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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4h

Miss Major is an incalculable loss for the trans community and a reminder that our movement is always led by Black trans women. Always.

May we all prove to be worthy students of her example.

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 7h

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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Xiao Tong 🦋 CTC @velinxi.bsky.social · 4h

Expedition 33 doodles. Of course I must always ship the most improbable delusional ships in every fandom I’m in

#verstave

Doodles of Gustave and verso sparring. It looks pretty gay.

Verso at subways. Yes, like the Subways you buy sandwiches at. He looks distraught while there’s a text that says “they fucked his expedition up 52 times”

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 9h

Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man

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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 7h

this is only literary opinion adjacent but it is definitely unhinged

when I am stocking copies of a face-out book at the bookstore, I will put the fresh copies behind any copies already on the shelf, because they’ve been waiting their turn to be picked and I don’t want their feelings to get hurt

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

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

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Jason @jasonlowrey.bsky.social · 5h

Goodnight!

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 5h

rest in power miss major. this is what it means to constantly be negotiating your existence!

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 6h

"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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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 12h

“Every Native American is a survivor, an anomaly, a surprise on earth. We were all slated for extinction before the march of progress. But surprise, we are progress.”

(Louise Erdrich, Chippewa, 1997)

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Jason @jasonlowrey.bsky.social · 5h

One day I’ll make myself a choker like that. Also: cute!!

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 6h

If Pedro Pascal played Gomez Addams they'd have to replace all the seats in the theater

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · Sep 17

saw someone typo "trans masc" as "trans mas" and now I'm like,

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Jason @jasonlowrey.bsky.social · 6h

I’d have shed a single, perfect tear…

Jason @jasonlowrey.bsky.social · 6h

Noooooooooooooooo!!!

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Hiron Ennes (Works of Vermin out 10/14/25) @hironennes.bsky.social · 10h

TOMORROW, folks in Los Angeles, I’ll be at Skylight Books at 7 pm to release my filthy Vermin into the world, come and witness

Hiron Ennes (Works of Vermin out 10/14/25) @hironennes.bsky.social · 7d

10/14 - Release day of THE WORKS OF VERMIN, Skylight books, Los Angeles, with @chanaporter.bsky.social

RSVP HERE:

www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylig...

www.skylightbooks.com

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Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 12h

Dreamscape

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 10d

Boosts appreciated 🔁

It's a great time to start shopping for holiday gifts! I make handmade jewelry for a living, so your business this holiday season means far more to me than it will to any large business. Grab my new spooky earrings → cvkvlv.com

MVTO!!

Goal progress in comments ↓↓

#Beadwork

Two pairs of fringe earrings with ghosts on them, one with a purple and orange background and one with a purple and green background

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 11h

Check out former intern Maddie Erb's rave review of THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES (Tor, 2023) by Malka Older.

www.neonhemlock.com/reviews/mimi...

The cover of THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES against a bg from the illustration; two silhouettes against an orange Jovian scene.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 11h

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~ sassy request?

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Jason @jasonlowrey.bsky.social · 11h

No way in hell could I give up chocolate.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 13h

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 1d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 11h

A new week begins with more close reading of Radiant Dawn. This time, we move to ask: what the hell happens after the glorious hero reclaims her kingdom?

We shift from gritty tactics to a fantasy spectacle filler arc that nevertheless has a lot to say!

Read: transgamerthoughts.com/post/7972661...

With The Heart Of A Servant: The “Filler Arc” Of Radiant Dawn

I’ve been playing a sinful amount of Fire Emblem lately and there’s been a lot of joy and creative energy as a result. That’s odd to say about playing a bit commercial franchise there’s been a lot of....

transgamerthoughts.com

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Lara Elena Donnelly @larazontally.bsky.social · 11h

Have we mentioned if we hit the Kickstarter goal for WITCH OF PRAGUE, we'll open pre-orders for our second book? According to @courtneymilan.com, @zenaldehyde.bsky.social's THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO is "Poignant, beautiful, and incredibly meaningful."

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...