It's me, Nico.

@nicasio.bsky.social

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More of a dog person than a people person. Filipino Philadelphian from Wisconsin. Cavite, Philippines. Poetry Editor @thedeadlands.com 💀 Associate Editor @psychopomp.bsky.social 💀

Rate sheet for manuscript editing and consultation. Nicasio is an award-nominated writer and editor with years of experience in developmental editing, line editing, sensitivity reading, and cultural consultation. Every service includes a personalized reading list, and availability for follow-up over email or video call. Plus the possibility of more dog pictures. Cultural Consult/Sensitivity Read - $250 for the first 50,000 words, $50 for each additional 10,000 words. Expert evaluation of characters, settings, and themes. Filipino and Filipino-American; transgender men; Philippines historical and modern. Developmental Edit - $0.022 per word. Comprehensive critique of your full manuscript's plot, characters, themes, and pacing, with in-depth and detailed guidance on how to address problems. Manuscript Evaluation - $250 plus, depending on length. High-level assessment of your full manuscript, tailored to your specific needs and concerns. Get in touch. To receive a personalized quote, send a brief description of your project and needs to nicasio.reed@gmail.com At the top of the page is a black and white photo of two dogs. They're sitting at the top of some outdoor stairs, looking down at a tropical garden. At the bottom is another black and white picture of one of those dogs- she's a black Lab mix, sitting prettily on a bench.
Screenshot of my weather app. Tagaytay City, 25C, partly cloudy. Feels like 27C. Humidity is 92%. Time stamp is 9:46PM.
A small orange dog, curled in a circle on a black couch.
Oatside oat milk is back in stock, but limited to three cartons per customer.
A graphic created by the website of Love Laban: Pride PH Festival 2026. The text and the sliders are colored with a bright rainbow gradient. I know my SOGIE (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression) I am a man, I express as leaning masculine, and I am drawn to more than one gender. In everyday terms: bisexual trans man. Below the text are three sliders. The first is for gender identity (marked far to the right), then expression (marked just a bit right-of-center), then orientation (just a tiny bit right of center). Everyone has a SOGIE. What is yours?
my hand holding a bag of Fruit & Nut Nips, a yummy chocolate snack. the bag is purple and shiny.
my hand holding a packet of Sky Flakes crackers, but wait! These are special!!! They're OAT FIBER crackers WITH FIBER. also flaxseed. the package is green and orange.
A tumblr post dated 14 years ago. Image is a screenshot from Star Trek: Deep Space 9. Garak and Bashir are cast in deep shadow, Garak gesturing with both hands wide open, Bashir watching him with his hands behind his back. Below is a quoted text from The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. It reads as follows. "For it seemed to me, and I think to him, that it was from the sexual tension between us, admitted now and understood but not assuaged, that the great and sudden assurance of friendship between us rose: a friendship so much needed by us both in our exile, and already so well proved in the days and nights of our bitter journey, that it might as well be called, now as later, love. But it was from the difference between us, not from the affinities and likenesses, but from the difference, that that love came: and it was itself the bridge, the only bridge, across what divided us. For us to meet sexually would be for us to meet once more as aliens. We had touched, in the only way we could touch. We left it at that. I do not know if we were right."
Looking up at a canopy of narra trees, their young leaves lit by warm, pink, golden morning sun.
a screen grab from the online multimedia serial uhhh novel, 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future. a red voice says: How long has it been like this? a white voice answers: On April 7th, 2026, people stopped being born. On the same day, people stopped dying, and people stopped aging.
A golden bag, labeled Pure Nepali Organic, Nepali Masala Tea. Next to it, a cup of lovely tea, with kitty cat pictures on it.
A small, orange dog snoozes on a bed. A laptop is playing an episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Candy package, bright yellow. A cheerful orange, welcoming watermelon, and skeptical lime are pictured. In large text, it reads: Fruit ETHNICITY Lollipop
Image saying: What can you say during sex, but also on the bridge of a Federation starship?
Miss Norway parades in her national costume for the Miss Universe 2025 competition. Her national costume is a salmon. It's a whole salmon. Atop her head: a salmon head. Surrounding her body: the flesh of a salmon. She opens and closes her arms, flaying the fish each time, revealing its pink, inner meat. Coquettishly, she peeks from atop the closed neck, through the gills. And then guts the fish anew. "This river runner is a stunner: Norway!" The voice of the announcer, emotionless.
