Sascha Stronach🏳️⚧️, The Sunforge out now
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Author of The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge (Saga Press). Kāi Tahu/Kāti Huirapa. Rep: @arleysorg.bsky.social. She/her/ia. Header by @layahimalaya.bsky.social
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yo you should read my books, if The Locked Tomb is a goth girl they're her punk friend who reeks of tobacco
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It’s all so clearly about capital controlling expression and sexuality. Of course they want to sell porn from institutions who play ball instead of artists who don’t.
crazy all the websites and paypros are doing their big No Horny Allowed crackdown while every online advertisement now is iether "AI SEX HOT AI CHAT NO FILTER BOOB AI FURRY GIRLFRIEND only for adults ages 6+" or "NPR is now teaming up with Bumfights dot com to revolutionize gamified asset trading"
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
It’s all so clearly about capital controlling expression and sexuality. Of course they want to sell porn from institutions who play ball instead of artists who don’t.
Closeted trans femme Stephen Maturin: “I’ll have you know Jack, the shark in my quarters is an anatomical model, soft and plush to ensure safekeeping on a moving ship. If it were—as you say—‘proper sharp and pointy’ your brutes would quite ruin it!”
December 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Closeted trans femme Stephen Maturin: “I’ll have you know Jack, the shark in my quarters is an anatomical model, soft and plush to ensure safekeeping on a moving ship. If it were—as you say—‘proper sharp and pointy’ your brutes would quite ruin it!”
also like ... look our media is SO sexless, so safe and sanitised, the first episode of infamous slow-burn will-they-won't they The X-Files has Mulder taking off Scully's top to examine her chest and back for marks of infection, the 2025 baseline is so fucking safe lmao
I keep seeing "I hate how all these W/W romance books have unbroken 50 page scenes of hardcore BDSM" and I'm over here like ... okay but drop the title, because I can find nothing but chaste yearning
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
also like ... look our media is SO sexless, so safe and sanitised, the first episode of infamous slow-burn will-they-won't they The X-Files has Mulder taking off Scully's top to examine her chest and back for marks of infection, the 2025 baseline is so fucking safe lmao
I keep seeing "I hate how all these W/W romance books have unbroken 50 page scenes of hardcore BDSM" and I'm over here like ... okay but drop the title, because I can find nothing but chaste yearning
December 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I keep seeing "I hate how all these W/W romance books have unbroken 50 page scenes of hardcore BDSM" and I'm over here like ... okay but drop the title, because I can find nothing but chaste yearning
"so the secret to kourabiedes is to zest an orange pe--"
"HI I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUT YOU'VE TRIGGERED MY CODE PHRASE, ORANGE, AND I CAN'T STOMACH THE THOUGHT OF tRUMP IN MY MOUTH"
"HI I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUT YOU'VE TRIGGERED MY CODE PHRASE, ORANGE, AND I CAN'T STOMACH THE THOUGHT OF tRUMP IN MY MOUTH"
December 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
"so the secret to kourabiedes is to zest an orange pe--"
"HI I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUT YOU'VE TRIGGERED MY CODE PHRASE, ORANGE, AND I CAN'T STOMACH THE THOUGHT OF tRUMP IN MY MOUTH"
"HI I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUT YOU'VE TRIGGERED MY CODE PHRASE, ORANGE, AND I CAN'T STOMACH THE THOUGHT OF tRUMP IN MY MOUTH"
Stephen Maturin is an autistic king. Manages to avoid being honeypotted because she starts him infodumping about marine worms, what a champ
December 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Stephen Maturin is an autistic king. Manages to avoid being honeypotted because she starts him infodumping about marine worms, what a champ
the pot plant, just out of reach, unnibbled … a tragedy
December 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
the pot plant, just out of reach, unnibbled … a tragedy
Watching Cloudward Ho and realising there are some remarkable plot similarities to Dawnhounds 3 so to stave off the inevitable: I handed in the first draft in December 2024 and I can provide timestamps, Brennan and I were apparently just riding the same psychic wave
December 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Watching Cloudward Ho and realising there are some remarkable plot similarities to Dawnhounds 3 so to stave off the inevitable: I handed in the first draft in December 2024 and I can provide timestamps, Brennan and I were apparently just riding the same psychic wave
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Immediately this abstract issue of politicians politicizing trans lives for political gain and interfering with clinical best practice melted into a tangible, immediately present reality with real lives in the firing line, all for political gain and fomenting of hatred and division.
