One of the lesser discussed reasons theres fewer opportunities for queer and especially trans people in the entertainment industry is that we remember who said shit about us, so there's many shows we just can't in good consciousness put ourselves forth for because some bigot is on the project too.

There's too little trans rep in mainstream media for me to really say there's any kind there's too much of. I did think it was interesting that I Saw the TV Glow and Amazing Digital Circus were depicting experiences in a very similar vein, but that's *two* films

My most recent article critiquing the colonial dynamics that white queer people upkeep when interacting with queer Māori (and other indigenous people) #lgbt #lgbtqia #maori #indigenous #trans #transgender #nonbinary

Whenever I see these sorts of blanket rules being tossed around I always assume the person saying it is trying to sound authoratative by spitting out whatever nonsense edict pops into their head. "Don't use em dashes." "Don't put commas next to proper nouns." "Don't use Microsoft Word on a full moon

Not to be too buzzwordy but the whole establishments “it is bizarre and unknowable why Starmer is hated” is weaponised incompetence on an industrial propaganda scale

If Hipkins seriously refused to form a government and subjected New Zealand to three more years of this coalition solely to protect the ultra wealthy it would be the end of Labour. They'd never recover from such a dereliction of duty. Even threatening the possibility is shocking.

A24 announces that they want to put storyboard artists out of work. That's what the headline should be written as. Becuase we should be honest about what these AI "tools" are trying to do, and who it is trying to circumvent. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

"No obvious blunders" is an admission that this guy thinks criminalising trans people for existing, pandering to racists and cracking down on the right to protest were all great moves that people had no reason to dislike.

Nothing is going to change as long as everyone pretends that this was an issue of a bad frontman and not utterly destructive policies. Burnham has signalled he'll be as anti-trans as his predecessor. British society will continue to be a place you can be cast out of the moment you're inconvenient.

Okay yeah the Amazing Digital Circus finale is an all-timer. Devastating, End of Eva level stuff.

If anyone's looking for more they can do to oppose NZF's transphobic definitions bill, I see the Greens are gathering signatures on this letter Keep in mind this is a campaign tool for the Greens too though, before you decide to give them your contact info action.greens.org.nz/humanrights_...

Oh look @thespinoff.bsky.social are running advertising copy for the Harry Potter show, that's pretty astoundingly shit, huh

Cheery-fucking-bye No one who cared about a single immigrant or LGBTQ+ person in their lives should mourn the downfall of the man who presided over the worst degradation of their rights in a generation. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

#WIPSnips "Jacket" Slip was not scared and does not feel bad

Finally catching up on The Amazing Digital Circus. "I'm a New Zealand extremist and I don't know what New Zealanders threaten people with."

It's time for the super-rich and big corporations to pay their fair share. Visit greens.org.nz to learn how "A Tax System for All of Us" can build a fairer country for everyone 💚✊

Print it out, read the whole thing aloud. Forces you to engage in a different way, find problems you otherwise might not have. And if you do the voices, refine what characters sound like! #WritingCommunity

My sister made me a trans flag colours butterfly cushion for my birthday.

I may be the wrong person to ask about staying positive. I still find rejection gruelling and tend to catastrophise about what it means about my work. If the business side of things isn't going well, though, I bury myself in the creative side. Focus on what I can control. #pretendpanel

Dido on the Edge (later this year!) Kinley Martin and the Cloven Eye (kinda sitting there right now) The Half-Child's History (current WIP, going great!) Kelsey Isn't Gone (you're never seeing this, it's not good) #QueerWritersChat

everlee is free - please RT, all the details here: www.webworm.co/everleeisfree/

A major Wired investigation this week revealed details of Peter Thiel's secretive "Dialog" network after a leaked database exposed hundreds of members. One name caught my attention: Jonathan Haidt. A thread 🧵

I try and keep my nose clean and not trash talk other folks in comics, it is unprofessional. But I am also a proud trans woman. And John Byrne has a long, repeated history of disgusting transphobic statements on the very personal forum where he posted these comics that are now being collected.

