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Author of Peter Darling, transsexual menace. He/they. Next publication: "The White Spire at World's End" in SHATTER THE SUN! Books & news at my website: https://austinchant.com/
“This is what Israel & its American patron cannot tolerate: Palestinians who remember. Palestinians who will not perform gratitude for the small mercies such as aid corridors & fragile ceasefires…We are the living refutation of their narrative. Our very existence, loud & unapologetic, is the crime.”
And it's the first day of the Queer Liberation Network Fundraising Auction today! Tons of signed books, calls with agents, manuscript critiques and more! Including the illustrated edition of Murderbot, hardcover Witch King & Queen Demon, mass market Raksura:
www.32auctions.com/organization...
a bunch of vintage SFF paperbacks: The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 3, The Book of Paradox, The Big Jump, The Demon in the Mirror, The Faded Sun: Kesrith, and The Faded Sun: Shon'jir
look at my TREASURES
Is $375 a particularly stupid amount of money to be quoted for a standard dental cleaning (w/o insurance) or is modern dentistry just an absolute racket in general
Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)
This is an atrocity.
"Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
Give us gossip wicked and vital, dinner parties salacious and droll, debutantes vile and intrepid.
Give us unforgivable rudeness and oppressive etiquette, scathing asides and dire gaffes."
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Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.
Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.
10/10 both for the coolness of the sword and for the treasure that is human connection
The angry part of Bluesky remembered KOSA (now under the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, or H.R. 7757) exists but rather yell at you I'll say:
If you have REALLY bad anxiety (like me!), you can call your reps after hours! Voicemail counts! The site 5Calls give you a script to read off of:
my eccc table
I forgot to post my table picture haha
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
People who buy and read books are basically at minimum demigods when it comes to influence over what gets into circulation bsky.app/profile/alys...
LOOK AT MY SONS
More Peter Darling news: The Spanish edition comes out on April 10 and is fully illustrated! ✨
Everyone who tried to draw around me and started drawing LOVED it at the beginning because of their QUICK IMPROVEMENT. Then quit when they hit The Wall™️.
But it's when you hit The Wall™️ that you NEED to push through with practice!! And you gotta do it for yourself, because it's ALWAYS worth it! 😤
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LOOK AT MY SONS
More Peter Darling news: The Spanish edition comes out on April 10 and is fully illustrated! ✨
Imagen en la que se ve la cubierta de Peter Darling en su edición española. Dice: Desde las profundidades abisales llega... Peter Darling, ¡a la venta a partir del 10 de abril!
Muy buenas tardes criaturillas del abismo: ¡Por fin os podemos decir la fecha de publicación de Peter Darling!
Este 10 de abril Peter Darling sale a la venta, y esperamos que tengáis tantas ganas de tenerlo en las manos como nosotres.
Os contamos los detalles⬇️
¡Buenas criaturillas abisales! Mañana tenemos noticias muy noticiosas sobre Peter Darling, así que estad pendientes.
Mientras tanto, os dejamos este maravilloso capitán Garfio de Paltamayo. No os vamos a mentir, en la editorial amamos a Peter, claro… Pero Garfio, ay, nos hace suspirar.
Y'all, get ready for shenanigans and confusion in November, because voter suppression is coming hard for middle-class white folks. I'm Williamson County, I left to vote at 2pm and didn't get home till 7:15pm. This county is more diverse than when I moved here 20 years ago, but still very white. 1/9
Credit card companies are making sex workers' lives worse and worse.
www.theflytrapmedia.com/sex-wor/
if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.
Issue 1 cover on the left, with our Wanderer in pastel blue looking down at a spacescape from a crumbling coliseum seat. Text to the right says ISSUE 1: nine stories, five poems, one essay, original ary by queer creators - available now for subscribers! www.othersidespec.com
We've waited so long to yell this: IF YOU'RE A SUBSCRIBER OR KICKSTARTER BACKER, ISSUE 1 IS IN YOUR INBOX! 🪐🗡️
Issue 1 will be free to read online March 15th, but if you can't wait, get your hands on it RIGHT NOW!
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/othersidespe...
Patreon Shop: www.patreon.com/othersidespe...
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I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.
At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.
we cannot ever let an evangelical be in charge of anything ever again. no more apocalypse cultists doing anything. absolutely barred from running for town dogcatcher
We're down to the FINAL HOURS on our Nebula nominations, where SFWA chooses the best of what they loved in 2025. REMEMBER: This is the first year for Best Comic & Best Poem! Let's make all our awards shine.
Vote for some truly moving SFF before 11:59 PM PST on March 1!
www.sfwa.org/2025-nebula-...
we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this:
I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil
“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”