The danger of AI isn't that it will gain sentience and be the Terminator. It's that you will normalize it enough for stupid people to use it for shit and that will get people killed. Stop USING THE FUCKING THING to "own the AI bros", you are doing their work for them. Stop using the fucking thing.

Just read Morsel by @carterkeane.bsky.social and it's one of those stories that makes you ravenous to go read everything else by the author and discovering that this was a DEBUT was wild. It's a masterpiece of gorey anti-capitalist horror in the best way, with some legitimate all-time best tension.

INTRODUCING: Haruspex Audio, an indie audiobook production company started by yours truly. Killer titles will be revealed over the next couple of weeks!

Not only is this kind of soulless slop gross and unfit for purpose, but this is coming DIRECTLY for where a huge amount of creatives make their money in the romance genre.

Possibly a very hot take for me, an asexual, to make, but I want more sexy art of transfems with *small* dicks. I want sexy art of fat transfems with small dicks. Not for a fetish, but like, for my soul.

I need to figure out how to properly describe the kind of book I want. Like, I want two girls to kiss at some point, but I don't like romance tropes. Hailey Piper does this really well with her Dangerous Lesbians Who Are In Love Hunting One Another.

Do you ever forget cis people exist and get really confused for a second

Do I know anyone on here who might be able to advise the safest/easiest/best/least scary way for a VERY (as in, she's about to go on estrogen in the next month or so) trans girl to travel TO the United States from Australia for a visit? She's very anxious (for good reason) about the process.

I told people I was planning to go on estrogen maybe 3 weeks ago and today someone made their first joke about me being a bottom. In my own home. Truly transphobia is inescapable.

Realizing that no, people aren't staring at you like you're trash because you've decided to present ever slightly more femme, it's because you're masking and they're weird about covid masking. 😂

Godzilla day you say?

Me, out as nonbinary for more than 10 years without HRT, showing up to my HRT appointment with a picture of my favorite butch lesbian blacksmith, like:

pounded in the butt by @rollforcombat.bsky.social's new battlezoo ancestry book

Love when something helps my health more than anything else has ever helped but insurance declares it medically unnecessary so I don't get to do it anymore. It's the only effective treatment for my condition, it's uncontroversial, safe, scientifically backed, and working. But nope. No more PT.

I need about five times the nber of hugs I'm currently getting but I have no source for extra hugs.

I HAD A WHOLE PITCH

Everybody is like "If I were rich I'd travel!", "If I were rich I'd buy a big house!". If I were rich I'd commission so much art and buy a chair that would keep my butt from sweating so much.

If you go in public without a mask it's because you care more about not wearing a mask than not killing people by asymptomatically spreading covid. It's just true, no matter how much you hate it.

Deleted a comment because last thing I want to do is be in an expert's replies (especially one who isn't a white man) being seen as anti-vaccine (I am pro-vaccine), but the vaccines didn't fix covid. We are still dying. A big part of the drop-off in mortality is lack of reporting.

What's a job you can do when your body sucks and you have to lay down a lot but you've finally given your brain amphetamines enough that it will do things again.

Every time I accidentally step out of my little bubble of thoughtful queer fiction I remember that most authors do not understand the basics of the genre they're writing in, if that genre ends in "punk".

Running a tabletop game is hard because all the people I bounce story ideas off of are my players. I need new friends who want to listen to me and help me talk out plot problems!

Those crazy bastards pulled it off. They got the three wishes from the Mythic Elite undead water genie and managed to kill him and take their payment back. They've acquired mythic power, healed one's brother, and thrown a major monkey wrench into my plot plans and THEIR plot plans both.

In my Pathfinder 2e game tonight, someone's actually going to make a Wish from an evil genie. As a GM, I've literally never had someone actually take the bait on a free Wish before, and she's going to Wish to become a goddess. I can't wait. I literally can't wait. I'm going to die of waiting.

That cosmic horror BL anime really got my gay monsterfucker ass in the feels.

Haven't gotten my hands on @haileypiperfights.bsky.social's newest yet so I just finished The Worm and his King. As someone who's been through a weirdly similar situation it hit hard. Being t4t doesn't guarantee you won't get sacrificed to the Worm, but it helps!

Who are these mythical people who are comfortable, at all, ever, in public bathrooms?

glad I have given up on caring about plot and lore consistently so I can just enjoy xenomorph being spooky scary sexy

Queen of Teeth by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social is "what if an evil corporation force femmed you" but instead of femme it's a tentacle monster and I am forced to admit that might be a Dorley Hall basement I'd let myself be dragged into. 10/10 book, 11/10 ending.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have revealed a synthetic glycosystem -a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle- that can BLOCK SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cells, REDUCING infection rates by NEARLY 99%. Acting as a decoy, the molecule BINDS to the spike protein, PREVENTING it from attaching to real cells.

Finally started reading @haileypiperfights.bsky.social books and wow she really likes dangerous lesbians who hunt one another, huh? (/pos)

My daughter (who has come out as both queer and trans already) got to come out to me as polyamorous yesterday, and it was really nice getting to sit down with her and have a long talk about some of how I've made non-monogamy work in my life.

*that isn't extremely inside baseball about gender being weird and messy and complicated and fluid mostly useful for us discussing our own shit between ourselves in between baby talk examples to The Cis.

Me in my 20s: if I wear AXE will I seem like a real man? Me in my 30s: I need to smell like nothing and not be perceived. Me in my 40s: I'm gonna soak in my cinnamon apple bath before my medical test as a treat to the people who have to tie me to a table and lean in close to me today.

If binary gender and heterosexuality were the natural order of things, they wouldn't have to fight so hard against the queer reality of the world.

he/him lesbians are so powerful it’s not their problem your pea brain can’t comprehend their majesty.

this is the male gays

As an asexual who has had roughly 100x more sex than I've ever wanted to have in my lifetime and would like to never do it again: I support sex workers because they are human beings. I have more in common with a sex worker than with anyone trying to ban or suppress them. Solidarity.

One of the things I didn't anticipate about getting away from my (controlling, abusive) ex is how much I'd change just from having agency and hope. How many things I do now just to make my life better. How much energy I have now that I'm not dealing with his bullshit to just, like. Be better.

Just read @leemandelo.bsky.social's The Woods All Black and holy shit I love a messy complicated gender and sexuality in a story. I love how trans people write trans people. I love when we write them honestly and not smoothed over for cis folks to consume. I love our stories so fucking much.

“never obey in advance!” she shouted, “join the rebel alliance discord server!” she raised her fist in the air & the rebels cheered until she held up an open palm. “we *do* have some rules about alliance bathrooms, though—those you should obey. do we have any pre-op transsexuals here tonight?”

I want an audiobook to listen to, and I deeply crave some queer horror, but I also don't want to get too sad. This unsolvable problem is paralyzing me and wasting good story time.

I just want to say, I have had and still have some friends with schizophrenia, bipolar, various types of psychosis, various personality disorders (yes even that one, yes even the other one) and none of them inherently make someone a bad, dangerous person or a bad friend.

I wish I were the kind of addicted to ADHD and pain meds that would make me remember to take them.

Need something to read? In the last six months, transfeminine authors have published over 108 new books to keep you busy on the beach! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 As always, this list is a collaborative effort, so thank you so much to all of the authors and editors who helped me put it together 🩷🩷🩷

This shit is one of my favorite things about lesbians.

Weird when your abusive ex, who was SUPER FUCKING WEIRD and ramped up the abuse and control when you used a wheelchair for the first time, messages you about how their favorite hottest character in Date Everything is the wheelchair user. Normally? Mac would be a green flag. From him? Oh no.