A pug, bathed in sunlight, so wrapped in an opulent fur coat that only its weird, flat face is visible. Before it sits a large goblet of red wine, full almost to the brim. The pug gazes up, into the light. Its mouth forms a perfect upside-down U.
a close-up from premee's photo, zoomed in on the face of a gleeful stone crocodile
screenshot from the weather app satellite view shows the Philippines hanging out minding it's own business while a typhoon hurtles in from the east, looking just about as big as the entire country.
Kermit stares blankly out a rain-dappled window.
a black, off-shoulder jumpsuit with a dropped collar that's got bold gold stitching.
my face obscured by both a beige cloth mask and a white eye mask. the eye mask is decorated with little banana illustrations.
Actor Riz Ahmed pops a squat by the rear bumper of a Nissan Ultima. He's pointing vaguely towards the license plate, which reads I'M SAD. His expression is one of resigned, squinting amusement.
A Rihanna tweet from 16 September, 2014 in which she says "The audacity..." At the time, it had 31,659 retweets and 31,079 likes. Yes, I've been saving it all this time.
A festive display at my local mall here in the Philippines. A tall, red backdrop with a mint green ribbon that makes it look like an enormous wrapped gift. Giant ball ornaments. Paper pine trees. Text that reads 97 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS.
a very wet, muddy, beloved old orange dog
A screenshot from Moksha, the submissions manager website. Text reads: "Be right back. We are currently fixing a minor issue. The Moksha system will return shortly."
A circular medallion, made of wood. It has the image of a windmill on it, and says THE WINDMILL RUN, 5K FINISHER
A large white dog reclines on a wooden bench. She's upside down and stretching her legs way out
First image: Lieutenant Worf on Star Trek: The Next Generation looks up from between someone's knees. He says, calmly, "Congratulations. You are fully dilated to ten centimeters. You may now give birth." Second image: Keiko O'Brien looks back at him with the most murderous wide-eyed grimace you can possibly imagine.
my hand holding a bottle of hot sauce. the sauce is a dark mustard yellow. the black lantern says Sichut Peppers: The Bomb, Yellow Habañero Hot Sauce.
a closeup of a standing mirror. reflected in it is Pedro pascal's behind, in some right, grey, wool slacks. quite tight. both the slacks and the behind.
Yet something inside me resisted this collapse. I wrote, even during the expulsion, even under the thunder of the bombs. I wrote about the children who disappeared, the shrouds we lacked for the dead, the houses that turned to dust. I wrote through fatigue, through grief, through fear. But I never wrote through hunger. Until March 2025. That’s when hunger took up residence in my body. It stopped knocking at the door. It broke open my chest and sat inside me.
my wonky left knee being lovingly rubbed by a calamansi (tiny green citrus fruit)
A screenshot of my Bluesky timeline, wherein Teyla posts about a huge host of blackbirds congregating in their garden and making a springtime ruckus at 5:30AM. AND THEN, right below his post, an art reposting account called @racheldeering posts a painting by Krzysztof Kiwerki that is just a huge host of black birds on a patterned yellow field.
a big, brown bug! the antenna stick out at 90 degree angles from its head and look segmented like bamboo. it has six legs, with sweet little grabby paws for feet. Just two eyes, black. mandibles a bit like an ant. it's about the size of a medium cockroach, but looks friendlier.
Rate sheet for manuscript editing and consultation. Nicasio is an award-nominated writer and editor with years of experience in developmental editing, line editing, sensitivity reading, and cultural consultation. Every service includes a personalized reading list, and availability for follow-up over email or video call. Plus the possibility of more dog pictures. Cultural Consult/Sensitivity Read - $200 for the first 50,000 words, $50 for each additional 10,000 words. Expert evaluation of characters, settings, and themes. Filipino and Filipino-American; transgender men; Philippines historical and modern. Developmental Edit - $0.019 per word. Comprehensive critique of your full manuscript's plot, characters, themes, and pacing, with in-depth and detailed guidance on how to address problems. Manuscript Evaluation - $200 plus, depending on length. High-level assessment of your full manuscript, tailored to your specific needs and concerns. Get in touch. To receive a personalized quote, send a brief description of your project and needs to nicasio.reed@gmail.com At the top of the page is a black and white photo of two dogs. They're sitting at the top of some outdoor stairs, looking down at a tropical garden. At the bottom is another black and white picture of one of those dogs- she's a black Lab mix, sitting prettily on a bench.
