Me in a green sweatshirt in a room with white walls

Happy Trans Day of Visibility, the one day a year where I become percievable. 👁👄👁

Y'know, between the dads who went out for milk and never came back, and the dads who went out for cigarettes and never came back, at least the milk dads were pretending to be good parents. They acted like they were providing for the kids, whereas the cig dads, we all knew they weren't coming back.

Of course cis people are welcome to join! You just have to dive into the culture and learn more about being trans, and the jokes will be easier to get.

Spironolactone is an anti-androgen, or a drug that suppresses testosterone. :)

Testosterone actually contains tiny little Jupiter molecules that rot trans men's brains from the inside. Trans women are cured of their Jupiter affliction through Spironolactone, which is filled with tiny planet destroying death stars.

Trans books!

That's it, that's the skeet

This is stunning!

Lately, South Park has had a few prophetic moments, where their past episodes eerily resemble our present. Much like The Simpsons used to do.

You know we're in the bad timeline when South Park is the show that most resembles our reality.

Conservative as a gender: adheres to strict patriarchal norms over internalized sense of self. Closer to drag than an embodied performance.

Conservative sexuality: straight in daylight, gay by night. Like terribly repressed vampires.

I saw a post where a conservative asked when a C would be added to LGBTQIA+ bc "conservatives are discriminated against too" and now I can stop thinking:

Is conservative a type of gender or a sexuality?

I could see it being either tbh.

Just realized that Emperor Qin Shi Huang's "Terracotta Army" of clay soldiers he kept in a vault in like 200 BC make him the first Warhammer Guy. he got some disposable income and started painting minis. totally get it

Nothing makes me feel closer to other humans than seeing a sexually suggestive picture online, and opening the comments to find everyone is thinking the exact same thing as I am.

We are all horndogs. And I think that's beautiful. ❤️

All I want for Christmas is three ghosts who terrorize a billionaire into charity.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, sailed off into the undying lands with Gandalf, Bilbo, Elrond and Galadriel.

This tactic tends to work best when the story you're writing is about the online world. If texting is just something that happens while your characters race to the plot, then this advice probably won't work for you.

Just my two cents. Now back to watching American Dad 🤓

The online world is basically intangible. While it's technically a space where ppl engage, any experience of it is strictly internal - we read things in our heads, rarely utilize our body, etc. To represent it accurately, we kind of have to let go of the literal and move into metaphorical territory.

This is why Stephen King is so successful. He takes the intangible (such as anger issues and the fear of abusing your own children) and makes it tangible through fantastical creatures or settings (the hotel itself is antagonistic to Jack Torrance's family).

Could the same thing be accomplished with an actual phone? Sure, but that lacks any flavour. Anyone can write a story about phone addiction with a phone. Instead, why not create a story that feels relatable, but adds in otherworldly elements to make tangible what's often intangible?

Many of us, when lonely, resort to watching others through our screen - whether that's tiktoks, movies, YT videos, etc. Francine is doing the same thing, except replace the phone with a motel. In this way, we get to watch her be active as she experiences the typical beats of screen addiction.

A perfect example is S20 E13 of American Dad. After feeling disconnected from her family, Francine begins spying on strangers in a motel. She craves intimacy and when she can't get it, she begins watching people from afar. This is a perfect 'phone addiction' story but redressed with fantasy elements

But it's hard not to write about the online world. There's so much conflict there. So, as writers, how do you make online activity engaging? How do you use it to tell a deeper story?

Personally, I replace screens with fantasy elements that allow me to tell the same story in an engaging way.

This might sound ironic coming from a sci-fi writer, but I hate writing about screens. Whether it's texting, characters posting online, chat logs, etc., there's nothing more boring to me than reading about a character's social media engagement. It's boring to read, it's boring to write.

Annie loves her Saturday naps

New research finds trans teens have high satisfaction with gender care The survey published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that trans teens taking puberty blockers or hormones had very low rates of regret.

Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

Winter winter winter winter winter winter

As a professional *human* audiobook narrator, this is a huge help.

The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.

One of the (many) reasons why AI pisses me off so much is because it's forcing artists, students, writers, creators, etc., to have to PROVE their work is human-made (recording time lapses, track changes on documents, etc.) It's not like these groups aren't already overworked and underpaid.

Thank you! 😊

My term paper for one of my sociology classes was on trans identity in online spaces and I got 96% on it!! My prof even said it reads like a published paper. 😭

Fuck yeah! It's nice when someone appreciates all the work you put into something.

Im editing the nightshift novel atm and I just realized something.

In my book, there's a spectre of an old rich white lady (literally a ghost of a living person) and she attacks my protagonists by banshee screeching at them until they're incapacitated.

Like wow, that's not even a metaphor.