"All I did was look around at the problems we're neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters." — Octavia E. Butler on "predicting the future" Y'all coulda listened at any time.

Queers are agonizing with all their heart over the quality of their prose meanwhile most of the privileged cishet majority can't be bothered to try as they shit out patriarchal misogyny kink slop with all the power of institutional cissupremacist homophobia behind them.

Like actually heterosexuality is a raw fucking deal for straight women who are asked to put up an immense amount of shit and if Le Birthrate Optimizers want them to not opt out then the patriarchal relations of gender need to be rethought and reformulated. Them's the breaks.

If your "feminist" writing is asking women to ignore the evidence of their own lying eyes and blaming some kind of ephemeral psychological shift in women's mood without looking at the empirical reasons for why that's happening you're just writing patriarchal propaganda.

All the writing about "heteropessimism" in 2026 fails at the fundamental level of begging straight women to continue to put up with men's shitty behaviour instead of laying the blame where it belongs (with men who insist on tearing apart the social fabric rather than treat women as equal).

for the audience, because I very much do not have to explain this to talia bhatt - the birthrate is not, and has never been the point. the point is that it serves as an answer to the question of "how can we justify all the mass rape we want to do"

I love global warming I love feeling like I'm dying I love not being able to think for more than 4 hours a day because the heat has fucked me up beyond recognition it's so fucking fun to exist in this hellscape

Things get Serious in Dark Science #186 - "Cleaving Day From Night"! dresdencodak.com/2026/06/22/d...

Despite the bundle doing so well, we still need to make that push to reach 100% of the goal so please continue to support us and spread the word of our bundle!! It would mean a whole lot if you visited itch.io/b/3691/pride... and checked out some really good stories.

the number of people in my mentions i woke up to who did not understand the way zionists cite homophobia as a reason to not support Palestinian liberation and don’t understand that the very same logics used to justify killing Palestinians applies to the US is… well, i didn’t expect better lol

Another authoritarian, anti-Palestinian racist, militaristic, genocide-enabler has fallen. Starmer must be investigated for his criminal complicity in Israel’s genocide.

I was having a thought about Death of the Author recently and how people tend to use it for bigotry to reject the obvious intentions of a work they don't like, like LGBT themes, or disregard the actively malicious intents of a work

Let’s take a less recent example: people in the invincible fandom who hate Amber, a totally normal character with a perfectly fine romantic arc Like, guys, they may just hate black women.

I think art criticism and talking about pop culture people need to be more frank about shit that’s just bigotry. Like “these people aren’t media illiterate, they’re actively media malicious” This has been the case for right wing grifters for years

Anyway... taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/political-...

There's a part where Suletta is going 'we'll get buy wedding dresses and have the best wedding ever, so please--choose me!' for entire minutes.

It's the pitfall of insisting you have to create art around bigoted reactions: you CAN do the 'turning to camera and saying thing' and they'll still insist acshually these girls like boys and are destined to be with boys, boys boys boys slobber slobber.

He doesn't interact with either woman in any sort of romantic or sexual way. He just rants about how he's got to get back to his wife 24/7.

There are people who think these two women want to become Gabimaru's harem for... some reason, even though he says over and over that he's devoted only to his wife, and Sagiri has said that she doesn't see him romantically at all. Etc, etc.

100% that if Suletta and Miorine had kissed, there'd be people shrieking they're pandering to the male gaze and there'd be Guel fans claiming that they're just kissing to get his attention.

Bigots will say things regardless of the coldest hardest evidence, creating your art around 'but bigots might say things!!!!' is not a position of intelligence.

I don't think 'thing has to be written in xyz way to prevent bigots from saying stuff' is a good approach to art, and anyway in this case it makes no sense: Ericht calls herself Miorine's sister-in-law. Ericht does not have a brother, only sisters.

Big fan of demonic tits.

I don't have any patience for the "but we're poor" argument for bands using AI for posters and publicity. Try to think back to roughly 3 years ago when you somehow coped without it.

Full time hours are still a ways away for me and I still need help with a deposit on an apartment. Any amount helps! ko-fi.com/rocketsandpe...

