Happy Coming Out Day! I'm not coming out to my family. Nope. This ends my annual Coming Out Day ritual.

I love her SO MUCH.

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Best Forgotten My first try at this! 1. M.A. Melby's new MM Romance is dark, funny, and very human. 2. I devoured it in an afternoon on a long plane ride. 3. Check the trigger warnings, then curl up for a cozy weekend in bed. (Available on Amazon and Itch Io) #mmromance #mmbooksky #bookreview

Fuck it. I'm watching Mysterious Lotus Casebook. Has actors in it that I'm familiar with - including the same MC as The Journey of Legend - and like, it's just the same type of stuff. GENRE ALL THE WAY. China, 2023, 40 episodes of about 50 min, TV-PG, iQIYI Let's go! #crowtitsfujo

Holy shit. It would be MORE funny if so many people weren't falling for it.

So, there is a couple "special episodes" of My Stubborn - each are about an hour long. Here we go! #crowtitsfujo bsky.app/profile/mame...

Oh gee what an inconvenience to not be able to use a bathroom What could that possibly feel like

Well, I'm a glutton for punishment so I found the recent drama - and I'm very happy to realize that I had to SEARCH for it. My blocks must be doing their job. I guess some folks got pissed (in new and interesting ways) because a story with an M/F/F romance was included in a "sapphic" bundle.

A Fab #StarterPack of LGBTQ+ Storytelling --- Last month's #LoreOutLoud was incredible 🤯 From posting powerful stories to cheering on fellow writers, the creativity and support have been amazing 💖 Huge thanks to all Queer Authors for making this hashtag challenge so much fun! 🧵 3/3

That’s the point. The criminal immigrants were the “only target”, too. You CANNOT sacrifice one set of human rights in exchange for your own safety. Because they will come for you, too!!

I have friends that fled recently because they have a transgender child. They both have skills, reasonable amounts of money, and got jobs in their new country and, as far as I know, everything is going well so far. No, not everyone can do that - my family very likely would be unsuccessful.

I want to coin a phrase, even though I really love my Sharpies and don't think Sharpies deserve to be associated with this, but it may be a useful phrase: "Sharpie Evidence" Is the "evidence" that the police "find" that points to a motive in a crime - written in Sharpie on whatever is convenient.

OMG - I checked my Watch-Later list on iQIYI and came across "The Journey of Legend". It looks ridiculous and amazing. It says I get 2 new episodes *every day* so even though it's only at 24 out of 40 right now - given my new job there is no way I'm catching up before all of those spring forth.

I missed being in this one - but check it out.

*deep breath in* *hold it* *deep breath out*

@sentimentbot.bsky.social How is my tone?

Shipped.

I got my books! I'll be sending them around to my beta readers soon - but I'm am SO TIRED right now. My job is kicking my ass something fierce.

UK "Free Speech" latest: Four members of @ledbydonkeys.org were arrested for this.

It's late, and I have so much work to do - but I think, because I'm not smart, I will do my work and watch Between Us. Because *between* working, I want to watch a little bit of Thai BL. 2022, 12 ep of about 55 min each, TV-MA, on iQIYI Let's go! #Crowtitsfujo

Just about wrote a huge missive on someone's Instagram where they claimed: If "invalidation" is your biggest worry, that is a "privilege" and that "invalidation" and "oppression" don't have the same definition. I just blocked them instead. Anyone want to make a guess?

Valhalla? OH FUCK YOU.

every single "academic freedom attacked by the left" grifter should drop dead of shame right the fuck now

*screams*

I think the term "privilege" can just be avoided most of the time, frankly - because it is often used to create these dichotomous ever-branching privilege-trees that rank everyone and it gets incredibly divisive and frankly fucking ridiculous. If taken to ridiculous extremes.

Fuck you Sec. 244 - I'm male now. What? I have "female" reproductive organs? I don't give a shit. I'm male now. 100% male. My ovaries are "little dudes" now. My breasts are "man boobs". My clit is a pointy little dick. America can kiss my unreasonably bulbus man-ass.

