Bianca Michelle Parker
@bumblebigirl.bsky.social
Auckland based writer. Trans, Ace, Autistic. She/Her. Fix your heart or die
My novel DIDO ON THE EDGE coming 2026
My novel DIDO ON THE EDGE coming 2026
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All I want is for the gallery and commentariat to grill Luxon and Hipkins about this dogshit with HALF the energy they give any time the Greens announce a reasonable, costed, popular policy
January 23, 2026 at 5:38 AM
All I want is for the gallery and commentariat to grill Luxon and Hipkins about this dogshit with HALF the energy they give any time the Greens announce a reasonable, costed, popular policy
If the next election is not a strong rebuke of this kind of behaviour things are gonna get really bad. And at the moment we are nowhere close to achieving that.
'Unelected globalist bureaucrats' - Peters praises United States' WHO withdrawal
The United States has officially exited the WHO, a year since President Donald Trump gave notice via executive order.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 23, 2026 at 4:31 AM
If the next election is not a strong rebuke of this kind of behaviour things are gonna get really bad. And at the moment we are nowhere close to achieving that.
I recently watched all of Daria for the first time and I was genuinely kinda blown away by the quality of the writing at times. I think the final episodes of season four may be the most gripped I've been by any show in a while?
Also it's nice to pretend it's still the 90s sometimes.
Also it's nice to pretend it's still the 90s sometimes.
January 22, 2026 at 2:34 AM
I recently watched all of Daria for the first time and I was genuinely kinda blown away by the quality of the writing at times. I think the final episodes of season four may be the most gripped I've been by any show in a while?
Also it's nice to pretend it's still the 90s sometimes.
Also it's nice to pretend it's still the 90s sometimes.
Same feelings about Doctor Who tbh. These long running shows are designed to sprawl because they were created in a time when TV seasons were massively long and needed material badly. Trying to make them fit into smaller and smaller runs means a lot of what gives them their character gets shorn away.
The first episodes of Starfleet Academy are OK, certainly better than Encounter at Farpoint. And I think you could have a good ST series with this premise. Problem is they won't get a chance- ten episodes or less per season just doesn't give you the time to make proper Trek.
January 22, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Same feelings about Doctor Who tbh. These long running shows are designed to sprawl because they were created in a time when TV seasons were massively long and needed material badly. Trying to make them fit into smaller and smaller runs means a lot of what gives them their character gets shorn away.
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If you spend money on anything Harry Potter, you are funding this.
If you think it's okay to continue being a fan and talking about it and putting your Hogwarts House in your profile since you already bought the books/movies, Rowling had stated the continued fandom shows you support her bigotry.
If you think it's okay to continue being a fan and talking about it and putting your Hogwarts House in your profile since you already bought the books/movies, Rowling had stated the continued fandom shows you support her bigotry.
It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
January 21, 2026 at 3:21 AM
If you spend money on anything Harry Potter, you are funding this.
If you think it's okay to continue being a fan and talking about it and putting your Hogwarts House in your profile since you already bought the books/movies, Rowling had stated the continued fandom shows you support her bigotry.
If you think it's okay to continue being a fan and talking about it and putting your Hogwarts House in your profile since you already bought the books/movies, Rowling had stated the continued fandom shows you support her bigotry.
I couldn't imagine not having a name for a character before I start writing them. A name is gonna be one of the first things a reader learns about a character, it should give them a little flavour of they're like. They'll have a different first impression of a "Frankie" than they would of an "Irma".
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters
Writing technical question!
Do you name your characters right away or do you use placeholder names?
Are the placeholders descriptive or just filler names you'll change?
Has a placeholder ever grown on you?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Writing technical question!
Do you name your characters right away or do you use placeholder names?
Are the placeholders descriptive or just filler names you'll change?
Has a placeholder ever grown on you?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
January 20, 2026 at 7:58 PM
I couldn't imagine not having a name for a character before I start writing them. A name is gonna be one of the first things a reader learns about a character, it should give them a little flavour of they're like. They'll have a different first impression of a "Frankie" than they would of an "Irma".
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Again, you will find out a lot about what these people find unacceptable by looking at the things they are absolutely fine with.
January 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Again, you will find out a lot about what these people find unacceptable by looking at the things they are absolutely fine with.
