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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 16m ago

Just an HOUR LEFT on the Almost Real kickstarter and not only have we hit all the stretch goals, we hit a fourth artist bonus?? That wasn't even on the worm! Thank you so much, everyone!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 22h ago

24 HOURS LEFT on the Almost Real Kickstarter!! And, incredibly, we only have A SINGLE stretch goal left! Help us hit it, and in exchange, you'll get hundreds of pages of beautifully illustrated speculative biology! www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine • Vol 6 & Book 1

The spec bio anthology series is BACK with its sixth volume all about POP CULTURE, and a REMASTERED HARDBACK COLLECTION of Volumes 1–5!

kickstarter.com

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 2d ago

Thumb tabs are within reach.... yes... YES.....

🌿🔮😈FORTUNA MEDIA 😈🔮🌿@fortunamedia.bsky.social · 2d ago

48 HOURS REMAIN! Our THIRD STRETCH GOAL unlocked MINUTES before crossing the two-day threshold! Have YOU 🫵👁️👁️reserved your copy (or *copies?!*) of Almost Real: the Speculative Biology series powered by an all-star cast of creators? www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

A screenshot of the Almost Real Book 1 and Vol. 6 campaign funding bar, reading "$57,030 pledged of $40,000 goal, 764 backers, and 47 hours to go"

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 4d ago

This week on Runaway to the Stars: Mel knows too much, and yet understands nothing. Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com Love spec bio? Check out Almost Real zine! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/almost-real-book-1/almost-real-a-speculative-biology-zine-vol-6-and-book-1?ref=5jyrq9

Mel walks up to Talita with an uncertain expression. Mel: Talita… How did this happen? Talita pulls her hands off her face, gripping her neck and shoulder like she wants to vanish behind her arms. Talita: I don’t know, I turned my back, and... Mel puts their hand on their hip and rolls their eyes. Mel: Were you distracted by your repair project? Talita looks up, stunned. Talita: …Project?

Mel: Don’t play dumb. I do geosurvey more often than I do geosurvey reports, you know. I can see that ship you’ve programmed the RC vehicles to work on every night in satellite images. Talita stares at Mel, almost frozen except her hands slowly falling away from her face. Talita: …Why didn’t you say anything? Mel rolls their eyes again and scowls. Mel: I’m not a tyrant. You’ve been a dedicated and responsible employee. I thought letting you have an outlet for tinkering couldn’t hurt. After this… I’m not sure that was the right move.

Talita: I– I wasn’t even working on that today! I was with the crew the entire time! Mel: Then why is one of them in the hospital? Talita throws up her hands in frustration. Talita: I told him not to climb on the tower! He didn't listen! Mel sneers and folds their arms. Mel: Oh, please... How hard can it be for you to be authoritative, Talita? You’re 3 meters tall with sharp teeth! Talita stares at Mel in wide-eyed disbelief, mane beginning to flare out in anger. Talita: …You think that makes this EASIER!? Mel: It couldn’t hurt to lean into it! You’re so shy… it’s ridiculous seeing you get pushed around by your subordinates!

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 4d ago

This week on Runaway to the Stars: Mel knows too much, and yet understands nothing. Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com Love spec bio? Check out Almost Real zine! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/almost-real-book-1/almost-real-a-speculative-biology-zine-vol-6-and-book-1?ref=5jyrq9

Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 4d ago

Pterosaurs: The Field Guide is live on Kickstarter. 252 species, every one illustrated, in one book. Back it: https://fossi.ls/ks #Pterosaurs #Paleontology

Pterosaurs: The Field Guide is live on Kickstarter. fossi.ls/ks

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 6d ago

YIPPEEEEE

$50,124 pledged of $40,000 goal, 572 backers, 5 days to go

Jay Eaton@jayeatonart.bsky.social · 6d ago

AAAAAAAA we're so close to second stretch goal

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 6d ago

AAAAAAAA we're so close to second stretch goal

🌿🔮😈FORTUNA MEDIA 😈🔮🌿@fortunamedia.bsky.social · last wk.

