Esther Alter
@esther-alter.bsky.social
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Esther Alter
@esther-alter.bsky.social
· Nov 17
2025 Awards Eligibility
Magical Girl Antifa War Machine on @escapepod.org
The Shabbos Bride in the anthology Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social
And a mysterious story in @strangehorizons.bsky.social under a pseudonym… DM about it I guess?
Magical Girl Antifa War Machine on @escapepod.org
The Shabbos Bride in the anthology Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social
And a mysterious story in @strangehorizons.bsky.social under a pseudonym… DM about it I guess?
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NEWS! My next book, TRANSLUNAR, about a closeted trans woman who's an astronaut in the sixties, is coming out in fall 2027! It'll be on Wildthorn, Tor's brand-new general fiction imprint -- a dream, as it lets me work with @englelaird.bsky.social on my literary and historical fiction as well as SFF.
January 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
NEWS! My next book, TRANSLUNAR, about a closeted trans woman who's an astronaut in the sixties, is coming out in fall 2027! It'll be on Wildthorn, Tor's brand-new general fiction imprint -- a dream, as it lets me work with @englelaird.bsky.social on my literary and historical fiction as well as SFF.
I don’t know who, if anyone, will want to read my WIP trans femme neo-Bundist mecha erotic horror, but if you *do* want that, good news (eventually, hopefully)
January 18, 2026 at 10:06 PM
I don’t know who, if anyone, will want to read my WIP trans femme neo-Bundist mecha erotic horror, but if you *do* want that, good news (eventually, hopefully)
Cool story, once upon a time I made a game called Neocolonialism and I opted for an inverse Galls-Peter projection to make players second guess this specific graphical distortion. It annoyed everyone and here’s the steam page so it can annoy you too
store.steampowered.com/app/333540/N...
store.steampowered.com/app/333540/N...
January 18, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Cool story, once upon a time I made a game called Neocolonialism and I opted for an inverse Galls-Peter projection to make players second guess this specific graphical distortion. It annoyed everyone and here’s the steam page so it can annoy you too
store.steampowered.com/app/333540/N...
store.steampowered.com/app/333540/N...
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IMO I’m good at chunky prose-poem paragraphs with run on sentences and a fractured sense of time that spell out, starkly, an anger and a sadness that you might already have felt but couldn’t describe. Also I’m good at writing about autistic transbians.
Artists, I think we're all too comfortable sharing our imposter syndrome.
I would love to see you step out of your comfort zone and confidently state what you think you're actually really good at.
No self deprecation, just what you think you're the strongest at
Is anyone brave eniough? 👀
I would love to see you step out of your comfort zone and confidently state what you think you're actually really good at.
No self deprecation, just what you think you're the strongest at
Is anyone brave eniough? 👀
January 14, 2026 at 6:17 PM
IMO I’m good at chunky prose-poem paragraphs with run on sentences and a fractured sense of time that spell out, starkly, an anger and a sadness that you might already have felt but couldn’t describe. Also I’m good at writing about autistic transbians.
It’s that time again.
January 13, 2026 at 6:46 PM
It’s that time again.
New profile picture
January 12, 2026 at 1:19 PM
New profile picture
if i had access to a substance that, if injected, really does cause autism, id first do a research deep dive to confirm that it can also augment existing autism and then, if so, I’d obviously inject it, like are you fucking kidding me, it would only make me hotter and more powerful
January 6, 2026 at 1:31 AM
if i had access to a substance that, if injected, really does cause autism, id first do a research deep dive to confirm that it can also augment existing autism and then, if so, I’d obviously inject it, like are you fucking kidding me, it would only make me hotter and more powerful
1. There was a time when Zionists and non Zionist leftist Jews were roughly at parity
2. Some stuff in the Book of Kings probably happened
3. America really didn’t need to drop the atom bombs on Japan
4. The history of the CIA is always more fucked up than you think
5. Shrapnel is named after a guy
2. Some stuff in the Book of Kings probably happened
3. America really didn’t need to drop the atom bombs on Japan
4. The history of the CIA is always more fucked up than you think
5. Shrapnel is named after a guy
Here’s a fun top five: things that are consensus among historians but are essentially unknown by the public. Richard I, a bad king of England. Roman Empire, fell in 1453. Paul, more important than Jesus. Witch burning, a modern phenomenon not a medieval one. Britain last invaded in 1688. Yours?
