lovely short story by @finneyflame.bsky.social for my snow day morning to feed my speedrunning fixation! this one will live in my brain for a long time www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

Hi bluesky 👋🏼 long time no see lol. Came to ask for recs — I teach English 101 at a community college and I’m looking for readings on the gender binary, trans identity, transphobia, etc that are accessible with very little understanding of queer/trans identity

President Trump’s unauthorized military action in Venezuela is unconstitutional, dangerous, and an impeachable abuse of power. Congress alone has the authority to declare war and Trump is once again ignoring the law to serve his own interests. My full statement:

signs it has been a rough year 😓😅

Hey you can support some trans folks on the Trans Day of Remembrance! Donate to the Trans Lifeline if you can. Or to someone's gofundme. It's a rough time out there. translifeline.org

😎 日本語ができます！ (sort of lmao)

YAAAAAA

I wanted to boost the accounts of the three families from Gaza I have been focusing on posting - here is a thread of what is going on with them. They are all doing really badly and there is just no food.

Let's all fight back against the right wingers who want to silence our voices as a prelude to silencing us for good! #queersky #booksky #queeradultsff

We're disabled and queer. 🏳️🌈 We sell our writing to eat. We launched two book sales — each has 20 books for $30. Itch bowed to conservative pressure, and hid them without warning. Do you agree this is bullshit? Then help us make them pay. disabilitypac.carrd.co #MakeCensorshipCost #BookSky

Happy Juneteenth! Just updated my list of books by Black intersex authors - www.bogireadstheworld.com/a-list-of-bo... (Aiming for completeness, please let me know if I missed a title!)

ok This Week is gonna be the week I hype myself up into organizing & sending query letters for real this time !!

drawfee pride stream as unhinged as ever in both content and speed of money raised ❤️🏳️‍⚧️!!! tilt.fyi/5VevCoqhaM

They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls.

SHE’S HERE! The Trans Rights Readathon has officially begun! ✨🥳🎊🎉📚 #booksky #trr25 #transrightreadathon

18-year-old Jude on laws banning gender-affirming care: "On the more extreme end, for a lot of kids it's the possibility of severe mental-health struggles and suicidal ideation - but I also think on a smaller scale, kids, because they cannot be themselves, would rather choose to not be anyone."

I wrote a poem the first go-around and published it in @rejectionlit.bsky.social rejection-letters.com/2020/10/08/t...

Concho tiene frío :(

ok, i’ve had my coffee, no plans for the next two hours, time to find out how many songs i get through before i cry ❤️ #BadBunny #DebiTirarMasFotos

My 2024 storygraph wrap!! Wow I sure did read all of Beastars in August

Over the last month, 206 authors, critics, editors, and diehard readers came together to vote on the best transfeminine literature of 2024. This is the inaugural TFR Reader’s Choice Awards! 🥳

Am I super behind on end of semester grading? Yes. Did I post a fanfic for the first time in years yesterday? Also yes 🥰 I have only moderate regrets, the dopamine of Doing Something Nice has helped me recharge.

From the first chapter of TVB – future polycule's first real interaction :) [cw blood, some injury description] #WritingPrompt

“This report lays bare that Gaza is one of the most horrifying places in the world to be a child...Alongside the levelling of hospitals, schools and homes, a trail of psychological destruction has caused wounds unseen but no less destructive on children who hold no responsibility for this war.”

The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon!

QUERY + FIRST 10 PAGES CRITIQUE for urgent Gaza mutual aid amid forced starvation and genocide For as long as I can, I'm offering a query + first 10 pages critique for proof of $50 donation (or more) to any of the following:

Managed 21K into new book for not-official-nanowrimo this year — less than I was hoping for (I’m usually high word count low quality on first drafts lol). But it was An Interesting Month, and 21k is still a lot of words! Hard to remember that sometimes 😅

🌌 please just remember the land your on and how it was taken today please remember that we are still here

grateful to have seen this lovely awards eligibility post for its leading me to a short story that will live in my head rent free for the next decade

The one on the right is mine!!! @abellothomas.bsky.social wins writerfriend of the year award for getting a commissioned version of the hands emoji meme between my novel protag and hers, it came out so lovely 😍🥰

1/ HOW TO TRIAGE AN IMMIGRATION EMERGENCY As someone who has been defending non-citizens in deportation proceedings since 2006, I am here to tell you that we know exactly who Trump's top targets will be, & how we can try to protect them NOW. NOT LEGAL ADVICE but here's what we know about priorities

“Absolutely anything is possible, and we must acknowledge this, not out of surrender, but as a means of readying ourselves for the impossible fights ahead.” @roxanegay.bsky.social [This is a gift link; please just read Roxane’s piece or don’t. I don’t care about subscription politics.]

For those who are mad and activated (good) my one hope is that you will look for the people already doing the work. You probably do not need to invent your own new organization or group. Find the people already doing it and join them, listen to them, learn from them.

Hello new Bluesky followers!!! Glad to be (re)building a new network over here. As an intro to me & my work — here’s a short story of mine that appeared in The Future Fire earlier this year (slightly nsfw): futurefire.net/2024.70/fict...

An amazing story that I still think of years later.

One of my favorites!!! 🐋

Diego Gomez (@designnurd on Insta) is one of my favorite artists in San Francisco. This queer Mexican-American artist creates incredible street art and flamboyant queer superheroes (including some lovely X-Men fan art). He was assaulted and is in the ICU. Please help if you can! gofund.me/a2eca01f

In the first installment of a 3-part essay, "Science Fiction vs. Left Melancholy", @jolwalton.bsky.social starts us off by explaining what "left melancholy" is, and wondering if the joy of speculative fiction might be a way out: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/09/18/s...

the sit-in lasted 25 days and the wikipedia article has me actually crying rn.

Hi all, For the fourth time in four years, my partner and I are about to lose our housing. I've made a Gofundme, because this is getting urgent and I'm not sure what we're going to do. Boosting widely and donating would mean the world to me. Thank you! #helpsky #crowdfund gofund.me/4ce94d5a

Always a pleasure to reread this ❤️

Today’s micro-interview is with the wonderful R.M. Pérez-Padilla, author of “Transmogrification” in The Future Fire #70. http://press.futurefire.net/2024/08/micro-interview-with-rm-perez-padilla.html

I have a story in this issue! So excited to share with everyone & honored to be among so many great writers & artists.

2024 Ignotus Finalists locusmag.com/2024/07...

We have less than 48 hours left till our fundraiser ends and we're still short of our goal!. Please help keep us afloat. We want to do MORE not less. More short fiction reviews! More con reporting! More Locus Awards! More Recommended Reading Lists! http://igg.me/at/loc...