Krista Brynn
@kristabrynn.bsky.social
physics & astronomy nerd | sf&f geek | ttrpg geek | mythology enthusiast | trans | AuDHD | BLM | she/her | https://sites.google.com/view/kristabrynn/home
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Krista Brynn
@kristabrynn.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Re-intro post: I do most of my social, nerdy, geeky, posting through here, along with more personal takes on trans stuff and while I repost a lot of political content here, I've shifted most of my longer form trans advocacy writing to an alt, the name of which is left as an exercise to the reader.
I'm really lucky & have a surfeit of chosen family in the area & plans for a holiday meal/gathering w/ many of them tomorrow. I could be doing something similar today also but I'm herding brain weasels instead & that's ok.
They're familiar ones & I planned for my taking a solitary day ahead of time
They're familiar ones & I planned for my taking a solitary day ahead of time
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm really lucky & have a surfeit of chosen family in the area & plans for a holiday meal/gathering w/ many of them tomorrow. I could be doing something similar today also but I'm herding brain weasels instead & that's ok.
They're familiar ones & I planned for my taking a solitary day ahead of time
They're familiar ones & I planned for my taking a solitary day ahead of time
Porter Square Books, is (one of my) local booksellers - kinda spoiled by good ones in the area & they're among the best - but also kudos for them using ordering a book about one of the transiest zines of the 90s as their exemplar in this thread.
When you're asking for books, ask your loved ones to buy them from a specific store. If you just say "I want GenderTrash from Hell," well, you know where they'll get it, but if you say "I want GenderTrash from Hell from PSB," well, it's like an extra present if they get it from us...
November 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Porter Square Books, is (one of my) local booksellers - kinda spoiled by good ones in the area & they're among the best - but also kudos for them using ordering a book about one of the transiest zines of the 90s as their exemplar in this thread.
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I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.
AAP: ‘Stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims’ about vaccines, autism
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website to include false claims linking vaccines and autism, prompting a swift rebuke from the AAP and other medical experts.
publications.aap.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.
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what helped Magica Riot spread was tremendous word of mouth. I’ll need that help again to make sure Full Bloom gets as far as it can. I don’t have professional marketing or even an ad budget, so every bit of help y’all can give to spread the good word of queer PDX magical girls is appreciated 🥹
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 AM
what helped Magica Riot spread was tremendous word of mouth. I’ll need that help again to make sure Full Bloom gets as far as it can. I don’t have professional marketing or even an ad budget, so every bit of help y’all can give to spread the good word of queer PDX magical girls is appreciated 🥹
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If you'd like personalized copies of the Southern Reach this holiday season and you live in the US, I've got you covered! booksandtaps.com/shop/jeff-va...
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
If you'd like personalized copies of the Southern Reach this holiday season and you live in the US, I've got you covered! booksandtaps.com/shop/jeff-va...
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My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
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How... did I go over forty years and then not until reading the start of this article for me to recognize that "Vecna" was an anagram of "Vance" despite my well worn understanding of the Lake Geneva crowd's love of anagrams and alterations of real world names?
www.canonfire.com/vecna/VecnaG...
www.canonfire.com/vecna/VecnaG...
www.canonfire.com
May 25, 2024 at 3:14 PM
How... did I go over forty years and then not until reading the start of this article for me to recognize that "Vecna" was an anagram of "Vance" despite my well worn understanding of the Lake Geneva crowd's love of anagrams and alterations of real world names?
www.canonfire.com/vecna/VecnaG...
www.canonfire.com/vecna/VecnaG...
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The first part of my new queer Gothic horror serial, Shadows Over Ravenkirk, is available now!
If you love Dark Shadows, The Addams Family, Knives Out, Interview With The Vampire, the Universal Pictures monsters, or the World of Darkness, I invite you to visit Ravenkirk
books2read.com/SOR1
If you love Dark Shadows, The Addams Family, Knives Out, Interview With The Vampire, the Universal Pictures monsters, or the World of Darkness, I invite you to visit Ravenkirk
books2read.com/SOR1
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The first part of my new queer Gothic horror serial, Shadows Over Ravenkirk, is available now!
