If cis people didn’t obsessively police their own and others’ gender, the fashion, homeware and leisure industries would collapse.

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎 You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by... Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic

'Pomeraider' (Original Demo) by Explosive Grapes Studio An 80's style arcade game, turrned up to 11! https://sonicfangameshq.com/forums/showcase/pomeraider-sage-25-demo.2745/

This is a FANTASTIC read and one of the first people I’ve ever seen put to words something I’ve been trying to articulate for years. Must-read for me.

The formatting is done! :D Shortly I'll be poking all the people who've beta'd for me before to see if they'd be up for this version, but I'm also interested in expanding that pool! If you're interested in a story with this elevator pitch, feel free to let me know!

-From Reddit- Yep this is the way. I also work in advertising… in fact, for a company that sold software to Sinclair You can also call the Local TV stations ad sales reps and tell them the list of advertisers you’re calling…. Nothing freaks out a Sales Rep more than a pissed off advertiser.

I've finished #writing the latest, shortest, and what I think is likely the most publishable draft of my debut novel! One more round of beta reading and editing, and then it's back to querying for me!

As an old who survived the 80s when many many did not: These fascist freaks are perfectly serious and now, like then, we will not let them win.

The entirety of my adult life has been characterized by people in power that completely deny consensus reality, and the tools we use to determine it, in favor of their ‘beliefs’. I’m so tired of the idea that we can or should reach out to them and help them understand. They’re not trying to.

you will never be amenable enough to the demands of a fascist tantrum to make it stop without selling your soul and becoming a fascist yourself. there is no amount of compliance that is acceptable short of absolute indoctrination. the more you bend, the more they push you down. stop helping them!

Every time I see a person call themselves 'apolitical', my brain translates it to "my rights as a person aren't constantly up for debate and I don't care that yours are."

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

relevant life lesson from comics on this one

they should make an animusic 3

...holy shit I've never heard a cis person Get It so completely.

Right now those in power are telling you straight to your face that "if a piece of shit racist white man is harmed by gun violence it's a problem and you should feel sympathy. If anyone else is harmed (kids included), that's life". I do hope this radicalizes people. I hope this wakes people up.

Holy shit bro

'Okay, I finally finished this novel, hell yeah!' 'Wait, what? Too long, you say? Well, good thing I can split it into a trilogy neatly...' 'Okay, time to get this first third published!' '...Too long, you say. Well, good thing I can split it in half neatly!' 'Surely it'll work this time.'

This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

To have gone, within my lifetime, from the president being impeached for a consensual (if problematic in terms of power dynamics) sexual act between adults to where we are today kind of puts the lie to most of what I was taught about my country.

#AwesomeCharacters Pathi has a fraught relationship with his own morality. He’s undergone a transformation that’s only supposed to happen to people with evil hearts… and yet he’s *sure* he’s the exception, because what choice does he have? Then he starts doubting. And things get Bad.

Everyone understands why musicians don't all want to make pop music, but when a game dev targets a specific kind of experience I'm not looking for, it's suddenly a moral failing, not a matter of taste I'm not moving on with my life w/o making sure this dev is Defeated in the court of public opinion

as an older teen I took stock of myself, recognized my dorkiness and looks far outweighed any charisma, and decided my main activity of acting was never going to be it for me professionally and I’d better stick with the writing I’d always done quietly on my own THE BETRAYAL OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA AGE

Well said.

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!" just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement it's 95% now you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

all I know is that if I killed 11 people and was working out the reason why it was totally legal to do so a day later, nobody would have any trouble calling that precisely what it was

There's an element of sunk cost to this part as well. They've driven away friends and family over their rabid transphobia, so this day when they're proved right all along, win, and trans people go away MUST come. Otherwise they'll be the ones having to eat crow. And they can't have that. Double down

What exactly is it about trans people that inspires such disproportionate self-incinerating rage in people who fall down anti-trans rabbit holes? That we've kinda done nothing is precisely why it's so disproportionate, to the conspiracy addled, it's more proof of our secretive far-reaching power.

Read this twice. Then think about how quickly and easily some of these sites capitulated. Then read it a third time.

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

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Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

#LateNightWrite Thanks for doing this! :D It's good reminder that I shouldn't be so silent about what I'm working on! I don't think I have anything new to promote beyond my game Deadbeat that I mentioned last week, so check out my pin if you want to see that! One day I'll have something new...

#LateNightWrite The main character of my story is transformed into a humanoid dragon called a Drake, and the color scheme I decided for his new form is vaguely reminiscent of a character from a webcomic I've liked for years! Bonus points you can figure out which one! (Art by Gooseworx!)

#LateNightWrite While this aspect of my WIP's world won't really be touched on for a bit, there's a region just out of sight that I'm intending to be something of a love letter to the Progression Fantasy genre. We'll see if that pans out!

Part of the establishing friendship for two of the main characters in my WIP involves a fight dissolved by a certain phrase that my sister used once when we were fighting, a phrase so absurd that we both started laughing and there was no way we could keep fighting :y #LateNightWrite

Hey there #LateNightWrite! I'm J.A. Hartman, and I make game(s?) and stories, and stories for games! My current novel WIP is called Sigil and the Serpent! I like to describe its comp titles as 'ANIMORPHS meets HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON', but honestly that might need some updating!

Everyone on Bluesky is poised like we're waiting for the DVD logo to hit the corner of the screen

“Just make it exist!” Isn’t that simple, and neither is “making it good.” I know the left hand graphic has been making the rounds and is meant as motivation, but as a frequent victim of Scope Creep, please learn from my mistakes 😂🥲

Being shitty about/to unhoused people is such a hardline dealbreaker. It means you’re nakedly motivated by your disgust for a group of people in your community and not at all curious about the material conditions that got them there.

Demanding accountability of the entire trans community for this single mass shooting but not demanding accountability from the cis community for the thousands and thousands of other mass shootings is monstrous beyond all belief.