Get your submission in!! I did mine today. Don't let these transphobic a-holes tell you what clothes you're allowed to wear or what bathroom you should be using. Absolute bullshit.

The point of Disclosure Day is basically "wouldn't it be nice if we could stop worrying about all the shit that's going on and think about aliens instead?" It's basically Spielberg looking at the news, going "I don't like any of that" and fantasising about it not mattering at all

Yeah, maybe if social media had existed when I was younger I might have figured out I was trans a bit sooner. My main internet presence when I was a kid was on Transformers forums and boy that didn't help

These losers got everything they wanted. Trans rights have been eviscerated in the UK. They've been handed everything they demanded on a silver platter and they're still skulking behind computer screens, spitting bile, because there are still people out there who dare to disagree with them

"They've given up saving pūkeko, so they can save Palestinians instead" Thinking about how much Palestinians have been dehumanised to get to a point where the deputy Prime Minister can make a joke like this www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Watching In The Hand of Dante and I swear when Jason Momoa tries to be Italian he sounds exactly like Strong Bad

#WIPSnips "Water" Slip has a big job to do

My coauthor @jamiegeeksout.bsky.social and I are BEYOND excited to announce DREAMING OURSELVES INTO BEING: THE RHETORIC OF TRANS COMICS, through @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social, & featuring cover art from the absolutely amazing @assumptionprime.bsky.social out on February 4th! tinyurl.com/5u2fadxd

Hello #pretendpanel! I have a request this month to all writers in Aotearoa. Please turn your skills with words to the vital task of submitting against the stupid bill which is just about making life harder for trans people. Here's a really good guide about why and how: qtopia.org.nz/news/submiss...

I just want to put this "fun" blast from the past here--an article in late 2004 in which Democrats can be seen blaming gay marriage activists for losing John Kerry the election by bringing lawsuits to enforce marriage equality. This article was not the only one.

We've been seeing a lot of this in Doctor Who fandom for a while. In retrospect Chris Chibnall explicitly stating "I do not want to be a celebrity in this fandom, I am not going to be visible in that way" was incredibly healthy and smart

The last. You can do anything on the first page, every possible choice is still open to you. On the last page you have to find a way to sum up 90,000 words of stuff meaningfully. #WritingCommunity

#FaveLineFriday "She didn't know quite how to describe it. It was like silk. Like if the sky was made of silk, and there were stars all around her. They flowed through the deep purple volumes, and through her. She felt the body she was wearing and found no flesh to separate her from them."

jk rowling is still palling around with fellow transphobe kaeley triller on twitter, who admitted to the statutory rape of a minor under her care when she was working as a youth counsellor. rowling knows this because she blocks people who tell her

Yasmin Khan, 13th Doctor series. She's a Queer Muslim woman that's in love with the Doctor. I could also say the 13th Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) while I'm at it.

Supergirl is good. Not flawless, but I'm baffled by the critical reaction. It has a tight, well articulated arc for both its leads and actual themes and ideas communicated through visual storytelling. It's not as fresh as Superman was, but it's better than any Marvel film of the past several years.

A deed once done cannot be undone... But it may yet be mitigated.

*Taps sign*

I might write some test material for a character, just to get a feel for them. But you only really develop a character by putting them in situations and seeing how they react. The more decisions they make, the more defined they become. #pretendpanel

#LGBTQWriteAThon Dido on the Edge in five emojis: 📖🪽🧚‍♀️💕💥 #QueerWriters

Love how Circuit Breaker is just like "yeah obviously the Fugitive Doctor is pre-Hartnell." Thank god we don't have to faff about pretending not to be sure about that anymore

Even if you do subscribe to the idiotic idea that we all made too much of a spectacle of ourselves, trans people don't always have the option of being non-visible! What am I meant to do, wear a bag over my head?

I see the BBC's new Doctor Who multimedia event has launched without a hitch

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