Mary

Mary

@sharpestrose.bsky.social

Nonbinary writer (any pronouns fine) and Japanese -> English editor, fandom tragic.

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Since it's banned books week: this book was banned by a library in Alabama. Personally I believe you can't get more harmless than a story about a princess saving the day, but I guess if the princess is trans and there's a subplot about conversion therapy people get stupid about it.

Mary@sharpestrose.bsky.social

Paperback version now live! My free queer fantasy YA novella, Incandescent Girl, is available for download. Praised by Lisa Tirreno, author of Prince of Fortune; queer writer and podcast producer Erin Kyan; and C.S. Pacat, author of Captive Prince and Dark Rise. www.maryborsellino.com/girl/

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if only albo here had some kind of power to make it so that australian families didn't have to 'do it tough'. like imagine if he was like prime minister or something.

Anthony Albanese@albomp.bsky.social

The Kmart Wishing Tree Appeal is bringing a little bit of joy to Australian families doing it tough. And that’s something our whole Parliament can support.

Reading comics and Jason we're going to have to have a talk about this.

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bucky what is this even at my most mentally ill i had a MATTRESS

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This is why I hate the “it has to be subtle!!!” Critique of queer media. The fact that we can’t just say what we are or what the character is is so reductive and constraining to so many queer writers. Don’t let cis people dictate how you show you identity. They don’t know what they’re saying.

JenWave1995@jenwave1995.bsky.social

When trans creators are subtle, people dismiss the trans subtext as “headcanon.” When trans creators are loud and proud, people call it “obnoxious” and “cringe.” They just don’t want us to be represented in media at all. Because they don’t want us to exist at all.

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

I'm 44 and look 54 and have IMMENSE tolerance for stupidity. I'll cop to still listening to the same music, though.

🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃@zackdavisson.com

"Great work ethic?" Hello? We are the slacker generation. We are defined by our lack of work ethic. "Zero tolerance for stupidity" includes this stupid list.

I'd say I feel bad but I kind of just accept that it's who I am as a person that I watch Thunderbolts, a movie about profound trauma and how we cannot defeat our demons alone, and my brain is like "and this is how we can put Bucky Barnes in subspace after." Look I think that is VALID okay.

As someone who also has ADHD and executive function dysregulation, these things do not somehow make you unable to name three unique things about your kid????

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it's true, pointing out a person shouldn't need AI to be able to say three things about their child IS exactly the same as *checks notes* genocide and collective punishment

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Hey guys I noticed that in English translations of Japanese media the text is like… not in Japanese? Isn’t that kind of weird? Like I can hear the dialogue and it’s in Japanese but it’s like not in Japanese in the text, it’s just kinda strange, you know?

Rewatching Thunderbolts while I sort my meds and look at my boy, in his move from Brooklyn to DC he gained FURNITURE you know what that is? growth.

Mary@sharpestrose.bsky.social

bucky what is this even at my most mentally ill i had a MATTRESS

I forgot the extent to which Thunderbolts is about "even if you're a suicidal bipolar fuckup you probably shouldn't kill yourself."

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I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

Had to go to the other site for work and saw that a youtuber who bashed YoI and says there's no politics in anime got to interview the creator of No.6 and was like "why do we need queer media?" and I'm going to become the Joker. 🙃

I had a brief moment of liking Freakonomics back in the early 2010s cos I thought it was interesting, until I got to the chapter about how voting is pointless and then I was like hm this stinks actually.

Pete Woods, Elder God@thatpetewoods.bsky.social

Serbia defeated a 14 year regime backed by Putin. Brazil stopped a takeover supported by the richest techno-oligarchs on the planet and meddling by the American government. Hungary finally ousted Viktor Orbán earlier this year. They did it by voting. Never tell me voting is useless.

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Serbia defeated a 14 year regime backed by Putin. Brazil stopped a takeover supported by the richest techno-oligarchs on the planet and meddling by the American government. Hungary finally ousted Viktor Orbán earlier this year. They did it by voting. Never tell me voting is useless.

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None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

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This is the antagonist, protagonist, and love interest from my novella. Art by Akirou akirouart.carrd.co

Tell me about your #AwesomeCharacters It's International Artist Day! 🎉🎉 And we haven't done an art share day in a bit! So, please share with me any art you have of your characters! A doodle or picrew works too! Help me picture them! (Please no AI) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Okay I'll cop to it when all the magazines and newspapers were doing "what are fujoshi and is it ethical?" articles after Heated Rivalry I kind of got kind of Mustard King about it and should have let the Mustard Newbies have their fun.

When Gerard's like "I've seen so much fan art" I just pray that it's the fucked up shit where he's pulling out the clerk's intestines or getting stabbed a lot and not... actually who am I kidding I want it to also be illi mcmillin blushing and holding hands with a punk brat. I have layers.

I want something like this for my cane hahaha

https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/44471 『ぺったん肉球傘キャップ』1月発売予定。肉球が濡れた状態で乾いたアスファルトなどにぺったんして猫の足跡をつけよう♪ The "Pet-Paw Print Umbrella Cap" is scheduled for release in January. Use the wet paw print to leave cat footprints on dry asphalt or other surfaces! #ガチャポン #gachapon

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thinking fondly again of the college girl at the donut place, who made a little muslim boy bounce giddily out the door after she told him his donut was free, and who waved me away and said "you're good" when it was my turn to pay and then, when asked if there was a deal that day said "i hate my job"