A screenshot of some electoral results, specifically for the city of Tagaytay, Cavite. The mayoral, vice-mayoral, and city councilor seat winners: Brent Tolentino, Agnes Tolentino, and Micko Tolentino. Brent and Agnes ran unopposed.
A mixed-race Malaysian man wearing the hell out of a fantastic, gold, three-piece suit. Broad-shouldered, wide-legged, and with a cross-hatched pattern that's more complex the closer you look at it. His collar is open to the second button, showing off a bit of gold chain around his neck, and only the barest bit of a black silk shirt is visible at the collar and wrists. His hair is slicked back, with one Clark Kent curl on his forehead. Black shoes, shined within an inch of their life.
A stunning Black woman with a full afro, small gold drop earrings, and maroon makeup for both her smokey eyes and glossy, lined lips. She's wearing a floppy, maroon cravat and a sharp white button-up shirt under a Louis Vitton blazer. In her hand is a massive cigar. The LV of Louis Vitton is stamped (in makeup, one assumes) on her high cheekbone.
A gorgeous Black man with thick dreads and a short beard. He's wearing a big, black, oval hat at a jaunty tilt. It's the same wood-like texture as his black bolero jacket. A silky black cravat around his neck. Draped all down his front are strings of turquoise beads that sketch the outline of a slinky dress. On his teeth is a grill in the same turquoise color. Smiling, because he knows he's killing it.
Two dogs sunning themselves on a red patio. One, Jackie, is black with a distinguished grey beardy snout. The other, Mika, is orange with a white belly. Both are pointedly ignoring the photographer.
A corner of the kitchen table, with a cup of tea and jar of jam. Beyond lurks the head of a black dog, yearning evident in her eyes and snout.
Jackie as a young puppy, luxuriating in the dirt. She's a black dog with a white chest and chin and a rainbow collar.
Mads Mikkelsen, sitting alone at a cheap café table, a half-drunk iced coffee before him, wearing headphones over his knit hat, eats a panini while staring despondently at nothing.
screenshot of a gcash transfer for 40 pesos
A full lineup of BAWLS drinks, from the classic blue bottle (BAWLS Guarana Original Soda), through the rainbow of other BAWLS flavors. All sport the classic raised dots (for your pleasure) on the glass bottles.
Kermit the Frog sits in a bathtub with his knees pulled up to his chin, while the faucet runs above him.
A tweet by Carrie Fisher, posted April 5, 2016. It says, "Help me obi Juan whoever the fuck you are.... You're my only ho"
Dorian Pavus from Dragon Age Inquisition
screenshot showing off the timeline of a fanvid i'm working on. not the actual video, just the audio track and the clips arrayed above it. no spoilers.
A DM conversation with user Alex Morgan. They say "Hello. I'm reaching out because I'm interested in using one of your pictures as inspiration for an artwork I'll be creating. I want to assure you that I'll give you proper credit for the inspiration, so you'll be acknowledged for your contribution to my art." I reply that I do not give my permission. They say only "why." I say that I don't need a reason and goodbye!
A small orange dog with a black sock on her head. The closed toe has been cut off so that it is a tube covering her ears. She's resting her snout on a pile of pillows.
A large bottle of Datu Puti soy sauce.
a steaming bowl of kimchijigge - tofu, cabbage, onion, all bright red
Three dogs and a goat stand in a circle, staring at each other in excited confusion. They're on a dirt path through a grassy lawn.
edit to previous reply, reads: Gummies are absolutely superior.
I don’t understand why poets Don’t insult more people Imagine: Ginsberg wagging his ribbon cock At the banality of Elon Musk Imagine Kenneth Patchen pointing out How his face floats in formaldehyde Imagine Elizabeth Bishop Drowning Betsy DeVos in a tide pool on North Haven Before she dusts the broken shells from her palms And pours herself a drink.
The tote bag. It says "Anticipatory Climate Change Adaptation: Climber Learning Exchange".
The sun, behind mist and a slippery cloud, casts a glow on the mountainous ridges of Banaue and its houses.