There’s a certain kind of person that wants to be your friend but only insofar as you overwhelmingly share their tastes, opinions, etc. This is pretty normal mean girl shit ofc. Being marginalized can intensify this dynamic in really unhealthy ways that make it get very infantilizing very quickly.

Hi. We're in the Age of Diarrhea. I'm a global health expert on helping children survive diarrhea. Here's what to do if you might have picked up cyclospora. 🧵 1. Call your primary care if possible. 2. Take oral rehydration therapy, which isn't just drinking fluids. 1/

Not sure if i will actually love the series sharing this season; but seasonal anime atm is shockingly pretty across the board.

BOOK REVIEW! “Bloodstained Porcelain” by @kurantatallulah.bsky.social, cover by @windygria.art I bought a ton of books for Pride this year. I'll read and review them ALL. Would you like to read a beautiful exploration of trans joy and trans rage that is also a sweet, slow burn sapphic romance?

I required two nested memes to explain how Anon will react to Viola

Two years ago, @devi.bsky.social and I published The Hades Calculus. To mark its second anniversary, we're discounting the book by 70%--just $2.09! Enter the world of cannibalistic lesbians, giant mecha, Greek gods and the giant monsters that besiege them. No monstrosity or cruelty is too far to win

Having just devoured (heh) this book and its sequel, I just wanna toss out that full price is MORE than fair for the good times had. $2.09 is a ghat-dang steal.

I believe that we should all have the right to change sex, freedom from discrimination for changing sex, and access to the means of changing sex socially, bodily, and legally, without being subject to pathologizing regulatory regimes enforcing patriarchal law and mandatory heterosexuality.

Very good thread in response to a cis dude being profoundly silly.

The time a reviewer thought that my trans lesbian magical novel was catholic propaganda.

I really should have moved on when it became clear they were just an antifeminist, not a confused queer tumblr type; but it really is remarkable how much the “all biology agrees with me,” crowd is dying to prove they never went past high school biology.

Sex is both mutable and socially constructed. Trans people change sex. This change comes in a wide variety of forms, social, medical, legal, etc. Trans liberation hinges on the rights to enact and shape these changes, and protections against discrimination for doing so.

With advocates like this, who needs enemies?

I must confess, even with the whole genocide investigation plot in the Exceeds manga, this first episode of Nanoha had a lot more cannibalism than I would anticipate for this franchise.

dear yoko taro please make shinji a trans girl kthxbye

Chapter One of the 'Estro Junkies' prequel is now available for preview on Patreon! In two weeks, this chapter will be made publicly available, and Chapter Two will be published as a Patreon exclusive. Please check it out!

This is cool (the first one especially)

Sometimes I feel like an imposter and a fraud of a scholar. Other times, I remember that she exists…

I glimpsed the crooked blonde. The crowd swallowed her. This city holds a thousand faces and mislays them as it likes.

If you like Carve It on My Bones; I strongly suspect Talia’s take on mechsplo will be your jam.

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

As an American living in Europe; there’s something deeply, profoundly embarrassing about watching US/EU fights over who is shittier. Winning here means, what? Being marginally less awful than the US; do you want a medal?

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

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We're already only seven purchases away from hitting 10k! A nice, even number with FOUR zeroes, so long as no one tips ;P

Summarizing the article.

We got one more week until the Brighter than the Stars bundle finishes and we are so damn close to our goal. We just need a little bit more and with your help we can do that! There are some great authors in this bundle and your support means a lot. Check them out at itch.io/b/3691/pride...

Today, I will post the first chapter of a story I am titling Whatever It Takes. It is an AU of the Confluence series, more magitech-focused, in a setting created by my partner @inkweaver.bsky.social and it is all about being trans and choosing to live and live boldly, despite war and empire.

joy and I are both trashed, sleep deprived and migraine-y today and can’t cook, does anyone wanna give us a bit for ordering food? (because we also do not have any money left for the week) paypal.me/CharlotteWirth

We've actually built up a pretty impressive library on Patreon: - Discussing 'The Straight Mind' and Wittig's feminism, - Going over Kadji Amin's 'We Are All Non-Binary' with @juliaserano.bsky.social, - A shallow but intense dive into "The Genderbread Person", - Halberstam on toilets, and more!

My good friend Jay—author of that one Puppygirl article—Szpilka has a new piece out! Come for the discussion of 80s cis lesbian forcefem smut; stay for the analysis of how the boundary between sex as embodiment and sex as desire is always permeable and muddy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"I don't like big, scarred, powerful women" sounds like a personal failing. More Balalaika for the rest of us.

Tfw I was was out here canceling Roland Barthes literally the day before all the cool kids were doing it…

Bless this cute trans fish girl from new shonen jump manga Animal Signal. I think it's beautiful that she grinded to be the best boy around solely so she could ascend to being a girl. Goals.

I'm Trans gender ally🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 LOVE YOU🤍

Some stats on our Pride bundle :) - of 27 contributors, 22 are transfem, 3 are non-binary - 5 are non-Anglophones, of which 4 are from the global south - 4 are trans women of color - multiple contributors have been/are adult content creators (sex work is work!)

I'm still holding out for Mikuru and Anna not being related, at least not in the way everyone thinks they are, but if not, I'm not opposed to All Yuri Zombies

Finally finished with the Detective Precure conspiracy Prediction bingo board. Now let's see how we do.

And we're 8 purchases away from hitting 90%!

like and share if you're a cisgender victim of narrative conspiracy

You know, I thought it was kinda silly and ridiculous when a commenter spent several thousand words of review insisting my eggfic’s protagonist was a “cisgender victim of narrative conspiracy,” but TADC is selling me on the fact that, nope, that is exactly how sections of tumblr would read my stuff.

Fits not exactly but today I read part of the foreword to a photobook from the 70s on trans women, where in the author's words "more & more youth were taking HRT, not because they are actual transsexuals but because they likely find the lifestyle glamourous". Literal crazy-pills moment...

Building off what Talia's saying, I think history like the work Pihlak and Cousens' is doing is so vital at unearthing a lot of this archive. It's genuinely important to unearth work that shows trans lesbians as messy, politically motivated and as people. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

From the same author's Transsexuals and Transvestites. Trans women being out, explicitly, as lesbians in the 70s, recognizable in both trans and lesbian circles, working class and professional alike, negotiating feminism, transition, and their space in gay communities. archive.org/details/tran...

Added an upcoming section to the reading guide. hadescalculus.com/2026/01/06/r...

A Tumblr user summarized it quite well

Get this while it's $4.99, before she raises it to $6.99 after release! The book is huge at around 190,000 words, and worth every penny: a cyberpunk snuffbait lesbian nun struggles her way through the dealings of the divine, her own frail health, and her ability to experience pain as pleasure.

This is an unfathomably evil act that will be a foul stain on our nation’s history forever. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/w...