Yay, thanks! 🥳 Find it here, along with a lot of other great queer sci fi fantasy books!! 🌈📚

I just spent a week and half rewriting a single chapter over and over again and honestly it was pretty miserable how it kept not working no matter what I did. But I am so in love with these characters and this story right now I couldn't have stopped if I wanted to. 1/2 #pretendpanel

The british are all like "aren't we a bunch of silly crumpets, we have a bin fellow running in the local elective! And look there's Mr. Fox! How positively doolally!" all the while murdering kids for daring to ask to be called she

What does she think "implacable" means, this sounds very placable to me

The media loves the tale of Brianna Ghey who tragically killed herself due to the pernicious influence of social media and transgender, except for the fact she was murdered by transphobes in a park, but she was out and about as a trans girl, so basically She got herself killed whats the diff

Does Winston Peters think there's some rule that you can only fly one type of flag at an event

25,000 signatures, from cis women!!! The Family First petition was 23,000 signatures, hosted on their own website, and likely signed by children in church as well as men and women. WOMEN SAY NO, BOB AND WINSTON! But you're probably used to hearing that from women, eh?

Feeling hopeful for the first time in aaaaaages. Let’s make it happen 💚

The only one of these I haven't done is play baseball and I mean do we even have that in New Zealand

Tooty the Feeble in Croc

This absolutely cursed thing. My Mum took us to see a collection of Aardman shorts thinking they'd all be lovely Wallace and Gromit style adventures and we got this nightmarish tale of an old woman going to hell over an unpaid bill and coming back as a skeleton. Utterly seared into my brain.

Oh yeah, totes. When revising, anything that isn't contributing can go. It's all got to be building toward the point you're making, anything that isn't, however lovely, can be dispensed with (unless it's a really good joke, cling onto those). #SpoonieAuthChat

I have a fairly mangled draft of a horror novel somewhere which I simply could not figure out. Plenty of good bits, but the subject just felt too grim for me. I'm just not mean spirited enough for the genre.

5 things you will probably find in most of my books: - Trans people! Usually going through some stuff - Creative swearing ("assplow", "turdcano" etc) - The possible end of the world - Tortured queer romance - Oh god, what happened to that guy's head

Join me in celebrating THREE YEARS of Self-ID in New Zealand! That’s right, for three years trans people have been able to change the sex on their birth cert, with just a declaration. And despite what the TERFs promised us would happen, NOTHING BAD HAS HAPPENED. TERFs always lie, never forget.

God you just know he felt so good about that email. It probably made his day to sneer at some lowlife commoner who dared question his MPs right to do whatever the hell they want. Probably came a little when he hit send.

Okay I finally got through Tip Toe. A deeply uncomfortable watch, only sometimes for the reasons its author intended. You can really tell when RTD is writing about stuff he's personally familiar with and when its something he's heard about in passing and never bothered to research.

Chlöe sharing the facts at today's protest against the coalition govt's definition of man and woman bill. It's not about protecting women, it's about control. #nzpol @swarckland.bsky.social

I edit as I go (there's a Google doc with 35 pages of stuff I cut from my current WIP before I even started revisions) so my first drafts are usually the right shape, with most of the right bits, but still need a lot of work to make those bits work the way I want them to. (1/2) #pretendpanel

Yo come join and show your love for your trans pals

The Bill proposed by NZF will not protect women. It’s about controlling all women. #nzpol The bill is bigoted, perverse and just another attack on women from a cis man. Sign and share the petition here: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/e-...

Isn't this lovely from St Matthews in the City Auckland over on Facebook

Today!

#WIPSnips "Blade" The opening paragraphs of The Half-Child's History. You don't want to end up in this world.

I don't plan, really. I daydream about bits and pieces, scenes I might like to write, but everything important - plot, character, theme - just happens as I work. Then I make it make sense over many, many revisions #pretendpanel

The thing about terfs is no terf has a normal reason for being a terf

We got protests coming up tomorrow folks! Get out there and support the right of trans people to exist! It would be a nice thing to do