Our stretch goals are finally LIVE! Check out the update link and see what other wonders await if you back our spec bio zine series... it ain't over until the fat worm sings 🪱🎶 www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

'A Volume 6 cover critter "gachapede" emerging from a light blue capsule. It has 5 pairs of paddle-like appendages in rainbow colors that look like little wings. Each segment holds a different amount from $67,000 at the top to $47,000 at the bottom, with tiers of "Third artist bonus, book 1 thumb index, second artist bonus, book 1 dust jacket, and first artist bonus" on one side, and the other complimenting the main items, being "Triples the extra pay, free 6x9" sticker print for all physical backers, doubles the extra pay, and Volume 6 cover upgrade"'

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · last wk.

Im not only in this I painted a tier reward! Please go check it out! We've made our goal but theres a week left!

Jay Eaton@jayeatonart.bsky.social · 4w ago

Almost Real's POP CULTURE issue and the collected book of the first 5 volumes of speculative biology madness are now live!!! Go check it out, fans of all that wriggles, squirms, grows and multiplies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

🌿🔮😈FORTUNA MEDIA 😈🔮🌿@fortunamedia.bsky.social · last wk.

Our stretch goals are finally LIVE! Check out the update link and see what other wonders await if you back our spec bio zine series... it ain't over until the fat worm sings 🪱🎶 www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Last week on #RunawaytotheStars: An industrial accident in near-vacuum! Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com Love spec bio? Check out Almost Real! www.kickstarter.com/projects/almost-real-book-1/almost-real-a-speculative-biology-zine-vol-6-and-book-1?ref=5jyrq9

Talita looks up. Adam is almost halfway up the ladder, over 12 meters off the ground. Soundlessly, the top balcony attachment shears off the tower structure under his weight, the thin metal beams of the column bending where his body is inside the cramped safety cage. Slowly, picking up speed, it bends more and more, the bend pushing Adam's back towards the ground. The old support beams of the safety cage snap at their weld points, opening the cage behind him. Adam, panicking but trapped, reaches up towards the higher rungs over the bend, where the top half of the ladder remains almost vertical, towering over him. The lower half hits the ground, along with Adam. The top half follows, slamming its entire weight down on its bottom end over Adam's once reaching arm. a ring of the safety cage creates an unnatural angle in his forearm, and the sharp, twisted spike of the sheared support beam drives into the edge of his suit sleeve, pinching it to nothing. Gas billows out with a cloud of regolith sand.

A series of panels flow over a black background with no borders. Talita's eyes go wide in shocked horror. Her hand grabs the the safety cage ring over Adam's arm. She twists and bends the upper half of the ladder back, making Adam accessible. He is lying supine on his life support backpack in the safety cage, right arm curled over his chest, left arm flopped outwards, dust blasting away from the small hole in his sleeve as his exosuit rapidly dumps oxygen supply to keep his suit pressurized. Talita tightly grasps his broken arm, temporarily cutting off the air leak.

A montage of panels shows Talita running past the other temps towards the mobile life support truck, the airlock doors to the recycling plant opening with a BEEP BEEP BEEP, the truck driving into the plant, Talita showing up at the medical office in her full exosuit with Adam in her arms, the shocked faces of the medical crew, Adam sweating and grimacing in an oxygen mask a with a stiffly held arm as he is being wheeled on a gurney deeper into the medical building by the human-specialist doctors, and finally, Talita, sitting barefoot in the park land behind the human apartments, the pieces of her exosuit piled behind her, face in her hands. Behind the panels, the dark fog of tunnel vision slowly lifts.

