One of the characters in my book is a Portland based housing rights activist and mutual aid organizer. He's also a trans dude who is dating several trans women. I've already been imagining a book centered on him next, and now I have the perfect place to start the story!

I've been on HRT since July of 2019. Transitioning has made me want to actually get healthy. It's made me want to *live* life instead of just enduring it. I've finally managed my diabetes for the first time since 2005. I'm now off the insulin pump. Transition is life saving medicine.

BREAKING: Local transexual author and ink brewer is hot!

I've been on HRT since July of 2019. Transitioning has made me want to actually get healthy. It's made me want to *live* life instead of just enduring it. I've finally managed my diabetes for the first time since 2005. I'm now off the insulin pump. Transition is life saving medicine.

Without wanting to sound too alarmist, this is much bigger than just "botnets were used to amplify right-wing talking points". This is fucking Terminator, road to Judgement Day type shit. Why? Because it doesn't end with the first-order effects. It ends by undermining all online communication. 🧵

What up, Skyline!? I'm struggling with overexposure to the bad stuff right now. At the risk of inviting more exposure to the Horrors, I'm curious what filter words y'all are using to clear your timeline of the worst of this week's news cycle?! I just wanna chat about nice queer stuff with cuties!

Got my first haircut in over two years, and every time I look in the mirror I see my younger sister.

POV: you live inside my laptop and every time I make a typo you experience an intense jolt that is equal parts pleasure and pain.... Have you been a good gril?

Today I distracted myself from the Horrors by refining my Shoyu Ramen recipe. I made hot noods from scratch for the first time using duck eggs, and tried my hand at a chicken Chashu. My friends: this ramen fucks!

I wish people cared about the first amendment rights of authors and artists who are getting their works banned in schools and libraries across the USA as much as they care about the rights of white male comedians to be on national TV

It doesn't matter that this is a blatant violation of international law & treaties. In the same way that the administration tells absurd 'Bully Lies' that don't reflect observable reality, every time they break the law with impunity they further undermine the social contract that gives law meaning.🧵

Chapter 25: "We're all big-ole perverts here!" CW for consensual depictions of kink, power exchange, and BDSM! In which Kyla find herself in the deep end of the pool, but I think she might like it?! Kitty *definitively* likes it! www.scribblehub.com/read/1766594...

Chapter 24: Legions of transsexual estrospec super-soldiers! Kitty struggles with temptation and desire as she introduces Kyla to her world. I'll probably have a second chapter up before the end of day, so stay tuned for more tasty transbian hijinx! www.scribblehub.com/read/1766594...

POV: you live inside my laptop and every time I make a typo you experience an intense jolt that is equal parts pleasure and pain.... Have you been a good gril?

Legions of transsexual estrospec super-soldiers!!

I just typed the phrase "legions of transsexual estrospec super-soldiers" so writing sprint is going well!

Ok, I'm dressed, medicated, caffeinated, and I've done all my chores! Gonna reward myself with a nice little morning writing sprint before therapy!

It's bisexual visibility day, and in the last few years I've had to come to terms with my own bisexuality, so here I am being visible! Embracing a bi identity was complicated for me because I had to fight so hard to overcome my imposter syndrome when I came out as trans, and as a lesbian.

This, right here, is what I mean when I bemoan the lack of support for trans, disabled, & BIPOC lives from our supposed allies. Where is the Disney Adult outcry over the genocide in Palestine? Where is the boycott of institutions endorsing genocide against trans folks? Why wasn't Newsome cancelled?

The new cover art for The Egg Prime Directive is now up on Scribble-Hub! This probably isn't the final cover design, but it's a sight better than the photo we took of one our chicken's eggs with a sword shaped letter opener! www.scribblehub.com/series/17665...

Whenever the eugenicists trot out a new supposed cause of autism I think it's essential to remind people that neurodivergence is a necessary and beneficial part of the natural diversity of humanity. My neurotype isn't a disease to prevent, it's a difference to understand, support, and celebrate.

Gonna boost this again, but I also want to emphasize that there are many brilliant marginalized creators out there struggling to make ends meet. You don't need to support ME, but if you value the presence of us in your media, and your society, please start showing it in tangible ways.

I'm curious if other #WeeknightWriters do these kinds of visualizations for big casts? If so, what do they look like? If not, how do you handle tangled webs of relationships?

Had another weird writing day where I was mostly just unpuzzling this weird gordian 15 character tangle so that I can put a bunch of them into action at the same time. Fell down a rabbit hole and got utterly lost accounting for them over 40 years, pretty much confirming my Autism diagnosis.

I'm curious if other #WeeknightWriters do these kinds of visualizations for big casts? If so, what do they look like? If not, how do you handle tangled webs of relationships?