Labour, like all centrist parties, exists in an imagined symbiosis with the right. They believe they're in it together with their opponents, maintaining a mutually beneficial status quo, even as the right works to annihilate it and them.
Lads is it good when the two major parties are making near identical ideological frames for the upcoming election, based around no promises, no hope, managerialism forever.
January 19, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Labour, like all centrist parties, exists in an imagined symbiosis with the right. They believe they're in it together with their opponents, maintaining a mutually beneficial status quo, even as the right works to annihilate it and them.
No new pictures
Where are you at mentally?
Where are you at mentally?
January 19, 2026 at 2:32 AM
No new pictures
Where are you at mentally?
Where are you at mentally?
Okay I have questions about the hologram people in the new Star Trek show. How do they touch things? When the main guy makes one glitch out, is that not assault? Do they mind him and others referring to them as "it"?
January 18, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Okay I have questions about the hologram people in the new Star Trek show. How do they touch things? When the main guy makes one glitch out, is that not assault? Do they mind him and others referring to them as "it"?
For Dido on the Edge... uhhh well, depends what you count as a draft. There are versions of that going back to 2009. Let's say a lot. These days I definitely do less, but am bad at keeping track of numbers, one thing I'm working on has definitely had several now.
#pretendpanel, I will get to your answers from yesterday shortly, thank you for your patience. Meanwhile...
January 17th: How many drafts, then vs. now? (see image and/or alt text for further prompting if needed)
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 17th: How many drafts, then vs. now? (see image and/or alt text for further prompting if needed)
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 18, 2026 at 3:21 AM
For Dido on the Edge... uhhh well, depends what you count as a draft. There are versions of that going back to 2009. Let's say a lot. These days I definitely do less, but am bad at keeping track of numbers, one thing I'm working on has definitely had several now.
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I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare | Mara Wilson
I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same danger
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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To be blunt, we’re your canary. And we’re sick and tired of it. We warn you and you ignore us. Politicians use us to score “good Christian” points. Then y’all act surprised when your rights get stripped away. If you even hint at being anti-trans, you’re an asshole & trash.
It exposes directional alignment; you still seek to limit, not expand, who is allowed to be human. Yes, you have set your limitation more inclusively than our fascist gang of white supremacists; it doesn't mean you're not also setting limitations & they'll use your limit as long as it serves them.
I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
January 17, 2026 at 1:22 PM
To be blunt, we’re your canary. And we’re sick and tired of it. We warn you and you ignore us. Politicians use us to score “good Christian” points. Then y’all act surprised when your rights get stripped away. If you even hint at being anti-trans, you’re an asshole & trash.
At this point I have a pretty good sense of what works for me. It's absolutely a bit messy, I still never really plan anything out, but I'm much better now at making decisions and sticking with them which keeps things moving forward.
#pretendpanel, tell me...
January 16th: Where are you now with the writing process? How has that changed?
e.g. keeping it fun / currently learning processes / adherence to learned processes / breaking out of outgrown processes / something else?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 16th: Where are you now with the writing process? How has that changed?
e.g. keeping it fun / currently learning processes / adherence to learned processes / breaking out of outgrown processes / something else?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 17, 2026 at 4:30 AM
At this point I have a pretty good sense of what works for me. It's absolutely a bit messy, I still never really plan anything out, but I'm much better now at making decisions and sticking with them which keeps things moving forward.
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The extent to which major studios are now focused entirely on pleasing a tiny section of white cis male fans is gobsmacking. Forget the box office, all that seems to matter is if nerds on Twitter who called Kelly Marie Tran slurs approve of what you're doing.
Dave Filoni and Lywen Brennan will reportedly replace Kathleen Kennedy as the new co-presidents of Lucasfilm
• Dave Filoni will oversee all creative development
• Lywen Brennan will oversee executive duties
• Announcement is expected to be made in a couple weeks
(via Puck News)
• Dave Filoni will oversee all creative development
• Lywen Brennan will oversee executive duties
• Announcement is expected to be made in a couple weeks
(via Puck News)
January 6, 2026 at 6:59 PM
The extent to which major studios are now focused entirely on pleasing a tiny section of white cis male fans is gobsmacking. Forget the box office, all that seems to matter is if nerds on Twitter who called Kelly Marie Tran slurs approve of what you're doing.
