Somebody a couple of years ago said COVID is the climate change of the body, complete with denialism and acceleration of existing issues and I have not stopped thinking about it. (And both are of course connected). I cannot find the tweet for the life of me.

What is something that you can talk about for your entire life and not get bored?

If trans people are a “necessary sacrifice” or a negotiation chip, you are not a safe person, and we are not friends.

I think there’s a difference worth pointing out between a person you know changing their mind (welcome) & a pundit feeling the wind shift on their spit-slicked finger as they declare it’s now correct to call something fascist (fuck off into the sun). One of them will never fight alongside you.

I can't help but notice public figures are starting to lay the groundwork for Having Been Against This the Whole Time 🤔

Can Alexas be haunted? This morning my housemate’s Echo started blaring jazz music and it was so bizarre.

TIL Edmund Fitzgerald, namesake of the ship lost with all hands in a Lake Superior storm in November 1975, had a great uncle Edmond Fitzgerald who also had a ship named after him, the Edmond Fitzgerald, which was lost with all hands in a Lake Erie storm in November 1883

I’m watching an octopus documentary and loooked up “why no one says octopi anymore.” It says we don’t because you only do the plural -i ending for words that come from Latin and octopus has a Greek origin. But the word “polyamory” exists so maybe language is dumb and rules aren’t real. #WordNerd

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My related thought to this was why isn’t there an inverse (Im)Purity Ball where we celebrate teens’ rights to bodily autonomy.

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Satanists should have their own confession but instead of absolving sins, they rank them based on coolness.

As a trans survivor of CSA, I can’t explain how much of a gut punch this is. Propoganda 101– accuse and confuse. It was never about us. It was always so they can further the capitalist patriarchy, which sexualizes and commodifies children.

As someone who’s had depression since the age of 10, this hits hard. But Katelyn’s right— we have to live. We have to experience joy. And we need each other to get through this.

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I don’t know how often I need to learn this lesson, but I never regret admitting when I’m struggling. I’m always reminded of the people in my corner and who support me. Posting this as a reminder to myself and others. Let folks know how they can be there for you.

Remember when the most worrying thing we’d come across online was Rick Roll links? Me too.

I think we’re all trying to navigate this ever present feeling of fear, panic, and dread. But somehow also have to continue to work, create, and promote ourselves. My brain only wants to focus a couple of days per week. How do y’all manage to get yourself into “work mode?” Looking for suggestions.

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TOUCH SOMETHING SOFT.

Might as well say what you mean with your whole chest and stand ten toes down in it, because no matter how palatable to their heinous beliefs you try and make yourself they're still gonna work to systematically disappear you either way.

This past week, more than any other, I've wanted to avoid social media. It's hard when your identity has been politicized, but I chose a career in marketing where I have to learn to deal with it. My compromise is to spend more time in spaces that have made me feel welcome and valued. Like here.

It’s so hard to be creative and post here when you’re stuck in survival mode. I'm short on rent and even though I have a new client (yay), they were only to partial pay. My kiddo started school so can now look for FT work but need help to get there. I have VN/ PP under CadenceVivace 0/330

“During the course of the 26-day sit-in, the Black Panther Party played a leading support role in providing food for the demonstrators. Over and over again, the disabled protesters credited the BPP with literally sustaining their struggle, “keeping us alive body and soul,” as one person put it.”

What fascinates me in DS9 and now with B5 is when a society considers abandoning their core values once presented with an existential threat. When you survive, how’s does your communal identity have to shift? This is the question I ask in my WIP.

I’m watching Babylon 5 for the first time and there have been times where: “Oh no, they’re going to become my emotional support war criminal aren’t they.”

“Uptown Girl” by Billy Joel comes on my playlist while I walk to my bus stop. *Me jamming to it until about 2/3 in* “Wait…is my romantic subplot just ‘Uptown Girl’ in space with lesbians?!”

liberals can’t even handle anyone to their left criticizing democrats like pete buttigieg and gavin newsom 3 years before the presidential primary about how they have shifted right on trans issues and homeless policies. when is the right time to criticize them????

I just want to brag on @robertwest.bsky.social for a second. They chose the 10K goal for August’s RDC and hit it last night. Then, they told me they're only like three chapters from finishing their first draft and I'm so proud. It shows that having a place to track your progress is so motivating.

I'm surprised that nobody has launched a Gen AI-free web browser yet — one that filters out AI images and text (and will never do those little "AI answer" things). I know it would inevitably have some error rate, but assuming it did a serviceable job, I'd pay money for that.

Being someone’s First Reader to a work they’ve spent months and years creating is truly a privilege that I don’t take for granted. @robertwest.bsky.social is getting to the climax in their work and being alone for the ride is exciting and inspiring. Who is the person you show your work to first?

Getting a five year old to take medicine has to be its own circle of Hell.

I was thinking about all the reasons I left nursing. The harm it did to my body, sure, but what it tried to do to my soul was worse. We tell people on day one “do no harm” and then ask them to participate in a health system that perpetuates unnecessary harm to our most vulnerable.

There was a whole Star Trek TOS episode about this. Capitalism/fascism REQUIRE a hierarchy in order to function. If there isn’t one, they will make one.

My brother and I talked about my WIP and he mentioned that my MC gives off Princess Leia vibes because they were the monarch before faking their death. I don’t think about Star Wars often even though my WIP is space opera, so I hadn’t really put it into the context of people who are Star Wars fans.

Really getting excited about my wip. It's been a difficult dive for me psychologically. When you give your antagonist some of the worst traits of your past self, it's hard not to take it personally. 😂😂

Have any queer and disabled folks seen parallels between “coming out” as one then the other? Last year my Covid-induced POTS came to a head. I was on my way to my son’s school and in the heat of the day and the overexertion of riding a bike made it so I fell unconscious in someone’s yard.

Today’s the deadline and I’m getting close. Just need $270 more. My PayPal, Venmo, and CashApp are all CadenceVivace. This keeps a roof over my and my kids head while I continue to look for work. venmo.com/u/CadenceViv...

Y’all in now late and trying not to freak out. I’m trying to find things I can sell to take some of the pressure off but could really use folks’ help to get through. I’ve been working late to catch up and not get myself into this situation again. Anything helps!

My kiddo had surgery last week and it’s been a rough month prepping for that and then me getting sick after. I could use some #MutualAid to help me pay rent that’s due on Friday. 0/600 CA/VN - CadenceVivace PP is giving me issues but [email protected]

Y'all, it's Agender Pride Day. Celebrate by following an agender creative. Here's a whole list right here! 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤

What are your favorite framing devices for short stories, particularly #horror? I have a kernel of an idea I’m developing.

It's true when people say America isn't a capitalist country. What America has done is taken the worst parts of socialism and applied them to one group, and taken the worst parts of capitalism and applied it to everyone else.

AI replaces thinking, which ought to be the cornerstone of education. But decades of emphasis on rote learning/standardized tests over original thought means kids have already disconnected learning from thinking, while the insane price of US college frames the degree itself as a paid commodity.

After RFK Jr. revealed his plans to register #autistic people, I hope we can put the issue to rest: self-diagnosis is not only valid, but preferable than putting our identity/neurotype in the hands of fascists and their collaborators. #SelfDiagnosis

Me when I make two of my MCs feel bad for hating their mom when they find out the horrific trauma that made her the way she is.

Fun fact: Elizabeth Bathory founded the first cosmetics MLM company that would eventually become Mary Kay*. (* not a real fact.)

I’m writing sci fi right now but I have an idea for a horror novel set in 1600s Hungary. Directly after the Bathory trial. It may or may not include vampires. #HorrorWritersChat