shovda

@shovda.bsky.social

Poet (Sara Hovda) and SMW Kaizo streamer (shovda). I post about both.

As a reminder, I'm on day 21 of my subathon/shovdathon and trying to raise money to help me survive the summer while not being paid by my university. Any and all support is welcome. <3

Hi! I have three poems in the newest issue of South Dakota Review. 🙂 I'm very grateful these poems were taken when they were, because I almost took them out of my manuscript before they were accepted.

Just asked my mom if she knew what polyamory was when she came into my twitch chat and followed it up with "what if instead of one girlfriend I came home with two," so that's how my day is going.

As the natural endpoint of everything that happened this SGDQ, I've created this helpful chart for understanding thoughts on grunglers.

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There are three types of poetry reads for me. The ones I just analyze/categorize, ones I learn craft from, and inspiration. These are rough categories and can vary by poem, but usually I know what I'm in for pretty quickly. Victoria Chang's Tree of Knowledge is in that third, magical category.

One GDQ fear is that I'm going to have a dumb/bad moment when interacting with someone and they're going to think I'm a jerk. Incidentally, if you're the woman I sat beside day 0 in the lobby and we saw each other daily but never talked more, I'm so sorry I was afraid to ask your username again.

If I had a nickel for every time the producer on shift at GDQ asked me if I could do something else because the run I was a part of went too fast etc. lol

Assuming I don't get (too bad of a) GDQ flu I'm very excited to start my subathon on the 15th and stream for a couple weeks straight after this lol.

There are actually so many nice people at GDQs, and I want you all to know it. The kaizo community and all the trans women I know are so, so especially incredible.

If I ever become the type of person who only gives the time of day to people who can do something for them, just take me out behind the shed tbh.