🎨 smeargle helps aipom paint a picture 🖼️

thank you everyone for the love on this and for 1 throusand frollowers

Writers-- scrutinize all incoming requests, offers, etc. People are even getting bogus PEN festival appearance offers that seem legit. Someone is still sending emails pretending to be me and my agent offering editing services. This is the new normal.

To close out our four-part series on Silent Hill, Beatrix Kondo takes us into the world of Silent Hill f. Is the f for feminism? Read to find out! www.mothership.blog/silent-hill-...

NYTCO: “The Times has received no requests to correct, clarify or update our articles from the AMA.” AMA Board:

🕯️manifesting.

So stoked to be doing a podcast on the @deaddomain channel to talk about trans sports and Riley F_cking Gaines. youtube.com/@deaddomain?...

In case someone else is having regrets

Happy Trans Day of Visibility

Cosmic overlord

Comic book artist search post: Looking for a Black British artist, preferably from the West Midlands (not essential but would be a big plus), who has a naturalistic style and comfortable with slice of life drama/comedy. If they're familiar with the 1980s and 90s, that's a big plus, too.

you should treat a trans person today

We got there! So I can confidently call out today and be a little less stressed about finances. Any additional 💰 is appreciated so I can eat yummy takeout today. Thanks homies

💥TDOV bundle thread💥 For $15 you get 15 trans books & an audiobook! This bundle has the good shit. Shit you haven’t seen bundled before. Lotta sci-fi, some fantasy, a bit of horror, plenty of romance. Bundle ends on March 31 so don’t put this off. Here’s why 🧵 itch.io/b/3594/tdov-...

My dear former student Aphid is fundraising to leave Kansas and move to Colorado. He is a 100% real trans person in Kansas, I personally know him and vouch for him. You can make an immediate big difference in someone's life this way!! Please spread the word & contribute if you can!

HRT for everyone except trans people for everything except transitioning

I know I'm not alone in this, but I feel moved to note that neither TSA nor ICE should exist. I remember when they were instituted and I'm the same age as The Simpsons.

Fun fact: this was literally my senior design project at GT in 2009, sponsored by Exxon. We knew it wasn’t feasible then.

Important reminder for Trans Day of Visibility. Our enby friends deserve some attention today, too.

The world still operates like a bunch of feuding empires when it is very clear that not one nation can exist and flourish alone.

There are so many no-good, terribly bad, wrong, AI-generated anatomical diagrams out there. Here's one I found on the website of an actual clinic in Minnesota. Yikes. Be careful out there.

Ah fuck I’m visible today.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Trans rights are human rights. Sending love to my trans family and the community at large. My dream is that one day, ALL LGBTQ people can live in peace, joy and with the freedom to be themselves.

Civilians among the rubble following airstrikes in Tehran. (Photos by Mehdi Ghasemi)

Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami)

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

"testosterone makes you ugly" factoid actually just statistical error. average trans man is hot. Detrans Grifftin, who was clapped as fuck before transitioning, is an outlier and should not have been counted

Holy shit, that is an incredibly preserved hadrosaur hoof

there has to be something deeply wrong in your soul to be able to say "idk if this is a genocide and an apartheid state actually"

"Stop overreacting, they're never going to do that."

fiction has a marginal place in the formation of worldviews or normalization of behaviors among healthy adults. The moral burden of depicting behavior by nearly any author is usually zero

The Silver Sprocket Staff that was laid off suddenly is just a little under 50% to their goal! Their goal covers roughly 2 months of wages for each staffer. With the job market what it is, we need to be here for each other! Give if you're able and sharing always helps too💖 : gofund.me/67a3e9a86

Happy last day of the Trans Readathon!!! Today, Wake Up! is also officially out! This is a t4t ace trans-noir novella about gambling, fate, faith, and the magical sand at the bottom of Hell. See options for a copy below (including a free copy from Itch) traumbooks.com/wake-up-book...

Please Read This Book. You can get it for free on itch here; it's like 100 pages long; I think it has something for most people who are okay with a little darkness and artsy non-linearity in their fiction. Suspense, violence, romance, crime, drama, comedy, twists, slice of life type vignettes.

Do you like fantasy ttrpgs? Are you into erotic horror? Do you want a game like PTHK but with an elf? I got a game for you! Message me if you want to playtest Augury in Litany!

i dedicate this unhinged woman to @pejntboks.bsky.social ✨ #thecuriosities

A follow up to my last piece! I'm debating on making it a triptych, which will be fun ⚔️ ft. Perpetua, my Aasimar Paladin of Constellations, and her war horse, Erasmus 💙

I think we need an inverse thread where we talk about things that normal intelligent people universally agree upon that are for some reason hot takes within your profession

a book should not be a craven attempt to satisfy consumer desire for an endless stream of identical content

Reminder that the reason you're seeing so much weird Chappell Roan news is that just a few weeks ago she fired her Epstein-adjacent agent, Casey Wasserman. Wasserman is still the chairman of the 2028 LA olympics, but has started stepping back from his ad agency.

They hate to see a lesbian win.

$100 reset challenge! What #boardgames would you get to start your collection over, limited to $100? 1. $32 Ahoy 2-4p (just fantastic) 2. $32 The White Castle 1-4p (small box, big game!) 3. $27 LOTR TTG 1-4p (chef kiss) 4. $5 Spot It. 2-8p (duh) 5. Card sleeves (had $4 leftover)

HALLOWED GROUND A 100+ Page Horror Comic Anthology. 12 stories of HELL, PURGATORY, and HEAVEN, from LGBTQIA+ Creative Teams! LIVE NOW: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea... With covers by @bailierosenlund.bsky.social @kevinwada.bsky.social @fellhound.bsky.social @dennismenheere.bsky.social

Happy belated birthday to me and Tate the Pallas Cat at the Utica Zoo (March 28). Please back our Kickstarter (Tate helped by raising morale).

Y'ALL BETTER COMPETE IN THIS IF YOURE IN NYC AND YOU BETTER FUCKIN WATCH IF YOURE LIKE ME AND SOMEHOW NOT BEST FUCKIN GAMES OF THE YEAR STREAMED LIVE TO YOUR EARS

i am a literary/upmarket writer with MFA pretentions (primarily a poet) and, call me crazy, but i think making art is inherently fun and you should have fun doing it. and if you're not having fun you can make different art. mayhaps

You know how all those people are always doing the “I never liked so and so’s work” whenever someone gets outed as a baddie and it’s wildly disingenuous and implies only bad people make bad art? I fucking HATE Ms Rachel’s videos. She is still absolutely the best of us in every way possible.

🚨Abood is in danger⛔️ My brother is a disabled boy with special needs & autism. His leg is broken & he needs surgery to have a metal plate inserted. Abood cries & can't sleep because of the pain, & he has a high fever. We urgently need €250. Any donation will be a lifeline😭 chuffed.org/project/158030