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Last week on #RunawaytotheStars: An industrial accident in near-vacuum! Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com Love spec bio? Check out Almost Real! www.kickstarter.com/projects/almost-real-book-1/almost-real-a-speculative-biology-zine-vol-6-and-book-1?ref=5jyrq9

🌿🔮😈FORTUNA MEDIA 😈🔮🌿@fortunamedia.bsky.social · 2w ago

AND THAT'S GOAL! With almost two weeks left on the funding clock, Almost Real's Book 1 & Vol 6 has hit its base funding of $40,000!! 😭We'll have updates coming along with our due backer-exclusive preview AND the debut of our stretch goal ladder, so keep your eyes peeled, and thank you all SO MUCH!

A screenshot from Kickstarter that reads $40,117 pledged of $40,000 goal with 544 backers and 12 days to go with a green Back this project button

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 2w ago

BOOKS CONFIRMED FOR REAL!! ALMOST REAL VOLUME 6 AND BOOK 1 HAVE FUNDED! www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 2w ago

"What's that? You helped fund Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine Volume 6? Here... take this. On the house..." www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Almost Real is OVER 98% funded!! Will it happen today?? Tango and Swing may combust from the pressure first! Concerning, since they're usually underwater. Interested in 100s of pages of gorgeous fully illustrated speculative biology? Check out the campaign now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's the last chapter of #RunawayToTheStars. What could possibly go wrong? Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com Love spec bio? Check out Almost Real zine! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/almost-real-book-1/almost-real-a-speculative-biology-zine-vol-6-and-book-1?ref=5jyrq9

Chapter 10: The Runaway A broad overhead shot shows the entire junkyard, the plant and habitat module, and the massive berm wall surrounding the curved end of the launch loop. The ground around the work site has the echoes of its history as a mining site etched into the regolith as strangely concentric and organized craters. A closeup of the Runaway spacecraft on the jack shows it fully fixed with remote control vehicles milling around it. Text message exchange: Talita: You excited for launch tomorrow? Bip: Oh, absolutely. Bip: The night cycle’s all lined up to get me on the rails and into the hitch. Talita: Best of luck. I’ll be on standby if there’s a ground-based emergency. Bip: You working today? Talita: Yeah, same old. Bip: I’ll leave you to it.

Phoebe: Anyone else getting deja vu? Talita and her remaining temp team—Phoebe, Dominic, Yao, and Adam—huddle around the electrical box of the same radio tower that they were repairing not too long ago. The scissor lift is parked in the background, and none of the temps look very enthusiastic about the prospect of repeating the same tedious workday. Talita: Let's check the connectivity for the one that was faulty last time, first. If it's not that one, we'll start looking at units of the same manufacture to see if they're failing in the same way.

Talita: Let's get this done quick. Yao, position the lift under array 15. Yao goes off the move the scissor lift into position, Adam turns away from the open electrical box in bored disinterest. He looks back to the ladder he tried climbing the last time they had worked on this problem. Meanwhile, Talita prepares the electrical box with Dominic and Phoebe. She looks down at the ground for her tools. Talita: Good to go... Who had the multimeter? Behind her, Yao stands on the unextended scissor lift, pointing up at part of the ladder that's out of sight. Yao: Boss, Adam is—

🌿🔮😈FORTUNA MEDIA 😈🔮🌿@fortunamedia.bsky.social · 3w ago

And with that, we've crossed $30,000 at ~19 days to go!! 😭 At the rate we're funding, we'll hit our $32,000 / 80% poll drop for another backer-exclusive preview here in no time... Have YOU checked out the return of the speculative biology series Almost Real? 👁️🫵 www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

A crop of the Kickstarter funding bar at $30,017 pledged out of $40,000 goal with 414 backers and 19 days to go above a big green Back this project button

A crop of the Almost Real Book 1 and Vol. 6 Pop Culture Kickstarter hero image, featuring both titles underneath the title of "The Speculative Biology Zine series returns!" With a "Project We Love" button on the side above the Book 1 cover

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 3w ago

Now with well over 350 backers!!! Woohoo!

