the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️

FYI to trans people:

HRT Cafe has apparently shut down after too much media attention.

Please, take advice from an old trans woman:

Take those discussions underground. All of them. Anything that discusses what we need to survive & where to get it. Word of mouth and private forums only!

"Check on your trans frie-" No. Give them money. Hire them. Buy them a video game.

That's how we've responded. It's great!

We've been out 11 years, and are 9 years post op. We've been asked about "the surgery" so many times in so many different ways, we've lost count.

A nurse also asked us who did our boobs, when they were little B-cups, and we told her "Me! I grew them myself!" and she was SHOCK! UTTERLY SHOCKED!

We cannot overrecommend web serials. Anything by Thundamoo, for example, is fantasy of some sort, and definitely NOT YA. Bioshifter may be a great place to start.

And also, a person who can produce both sperm and eggs, and can choose which to focus on, falling in love with a sterile Brood Guardian is NOT straight by any earth standards.

There is a romance happening between the two lead characters, the narrator & the titular hero. And it is TECHNICALLY heteroromantic, but when they realize that their crushes are mutual, they're going to have to grapple with the question of whether they need at least a third. Because pairing is queer

Don't know if we're going to finish it, but we're currently writing a sword and sorcery book where:

1. there are no humans or even humanoids at all
2. the default family structure of the two heroes involves at least three genders and typically a large polycule
3. "he" and "she" are neopronouns

QTP with a gif that pops up when you type your name

Update:

I have potentially found guarantors for these loans for people that have no support network... so...

Hit me up, Americans

screenshot of press release from four nations with their logos: Tla’amin Nation; Homalco Nation; K'ómoks Nation; Klahoose Nation. March 11, 2026 Chiefs from four First Nations communities are urging the public to please approach Aaron Gunn with no caution whatsoever. He is completely harmless, though momentarily unsettled by the alarming possibility that someone might acknowledge the land before a meeting. Yesterday on social media, the MP appeared to crash out and demand to speak to the manager of land acknowledgements, a position that observers confirm does not exist. Chiefs whose territories make up the riding had two words for the MP - Chillax, Bud. Land acknowledgements have never seized private property, cancelled a mortgage, repossessed a pickup truck, or altered a single title deed anywhere in Canada. They are simply people recognizing the history of the place where they are standing. No one is going anywhere. Canada will survive the brief moment of honesty. Until then, Chiefs across the region continue to reassure the public that land acknowledgements have not, to date, resulted in any land back. Hegus John Hackett, Tla’amin Nation Chief Darren Blaney, Homalco Nation Chief Nicole Rempel, K'ómoks Nation Chief Kevin Peacey, Klahoose Nation

Posted by the Tla’amin Nation on Facebook. This is epic.

𝗠𝗣 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀
𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙣 𝙂𝙪𝙣𝙣: “𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙭, 𝙗𝙪𝙙.”
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goodnight Ela!

we have no credit card

To quote someone from someplace we've worked before, "We need to find a way to get more people to drink the Kool-Aid."

You need a sales rep to come by periodically, stretch, and declare with forced bravado, "Ah, yeah. Living the dream! How about you?"

As an intersex person whose sex can best be described as a shotgun blast of rogue endometrial cells throughout the body accompanied by the feeling of being raped by our own genitals 24/7, we have one thing to say to the U.S 4th Circuit court judges:

FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES

We seriously love it when you share all the sketches and progress, too. It takes us back to art school and reminds us what it's like to enjoy the process of drawing.

And the fact that you create it on your PHONE is so unbelievably cool!

You are creating college graduate level artwork or better on that phone.

(we hate framing it in terms of schooling, actually, but you should know, your work is very professional and every bit worthy of the degree we have, more so than our own art - it is excellent)

Stop Calling Stakes High or Low: Call them Near or Far Instead This Saturday I’m reading at Babylon Salon in SF! You can still get a signed personalized copy of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, my novel about a trans witch...

"I would like to throw the concept of low stakes and high stakes into the nearest volcano and never speak of these concepts again. Rather, I would like to talk about stakes that are near or far."

Here's my latest newsletter! buttondown.com/charliejane/...

My childhood unironically

There are millions of case studies and decades worth of experimental data to support this assertion.

And the brain is demonstrably limited by its development. No two brains are alike, and have different capabilities. And you cannot force the wrong software to run on the wrong brain without it throwing errors (dysphoria).

Wow, this is wrong on so many levels just as a set of analogies.

The brain isn't hardware or software. It's wetware. If anything it is most akin to adaptive circuitry, RAM, PROMs, and other types of programmable and configurable computer hardware. Culture is the software that runs on the brain.

this is how we access bluesky

We have a deep love of narrators who try to strike up conversations with their readers, and make guesses as to what kind of people they are. Especially if they do so within the context of the story. Like:

If you are a monster who is reading this, fantastic! Who taught you to read? Hug them for me.

Imagine! *makes a sweeping gesture with foreclaws*

A Milli Vanilli/Led Zeppelin mashup cover band by the name of:

Silli Marilli

Castling!

"A better world is possible" used to be an uplifting message about the dream of creating a better future.

Now it is just a straightforward statement. Like…FOR SURE a better world is possible. This stupid shit we are up to now definitely isn't the best we can do. Not even close.

Better Lucky doesn't sound like an umbrella mouthed gulper eel, so we're not suggesting that. But there should be a ship that is based on the umbrella mouthed gulper eel!