2025 Awards Eligibility Magical Girl Antifa War Machine on @escapepod.org The Shabbos Bride in the anthology Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social And a mysterious story in @strangehorizons.bsky.social under a pseudonym… DM about it I guess?

2026 is going to full of people assuming that a contravening force will magically appear and yield a blue wave that will (I guess?) reverse everything we’ve lost (again, magically) and it just won’t happen. Nothing will get better until enough people are done waiting for magic

Over 275 authors, editors, critics and diehard readers came together over the last month to vote on their favorite transfeminine books of the year. It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards! Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

The stranger that Rachel encounters in my story Rachel is at a Protest was a real person. Rachel meets him in 2009 and I met him in 2014. Aside from a few small details, that’s the only autobiographical part of the story. I still think about him often.

2025 Books We Loved: Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity by Lee Mandelo locusmag.com/2025/12...

I have a pimple on my face, which is transmisogyny

4 types of characters I write: 1. Angry sadomasochistic autistic transbians 2. Cute patient trans mascs 3. Fucked up cis dudes 4. Any of the above but Jewish

What the fuck this is so good what the fuck

You could read my story and vote for it! If you wanted to!

Just a few days left to vote in the TFR awards! Did you vote in the Outstanding Individual Poem category? If you want some ideas, here's my personal longlist of my fave 20 transfeminine poems of 2025. Would love to hear your favorite 2025 poems (or your best work if you're a tf poet) in replies!

5. That’s because, like, duh, art and sex are about power. @esther-alter.bsky.social reports on the petrokink choking us all in “Frack Me.”

1/n 2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭

We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th. Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars. <6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

I'm preparing myself for a 2026 in which it becomes impossible to submit any of my work anywhere and meanwhile some guys who want an endless regurgitation of Dr. Spaceman and His Ray-Gun are giving LLMs careful consideration

2025 Stories We Loved: “Magical Girl Antifa War Machine” by Esther Alter locusmag.com/2025/12...

Are you a fan of trans poetry? Or are you a trans poet yourself? The TFR Award has two categories recognizing trans poetry this year, and we need your help building the best sheet of nominations we can! Help us celebrate trans poetry by voting in this year's TFR Awards 🩷

Magical Girl Antifa War Machine isn't #mechsploitation but it has a lot in common. If you're in the mechsplo micro-scene and you want a different take on many of the same bad feelings, hi, hello, escapepod.org/2025/05/22/e...

Oh it's just very cool to see Magical Girl Antifa War Machine on this list

Usually what you see is everything I’ve thought about. There’s only so much room in short fic. I just make up an autistic trans woman and then I give her a problem.

HEAVY AS ALL BREATH: Four thousand words of hightech/lowlife slow-burn slurrypunk parenthood guro, free on itch. Mass, capital, damage. A wombful of slime, a pocketful of opaline teeth. The wholeness of little things. palimrya.itch.io/heavy

A stack of porn magazines? Marx? Whatever would make them squirm

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ major transition milestone!!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ A guy yelled at me from a truck I’ve been on HRT for 3 years and I’ve been dressing not-guy for longer than that.

Do you ever think about how ugly and rude the president is and that if he was handsome and polite a lot of liberals would be ok with everything else

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Vote for Magical Girl Antifa War Machine for best short story

Here is my 2025 award eligibility list, but it's not going to be entirely complete (for now), because I have a story coming out on... Dec 31. * Book! * The giant spider wants to help with your intersex healthcare, what could possibly go wrong * Distributed haunting (you can also get some) Thread~

Floats

We’re going to be told, until the moment the first shot is fired, that closing a foreign airspace is a very strong remonstration and not exactly equivalent to the start of a war

And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

Please write some historical fiction about weirdos living in the pine barrens and shooting airships so I don’t have to

Gothsgiving

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It's not an easy read but is incredible, finding revolution in pleasure and violence, magic and pain. It's not without its loss or tragedy, but it refuses to hide or erase the full spectrum of queer expression and passion and beauty. It's very much worth spending some time with! Go check it out!

In defiance, some people host very queer, very kinky sex parties knowing that the cops will show, and meet violence with violence, striving to kill their oppressors while also finding magic and connection in each other. The result is kinetic, powerful, and deeply unsettling, a train wreck in slow-mo

the month ends with the amazing "Bullet Time at the Kink Party" by miriam and oof. It's an intense story unfolding in a few seconds of confusion, violence, and community in a future where queerness is illegal and police have even more of a shoot first, don't ask questions attitude

I keep forgetting that I want a machine to pollute my air and water while stealing from artists in order to mainstream lies and I'm so grateful the AI defenders are here to remind me!

Hopefully this is the first note in a wake up call for any of us who still think it was a good idea to normalize violent state-sponsored suppression of peaceful protests to protect ourselves from an illusory danger, but what the fuck do I know, there have already been many notes in this song

It’s religious either way… the difference is “are you processing Jewish feelings via bdsm” vs “are you processing Christian feelings by defanging Jewish bdsm”

We have abolished all borders and checkpoints. We did it. You don’t need to stop. We’d still like to see the cute selfie though

Just posted some more thoughts about “Magical Girl Antifa War Machine” by Esther Alter (from Escape Pod #994) in the inaugural Queer AF Spec Fic Reading Club and if you want join in on the discussion, become a patron and check it out! www.patreon.com/posts/142730...

Hi new followers. I write short speculative fiction that typically can be placed in a Venn diagram of Jewish, trans, and kink. If you want, you can request a combination of those three categories and I’ll post a link to a corresponding story.

An excellent and cathartic story about fighting back against facism that balances fun tropes and a strong voice with dark subject matter - Magical Girl Antifa War Machine by @esther-alter.bsky.social escapepod.org/2025/05/22/e...

My award eligibility post this year is very short and bitter. The Dragon, my second horror story, combines the folklore of my family’s village and the Nakba story of what happened to my family. It is available in Palestine -1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba. commapress.co.uk/books/palest...

2025 Awards Eligibility Magical Girl Antifa War Machine on @escapepod.org The Shabbos Bride in the anthology Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social And a mysterious story in @strangehorizons.bsky.social under a pseudonym… DM about it I guess?

this week is the week when everyone becomes aware of transgender

Up until now we’ve all had a fun time calling for a Butlerian Jihad but here it is, *this* is the one that is very very Dune

Do you (like me) have strong feelings about worms and/or your voice (knife voice)?🪱🔪 You should read this incredible poem by @aporianautics.bsky.social I've been rotating it in my mind all week.

There have been many and I’ll give the cute answer. The Amber Spyglass, specifically the Marzipan chapter, has has helped guide me through several different coming out’s