I learned today that one of my dear friends, Lyra, has passed away due to an illness. It was 29. I will miss it so much. Lyra was incredibly kind, caring, & friendly. We could talk both about silly computer things & deep trans stuff, and go deep with both. It will always have a place in my heart. 🧡

For my friend.

Lyra you were so kind, and so loved. You deserved so much more. I will miss you, friend. Thank you, for the joy of knowing you. Rest well.

I am so sad, and angry, and I miss my friend But I am so glad I got to know it, even if just for a little while

Lyra, you deserved so much better. Walk in dreams.

One unfortunate aspect of fandom is when you try talking about a piece of media online like "I'm interested in the stuff that's actually in the thing" and get stonewalled by the "I am going to fill every criticism and thematic gap with fanfiction" type

I'm confused, there's a story I like, but it contains bad things?? Am I supposed to like the bad things?? I don't want to like bad things, but I don't want to stop liking the story, so maybe they're good things actually I guess?? Yeah that must be it.

This is blackout poetry to me

You think I'm wrong about countryside ecology? I'll have you know I've drawn over 100 Sonic the Hedgehog OCs. Bet you're feeling pretty silly now, huh?

ranked competitive breast growth (2025)

Or more generally, any attempt of folding queerness into a single aesthetic.

New year, new me. And another new me. And I'm keeping the old me too. And you know what, fuck it, maybe secret fourth me, I don't know.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Franticly smashing the Invoke Support System ability but it's on cooldown so my character just keeps going "I can't use that right now!" in an increasingly frustrating upbeat tone.

very quick doodle because this post is giving me brainworms (positive) (wendy, left: she/her) (rosa, middle: it/its) (izzy, right: she/her)

i wish people would stop saying that people like me being driven forcefully out of public life and murdered is a distraction from stuff that matters

... before turning the debate on herself.

chapter 48 spoilers

An autobiographical essay about anti-trans child conversion therapy and the place of queer children under patriarchy. open.substack.com/pub/dolphind...

Here is my comprehensive review of Wake Up Dead Man.

Genres cannot be subversive. Art *within* genres can be, but a genre itself is not subversive, no matter how much you like it.

Sex baked rights.

HR departments countrywide need to start treating gendercrit employees as potentially hostile. As soon as you are required to interact with one, you dust off the rulebook, you dot every eye and cross every t, and you assume bad faith at every turn. They are a threat to every organisation.

the judge who refused the doctor being harassed by a bigot at Fife the right to anonymity throughout these proceedings and ultimately led to her name and photos being published by the press and all of the harassment that has happened since should still step down you piece of shit.

All the claims against Dr. Beth Upton failed. She’s entirely vindicated and her evidence was found more reliable. Let’s see if a single paper actually represents that fairly…

If nothing else, at least they've done everything in their power to lose my support before they ever had it, so I don't have to feel disappointed when it inevitably fails to amount to anything.

What fresh hell is this? #YourParty #TransRights

One of the simplest ways to see that creators aren’t bourgeois is that we don’t, as creators, appropriate other peoples’ labor. We do labor that we can eventually make money from, we don’t make money from exploiting others. It’s the exploitative relation that characterizes the bourgeoisie.

Love being in a meeting about the stupid AI project that's costing me my job where all the evangelists wring their hands about how it's not nearly as good as they hoped. Like, yes you fucking morons, that's what I was trying to tell you months ago.

Meanwhile, I've had a doctor insist I have to tell her the *exact* sex acts which cause me most discomfort, no euphamism, and ask for more and more detail after every response 🙃

Esther Ghey's actions are the reason I just had a conversation with my siblings and fiancee, instructing them to ban my parents from any future funeral or memorial in my honour, along with anyone else using any kind of rationalisation to deadname me.

literally some of the first things my parents said to me before subjecting me to transphobic abuse was "if you lived in the village and had a Nokia with no internet, we wouldn't have this problem"

removing a trans person's connection to the internet is an act of deliberate social isolation with intent to 'convert' and everyone knows it

a lot of queer folk can't quite put their fingers on why they're so angry and upset about this shit and yeah no this is it. We all know and we even know that they know too. Eg the MP can't even give a single line explaining how this phone shit would have helped Brianna. They're just playing dumb.

Marilyn's writing is so good and It's A Living is so hot and adorable and you have to go read it right now and then give her your money on patreon. She deserves it, and *you* deserve to read this story, as a treat to yourself.

Getting made redundant twice in one year is so fun. I love when this happens.

You mean that time with the plague? The plague that causes long term illness and disability? You’re wondering why there was a massive bump in long term sickness during the plague?

This evening was my first irl experience of some 20-nothing enby I'd never met before telling me that I don't count as nonbinary because I use she/they and I'm not as nonconformist as they are. Torn between astonishment at tumblr being a real person, and the urge to commit great acts of violence.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Men are allowed to own both masculinity and freedom from gender in perpetuity, and I do not want to join them, I want to tear these from their hands.

This is the most complicated way to say "I can't forefront the fact I'm enby because people are constantly looking for excuses to misgender transfems", but hey.

To a lot of people, queer or not, Manhood is not seen as another facet of the gender-regime but represents the ultimate freedom from gender, and so anyone "queering gender" is seen as wanting to move closer to Manhood. This notion makes blood pour out of my mouth, ears, nostrils and eyes.

Enby transfem dyke is a fun identity because you'll have a militant commitment to the idea that gendered expectations are a stultifying shackle even in queer contexts and Womanhood is a cage we need to abolish, and this desire for gender-freedom instantly makes people see you as more of a Man.

It's like sealing the gateway is Anathema to her...