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If you have “sincere concerns” about trans athletes in sports, all it means is that you have given yourself a rationale for your bigotry that you sincerely believe exonerates you for aligning to a far-right tactic for marginalization and exclusion.
January 13, 2026 at 7:02 PM
If you have “sincere concerns” about trans athletes in sports, all it means is that you have given yourself a rationale for your bigotry that you sincerely believe exonerates you for aligning to a far-right tactic for marginalization and exclusion.
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If this was any other set of medical treatments, the entire medical community would be scrambling to study how they could improve their own treatments.
January 14, 2026 at 8:32 PM
If this was any other set of medical treatments, the entire medical community would be scrambling to study how they could improve their own treatments.
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Ursula K. Le Guin, spitting truth.
January 13, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Ursula K. Le Guin, spitting truth.
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Well, you know who's NOT stepping back?? You know who's doubling down, actually? SMALL PRESSES!! 🤯🌈♥️🥳
FOR INSTANCE
Check out SWSF and their whole amazing catalog!
And there are so many others, too!
@wctracy.bsky.social
🌈📚
FOR INSTANCE
Check out SWSF and their whole amazing catalog!
And there are so many others, too!
@wctracy.bsky.social
🌈📚
January 13, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Well, you know who's NOT stepping back?? You know who's doubling down, actually? SMALL PRESSES!! 🤯🌈♥️🥳
FOR INSTANCE
Check out SWSF and their whole amazing catalog!
And there are so many others, too!
@wctracy.bsky.social
🌈📚
FOR INSTANCE
Check out SWSF and their whole amazing catalog!
And there are so many others, too!
@wctracy.bsky.social
🌈📚
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Knew this was coming. Something I've been noticing happening slowly for a while now. It's also happening in conjunction with the aging up of YA and the influx of romantasies that tend to feature cisallohet relationships and dabble in fascism-adjacent storytelling themes.
Depressing news reported at @lgbtqnation.com:
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...
#kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...
#kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president - LGBTQ Nation
"In the face of so many book bans and so much concern about decreasing school library sales of queer content" publishers are "passing" on LGBTQ+ books.
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Knew this was coming. Something I've been noticing happening slowly for a while now. It's also happening in conjunction with the aging up of YA and the influx of romantasies that tend to feature cisallohet relationships and dabble in fascism-adjacent storytelling themes.
Once you were into Peanuts or Garfield, both on TV a lot in the 90s, it was very easy to move onto other comics because back then they were all formatted exactly the same. When I found a Dilbert book in Whitcoulls as a kid I instantly knew what I was looking at, even if I didn't get the content.
why did so many millennials read so many newspaper comics? easily 60 percent of my reading diet in elementary/middle school was collected editions of calvin and hobbes, farside, dilbert, peanuts, doonesbury (!), foxtrot (?!?) and i know im not alone. historically unique phenomenon
rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job
January 13, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Once you were into Peanuts or Garfield, both on TV a lot in the 90s, it was very easy to move onto other comics because back then they were all formatted exactly the same. When I found a Dilbert book in Whitcoulls as a kid I instantly knew what I was looking at, even if I didn't get the content.
Scott Adams started out making fun of incompetent leaders with stupid hair and ending begging one for help accessing cancer treatment, only to be ignored. Which is exactly what you get if you pivot away from mocking power to worshipping it.
January 13, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Scott Adams started out making fun of incompetent leaders with stupid hair and ending begging one for help accessing cancer treatment, only to be ignored. Which is exactly what you get if you pivot away from mocking power to worshipping it.
THE Giant Robot
January 13, 2026 at 12:47 AM
THE Giant Robot
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Wanda Sykes just accepted Ricky Gervais’ Golden Globe for stand up comedy and thanked the trans community lmfao
January 12, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Wanda Sykes just accepted Ricky Gervais’ Golden Globe for stand up comedy and thanked the trans community lmfao
Actually I don't know if it has all that much. I usually write some test material for them, to see if they start to feel like something, kind of audition them. I've been doing that for years and it works pretty well!
#pretendpanel, maybe this has changed for you, or maybe not! But either way, I'm keen to know...
January 10th: How has your creation of main characters evolved over time?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 10th: How has your creation of main characters evolved over time?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 11, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Actually I don't know if it has all that much. I usually write some test material for them, to see if they start to feel like something, kind of audition them. I've been doing that for years and it works pretty well!