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Not Cordelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 16h

I'm really sorry for continuing to spam this, but at this point this GFM is no longer just about getting our stuff back but making sure Nic & I can stay on our feet in the mean time while we look for work. Anyone who can boost or contribute is greatly appreciated. You will keep a trans couple safe.

Nic @icklesofnickles.bsky.social · 1d

I have yet another round of applications in and I'm starting to worry. We have immigration things next month and I haven't been able to land a job. I feel like I got my wife out and I'm going to stall out at the finish line. If you can help or share, thank you.

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Donate to Support Our New Start and Urgent Needs, organized by Nic Frankenberry-Saas

Hello! We are a married lesbian couple (a trans woman and a nonbinary wom… Nic Frankenberry-Saas needs your support for Support Our New Start and Urgent Needs

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Felice @talyhawk.bsky.social · 3h

Tonight's game of World of Darkness was a lot of fun. It doesn't feel like it has already been a almost a full year since I originally joined the group.

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Not Cordelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 3h

To be clear, the only reason a conclave is occurring is because our vampire diablerized a pope like half a dozen sessions ago lol

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Not Cordelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 3h

In tonight's session, the party sealed the future deaths of a bunch of heads of state guaranteeing the outbreak of World War II, planned the murder of both of a party member's parents, and hatched a plan to make major changes to Catholic dogma by hijacking a conclave.

Not Cordelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 4h

The party in our World of Darkness game are on increasingly opposite sides of the machinations of our Sabbat big bad, and I'm incredibly happy as a GM right now. Our Vampire and our Mage might actually kill each other before this campaign ends lol

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Not Cordelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 4h

I never considered myself a surrealist/absurdist when I was younger, but ever since I started transitioning, surrealism/absurdism has become a touchstone of my storytelling.

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Not Cordelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 4h

I don't even know how to describe the tone of this World of Darkness campaign anymore. Absurdism is probably the principle genre at this point besides like... metaphysical/existential horror.

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Not Cordelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 4h

Also, our werewolf is likely to be responsible for World War II at this point.

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Not Cordelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 4h

The party in our World of Darkness game are on increasingly opposite sides of the machinations of our Sabbat big bad, and I'm incredibly happy as a GM right now. Our Vampire and our Mage might actually kill each other before this campaign ends lol

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Not Cordelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 6h

One of like half a dozen historical West Virginians worth celebrating.

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 18h

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 6h

Adham came through a brutal war of oppression and genocide; now he needs us to help him start over and recover from that titanic effort and suffering forced upon him.

Adv Adham Madi 🍉🇵🇸 @mr-adham.bsky.social · 1d

We thought we had survived the genocide but then we found ourselves slowly dying..

Everything collapsed: our beautiful city our home, our lives, my office,my car & the dreams I had built with years of effort.

Survival is no longer easy, but our hope is in you.
Donate:❤️👇🏼
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Donate to Urgent️, help Adham's family in Gaza, organized by Adham madi

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Ruby, evil witch and spooky crone @anontranshoe.bsky.social · 6h

happy "lets murder white supremacist slaveowners" day to all who celebrate

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 18h

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social · 13h

Governments who create killing zones in the middle of a Holocaust, to lure starving families with the promise of food, and name them "Gaza Humanitarian Fund" sites, are pure evil.

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13h

Now, I may not be overpaid think tank talking head or a pollster with techbro friends who post Nazi memes in the group chat, but it appears to me that being openly and vocally supportive of trans rights is somehow part of a successful electoral strategy in a nation gripped by transphobic media.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13h

👀

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Greens neck and neck with Labour, new poll shows

Voters are continuing to turn to both Reform UK and the Green Party amid growing discontent with Sir Keir Starmer’s government

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Not Cordelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 13h

*hug* I hope things turn around soon, friend.

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Not Cordelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 13h

Even when I'm not GM-ing a Powered by the Apocalypse game, I kind of can't help but bring that "play to find out what happens" mentality to my table. It's the only way that roleplaying feels natural and not like a railroad to me.

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Not Cordelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 13h

I have ideas for situations, but nothing is set in stone until it happens at the table, and nothing really happens at the table that isn't me intentionally making what I hope is the strongest choice to stay in conversation with my players.

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E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 14h

It is built within language already used. Remember, think about how we talk about Jefferson and other enslavers on the whole in media. Consider the way white people talk about their ancestors here who were enslavers and terrorists. They use soft language analogous to this.

Marcy @deadheadgirly.bsky.social · 17h

What a treat it is to watch the vice president of the United States approach this "young republican-I love Hitler" text scandal with the old "kids will be kids!" defense and then to find out all of them are like 25 to 35 years old.

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Not Cordelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 13h

My players have gotten to a point where they're all self-motivated in terms of moving their character forward, and it is in fact very easy to just respond to their choices w/o having to build a skeletal chassis around the session where you wind up not using half of your prepped material.

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Not Cordelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 14h

My prep for my World of Darkness game has become increasingly minimalistic, and I think it's for the best. I know you aren't supposed to GM Storyteller games as a sandbox experience, but honestly, I think it's sort of the only way I can begin to approach the factional politics/lore w/o going crazy.

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 14h

weird how researchers keep finding this over and over again in different countries huh??

Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 14h

New StatsCan report reveals that trans people in Canada are poorer than the general population, a disparity that is most stark for trans women.

The Daily — Study: Socioeconomic outcomes of transgender and non-binary people in Canada

A new article entitled 'Socioeconomic outcomes of transgender and non-binary people in Canada' was released today. Using data from the 2021 Census of Population, this release examines poverty rates an...

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 15h

I hope very much that we white queers can also see how much Black folks’ rights are being decimated right now, and how much POST-CIVIL-WAR RECONSTRUCTION, which was already compromised, is being torn apart right now.

There’s a lot going on for Trans folks, but holy shit, y’all. This is grim.

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 15h

Today for @theverge.com, I talk about transfem narratives: the epistemic lockout from mainstream publishing, the advantages and pitfalls of the self-pub model, and what a global transmisogynistic panic implies for our ability to make our voices heard and represent our own lives and worlds.

Trans women are building their own publishing world, and it’s under threat

Online communities are stepping in where traditional publishing stops.

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🎃 Lichcraft 🎃 @onwinedarkseas.blacksky.app · 14h

Shadows Like Mine (Ch. 1) onwinedarkseas.net/2025/10/12/s...

Shadows Like Mine (Ch. 1)

Asiri’s throat bobs in a deep and careful swallow. The chill this man has brought with him has not left her, and that is how she knows what she felt when Lord Taiko Zenin looked upon her was not si…

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Not Cordelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 14h

I can't begin to describe the number of ways that estrogen has given me a higher quality of life. My brain feels like it's my own. My body feels like it's my own. Sex is indescribably better on estrogen. Anyways, if you want to get on HRT, you should because it is pretty fucking aces.

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