Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

The government is officially shut down. Make no mistake: Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. This is THEIR shutdown. They had every tool to govern and chose chaos instead. The American people are the ones paying the price.

Anyone need an editor? I’m looking for new paid work and there’s nothing too big or too small I can’t handle. Feel free to reach out to maximize your project’s potential!

@gamesdonequick.com #Fatales

as an anarchist it causes me physical pain to be a “call your senators” bitch but please call your senators

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

The REAL way covid broke people was as the final nail in the coffin of consensus reality. We'd rather mass-retcon 2020 than remember it as it was: a series of clear-cut examples of large-scale problems that could, by their nature, only be addressed collectively, not individually.

You can post for likes with “We need trans stories more than ever” OR you can readily find, purchase, and talk up the many, many, many trans stories that exist in your preferred format from an array of creative people. In the time you spent vaguely posting you could’ve done something tangible.

Delighted to see TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS appearing in Autostraddle for "Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for September 2025" 🤩 13 coming-of-rage stories are almost here! Out on September 16 from @titanbooks.bsky.social 😈 www.autostraddle.com/our-most-ant...

Transphoria made the “Best Anthology” short list for the Ringo awards! If you’re a comics industry pro, consider voting for us? This is a time when we need trans joy and euphoria more than ever! ringoawards.com

I got a short story dropped into the 3rd Battletech Pride Anthology Fanzine earlier this year. Chock full of well told stories by queer and trans writers of 31st (and 32nd) century armored warfare. Mine is called "U-Turn" prideanthology.itch.io/2025

I write books about prehistoric life! My latest is When the Earth Was Green, which explores how the relationship between plants and animals shaped the world as we know it. It’s like if I took you on a nature walk through the Jurassic. Thank you for putting up this thread! 🦕

I make games all about being trans/non-binary/queer, including non-subtle monster metaphors. Currently working on a follow up title that's incredibly gay & political I also run a project where I interview queer game developers to raise awareness of queer devs in the games industry enbykaiju.com

The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.

my entire heart ❤️‍🩹 being a visible trans creator matters HIRING TRANS CREATORS MATTERS

Here's my one and only trans discourse take, and it's an intensely subjective take deliberately designed to center my own perspective and get the goat of assholes, so if you're angry about this, check a mirror: Trans women are FANTASTIC. We are AMAZING. Estrogen is MAGIC.

my wife and i wrote Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming, issue 1 out today my book on The Matrix’s trans allegories is my pinned post weekly trans essays are at www.tillystranstuesdays.com and you can watch our trans sci-fi short film about love and hope at the Seattle film festival online, right now 🩷

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

BOOST!

my debut novel is on the shelves at BN! 😭 five days early one of my oldest friends snapped these at his BN.com in Paramus. 🖤🙏🖤

Just a little bump to help the wonderful @rsagarcia.bsky.social help cover cancer treatment expenses: www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

There’s nothing like attending Worldcon in-person as team @khoreo.bsky.social's representative, as one of the actual Finalists for Best Semiprozine, only for our masthead to be entirely skipped over, while everyone else’s names and mastheads were read in full, exactly as it was on the program sheet.

Hey, this is your semi-regular reminder that Abra's books are amazing and you should read all of them

THROUGH DARKEST EUROPE is an alt hist set about now in a universe where Islam developed science, technology, and representative government while Western Europe got stuck in, well, piety. It's also a sort of meditation on terrorism. www.amazon.com/Through-Dark...

It's good that James Dobson is dead and let's use the occasion to say that it's bad to beat children, because he is one of the main reasons we have to say explicitly that it's bad to beat children

I got a sneak peek at the first issue. And it’s 🔥. I can’t wait to read the rest. #StarTrekVoyager

“Aerials,” a YA fantasy-romance featuring a curious and intuitive FMC and bat-monster MMC in a race against time to stop a war between their species. Also, sometimes the monster deserves to get the girl. a.co/d/e86Oqex

Odd thought: If there _is_ a hell, they fix you right up after you get tortured. That means...even hell has healthcare.

Thanks, Ann! Grave Cold is book 1 of a trilogy I just finished. In near-future Portland, a necromancer beautician and a man who's avoided people for centuries work together to protect the dead from being used as an energy source. Find a copy! books2read.com/GraveCold

Ooo! My debut, Shiver Me, just came out and I’d love to drum up some readers in its honor. Pitch: A governess almost drowns and is rescued by a pirate captain, and they fight their mutual attraction as a years in the making magical political storm brews. Get it: books2read.com/u/3LMzk0

Hi, writers! Pitch me a book of yours that you wish had more eyes on it. (adding to my TBR today) I'll start! The Honors series co-written with Rachel Caine. I wanted that to be a blockbuster in her honor. I still do. Pitch: YA space opera-Farscape meets Alien with f/f/sentient ship romance

James Dobson dying is a staring into the middle distance type of event. You have likely directly suffered bc of him. Few have done more to harm humanity at large in the past few decades. A principal architect of our current nightmare. No redeeming aspect. He was a rat made entirely out of plague.

No, Jira is not software. Jira is suffering and confusion. Jira is a cold, wet rainstorm on the birthday when you just got your first bicycle. Jira is the sound your heart made when your high school sweetheart dumped you.

"When the donors don't get the outcome that they want through the party process, they go to a super party process outside of the norm to try to reverse the decision of the delegates," Payne said. "It's an extremely short-sighted thing to do, not just tactically but philosophically," he added.

The occasional of James Dobson's death is a good time for this quote.

Seattle Worldcon has asked for feedback on their Discord. I have obliged:

The fact that he's coming after every city with a rainbow crosswalk (including mine) is trash; the fact that he's even going after *this* one elevates him to a fucking ghoul

The first draft of LA WorldCon has died of dysentery.

I voted for #Transphoria in the 2025 @ringoawards! We need #Trans and #Queer comics more than ever. And we couldn't be more honored and gratified to see this anthology honored with a Ringo Nomination ❤️🏳️‍⚧️ Comic Pros vote here ⬇️ ringoawards.com

Transphoria made the “Best Anthology” short list for the Ringo awards! If you’re a comics industry pro, consider voting for us? This is a time when we need trans joy and euphoria more than ever! ringoawards.com

The HRC & co. tried that shit for decades: we were the ones holding back the respectable queers. It wasn’t true then, and it isn’t true now; but also? If your movement throws vulnerable populations under the bus for not being politically expedient, your movement is worthless.

Stop telling trans people that our calls for basic human rights are what’s holding the left back. Be honest: our humanity means less to you than the convenience of passivity.

Follow me, uh, here! You can find my series “Sing For Me” and a bunch of sweet and spicy short stories at www.jms-books.com, or you can find my work on Smashwords, Amazon, and the usual places!

Not as such in most of my stuff, but I do have a story where a (pansexual) queer character who had been in a wlw relationship ends up sleeping with a man toward the end and some people needed that explained.

Very much depends. In my Sing For Me books, absolutely. Half the plot is driven by Leah being too queer to function.

Hello! I’m Jaymie (She/They) and I’m currently working on a novella for an existing sci-fi setting under an NDA, but the first section is going pretty well! I have a bunch of short stories cooking for anthologies right now, and I’m a purveyor of queer polyamorous werewolves. :)

New from 404 Media: the IRS tax filing software Turbotax tried to kill just got opened source. Available on Github, people are forking it www.404media.co/directfile-o...