gaston used to hate eggs, but so many villagers said that they hated eggs the wrong way that he had no choice but to consume four dozen per day as a child and five dozen per day as an adult. when he dies of high cholesterol it will be the villagers who are to blame

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo “[Vetinari] listened with great care because what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That's where the things were that they hoped he didn't know and didn't want him to find out.”

I preordered a copy of this to go directly to my local books-to-prisoners program! They get a number of requests from trans people, and it's nice to have something to send that is joyous and fun. #BookSky

SECOND HELPINGS comes out may 21! it's fun! it's funny! it's queer! it's a low stakes good time in a high stakes bad time! is it impossible to promote a romcom while the world is uhhh like this? sure, but hey, by preordering you'd also be seriously helping out a trans guy (me) geni.us/1469-al-aut-ch

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Imo someone should probably do something

i've said it before and i'll say it again: i don't write like AI, AI writes like me. if you've been putting words on the internet since pre-pandemic times, you can (and should) say it too

If Tobias' story was weirdly resonant for you as a kid, this is a reminder to take your hormones today.

"i need to use AI to write the story i want" no you don't no you don't no!! you don't!!! there are only like 7 stories we even tell! we just tell them over & over w/ different details & people in there! if you want stories w/o writing them there is already a system for that! it is called! reading!!

"All authors are using AI now" Not true! A lot of us are using constant, gnawing anxiety.

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

my next book, SECOND HELPINGS, is now available for request on netgalley! if you like LOVE STORIES and RIDICULOUS SIDE CHARACTER SHENANIGANS and FOUND FAMILY and SIBLING HIJINKS and RESTAURANT ROMANCE and especially ✨ SECOND CHANCES ✨ then you're going to love this one 💜

it's trans day of visibility and i'm moving so just a quick post to say: being trans is a wonder, a delight, one of the best things about my life. bigots and transphobia suck shit but in spite of them being trans is an absolute, undeniable joy. what a gift to know this rare & beautiful experience

i write books fairly quickly, now. this is mostly bc i spent twenty years unable to finish a single one, learning how to write and how to unpick my imposter syndrome and self-loathing enough to LET myself write. if anyone tried to take those years of work from me i'd punch them in the mouth; fuck AI

hello 👋 i have developed a new tool called blüuümpíi. blüuümpíi will convert every file on your hard drive to a .wav file without asking you, maximize your system volume, and play them on every bluetooth speaker you have ever connected to. if you offer feedback on blüuümpíi i will take legal action

in the end stages of a huge move, it's hard/weird, but today my friend picked up a giant sack of rice & slung it over their shoulder, not realizing it was open. rice poured out all over the floor in a perfect moment of slapstick 3 stooges comedy gold. sometimes even the hard shit is so goddamn funny

FUN FACT: You personally interact with dozens, even hundreds of artists and storytellers on this website every day who dedicate 0% of their resources to directly harming trans people. Many of them have comics, or albums, or podcasts, or even fantasy novels available for your guilt-free enjoyment!

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

one of my most consistent positions is that the broad coalition of people who are not fascists have a lot more in common than a lot of folks on every part of that spectrum will admit and I wish we spent less of our combative energy on each other

Every year, January to April, people accuse me of fearmongering in my reporting. Every year around this time, bills pass. And without fail, every year, the ratchet tightens. And now Idaho just passed a bill that could put me in prison for years—for washing my hands in a bathroom.

let's say you take a walk each night. one night while you're out, you see a corner of your neighbor's home burst into flame. no one else is around; you don't know if the homeowners are in. you can act--call 911, pound on the door, shout to wake them in case they're asleep--and you SHOULD act. why? 🧵

You didn’t fail any more than an ant caught in a flood failed. Society failed you.

From Instagram - today the Dyke Project shut down NHS England HQ to protest the politically motivated ban on trans youth healthcare.

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

My son, Gaston, is so based when we went to dinner he asked for four dozen eggs to help him get large. Then he asked for five dozen eggs to become roughly the size of the barge. The LA waitstaff was stunned

This made it out of committee. You do NOT want to let it go to a vote. Go make your voice heard right now right now

book bans are for losers pass it on (seriously, call your reps and tell them book bans are for LOSERS, as in people who support book bans LOSE ELECTIONS)

Now is not the time to ask your trans friends if they are okay. Now is the time to send your trans friends care packages, find them jobs, and ask your doctor about a HRT prescription you don't actually need.

something i've internalized in my struggle to learn to draw: drawing is a language, a system allowing you to set down what you want another mind to see. that language pins down clearer visuals than words, & so is MUCH harder to learn/communicate in than words. all writers should know & respect this

Omg I’m reposting bc I didn’t type the most important word in the alt text bc my brain said I typed it but my fingers didn’t type it 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

replaying TOTK bc being solely responsible for the fate of hyrule is less stressful than being trans in america, & i'd like to speak to whoever heads up hyrule supplies & operations. why are we so regularly using a whole crate to ship a single arrow? or one apple? this is a gross waste of resources

just tried to conclude an email with "all the best" only to realize at the last second that autocorrect had changed it to "all the sad." like damn, that's certainly not wrong in the current political moment but i don't think i need to be signing my emails about it

this conflict is stupid, wrong, and infuriating

"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

someday people will look back on this time and wonder how so many believed any game could matter more than the human beings playing them

i deeply believe that this is already the situation and we just struggle to accept it, or even acknowledge it, on a societal level. gender is personal for the same reason you can show a hundred people the same rock, ask them to draw it, and get a hundred different and distinct pictures of that rock

Lolsob—imagine a world where Diane Wynne Jones and Diana Duane were THE Famous Wizard Writers and JKR is crowdfunding for heating oil. Probably that timeline has different presidents and less warcrimes too

i can never pick a fave, but my favorite thing ABOUT those plays is how they show that times change but people don't. we like stories of messy human drama, humor and heartbreak, sharp wordplay and simple truth. the human experience is about the balance of the beautiful, the terrible, and the joke

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

i was born with no sense of smell: didn't register even intense stuff like fresh skunk spray or rotten meat, once nearly fainted bc i was unknowingly in a room full of open cans of turpentine, like. NOTHING. then, unrelatedly, i started HRT. within a month of my first testosterone shot i could smell

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

this garbage should be given the same weight as saying 'let's consider burning down people's homes bc there might be ghosts inside, and if there were, and i went in, i might be scared!' if you want to cause real harm based on hypothetical fears of hypothetical problems, YOU are in fact the problem

yeah. speed & info density has been increasing steadily for years; what took like a year to evolve, spread & fade in 2015 took abt a day by 2025. but we've hit a new level. i was semi-offline for a week & like 3 decades have passed by 2015 standards, which were themselves too fast for many to track

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

You can get 21 books for $18! What?! That’s such an amazing deal! And your purchase supports trans people?! Slide that donation adjustment bar AAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL the way to the right! Max it out! 21 hrs! Let’s get to $15,000! And 5,000 bundles! Tag your friends! Repost! Do the thing!

The last fifty years of American politics (or more!) summed up by a mere two lines of dialogue.

hatred is the most pathetic form fear can take; they hate us because they fear us. it is not nothing to know yourself braver than these sick, sad cowards. every action you take in love--for yourself, for your neighbor, for your world--is an act of courage. they want you to forget this. do not.