*2026-03-29* - 39¢/Message. Unregulated. Filtered. That's the current state of our prison e-messaging service, an alternative to writing a physical letter in 2026. https://concertinawired.com/2026/0...
*2026-03-21* - MacBook Neo v. Intel NUC, a Prisoner's Perspective In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial muses about the new Macbook Neo, repairability, and what her personal computing landscape may...
*2026-03-09* - A Choice of Unsavoury Words: JJ, Once More, With Feeling. In this Concertina Wired Short, Xial laments and commiserates the return of brother-from-another-mother, JJ, to the prison sys...
Hi. I'm Xial. I am not a visually inclined artist. I do like to do color work whenever I have the muse for it. Some of it goes here. Some of it goes elsewhere. My art lies in the realm of the keyboard, if my fickle muse allows it.
I post works that I've finished on SoFurry or Inkbunny as the mood strikes, and I'm also posting them to Lick the Blue Things.
ePub readiness is a priority in my books, and I will try to make my works available as ePubs as I complete segments that can stand alone. Thank you to electronic book devices for making reading cool again.
On nerdworks: I am the author of a conversion stylesheet for FurAffinity called Vaunt Dark. If you use it, thank you. It is no longer maintained, though.
My policy on drawing a Xial, or any other character in my list is fairly simple: "YES YOU CAN DRAW ME!" :)
I am not really big on roleplay these days, but if you talk a good game... I'm still probably going to turn you down politely. :)
I don't mind conversation about technical things, but please don't ask me to help you build a computer. While I'm technically capable of it, and can usually find really decent pricing, I find it tedious to pull together a machine idea for someone for free, only to be second-guessed by someone else.
Speaking of conversation, there's one thing I ask that you respect: If my messenger is set to away, or I've launched a game, please let me play in peace? I like you all, but waiting until I launch a game to suddenly spit messages at me is upsetting. Thank you. :)
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