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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 5h

Friday! Free! Me!

Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 7d

London: Come listen to me prattle on about trans history (and watch Framing Agnes!) at this free event at Birkbeck next week! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7h

As a demure and virtuous spinster, I am no expert on the state of horniness amongst the various tribes, but some of the most baroque, challenging, psychedelic erotica I have ever encountered has been by transmascs. These fellas have chaos in their hearts (and other parts).

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 7h

we did not publish it because I think we decided we don't want to do erotica but there should be a press that publishes this kind of stuff it was a work of art

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 7h

I did not personally find it hot but it was definitely both refined and arcane

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 7h

oh it is furry too I think

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 7h

if you had read the magnificent and harrowing transmasc mpreg breeding noncon forced-detrans mind-control cd pirate space opera novel by [redacted transfag] that for various non-erotic reasons I once read you would not say this

the cat @l3thia.bsky.social · 17h

my impression is that trans women are by far the most refined & arcane of all queer paraphiliacs bc I've never met a gay boy into some shit like "mechsploitation"

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

English writers have different habits, as lethally skewered by Craig Brown here

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16h

Just rereading The Symposium and was reminded of the wonderful fact, which I had forgot, that even the ancient Greeks had drama in their fanfic communities about who would top and who would bottom. All men are brothers, human nature is eternal.

‘Achilles, the son of Thetis, however, they honoured and sent to the
Isles of the Blest.48 For when he found out from his mother that if he
killed Hector he too would die, but if he did not kill him he would
return home and live to old age, he nevertheless dared to make the
choice of standing up for his lover Patroclus49 and avenging him; thus
180a he also died, and died for his sake. (Aeschylus actually talks nonsense
when he asserts that it was Achilles who was the lover of Patroclus:
Achilles was not only more beautiful than Patroclus but also more
42 As Apollo into Aeneas at Iliad 20.110. 43 ‘those in love’, in Greek hoi erontes; see eran.
44 philia; see philein. 45 eros. 46 psuche. 47 arete.
48 In Greek myth, islands in the legendary far west of the Greek world where after death specially
favoured mortals, notably some of the heroes, pass a blissful afterlife, rather than having a
phantom existence in the Underworld like everyone else.
49 Homer in the Iliad did not make Achilles and Patroclus lovers, but Aeschylus represents them
as such in Myrmidons, a lost tragedy from which a few quotations survive.
The Symposium (‘The Drinking Party’)
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beautiful than all the rest of the heroes, and still beardless; and according
to Homer he was much younger.50)

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 19h

Mulch like chatGPT, I too have fixed my problems with mental health in an objectively verifiable way and am therefore ready for sex

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 19h

yesssssssssssss

Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 20h

shit you guys i sent it to my agent

why did i do that

Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 21h

milestone

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 19h

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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CHARIOT Marketing Solutions @chariotmarketing.bsky.social · 22h

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 23h

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CHARIOT Marketing Solutions @chariotmarketing.bsky.social · 1d

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CHARIOT Marketing Solutions @chariotmarketing.bsky.social · 1d

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 1d

what are you doing?!?

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 1d

what are you doing?!?

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CHARIOT Marketing Solutions @chariotmarketing.bsky.social · 1d

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CHARIOT Marketing Solutions @chariotmarketing.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you [entity] we have been made aware of [false] [literature]. CHARIOT asserts that we do not nor has any [associated] [partner] facilitated any [alien] [sex] operations. We aware not aware of [gay] [aliens]. This is simple co-incidence! No need to worry. Watch this space for more news!

Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · Jan 23

Book cover for the classic alien abduction book Communion that features a ‘grey’ alien face with a slight smirk. Title and copy read:

THE ALIEN THAT
SUCKED ME DRY

A MALE ALIEN BLEW ME AND IT WAS SO GOOD I'M GAY NOW

BY DEVIN HERTING

LADIES, YOU'LL JUST NEVER UNDERSTAND

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Ingrid @winterreisende.bsky.social · 1d

Semicolon use or its absence correlates with the author's attitude towards trans women

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 2d

TS Eliot was a serial killer and Sweeney Agonistes is him boasting about it.

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

Pushkin and Byron, aristo bros,
Accuse them, if you will, of every crime:
Abuse, exploitation, it's true, God knows,
But they sure can show a girl a good rhyme

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

I am so upset that all is proceeding as I have foreseen

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 1d

The Onion can re-run this today with D’Angelo swapped in for Prince

RIP a(nother) legend

@theonion.com @bencollins.bsky.social

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 1d

join me and my pals at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social where i'll be bringing my patented run-on sentences and cul-de-sac musings to this panel for new doc by the brilliant @samfeder.bsky.social
tickets are limited!

One sheet for documentary film "Heightened Scrutiny." An upside down supreme court building hangs guillotine-like above the thumbnails of filmmaker Sam Feder and the guest speakers Lilly Wachowski (me,) Crispin Torres, Mickey R Mahoney and AllienSteve Mullen.

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

RIP D'Angelo truly a fucking genius Black Messiah still my favourite record of the 21st century <\3

D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Really Love (Audio)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

m.youtube.com

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 1d

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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