18:21] Yes, that's the hope.

[00:18:23] Yeah.

[00:18:23] Yeah.

[00:18:24] And what about you?

[00:18:24] I have been so like one of my other intentions is to teach a few poetry workshops, which is

[00:18:31] a thing that I have done before.

[00:18:32] And for the last like probably couple of years, maybe time is weird, but for like a long time,

[00:18:39] I've like been thinking about like concepts for like what a workshop would look like and

[00:18:46] like what kind of things I want to do, how I would want to run it and like different containers.

[00:18:51] But I've just been like, well, I'm doing too many things, so I'm not going to do this

[00:18:55] right now.

[00:18:56] Yeah.

[00:18:57] Which might still be true in 2025, but I would like to get back into that because again,

[00:19:03] I love a structured educational setting.

[00:19:05] And I also think that like poetry workshops are really essential for like community building.

[00:19:11] I've really been enjoying our writing group that run.

[00:19:14] It's not a workshop format necessarily, but it's like a peer writing group.

[00:19:18] And so I intend to try to do a couple of those and see how that fits into my life.

[00:19:24] That's cool.

[00:19:25] And I will tell the listeners about it so they can come do it if they want.

[00:19:29] It's great.

[00:19:30] Yeah.

[00:19:31] And I'm excited to keep making this show.

[00:19:34] Yeah.

[00:19:35] Yeah.

[00:19:35] We got a whole another year of things to do and we'll make an announcement when things

[00:19:42] roll out, but we'll be making Patreon updates based on feedback that we got in our, um, our

[00:19:51] Patreon member survey.

[00:19:52] So yeah, we want to give the people what they want.

[00:19:55] Yeah.

[00:19:56] Yeah.

[00:19:56] We, we will carve out all the goodness.

[00:20:00] Yes.

[00:20:01] That sounded, when I said, after I said it, I was like, that sounds weird.

[00:20:06] Um, you know what I meant, but yeah.

[00:20:08] Um, but yeah, it should be a really good year for the show.

[00:20:12] Who knows about the rest of the world?

[00:20:14] Um, but we will continue to show up and do the work.

[00:20:18] We'll make space to be together.

[00:20:21] Yeah.

[00:20:22] Um, and we have some, uh, planned episodes, um, around, um, like restorative culture, um,

[00:20:28] and some other things that will certainly help me process the bullshit we're about to be going

[00:20:35] through, um, and that we are currently going through and hopefully also will be supportive

[00:20:40] tools and resources for our listeners.

[00:20:42] Yeah.

[00:20:42] Yeah.

[00:20:42] If you have any, um, queer ahead, uh, intentions, goals, things you're excited about, we would

[00:20:50] love to hear about them and you know where to find us.

[00:20:52] Yeah.

[00:20:52] Wow.

[00:20:53] Goodbye.

[00:20:55] Bye.

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