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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 7h

Growing up queer in West Virginia, I heard the most horrible things about queerness from adults outside my family, very much in public. It’s very much not new.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 8h

Getting more ads in so many places saying, “frustrated that your AI investment isn’t working for your business? Add this other AI tool to make AI actually work!”

Not looking forward to when this house of cards implodes.

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 9h

Hey, horror fans! Don't Go Upstairs Season 1, Episode 2 is now live on our Patreon! This week, we turn to the sequel that redefined the franchise - 1981's Halloween II!

This episode will be available everywhere next Wednesday, October 22, but you can listen now for as little as $2!

Season 1, Episode 2 - Halloween II (1981) | Don't Go Upstairs Podcast

www.patreon.com

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 8h

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It doesn’t lessen the pain of it at the time, but it’s a lovely thing to recognize later. 💚

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h

Great book that explains that “evangelical types“ were products of a movement that was explicitly segregationist and had ideological roots in the confederacy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pow...

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 9h

I am mentally practicing some scripts for ways to address such things if I hear them again so people who talk like that will at least experience some discomfort about speaking that way openly, but I don’t think people who do this ever went away. They just kept it to private spaces.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 9h

Re: the heinous things leaked from these group chats, look, I heard a conversation in a public space a few days ago that was SO racist it turned my stomach.

If people say such things in public, you KNOW they’re saying much worse things in private.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 10h

Might take Friday off to work on my kids’ Halloween costumes.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, and one of the first things that happened after I went on meds was that I got out of a horribly abusive relationship. Because without meds, my memories of the things that had happened were so disconnected from each other. As soon as I could put them together, I got out.

Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 10h

One of the most dangerous misconceptions of ADHD is that it’s a cute disorder of minor inconveniences.

Meanwhile, I can make systems to cope with my forgetfulness. But rejection sensitivity dysphoria will never not feel like dying. Sometimes my impulsiveness grips me and I do something I shouldn’t.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 10h

That shit HAS to be so hard on your body! (Sending many good vibes for as little RSD as possible!)

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 10h

🫂 It is a hard, hard journey, because we constantly get so many messages from society at large that our fundamental way of being is bad and wrong. But we are more safe within ourselves for sure once we learn to work *with* our brains instead of against them.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 10h

(And I told Younger Child the other day that he is not allowed to ever own a gun, sorry buddy, just so many reasons why that’s a hell no! And then I gave him some cardboard and he made himself a katana, shield, arm guard, and dagger. 😂)

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 10h

We build systems for the things we can, try to appreciate the good (I don’t think many brains are as creative as an ADHD brain, because of the way thoughts ping-pong around and bump into each other), and try to find self-forgiveness when something slips through the cracks.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 10h

We are more likely to die by accident or through self-harm.

Our lifespans are statistically shorter than neurotypical people.

THESE are the things that keep me up at night, especially as I raise a child who also has ADHD.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 10h

One of the most dangerous misconceptions of ADHD is that it’s a cute disorder of minor inconveniences.

Meanwhile, I can make systems to cope with my forgetfulness. But rejection sensitivity dysphoria will never not feel like dying. Sometimes my impulsiveness grips me and I do something I shouldn’t.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 10h

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Some fucking ring-tapper whose daddy wrote a letter to West Point to get him in and thinks he’s all that with his butter bars.

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LAaah! A Ghost! Guettler @laguettler.bsky.social · 10h

Only a few days until I make my Books & Brews debut at Two Brothers Roundhouse in Aurora. Giant sentient books and beers not guaranteed to appear. Alas.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23h

So apparently not everyone knew that some ADHD generics do not appear to function identically?

Just in case it’s helpful, here is a list of things that work for me.

This list is SPECIFIC to Vyvanse only.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 22h

lol, I DID offer, and if anyone is going to be “weird” (complimentary) I’m always glad it’s y’all.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 2d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, I wouldn’t mind going ☺️ at someone today, hehehe.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 1d

They don’t bother me nearly enough to get rid of permanently, and sometimes I’m just fine with them, so a swap situation now and then sounds ideal, honestly. 😂

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, if anyone wants to borrow an enby’s breasts every now and then, you know who to call!

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Goodness gracious.

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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 1d

lol, as much as I love plotting a fight scene, I tend to slack on SUPER detailed worldbuilding, which some sci-fi readers complain about.

*insert giant shrug here*

This is why more writers is good, different books are going to hit the sweet spot with different readers, and that’s great, actually!

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