+ the incomparable @leemandelo.bsky.social, esp for Summer Sons (modern Southern Gothic) and The Woods All Black (historical horror). His stuff is haunting in the best way. + the diabolical @kmenright.bsky.social whose MESSYQUEER horror-fantasy is an amazing ride, starting w Mistress of Lies.

instead of watching the new harry potter trailer, why not pick up some horror books by trans and nb writers for the trans rights readathon?? there are so many good options. For example, check out some of these writers:

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

Hard to say anything meaningful when you’re constantly thinking of ways to Matrix-dodge the engagement of the least curious and most annoying people alive.

Spinning off from this, and I say this as a tattoo addict: I totally understand impulse ink, but I strongly suggest even the most "yeah I'll get another tat" enthusiast give some thought before getting IP-related ink. Play out the scenario of someone behind it turning out to be a bigoted bitchbaby.

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

This is the only Harry Potter argument worth making It wouldn't matter if Harry Potter was a singular, unmatched work of genius. Giving Rowling money is actively making the world a worse place and killing trans folks. There's no book good enough or nostalgic enough for that to be worth it.

Get your copy if you haven’t yet. Get another copy, just to be sure. Get 20 copies and leave one in every free library in your area. Hands down one of my all-time favorites, and filled with beautiful, healing trans rage. Comfort reads can come in all shapes and sizes, is what I’m saying 🖤🖤🖤

TWAB shows you the fireworks factory right away, drives towards it slowly, so slowly, but also going directly at it, through hedges and over curbs and across people's yards. Just when you think you can't bear the tension anymore, you realize you are now INSIDE the fireworks factory, and it's on fire

What I can say about this book without spoilers: 1) first book I've read in years that actually made me fear turning the page 2) depicts queer relationships & intimacy so beautifully that the joy balances the terror 3) goes so fucking hard in the last act that i'm getting goosebumps recalling it

Your reminder that this book fucking rules

It's B&N's pre-order sale time again, and as always pre-orders are a great way to support the books you wanna see in the world In this case, the long-awaited paperback release of The Woods All Black! Due out November 3rd, 2026 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-woods-...

Look look I’m in the longlisted anthology!!

the first domino to fall in the ai bubble

Today's great news: Amplitudes was selected for the @otherwiseaward.org longlist!! Extending my deepest gratitude to the committee and all the contributors who made the book possible 🖤

In any case, it's not great that Trump was giggling about how the next person to lead the department that oversees ICE is "even worse" than he is when it comes to trans stuff. Because trans people in ICE custody already have it really bad. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I checked the list and pretty quickly spotted scrapes from Rachel Reid, E. H. Lupton, and something called Fae-Ted Mates (I think we can all decode that particular algospeak)

So preorders are one of the best ways you can help an author! They signal interest to the bookstore and the publisher! Now is frankly an especially great time to preorder a lot of queer & diverse books, to signal that there's still a market despite bans! It's a way you can help plus you get BOOKS

Here's to the workers at Columbia, Stanford, Princeton, Duke, & et cetera UPs who are, truly, publishing extraordinary work in literary criticism these days, under the most punishing circumstances!

absolutely nothing has been deconstructed but you have been given permission to never think about it because of course despite the existence of a feudal aristocracy no one is a classist, the essentialist races are suitably diverse, and everyone is super alright with gay marriage

i’m so happy people are finally talking about how evil cozy d&d style fantasy is where every character is a milquetoast liberal who is fine enough with queers and women and people of color to never be #problematic but there’s a monarchy, essentialist race, and subhuman invaders that need killing

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

we support the writer's barely disguised fetish in a climate where adults on social media are mortified at the idea of consuming something that made someone horny

Free advice to semi-public people: No matter how much you want to see what rotten shit strangers are saying about you online, you're only going to drive yourself insane and make everyone around you miserable by marinating in it.

The people at Sex Matters thought that last year's Supreme Court ruling meant that they'd comprehensively "won"; that it would make it almost impossible for trans people to function in society; that therefore trans kids should be prevented from transitioning. 1/

A deep and incredible thread on Filipino laborers, early US possession of California and its connection to Philippine independence.

Registered for StokerCon finally, since it's in Pittsburgh where I've got a buddy to stay with

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project Pass it on

It's also pretty clear that the Republican-appointed justices do not understand a great deal about how elections are actually administered. Their questions (and especially hypotheticals) are built on weird, paranoid fantasies that do not align with reality. bsky.app/profile/wing...

I wonder whether his verse and the refrain were born from moments like these. This interview is absolutely worth the read. Kim Namjoon was NOT having it that day. english.elpais.com/culture/2023...

I am in love with Aliens. In addition to the anti-Asian racism theme moots caught, there’s an anti-colonial theme, I think. Anton Hur posted about Kim Gu (anticolonial hero). I re-read Namjoon’s verse & the refrain. Then I revisited KNJ’s 2023 El País interview where he discussed colonialism.+

When lawmakers and advocacy groups frame queer existence itself as a threat to young people, age-verification laws become ideological enforcement instead of regulatory policy. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

One of the major problems we face is that people don't understand the things/processes/structures that allow them to live lives of plenty that would have been unimaginable in the past, and as such think we can just abolish them for basically aesthetic reasons

Air travel has been a testing ground for Americans to accept fascism since 9/11. Remember life before there was even TSA? They said, to get on a plane you need to accept the airport as a site of surveillance & infringement on your human person. ICE being there really just expands that.

Health insurance from a spouse/partner's job is a constant refrain here. Medicaid for All is a comics issue.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.

Now that I've listened to #Arirang for three days straight, I'm thinking again about the article I wrote for Post45's Hallyu Project about the emotional complexity of MOTS:7... which closed with the announcement of their enlistment and "chapter two" on the horizon. post45.org/2023/02/dont...

“A Tennessee library director is drawing national support after refusing to relocate LGBTQ+ children’s books, citing the First Amendment.” apple.news/AEgwuiGArT_m...

frankly word of mouth is the SOLE metric by which books and authors thrive these days given the lack of marketing budget so man please do use the library to read my book and maybe just tell your friend you liked it haha

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

Yeah, yes to this whole thing--

when you attribute bigotry, hatred, incompetence, indifference, cruelty, and selfishness to psychosis (or mental illness in general), you're telling--lying, actually--to every 16-25-year-old who's just been diagnosed that not only are the A problem, but they are THE problem

Guess what arrived!! Another friend's book, The Citizen of Eastport by @vbruth.com 🖤🖤

I'm excited for this one 😘😘

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