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T. M. Shannon 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him)
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Catholic Bisexual living on Cabrogal land with Bipolar 1/ADHD and a penchant for writing, blogging, and gaming Currently neck deep in structural edits of Three Ways, catch up with the posts and a short story on my site https://tmshannonauthor.com/
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T. M. Shannon 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @tmshannonauthor.com · 2d
Another Sunday, another pinned post 😁

My October blog is live on my .com, with a dose of writing woes, the rich/poor divide after death, and bisexual validation

Don't forget to like, subscribe, comment, and check out my Q4 short story

#LGBTQIA+
#WritingCommunity
#WriterSky
#ReaderSky
#BookSky
So, I’ve Started a Trend
Hey, look at that, I managed to post in October after September. And you know what? I’m gonna do it again for November. The Bipolar/ADHD likes this!
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T. M. Shannon 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @tmshannonauthor.com · 6h
The #crawl to level 30 was such a grind, bosses upon bosses upon bosses, but at last I clicked to enter the final battle, and with hope, the true ending.

Pity I wasn't actually paid for this, I'd be a trillionaire stomping about in Shadow Armour

#Whistpr
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#Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 13h
A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 14, 2025: #CRAWL

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Digital painting of a brown beetle with long horned proboscis crawling up a tree while 8 tiny white comma-shaped ghosts look on in wonderment.
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T. M. Shannon 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @tmshannonauthor.com · 6h
"Mate, your ever-growing army of undead is on the #nose."

"Yeah, it gets people nauseous, they can't breathe so they can't run fast, so more brains for the zombies to eat."

"Yeah, you do you, I'm gonna Paladin somewhere else."

#whistpr
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#Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 1d
A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 13, 2025: #NOSE

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Digital painting of a long-haired anteater with a long nose. The animal is striped in shades of cream, beige, brown, and black and has shaggy fur.
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 14h
not yet in #tatters,
but blemished now nonetheless -

the rose my daughter
brought from her great-grandmother's
celebration of long life

#haikufeels #haiku #tanka #poem #poetry #writing #roses #bloomscrolling #photography
A rose from my daughter's step grear-grandmother's funeral today
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Aaron Guile @aaronguile.bsky.social · 14h
So I wrote a little personal essay over on sub stack about what I’m trying to do as a poet. The essay’s all over the place and kind of a mess but at least it feels honest . . . to me. #WritingCommunity #Writing.

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How Losing My Mind Forced Me to Become an Organized Poet
A Personal Essay
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Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 14h
I sing the ballad of the fallen star
The brightest light in indigo nights
Measuring breaths on dancing willow peak
There is no gift but the ocean depths
Meeting diamond sky horizons
Where fallen star meet crystal note stories
Home in hearts alive

#blueskyrelay #writingCommunity #writeSky
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Daniel Meyer @dmeyerauthor.bsky.social · 1d
Planning to start a brand new WIP tomorrow, the first book in a series that I've wanted to write for many years, and now that the moment's upon me, I find myself getting super nervous. #booksky #authorsky #writersky #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #fantasylit #sff #epicfantasy #books
a man in a green shirt is blowing his nose into a paper bag ..
ALT: a man in a green shirt is blowing his nose into a paper bag ..
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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 1d
Its things like this that have to pile up in the normie consciousness, right? Finally cause them to snap?

I realize brown and trans people being terrorized won't move these sloths, but surely having their consumerism interrupted will?

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UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems
Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.
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Jeff Carter M.Ed. @at4y.bsky.social · 1d
LGBTQ History month - OCT 13
Mel Heifetz - Philanthropist
“I have spent my entire life working with [the gay community] to achieve the same equality that everyone else enjoys.”
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Makhno @chesnutt335.bsky.social · 1d
A trans lesbian mechanic cosplaying Joylene Kujo came to help me with my car and we bonded over the fact her girlfriend bit me really hard last night. Seattle bayby
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BillyZane420 @hillary.pizza · 1d
I thought a sloth bear was a big hairy gay guy who starfishes.
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Wurfi @wurfi.bsky.social · 2d
Today is World Sloth Bear Day! 🐻
This photo by Rainer Willenbrock shows an Indian sloth bear with shaggy black fur standing on green grass in a natural outdoor environment. It is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, mainly because of habitat loss and degradation.
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pompadood 🏳️‍⚧️ @pompadood.bsky.social · 1d
"you're the daughter i've always been waiting for" is how my mom signed off our last chat this weekend. i don't think she even actually understands how much of an ally she is for me. she's so fucking happy that i'm trans and out of the closet. i want her to live forever
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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 1d
I attend Palm Springs Pride every year. Great event. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