As someone who wrote a dissertation on that damnable Frenchman; one can only hope.
January 6, 2026 at 12:27 AM
1. There was a time when Zionists and non Zionist leftist Jews were roughly at parity
2. Some stuff in the Book of Kings probably happened
3. America really didn’t need to drop the atom bombs on Japan
4. The history of the CIA is always more fucked up than you think
5. Shrapnel is named after a guy
2. Some stuff in the Book of Kings probably happened
3. America really didn’t need to drop the atom bombs on Japan
4. The history of the CIA is always more fucked up than you think
5. Shrapnel is named after a guy
January 5, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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2025 Awards Eligibility
Magical Girl Antifa War Machine on @escapepod.org
The Shabbos Bride in the anthology Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social
And a mysterious story in @strangehorizons.bsky.social under a pseudonym… DM about it I guess?
Magical Girl Antifa War Machine on @escapepod.org
The Shabbos Bride in the anthology Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social
And a mysterious story in @strangehorizons.bsky.social under a pseudonym… DM about it I guess?
November 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
2025 Awards Eligibility
Magical Girl Antifa War Machine on @escapepod.org
The Shabbos Bride in the anthology Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social
And a mysterious story in @strangehorizons.bsky.social under a pseudonym… DM about it I guess?
Magical Girl Antifa War Machine on @escapepod.org
The Shabbos Bride in the anthology Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social
And a mysterious story in @strangehorizons.bsky.social under a pseudonym… DM about it I guess?
2026 is going to full of people assuming that a contravening force will magically appear and yield a blue wave that will (I guess?) reverse everything we’ve lost (again, magically) and it just won’t happen. Nothing will get better until enough people are done waiting for magic
December 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
2026 is going to full of people assuming that a contravening force will magically appear and yield a blue wave that will (I guess?) reverse everything we’ve lost (again, magically) and it just won’t happen. Nothing will get better until enough people are done waiting for magic
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Over 275 authors, editors, critics and diehard readers came together over the last month to vote on their favorite transfeminine books of the year.
It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards!
Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷
It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards!
Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷
The 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards
Over 275 authors, critics, editors, and readers came together to vote on their favorite transfeminine literature of 2025.
thetransfemininereview.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Over 275 authors, editors, critics and diehard readers came together over the last month to vote on their favorite transfeminine books of the year.
It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards!
Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷
It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards!
Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷
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Today is the last day that you can repost this image
December 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
The stranger that Rachel encounters in my story Rachel is at a Protest was a real person. Rachel meets him in 2009 and I met him in 2014. Aside from a few small details, that’s the only autobiographical part of the story. I still think about him often.
I would like to hear about a time someone, a stranger even, was very kind to you without any prompting, ulterior motive, or strings attached.
December 31, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The stranger that Rachel encounters in my story Rachel is at a Protest was a real person. Rachel meets him in 2009 and I met him in 2014. Aside from a few small details, that’s the only autobiographical part of the story. I still think about him often.
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2025 Books We Loved: Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity by Lee Mandelo locusmag.com/2025/12...
December 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
2025 Books We Loved: Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity by Lee Mandelo locusmag.com/2025/12...
I have a pimple on my face, which is transmisogyny
December 30, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I have a pimple on my face, which is transmisogyny
4 types of characters I write:
1. Angry sadomasochistic autistic transbians
2. Cute patient trans mascs
3. Fucked up cis dudes
4. Any of the above but Jewish
1. Angry sadomasochistic autistic transbians
2. Cute patient trans mascs
3. Fucked up cis dudes
4. Any of the above but Jewish
4 types of characters I write:
