I need to write more wet cats like Rhi. Imagine having the power to rip everything around you apart atom by atom; the only downside is, you get to feel what that's like as a price for your magic. No wonder they need a couple of strong girls to hold and protect them on a particularly painful day.

✨Stardust Melody✨ — Polyamorous Lesbian Dragon Era@dragonsandsapphics.bsky.social · 2w ago

✨They Who Brought The Storm✨ Rhi, gifted with powerful magic that many would stop at nothing to obtain, seeks safety in the claws of a dragon. She offers them a choice: Protection for servitude—her, the master; they, her loyal hunting dog. stardustmelodycollective.carrd.co#they-who-bro...

Look at the girls! Nothing queer going on here, just the local precinct mysteriously catching fire and Nemo bringing s'mores. What are YOU bringing to the not-date with the hot werewolf bartenders lesbian partner you don't stand a chance with but still want?👀

✨Stardust Melody✨ — Polyamorous Lesbian Dragon Era@dragonsandsapphics.bsky.social · last mo.

✨Moonlight Love and Witchcraft🩸 A werewolf bartender, her vampire girlfriend and a witch on the run brave a vampire-infested Toronto and the cold night, warmed only by the passions of their hearts—and the flames of the local precinct burning down. stardustmelodycollective.carrd.co#moonlight-lo...

This seems really dumb to do, sorry.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

The manufacture of the appearance of controversy is a defining feature of the trans exclusionary movement, and it is generally manufactured through the inclusion of voices outside of the grass roots organisation of women's sports.

It's not an abstract debate over the hypotheticals of whether trans women might have genetic advantages or not, it's a well worn thing where cis women athletes are actively fighting for trans inclusion and sick of being talked over.

Countless women's sports teams have independently spoken up in favour of trans inclusion in sports only to be targeted by attacks from people who hate women's sports

victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · 7d ago

enough of this shit

Trans womens participation is sports is less a controversy (as experts actively involved in it don't seem to disagree) so much as it is a battleground between people doing women's sports and people who are broadly against it.

It's one thing to know AI usage can atrophy cognitive abilities, it's another to see it demonstrated in real time by someone who just won't stop replying with the same nonsense over and over and realizing oh, this guy has been trying to prompt engineer other people.

Having a weird AI guy crashing out in my mentions for days is really informative of how AI can boil your brain, 'cos he's treating other human beings like chatbots he just has to repeat himself to in order to get the desired response and is baffled he's not getting obsequious "my bad, you're right"

A better world is possible. A few years ago some scientists and volunteers in Baltimore set out to rebuild some wetlands in our Inner Harbor. In the few years since the water has been cleaner and life has been returning. Including now river otters! www.bayjournal.com/news/wildlif...

River otters are making a comeback – and in surprising places around the Chesapeake Bay

Four decades ago, populations of the river otter, a playful, whiskered member of the weasel family, were so depleted that most states in the Chesapeake Bay region considered them endangered.

bayjournal.com

Isn't it cool Thailand is out-producing the US in lesbian visual media at every level now, lol. Crappy cheap soap operas, we got it. Detective procedurals, we have it too. High-budget films where two lesbians defy spacetime to find each other? That's right.

Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now@benjanun.bsky.social · last wk.

Going to watch the Thai space lesbian film since they're going to rescreen it in theaters soon.

Just saw Western animation and itchio described as "masculine spaces" in contrast to ao3 and the publishing industry as "feminine spaces" to explain why f/f happens more in the former than the latter. Tell me more about how male-socialized lesbianism is

AO3 being TERF socialization space continues to not beat the allegations.

Sailor Portia is a car now, too@sailorportia.bsky.social · last wk.

Just saw Western animation and itchio described as "masculine spaces" in contrast to ao3 and the publishing industry as "feminine spaces" to explain why f/f happens more in the former than the latter. Tell me more about how male-socialized lesbianism is

lmao no it is not. It just isn't. It is fully within the norm for a negative review where the writer feels strongly. This is Roger Ebert.

Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.

People don't seem to want to admit that "I would be ashamed to have written any part of this" is shockingly harsh language for the average film review. She's within her rights to say it, and she knew exactly the response she would get for it, but it's definitely an eyebrow-raiser

Did you see Hadestown and think to yourself, "damn! This would be better if it was about lesbians??" You can read the prologue of my upcoming Gunmetal Olympus novel, The Orpheus Defiance on AO3 RIGHT NOW! [Art of Orpheus and Eurydice by @mangomakes.bsky.social ) archiveofourown.org/works/86659906

it’s of course not easy to deal with the world if you can’t stop caring but I still think that is on the world and not me.

people always treated me like I was weird because the suffering of people on the other side of the world wasn’t abstract to me just because there was distance between us and I fundamentally never understood why I am the weird one here.

maybe it’s because I’m on my period but seeing palestinian children beg for help on social media because it’s their only option is kinda getting to me today

Listen. I love Avatar Kyoshi. She's fantastic. But when they trotted this baddie out, my wife and I went: 🥵

First off: No it hasn't. Secondly: OpenAI is hemorrhaging cash, customers, and no bank will give anyone a dime to build new data centers. This industry is dead, and Sam Altman's press releases are just corpse gas creating occasional twitches.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · last wk.

The 'singularity' refers to the point at which AI outpaces human intelligence and becomes difficult to control.

Maybe people would get it if we started encouraging Shen to try the HRT but lie about it and never come out What happened to F1NN5TER, Stephanie Sterling, Philosophy Tube, Haus of Decline? Yeah, they started getting treated like shit Shen or Shenne, keep whatever bag you're getting

Shen Comix@shenanigansen.bsky.social · last wk.

These are the very first paintings I made for Avatar Aang. I designed the art style for the ancient Sonam and Tagah scenes throughout the film!

tbh why you should continue COVID masking I'm just saying

Fae’rynn is Writing@faerynnistired.itch.io · 2w ago

women wearing masks that cover their lower face, making them look dangerous and hot but also evoking a sense that they are muzzled for your protection

I really wish white ppl would stop making this ugly show. It's two white men writing Asians? fuck outta here lmao

Every year since I was born, the Pentagon budget could have covered actual universal healthcare. But sure, it's a Trump issue.

BrooklynDad_Defiant!@mmpadellan.bsky.social · 2w ago

I could power a million suns with the amount of rage this fact generates from the bottom of my soul

I feel more people could stand to learn about such things.

Posting educational material for reasons.