July 2026

Relational quantum physics as an argument about selves: a particle's properties are not held privately but exist in relation, and neither are ours. Developed after Helen Edgar's essay We Are Made of Relations: Quantum Physics and What It Means to Be Autistic (More Realms, 2026) — a house adaptation into the paged-zine form, credited as such. Rovelli's relational interpretation is flagged in-zine as one reading, not settled physics.

A guest zine by Helen Edgar (Autistic Realms), rehoused in the house paged-zine style with her text and her own sources note preserved: wyrd from Old English weorþan, “to become” — fate as something still in the making, and the long road from the Norns through Holinshed to Macbeth's Weird Sisters. A “threads already running” spread was added the same day, bringing it to nine.

Neurodiversity extended past our own species, and animality reclaimed rather than fled. Built on Ombre Tarragnat's published essays on ethodiversity and bestialisation, with thesis-level claims marked explicitly as their stated position rather than settled consensus.

The companion catalogue: the octopus with two-thirds of its neurons in its arms, the elephant's overwhelmingly cerebellar 257 billion, corvid forebrain density, C. elegans's 302 neurons and first complete connectome, the star-nosed mole's 25,000 touch organs. Many ways to be a mind, none of them the standard.

Shared-signal space and the electromagnetic spectrum: connection carried on channels other than a face in a room. Coinage credited to Helen Edgar.

Decentralized knowledge and the Autistic Rhizome — no head, no center, entry from any point.

Twelve partnerships: mutual aid written into biology, from Kropotkin through Margulis to Spade. Helen Edgar's fact-check was applied on arrival, and Monotropa uniflora added as the honest asymmetrical case — the one that takes without repaying, and belongs anyway.

• No One Is the Leader (22) — emergence and the murmuration: each starling tracks six or seven neighbours, and the flock has no one in charge.
• Bodies of Water (23) — hydrofeminism, shared flow, and belonging, after Neimanis.
• Shared Air (24) — the atmospheric commons, the canary, and solarpunk. Reworked the same day to ground shared-air space physically in the co-regulation spread.

• The Council of All Beings (14) — multispecies justice and more-than-human governance; a folding chair pulled up for the beings without a vote.
• Every Creature's Own Sky (15) — the umwelt, monotropism, and the double empathy problem.
• Minor Worlds (16) — niche construction and worldmaking, completing the treat / sense / build trilogy.
• The Nearest Body (17) — tides and co-regulation: the Sun is far more massive, and the Moon still runs the water.
• The Garden and the Stars (18) — knowledge gardening as star stuff.
• No Universal Now (19) — crip time by way of relativity, with a guest coda by Helen Edgar.
• The Same Water (20) — fluctuating capacity read through phase transitions.
• Not a Line (21) — the spectrum as spectroscopic fingerprint, not severity scale. After Helen Edgar and Patrick Dwyer.

The shortest version of the whole idea, and the method behind it: begin from settled science, read it as an argument about belonging, say so when a source is contested. A Start Here card on the front page, then a permanent about pill in the navigation of every page.

• Field Guide No. 3 — Life in Impossible Places: tardigrades, lichen in orbit, tube worms at the vents. Life doesn't ask permission about conditions.
• Field Guide No. 4 — Worlds That Work by Other Rules, and Field Guide No. 5 — The Ways of Being a Star.
• Inclusion Safety: Owed, Not Earned — the first stage of psychological safety, made into a creed. Worth before worthiness.
• Zine No. 11 — Why Difference Comes First: a guest zine by Helen Edgar, with a full reference list. Revised twice more the same day with her updated text.
• The Difference-First Frame — backing material for anyone who asks why difference gets to be the starting point. Deliberately outside the reading chain.
• Zine No. 12 — Turn and Face the Strange and Zine No. 13 — Warriors and Weirdos: Bowie and AURORA, with performances embedded in place of diagrams.

• Zine No. 1 — Bone Song: piezoelectric bone, star-forged calcium, and a universe that doesn't pathologize its own variation.
• Zine No. 2 — Love You Down To Your Star Stuff, Zine No. 3 — Neurodiversity Field Guide, and Zine No. 4 — We Are All Star Stuff (an open call for contributors).
• Field Guide No. 1 — Neurodivergent Constellations.
• The L★S Broadside — two-sided, print-ready, risograph-inspired — and Shorthand Evolution, on how one phrase compressed itself into a glyph.

• The Star Stuff Manifesto — six sections, eight declarations — and the LYDTYSS page in full long form.
• The L★S Playlist, songs in conversation with the phrase.
• Underground (5), the mycelial below to Bone Song's above; Eternal Sunshine (6); You Were Never One Thing (7), on endosymbiosis and the self that was always a collective; The Universe Runs on Difference (8); The Lines We Drew (9); The Dead Stars Still Reach Us (10).
• Field Guide No. 2 — The Star Stuff You're Made Of.