Somebody might need help, but it’s not always safe to ask. The wrong person won’t help, and might hurt. The right person isn’t always readily identifiable, so I don’t care if it’s corny: Signal your intent. Be the one who helps.

Hey, it's still Pride. Fuck 'em.

Are you a writer looking to troubleshoot a sticky project, learn a new medium, bring joy back to your writing practice, push past a block, or come back from burnout? I'm opening my books to a handful of new coaching clients! (1/)

One of those desk shifts where I know i must be gendering properly because these motherfuckers won't stop mansplaining my job to me.

It's always disorienting when I find myself in a Discord environment that doesn't have the emoji culture I'm familiar with. I may not be @transducer.bsky.social but I still seem to use a lot more emojis than most women 🤣😅

I know it's all very discouraging and scary, especially on the last day of Pride Month. But remember that tomorrow is the first day of Wrath Month, so make sure to rest up tonight 😤

It was a deeply amusing appointment "Sleep apnea?" Been on a CPAP for 20+ years "Talked with your PCP?" In May, yes "Is your prog dose too high?" Backed off the dose to 200 start of the month, no change, can we please try a little T supplement as a treat?

Appointment with my doc went well~ Gonna see if a wee dab of T gel helps get my levels up into the "Doesn't wake up every day feeling like warmed-over shit" range.

Who could've forseen this except everyone who studies technology and everyone who studies labor

Friends really are marvelous In person, at a distance, trans, cis, masc, femme, nonbinary, doesn't matter. Get friends, pick them well, treat them honestly, reap the rewards. Good night.

Dead Bastard #chidrinks I picked up a couple cases of Fever Tree ginger beer, so there will be drinks featuring it for the next little while ☺️ This is a double, and is a flavorful bubbly nightmare of a cocktail. 😵‍💫

Now up on the DC.com website: the official bio page for @planetx.bsky.social and @deuxdel.bsky.social's GALAXY, written by me.

Articulating to your friends how you no longer spend any time "yearning for the void" You know, girl talk.

"Trans people always knew they were trans" Well, I admit I knew *something* was different! But even though I *knew* trans people back in the day, I still shuffled around through half a dozen other queer identities before I let myself seriously consider I might be a woman.

Articulating to your friends how you no longer spend any time "yearning for the void" You know, girl talk.

On the plus side though: Bath

So tired of constantly scraping the bottom of my barrel of sick leave. Really hoping I get a handle on what needs to change at my appointment tomorrow morning 😩

The thing is I've got that parasocial relationship with my online friends where mostly I just want nice things to happen to them.

Look, I'd always cry at a well-constructed story, even Before, but now it'll just *crush* me.

My hair is very very pink 🩷

"I don't really have dysphoria, I don't hate my body, I've just never taken any peculiar joy in it" you're trans (and while you don't need dysphoria to be trans, that's dysphoria 🤦‍♀️)

Apparently there is a more permanent pink my stylist can do and when they explained it to me I was like full speed ahead, let's pink this shit up.

"I don't really have dysphoria, I don't hate my body, I've just never taken any peculiar joy in it" you're trans (and while you don't need dysphoria to be trans, that's dysphoria 🤦‍♀️)

One of my nieces invited me to her birthday party tonight. I was expecting a similar crowd to the one which celebrated her starting HRT, but it was all her friends from college and HS (a very queer group, but not very trans), and I was the oldest by almost two decades.

So we all agree that early transition photos are horribly awkward and should be left in the depths of the archives to moulder. Good, excellent, nice to have consensus on that point.

Poking through old collaborative writing projects (FOR REASONS) Wow, I was really good at this, huh?

Aaaaaah my rings from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social showed up! Not the best picture of the pink tourmaline, but both rings are absolutely gorgeous and I'm losing my mind. Totally rethinking what I want to wear tomorrow 🤣

Holy shit. Holy fucking shit. Happy pride month.

<groaning in misery as I drag myself to work> Not... going... to... spend leave... this... week....

You've "weirded" your last Al

My engine runs on hope and spite.

Hey Denise, Ashaki, and Tammy! Give me your address! I need to mail your kickstarter reward!!

People were amused when I talked about being a 'non-practicing' bisexual, but the thing is even if all I'm doing is looking, I'm still *attracted* to people who are and are not my gender, so I'm still *practicing* I'm just not *acting* on the attraction.

Crivens, I do love catching women in the over-60 set checking out my tits 😊

No, of course I wasn't just bouncing on my toes in front of the mirror in the bathroom to watch my chest bounce. Whatever could have made you think that!

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Hellfire, meeting one trans mutual Saturday afternoon, and then going to another girl's birthday party that evening. When the hell did I become *social*? <looks down at her tits> Probably came along with the gender I guess

One of those nights where I get home, do most of the necessary stuff, and then it's like I spring a leak and all my energy just drains out and I am asleep oops.

Hallo, am she berry. Working at lye berry.

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

Love having a friend at work I'm comfortable enough to ask "Can you feel along my bra straps back here? I think I got something twisted when I got dressed this morning" 🤣

Left half my lunch on the kitchen stove at home and friends I am dying.

One of the nicer things about one of my names being "Hope" is that when a friend of mine begins morosing about how they "don't have any hope," or they've "lost all hope." I get to go "I'm right here though"

My coauthor @jamiegeeksout.bsky.social and I are BEYOND excited to announce DREAMING OURSELVES INTO BEING: THE RHETORIC OF TRANS COMICS, through @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social, & featuring cover art from the absolutely amazing @assumptionprime.bsky.social out on February 4th! tinyurl.com/5u2fadxd

Why hotels like library conferences: "You honor your reservations; you go to your meetings so we can clean the rooms; you're relatively quiet; and you drink more than the American Legion." www.chicagotribune.com/1990/06/29/v... p.s. Leave a tip ($5-$10) every day for housekeeping. #ALAAC26

One of the nicer things about one of my names being "Hope" is that when a friend of mine begins morosing about how they "don't have any hope," or they've "lost all hope." I get to go "I'm right here though"

Nah. Instead we’ll use your resources wrest the party out of your useless centrist milquetoast cowardly corrupt self-serving establishment hands and remake it into a party that we can be proud of filled with people who will actually fight for us. You’re scared and we’re gonna win. Sucks to suck.

Emotional fucking day, on shot day? It's more likely than you think!

Every time I post about being bald I get a lovely DM or two from folks who had questions about my wigs, how I work it out, etc. Just want to make the invitation official: if you have questions, I'm really happy to answer as best I can! Just note that I'm by no means an expert myself 😅

One day I will figure out how to get my hair to stay like this for more than 20 minutes and I'll be a complete menace about it.