The Hard Wire

MEAT PUPPET
Give me root access to your body. I want to drive you like a stolen car. Who knows what kind of trouble you’ll be in when I hand back the keys?

DIE SYSOP SCUM
Goth hexwitch seeks t4t accomplice for run on Armistice. Monitor my tender wetware while I’m jacked in. After, fuck my hyperstimulated body. We split the data 50/50.

DOMINAS WANTED
The Pinion needs new dominas who can degrade and humiliate our endless clientele of corp suits. Clients pay house but any gifts you can get them to promise you are yours to keep.

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It's 20XY. Between the sprawl of server farms and the shores of a dried lake gleams Chy-town, the crown jewel of LakeSec. In the shadow of the corporate arcologies, queers hustle to make ends meet. Spliced, modded, construct or vanilla, the Hard Wire – Chy-town's anonymous, encrypted feed of queer personals – are here for you. Praise to the corporate masters.

The Hard Wire is a zine of queer personal ads from the cyberpunk dystopia of Chy-town, 20XY. Let's run some numbers:

• 12-page zine (plus front and back cover, for a total of 16 pdf pages).
• 5.5 x 8.5 inch pages. Printed, 8 letter-sized pages front and back.
• 54 personal ads from the denizens of Chy-town.
• Rules for a simple TTRPG to play with the personals feed.
• Introduction to Chy-town and afterword about sex work in the cyberpunk genre.
• 2000+ words.
• You get: A full-color pdf, a black and white pdf for easy printing, and a plaintext file.

Read them, play them, use them in your own TTRPG campaign, let them inspire your next sci fi porn story, whatever. I'm not your corporate mommy.

CONTENT WARNINGS: This zine is interested in sex work and many of the scenarios within are presented as transactional or exploitative. There are ambiguously consensual or consensually non-consensual scenarios. Drug use is mentioned several times. Many of the activities being solicited are understood in the fiction to be illegal, and some entries are implied to have been posted by police. This writing is sexually explicit.

> ADULTS ONLY!

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Written and designed by Anna Anthropy, December 2025. Typefaces used: Share, Astonished, Heavy Data, Compagnon. Cover art based on Chicago Skyline at Night by Petr Kratochvil. This zine was made without generative AI of any kind.

Fuck I.C.E. Free Palestine.