Lol, just got added to an anti anti-ai list. Proud to be there. AI is not inevitable and we don't have to participate.

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I am so very tired of drowning. We are screaming into a void and I don't know what to do anymore. If you see this, we're still under water.

gofund.me/98ba1b50f

I'm tired and the news sucks and my trans/queer family could still use some help if you have help to spare.

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At the risk of doxxing myself on the internet, we need help. I don't know if anyone will see this but if you do, we're still trying to survive.

gofund.me/97502498

If there happens to be someone looking to help but wants to make sure I am a real person I'm happy to chat about our circumstance. I've been a bookseller most of my career but am currently out of work and trying to make sure my kids have everything they need, including a roof.

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The intent was building towards a trans & queer genre bookstore/community space, but now we're just trying to survive. We've hit a lot of bumps in the road including a broken down car that lead to job loss and we're not certain we'll make rent for August.
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Think it's time to acknowledge this was a pipe dream. The funds are just never going to be here because survival in these times costs too much. I'll probably keep the handle for now but the I'll be losing the website url soon because I simply can't afford the renewal.

Alright, I'm back. I couldn't hack it in the corporate book world (turns out the CEO is anti-union, who could have guessed) so now we are free to get back to work on Electric Sheep. Website soft launch soon.

Okay, I have to start somewhere.

If you write queer and/or trans genre fiction, will you please link me your work? The first step to creating the bookstore and community space I want is supporting the authors it's meant to represent. 💙📚

Going in to 2025, its important that you *actually own* the queer and trans literature you consume. That's why for ebooks you should always look for DRM-free storefronts like Itch, or an author/publisher's website, where you can buy a downloadable .epub you can read anywhere, and is yours forever

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Indie bookselling tends to be romanticized as ‘cause work’ which is used to argue that booksellers should tolerate grossly low pay because it’s just so cool and fun to sell books! To be this wealthy and not invest in the workers who make that possible is actually not cool or fun.

Small update and hello to the (300ish 🫠) new followers. Because of the much needed job that I just took, the prospective bookstore side of this account is going to have to pause for a bit. Maybe only for the holidays, we'll see. I will, however, forever and always be here championing trans authors.

Comics are an entirely different beast to books. Yes, even trades. It's rare for a traditionally published book to be delayed for years, especially once it's gotten to the pre-orders are open stage.

There are gonna be disabled folks who can't contribute anything to The Cause. They have no money, no energy, no physical ability, no time. They will need to receive and will never be able to give back. You gotta save them, too. Especially them.

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

Notifications screenshot of new follower "AI art in SFFH"

No.

If you're looking for a queer book about killing tyrants to show up at your house in 2025, we will take your angry $25 and make it angrier.

(We can also turn an angry $2500 into a ton of angry writing, including a zine of angry gay art.)

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My focus here is genre fiction (SFF/horror/romance) from trans authors, but I will repost and celebrate all trans authors wherever they are publishing. This book looks stunning, and I can't wait to read it.

Seems like there may have been some kind of "share these queer/trans bookish accounts in solidarity" post.

Hi, sorry you found me in this moment. Eventually, there will be something substantial here, but at the moment we're just trying to keep our heads above water.

This. This. This.

Also, watch your beloved local bookstore's queer books section over the next few months. See if it doesn't become less and less visible.

Since I'm seeing "your local businesses need you more than ever!" posts.

Hahahaha no. Your local *people* need you more than ever. Please stop conflating the two. Support specific local businesses if they are actually doing tangible things for the community, but stop assigning virtue to "local."

My wife asked me yesterday, what gives me hope in the system and I had to tell her that I don't have hope in the system. What I have hope in is people because people survive. They live in joy and defiance of the systems that would break them. Things are bleak, but *people* still matter.

This is a thing that TikTok is notorious for. People brigading large creators demanding commentary on this or that thing in the news and then vilifying them whatever their response is.

What works for us right now is having every app (except libro.fm) on their tablet locked so that they can't use them without asking me to unlock it. And I never unlock Chrome unless I am setting something up for them. A lot of things can't access the web if chrome is locked.

It can be accessed through Spotify and Discord! In addition to heavy moderation and restriction with our 10 year old, we also have conversations about WHY we do that and what kinds of things/people are trying to get access to *them* through YouTube.

Mmm, yes and then the specialist's receptionist will answer the phone and very rudely tell you that it wouldn't make sense for them to accept a referral since they aren't seeing new patients and you should call somewhere else, you absolute idiot.

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