I want these stories too and plan to write them in my next novel. Unfortunately, most media can't resist redeeming the old woman through a makeover, fuckability, or giving her a man. I will do none of those things. Elder women and queers deserve an expansive existence.

If you're an lgbtq news outlet, your job is not, contrary to what you might think, giving every queer person alive a heart attack every morning

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Make your queer stuff, do your queer stuff, but also save some queer stuff. It’s history. What we’re doing now? Someday people like us are going to look back at all we vibrantly, unabashedly, vibrantly did for ourselves, despite everything thrown at us, and it’s going to give people hope.

Can someone throw dildos at Peters and Seymour, or something, please.

every trans person I've spoken to is feeling the Drag Down right now. not everybody has fallen into despair but we're all feeling it creeping in around the edges, doing our best to fight it. things are bad. if you know a trans person, look after them.

We can never, ever, ever claim moral high ground as a State ever again. This is a stain that we will never be able to remove. I don't actually know if I believe in a soul, but if our country has one, it has been irreparably damaged.

I recognize Palestine, even if the current government won't.

We went from Ardern's govt changing gun laws in a week flat in response to an attack on our Muslim whānau to Luxon's govt refusing to acknowledge the Palestinian state during its genocide. What a spineless mob.

2025: 2 presidents jailed for coups, 1 for fraud. It can be done.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep. 1) Critical Role 2) LGBTQIA+ science fiction 3) Mad Max: Fury Road

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2025 has been a very "The world is going to end TOMORROW" sort of year. Taking a step back reminds you that the soul-crushing immediacy of it all is part of how their propaganda machine floods the zone. The goal is to keep you overwhelmed and paralyzed with a short attention span.

Making a difference in the world doesn't mean instant gratification. "Plant trees under which you'll never sit" If you're digging in your heels in your community; if you're engaged in a long term project that might take years to complete; if you're writing a book - we need your work too.

good morning

Antifascists are only an antigovernment terrorist organisation if the FASCISTS ARE IN GOVERNMENT. Say it again with me. IF THE FACISTS ARE IN GOVERNMENT.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Deep Space Nine was the best trek. Fight me.

Hell yeah, Get Foxy!

Sheer. fucking. spite.

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The type of speech most punished in this society is that which consists of telling the truth about how the powerful have harmed you

The Witches of Eastwick Babe: Pig in the City Mad Max: Fury Road

Absolutely most definitely YES! Haralambi was in my Clarion class, so will fully attest what a great writer he is.

There's a complete and utter abdication of culture. Of art. Of philosophy. Of rhetoric. Of science. Of community. Of health. Of thought itself. Everything that isn't the sole domain of the apocalyptic death cult (millenialist evangelicalism). There has to be a culture movement at the end of this.

I just saw someone on Reddit describe the American situation as "a deep moral sickness" and it's resonating with me. The nihilism is omnipresent and betrays an utter disregard for any semblance of ethics. Yawning, gaping void.

You know what we have a shitty govt too you don’t see us waking up in the morning and making it everyone else’s problem every single fucking day. No dignity, no class, trashy. It’s giving new money. It’s giving fyre festival. It’s giving needs therapy and rehab.

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror. “We look brave,” said Frog. “Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about. What's yours?

Trying to figure out if spending 12 hours hanging out with Astarion was the right or wrong thing to do today.

Big mood.

It’s funny because promoting and marketing a book in any way, shape, or form is actually NOT the author’s job. At all. It is unpaid labor we’ve been forced to do for so long the expectation has mutated like a virus into “okay now you also have to be a TikTok sensation to do this as a job.”

This is such a very important passage. A role model in doing politics differently

The time is now. Right now. Time for literally all of us to push back against fascism. You don't have to and literally can't do EVERYTHING. Don't worry about that! Just pick the one or two issues/things you know and care about and join the people who are doing practical things to help.

Support your trans friends Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

A country where elected representatives are bullied out of office by threatening their children is not a democracy.

The news about Benjamin Doyle being bullied out of parliament by the far right in nz is part of a concerning trend sweeping the world: the normalisation of discrimination of anyone outside the cis-industrial complex Big shoes to fill, and a sad day for Kirikiriroa and the Greens. #nzpol

We voters want diversity in our Parliament. We literally vote in the people we WANT to represent us. But a shitload of Parliamentarians actively work to subvert the collective will. Parliament has demonstrated it can't or won't change its toxic culture. Ergo the resignations will keep coming

Another reason for me to get out White Central and move to Wellington.

The Law Commission report is out and it FULLY SUPPORTS adding discrimination protections for transgender people to the NZ Human Rights Act! Aotearoa New Zealand remains a bastion of common sense and decency against the horrors of the UK and US.

Great thread.

Thank you, Tania Waikato. 💜 #nzpol #donotvoteforAct

I feel like there needs to be consequences. As a little treat.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

I have done a narration again.

Yesterday I got "m'amed" at a bar and I politely corrected the bartender. She gave me a discount on my drink as apology. I got me some of that cis restitution!

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