Photos from Trans Pride Brighton today (18/07/2026) 🏳️‍⚧️ (1/?) #transpride #transpridebrighton

It is really exhausting to be in a position where I'm desperate to explore where the differences are for me between 'transmasc' and 'binary trans man'. I don't know how much of my resistance to a binary gender is a kind of "ugh men" attitude that already hurts me as a transmasc-

This is a topic I could write an essay about, and perhaps I will, but the galvanizing of trans people against each other bc of hostile discourse is a cycle that we need to stop, and it only stops with empathy.

My painting WESTERN SLOPE FALL

It’s not important but it bums me out that every event flyer now is AI slop. Why do people think everything is a waste of their time. Not everything that takes time is a waste of it. Maybe spending 30 minutes making a bad flyer is part of the experience of doing a thing.

Today was a horrendous, soul-crushing day at work and it once again had me thinking about how I'm forced to trade away my dreams day by day in service of a stability that could still be stolen out from under me at the whims of my employer if they so wished

And what if I was considering making a self-pub pen name just to participate in this 👁️ what then

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AI discourse is taking up too much oxygen (in addition to water) in writer spaces and it's bumming me right the fuck out. What is a delightful/weird/delightfully weird story you've read this year? Include read/purchase links. Get some humans paid.

Oh thank god it's not coming home. Thank fuck. We're free.

I agree with chunks of this (there's a real conversation about current short fiction trends and tastes) but if I asked a market what they were going to do about AI and how they would respond to publishing it by accident, I would not be satisfied by "we're too niche and weird for that to happen"

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

It's SO GOOD I promise you want to read this. Arden's prose is so rich and the range of this collection is stunning. One of my absolute favourite reads from this year!!

Were I an incredibly rich author I would simply live my life in a way that meant I did not have to send legal threats to Amnesty International.

A longer-form review for The Incandescent by Emily Tesh. I LOVED this sapphic romance/urban fantasy about a burnt out schoolteacher and wanted to gush a bit about it.

clear distillation of a damning colonial angle to the current cross-genre zeal for purple nonsense metaphors lauded as "poetic" (in re: Granta & AI): "The real question... is why a particular form of trained, statistical incoherence was so readily legible to its judges as postcolonial seriousness."

So woke she terrorised and deported Caribbean elders to their deaths those still alive are still being terrorised by the so-called compensation scheme

if you would like to know what prompted this, you can read the 2015 Hugo Award winning callout "A Report on Damage Done by One Individual Under Several Names" by Laura J. Mixon about Benjanun Sriduangkaew, part of "Maria Ying" of Gunmetal Olympus fame, and then look into what she's been up to since.

Guess what I FINALLY FINISHED in Disability Pride Month!! 👀🙌🥳 #DisabledArtist #spoonie #ChronicPain

yeah man that guy got canceled. his life got ruined. he has an army of guys that defend him and makes a few grand every month because of them. the woman who canceled him? yeah she did it for the clout only. she's famous. she's known as "the woman who can't go anywhere without immediate harassment"

I really admire publishers who are putting in the work to do their due diligence wrt AI. And I think the recent cases in small press SFF publishing almost certainly do highlight incidents where someone producing AI-generated work has slipped through the net. BUT I have feelings anyway. 🧵

Taking my brain squarely by the um. Brain stem? And informing it that I will get my attention span back. Every so often I encounter something that reminds me of how fucked up it is that attention and time is CURRENCY to tech companies (when the product is free) and I will not be paying them anymore!

Nothing worse than waking up in the morning and finding out that England won. Damn it I wanted it to be over!!

If you want something that is 250 years old to celebrate today…why not Sidney? They were also born in 1776. Read our comic over the long weekend. Leave a comment. Spread the word. Help boost a Black queer vampire comic. ❤️ #comics #art #vampires #thearrangementcomic #ocs

I always see Dolbadarn Castle peeking over the trees and I thought it was about time I drew it

Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid is definitely the most out of my depth I've been while reading something this year. This is a longer-form review of this book, which I read for my Hugo Awards reading!

images are down, hey what a great argument for using alt text

Sharing this reminder that Librarian is a genAI game. I occasionally see a friend playing it and have to give them the heads up. This one is slipping under a lot of radars, and I think part of it is people are just trusting those they saw playing it to have checked.

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere. My shortlisted entry for the Cheltenham Illustration awards. Inspired by the changing landscape, childhood (and adulthood) fantasy, reflections, exploration of strange places... #art #illustration

i love being trans and i love all my trans friends

As always

Two is not a trend or even a pattern, but I do think it's interesting that of the small handful of self-described taboo works I've read recently, two have had the exact same approach to their youthful protagonists: eighteen year olds who are still in high school (/equivalent)

You can just learn stuff. It's nuts. Try it.

I implore you. Like things. I don't mean to hit an engagement button on social media sites. I mean enjoy stuff. Don't be beige. Cringe is a manifestation of internal fear and other's condiditoning shame for no reason. It's bs. Be weird.

trans guys we need to band together to shake up the mpreg world we need to show the people there are options other than a/b/o or mystical asspreg that are just as hot/sexy/worthy of exploration in sex fantasy art and fiction.

a summer sky

Fix your hearts or die. You know how many of us joke that Pride month should be followed by Wrath? This year I feel a deep, burning fury towards all who use transgender lives as political propaganda. We are human beings. You cannot erase us. Happy Pride. Trans liberation at any cost. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

feels like it might be worth reminding trans folks that you don’t need to hang out online all day & bear witness to fallout over expectedly evil superme court rulings. you can step out while folks who love saying “it’s all over & there’s no hope” do their thing. you don’t have to stare into the sun.

Your true self 🏳️‍⚧️

Oxford at sunset, the Royal Institute of Translation looms over the city. First illustration for R. F. Kuang's Babel - illustrated edition 40x30cm ink on claybord

Man. There's a donations-payment zine I really wanted to grab and I'd been waiting until I had a little ££ to spare. Went to go get it... the charity only takes donations from the US and Canada. Never mind then I guess 🙃

I wish social media could have discussions about sex scenes that consistently acknowledge and are empathetic to sex-repulsed people. I also wish that social media could talk about sex repulsion without tacking on words about censorship or sex scenes. Is this really too much to ask

Currently reading some nonfiction (sci-fi reviews/studies-adjacent stuff) and WOW what a quote to abruptly knock me out of reading: "Admittedly, I think that the dread of the body displayed by certain branches of hard SF is more autistic than Gnostic"

Review thread for The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow! 🌲⚔️ this is one of my Hugo reads (don't ask me if I'm going to finish everything on the novel shortlist. I'm probably going to cut it CLOSE) and I loveeeeed it

My coldest romantasy take. #happypride

#1TransManADay 105 #PRIDE #TransHistory Stormé DeLarverie 1920–2014 🏳️‍🌈NY"butch dyke" who asked crowd "Why don't you do something?" igniting #Stonewall uprising 🏳️‍⚧️Close friends say Stormé "didn't identify as anything but chose to live as a Black man" or was #nonbinary & masc-leaning I'll use 'they' 1/9

It's finally cool enough to close my windows 🎉 (sure a breeze is nice but ohhhh my god my hay fever. I have to take "lasts 48 hours" meds every 24 hours if we have the windows open)