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Mary Borsellino

@sharpestrose.bsky.social

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Nonbinary writer (any pronouns fine) and Japanese -> English editor, fandom tragic.

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Mary Borsellino @sharpestrose.bsky.social · 10d

Okay the kindle and paperback versions will be another couple of weeks, but: NEW QUEER YA NOVELLA.

I'm genuinely very proud of this one. Thank you to @erinkyan.bsky.social and @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social for saying such nice things about it. DOWNLOAD FOR FREE HERE: www.maryborsellino.com/girl/

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Mary Borsellino @sharpestrose.bsky.social · 12h

Clown town.

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Mary Borsellino @sharpestrose.bsky.social · 15h

Waiting at tattoo place to get a Pierrot tattoo for a concert I didn't attend lmao

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 19h

Visa and Mastercard have the opportunity to do something really funny.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 23h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 23h

RIP Drew Struzan

Star Trek TOS art, featuring floating heads of Kirk, Spock, and Bones.

Poster for Blade Runner, featuring floating heads of the characters.

Poster for Back to the Future Part II, with Doc and Marty both lifting shades to look at their watches with the Delorean nearby.

Poster for ET, with ET in the woods reaching for a floating UFO, with the lights of a city grid in the background.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 19h

Read what you want to read and don't worry about what you "should" read. Your time is finite, books are awesome and there millions more than you can possibly read in a lifetime, there is no reason to self inflict literary suffering.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Mary Borsellino @sharpestrose.bsky.social · 18h

Cobra ticket get. I do enjoy that ridiculous band, even if Gabe did tease me for knowing Juggalo culture. LISTEN, I AM WHO I AM.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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David S. Pumpkins @dphrygian.com · Aug 9

I think about this tweet a lot.

Tweet from Ben Esposito (torahhorse on Twitter/X):

"nobody told me when you make a video game you have to make the whole thing"

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Sarah T. // サラ @PhD in fujoshing @sarasaraht.bsky.social · 1d

the temptation to send this to everyone I worked on three hopes with…..

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an activist who took part in Stonewall and remained an advocate for the decades that followed, including caring for AIDS patients & pioneering needle exchange & defending the rights of incarcerated trans people on both coasts, passed away. 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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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 1d

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 12d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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Mary Borsellino @sharpestrose.bsky.social · 1d

Just got a really lovely email from someone reading Wolf House who wishes they'd had the books as a teen -- I will never reread them, because I'm scared they'll be full of mid-2000s slurs and writing that makes me cringe, but it means so much to me that they're still special to people even now.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Mary Borsellino @sharpestrose.bsky.social · 1d

I told Nomia about the dysautonomia villain origin story and they said "sick" approvingly.

Mary Borsellino @sharpestrose.bsky.social · 1d

My great-grandfather's name at Ellis Island was Borzellino, so it hasn't changed much, but I still think that's neat.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

Lots of us have great-grandparents names who were absolutely changed when they came here, and when people say otherwise, they're assuming your great-grandparents name was in the Roman alphabet.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1d

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

Mary Borsellino @sharpestrose.bsky.social · 1d

He thought they had a child!!!

Mary Borsellino @sharpestrose.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that Jared Leto is now widely known as a creep is satisfying to me because I can remember back in bandom in like 2007 it being common knowledge that he was a mean, sometimes violent jerk to groupies he slept with.

Mary Borsellino @sharpestrose.bsky.social · 1d

I very deliberately used the Hero's Journey for Incandescent Girl but largely I just go for "make the reader care about the characters" and try to hit an emotional catharsis beat late in the story.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 3d

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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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Mary Borsellino @sharpestrose.bsky.social · 1d

Brennan Lee Mulligan was super fun -- his players were basically Melbourne's best and brightest of nerd comedy, and it walked the line really well between chaotic and coherent. I wish there hadn't been quite so much heckling but the performers took it in stride.

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Tony @shintonty.bsky.social · 2d

many of you

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 5d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 6d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 14

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

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