Jay Eaton@jayeatonart.bsky.social · 4w ago

Thanks to the support of over 300 backers, Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine is now almost 60% funded!! Release the latest innovation in gachapede engineering: a worm with holes in it! ...Thanks, scuds! www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 4w ago

Thanks to the support of over 300 backers, Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine is now almost 60% funded!! Release the latest innovation in gachapede engineering: a worm with holes in it! ...Thanks, scuds! www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 4w ago

Now that Almost Real's POP CULTURE issue is out on Kickstarter, I can share its cute yet vaguely horrible cover critter! A living gachapon toy bioengineered by scud aliens! It is derived from a large diatom-like organism that is parasitized and used as a house by a worm-like arthropoid.

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 4w ago

Now that Almost Real's POP CULTURE issue is out on Kickstarter, I can share its cute yet vaguely horrible cover critter! A living gachapon toy bioengineered by scud aliens! It is derived from a large diatom-like organism that is parasitized and used as a house by a worm-like arthropoid.

Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 4w ago

My favorite anthology project going, hands down.

Iron Circus Comics@ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 4w ago

Friends of Iron Circus @fortunamedia.bsky.social have launched their latest crowdfund for ALMOST REAL! Here's your chance to grab the all-new sixth volume of lavishly illustrated spec-bio goodness, AND a hardback collection of the first five zines! www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

E. "Papermonkey" Jokinen @paperiapina.bsky.social · 4w ago

The collected book has my dinosaurs in it! 8D

Jay Eaton@jayeatonart.bsky.social · 4w ago

Almost Real's POP CULTURE issue and the collected book of the first 5 volumes of speculative biology madness are now live!!! Go check it out, fans of all that wriggles, squirms, grows and multiplies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

🌿🔮😈FORTUNA MEDIA 😈🔮🌿@fortunamedia.bsky.social · 4w ago

A QUARTER of the way to our goal in barely five hours on our first day A N D labeled as a "Project We Love"??? you're all incredible. we're stunned over here

Screencap of the Almost Real Book 1 / Volume 6 Kickstarter campaign's first five hours with "$10,086 pledged of $40,000 goal, 139 backers, 29 days to go" as results

Doodle of Swing from the Almost Real Kickstarter looking amazed and stupefied

🌿🔮😈FORTUNA MEDIA 😈🔮🌿@fortunamedia.bsky.social · 4w ago

Didja miss us? Itching to expand your knowledge *and* your imagination? It's time to make things that've been Almost Real... well, real! BOOK 1 (THE COLLECTED VOLUMES 1–5) and VOLUME 6 (POP CULTURE) of the celebrated speculative biology ALMOST REAL series returns! Funding until August 5th!

Tony Dunn @tony873004.bsky.social · last mo.

Asteroid Torifune was just imaged by Japan's Hayabusa 2. This asteroid is a rubble pile. If you could gently place it in the middle of a parking lot, it might look something like this. 🔭 #astro

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 4w ago

Almost Real's POP CULTURE issue and the collected book of the first 5 volumes of speculative biology madness are now live!!! Go check it out, fans of all that wriggles, squirms, grows and multiplies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/alm...

Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine • Vol 6 & Book 1

The spec bio anthology series is BACK with its sixth volume all about POP CULTURE, and a REMASTERED HARDBACK COLLECTION of Volumes 1–5!

kickstarter.com

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · last mo.

Streaming Space Horse Spooked by Tod www.twitch.tv/jayrockin5858

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Human-socialized. #RunawayToTheStars

Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey pst! Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine returns this month with a new issue! If you love imaginative creatures with a backbone (or exoskeleton) of real science, Almost Real is for you! Click the link to be notified when the campaign drops!

Coming soon: Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine • Vol 6 & Book 1!

The spec bio anthology series is BACK with its sixth volume all about POP CULTURE, and a REMASTERED HARDBACK COLLECTION of Volumes 1–5!

kickstarter.com