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

"death of the audience" is genuinely unironically good advice for anyone who wants to make anything

the implication is that unless a character says they are X they might not be inadvertedly feeds more into cisnormativity and heteronormativity than just accepting that queerness or transness as explored in fiction do not only exist when declared but are frames of reading

I wish society was set up to facilitate intergenerational relationships more easily. I think I would benefit from having more regular contact with people over the age of 50 and under the age of 20. We lose so much perspective from being siloed into age-limited groups

GO bundle last year was pretty small but this year is going to be kind of massive--I think the number of artists/writers has doubled. If you enjoy immersing yourself in a shared world of horrible lesbians, mecha, and toxic gods, you're going to have such a great time.

Some stats on our Pride bundle :) - of 27 contributors, 22 are transfem, 3 are non-binary - 5 are non-Anglophones, of which 4 are from the global south - 4 are trans women of color - multiple contributors have been/are adult content creators (sex work is work!)

5 things you will probably find in my books: -trans lesbians -telepathy -sex toys -nipples -tales-within-the-tale

5 things you will definitely find in our books: -evil lesbians -so many butches -polyamory, queerplatonic and ambiguous relationships -themes of grief, love, and chapters absolutely going through it -lots, and I mean LOTS of metaphorical descriptions of teeth

5 things you will definitely find in my books: 🌈 trans and nonbinary lesbians 🩸 the hot, messy lines between desire, service, and violence 🫦 prose you can sink your teeth into ⛓️ kink and heat deeply enmeshed in the setting 🛏️ detailed headboard descriptions

91% with a couple days left. every bit helps, especially now. my flight out of the country + a couple night hotel room (ended up being cheaper somehow than a same day or one night trip? lol) has been booked. the rest of this fund is going towards making sure i can eat after i pay rent 🙏

I cannot stress enough how much this flattens out the advent of cars historically, the many views on them, the many regulations they got, & how little we understood about some of the harmful long lasting effect of cars and their production like we KNOW how bad LLM production is so it isn’t the same

Lesbian werewolves are vulnerable to silver and bare chests. #art #pinup

1 last thing. Anyone saying “well that wouldn’t happen here” A) both the UK & Irish goverments have dire records on protecting their citizens data rights. B) it is happening. As far as I can tell Persona have no EU presence & they may be already processing Europe childrens biometric data.

…continuous AI age monitoring of all users to “detect age inappropriate behaviour”. Hopefully, you are now beginning to realise how terrifyingly dystopian the age verification surveillance industry is. Look, *everybody* wants to keep kids safe online. But do these measures do that? I’d argue…

…and “run facial recognition against watchlists and politically exposed persons, screen "adverse media" across 14 categories (including terrorism and espionage), and assign risk scores”. Yeah. *slightly* less benign sounding now isn’t it? And this is just the beginning, Roblox has also introduced

Social media bans on youth are just going to hurt marginalized youth, especially queer youth, while leaving tech oligarchs and their disinformation, propaganda and harm networks unaccountable.

Social media is not an uncontextualized force of malevolence and evil. It is a commons, a technology that has brought everyone more knowledge, connection and support than they could ever access before. It has been captured and made to serve private commercial interests. That should be the focus.

I'm in my mid-30s. I spent a half-decade of my life knowing that I'm a trans woman but unable to act on it, unable to come out to anyone offline or access the resources I needed. Without support from my online peers, from lesbians and trans people, I would have without a doubt perished.

they say that autistic people love rules and, this might be controversial to say but I think that's actually just bullshit I think what makes us different is this: we know that you are making shit up and we know you want us all dead so, what motivation is there, for us to follow your rules at all

an autistic kid grew up to write this she almost didn't. but she made it she's made a lot of things, actually and, balanced against the corpses that the nazis fucks keep creating I think what I'm doing is just better but who knows. maybe it's a wash maybe killing kids is its own reward

"an autistic kid will never write a poem" they say that autistic people love rules we need the world to make sense to us or we get distressed. and, I will confess I do feel rather distressed in this world but it is not for lack of structure or rules it's because nazis are killing my friends

One of the reasons I don't take the "what about the rapists?" objection to abolition seriously is because after 250 years of the current system, an allegation of shoplifting is met with deadly force and a rape conviction gets probation. And the punishment for shoplifting is way, WAY more common.

I have a number of clients right now charged with FELONIES for retail theft and I just want to say that whilst (obviously) we should not be murdering people for shoplifting, the way we overcharge and criminalize poverty is a systemic, classist, racist, sexist issue at the very core of US policing

soliciting words, art, and photos from trans woman butches!