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@milowinterwrites
A few of the poems from Alterlife, a fully illustrated poetry collection that explores ghosts and the afterlife as metaphors for personal trauma. Sweeping landscapes, ecosystems, and natural phenomena are set in parallel to PTSD, self-destructive tendencies, and traumatic memory.
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Can I ask who made the main book cover with Rieka and Narah? I've been trying to find em because I rly like their art
Haha, that would be @the-d12rose, aka Elrose, who is still active on the WOG team! I believe she's open for commissions right now? I cannot recommend Elrose enough, she is an incredible artist and human being.
I look at this art every day on the books! I always like to pause and look at the colors on the back cover, for some reason those deep blues and greens are soft to the eyes. Hopefully it's okay to share the full piece here, all credit to El <3
First edition AOS final sale
For those who have been asking for a first edition hardcover, the last ~200 of them are for sale. The 1e hardcover will not be printed again, as it was a special edition print for TikTok Shop preorders; clearing out what was left from this offset print run! These ship in 2-5 business days, signed, and include the original foil bookmark only available with the 1e hardcovers.
Making lots of room for 2e. Big updates upcoming, including writing updates. Also need to go through a very full inbox here. More content coming soon...
Eighteen-year-old Rieka Spring has been determined all her life to piece together Gardian's fragmented historical record and reverse the opp
Hi Milo! I’m wondering if you could set the record straight for us—for you, personally, what are the hard lines you’d like drawn when it comes to referring to your pre-transition self? Are we allowed to still share tiktoks or images from when you were presenting femme? Can we still refer to the pen name you used to publish AoS, or is that just as bad as deadnaming you at this point? It can be different for everyone, and I do not want to assume. Thank you and good luck with your writing!
I have a lot of asks to answer, but this one just came in; I have a few questions like this/asking about my name change, so I wanted to take the chance to clarify. Thank you for asking!
My preference is that my old videos/content from when I was presenting femme is not used or shared when discussing or talking about my writing or projects now. I'd be really uncomfortable with someone using old content of me while talking about Alterlife, for example. AOS and Gardian will consistently and always be under Milo Winter now, just as it was under Audra Winter before! I avoid looking at any media of myself online because I know I will see my pre-transition self. Audra is a dead name at this point, but I don't at all mind being referred to as Winter.
And, no, I was not aware that there was a children's book illustrator named Milo Winter. When I came out, I actually came out to the team first, and had them refer to me as "Winter" until I was ready to fully come out as transgender (and before I chose my new name!). Winter's been my pseudonym since I was 12, it stuck after all this time. When I chose my new first name, I decided I would have the same first name pseudonym and autonym; my legal dead name was already doxxed and it makes me extremely uncomfortable to be referred to as that dead name. When I came across Milo, I looked up the meaning, said it out loud a few times, and then... chose it. It was an instant decision. I just rolled with it. I loved it. Immediately told the team and close friends to refer to me as Milo and then that sealed "Milo Winter" as a pen name. I (mistakenly) did not look up if there was anyone in the literature world named Milo Winter. Oh well.
On a similar note, I published Alterlife under Milo Prather, because I could. It's a personal poetry collection; the writing in Alterlife is separate from Gardian, it represents me as a human.
Related answer to this question from High Disturbance:
Throughout my life, I have been someone who struggles to listen to my own voice or watch a video of myself. As you could probably imagine, this did not fare well with the thousands of people mirroring my face back to me and referring to me exactly as the role I forced myself into. I leaned more and more into the girlboss-entrepreneur-business woman stereotype, wondering if I was uncomfortable being perceived as so because of the amount of shock I was under. But, as reality sank in, I had a different realization when I flinched at every she/her, when I found myself disgusted at being so widely seen as a woman. I was playing an act, one I had played all my life, but it was a reality check to be ambushed by the complete disconnection between who I was and who I was being seen as—not on the hatred level, but simply on gender and identity. I hated seeing myself perceived as a woman. It worsened each video I watched of myself, I despised my own image, I couldn’t recognize myself in old or new videos.
On a related note, I've been signing the last of the 1e hard cover copy sales with Milo Winter, despite the cover and book with my pre-transition name.
Thank you for asking kindly! :)
I don't think you should be posting about yourself in your own tag lol. Leave reader spaces alone please
Have you considered joining any writing workshops or critique groups while revising Age of Scorpius?
Yes, I have, and I am actively searching for a critique group right now :) Thank you for asking!
May I ask will the ama be through asks like this one or in the comment section of your ama post? If through asks, I'd love to know if we'll get to see any trans characters in the future of world of gardian!! In recent months I've grown a little fond to the trans Avia headcanon, being how she seems to not fit into her family at all, the feeling of being different and needing your own place. (And in that breath, are you okay with headcanons and things like that?)
