CAT'S GOT YOUR HEART, a rivals-to-lovers trans M/M romcom, new release date: 9/10/24!
"It was honestly heartwarming watching these two lonely, cranky people slowly approach each other like starving alley cats." --Cat Sebastian (
@CatSWrites
)
preorder:
"how can you call yourself nonbinary when you're fem-presenting"
my good bitch I'm literally wearing joggers, tie dye rainbow crocs, and a shirt with a tardigrade on it--my gender is VERY clearly autistic.
@ungodlywolfe
i thought everyone was mad that he took away her autonomy by cutting her hair instead of the writers making rapunzel cut it herself..... but y'all are just whining about short hair looking bad i very emphatically hate it here
@g0thgoblin
this post is how i finally looked up whether these are gluten free or not and i just found out they are and iโm about to screamcry that iโve never tried them before
thank you for changing my life iโm about to make a doordash order from 7eleven like an adult
re: white authors writing racist books, i want to stress that "get a sensitivity reader!" is not a perfect solution. there is still a power imbalance.
SRs are often put in situations where they have to choose btwn staying employed & being honest that a book isn't appropriate.
@MatthewACherry
is it just me or does it seem really suspect that they specified it was an abortion rather than simply a health procedure or surgery. that's not only invasion of privacy but is setting her up even further to be demonized as irresponsible & a "baby-killer."
@the_debijackson
@JaecynWrites
in 2014, visibility for queer kids dying by suicide was very high. i still remember most of their names, but Leelahโs loss hit especially hard. they all deserved so much better than what they got.
i did this painting in 2017 & drag it out every year on her birthday & today.
@selena_lion27
@DrSamiSchalk
saw that picture and immediately burst into tears. he looked so much like my sophie
I'm glad you got all those years with him ๐
@ellle_em
reminds me of the video where a guy went up to a kitten in the road and suddenly like 15 more kittens burst from the grass. they had all been dumped. i almost cried but he took them ALL to his farm ๐ญ๐ญ๐
pretty embarrassing how many big accounts are supporting Lauren Hough in demonizing Lambda Literary & Ana Mardoll then mysteriously ghosting when they're provided with evidence against LH's lies.
many of these people pride themselves on intellectual honesty & listening to facts.
@EmmettComix
best i got is a man who wanted to sleep with me genuinely asking what transmasc meant and being super cool when i explained i didn't want to sleep with him bc he's straight and I'm a guy.
@rhabarberei
this is hilarious because sex workers such as porn stars, escorts, FSSW, and cam models (etc) are going to have the BEST perspective on over-sexualization, especially if they're marginalized and forced to market that to make money.
@RobinEdgewood
@laurenancona
i really don't believe it ever was. the us had enough money to create a false standard of supremacy when the quality of life has never been especially brag-worthy
@aclientfirst
this caught me in the gut.
I've always struggled with being told I'm being mean, rude, that my tone is unpleasant, when it's monotone in my head and I'm trying my very best to be kind and tactful. it's fucking exhausting.
@TotalTimWright
@judecomputer
literally. i was a nasty kid but nowhere near this brand of nasty. i was more roleplay and internalized homophobia than actually straight up bullying and shaming people.
many SRs of color have to stay quiet on racist books bc saying "you should not be writing this" would harm their ability to get more work, esp if the client is a big name author who could smear them. ditto ableism, transphobia, etc.
tone policing is built into the process.
@StorySorcery
meanwhile many other ppl are forced to keep their uterus that's literally killing them bc their hypothetical future husband might want to use them as an incubator
but dishonest sterilization of BIPOC is tale as old as time...
@RamonaQuaxli
i won't try to get an official dx on my chart because of this. i already have to prove (justifiably) that i'm of sound mind to make transition decisions, due to my mental health. having them say i have been influenced by a cult would be... a fuckin' nightmare.
i've been waiting for, um, YEARS for this moment. you'd think i'd have planned something to say?
i started this book in Nov 2019 after the worst mental health episode of my life. working nonstop to craft it into something worth reading has kept me upright. now we're here.
damn.
I'm disappointed to announce that my contract for A SPARK IN HIS HAND with City Owl Press has been voided. This was a hard decision, because I was quite happy until my editor stepped away from working on the trilogy because I am a supporter of Palestine.
i had to lie to my psychiatrist about not having published a book yet bc she said sheโd buy it but the book i just self pubbed has tens of thousands of words of graphic alien fucking and iโm scared that if she saw what i was using my focus to do sheโd stop giving me adderall ๐ญ๐
people having meltdowns about age gaps get reaaaal close to eugenics when they talk about how adults donโt get to make sexual choices for their lives & bodies until their โbrain is fully developedโ at 25-26
does no one else get creeped out by this??
i finally gathered the strength to read ana mardoll's threads on
#TheMenARC
and only got two threads in. I'm so nauseous i cannot handle any more. i cannot believe ppl DEMANDED we read this book before "judging" the premise when the queer rep was so overtly traumatizing.
