Something's brewing: Find out how flânerie recharged my creative brain and taught me a little bit about grace. Resources Other ways to reset your creativity: S04:E02 | Reconnect: On Prompts, Cross-Pollination, and Creative ElasticityS04:E04 | Reframe: On Commitment as Self-Care and How to Kick Inertia's AssS04:E07 | Refract: On Mirror Rot, Idiosyncratic Inspo, and Hailing the New Year S04:E09 | Remix: On Rap as Disco Renaissance, Poetic Resonance, and Ripping Ourselves Off I...

What do Biggie Smalls, the Queens of Disco, and the poetry community have in common? Find out in this episode, wherein we talk about remixing ourselves as a way to recontextualize, reimagine, and regenerate our creative work. Resources Lovelorn, my line-lifting solo poetry RPG (Part IV of the Western Cantos)The poetry of Deadliest Catch: S04:E07 | Refract: On Mirror Rot, Idiosyncratic Inspo, and Hailing the New YearIG: @littleoracles

It's a booktastic megasode! Nearly 20 minutes of big book energy, opening with books that made me go "mmm" in 2024, and closing with what I'm excited to read in 2025. (Could this be the soft relaunch of the Asynchronous Book Club? Yeah, why not!) As ever, check content warnings before you pick up anything we discuss here on the podcast; reading should be a refuge, not a trigger. And remember: reading is reading is reading, whether you're reading books with your eyes or your hands or your ea...

Let's talk about mirror rot! And also how it inspired me to write this episode all about the agnosticism of inspiration, and how your idiosyncratic log of the year (whether it's in your phone's notes app, your watch history, your box of ticket stubs) can not only help you reflect on the year that's gone, but also take you into the new one with a cache of cool curios to fuel your creative practice. Wishing you a wonderful New Year! Until next time, as always: take care, keep creating, and sta...

Let's burn your vision board! Not really! (But kind of?) In this episode, we're talking about taking space, practicing grace, and reminding ourselves of why we make what we make ... and for whom, and why it's not the best move to let your calendar control your creative work. Heavily inspired by a great Bluesky thread about making art for yourself by game designers Sean and Navi Drake of A Couple of Drakes. Resources The season-opening three-parter about coming back to creativity: S04:E01 ...

Happy Booksgiving! We're inaugurating a new Jolabokaflod-inspired holiday, Little Oracles style ... because gifting a book is cool as hell. Featuring five books I won't flinch about giving to fabulous friends (and fellow weird-fiction freaks). If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor NagaGrief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max PorterHera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay BirdThe Friend by Sigrid NunezCursed Bread by Sophie MackintoshThanks so much for being here, and, as always, take care, keep...

In this final installment of the season-opening three-parter, we look at personal obligation (in a good way) and how to say goodbye to creative stasis with a handful of stagnancy-busting strategies (and even some creative prompts!). Until next time, as always: take care, keep creating, and stay divine! <3 Resources Episodes one and two of this three-parter: S04:E01 | Retread: On Coming Back to Creativity + Five Fave Creepy Reads and S04:E02 | Reconnect: On Prompts, Cross-Pollination, an...

In this spontaneous emergency episode in response to the 2024 U.S. election, I'm calling out your creative spirit: in times like these, we need mourners, we need menders, we need makers. We need your creative revolution. We'll resume our three-part series about coming back to creativity next week, but until then, as always: take care, keep creating, and stay divine. <3 Resources Episodes one and two of this three-parter: S04:E01 | Retread: On Coming Back to Creativity + Five Fave Creepy...

In part two of the season-opening three-parter, we're talking about the power of prompts, ways to cross-pollinate your creativity, and how creative elasticity makes you an even mightier maker. Until next time, take care, keep creating, and stay divine. <3 Resources Episode one of this three-parter: S01:E01 | Retread: On Coming Back to Creativity + Five Fave Creepy ReadsVide-Poche: Pockets and Their Contents show catalogHighlighted episodes! S01:E01 | Hey, Hi, Howdy! Welcome to Little Ora...

We're back, baby ... back to basics, that is. In this first episode of a season-opening three-parter, we talk about rereading as inspiration mining; leaning into complementary crafts to prime the proverbial creative pump; and five of my fave creepy reads, just in time for Halloween week (plus two bonus boogedy-boos just for you): Strega by Johanne Lykke Holm (trans. Saskia Vogel)At the Edge of the Woods by Kathryn BromwichWhere the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (trans. Polly Barton)Ou...