Hello there! Should've answered this one a bit ago, but had my media break. Yes, we most definitely will see more trans representation in Gardian! Though Avia is a canonically cis character, I don't mind head canons at all, and I love that people can find inspiration in my characters to create their own stories. I answered previously about trans representation:
Yes to both! It’s already being written in—there is a trans character featured in the main cast. The second version of AOS will openly have both trans masc and trans fem representation. Though I didn’t specify it in the first version, Atlas is canonically a trans man; that’ll be clearly established this time! 🏳️⚧️
Good luck with your regrowth! You never deserved what people put you through. I'm glad you haven't given up on Age of Scorpius (or worse: writing itself) and I'll be looking forward to whatever you publish. I hope all you biggest dreams come true.
You have no idea how much this means, thank you.
hi milo! i know you are probably swamped with the AOS rewrite at the moment, but i was wondering if you have tentative plans to write more installments in the world of gardian series?
additionally, i found your “high disturbance” article very interesting and you seem to be very knowledgeable about ecology and forestry. do you plan to release any other pieces like it in the future?
Hello there!
I do have plans (and always have) to write more installments or side projects in Gardian! Right now, I'm just keeping my focus on AOS, but I've been writing with the intention of expanding the series over time.
Thank you for the compliments :) and yes, I do! I plan on incorporating ecology more into everything I do artistically; Alterlife holds a lot of my love for ecology!
I noticed that Afterlife is published under "Milo Praher" and not Winter, and I'm kind of confused
Are you going be using "Milo Winter" or "Milo Praher" for publishing your stuff?
Yes, that's true, I published under Milo Prather—Prather is my actual surname/autonym. Winter is my pseudonym. Milo is my first (chosen) name for both my autonym and pseudonym now.
My choice to publish Alterlife under Milo Prather vs Winter was a reclamation of my identity with a heavily interpersonal collection of writing. Alterlife embraces who I am as a person, and I want to be able to reconnect with the ghosts I divided myself from because of dissociation.
AOS and Gardian will still be published under Milo Winter :) I'm just putting it out there that Milo Winter and Milo Prather are the same person.
Earlier this year, my dead name was spread to cause harm to me. This was in the middle of my egg cracking. I had my pen name and legal name separate for a reason—I went by Audra instead of my dead name was because my dead name made me that uncomfortable, lol. Milo is a comfortable name, why not use it for both my autonym and pseudonym?
I am an enigma.
Will the revised Chapter 2 be uploaded to Patreon, and if so when?
Yes, it will! So will Chapter 3. I’m hoping to get Chapter 2 out within the next month—we’ve been working on restructuring the book with a full outline, having conversations with Kaitlyn and the team, and laying out the bones for the first ten chapters. I’m in the process of rewriting Chapter 2 as we speak!
An important lesson I learned this year is to always prioritize quality over speed.
I see poet in your bio. Do you have any poetry anywhere I could read? No pressure :)
Yes, I just published a whole book of it :)
Alterlife is a fully illustrated poetry collection that explores ghosts and the afterlife as metaphors for personal trauma. Written over ma
Amazon.com: Alterlife: 9798998952463: Prather, Milo, Rauhala, Sauli: Books
Why leave your asks open if you’re not answering anything? 💀
I took a social media break. That’s all. I’ll answer asks soon.
For those wondering, I don’t scroll Tumblr or look at my own tag(s), at all. While Sauli & Elrose update me on the important things, I actively avoid watching content about myself. I’m really just here to answer asks (when I feel comfortable doing so) and throw out my thoughts to the void. I have deliberately avoided scrolling any tags with my name for months, on numerous platforms. I do not look at accounts talking about me, I don’t scroll my home page at all, I’m around to occasionally post content and answer questions.
I have been redirecting my energy and attention into strengthening my writing and restructuring AOS.
Today’s critique topic: I spelled my own fictional words wrong.
Art by @nokkipo
What made you choose the name Milo?
Milo means “soldier”—I grew up as a military kid and my name has personal significance to me and my life. I knew immediately when I saw the name that it was my name. Weird phenomenon for an author who spends way too much time on naming characters!
Will the second edition of AoS have any trans characters/themes?
Yes to both! It’s already being written in—there is a trans character featured in the main cast. The second version of AOS will openly have both trans masc and trans fem representation.
Though I didn’t specify it in the first version, Atlas is canonically a trans man; that’ll be clearly established this time! 🏳️⚧️
Up the Mountainside
Haven't talked too much about this on Tumblr yet, but I help run the World of Gardian patreon! Today we dive into fellow artist & friend @nokkipo 's newest animated painting.
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