"You thought Pride Season was over? Well, Palm Springs just said, 'Hold my wig.'"

www.gaycities.com/articles/101...
Your guide to this year's Palm Springs Pride - GayCities
November is approaching fast, and you'll want to be in Palm Springs.
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「 RHEL 」 @gaussbarrels.art · 1d
i’ve said it a million times: if your LGBTQ inclusivity doesn’t consider the added struggles that come with the intersectionality of the black trans experience, it’s not actual inclusivity. ESPECIALLY right now.
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 2d
“In this environment that we’re in right now, it feels like an understatement to say that there’s misinformation being spread about this community. People really forget that we’re human beings.”
No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.
A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.
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LGBTQ Shrink @drronholt.bsky.social · 1d
🏳️‍🌈 Hope will never be silent! 🏳️‍🌈
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T. M. Shannon 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @tmshannonauthor.com · 1d
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minty tear gas @nihilamacabre.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah. I knew this or something close to it was going to happen. I thought it was going to be binary trans people
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2d
Horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.

www.reddit.com/r/law/s/eGyn...
From the law community on Reddit: Starting October 14th, the Trump administration bans Non-Binary+Intersex people (including citizens) from entering/leaving country (on plane) via CBP passport changes
Explore this post and more from the law community
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T. M. Shannon 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @tmshannonauthor.com · 1d
Living the dream
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J. - Cheers Queers @j-t42.bsky.social · 1d
Sunday night = a bubble bath, a glass of rosé, and a smutty gay urban fantasy novel.
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T. M. Shannon 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @tmshannonauthor.com · 1d
Also, is Kiera walking away, or taking the money and running?

JKR's been phobic for ages, it wasn't even a secret
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Ansela Corsino @anselacorsino.com · 1d
None of the millionaires who allegedly didn’t know they were complicit in JKR’s deadly campaign against trans people are truly sorry unless they donate their checks to a trans rights org or trans charity
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Decider @deciderdotcom.bsky.social · 3d
Keira Knightley was "not aware" of 'Harry Potter' boycott when she joined audiobook cast for JK Rowling series: "I'm very sorry"
Keira Knightley was "not aware" of 'Harry Potter' boycott when she joined audiobook cast for JK Rowling series: "I'm very sorry"
Keira Knightley will voice Professor Umbridge in the new Potter audibooks.
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Tetra Yon @tetrayon.bsky.social · 1d
Oh my God. I genuinely just popped into this because I was excited to see a movie musical with the same director as Chicago was in theaters. I didn't expect to wind up crying because it was a deeply personal story about a trans woman just trying to survive. Please see it
Movie theater showing for kiss of the spider woman
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 1d
Some really excellent content from my colleagues in the Australian Research Consortium for Trans Youth and Children (ARCTYC) in this issue!
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The Medical Journal of Australia @mja.com.au · 1d
The MJA special issue on gender and health is out now!

Available online at buff.ly/3f7UnqS

Featuring research and perspectives on trans health, reproductive health and heart health
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DownhillHolla @downhillholla.bsky.social · 1d
I'm genuinely obsessed with this image. Call me egotistical, I don't care. You've no idea the joy this brings me, to see this and know that's me. Those soft shapes, gentle curves. I am finally a shape I want desperately to touch.

unbelievable that this is me.

this is unadulterated trans euphoria.
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DownhillHolla @downhillholla.bsky.social · 4d
43. bonus pic

I cannot express how pleased I am with the shape of me these days. fucking finally.
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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d
"They want transgender for everybody"

Yeah, I don't know what to tell you? Nonchalant acceptance of transgender & gender non-conforming people of all kinds *should* be an American ideal of the highest order: You be you, live your life. We should all have the opportunity to be so free. 🤷🏼‍♂️
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T. M. Shannon 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @tmshannonauthor.com · 1d
I love it