If you love Dark Shadows, The Addams Family, Knives Out, Interview With The Vampire, the Universal Pictures monsters, or the World of Darkness, I invite you to visit Ravenkirk
books2read.com/SOR1
If you love Dark Shadows, The Addams Family, Knives Out, Interview With The Vampire, the Universal Pictures monsters, or the World of Darkness, I invite you to visit Ravenkirk
books2read.com/SOR1
For reasons, I was thinking about how in first edition AD&D, Dimension Door was a magic user spell unavailable to clerics (unless they had multiclassed).
The Forgotten Realms box set came out in 87, & I want to check if there were any special cleric rules from that.
The Forgotten Realms box set came out in 87, & I want to check if there were any special cleric rules from that.
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
For reasons, I was thinking about how in first edition AD&D, Dimension Door was a magic user spell unavailable to clerics (unless they had multiclassed).
The Forgotten Realms box set came out in 87, & I want to check if there were any special cleric rules from that.
The Forgotten Realms box set came out in 87, & I want to check if there were any special cleric rules from that.
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I had a rough couple of turns today and find myself fiscally behind the 8-ball. I'm passing the hat again. Anything you can offer, even a reblog, is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much, this means the world to me.
paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels
#mutualaid #transcrowdfund
paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels
#mutualaid #transcrowdfund
Pay April Daniels using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
paypal.me
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I had a rough couple of turns today and find myself fiscally behind the 8-ball. I'm passing the hat again. Anything you can offer, even a reblog, is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much, this means the world to me.
paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels
#mutualaid #transcrowdfund
paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels
#mutualaid #transcrowdfund
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Look, I know a lot of us here have felt like Cassandra re: authoritarianism, anti-trans, anti-LGBTQ, anti-woman, white Christian nationalism growth over the past several years, but... I'm reading @brynntannehill.bsky.social "American Fascism" published in April 2021...
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
American Fascism: How the GOP is Subverting Democracy
How the GOP is Subverting Democracy
bookshop.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Look, I know a lot of us here have felt like Cassandra re: authoritarianism, anti-trans, anti-LGBTQ, anti-woman, white Christian nationalism growth over the past several years, but... I'm reading @brynntannehill.bsky.social "American Fascism" published in April 2021...
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
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I made a very short and very incomplete but still valuable list of indie books with transfem POV characters if you’re looking for your next read! 🏳️⚧️ 📚
An incomplete list of indie books with transfem leads I've enjoyed (1 per author to keep it short):
Alyson Greaves: Kimmy
Vyria Durav: Catnip
Maria Ying: The Grace of Sorcerers
Selene Tang: Gorgon series
J Ursula Topaz: A Rotten Girl
Fae'Rynn: Sundered Moon
Kay Atkinson: A Quiet Universe
1/
Alyson Greaves: Kimmy
Vyria Durav: Catnip
Maria Ying: The Grace of Sorcerers
Selene Tang: Gorgon series
J Ursula Topaz: A Rotten Girl
Fae'Rynn: Sundered Moon
Kay Atkinson: A Quiet Universe
1/
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I made a very short and very incomplete but still valuable list of indie books with transfem POV characters if you’re looking for your next read! 🏳️⚧️ 📚
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It's Wednesday, and that means it's time for more of The Tower! Today we're back with the rest of Ch. 7, Distortion. Therese tries to have a useful dream but instead just manages to get very sick to her stomach, and Brynn tells an extremely nasty bedtime story!
www.scribblehub.com/read/1958646...
www.scribblehub.com/read/1958646...
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
It's Wednesday, and that means it's time for more of The Tower! Today we're back with the rest of Ch. 7, Distortion. Therese tries to have a useful dream but instead just manages to get very sick to her stomach, and Brynn tells an extremely nasty bedtime story!
www.scribblehub.com/read/1958646...
www.scribblehub.com/read/1958646...
