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Beedok/Fern 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦

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Freelance Author and Artist. Canadian trans Gal. She/Her. https://linktr.ee/fernvbedek https://beedok.itch.io/ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Fern-Bedek/author/B0BM8HMBP5 https://www.patreon.com/beedok

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Beedok/Fern 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @beedokfern.bsky.social · 4d

New non-commercial commission sheet! Woo!

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Beedok/Fern 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @beedokfern.bsky.social · 20h

Reminder, if you want some sapphics with swords, I do have some. Have art of a few of them and links to where you can buy the stories they're in.
beedok.itch.io
www.amazon.com/stores/Fern-...

Being Not Afraid: a story staring a trans lesbian spell-sword adventurer.

Her Lady of Steel and Fire with a lesbian knight who mostly uses a sword, but will grab a poleaxe or spear when available.

Ne'avo from Waking Up A Goddess, disaster trans lesbian butch with her massive magic blade that's the only thing keeping her alive in battle.

Auguste, modern day fencer from the Harem Protagonist + Sequel, genderfluid lesbian who has to work through a lot of repression.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 19h

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 19h

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

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r/UKPersonalFinance
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I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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Hourly Red Panda (Wah) @hourlywah.bsky.social · 1h

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1h

Andry Rajoelina issues the decree over social media ahead of an impeachment vote, as he appears close to losing power.

Madagascar president dissolves parliament after fleeing army-backed protest

Andry Rajoelina issues the decree over social media ahead of an impeachment vote, as he appears close to losing power.

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Beedok/Fern 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @beedokfern.bsky.social · 1h

Do you want some Halloween themed wlw stories?
Then good news! I've got Frankenstein lesbians, ghostly butch knights charming princesses, and both lesbian and bi vampires. (Oh, and aliens, are those Halloween-y?)

www.amazon.com/stores/Fern-...
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Frankenbutch: a polyamorous novella with a lesbian mad scientist lead.

Her Lady of Steel and Fire: a dark fantasy lesbian romance.

The Hunter's Heart: a tragic romance between a vampire and a hunter.

The Harem Protagonist Was Turned Into A Girl!! And Doesn't Want To Change Back!!!?? - there is a vampire girl in here, and she's adorable. Also, aliens.

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Ms. Washywishes @wascie.bsky.social · 6d

this game is really cute. it predates the anime, based on the light novels, and there’s no leveling or exp, so you just start at lv 99 with 999 MP, aka the usual strength of Lina Inverse.

Romhack.ing @romhack.ing · 7d

Slayers - English Translation (PC98) Added

Slayers - English Translation - Content

English translation patch for the PC-98 game Slayers by Banpresto.

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Demoiselle Porcelaine :7 @bagoflenas.bsky.social · 3d

to continue the Slayers liveposting, wow, that's literally cloud strife

screenshot of Slayers, episode 17. Legendary warrior Gourry is seen crossdressing so people wouldn't recognize him. Lina Inverse is saying that "He turned out even better than I expected"

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Orlek @orlek.bsky.social · 2d

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jackared.bsky.social @jackared.bsky.social · 2d

Charactertober #9 Lina Inverse
#inktober #art #fanart #slayers

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Repetitive Ray @repetitiveray.bsky.social · 18h

Lina and Naga

#slayers

Lina Inverse and Naga the Serpent from Slayers

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Hourly Red Panda (Wah) @hourlywah.bsky.social · 13h

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Hourly Red Panda (Wah) @hourlywah.bsky.social · 12h

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Beedok/Fern 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @beedokfern.bsky.social · 3h

I remember one phone number I had because it was catchy. The last group of digits were 2468.

Beedok/Fern 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @beedokfern.bsky.social · 3h

Sadly I'm more of a 90s anime style fantasy girl. 😔

a cartoon character is holding a red ball and the word foundation is on the bottom left

Alt: Lina Inverse blowing up a dragon.

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Hourly Red Panda (Wah) @hourlywah.bsky.social · 10h

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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 14h

Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 13h

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Kassandra Jo Tomaras @raconteuse.bsky.social · 15h

When a trans woman dies of natural causes, at an age greater than 75, having lived more than half her life as herself, that is cause for celebration, not mourning.

Thank you, Miss Major.

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Hourly Red Panda (Wah) @hourlywah.bsky.social · 9h

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Hourly Red Panda (Wah) @hourlywah.bsky.social · 8h

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8h

Reporters must promise not to publish unauthorised material to obtain press credentials.

US news outlets say they will not agree to Pentagon reporting restrictions

Reporters must promise not to publish unauthorised material to obtain press credentials.

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 6d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 6d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner

Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

www.forskning.no

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 20h

You should care about trans rights just generally, because trans people are people, they have always been here and they always will be.

BUT if you MUST put a cis spin on it, this is where transphobia gets you. It's either bodily autonomy for all of us or none of us.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Hourly Red Panda (Wah) @hourlywah.bsky.social · 7h

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