If you're a cis person who wants to be kind to your trans and nonbinary friends right now, please do not forward us links to stories about trans people being abused, having their rights taken away, or living in fear. We already know. A friendly "hey I hope you're OK" is much more helpful. 💖

For anyone coming over here after Talia’s lovely comments about The Scottish Boy, here’s the sitch: 1) it is currently between publishers (its previous publisher, Unbound, went under) so if you buy it right now I get no money. EXCEPT: 2) The audiobook gets me royalties! It’s super well done! AND:

I’m very tired of going to outdoor coffee or dinner and later finding out I’m the ONLY one who comes home with multiple mosquito bites. I’m apparently delicious.

If we get $500 in the next 30 min michele and I can get paid to make comics! What a concept 😂

listen she’s…. not wrong

Last week I … Read: The Game Writing Guide by Anna Megill Wrote: animation script revisions Saw: The Day The Earth Blew Up Heard: Gastropod podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

Hihi! I'm a storyboard artist with 6+ years of experience on 2D and CG shows at studios like Nickelodeon and Titmouse! My boards from Max & the Midknights and Skobeloff Forest are still NDA, but I love boarding big sad emotions and action comedies. I'm available for full-time work! #PortfolioDay

There are still a few hours left in @artebuen.bsky.social's birthday, which means you still have a few hours to be a BIRTHDAY HERO (TM)! How, you ask? By backing his Kickstarter! You can trust me, a neutral third party, on this. www.kickstarter.com/projects/art...

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

If I ever say out loud “I’m exhausted” followed immediately by “I’ll just sew for a little while” please sit me down with a cold beverage AWAY from the sewing machine.

check this out! @susanlbridges.bsky.social & i, and some of the other writers, talk about this upcoming anthology that'll be on Kickstarter soon it's our first-ever PROSE, a gentle sci-fi story called "Finches" about striving for something better even when the universe puts barriers in your way

Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social is here! 🍜🤖 One of my top picks for Sept: a cozy scifi novella featuring a crew of abandoned food service bots who decide to open their own noodle shop. Found family, capitalism, post-war Dan Francisco & food that'll make you feel hungry reading it! 💙📚🪐

We have only gotten this far as a species because we are social and hardwired to be empathetic. The greed and cruelty that those in power show are not innate aspects of human nature, they are aberrations that cannot last.

I’m going to tell you about our most recent kitty, Izzy “the Izz” Isabelle. I thought maybe we wouldn’t get another cat after losing Stella unexpectedly. We were broken, I was extra broken, and Dirtbag Henry was broken, and anxious, and I knew he needed a friend.

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

well i guess i'm leaving spreadshirt then. highly ironic considering they rejected a number of my designs due to... copyright.

This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times. (1/3)

HEY LOS ANGELES! @susanlbridges.bsky.social and I will be at LA Comic Con ONE DAY ONLY on SUNDAY SEPT 28! we’ll be signing at PRISM Comics booth 1420 from 10 am - noon (with copies of BEGIN TRANSMISSION and VOYAGER HOMECOMING available!) and on the DYSTOPIAN SCI-FI panel at 1 pm in room 406A!

NEWS: Our dark fairy tale BRIAR returns December for its final arc NIGHT’S TERROR, art by @alexlins.bsky.social. This is unabashedly a QUEER STORY, more so in this final chapter. It’s about being unflinchingly who you are & who you love in the face of a fucked up, calamitous, hateful world. (/1)

Someone at my kitchen table is trans. If you view them as disposable sacrifices when it's politically convenient, you are not welcome at my table, in my house, or in my social circle. I sure as shit won't be voting for you.

Welcome to #TransTuesday! I NEED YOU TO SHARE THIS with every cis person in your life everyone who thinks trans kids don't exist or should wait until they're 18 for care, causing them a lifetime of pain get the TRUTH in TRANS KIDS 1: FACTS AND DANGERS

TOP TEN CAT BREEDS 1. Super Bingus 2. Tender Loaf 3. Crime Bean 4. Le Squishe 5. Load-bearing Tater 6. Royal Softling 7. Electric Spiceweasel 8. Pantaloosian 9. Tammy 10. Dinky Porch Pebble

I love this episode.