@esmewang
I'm very upset by this bc lowercase is my brand and i told an editor i prefer not to capitalise my name bc i am a gay e e cummings. she thought it was hilarious...
...but now i am merely a loser
@dhounshe1
@lmjuniper
@WarrstoriesO
@humanhouseplant
yup he said he deeply regretted the misinfo and yet ppl will not let up. if my science mistakes were used as a staple in toxic masculinity evopsych i would simply walk into the ocean
i bought Iron Widow by
@XiranJayZhao
from the first bookstore that would hold it for me and made my partner read it immediately. here's a highlights reel of her reaction to the last chapter.
@Freelove19xx
@ventura_college
if a professor spoke to me like this when i told them i was HoH i would probably cry. salazar was very very strong to be defending herself, but she shouldn't have to be strong. she shouldn't have to deal with this at all.
@simplysope
i get just under $500 in food stamps but food is so expensive we're already more than halfway through the food from a grocery run two weeks ago. i'm not sure how we'll stretch it another two weeks until my card refills. $400 used to keep us comfortable for a whole month.
@AnarchOnion
@yellowthroat_
i love hearing this
sometime exes are awful people, but sometimes your ex is just a guy who knows a handful of other guys, and maybe you just didnโt need to know quite that many guys, and thatโs okay.
i REALLY do not like this โif you arenโt 25+ you canโt consent to XYZ bc your brain isnโt fully developedโ bullshit, like, in general
yโall realize this argument is used to deny trans people care? deny disabled people autonomy? deny queer people intimate relationships?
@Karnythia
these are the most terrifying creatures on earth to me because they aren't a single animal, it's a mass of different organisms that came together and decided to choose hate
@LdyDisney
the time sensitive works less for me as i can buy an ebook and not touch it for a while. i wouldn't have a problem with that for fairness' sake, but kindle already tracks reading speed and % for micromanaging KU pay. they already have the info necessary to protect authors.
@monisha_rajesh
@Regenbo5en
@stephanieburgis
iโm truly in shock at the idea of doing this to anyone but especially a child. i hope your little one is okay and that she finds other authors who will not take her enjoyment for granted.
@AllilsaF
even destigma efforts for mental illness exclude psychosis. people claim "mental health awareness!" but they're talking about depression & anxiety, not paranoid delusions & compulsive behaviours.
asking for accountability + providing community support is too hard apparently.
@AshDylanLit
i just clicked it and thought it was a mistake so i clicked it again and I'm so angry at you for taking advantage of me while I'm intoxicated
the โnoble poor personโ stereotype in romances where one lover is rich needs to GO.
โoh, i couldnโt possibly take MONEY to make my FAMILYโS life EASIER, my poverty-line PRIDE & INTEGRITY is more important! i have to WORK for myโโ shut up and take the fucking cash
@mostlybree
i sobbed in the theater when natasha died bc re: scarjo aside, natasha was the first woman hero i saw who got to evolve and have a compelling, dominant role in a superhero movie. she meant so much to me as a tiny gay and they threw her off a cliff.
i understand being irritated by booktok trends taking over tradpub but it sure is weird seeing people hate on "romantasy" when as a SFF romance writer & reader that's just... been the majority of my fiction consumption? is this trend different from regular fantasy w/ romance?
tired of hearing shit like "twitter being gone will be better for writing" & "twitter doesn't sell books"
lads, there are defs varying success factors, but most of the queer indie books i read i find from small queer authors advertising on twitter. pls think.
#WritingCommunity
@rmvirtues
LMAO but they don't wanna hear it! saying "i hate men" followed by mocking trans men for not wanting to be lumped in with perpetuating patriarchal violence then they go home and fuck their homophobic cishet boyfriend ๐ญ๐
@lumeckos
@DIORTWEETS
CONVERT... TO... BLM...
my GUY this is BELIEVING BLACK PEOPLE MATTER not a RELIGION, iโ
i do not have a skateboard because iโm disabled but if you hold tight iโm gonna get my powerchair just Hold Tight
@roran_ramsey
@drivingmemadi
near the end of my employment at petsmart i would just approximate and sometimes gave people 10-30 more than they paid for bc i no longer had the stomach to give a fuck. i was still solid with fish, but crickets... whew.
@LdyDisney
they definitely track reading speed for regular ebooks bc i always use the feature that predicts how many hours or minutes are left in a chapter/the book. they have the technology to easily mark a book as non returnable if you read past 35% they just choose not to
@womanphilosophe
@veronikellymars
and now the pressure is gonna be put on y'all to "save" us like you haven't been doing the work for years while everyone else ignored it.
@bibicosplays
i strongly believe that disability payment should be in addition to whatever income or savings the individual has on their own simply to cover the disabled tax foisted upon us by greedy insurance companies. i have been called a fat crippled parasite for this.
@neilhimself
@chelseabwrites
neil, back in 2009 i saw you at a library con & you saved my shy teenage self from deep embarrassment for botching a question at a censorship panel. this reply has the same comforting energy you always seem to exude. so belated thanks.
anyway: DEEP horror envisioning this.