Queer fantasy author seeking emerging queer artist for long-term collab 🔥 Cozy fantasy series (5-12 books). Dwarven smith, found family, forge magic, stone creature companion. Think Legends & Lattes meets Hearthstone card art. #CommissionsOpen #FantasyArt #QueerArtist #BookCover #CozyFantasy 🧵

Queer fantasy author seeking emerging queer artist for long-term collab 🔥 Cozy fantasy series (5-12 books). Dwarven smith, found family, forge magic, stone creature companion. Think Legends & Lattes meets Hearthstone card art. #CommissionsOpen #FantasyArt #QueerArtist #BookCover #CozyFantasy 🧵

Trying the new name on the profile. Howdy folks…. I’m Vera Sage

It took a long time but I think I may have finally found my name. Looking around there isn’t anyone to share it with

Amen and amen

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

Of course the same administration that is restoring statues from the slavery supporting confederacy is celebrating the life the Kirk

this is what the news has been like for me over the last couple of weeks.

Howdy! I’ve got a new @slate.com story, about some really fascinating work researcher @cantonwiner.bsky.social is doing around asexuality and a concept he coined called “gender detachment”

Every step of the way we've been told we're too loud. Every step of the way we've been told we ask for too much. Every step of the way we've been told we're selfish. Every step of the way we've been told we need to compromise. Every step of the way we've been told we're not human anyway.

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.

"That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times." Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

I am Tom Clancy’s trans daughter(yes, actually) and I whole-fucking-heartedly endorse this!!

dusting off this old tweet for no particular reason

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. ... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ―Orwell, 1984

Looking back through history it seems like the lack of intellectual humility and curiosity at the societal level is one of greatest causes of suffering and death

I feel so broken and that I can’t make friends anywhere

really wrestling with faith issues Watching people celebrate the dismantling the infrastructure based on science and reason keeps driving the wedge between me and anything that even is Christian adjacent much less christian

TRANS HEALTHCARE TROLLEY PROBLEM A runaway trolley is set to roll down the empty track, saving the trans people. However, that guy over there might voluntarily walk onto the train track. Do you pull the lever, sacrificing the trans people to protect that one guy from possibly making a mistake?

I did nearly the same one over on Threads before I left. lol

Great thread, covers a lot of thoughts I had about HRT

This whole thread is excellent, and addresses something that I didn't understand when my daughter came out as a teen. HRT isn't just about shaping the body (though that's important!), it's about giving the whole person, body & brain, what they need to work as a harmonious whole.

Fresh list of bad people just dropped

Be kind. But not naive. Be compassionate. But not complicit. They are not the same.

Clearer photo of Mariah Carey’s “Protect the Dolls” jacket…

You won’t regret being kind. Even if no one notices. Even if it’s hard. You’ll still know you did the right thing.

Sunsets are my favorite

As someone who has officiated dozens of funerals, I highly recommend telling people how you feel about them while they’re still alive.

Any group or position that does not grant dignified flourishing for all is just winding up springs that will get to tight and release chaotically

I love my interpretation of Jesus, I despise the Christianities

You never know how starved you are for literature where you feel seen until you get some taste of it. Thankful for what you have access to now but you are ravenous for more

This was such a fun book, I couldn’t put it down. Felt so seen in this story

Nothing better than trans rights sunsets

Part of the reason so many of these fools hate Stephen Colbert is that he lives his life as the faithful and humble Christian they constantly claim themselves to be but are too selfish and fearful to actually be.

"I think Donald Trump and his closest supporters may be laying the groundwork for the option of leaving office for medical reasons. I’m not saying that’s what they’re going to do... But I am saying that he may be keeping his options open."

It’s OKAY to be afraid. But if you’re wrong and still tried something for yourself you were looking out for yourself. If you didn’t try something because you were afraid you were correct all along I want you to know we are THERE FOR YOU.

If you are afraid that you’re not sure you’re trans I want you to ask yourself what you are more afraid of: that you may try transitioning - and by proxy bettering yourself - and be wrong, or that you may actually be right?

If I send you this, it means I’ve got some career destroying tea

Realistically I see two options here 1984: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Or His brain is medically deteriorating and doing its best to make sense of things Both are really bad, especially with critical reasoning gone in his base

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Look, I'm just saying: it's pretty weird. charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/pretty-weird

Why mosquitoes… why?!?

I've seen like seven people talking about how Gavin Newsom sucks and I just figured I'd join in even though I don't know what shit he did today to piss everybody off, but fuck that guy.

Your queerness is a blessing. It is a blessing for you and though you it is a blessing to the entire world. @paulhoard.bsky.social

"'trans rights, solidarity, fuck off bigots" pretty much.

This one hits me deep in my core. My spouse is so heart