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 🩷

It's my pleasure to announce the Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction in the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards! This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷 Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.

✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art. itch.io/b/3062/

MAKE ZINES! poster by zine maker / artist Cort Hartle. Download the free high res version (PDF) to print at home: freight.cargo.site/m/W234787385... Printing and distribution encouraged by the artist, so please RT, print it, fly post it, flyer it & spread the word! #zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines

All I can say is I have a rock solid conviction that the way to win in an era of AI arms races is to simply get even more human. Embrace the weird, quirky, opinionated, sharp, friction. In a sea of AI generated paste, all seeking to hit the average audience, that’s what’s gonna stand out.

Write letters in support of your library, to the board and to your local paper. Commit to attending a couple board meetings. Contact your political reps about doing something about the gutting of IMLS. Go to protests. Anything. Just get involved and advocate.

This is about curbing campus activism. But it's also an effort to cut off another leg of the funding on which universities stand. At many schools, >10% of the students are international. And they're much more likely than domestic students to pay full price. These actions will drive many away.

my article on the Palette Grid (which explores my dissatisfaction with lines and veils, and which opens up new approaches to discussing safety during play) is now available for the general public: possumcreek.medium.com/the-palette-...

I keep thinking about how when you are part of the first wave of a new field, the best frame of mind you can have is to hope you will be surpassed — because it means people have built on what you started. And if you’re very good, you helped folks get to the place where they can do that work & shine.

2. ECONOMIC BLACKOUT. We support the economic boycott occurring this Friday, Feb. 28, of any entity that has dismantled their DEI programs and pandered to this administration. The buck will stop with us!

"what our overlords want to do is...destroy every vestige of the past and replace it, largely through digital technology. They want to control meaning itself; they want to regulate our ability to find meaning in our life..." @sarahkendzior.bsky.social sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/your-quest...

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.

The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.

@bookshop-org.bsky.social now sells ebooks as well! And from that site you can "buy" the ebook from an indy bookshop of your choice. Also THANK YOU for joining the Bluniverse.

If you are trying to alleviate some suffering and find some strength in community, and to carry on together as best we can against against utter authoritarian bullshit Then pretty much anything can work. You are also allowed to try, fail, learn, adjust and try again

For those of you who feel this way, I can't emphasize enough: i respect it, and I HIGHLY encourage you to check out this guide to other means of taking action by @prisonculture.bsky.social

And by swimming with it, you can find the little gaps that separate "almost powerless" and "almost nothing" from "powerless" and "nothing." You can focus on those hard, and you can make the absolute most of them.

One things I kept repeating during my zine workshop was "we are building lifeboats here." You hope you don't end up having to use them, but you're fucked if you do need them and don't have them.

We're likely to see prescription drug savings programs vanish soon due to the trump admin, so we're resharing our guide to getting cheap care resources in the U.S. If we missed anything, please let us know. And if you're comfortable, a share would be appreciated. www.broadlyepi.com/health-care-...

God needs the gentle people, who carefully tend their flocks and speak softly yet strongly to powerful men. God needs the loudmouths who demand justice. Whose voices boom. Whose words resonate. Whose flocks rely on them for comfort and protection.

Because maybe you need this poem as much as I do.

I’m going to say this with all the hope I can right now: A Walkthrough You can take it. They’re going to call you names. They’re going to tell you that you’re subhuman. You can take it. They’re going to try to alienate you, hurt your tender heart, and break your spirit. You can take it.

There is no calamity so huge that there is not beauty and humor and joy to be had in the moments between actively working on solving or evading it. Learning to take those moments, embrace the hell out of them, is what will make it all worth it, at whatever point you reach the end.

It was your eyes that saw the colour, your brain that interpreted it, your heart that felt its beauty. You didn't love it because they're the Blue Artist, but because you were always a person who could love the sky. 4/

"Kindness, kindness, kindness," wrote Susan Sontag in the first page of her journal in 1972. "I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage." Kindness and courage. I pray for them too. May both be abundant in all of our lives as 2025 unfolds.

A gentle gesture of hope, luck and beauty for the holidays and coming new year. (Mus musculis and Comvallaria majalis. )

Year 5! Analog Game Studies and @GameInLab are proud to announce #GenerationAnalog2025, online, July 16 - 17. **PUNK** is this year’s conference theme, exploring games and punk attitude, rock, style, spaces, art, and more. For more information: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... #CFP #StayAnalog

Been seeing in media a sharp pendulum swing away from cynicism, irony & angst and toward sincerity, wonder & earnestness over the past while, and honestly I love that for us. I wanna start 2025 full of so much dogged optimism and unironic whimsy that it’ll make your whole childhood cringe 😌

Take some time during the winter temporal freeze to think about our favorite topic - games! Proposals for lightning talks at our Mini-con in March are open until February 3rd. The theme is ✨🎮 VIDEO GAMES 🕹️✨ Find more information here: bit.ly/MMC2025

Do not be so arrogant as to presume your passion/enthusiasm makes you an expert. You cannot be an effective reviewer, much less critic, if you have no idea how the cultural object in question is produced. Your money also does not entitle you to the rights to cause harm and abuse to creators either.

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

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Logos. Poem by Mary Oliver. Rather miraculous. Poetry might save me.

Stuff Americans don’t know about their colonial past: the genocide in the Philippine American war; modern slavery of Filipinos in the USA; race riots against Filipinos in Watsonville. Apostol writes that Americans haven’t learned from the past because they don’t know it. The whitewashing of history.

Oh yeah I forgot to mention you can preview all the stuff restocking and releasing in today's update: crowlines.net/collections/... There's 9 button ups!! Hope to see you at noon PST 🥺

The AIDS quilt is such a striking example of quilting and other traditionally feminized crafts as radical queer politics and I hope this encourages people to learn more about the rich history of protest textiles in the US.

YOU GOTTA EAT is finally out in the world! It’s a Cheetos and caviar for breakfast kind of day!!!! bookshop.org/p/books/you-...

Thread to get started on bsky starting from this post ♡ Includes: •Alt text - what it is & how to use it •Hashtags - tag navigation Nsfw Moderation •Skyline/Timeline Prefernces •Language Preferences •Feeds - Skyfeed guide to make your own feed •Feeds - where to find and how to pin them

"I hope you enjoyed my video on the history of werewolves. Please lycan subscribe."

Tip: You don't have to curate a feed that's strictly serious, professional, or intellectual 24/7. Do yourself a favor and follow folks because they're hilarious, eccentric, hopeful, or rebellious in other ways. We get to hold multitudes including joy. Don't let them steal that from you, too.

We've given HEART: THE CITY BENEATH a design overhaul, so it's MUCH prettier now and it's STILL the same book that won 7 ENnie awards in 2020. It's also on sale at Bundle of Holding, which means you can get PDFs of the whole range for less than twenty bucks: bundleofholding.com/presents/202...

Just a reminder that there’s an app available for your TV called PBS RETRO where you can watch all sorts of wonderful old pbs shows like Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow, you know, in case you might need that sort of energy right now

priest: do you take this person to be your shenanigan them: i do priest: do you take this person to be your lawful hijinks them: i do priest: i now pronounce you in cahoots

I wrote this because of this common question. peelarchivesblog.com/2017/05/31/w...

Hi new (and old) followers! If you haven’t already done it, I highly recommend turning on the alt text reminder in your accessibility settings. And here’s a handy guide to help you get used to coming up with helpful descriptions.

this is one of my favorite custom feeds, Quiet Posters it shows you posts from people you follow who don't post that much! so it surfaces friends' posts that might otherwise get drowned out in the Following feed (which is reverse chronological) 🤗