Had another weird writing day where I was mostly just unpuzzling this weird gordian 15 character tangle so that I can put a bunch of them into action at the same time. Fell down a rabbit hole and got utterly lost accounting for them over 40 years, pretty much confirming my Autism diagnosis.

Putting things into threads on this site is such a crapshoot, in terms of anyone actually reading them. I've lost count of the ideas and words that I've thrown into the void because they took multiple posts to develop. I'm not built for pithy 300 character ejaculations.

It's not just the current generation of queer and trans creators being erased: it's the ability for vulnerable young queer and trans folks to see themselves reflected in the world. By silencing our storytellers, poets, dreamers, artists, and musicians, they rob our youth of hope for a better world.

I was able to convince my surgeon to let me stay on HRT in the lead up to my surgery in 2022, citing these same papers. But even had she required cessation, I wouldn't have complied. They typically don't check your levels before surgery, so just...lie. Your position is medically valid. Theirs isn't.

Gonna boost this again, but I also want to emphasize that there are many brilliant marginalized creators out there struggling to make ends meet. You don't need to support ME, but if you value the presence of us in your media, and your society, please start showing it in tangible ways.

Speaking of supporting trans creatives: Sena is a treasure and our loss is Canada's gain! But she needs help raising the funds needed for immigration to safety. Tune in to her streams to help support another brilliant trans woman escaping *waves hands* all of this!

Don't just cancel your Disney+/Hulu/ESPN account: pick a trans creator & subscribe to their Patreon. Then you aren't just holding the fascists accountable, you're also investing in lifting up the targets of the fascists with the least power & representation in our media landscape. (For example, me!)

Spirit Halloween is really hitting differently on Estrogen....

Turns out, once I got started diagramming things that pencil & paper wasn't going to cut it! I didn't really do any pre-writing or world-building for this story & this forced me to make a BUNCH of decisions about the characters that I'd been avoiding. (Plz don't @ me over my shorthand categories)

Just hit a wild milestone in The Egg Prime Directive: had to stop writing a scene so I could diagram out the intersecting polycules of the characters I was introducing! www.scribblehub.com/series/17665...

The unfortunate lesson that the world keeps teaching us is that the rhetorical distinctions between hatred, disinterest & allyship all telescope down to the same set of actions & outcomes. Not sure why I continue to imagine that our politics are ever going to be anything less than nakedly genocidal.

Halp! I'm trying to write but the wild rabbits outside the window are too cute!

Was playing a brutally complicated game of chess I my dreams last night. The chess pieces were unrecognizable as themselves and I'd just realized that my opponent was about to promote a pawn to queen when I woke up. I've spent the morning fretting about her being behind my lines.

Reminder: These are the monsters ruining your lives. Not trans people. Not immigrants. Not Palestinians. Not black people. Not Muslims. Not indigenous people. Not homeless people. Not disabled people.

#WeeknightWriters I'm keeping my filter words updated to avoid overexposure to toxic reality, indulging in writing the cute payoff scenes for the book I've been working on since August, and planning a trip to Scotland to kiss at least two girls!

Chapter 23: Off the Rails Another chapter dedicated to my favorite doubly fictional* magical girl, Seiko Chan, her kitsune companion Zenko, and their new friend, the Tengu Express! *doubly fictional because she's a character from the story-within-a-story that I'm telling here.

Okay, since the original skeet I quoted is no more (for understandable reasons) lemme instead talk about this issue from my own perspective and experience. If you want to apply pressure to an institution for change, you need to understand how institutional decision-making happens there. 1/23 🧵

It's hard to photograph, but my writing environment is sickeningly idyllic right now. From my desk I can look out at the 200+ year old black walnut tree, with deer placidly grazing beneath & my chickens & ducks forraging in the fenced portion of the yard. It's a kinda perfect way to start the day!

This is such an important truth in this moment. When I was advocating (successfully) for trans-inclusive name change policies in academic publishing, I discovered that one of my secret superpowers was "old white guy whisperer." Learn how to do that, and you can accomplish a lot! Ncpwg.org

Looking to get some eyes on my work that are outside of my current bubble of other trans creators. If you're one of those cis folks who follows me please help spread the word to your community. Because otherwise I'm just playing the "Trans folks passing the same $20 back and forth" game on here.

Support the artists you like now because tomorrow you might not be able to find them.

This, all day, every day!

Gods, I love moths so much! Look at these beauties!

I drew a design for the armor that my magical girl wears in The Egg Prime Directive. It makes me wish I had the bandwidth to push myself as hard on visual art as I have on music, writing, and poetry, because I can see how I could improve if I was doing this every day. Still, it was fun to make!

Long weird thread from last night. Tempted to write a book about some of the family stories I grew up with....