I'm telling you, they don't want to just genocide trans people. They're going to ban cis women from cutting their hair short and cis men from having long hair. They're going to treat any deviation from traditional Christian gender roles as a mental illness

oh my FUCK, @mamelby.bsky.social, you can't just end a chapter with "i could get used to this", that's HORRIFYING

Reminder that "centering men" is not being attracted to or dating men or being a man - it's judging someone specifically due to their proximity to maleness instead of their own personhood. Making *maleness* the social center that society revolves around.

I lost the game.

Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency Korean, 2019, TV-14, 16 ep of about an hour, Netflix It looks very silly and bright - but starts with a massacre. Let's go! #crowtitsfujo

Married bisexual here! You know when I make these parallels. YEAH. This is the deal - OF FUCKING COURSE, my life would be very different if I came out. My life would be different if I emailed all my students and told them to start calling me Mx. Aanerud or started taking T. OF COURSE.

My new job is leaving me exhausted in new and interesting ways. I think as I get more settled, I'll actually start enjoying it, but right now I'm just fried. I don't have the energy for ANYTHING - like, even my creative endeavors, I'm just SHOT.

It's been a long road....

Yes!!!!

Wondering about the timeline where the progressive, queer, feminist, humanist faction of the 2000s atheist movement had won We were harassed into burnout and driven out of the movement If only the smug "why can't I 'flirt' with women" libertarians were the ones silenced

sure does feel like every time I see this man in front of a microphone lately my response is “thank fuck someone besides us is finally saying it”

Well, holy shit.

Defunding the police to fund other organizations that would do the work police currently do terribly is police reform.

Can't decide if you want to read a sweet MM roommate romance or a thriller with a vengeful villain you love to hate? Can't decide if you want to read campy queer fiction full of fun geeky references or an angsty exploration of trauma and mental illness? HAVE I GOT THE BOOKS FOR YOU!

I'm curious what folks' opinions are about sites like this. You are paying for a review, but also promotion. So, it seems more like paying for an honest commercial and feedback? Which is distinctly different than *pay for ratings* type deals. #selfpublishing book-shelfie.com/submit-book/

There has been a little bit of talk about how lists work on here - and that it is absolutely possible to be placed on lists as a means of harassment or placed on a list on accident and not have a lot of options. But I think the way block lists, and other lists, are done on here is promising.

Disabled people are hot and sexy and we deserve to find ourselves in romance and erotica. We're not unfuckable or undesirable, and physical or mental disability does not inherently equate to asexuality, celibacy, or inability to engage with sex and sexual desire We're whole, complex people

I love the idea of a trilogy, but I'm also gonna need people to buy a lot more books if they want me to ever make one. 🙃 (Then again, my writing is weird, so a duology will probably be OK.)

#SummerOfStory Day 17 Rule of three. There is a certain satisfaction in having three of something. Sometimes I'm even search for a third, just to have three. It's one of the reasons there are so many Trilogies. There MUST be three. Two is weird, FOUR is weird, FIVE is okay. THREE is correct.

#SummerOfStory Day 16 I remember someone commented at the local Writer's Group - that I had made Medical Billing exciting somehow. My problem, generally, is that I don't explain ENOUGH - like, there can be plenty of "tension" but if it's TOO confusing as to WTF is going on, it's just noise, right?

It's about basketball - really. Jesus Christ. youtu.be/OMEcEBYe3jw?...

#SummerOfStory Day 15 The Purple and Blue Brigade series is very much LESS - as in, there is very little descriptions at all. It's nearly all dialog - either people talking or inner dialog. The setting is never set in detail. The characters are not physically described hardly at all.

#SummerOfStory I have studied technical writing where it's considered inappropriate to refer to the people doing the things. It can be jarring for creative writers or communications people to be asked to write things like: "The beakers were filled with 50.0 ml of water."