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Immediately this abstract issue of politicians politicizing trans lives for political gain and interfering with clinical best practice melted into a tangible, immediately present reality with real lives in the firing line, all for political gain and fomenting of hatred and division.
Hangin out with the girls
December 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Hangin out with the girls
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Even 10 years ago this would have looked like a fun but unbelievable piece of world-building for a cyberpunk dystopia. But here we are.
"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Even 10 years ago this would have looked like a fun but unbelievable piece of world-building for a cyberpunk dystopia. But here we are.
… okay did they intentionally make them rotting zombie hands
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
… okay did they intentionally make them rotting zombie hands
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Amazing, they made the most unintentionally evil looking award in a long time.
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Amazing, they made the most unintentionally evil looking award in a long time.
Mazes are so weird, “I wanna get lost but don’t want to go far”
December 5, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Mazes are so weird, “I wanna get lost but don’t want to go far”
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Support this open letter written by trans and takatāpui rangatahi: "To be transgender or takatāpui is a taonga. To deny our young people access to life-saving medication on the basis of an imported culture war is cruel and abhorrent."
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
Reverse the decision to deny transgender and takatāpui young people access to puberty blockers
Dear Minister Simeon Brown
We write to you as transgender and takatāpui young people of Aotearoa New Zealand to ask you to reconsider your decision to ban the use of puberty blockers (gonadotropin-re...
our.actionstation.org.nz
December 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Support this open letter written by trans and takatāpui rangatahi: "To be transgender or takatāpui is a taonga. To deny our young people access to life-saving medication on the basis of an imported culture war is cruel and abhorrent."
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
look, new zealand, im trying to convince everybody that we're not actually twee and ridiculous can we not do things like "robber swallows james bond themed faberge egg and the police have to spend a week monitoring his asshole"
December 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
look, new zealand, im trying to convince everybody that we're not actually twee and ridiculous can we not do things like "robber swallows james bond themed faberge egg and the police have to spend a week monitoring his asshole"
found a creature
December 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
found a creature
Take me to trurtch (train church)
December 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Take me to trurtch (train church)
Butchers’ Shop sign from the 60s, showing a capitalist in his true form, begging to be devoured
December 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Butchers’ Shop sign from the 60s, showing a capitalist in his true form, begging to be devoured
lads I thought we were very clear, this is how you LOSE the time war
December 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
lads I thought we were very clear, this is how you LOSE the time war
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One of the best NZ fiction starter packs - get amongst
If you’ve ever been published in takahē, we want to add you to our starter pack! Leave us a comment or DM 🖤
go.bsky.app/MEWV1RM
go.bsky.app/MEWV1RM
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
One of the best NZ fiction starter packs - get amongst
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An updated list. Some I missed, some have released statements since I released the original list.
Medical orgs in support of the ban remains at 0.
Medical orgs in support of the ban remains at 0.
December 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
An updated list. Some I missed, some have released statements since I released the original list.
Medical orgs in support of the ban remains at 0.
Medical orgs in support of the ban remains at 0.
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I am so fucking tired of being told "We're sorry we have to strip you of dignity and exclude your kind ): Really it's so hard on us ):"
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I am so fucking tired of being told "We're sorry we have to strip you of dignity and exclude your kind ): Really it's so hard on us ):"
genuinely cannot tell whether "SLAMS" being the verb for any time anybody says anything negative is a sign of AI or just really lazy subeditors
December 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
genuinely cannot tell whether "SLAMS" being the verb for any time anybody says anything negative is a sign of AI or just really lazy subeditors