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I refuse to believe that on ALF's Own Bluesky I am the first person to widely note what the upside-down pineapple means, I was here in The Before Times, when the whole damn site was basically a deeply horny polycule, WE ALL KNEW OKAY
Oh, so you're the originator. I heard this from someone else, and was wondering where they learned this from.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I refuse to believe that on ALF's Own Bluesky I am the first person to widely note what the upside-down pineapple means, I was here in The Before Times, when the whole damn site was basically a deeply horny polycule, WE ALL KNEW OKAY
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Happy 75th birthday to the architect of the X-Men, Chris Claremont! He defined the characters and is my favorite X-Men writer of all time!
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Happy 75th birthday to the architect of the X-Men, Chris Claremont! He defined the characters and is my favorite X-Men writer of all time!
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Ok so I _just_ started this about... 50 minutes & 9 chapters ago? and I'm pretty sure that I'm either finishing it before I sleep tonight or over breakfast in the morning.
If you've been waiting to read The Egg Prime Directive, you have less than 6 days to do so! I'm going to pull the story off of ScribbleHub at the end of November while I prep it for whatever comes next! So, last call to enjoy these useless transbians for a while! www.scribblehub.com/series/17665...
The Egg Prime Directive
The Egg Prime Directive
Alternate 'Light Novel' style titles:
'Transformed into a girl by a conference trickster, I must learn the ways of her pervert tribe!'
or
''I was (lovingly) forcefemmed at a co...
www.scribblehub.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Ok so I _just_ started this about... 50 minutes & 9 chapters ago? and I'm pretty sure that I'm either finishing it before I sleep tonight or over breakfast in the morning.
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If you've been waiting to read The Egg Prime Directive, you have less than 6 days to do so! I'm going to pull the story off of ScribbleHub at the end of November while I prep it for whatever comes next! So, last call to enjoy these useless transbians for a while! www.scribblehub.com/series/17665...
The Egg Prime Directive
The Egg Prime Directive
Alternate 'Light Novel' style titles:
'Transformed into a girl by a conference trickster, I must learn the ways of her pervert tribe!'
or
''I was (lovingly) forcefemmed at a co...
www.scribblehub.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If you've been waiting to read The Egg Prime Directive, you have less than 6 days to do so! I'm going to pull the story off of ScribbleHub at the end of November while I prep it for whatever comes next! So, last call to enjoy these useless transbians for a while! www.scribblehub.com/series/17665...
When you get accidental surround sound when the VNV Nation song blasting out of your tiny built in laptop speakers reflects off your couch and the wall --- and they somehow act as a band pass filter so that only some of the music sounds like its coming from behind you...
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
When you get accidental surround sound when the VNV Nation song blasting out of your tiny built in laptop speakers reflects off your couch and the wall --- and they somehow act as a band pass filter so that only some of the music sounds like its coming from behind you...
[Old lady mode]: So, Ok, you know how in the 90s there was this new swing revival thing? And after that was the sort of girl-group/boy-group pseudo motown revival?
Well there were a few months in '94 everyone was listening to Gregorian Chant... But before that...
youtu.be/Mf6lcjeeZRM?...
Well there were a few months in '94 everyone was listening to Gregorian Chant... But before that...
youtu.be/Mf6lcjeeZRM?...
Apotheosis – O Fortuna 1991
YouTube video by Deejaysark90
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
[Old lady mode]: So, Ok, you know how in the 90s there was this new swing revival thing? And after that was the sort of girl-group/boy-group pseudo motown revival?
Well there were a few months in '94 everyone was listening to Gregorian Chant... But before that...
youtu.be/Mf6lcjeeZRM?...
Well there were a few months in '94 everyone was listening to Gregorian Chant... But before that...
youtu.be/Mf6lcjeeZRM?...
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Selfies to feel better.
Goth selfie thread anyone?
Goth selfie thread anyone?
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Selfies to feel better.
Goth selfie thread anyone?
Goth selfie thread anyone?
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_My_ early goth: From 1998 - 2002, an era when the only offline public spaces that I'd show up in Krista-mode was at the goth clubs & the like.
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
_My_ early goth: From 1998 - 2002, an era when the only offline public spaces that I'd show up in Krista-mode was at the goth clubs & the like.