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Anna Holmes

@annabookwriter.bsky.social

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Author (The Ember of Elyssia Quartet, Fortune's Calling Trilogy, THE BRIDAL PARTY, THE PRINCE WITH SIX FACES). Dice roller. Disabled in the library. All opinions mine. All around nerd. https://linktr.ee/annaholmeswritesbooks (She/they) ♿️🏳️‍🌈

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hi! I'm Anna. I am a disabled and queer author of similarly queer and disabled YA and adult SFF. Will post a short synopsis of each, followed by representation you can expect and links where you can find that work. I will not cover every platform, but my books are available widely. Ready? Long 🧵:

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 1h

And they’re so LOUD about it

Like, ok

You don’t like masks and you don’t want to wear them and you know that this freedom comes at the expense of other people

So why are you so goddamned angry about it? Just shut up and keep your selfishness to yourself instead of demanding backpats for it

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 56m

Yours is the default position, antimasker! You won! We’re getting sick and dying in obscurity!

But sure, you’re the victim in all this.

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chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · 1h

their feelings are disabling kids who were and are relying on adults to protect them

chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · Aug 21

long covid is now a more common childhood ailment than asthma.

everyone worried about falling birth rates and graying/aging societies might want to be concerned about how we’re setting up an entire generation to be too disabled to do the work we’re counting on them to do.

chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · Aug 17

long covid is very much like ME/CFS.

by letting covid rip and pretending it’s 2019 again, this is what we’re signing kids up for, when we should be protecting them.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

I’m downplaying it again. Their Big Big Feelings have killed people. Are killing people. And I am supposed to pretend hurting their feelings is equally bad.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 1h

“Please do this simple thing to care for vulnerable people in your community and yourself”

“No! You are a terrible person for making me feel bad about my thoughtless and selfishness! And how dare you call me out!”

I swear, that’s what 99% of these conversations feel like

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

You can declare yourself against “universal public masking”, but that means I can declare you a dick.

Long COVID absolutely wrecked my shit because people just couldn’t see themselves considering the health of others. Knowing you’re comfortable with that tells me everything I need to know.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

But we SOLVED COVID! 🙄

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

And it’s just mean? Like, even if you believe that, do you have to say it??

Also that metaphor doesn’t even make sense??

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

Audiobooks are GREAT.

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

Things that are definitely a them problem become my problem when their Big Big Feelings result in my desperate illness.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

Honestly, so much of our struggles can be summed up this way, but we might make abled people ~uncomfortable~ and ~scared about the inevitable failure of their bodies~.

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

It is always about their feelings. Not our deaths.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

Because we know! We know the ableds will never do the right thing everywhere. We are trying to get them to budge about the tiniest thing and they throw up their hands and claim we want to lock down everything forever.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

It is always about their feelings. Not our deaths.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

We can’t even have a hypothetical conversation about masking, because we have to spend our first god knows how many skeets giving caveats and reassuring people who have their own super valid and very important reasons they can’t that they’re not dicks.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

It’s also so unnecessary. Literally nobody is talking about universal public masking (even though we desperately need to), so you’re basically inventing a straw man to punch down at.

Which is also dick behavior.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

I’m genderqueer, but same difference!

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1h

Asserting you're uninterested in universal public masking is your right. The airborne virus that causes long term disability and death not being mitigated in any other way applauds your very good choices.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 3h

mtg in 1997: this card is selenia, a guardian angel from the heavenly realm of serra. twisted by the phyrexians, she drove crovax of urborg insane with unrequited love

mtg in 2025: this card is spongebob. from spongebob squarepants

mtg in 2035: we ran out of ideas. this card is your coworker jeff

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2h

Starting to think old Gav is pro-AI and anti-human.

(“Starting.”)

Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 3h

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have tracked data centers’ growing water footprint. He says California is “well positioned” to support the AI-driven data center boom, and he is reluctant to impose “rigid reporting requirements.” www.latimes.com/environment/...

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

www.latimes.com

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 3h

Rick Steves (the travel guy on PBS who HATES fascism and loves weed and his grandkids, for those who don’t know) is very active in his local chapter, and he gets these grandmas and uncles educated. It is ALWAYS good and I am not mad grandpa isn’t in black bloc.

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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 3h

my unpopular opinion among my fellow leftists is that it’s actually a good thing when old people yell about tyrants. I know the tyrants don’t care and I know a lot of the old people stop at waving signs and yelling, but telling them they’re doing it wrong is counterproductive and, frankly, unfun

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 3h

…what in the Kentucky Fried fuck is that???

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 3h

…the garlic thing is real? Wild.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 3h

the concept of "necessary but not sufficient" is dead thanks to the internet, everyone wants one neat trick the doctors don't want you to know.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 3h

I have blocked this person, but I keep seeing people say things like this, and I’m begging people to understand two things.

(1) Just because peaceful protest may not be sufficient to win this moment does not mean that it is not necessary.

It is.

From: Olde Stuffe @annalsofwarren.bsky.social

i appreciate your words very often
Germans were very angry at their own government for not being truthful about the fierce nature of their enemy in WWI
this betrayal by leaders and mouthpieces led directly to Hitler and NSDAP
we're telling Americans peaceful protest will solve this
it won't

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