IT IS TIME. My second book, The Game Development Strategy Guide, is now out worldwide. Here it is posing like a boss on the #DesignMattersTokyo stage. Grab it at Amazon, my publisher @rosenfeldmedia.com, or your favorite online bookseller to level up your #gameDev work. Amazon: amzn.to/4go56ln

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By now, you’ve probably seen these propaganda banners sprouting up on federal buildings. We’ve uncovered how much these banners cost through never-before-seen documents. And why they’re illegal: (Thread 🧵)

friendos I'm delighted to tell you: LONG AWAY won BEST LGBTQ SHORT in the San Diego Movie Awards! mega congrats to our entire cast and crew who made it possible! let's go LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO 🥳

Replacing "transgender is like ferrari" with "transgender is like microwave" from now on after this great bit

I really feel like anyone still on Substack in 2025 is really going to regret it in 2027 when it fully turns into the closed-garden social network it is absolutely planning to be. Learn the lessons of Twitter and Instagram—pay for your platform, otherwise you're the product.

100% of NFL teams didn't pay tribute to Melissa Hortman Also: All media has to pretend this stuff is totally normal

It’s long past time that I take responsibility for what I wrote on Israel/Palestine in ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR. & with the Gaza genocide, our thinking about what amends & healing may ever involve is even more urgent. Even if there may never be “forgiveness” or “atonement.”

‘"Severance’s’ Jessica Lee Gagné Makes Emmys History By Becoming First Woman to Win for Outstanding Cinematography For a Series (One Hour)" from @variety #Emmys. This happened last week but is just (if not more for some of us) important + historic.

LA area folks, if you don’t have an LAPL card, you are missing out! I get ebooks delivered to my Kindle constantly and I also use their Udemy access for many free classes. Highly recommended.

The campaign is here--seven sci-fi comics from a stellar lineup of creators: www.kickstarter.com/projects/art...

Last week I … Read: How to Communicate: Poems by John Lee Clark Wrote: comic pitches Saw: Strange New Worlds Heard: Enduring Play with Cheryl Platz podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

want to elevate your action writing? join me for an advisor studio session hosted by @sundance.org: i'll be giving a presentation on how to infuse your action sequences with character and drama! 🗓️ 9/19/25 at 1PM PT 🔗 sndnc.org/3K4pj3z #Screenwriting #Writing #Action #Film #TV #JavierGrilloMarxuach

1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth. Many complied and shut down their programs. Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care. And now, they just beat Trump in court. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Hi! I’m volunteering with an LA-area dog rescue and Lacy needs a foster. The rescue is spending $$$ to board her and another dog in the rescue just ate a tennis ball and needs surgery so they’ve been hit with a lot of costs lately. 😞 please share or donate at realgood.dog youtube.com/shorts/Q4iyg...

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Don’t let the internet fool you. I was at a protest for trans kids yesterday an HOUR south of Seattle, and it was HUGE. And there was a cacophony of drivers beeping in support. I could not believe it. Because I spend too much online and figured it’s a lost cause.

Hi! I’m volunteering with an LA-area dog rescue and Lacy needs a foster. The rescue is spending $$$ to board her and another dog in the rescue just ate a tennis ball and needs surgery so they’ve been hit with a lot of costs lately. 😞 please share or donate at realgood.dog youtube.com/shorts/Q4iyg...

This is correct, I have to recommend two @swordsjew.bsky.social books: WILD FAITH and CULTURE WARLORDS, because they pretty much intersect to encompass this week's big news.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Holy wow, Foundation season 3 was so good I’m kinda mad about it. Damn.

I had to pick apart and re-sew four half square triangle… squares? because my brain briefly forgot what “put right sides together” actually means. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I was a retail manager many years ago and I had to physically sign a lot of receipts and shipping labels and things. So that old retail signature was what I repurposed into my writer signature.

sept 15 is the cutoff for STAR TREK VOYAGER: HOMECOMING issue 2 from @idwpublishing.com! can our heroes retake the ship? what does Species 8472 have in store for them? what would you sacrifice to save those you care about? also poor Tuvok is GOIN' THRU IT don't miss it! out oct 22!

Do you love public transit and science fiction? Of course you do! Now you can have them at the same time! Next Tues, 9/16, at 6pm, an astonishing panel of activists and creators are coming together to talk about the future of transit. Seriously do not miss this one-of-a-kind event. luma.com/0olo6szj