1. Too busy with external demands to get into all that.
2. Might be a plant.
3. Might not have been human to start with.
4. Bird.
1. Too busy with external demands to get into all that.
2. Might be a plant.
3. Might not have been human to start with.
4. Bird.
4 types of characters I write
1. Sheltered nerd
2. Grouchy old lady
3. Bizarre horror whose interactions with people must not be construed as it fully possessing anything we would recognize as consciousness or emotion
4. Gay
1. Sheltered nerd
2. Grouchy old lady
3. Bizarre horror whose interactions with people must not be construed as it fully possessing anything we would recognize as consciousness or emotion
4. Gay
December 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
4 types of characters I write:
1. Angry sadomasochistic autistic transbians
2. Cute patient trans mascs
3. Fucked up cis dudes
4. Any of the above but Jewish
1. Angry sadomasochistic autistic transbians
2. Cute patient trans mascs
3. Fucked up cis dudes
4. Any of the above but Jewish
What the fuck this is so good what the fuck
HEAVEN PIERCING SEX MACHINE
holidays gift from Lizzy to everyone but especially her friends and family
archiveofourown.org/works/76421681
holidays gift from Lizzy to everyone but especially her friends and family
archiveofourown.org/works/76421681
HEAVEN PIERCING SEX MACHINE - LIZZYYWIZZY - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
December 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
What the fuck this is so good what the fuck
You could read my story and vote for it! If you wanted to!
Feeling like you haven't read enough to vote in the 2025 TFR Awards? Here's a way you can still participate!
The 60-hour Shortform Challenge asks YOU to read our 2025 short story and poem nominees, then vote on your three faves in each category! No other reading required 🩷
The 60-hour Shortform Challenge asks YOU to read our 2025 short story and poem nominees, then vote on your three faves in each category! No other reading required 🩷
The 60-hour Transfemme Shortform Challenge
The rules are simple - read as many short stories and poems as you’d like before December 26th at 11:59pm EST, then submit a ballot for your favorites in the Outstanding Short Story and Outstanding In...
docs.google.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
You could read my story and vote for it! If you wanted to!
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Just a few days left to vote in the TFR awards!
Did you vote in the Outstanding Individual Poem category? If you want some ideas, here's my personal longlist of my fave 20 transfeminine poems of 2025.
Would love to hear your favorite 2025 poems (or your best work if you're a tf poet) in replies!
Did you vote in the Outstanding Individual Poem category? If you want some ideas, here's my personal longlist of my fave 20 transfeminine poems of 2025.
Would love to hear your favorite 2025 poems (or your best work if you're a tf poet) in replies!
Happy shortlist day! Today, TFR recognizes five excellent works of poetry for our Best Transfeminine Poetry 2025 award, as voted upon by our readers.
Help us celebrate transfeminine literature! Voting ends on December 26th at 11:59pm EST, so there's still plenty of time to weigh in 🩷
Help us celebrate transfeminine literature! Voting ends on December 26th at 11:59pm EST, so there's still plenty of time to weigh in 🩷
The 2025 Shortlist for Best Transfeminine Poetry (TFR Awards)
Five poetry collections by transfeminine authors that wowed us this year! Voting closes on Dec. 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
thetransfemininereview.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Just a few days left to vote in the TFR awards!
Did you vote in the Outstanding Individual Poem category? If you want some ideas, here's my personal longlist of my fave 20 transfeminine poems of 2025.
Would love to hear your favorite 2025 poems (or your best work if you're a tf poet) in replies!
Did you vote in the Outstanding Individual Poem category? If you want some ideas, here's my personal longlist of my fave 20 transfeminine poems of 2025.
Would love to hear your favorite 2025 poems (or your best work if you're a tf poet) in replies!
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5. That’s because, like, duh, art and sex are about power. @esther-alter.bsky.social reports on the petrokink choking us all in “Frack Me.”
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Call 1-844-300-ROSE.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
5. That’s because, like, duh, art and sex are about power. @esther-alter.bsky.social reports on the petrokink choking us all in “Frack Me.”
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2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express
This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris
Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express
This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris
Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
December 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
1/n
2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express
This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris
Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express
This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris
Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
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We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th.
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
December 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th.
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions